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'A Queens woman sporting nine fake fingernails told cops she wasn’t with her boyfriend when he was shot to death in his left side early Saturday. But the lie fell apart — leading to her arrest Monday — when a sharp-eyed detective noticed her one naked digit.
“On his body we find a fingernail and we noticed that when we talk to his girlfriend she’s missing a fingernail,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said. “We take her back into custody, we start speaking to her, and she makes admissions she actually killed him.”
After the murder, police say Dawn McIntosh, 46, of Long Island City, enlisted the help of her son and daughter to carry Sh-Ron McWhorter’s body to a car. He was too heavy, so McIntosh tried to burn the victim’s body to mask the crime. The mom was charged with murder, criminal possession of a weapon and tampering with physical evidence.
'University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan blamed federal privacy regulations for her school's failure to debunk the Rolling Stone gang-rape story.
Those regulations did not stop her from treating innocent people as rapists, however.
Sullivan, speaking to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, said the school couldn't counter the Rolling Stone article about a now discredited accusation of a brutal gang rape because of a law known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
"The university couldn't say it wasn't true because of FERPA," said Sullivan, referring to federal student privacy law. "And the only reason I can say it to you now is because there's a police chief's report, which is not FERPA-protected."'
Article here. Nice to see some exposure in something like the MSM. Will it make prime time news? I doubt it. But it should. Excerpt:
'Swiss food giant Nestle is being sued in the United States for allegedly knowingly allowing its Fancy Feast cat food to contain fish from a Thai supplier that uses slave labor.
Pet food buyers who filed the class action lawsuit on Thursday in US federal court in Los Angeles seek to represent all California consumers of Fancy Feast who would not have purchased the product had they known it had ties to slave labor.
According to the lawsuit, Nestle works with Thai Union Frozen Products PCL to import more than 28 million pounds (13 million kilograms) of seafood-based pet food for top brands sold in the United States, and that some of the ingredients in those products came from slave labor.
Men and boys, often trafficked from Thailand's poorer neighbors Myanmar and Cambodia, are sold to fishing boat captains who need crews aboard their ship, the complaint said.
'California’s state Assembly on Thursday approved legislation aimed at closing the wage gap between women and men through what proponents describe as the strongest equal pay protection in the nation.
The bill by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, would let female employees challenge pay discrimination based on the wages that the company pays to other employees at different locations. They could also base challenges on wages the company pays to other employees who do substantially similar work.'
'What happens when the statistical basis for a massive, nationwide legislative push crumbles into dust? Absolutely nothing, if the subject is sexual assault on campus.
This year, more than half the states in the country considered legislation dealing with sexual assault on college campuses. California and New York enacted affirmative-consent policies, Connecticut and Virginia announced new laws intended to prevent sexual violence on campuses and last year President Obama created a task force designed to deal with what liberal political elites claimed was a startling rise in sexual assault.
But the very studies these politicians relied on don’t say what they have claimed — yet the “yes means yes” juggernaut rolls on.
A study by prominent psychologist David Lisak, “Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Detected Rapists,” has been used by the federal government, schools and activists to justify policies slanted against the accused.
'Yesterday, the term “manspreading” was added to the online Oxford Dictionary. It made the news and I felt surprisingly pissed off about it. On the way to work, I counted three women participating in fine examples of “manspreading”. Ever since I was a teenager, it has always irritated me that sitting with your legs open was seen to be the preserve of men. It seemed to be based on the outmoded assumption that women always wear skirts and that even in trousers they should be making themselves small and polite in public spaces. In an admittedly minor rebellion, I started to sit like that too.
Article here. Notice how the article remains written in a way to suggest that the facts reported in it remain irrelevant. It quotes a nervous female student talking about how scary such reports are (and indeed, they are) and that a campus-wide alert system should be in place -- right on the heels of the reported fact that this was a false report. Talk about ignoring reality! Excerpt:
'Arkansas State University alerted students Friday night about a possible sexual assault that allegedly occurred on campus Wednesday, but took down the notifications Saturday evening.
According to the news release, University Police were notified that a student was held against her will and sexually assaulted by an unknown male in a vehicle parked by the Red Wolf Recreation Center.
The alleged incident was believed to have happened at 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 26.
Police made the decision to remove the notifications after the information provided by the victim didn't add up with other facts.
'Countless children go through life not knowing the true identities of their fathers. Shame on their mothers. And shame on the U.S. court system that, more often than you realize, forces child support on men with no DNA connection.
