Article here. Excerpt:

'In the spring of 2011 farm workers near Royal City, Washington, were working in an orchard when a toxic cloud drifted their way from a neighboring farm. Carol Dansereau, executive director of Farm Worker Pesticide Project describes what happened next:

Within minutes they were experiencing the pain and terror of acute poisoning: vomiting, abdominal cramps, dizziness, headaches, weak muscles, numbness, burning hot skin, and other symptoms.

Chlorpyrifos (CPF), the pesticide behind the poisoning, is one of the most common agricultural chemicals. The EPA finally banned it for household use in 2000, but it is still widely used on golf courses, treated wood and in agriculture. It lingers on foods, contaminates drinking water, and poisons the air.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Good evening, I'm Lilly Ledbetter and I'm here tonight to say: What a difference four years make!
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The president signed the bill for his grandmother, whose dreams hit the glass ceiling, And for his daughters, so that theirs never will. Because of his leadership, women who faced pay discrimination like I did will now get their day in court.

That was the first step but it can't be the last. Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money. It's real money for the little things like being able to take your kids to the movies and for the big things like sending them to college. It's paying your rent this month and paying the mortgage in the future. It's having savings for the bill you didn't expect and savings for the dignified retirement you've earned.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'"Women feminists today are an exact replica of male chauvinist pigs 30 years ago because women today think that men are not necessary," she explained. "They are the same as men 30 or 40 years ago saying that women were mindless ninnies."

Feminism today, she described, can be defined as having two foundational issues. One obvious one is abortion. The other one that Passno says is less understood is essentially the rejection of men.

"What the feminist movement has done is it's gone from wanting equality with men to being a movement that doesn't think that men are really necessary at all."
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Passno doesn't want women today to fall for the rhetoric of feminists – that success means pursuing a career and climbing the corporate ladder; men aren't needed; children are a constraint; and abortion is a choice that women ought to make.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'But here’s the bottom line. Aside from the prime time speeches (where they largely put their best face’s forward), the message boils down to a collection of grievances, fear, sob stories — and a celebration of victimhood (only government can save us!).

How may times have we heard something such as, “Barack Obama understands women. Barack Obama cares about women.”

Can you imagine the same thing being said about men?

And while the mainstream media won’t say this, they are overplaying the “woman issue” — taking a very sympathetic argument, and turning it into a negative. Most people believe in equality for women — they do not, however, embrace radical feminism. The Democrats, by pushing this message so aggressively, seem intent on growing the (rarely-discussed) gender-gap problem they already have with men.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'But there aren’t very many male elementary school teachers in the Grand Forks area or in the field as a whole, a trend in place for decades.

Many educators would like to see more of a balance. For young boys who don’t have a father figure, male instructors can provide a perspective that reaches beyond the books, they said.

Of 12 elementary schools in the Grand Forks Public School District, there are 15 men teaching kindergarten through fifth grade classes, which are the elementary grade levels here, according to the district.

Some elementary schools in Grand Forks don’t have male teachers at all.

Statewide, the number of male K-6 classroom teachers has grown from 436 to 451 in the past six years, according to the state Department of Public Instruction. During the same period, the number of female teachers grew from 2,685 to 2,857. The DPI does not break down the data by grade level.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'BATON ROUGE, LA. — Middle school science teachers should expect a surge of student enthusiasm this fall when the Sally Ride Science Festival makes its way Louisiana State University on September 22nd, 2012.

Presented by ExxonMobil, the festival for 5th to 8th grade girls features hands-on workshops, guest speakers, and a street fair complete with food, booths and music. This will be the third festival Sally Ride Science has hosted at the Baton Rouge campus, and the renowned science education company is expecting hundreds of girls, teachers and parents to attend.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In response to the ruling, some Jews and Muslims who practice circumcision for religious reasons have protested vehemently. Subsequently, German politicians pledged to pass a law to protect ritual circumcision of young boys. Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger even traveled to Berlin to defend Jewish circumcisions, and a complaint against a Bavarian rabbi for performing circumcisions drew the anger of the Anti-Defamation League. The legal and cultural dilemma inherent in the issue makes prompt resolution unlikely.

Most of Germany (and the world) does not circumcise. It is instinctively viewed as harmful. Here’s why:

— Studies show that circumcision causes significant pain and trauma based on various physiological and behavioral changes. Sometimes infants do not cry because they are in traumatic shock. Other effects can include disrupted bonding between parent and child and risk of surgical complications.

Gosh, it's like men don't even vote! One day, dunno when, some pol is going to wake up and realize that there is this huge bloc of voters known as... men... and that we have interests and goals that indeed, should start getting attention. Til then, guess we're in for all-women, all-the-time from both major parties and the MSM. Article here. Excerpt:

'Both presidential campaigns say their female-heavy convention speaker rolls are about underscoring that women's issues are America's issues. However, the female-centric messages also speak to the parties' battle over the deeply coveted female voting bloc.

