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We had the chance to get an in-depth update on Sony and Incog's upcoming Warhawk for the PlayStation 3 a few weeks ago up at the developer's Utah studio. With rumors swirling about the game, Sony and Incog wanted to give the press the full rundown on what's going on with the game. The big change is that Warhawk's single-player has been cut and the game is being refocused as a multiplayer-only online game. The new direction makes the game a sandbox for players to set up multiplayer matches. Is this a good idea? We clocked in some time to find out how it's shaping up.
The basics of the game are as follows: You'll get access to all the content in the game right out of the gate to set up a match. This includes 25 multiplayer maps set on five worlds, more than 20 weapons that run the gamut from pistols and rifles to laser-guided bombs, two aircraft, the warhawk and nemesis, two sets of ground troops, four ground vehicles, heavy ground turrets, and a variety of materials you can use to customize your soldier. The multiplayer mode will support up to 32 players with voice chat, and it'll feature a robust awards and ranking system that will reward you with a variety of medals, badges, and ribbons. Beyond that, the game features an on-demand split-screen mode that will let a friend hop in and out of the game. The game modes will serve up familiar experiences such as deathmatch, team deathmatch, and capture the flag, as well as something a little different--zone gameplay. The gameplay mode will require players to control areas on the map. The more areas you control, the more options are open to you in terms of resources, such as aircraft and vehicles, as well as point bonuses. Finally, the game features a unique server model that lets PS3 owners set up their PS3s to be servers that offer detailed stat tracking.
So that's the theory. How's the execution? Right now, it's OK. The action is fun and hectic, and the weapons are plentiful and deadly. The various guns, mines, and projectiles are all good stuff. The ground vehicles work nicely and support having buddies along for the ride. Stationary turrets are handy and make for some explosive mayhem that's all good. The warhawk handles much the way it has in the previous demos, and the tweaked controls help quite a bit. The various game types, especially the zone gameplay, are fun and challenging, especially when the battlefield is packed.
The change to multiplayer-only is risky, but after spending some time with the game, we'd say there's some potential there. Incog seems to have drawn inspiration from the Battlefield series and created a sexy playground for players to get their kill on, be it on foot, by ground-based vehicle, or in the air. There's a healthy amount of customization open to players, not only in how their character looks, but also in how it controls in different situations. Thankfully, the Sixaxis support is something that can be toggled on or off, so anyone who has issues with it can simply opt to not use it. We'd point out that although it's not perfect for when you're controlling vehicles, it does free you up to do more shooting, which is kind of nice. Though we're still not sold on it at the moment, due mainly to the fact that Incog is still doing some tweaking to the handling, we can appreciate the benefit and hope it gets buffed up well enough to work out.
Based on what we've played so far, Warhawk is shaping up to be a solid multiplayer experience on the PS3. We're not 100 percent sold on the multiplayer-only aspect of it, as online and LAN matches are cool but sometimes a chore to get going. That said, the action is pretty fun, and when you get a full game going, it makes for a good time. It's hard to get a better sense of the game right now, as the version we played was limited to one area, but what we played has potential. We're still stung by the lack of a single-player offline game, but if Incog didn't think they could make a compelling single-player experience, it's probably for the best, since no one wants to get stuck with a half-baked single-player experience. That said, we hope the multiplayer gets polished up some and can stand on its own. The pieces needed to make that happen seem to be coming together, so hopefully it all clicks. Look for more on Warhawk in the coming months. The game is slated to be available for the PlayStation 3 this year. Sony wasn't able to comment on whether it would be on disc or a download, as it said that how the game would be distributed was still being considered.

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Patrick Butler's cuts blog + Food poverty
Get out more, and listen to real people with real lives: that's the advice to policy makers from people forced to rely on charity food parcels
Public dismay at a Mail on Sunday 'expose' of food bank 'fraud' has triggered £107,000 in donations for the Trussell Trust food bank charity
Despite the partisan rowdiness, the Commons food bank debate revealed signs of political consensus over the role of welfare reform in precipitating food poverty
And explosion of demand for food aid in the wealthy south-east of England is confronting hard-pressed charity workers with tricky ethical dilemmas
A Tory council has withdrawn its own official report linking welfare cuts to a range of social problems from food poverty to violent crime.
A new play, Gastronauts, strips away our complacent assumptions about food and, strikingly, puts a food bank onto the stage
All-party group says the findings of the Defra report will kick start a proper debate on the causes of food poverty in the UK
Low-income families skip meals because they can't afford to get to the nearest shop to buy groceries, and walk for hours to get a charity food parcel, according to a report into rural food poverty
A Defra-commissioned report into the growth of food aid has been delayed. Could it be that it links welfare reform with the explosion in food banks?
