MANN veterans will I hope remember this story, published almost a year ago today. Well, American Airlines is STILL publicizing woman-only special services at http://www.aa.com/women.

Today, AA had to cancel 1,000+ flights to check the wiring on their planes, leaving huge numbers of travelers stranded or scrambling for alternate transportation. This is, as they say, bad press. Does AA really need to be exacerbating their customer-relations problems by *continuing* to vend out a set of services and discounts that excludes half of the human population (and probably a majority of their customers) because of one indelible trait? No.

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"Major league pitchers will soon have added incentive to strike out batters.

Drugmaker Bayer AG will announce plans Wednesday to donate $10 to prostate cancer research for every strikeout during the regular season this year.

Major League Baseball estimates the four-year partnership could add up to a little more than $300,000 per year. There were 32,189 strikeouts during the regular season in 2007, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Bayer, based in Leverkusen, Germany, will give an additional $1 million to the Prostate Cancer Foundation if a pitcher sets a new record by striking out 21 batters in a game."

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'LOS ANGELES — Two teenage girls involved in a botched robbery attempt died when the taxi they were in crashed during a high-speed chase after one teen slashed the cab driver's face, Los Angeles police said.
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The two 17-year-old girls had flagged down the cab early Tuesday and asked to be taken to a nearby housing project, where one girl said her boyfriend would come and pay the fare, police said.

Instead, a man shoved a handgun through the taxi window...
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"One of the females pulled out a box cutter and began cutting the taxi cab driver, and that's what caused him to crash," Officer April Harding said.
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Hector Jasso and Daniel Martinez, both 20, were arrested for investigation of murder because the girls' deaths occurred during the alleged commission of a crime, Lee said. Both were being held without bail. The third occupant of the car was released.

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"An Illinois mother told police she fatally stabbed her daughter because the 6-year-old was possessed by a demon.

Nelly Vasquez-Salazar, 25, who claims her daughter, Evelyn, attacked her, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in her death, myFOXChicago reported.

A judge set a $5 million bail for Vasquez-Salazar, who says her daughter recently began sleepwalking."

LMAO!

Video here. Enjoy! I have a feeling this is America's next "viral video".

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'A woman took out a £4,500 home improvement loan to pay for a hitman to kill her husband.

Zoe Kenealy was given the cash by a finance firm after claiming she wanted to install a new bathroom.

In fact, she had recruited her lover Lee Waite - who lived next door - to arrange her husband Timothy's murder for £10,000.'

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'The head of the Georgia NAACP called for the state to investigate the sentences given in the so-called "Barbie bandits" bank theft case, saying the two white defendants got less prison time than two black men.

Edward DuBose said Monday he will ask state Attorney General Thurbert Baker to look into the case.'

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*WARNING: Some material could be considered offensive by some*

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'4. Being uncircumcised is unhygienic.

For decades, parents in the U.S. have been circumcising their infant sons in the name of “cleanliness.” Only recently have parents started to second-guess the idea that having a foreskin is unhygienic. As research has shown, as long as the foreskin is retracted during bathing, uncircumcised males are no more likely than circumcised males to develop problems like inflammation, phimosis (a condition where the foreskin cannot be fully retracted from the head of the penis), or adhesions.'

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'Naomi Campbell has been banned from flying British Airways after her arrest last week at Heathrow Airport, according to reports.

The 37-year-old model, who had a spat with a police officer after one of her bags was lost last week in Terminal 5 of the British airport, hoped the dispute with the airline could be resolved "amicably," Reuters reported.

British Airways declined to comment on Campbell's case, but according to Reuters said: "all incidents of abuse against passengers or staff are taken extremely seriously by BA and will not be tolerated. We deal with cases on an individual basis and will take whatever action we feel is necessary."'

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"Teacher-turned-sex-offender Debra Lafave will get to spend her final three months of house arrest on probation instead.

A judge ordered Tuesday that the 27-year-old former middle school teacher be released from house arrest on July 11. She'll serve straight probation instead, which is less restrictive and doesn't require her to wear a monitoring bracelet.

She was sentenced in November 2005 to three years' house arrest and seven years of probation for having sex with a 14-year-old student."

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"Boys prefer playing with cars to dolls because of basic biological differences rather than social pressures, scientists say.

Researchers observed young male monkeys spent more time playing with vehicles than with cuddly toys.
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Their conclusion contradicts those of the dominant psychological theory that the preference of boys for vehicles and toy soldiers and that of girls for dolls is down to social rather than innate influences."

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"A single mother kept her young son in a wheelchair for five years because she feared he would become independent and leave her, a court heard yesterday.

The 31-year-old tricked doctors into believing the child, now 11, was ill and could not walk as part of the bizarre child cruelty plot."

Still think single mothers do a great job?

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"Video was released late Monday afternoon showing a brutal beating at the hands of a gang of teenage girls. Their motivation for the attack was apparently so they could post the video on YouTube.
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When 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay arrived at her friend's house where she had been staying, six girls were waiting. Immediately, they started yelling and one girl began pummeling the victim."

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The widow of a soldier killed in Iraq this week is in a fight against time and her mother-in-law to harvest her husband's sperm before he is embalmed.

Army Sgt. Dayne Darren Dhanoolal was killed on Monday when a roadside bomb tore through the Husky mine-detecting vehicle he was driving in Iraq. The 26-year-old combat engineer was assigned to Fort Benning's 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment and was scheduled to come home just weeks before his death.

On Friday, Kynesha Dhanoolal got a federal court order restraining her husband's mother from embalming the body until she can get his sperm, which she hopes to use to have a child through artificial insemination.

Video here. [As of this writing there are two entries for this video on the right side of the page. The first when activated says the video has expired. The second however runs just fine.]

Such a T-shirt may well rank among the most direct and insidious forms of misandry one could ever see. No doubt this item will be sold throughout college campuses and soon girls will be all huddled together in great big crying circles wearing their "I was raped" T-shirts. When pressed, if at all, to say when and where, more than a few I fancy will say she wasn't (or at least not that she knows of, but maybe after talking about it for awhile, she will 'suddenly realize' that she was), but that she is doing so "to support the many other women who were raped."

Rape, rape, rape. Rape is everywhere. Check under your desk, someone is probably getting raped there, too.