These false establishments of paternity, as they are called, happen in courts across the country. Our broken family court system is intent on getting someone – really anyone – on record as being responsible for the children so the state won’t be.
The result? Circles of victimized people.
First, the child who is denied the truth about who his or her biological father is, any hereditary diseases they may develop, their heritage, extended family and inheritance rights.'
'Imagine a scenario where children are raped, abused, and neglected, yet the court refuses to address the problem or hold those responsible accountable.
Seems crazy? Well, welcome to Michigan.
In yet another example of America's disturbing incarceration traditions, Michigan imprisoned a number of 17-year-old juveniles with adults, and prison guards and other staff did a terrible job of providing these children sufficient monitoring and protection. These kids were raped and abused by other inmates and even sexually assaulted by guards.
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This week the court made a shocking decision, as you can read below.
A Michigan appeals court dismissed the case on a minor procedural technicality, one that did not warrant or require the court to dismiss. And, if that wasn't bad enough, the court decided to also address the substantive claims—and ruled against the children. ...'
'High-profile cases have recently put campus sexual assault in the spotlight. One question that has repeatedly come up: why are these cases being handled by campuses at all? Title IX requires that every school receiving federal aid must take concrete steps to deal with hostile environments and sexual assault. This leaves colleges and universities with the task of figuring out what policies and procedures to enforce. Proponents say that campus investigations serve a real need, forcing schools to respond to violence and protecting the interests of victims in ways that the criminal justice system may fail. Can schools provide due process for defendants and adequate justice for victims, or do these cases belong in the courts?'
'America’s universities are much more than classrooms: they are four-year residences for many students. Unfortunately, crimes do take place on college campuses, including sexual assault. In response, colleges and federal bureaucrats have developed various laws and regulations designed to protect students. While this impulse is laudable, sometimes the results are not. Some college administrators have adopted questionable procedures that appear to favor the accused and have put political correctness above the rights and interests of the accused and the need to engage in a legitimate search for the truth.
Join us as three distinguished advocates discuss these issues. How prevalent is campus sexual assault? What is the appropriate way to deal with alleged victims? How can we make sure that the rights of the accused are also respected, so that travesties of justice like the Duke lacrosse case and the Rolling Stone rape hoax are not repeated?'
Malecare Prostate Cancer Support is launching a new prostate cancer awareness campaign called, TOPOFF, (http://topoff.org/) drawing attention to the need for better diagnostics, better treatments and better understanding of prostate cancer. There are many ways to build awareness. We think the hardest way is to expose yourself, to put your body on the line and say to the world, this is who I am. I matter. Fighting Prostate Cancer matters.
We take our cue from female Breast Cancer survivors who post selfies of themselves, bald because of their chemo treatment. We are equally bold, brave and honored by our treatment choices and desire to raise awareness about our disease.
Part's One and Two of the TOPOFF Prostate Cancer Awareness Campaign begins now!
Part One of TOPOFF asks men diagnosed with prostate cancer and their allies and supporters to take photographs (selfies) of themselves with their shirts off, upload them to http://topoff.org or email them to: topoff@malecare.org
Both print and broadcast journalists have already expressed interest in the TOPOFF campaign and prostate cancer. So, take your selfies and send'em to topoff@malecare.org Your name and identifying info will Not be attached to your photo.
Part Two of TOPOFF asks for 3-5 men to volunteer to be profiled, with your names attached. We will take high end, editorial style pictures of you for TOPOFF. We will then create an accompanying article on each of you and your journey with prostate cancer.
You need to be willing to be photographed with your shirt off, share your story in a professional interview and allow us to use your name in the media. You can be one of the men who also share a picture on the TOPOFF website.
'After two recent cases, one of alleged rape and another of gang-rape, turned out false cases, police are in a quandary. Policemen refusing to file cases in such matters can be charged under Section 166 of IPC (public servant disobeying law), which attracts punishment of a year in prison.
'A Navy enlisted man whose rape conviction was reversed six weeks ago remains imprisoned in South Carolina, caught amid the military’s accelerating campaign against sexual assault.
Now, in an unusual move, attorneys for Airman Dustin M. Clark are urging the same military appeals court that threw out his 2014 conviction to order his immediate release. The 23-year-old Missouri native has already done too much time for a crime he didn’t commit, his attorneys say.
“It’s outrageous,” David P. Sheldon, one of Clark’s attorneys, said in an interview. “They’re making sure he stays in jail.”
It’s rare for a military appeals court to reverse a conviction because of “factual insufficiency,” as the U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals did with Clark’s conviction July 14. This means the appellate judges thought prosecutors failed to prove their case
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