Nick Clegg's plan to give 1.4m pupils free school meals is an unfashionably universalist response to food poverty and the UK's cost of living crisis
The School Food Plan is that rare thing in the age of cuts and austerity: a passionate, unequivocal defence of universal public service provision
The police have reported an increase in food shoplifting for personal use by "previously law-abiding" people, and a growth in the market for "knock off" groceries
The state is increasingly paying religious groups to deliver local welfare crisis services, an investigation shows
Jack Monroe's A Girl Called Jack blog vividly charts her life on the breadline, from visits to the pawn shop to living on a £10 a week food budget. Policy makers should take note.
Laura Sandys says the government needs to tackle supermarket dominance and get a grip on food policy if it is to address the UK's food crisis
As food banks struggle to cope with rising demand, they - and politicians - could learn valuable lessons from volunteers in Canada about the precarious nature of charity food provision.
A new documentary brings home the extraordinary scale and perversity of rampant food insecurity in the US, where millions of low paid workers are dependent on charity food banks.


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Archive for category Justice
Confessions: Cleansing the Heart
Posted by Administrator in Justice on November 6, 2014
There are so many circumstances under which so many people confess….
This blog is not an attempt to chronicle all serial killers, or even one killer's confessions, or a discussion of false accusations or wrongful convictions. To try to compile such information in one shot, this writer would just faint away in exhaustion. However, my point is to present a smattering of different kinds of confessions, as such emotions are intriguing to me and hopefully to other readers.
Homicide confessions
Tommy Lynn Sells, convicted serial killer . Says he does not want to "Come out here and say a bag of hoo-hoo" to quote his own words from a transcript of a 2004 "20/20 interview." (He has claimed responsibility for over 70 murders across the United States!) However, that's what prolific serial killers do. They are so convoluted in their descriptions and mix up events that you never know what's really going on. Are they trying to be coy? Are they trying to fool interviewers? Or, do they really, just don't remember the accumulated impact of their crimes?
Diane Fanning uncovered the truth and brought justice for accused mother Julie Rea Harper and her son Joel. In the early morning hours of Oct. 13, 1997, Julie Rea was sleeping in her home when she was awakened by a scream. Concerned about her son, Joel, she went to investigate and yelled his name, but his bed was empty. Julie said she then struggled with a masked intruder, chasing him through the house, bursting through two glass doors and into the backyard. Then, she said, the intruder walked away, removing the mask under a street light before vanishing into the night.
Within minutes, police arrived. Julie had a bruise over her eye and a gash on her arm. Police immediately searched her home and found Joel dead, his T-shirt bloody from multiple stab wounds to his chest.
Why didn't they believe her? Well, they were sloppy in their initial investigation and trial and there was a messy divorce, and perhaps "the intruder in the middle of the night" just seemed so unbelievable.
Then there was another victim in the ring of terror by Sells who survived. On December 31, 1999, 10-year-old Krystal Surles was staying at the house of a friend, 13-year-old Kaylene 'Katy' Harris, when she was attacked by a man in the bedroom where the two girls were sleeping. She had just witnessed Kaylene having her throat slashed, when the man grabbed her and cut her throat. Pretending to be dead, she stayed still until she could escape and get help from the next door neighbor.
She survived and was able to assist in the conviction of Sells.
The actual retrial began in summer 2006. The court ruled that serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells' confession would be permitted as evidence in her new trial, despite questions about its credibility. Meanwhile, the court ruled that some of the damaging testimony from Rea Harper's ex-husband would not be allowed.
The Defense attorney, Ron Safer, maintained that Rea Harper's first lawyer had been in over his head and that despite evidence to the contrary, police had unjustly focused on her as their prime suspect from the very beginning.
"All you have to do is examine the physical evidence and the circumstantial evidence for a concentrated couple of days," he said, "and you can reach no other conclusion but Julie was 100 percent innocent.-
Enter true crime writer and researcher Diane Fanning, who saw Rea Harper's story on "20/20″ and found herself moved by her proclamation of innocence.
Diane was finishing a book on the brutal history of Tommy Lynn Sells, who was a death row serial killer with a history of drug addiction. She corresponded with Sells, and mentioned her doubts about Rea Harper's conviction. (Through the Window)
Diane said, "I didn't tell him who she was, I didn't tell him where it happened, I didn't tell him when it happened, nothing," And he popped back with a letter and said, 'Was that murder you were talking about one that happened two days before the one I did in Springfield, Mo.? Say maybe on the 13th?'"
What was it about a timeline that didn't make sense? Joel was killed Oct. 13th- two days before police say Sells had raped and murdered 13-year-old Stephanie Mahaney in nearby Springfield, Missouri.
A Second Look and a Second Chance at Justice
The Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University and the Chicago law firm Schiff Hardin decided to represent her in her appeal pro bono and would spend in time and money- The equivalent of $1 million on her defense.
