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Dickhead: Your last post should be edited. There is no excuse for bumping off aging hookers; they are people and should rip. The same goes for the naive kid bumped off in Aruba. The Ivy League kids are just that, naive all [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord140][CodeWord140][/url] and wind kids, going out to see the world, talking in the vernacular and not about Proust or whatever you imagine they should talk about. We all have met the ugly Americans abroad but the ones you mention were probalby just scared of the foreigners, as many Americans are and, being unused to foreigners, speak loudly, in English and thereby compound stereotypes.
American Armed Forces Radio run ads like that, telling their listeners that speaking loudly doesn't help and that they should learn the native language. Interestingly, in the military outposts of the American Empire, in places like Japan, they construct little Americas on base, complete with shopping malls, soccer moms, picket fences and PTAs. Very many of the housewives never venture off base and end up having to see shrinks. But I am kind to them as I am a nice, loving and caring monger. I take care of AW. And so should you. They need our love.
Now, gentlemen, to get fully back on track. Do not blame American women. Blame the system that instigates and perpetuates the problems, both real and imagined.
What American Men Can Look Forward To.
Bad Girls Go Wild
A rise in girl-on-girl violence is making headlines nationwide and prompting scientists to ask why.
Wounded: Jennifer Clayton, 14, was beaten by three girls as she walked home from school
By Julie Scelfo
Newsweek June 13 issue - When police arrived on the scene of a fatal stabbing last week in Brooklyn, N.Y., they were stunned by what they saw. The victim, an 11-year-old girl, lay crumpled on the floor, the front of her "Dora the Explorer" T shirt bloodied. The weapon, a steak knife, was in the kitchen sink. And the perpetrator, visibly upset and clinging to her mother, police say, was a little girl in a ponytail, only 9 years old. A few days later, she stood in white socks and shiny black dress shoes before a judge, listening as her lawyer entered a plea of not guilty.
The tragic event, which took place after the girls came to blows over a pink rubber ball, was a sad reminder that children can possess the same brutal instincts as adults. But for experts on youth crime, the killing was another instance of what they view as a burgeoning national crisis: the significant rise in violent behavior among girls. According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, the number of girls 10 to 17 arrested for aggravated assault has doubled over the last 20 years. The number of boys arrested for weapons possession rose 22 percent between 1983 and 2003, while the number of girls increased by a whopping 125 percent. Today, one in three juveniles arrested for violent crimes is female. "Girls are not what people think they are," says Dr. Howard Spivak, director of Tufts University Center for Children and coauthor of a new book, "Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence." "The change in girls' behavior is overwhelming."
A quick look at recent headlines is overwhelming indeed. On April 20, a 17-year-old from Lexington, Mass., allegedly slashed open the neck and face of another girl with a bottle of Twisted Tea. The next day, three teenage girls in Ayden, N.C., were charged with first-degree murder for participating in a drive-by shooting that left a 10-year-old boy dead. On May 3, a 17-year-old from Chicago was stabbed in her left breast and right armpit; a 16-year-old female classmate has been charged. And the teen daughter of former "Law & Order" star Dianne Wiest was recently arrested in Manhattan with two girlfriends for allegedly roughing up a male classmate and stealing his iPod. A court hearing is scheduled.
Schoolyards, where boy bullies once reigned supreme, are increasingly arenas for skirmishes between girls. "There are actually more physical girl fights now than between boys," says Bill Bond, a former school principal in Paducah, Ky., who travels the country studying safety issues for the National Association of Secondary School Principals. "I was just on a Cheyenne reservation yesterday and the principal said he had had one fight this year between boys and six between girls." Jennifer Clayton, 14, was beaten up in May by three other girls as she walked home from her school in Guelph, Ont. "I could hear them saying, 'Punch her in the face'," she told the local newspaper.
Jennifer Orangio, the 18-year-old slashing victim in Massachusetts, says that when she came upon her boyfriend hanging out with an ex in the school parking lot, the heat of her own reaction took her by surprise. Orangio went up to the other girl, Jamie Pelletier, and pushed her. Pelletier "threatened to smash a bottle over my head ... I was, like, 'Go ahead, do it!' And she did it." Pelletier, 17, now faces felony charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (to which she pleaded not guilty). She declined to comment.
Part of this spike in violence is related to evolving sex roles. Historically, boys have received messages from the culture that connect masculinity with physical aggression, while girls received opposite messages, encouraging passivity and restraint. Now girls are barraged with images of "sheroes"—think Sydney Bristow on ABC's "Alias" or Uma Thurman's the Bride in "Kill Bill: Vol. 2"—giving them a wider range of role models and tacit permission to alter their behavior. Accordingly, says Spivak, some girls have "shifted from internalizing anger to striking out."
