Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2013-08-27 22:40
Article here. Excerpt:
'Bethenny Frankel [link added] has developed a huge grudge against men; she recently filed for divorce in December of last year from her husband, Jason Hoppy, but he wasn’t the first husband to feel the divorce drama. She divorced her first husband, Peter Sussman, back in 1997.
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Submitted by mens_issues on Mon, 2013-08-26 23:18
Your tax dollars at work - targeting men only.
'DENVER - The Colorado Department of Transportation is targeting men in its latest drunk driving campaign.
The Heat Is On campaign is launching radio, bus and billboard advertising, as well as in-bar advertising such as coasters, posters and a new tool for CDOT, the Interactive Urinal Communicator.
The IUCs feature a 15-second audio message encouraging male bar patrons to not drive and instead look to other alternatives, such as public transit, 1800taxicab.com or Uber.
Males, ages 21-34, have a higher propensity for dying in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes, according to CDOT.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-08-26 23:14
Article here. Excerpt:
'Ari Schochet has grown so accustomed to being sent to jail for missing alimony payments that he goes into a routine.
Before his family-court hearing, Schochet, 41, sticks on a nicotine patch to cope with jailhouse smoking bans, sends an “Ari Off the Grid” e-mail to friends and family, and scrawls key phone numbers in permanent ink on his forearm.
Schochet, who said he worked as a portfolio manager at Citadel Investment Group Inc. and Fortress Investment Group LLC (FIG) and once earned $1 million a year, has been jailed for missing court-ordered payments at least eight times in the past two years as he coped with the end of his 17-year marriage.
The reason he ran afoul of the law was simple. He was out of work for most of that time, a victim of a weak economy, and he ran through his savings trying to pay his wife alimony and child support that totaled almost $100,000 a year.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-08-26 00:58
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'BRIDGEPORT -- A law and order state representative from Fairfield was ordered to turn over her gun Monday following her arrest on charges of assaulting her younger sister.
State Rep. Brenda Kupchick, who has supported tougher treatment for domestic violence defendants, had nothing to say following her arraignment in the Golden Hill Street courthouse on third-degree assault and disorderly conduct charges.
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As uncomfortable as Kupchick seemed in the courtroom, many of the court staff seemed equally uncomfortable to have her there because of her support on the same laws she is now accused of breaking. For the last half a dozen years she has worked closely with the regional Center for Women and Families, which counsels victims of domestic abuse.
Standing before Superior Court Judge John Cronan, Kupchick admitted she recently got a gun and has a temporary permit for it. The judge ordered her to turn it over to police.
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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2013-08-25 15:38
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'The Marine Corps will allow enlisted women to participate in basic infantry training beginning this fall as part of ongoing research to determine what additional ground combat jobs may open to female personnel.
New female enlisted Marines will volunteer for spots in the service’s Infantry Training Battalion, mirroring a related effort allowing new female lieutenants to enroll in the Corps’ Infantry Officer Course, according to an official planning document obtained by Marine Corps Times. Titled “Assignment of Women in Combat Units,” the document is dated Aug. 16.
“Female Marines will have the opportunity to go through the same infantry training course as their male counterparts,” the document states. However, as with the research involving female officers, “female enlisted Marines who successfully complete infantry training as part of this research process will not be assigned infantry as a military occupational specialty and will not be assigned to infantry units.”
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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2013-08-24 18:38
Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-08-24 05:31
Story here. Excerpt:
'A Paw Paw-area woman was arrested on charges of false report of a felony and domestic violence early Friday after police say she attempted to attack her boyfriend with a knife.
Alejandra Aguilar, 22, was arrested following an investigation that started when police were told she was the victim of an assault but she later admitted she lied to deputies, according to a news release from the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office.
Police were called to the 45000 block of Paw Paw Road in Paw Paw Township on a report of "an unknown disturbance with an out of control intoxicated female," the news release said.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-08-24 05:20
Article here. Excerpt:
'The Government was told to commission a large-scale study into the underachievement of boys after GCSE results showed that girls were increasingly likely to secure top grades.
According to figures, some 24.8 per cent of exams sat by girls were graded A* or A, compared with just 17.6 per cent of those taken by boys.
The gulf – 7.2 percentage points – was larger than at any other time since the introduction of GCSEs in the late 80s.