"A taste" of what one of Tommy Lynn's Sells Confession was like:
For the entire transcript with 20/20 See link- http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=784420&page=1&singlePage=true
Did you commit the murder of the boy in Lawrenceville?
I committed a murder two days before, the Springfield murder. I know this. Is it this murder you're talking about? I'm assuming, got a good shot at it. You know. But, but to be-
Can you tell me, Tommy, what you remember about that murder?
Next to nothing. And, and I tried talking to Bob [NAME UNCLEAR] about this, and uh, y'all, y'all come here in forty-five minutes and you want me to disclose a murder investigation that, I've sat through many, and it takes hours. And, and y'all just want me to try to say that I've done something that I'm not a hundred percent sure; I'm not even forty percent sure. I know I committed a murder two days before Springfield…
Can you tell me what you do remember about that?
I remember getting in a fight with a woman. Well, not a fight, but a struggle.
Where was that? At a diner? At a restaurant-
No, no, during the murder.
During the murder?
Right. OK. And I thought it was her that I killed. But apparently it wasn't. Now, y'all saying it's a boy, and, and you know, it wasn't like I asked for a name and, and, you know, I just went in to a dark room and started cutting. Or stabbing.
Do you remember why you went to that particular house?
Well, see, I wouldn't say I had the right house, but I'm not even sure if I went to the right house. Uh.
Were you looking for someone or something?
What were you looking for?
I was looking for a woman, uh, that, that I had got into an argument with at a little convenience store earlier that day. And I had followed her, and thinking this is where she lives. No, go figure that. You know, it's, it sounds awful coincidental, and the finger sure points to that one. You know. But, but before I say, yeah, I did something; I want to know I did it. I just don't want to come out here and say, uh, a bag of hoo-hoo, and say this is what you want to hear, this is what I want to tell you. I'm, I'm, and you understand what I'm saying?
And…on and on….
Through Diane's unrelenting pursuits and meticulous research, in 2011 Diane Fanning received the prestigious Defenders of the Innocents Award.
Status of Tommy Lynn Sells: Sells was executed in Texas on April 3, 2014, at 6:27 p.m. CST by lethal injection. He declined to make a final statement.
Intimate Partner Violence
In 1991, after years of domestic violence, Geraldine Kelly shot and killed her husband and stored his body in a freezer at their home in Ventura, California. She told her young children that their father died in a car accident. Seven years later moving back to Somerville Massachusetts, she had the body driven across country stored in a local storage facility in Somerville. In 2004, 13 years after the murder Kelly was gravely ill with breast cancer and confessed to her daughter that she had killed her father claiming he abused her for years and told her where to find his body. The body was mummified but identified as John Kelly based on distinctive tattoos he was known to have including a panther, a Kewpie doll and a skull. The cause of death was a gunshot to the back of the head.
Lock Ness Monster Photo
In 1934 a doctor named Robert Kenneth Wilson offered a picture to the Daily Mail newspaper. Wilson told the newspaper he noticed something moving in Loch Ness, stopped his car to take the photo. Wilson refused to have his name associated with it so the photo became known simply as "The Surgeon's Photo." For decades this photo was considered to be the best evidence of the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. In 1994 at the age of 93 and near death Christian Spurling confessed that the surgeon's photo taken 60 years ago was a hoax and the mastermind behind it was his Stepfather Marmaduke Wetherell.
Confessed to: the Murder of William Desmond Taylor
William Desmond Taylor was an actor and a top US film director of silent films in the early days of Hollywood. He was to death in 1922 it became one of Hollywood's most famous mysteries
In 1964, 42 years after the murder a reclusive old woman living in the Hollywood Hills was suffering from a heart attack and summoned her neighbor. she asked for a priest to confess but when no Priest was available she began to make her confession to her neighbor. As she was dying on her kitchen floor she said she was a silent film actress by the name of Margaret Gibson and that she shot and killed a man named William Desmond Taylor. She is alleged to have been involved romantically with Taylor but a motive as to why she killed him was never mentioned.
The Violin Story: In 1936 Polish virtuoso Hall Huberman was performing at Carnegie Hall and decided to switch the Stradivarius he was playing in the first half of his performance to his newly acquired Guarnerius violin. After the intermission the Stradivarius was stolen out of his dressing room by 20-year-old Julian Altman who was a New York nightclub musician.
Altman went on to become a violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. and performed for Presidents and politicians with the stolen Stradivarius for many years. In 1985, 49 years after the theft, Julian Altman who was in prison for child molestation and gravely ill confessed to his wife that he had stolen the violin. He then instructed his wife where to find the Stradivarius at the couple's home. Along with the Stradivarius, she found newspaper clippings recounting the theft. In 1987 his wife returned the Stradivarius to Lloyds of London in exchange for a $263,000 finder's fee.