The women's movement, which explicitly encourages women to assert themselves like men, has unintentionally opened the door to girls' violent behavior. "I was at a JV lacrosse game, watching my granddaughter. We cheered like hell because she was being aggressive on the field," says Joan Jacobs Brumberg, professor of history, human development and gender studies at Cornell. "I don't want to blame women's liberation for violence among girls," cautions Brumberg, but "traditional femininity and passivity are no longer valued in young females." James Garbarino, professor of human development at Cornell, puts it more bluntly. "We rely on boys to get out there and block a football, go in the Army and defend the country, carry guns and be cops. One of the side effects is that some boys take [physical aggression] too far." Now that girls have the same opportunities, he says, they can encounter the same blurry boundaries.
Research suggests that the best predictor of violent behavior, however—for girls and for boys—is not hours logged playing videogames or competitive pressure, but firsthand exposure to violent behavior. And social scientists warn that the number of children who see guns, fights and other kinds of physical abuse on a day-to-day basis is on the rise. "Violence in girls, like violence in boys, is really rooted in the individual and the individual's situation. I don't think you can blame the culture entirely for this phenomenon," says Brumberg.
After Ella Speight's 17-year-old daughter was attacked by a 16-year-old classmate last month, she spent hours in the hospital, tending to her child. Speight says she isn't angry: she prays for the assailant and even embraced the girl's mother when they met in court. "My heart hurts for her family," says Speight. "I know her mother didn't send her out to do that." Sugar and spice and everything nice: maybe Speight's forgiving nature represents an ideal that even boys can aim for.
With William Lee Adams
© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.
Russian Women - The Most Beautiful
Here’s an interesting article from Reuters. A Russian diplomat believes that Russian women are most beautiful in the world. I've not been to Russia so I cannot comment on their women, but I’m sure everyone says that the women of their home country are the best around. I’d like to be able to develop an unbiased way to really determine which country had the best women - looks & personality.
Anyway, here is the link if you want to see the article in its original form, however, I have posted the article below in its entirety: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050606/od_nm/russia_marriage_dc;_ylt=AhP17b6iujipTizaBRgaRCWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2YnFncG91BHNlYwNvZA--[/url]
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians who marry foreigners could be exiled and stripped of their citizenship under a bill being drafted by a group of members of parliament, a deputy said Sunday.
One of the bill's authors, Duma deputy Nikolai Kuryanovich, a member of the ultra-nationalist LDPR party, admitted parliament was unlikely to approve the measures but insisted they were necessary. "Our women, the most beautiful and best in the world, are going abroad. By doing this, they are wasting the most valuable thing we have -- the gene pool of our nation," Kuryanovich told Ekho Moskvy radio.
But while condemning women for going abroad, he also said he did not want people bringing foreign spouses to Russia either.
Newly-weds would be forced to go and live in the country where their spouses were from, Kuryanovich said, to protect Russia from "an invasion of alien elements."
"Adapting to life in Russia ... foreigners impose their own rules, which are unacceptable to us," he said.
Since the fall of Communism, the numbers of Russians marrying foreigners has increased significantly and a poll cited in respected magazine Ogonyok last year said one in three 17 to 25-year-old girls wanted to marry a foreigner and live abroad.
The LDPR party's leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, is known as a maverick who enjoys stirring up controversy and has traded punches with fellow deputies during parliamentary sittings.
Advocacy for American Women
The term "pussy whipped" can have many connotations but in the USA it increasingly means American women literally whipping men's asses. While women are more likely to be injured in their physical engagements with men, it seems that they are much more likely to have a hankering for a good old brawl. With the size of women increasing steadily, in the future men will probably sustain more injuries as a result of these domestic combat engagements.
It is no secret that men in professions that require the bearing of arms such as law enforcement officers and military personnel often take their blows without retaliation from their loving wives; fighting back can mean the end of their career when the little lady accuses them of beating her. American women know how much leverage domestic violence charges can have against men in a divorce and they are not shy when it comes to using it. It's good to see that research is beginning to shed some light on the dynamics behind the scenes. However, men still face the "wife beater" stereotype in the family courts.
For years women have been kept out of ground combat in the military. Maybe, it's time for the government to reconsider this position. US women are now beefier with greater body mass than previous generations. They are even more aggressive than the average hen-pecked male. The Iraqi prison scandal showed that our women are more than capable at subjugating and breaking male insurgents on a leash. Perhaps we'll actually have a chance of ending that war if we put more women in uniform and send them over there. In no time the other side will be begging for a truce!