Data also showed that 72.3 per cent of exams sat by girls were graded C or better, compared with just 63.7 per cent of boys’ test papers.
This was the biggest disparity in a decade.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-08-24 05:15
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'WORCESTER (CBS) — Worcester County Prosecutors say they have strong forensic evidence including pictures and texts in their case charging a female sex ed teacher in Fitchburg with raping a 14-year-old male student on multiple occasions.
Rachelle Gendron, 27, was visibly shaken as she was arraigned on five counts of rape aggravated by age difference and a charge of enticement of a child under 16 years.
In court, the prosecutors told the judge they have text messages and pictures of Gendron exposing herself on the victim’s and her cell phones, including photos showing Gendron “in various states of undress” with her breast exposed.'
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Submitted by Minuteman on Sat, 2013-08-24 05:14
Link here.
'Thousands of men in central Pennsylvania have been told that their blood tests for prostate cancer may have been inaccurate.
Pinnacle Health of Harrisburg sent letters to 7,500 men to alert them that a faulty chemical in their prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests led to results showing higher levels of PSA than were actually present, ABC News reported.
Significantly elevated PSA levels may be a sign of prostate cancer and often lead to prostate biopsies. The faulty tests were used at Pinnacle from May 2012 to June 26, 2013.
It's likely that the Pinnacle Health patients are just the tip of the iceberg, because all lots of the "IMMULITE" PSA tests were recalled June 27 by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics. The company shipped the faulty tests to labs from February 2012 through May 2013, ABC News reported.'
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Ed. note: Item is about halfway down the page as of this writing.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-08-24 05:12
Article here. Excerpt:
'The Obama Administration is about to spend $684 million on a public relations and enrollment campaign to convince young, uninsured Americans to buy government-approved ObamaCare plans. In order to be successful, they need to convince young men in particular to enroll, but ObamaCare requires insurers to charge men the same for their premiums as women in 2014.
This attempt at fairness is anything but. If fairness were really the guiding principle it would be quite simple: Women would pay more for health insurance because women consume more health care.
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People are uncomfortable in acknowledging sex differences in health care costs, but they should recognize that those same differences crop up in in other markets, too. It’s not discussed as frequently, but sometimes men are the ones paying more for certain purchases, like car insurance. Would it be fair to charge women more for it just to give men a discount?'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-08-24 05:09
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'I’ve played this scratchy old record for you before, and I shall play it again. It never ceases to amaze me how MEN still don’t get it, and continue repeating the same actions with the same result: FAILURE!!
Feminism and its evil twin sister political correctness, are an ideology that is firmly entrenched in every country today, including South Africa. You will not see its face because it’s very cleverly disguised, camouflaged and presented as normal and socially acceptable. Until you dig deeper.
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Read, research and analyze feminism and men’s rights, Google is your best friend, our time will come. It is impossible that such an illogical, bigoted and hateful movement such as feminism will last forever, eventually men will revolt. It has already started. This horror that is perpetuated on us transcends all races, religion, class and creed divisions, put your differences at the door and stand united or suffer defeat.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-08-24 05:07
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'A Hampton, Virginia woman who falsely accused a man of raping her -- landing him in prison for four years -- will spend two months in jail.
Elizabeth Paige Coast, 26, will be allowed to serve her sentence on weekends. She came forward in 2012, saying that she lied about Johnathan C. Montgomery raping her. He spent four years in prison over the false claim, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-08-23 18:20
Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-08-23 03:31
Article here. Excerpt:
'Foreskin is in — and circumcision has been in decline for some 30 years, a new study from an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds.
Americans today aren't as anti-foreskin as they were when Ronald Reagan was president: 58.3 percent of American baby boys in 2010 were circumcised compared to 64.5 percent in 1979. So while that's a high number compared to, say, Canada, where only 30 percent of boys are circumcised, there is increasing evidence that American parents are generally comfortable not tinkering with their sons' manhoods (even if, since 2007, there's been a slight upward trend in American parents making sure their baby boys are cut).
The numbers come from a 30-year study published this month by the National Center for Health Statistics, a branch of the CDC. The numbers indicate that the circumcision rate in the U.S. is close to the lowest it's ever been (the nadir for circumcision was in 2007).'
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