Romantic Confessions of Love… Okay- Proposals: "That One Thing"
This says it all! 8 minutes of bliss! http://www.wimp.com/romanticproposal/
References: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2931404&page=1&singlePage=true
On the Road to Remember 2014 in Connecticut
Posted by Administrator in Missing Persons on October 14, 2014
I am a fine person in my own right with talents, and skills and hope for the future!
I am a person of every, race, creed, color, age, gender and ethnicity or circumstance.
I may have veered off the most direct or safest path…or someone else may have taken control such that my future is not what I wanted it to be.
However, I know that I am valued and loved and deserve the dignity of a rich and full life without judgment passed by others.
I am a missing person from this our state, or one of the 49 other states.
I am someone's child.
Donna R. Gore "LadyJustice"
I am happy to be embraced by the Cue Center for Missing Persons, for I know they will assist my family and law enforcement with every resource available.
Thank you for coming to hear my story.
There are many things that will be said about this year's 2014 CUE Center for Missing Persons On the Road to Remember Tour. However, I tend to gravitate to special moments capturing humanity.
Why I was selected to be a potential tour stop, I do not know, I do remember the captivating description at the microphone offered by Monica about this tour and her heartache when particular locations have to be denied; among thousands of missing adults across this country, why families would have to clamor for attention is beyond all understanding.
Why media does not expand their definition of "breaking news" to include our ever-expanding list of "broken hearts for the missing" in Connecticut, even when there is no car crash, new murder, or other story of import to cover, I do not understand. (A New Haven Police photographer and a New Haven Register photographer were the exceptions- THANK YOU!)
Although the planning of this event began many months ago with many starts and stops along the way, this "perpetual plan ahead Coordinator" learned that an event could look like a choreographed ballet- complete with butterflies, ribbons, and balloons in a short time.
Life is about timing and in the end, the stately Connecticut State Police Museum and Education Center was the perfect venue and backdrop for our hosting. On May 29, 1903, Governor Abiram Chamberlain signed House Bill #247 which authorized the creation of the Connecticut State Police, the first of its kind in the country.
As I parked my car about 8:30 a.m. waiting for everyone else to arrive in the presence of the morning dew and brilliant sunshine, I wondered what this would turn out to be. Would the families come? Would law enforcement come? Would the media come? Would we be ready when Monica and her staff arrived? Not to worry! Not easy for a person who wants such things to be "near perfect."
The detectives of the Connecticut State Police, particularly, Tonya Campagnone and her team, and Sergeant Elisa Tuozzoli and colleagues, Ann Mays and Jessica Agosto of the New Haven Missing Persons Unit, soon arrived to assist in unpacking my cram-filled car. A stress fracture did not keep this Coordinator down in the least! In fact, I couldn't recall feeling pain-maybe because I was focusing on other people's pain. What a great healing method!
Where to put things? Better here, or over there? Do we have enough tables? Food and drink generously donated by New Haven restaurants and real bathroom facilities, were relative luxuries on this grueling journey.
NamUS posters told the story before the families arrived. Their photos haunted me. I wondered what was their back story of which few spoke.
Families represented at event:
- Evelyn Frisco- Missing since June 2004; New Haven, Contact New Haven Police- 203-946-6316- 5'2" Family present at event;
- Jose Ortiz, Missing since December 2005- New Haven; Contact New Haven Police 203-946-6316; Family present at event;
- Jerry Dolphin- 20 years old; Missing since October 1994- New Haven; Contact New Haven Police; Family present at event;
- William Paul Smolinski, Jr – Missing since August 2004-Waterbury; Contact New Haven CT FBI 203-777-6311, Case # 62D-NH-44785; NamUS MP # 43;
- Lisa Calvo- 40 years old; Missing since October 2005; Height-4'11" Contact New Haven Police; Family present at event;
- Bernadine Paul – 38 years old; Hispanic; Missing since June 2000; Contact Waterbury Police -203-574-6941; Case # 00-45074; NamUS MP # 392; ;
- Ande Fan- Asian Male 5'4" Missing since August 2004- New Haven; Contact New Haven Police;
- Marquita Jones – Missing since Summer of 2011- Hill area of New Haven; Contact New Haven Police; 5' 2" Nicknames – "Keighia," "Kecia," "Luv." Quita Luv
- Mary E. Badaracco- 53 years old, Missing since August 1984; Sherman, CT; Contact your local law enforcement Case # A84277483; NamUS MP # 303; Family came after event; $50,000 Reward for more information;
- Janice K. Pocket- 7 years old, Missing since July 1973- Tolland, CT ; Contact CT State Police 860-779-4940; Case # 000000014; NamUS # 2555;
- Debra Lee Speckler- Missing since July 1968-Vernon CT: Contact Vernon Police Department – 860-872-9126 ext. 289; Case # C-3710-68-J; NamUS MP # 5426;
- Lisa Joy White – Missing since November 1974-Vernon, CT; Contact Vernon Police Department – 860-872-9126 ext. 289; Case # 000000019; NamUS MP # 2559
- Alyssiah Wiley- 20 years old; Previously Missing—in Bridgeport Remains located in Trumbull, CT in May 2013; Mother Corrinna Martin attended event.