"It's aimed at a specific group of voters that both parties need," Jennifer Duffy, senior editor at the Cook Political Report said. "This whole argument is aimed at appealing to this group and keeping them in the fold."
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"At this time the Democratic Party is the only party for women because of the controversial stance the Republican Party has taken," said Alabama delegate Susan Brown.

Nice to see some part of the MSM calling the wage gap tripe, etc., for what it is. Nice to see some gumption from them. Article here. Excerpt:

'CHARLOTTE, N.C. — We heard a number of dubious or misleading claims on the first night of the Democratic National Convention:
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Two advocates of equal-pay legislation said women make 77 cents for every dollar men earn. That's true on average, but the gap for women doing the same work as men is much less, and not entirely or even mostly the result of job discrimination.
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Making a pitch for "equal pay for equal work," Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut said "America's women still make just 77 cents for every dollar men earn." And the equal-pay crusader Lilly Ledbetter used the same figure and added: "[W]hen we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over the entire lives, what we lose cannot be measured in dollars."

But that oft-cited 77-cent statistic exaggerates the actual gap between women and men doing the same work.

Students returning to campuses are facing the curtailment of student civil rights, thanks to a 2011 U.S. Department of Education (DED) sex assault mandate. Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is calling on the federal agency to retract the Directive, and restore due process to campuses across the nation.

Under the policy, rather than the usual "reasonable doubt" standard used in courts of law, colleges are now mandated to use the 50.1% "preponderance of evidence" standard when adjudicating claims of sexual assault.

Release of the Directive has resulted in a number of high-profile debacles across the country: http://www.saveservices.org/falsely-accused/sex-assault/civil-liberties-took-a-beating/

SAVE wants to stop the Directive from inviting false allegations, which harm the credibility of true victims and dissipate needed services for victims.

And all this time I thought it was only men who did such evil! Silly me! Article here. Excerpt:

'(CNN) -- An elderly woman who was known as Colombia's "Queen of Cocaine" was gunned down in the northwestern city of Medellin, police said Tuesday.

Griselda Blanco, 69, was killed by two bullets at close range -- a violent end not unlike the ones that authorities say she ordered during her prime in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Blanco, also known as "the godmother" and "mafia's mother," gained notoriety in the 1970s and '80s when, authorities say, she was responsible for shipping multi-ton shipments of cocaine from Colombia to Miami. She was also the mastermind, investigators say, of countless murders. She was also linked to drug lord Pablo Escobar.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'LYNNWOOD, Wash. (CBS Seattle) — Lynnwood police say a mother used her 10-year-old boy to rob a home.

Police tell KOMO-TV that Marie Shafique, 33, made her son climb through an open window, but didn’t know that she was being watched by neighbors and the house’s security camera.

Michelle Geronimo was inside of her home when the child tried to break in. She told the station that the boy was “peering inside” her open window.'

Just learned about this web site: http://www.familyofmen.com/ and wanted to pass it along to MANN readers. Looks like great stuff! From their About page:

'For more than 10 years the Family of Men has operated a telephone crisis line.

The daily averages of callers are 2 per day.

Of the 1200 callers per year (2001) 22% are from women. Of the 22% women callers approximately 25% are from mothers who’s sons are in a violent domestic situation and they are concerned not only for their son’s safety but also the safety of their grandchildren. An additional 25% are from, what I call the 2nd wives club, women who are married to a man with a vindictive 1st wife and their life is in total distress due to the situation. The remaining 50% consists of sisters, girlfriends and female friends who are concerned for a male in their life.

Article here. Excerpt:

'What a difference a year makes.

Erica DePalo, 33, won the Essex County, N.J. Teacher of the Year award in 2011. Last Friday, she was arrested and accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her 15-year-old honors English students, according to CBS New York.

Many of the students that the station spoke with were blindsided by the allegations.

“I was kind of shocked,” Arnold Ajondo said. ”I was a little surprised. She was really close with the students and we all liked her. She was always there after school if you ever needed any help.”

DePalo was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Star Ledger.'

Simply too much to comment on in full. Best to Google for transcripts. I can just mention a few things: Mrs. Obama delivered a finger-wag about what a man really is when she described her MS-stricken father as still going out to work so she could be sent to college. I.e., a real man ignores his health and well-being so his daughter can work later to curb the educational and other opportunities of people like him (i.e., men).

Constant rebukes regarding abortion, with the NARAL president saying people without knowledge of what it's like to have a woman's body shouldn't be making any decisions about it (implication: male lawmakers should have no say in laws around abortion). No mention of course about the fact that maybe, just maybe, men should also have reproductive rights too. Not a peep from either Dems or Reps. Dare I dream?

And of course, the wage gap myth was trotted out repeatedly by multiple speakers.