The American Amazon may just be the key to protecting this wonderful land. Then we American men can travel the world mongering secure in the knowledge that our women are out there making it a safer place. ;)
If this doesn't convince you that American Women Suck, nothing will
Hey fellas,
Check out this story. This poor guy didn’t even get to fuck the ***** & has to shell out $1,500/month. Is this a great country or what? Here’s the link if you want to read the article at the website: [url]http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05140/507736.stm[/url]
Sperm donor fights order to support 2 children
Friday, May 20, 2005
By Barbara White Stack, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is weighing a case with the potential to strike fear in the hearts of sperm donors who thought they were getting $50 for their genetic material and nothing more -- certainly no responsibility for babies created with it.
The justices heard arguments this week in a case that forces them to weigh the right of children to financial aid from two parents against the right of men to provide sperm for in-vitro fertilization without the donors being held responsible for any offspring.
"There is a lot of fear surrounding this court case because if the court extends this beyond support, to rights and obligations, then I think it will create a serious chilling effect," said Lawrence Kalikow, a Bucks County lawyer who is an expert in surrogacy, sperm and egg donation cases.
The genesis of the case is a decade-old deal between ex-lovers, Joel L. McKiernan, now of Mt. Lebanon, and Ivonne V. Ferguson, now of New York. He agreed to provide sperm for babies she wanted and she agreed to absolve him of responsibility for their progeny.
Through in-vitro fertilization, she bore twins and raised them alone for five years. Then she sued McKiernan for child support in Dauphin County.
The Common Pleas Court judge there acknowledged that the couple had a binding verbal contract that released McKiernan from the normal responsibilities of fathers. But he decided the contract was invalid because the two had wrongly bargained away rights of the twins, particularly their right to child support from two parents.
Then the court ordered McKiernan to pay $1,500 in support a month. He appealed. Last July Superior Court said the lower court judge was right. That's what got McKiernan before the Supreme Court this week.
There Justice Ronald D. Castille asked Elizabeth A. Hoffman, the Harrisburg lawyer representing Ferguson, whether the court's invalidating the verbal contract between Ferguson and McKiernan would make it difficult for infertile couples to obtain sperm donors.
Hoffman's argument was that anonymous donors to sperm banks wouldn't be affected because their contracts are with the banks, not with the potential mothers.
And she stressed that only cases involving single mothers are relevant because in Pennsylvania children born to married women are assumed to be those of the husband. In those cases, then, the children have two parents to provide support.
At this point, sperm donation centers don't seem to be in panic. One of the largest in the country, Cryobank of California, mentions the Pennsylvania decision on its Web site but assures its donors they're unaffected. California has a law protecting donors from support actions. Pennsylvania does not.
A supervisor at Cryobiology Inc. of Columbus, which has a sperm collection center in Pittsburgh, was unaware of the case as was the executive director of the Reproductive Science Institute with three offices outside Philadelphia.
Both Donna Ridder of Cryobiology and June Amarant of Reproductive Science said they thought their contracts would protect donors.
The lawyer representing McKiernan wasn't so sure. Attorney John W. Purcell Jr., of Harrisburg, said that if a judge decided that a contract between mother and father was invalid because it denied children their rights, it could nullify a contract between a man and a sperm center denying children rights.
And such anonymous donors are traceable. Banks ordered by courts to find and identify donors have the means to do it.
Donors should have some concern, said Erie lawyer Joe Martone, who is handling a case that is the reverse -- an egg donor seeking custody rights to triplets she didn't bear and has never supported.
The vast majority of cases in which children are conceived from donated eggs or sperm work out happily ever after, Martone said.
But if the Supreme Court upholds the lower courts' decisions in this case, Martone said, it's possible that single parents who conceived with donated genetic material will demand the names of the donors and seek support.
He and attorney Kalikow agreed the problem would be resolved if Pennsylvania passes legislation -- as at least a dozen other states have -- regulating sperm and egg donation.
Although this is a Pennsylvania case, it could have repercussions elsewhere, Purcell said. If a bank in California ships sperm to the doctor of a single woman in Pittsburgh, it is conceivable that the Pennsylvania-born child would be covered by the Pennsylvania decision, he said. Or, he said, it's possible a child would be covered if the mother moved to Pennsylvania to deliver.
If the court rules that McKiernan must continue to pay, he said, that could chill donation everywhere.
And that, Kalikow said, would hurt infertile couples. "If donors don't want to donate, then intended parents have that option foreclosed."
Both he and Percell said there is an example in Pennsylvania law that would enable the Supreme Court to release sperm donors of obligations to be the second parent to children born to single mothers.
In cases of abused or neglected children, it is fairly common now for courts to terminate the rights of both parents then permit one person, usually an unmarried or widowed foster parent, to adopt. That action leaves the child without two parents to support him.
(Barbara White Stack can be reached at 412-263-1878.)