New families were especially forthcoming while speaking both publically and one on one. Corrinna spoke of "establishing an intimate relationship of cooperation with their law enforcement"; hopes to locate daughter Evelyn Frisco, long missing, before her mother, Janet dies.
Others spoke of the evils of drugs, how Jerry Dolphin was on the threshold of new ventures and how this event tearfully opened wounds; the quest to find Billy Smolinski and the importance of NamUS legislation.
Retired State Police officer Jerry Longo was visibly moved and couldn't take his eyes off of former 7-year-old Janice Pocket's poster- missing while looking for butterflies. He stated soberly to me, "I remember her. I worked this case."
A wonderful give and take was noted between families, law enforcement and Cue Members. A make shift "Memory wall" was set up along the ancient 1920 brick edifice behind the Museum, consisting of quilted swatches of missing persons around the country as well as the vivid CUE Road Tour color collage with all of the faces of the missing emblazoned on the poster just waiting for Monica and hope to arrive at their stop!
The visuals were quite powerful; a custom-made multicolored ribbon and butterfly tree, yellow butterfly badges for families to wear and yellow balloons that went careering into the heavens to join others.
As a new Coordinator, I marveled at the way CUE Center Founder, Monica Caison, was able to instantly engage new families and provide comfort. I tried to keep my distance when I saw this happen. I too was able to do the same with guests and as a veteran homicide survivor. It made me feel so good!
My one regret was that I was unable to get a photo with Monica. There was no time to talk or bond with a new Coordinator, unfortunately. We did tour the Museum together for a few minutes in which she enthusiastically took photos and interacted with staff.
An honorable mention must be given for her dedicated staff of volunteers who helped navigate. They make it all come together with good humor considering their many duties, fatigue," and the road ahead." Elisa, David and Janeanne were gracious, as was Harlan Chavis who parted by saying, "See ya' at the Conference."
No story would be complete without a postscript or two:
As I was just about to depart, Beth Profeta, daughter of missing Mary Badaracco, rolled down her car window and announced, "She was here for the event." I identified myself, (as I had not seen her in a few years). She was frazzled, mad and disappointed that she had "gone off course and gotten lost." We spent the next hour or so talking at the end of the Complex's driveway, staged a few photos on her car hood and up against "a mighty oak tree" of dear mother, Mary Badaracco.
Cars were whizzing up the driveway to other buildings except for a distinguished looking gentleman approaching, proudly wearing a CT State Police cap and riding an adult three-wheeled tricycle. He introduced himself, struck up a conversation with us, said he lived up the hill and this was part of his "stomping grounds." I can't recall his name, but he did proudly share with us that he was 99 years old and rode his bike on the grounds daily!
AMEN! The perfect ending to a perfect day!
On the Road to Remember 2014 in Connecticut
Karl Karlsen Establishes a Pattern of Conduct
Posted by Administrator in Victim Impact Statement, Violent Crime on October 7, 2014
"I took advantage of the opportunity (of a death.)"
A confession to an ex-wife about murdering his son, it appears he is talking in code of some sort.
"I didn't push the truck, I said," Karl Karlsen continued. His second wife, Cindy was wearing a wire and capturing his words during "Operation Abigail" in cooperation with law enforcement concerning the death of his son from a former marriage, Levi Karlsen. Cindy feared she would be his next victim, "the next insurance policy."
"No, I said I had nothing to do with it, but I said I took advantage of the situation once it happened."
Police listened to incriminating statements captured on Cindy's audio recordings, and they brought Karlsen in for questioning. During a 9.5-hour interview, investigators said Karlsen denied killing his son, Levi, 75 times, and that he's given several explanations for Levi's death, including that he accidentally knocked the pickup truck off the jack and onto his son, crushing him to death.
Truth is, a new insurance policy for a son in his 20's, just 17 days prior his death, seemed fishy.
While Karl Karlsen did admit he caused the truck to fall on Levi during the police interrogation, investigators said Karlsen maintained it was an accident, leaving for a funeral after he viewed his son under the truck and found him "four hours later."
"He did admit that he caused the truck to fall on his son. He did admit that he left his son on the floor dying, but he never admitted that it was a planned, deliberate act," said Seneca County Lt. Investigator John Cleere.
