Here is an update on the "Barbie Bandit" who robbed a bank for kicks. Excerpt:

'One of the two young women dubbed the "Barbie Bandits" after a videotaped bank theft pleaded guilty Wednesday and apologized in tears.

"I regret what I did. I wish I could take it back every day," Heather Johnston, 19, told the judge.'

Steve

Article here. Excerpt:

'Here is the good news: The rally demonstrated that we have very solid policy solutions to offer. There were some riveting talks worthy of national broadcast. We have stronger ideas, speakers, and an overarching sense of cooperativeness never seen before in the movement. The talks were supposed to be 25% about the problem, and 75% about the answers – but overall the percentage was at best 50-50. This is a remarkable improvement given our history.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'During a recent Democratic debate, both Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama indicated that all female U.S. citizens should register for the Selective Service. Neither candidate was as ridiculous as former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, who said, when it comes to men and women being drafted, "What's the difference?" But the radical and dangerous implications of the front-runners' policies are not that far from Gravel's query.'

View the video of Carol Rhodes at the Family Preservation Rally in Washington, D.C. Carol, author of Friend of the Court Enemy of the Family, exposes the corruption within the Child Support Agencies.

View more videos from the Family Preservation Rally here.

Story here. Excerpt:

'An Arizona woman has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her estranged husband in the chest during sex, MyFOXPhoenix.com reports.

Falon Gonzales, 23, was released on $100,000 bond after being booked Tuesday night, according to the report. Her husband, Juan Carlos Gonzales, 26, was listed in serious condition at a local hospital.
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Authorities said Juan Gonzales moved out of the couple's home about a month ago and asked to meet his wife and a home appraiser Tuesday afternoon. He later showed Falon Gonzales dissolution of marriage papers.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman set fire to her ex-husband's penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka, Moscow police said Wednesday.
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"It was monstrously painful," the wounded ex-husband told Tvoi Den newspaper. "I was burning like a torch. I don't know what I did to deserve this."'

No talk of what, if any, charges she will face.

Many MRAs are involved not just in men's issues but politics in general. I know few who have not at one or another time gotten very interested in the status of some bill weaving tis way through "The System".

The OpenCongress people have just created a new past-able web-widget to help you track the status of any given particular bill without having to search and re-search for it on the Congress' Thomas site. The idea is not unlike what you do to add a page hit counter to a web page.

Without further ado, go here.

MANN Regulars,

The Beta site has been suspended because the software that it uses has had some security issues reported about it. Sorry, but it is better to be safe than sorry when these things come up.

OK, let the conspiracy theorizing begin! >)

Matt

Story here.

Let's put this in perspective. The boy simply sketched a picture of a gun. No bullets or threats were included on this drawing. Are we shocked? Society criminalizes men for the most assine reasons. The attack on boys is growing at an alarming rate: another reason why boys have become disinterested with school.

We need to educate the mothers of young boys. As any good parent, if they were aware of this boy crisis, they would demand massive changes throughout the education system.

Let's be honest, most women want their sons to succeed. That's why I gave my sister with two sons a copy of Sommer's break through book: "The War Against Boys." My sister was shocked and felt the book was so important, she gave several copies to other women affiliated with the P.T.A.

My reasoning for posting these videos is simple. I believe it is vital for MRA's to fully digest what feminists have to say because it has a direct impact on our movement.

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Sample Quote: Writer and Producer, Jill Soloway:

"On why movies don't tell more women's stories]
[Men in Hollywood] have nothing to do except be ambitious. We make babies, we make beauty, we make dinner, we make homes, we make gardens, we make people happy. Men come to Hollywood and wake up every morning thinking 'My story needs to be told."
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Sample Qoute: National Congress of Black Women Chair, Dr. E. Faye Williams

Essay here. Excerpt:

'Mary Winkler is a free woman—free of her abusive marriage and free of jail. After 67 days in a mental-health facility in Tennessee, Winkler was released earlier this week and has returned to her hometown of McMinnville. But is she free of the posttraumatic stress disorder and depression that her legal team said drove her to gun down her preacher-husband, Matthew, last year? ...Winkler's critics wonder if she ever had PTSD in the first place and say the diagnosis was just a means of getting off easy.'

Story here.

The really interesting twist is, the same mother's 23 year old son is currently in jail for having sex with a 14 year old girl. Excerpt:

'"If she was a man, she would already be in prison," the mother said. "She's only out because she's a woman. A criminal should not be able to hide behind the fact that they have a child."'

Found it here. It lists the many "naughty teachers" appearing in the news today and links to the stories reporting them.

As long as they are called "naughty" and not "criminal", I suppose it'll just keep going on and on...

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman who taught at Tenino High School was sentenced to 60 days in jail Monday for having a sexual relationship with a then 16-year-old female student, but she was not ordered to stay away from the teen upon her release.
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Welter, 38, pleaded guilty to two criminal counts, both gross misdemeanors — communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and sexual misconduct with a minor — as part of a plea deal Monday in Lewis County Superior Court, Hill and Lewis County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Colin Hayes said.

As part of the plea deal, Hayes agreed to dismiss two counts of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and reduced another count of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes from a felony to a gross misdemeanor."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Now that women have solidly earned their place in the work force, many find themselves still yearning for something men often have: wives.

"The thing I most want in life is a wife. I'm not kidding," said Joyce Lustbader, a research scientist at Columbia University, who has been married for 29 years. "I work all day, sometimes seven days a week, and still have to go home and make dinner and have all those things to do around the house."'