Levi's death was initially ruled an accident in 2008. Police said Karlsen collected a $700,000 life insurance payout after the incident and that Levi had signed a handwritten will before his death, leaving everything to his father. But at the time, authorities said they didn't know about the life insurance policy or the will.
Another Karl Karlsen money trail now leads to a new charge of murder by arson, New Year's Day 1991. Karlsen was motivated by insurance money and 18 years separated two deaths. On the trail from California returning to upstate New York, a pattern of conduct was established. See video from ABC news
Karlsen was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years to life for Levi's death. Twenty three years later, after his first wife died, California law enforcement decided to pay attention to "a track record of mishaps."
When California investigators looked at the records, there was an August 1986 car fire, a November 2002 barn-horse fire, and then, they wondered, what happened to Karlsen's first wife?
Christina, Levi's mother, perished in a house fire on New Year's Day 1991. The only possible escape was a boarded up broken window. As the house burned, Karlsen and his three unknowing young children stood outside and watched. A week after the fire he gathered the three children and left California, heading back to New York to be near his family.
As of August 31,2014, under California law, murder for financial gain qualifies Karlsen for the death penalty if convicted.
Someone who knows how to "work the system and make everything look like an accident" seems to be a common theme more often than not.
How do these monsters slip by virtually undetected? Is it lack of experience on the part of law enforcement? Is it charm or the cunning nature of the killer? Is it a family held hostage by fear and unanswered questions? I think all of the above!
When someone in the family "grows a conscience," or decides they may be the next victim, the tables are turned.
Once the judicial process is on the horizon, only then can they breathe a bit easier.
During such a vulnerable time, going through a trial and forced to face the convicted, an experienced advocate with skill and a sense of perspective can help through the process by assisting in customizing a victim impact statement which is used during the sentencing phase of the trial.
Karl Karlsen deserves to be put away forever. May their victim impact statement assist them in doing so!
For those in need of a professional Victim Impact Statement, please feel free to contact me through this website. For more information see my informational page on Victim Impact Statement Assistance.
On the Road to Remember Tour Connecticut Event
Posted by Administrator in Missing Persons on September 29, 2014
To date, NamUs, The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, lists approximately 164 registered missing from Connecticut. Other sources are claiming 300+. The true number may be somewhere in between.
ALL families in Connecticut that have a missing person or unsolved homicide are invited to attend. The event is FREE and open to the public.
Please bring pictures, posters, or any mementoes of your loved one to share with the public and the media.
Cue Center for Missing Persons registered cases from Connecticut include:
- Bernadine Paul, from Waterbury, age 38. Missing since year 2000. Circumstances – She went missing at a retail store after making a bank withdrawal.
- Evelyn Frisco, from New Haven, age 42. Missing since 2004. Circumstances – Following a court appearance she was never seen again. (The nature of the court appearance is unknown to this writer.)
- Mary Badarraco, from Sherman, age 53. Missing since 1984. Circumstances – Former husband, Dominic Badarraco, is a person of interest in this case and was also more recently charged with bribing a judge on unrelated charges.
- William P. Smolinski, Jr. from Waterbury, age 31. Missing since 2004. Circumstances – Last Seen at his home in the vicinity of the 100 block of Holly St. in Waterbury, CT. All of his personal belongings were left behind.
Location Sponsor:
Amid the backdrop of tradition, respect, proud history of service, and numerous collectible keepsakes, we hold our On the Road to Remember event on the grounds of the Connecticut State Police Museum (The oldest State Police force in the country!)
Connecticut State Police Museum
294 Colony Street Meriden, CT – (Leo J. Mulcahy Complex)
Director: Jerry Longo
Event with the Cue Center Staff and Families begins at 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Museum Tours available beginning at 9:30 a.m. to approximately 2:00 p.m.
Museum Phone: Call 203.440.3858 for appointments and tour information.
Contact On-Line Form: http://www.cspmuseum.org/contact/onlineform.asp
Media has been invited to interview family members and bring more awareness to all missing person's cases from our area.
Join us to remember ALL of Connecticut's MISSING!


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Will You Get Dumped Because of Your Gift?
Apparently so, according to this article at Today.com:
One of this year's hot Christmas sellers will almost certainly be the Samsung Galaxy S5. Forty-two percent of shoppers think stores will have shortages of the popular smartphone this Christmas, according to a survey released Wednesday by big data firm 1010data. But before you run out to buy one for your significant other, you'd better be sure it's what she wants.
The nationwide survey also found that most Americans have gotten the cold shoulder, silent treatment, or worse from their significant others as a result of giving an unwanted holiday gift (even if it was because the ideal gift they wanted was unavailable or out of stock).
The Samsung Galaxy S5 will likely be one of the year's top gifts. But before you buy it for your significant other, make sure it's what he or she want…
The Samsung Galaxy S5 will likely be one of the year's top gifts. But before you buy it for your significant other, make sure it's what he or she wants.
Just over half of the 1,004 respondents said the recipient argued, cried, complained—or even ended the relationship—after getting the gift. The remaining 48 percent listed "other" open-ended negative responses, including: "demanded a refund," "slight disappointment they try not to show outwardly," and "took it back and exchanged it for what she wanted."
…..Still, you may want to not wait any longer if you're looking for a popular product. Or you may risk spending New Year's alone.
Note the "horrible" ending to purchasing the wrong gift: YOU MAY RISK SPENDING NEW YEAR'S ALONE. Really? Wouldn't it be better to be alone than stuck with the ingrate who would dump you or cry over a gift? Maybe gifts should be used as a weeding process: if your partner cries over the gift or argues with you about it, it's time to move on; and if she dumps you, count your blessings and find someone who prizes you more than a Samsung Galaxy S5.
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The Key to a Woman's Sexual Power
Editor's Note: See the first two parts in Susan L.M. Goldberg's series exploring ABC's Scandal through the lens of Biblical feminism: "What's Evil Got to Do with It?," "Women and the Scandal of Doing It All Alone." Also check out an introduction to her work and collection of 194 articles and blog posts here.
The husband/wife relationship is central to feminism. Historical, first-wave feminism studied matrimony in terms of legal rights. Contemporary, second-wave feminism approaches marriage in terms of sexual and economic power. Biblical feminism seeks to understand the spiritual relationship between a husband and wife, and how that spiritual relationship manifests into physical action. To do so, we must begin at the beginning, with Genesis 3:16:
To the woman he said, "I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
"Rule over you" is a phrase that sends chills down any feminist's spine. But, what does it truly mean? A study of the original Hebrew text provides radical insight into one of the most abused verses of Torah:
This brings us to perhaps the most difficult verse in the Hebrew Bible for people concerned with human equality. Gen 3:16 seems to give men the right to dominate women. Feminists have grappled with this text in a variety of ways. One possibility is to recognize that the traditional translations have distorted its meaning and that it is best read against its social background of agrarian life. Instead of the familiar "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing," the verse should begin "I will greatly increase your work and your pregnancies." The word for "work," izavon, is the same word used in God's statement to the man; the usual translation ("pangs" or "pain") is far less accurate. In addition, the woman will experience more pregnancies; the Hebrew word is pregnancy, not childbearing, as the NRSV and other versions have it. Women, in other words, must have large families and also work hard, which is what the next clause also proclaims. The verse is a mandate for intense productive and reproductive roles for women; it sanctions what life meant for Israelite women.
In light of this, the notion of general male dominance in the second half of the verse is a distortion. More likely, the idea of male "rule" is related to the multiple pregnancies mentioned in the first half of the verse. Women might resist repeated pregnancies because of the dangers of death in childbirth, but because of their sexual passion ("desire," 3:16) they accede to their husbands' sexuality. Male rule in this verse is narrowly drawn, relating only to sexuality; male interpretive traditions have extended that idea by claiming that it means general male dominance.
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Should Geeky Men Pursue 'Little Miss Real Life' Or Click Over to 'Jane Pornstar'?
Yesterday Dr. Helen asked "Geeks on Strike?" in response to a reader emailing about the recent "Gamergate" and "Shirtgate" media controversies. She agreed with the writer who said, "Possibly it is that a substantial percentage of geeks (of which I'm a proud member), have gone on strike, resent these intrusions, and don't have the social conditioning to make nice."
Helen then excerpted from her excellent book Men On Strike, quoting from blogger Vox Day who put the question in striking terms:
I probably have a unique perspective on it due to my connections to the young guys in the gaming industry. It's bizarre how some of them are in their twenties, have graduated from good schools, and have simply zero interest in women. They just have literally nothing in common with them and no interest in them.
The "strike" theory is generally correct, I think. The problem is that games and porn are entertaining, inexpensive, easily accessible, and reliable. Women can be entertaining, but they're expensive, inaccessible for most men, and from the male perspective, shockingly unreliable. I would say that porn has raised the bar somewhat—it's bound to be seriously annoying when Little Miss Real Life won't give head when Jane Pornstar is twice as hot and is cheerfully performing all sorts of acrobatic stunts. And if you think about it, is a real woman who is average and only wants to have missionary-style sex once a week, minus a week for her period, actually any better than a wide variety of gorgeous porn stars catering to every bizarre fetish the Japanese can imagine and available on demand? It's not quite so clear once you put it in those terms. The biggest communication problem is that most women see "relationship" as a positive thing. Most men see it as an ambiguous thing.
Read the rest of Helen's post at her blog here to get her take. What do you think? Should all men be encouraged to pursue marriage? Do women need to change to adapt to "Jane Pornstar"? Do men need to adjust their bedroom expectations?
image illustration via shutterstock / maximino
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Women and the Scandal of Doing It All Alone
Editor's Note: See Part 1 of Susan's ongoing series analyzing the connections between ABC's Scandal, current events, and Western values: "What's Evil Got to Do with It?"
Women are fixers. It should come as no surprise to anyone with an understanding of the sexes that the leading female figure on primetime television is none other than a fixer named Olivia Pope. Fifty years ago women primarily played the role of mother on screen and, in doing so, they fixed things and life was pretty darn perfect. But perfect doesn't fly on network television any longer. Today it's all about drama, and drama is conflict. So, we get Olivia Pope: beautiful, intelligent, who fantasizes about marrying an already married man, having his children and fixing a nice little life in the Vermont countryside for them, but is too embroiled in fixing her own life and the lives of those she loves to ever quite reach her American nirvana.
Like Israel's matriarchs, Olivia Pope has a vision of justice, of order, of the way things should be. The wearer of the "white hat," she wrestles between good and evil in her many attempts to manifest this divine sense that has been humanized as her "gut" instinct. Watch her and you'll see the woman in white when she pursues truth, the woman in black when she has given over to evil, and the woman in gray when she questions everything she knows. Being a fixer is a woman's inherent power and inevitable struggle. It isn't that we want to "do it all" because doing it isn't as hard as taking responsibility for it, for the lives under our care. Olivia Pope cares for everyone, wants to save everyone, wants to repair everyone and make everything all better. Her struggle, like that of the matriarchs, is in placing the sole burden of responsibility on her own shoulders. But, the greatest lesson of God-given responsibility is that you are not expected to carry it all alone.
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Taylor Swift as the Psycho Girlfriend in Her New Video
I think we've finally solved the mystery of why Taylor Swift has trouble staying in a relationship. In her new video, "Blank Space," the usually sweet country star transformed into a nightmare of a psycho girlfriend, trashing her boyfriend's car, slashing his picture with a knife, and shredding his clothes with scissors — all for (apparently) the crime of spending too much time on his cell phone.
If you listen to Taylor Swift for very long, you'll notice that in approximately 78.5% of her songs (the "science" is not settled on this) poor Taylor ends up in the middle of the street at 2 a.m. crying over some guy. (I've said for years that if she would just go to bed at a reasonable time she could avoid this problem.) All this time we've thought if Taylor could just quit chasing after these ne'er-do-well guys, she could find someone nice to settle down with.
After watching "Blank Space," the second single from Taylor Swifts's album 1989, I'm now wondering if this freaky, axe-wielding Taylor might actually be the problem. The liner notes about the song say "there once was a girl known by everyone and no one."
Is it autobiographical?
I suppose only Taylor's ex-boyfriends know for sure.
But one thing we do know for sure: Taylor looks spectacular in this video and her gowns are breathtaking.
Watch "Blank Space"on the next page:
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The Feminist Lesson in Mom's Night Out
Twenty-four percent of married couple families with children under 15 have a stay-at-home mom. Ninety-nine percent of stay-at-home moms in the movies get a really bad rap. Search "Best Movie Moms" and you'll get lists that include Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment, Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, Shelly Duvall in The Shining, and more than a few mentions of Psycho. The majority of movie mothers are either widowed or divorced, careerists or working class, alcoholics or impregnated by UFOs. The closest you'll get to a stay-at-home mom in post-1940s cinema is Kathleen Turner playing the psychotic Serial Mom or Michael Keaton taking on the role so his wife can pursue her career in Mr. Mom.
In fact, outside of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side there hasn't been a truly admirable middle-class, white, stay-at-home mother on the silver screen in over 50 years. Which is probably why Mom's Night Out received such a negative critical reception when it premiered last spring. We have been acculturated out of believing in the power and purpose of stay-at-home moms. Yet, the criticisms leveled at Mom's Night Out for its "depressingly regressive" spirit and "archaic notions of gender roles" were not applied to a similar film about a stay-at-home mom released only two years prior. This Is 40 received mixed reviews, but praise for yielding "…some of [Judd] Apatow's most personal observations yet on the feelings for husbands, wives, parents, and children that we categorize as love."
So, what made This Is 40 palatable in a way that Mom's Night Out wasn't? Is there, perhaps, a culturally acceptable way to be a stay-at-home mom?
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What 2 Retired Whores Can Teach Slut-Walk Feminists
A story about two old Jewish ladies is making the rounds in the Jewish press, but not for the reasons you may think. Sure, they're bubbes. They're children of a Holocaust survivor to boot. But the real reason they're attracting so much attention is that they happen to be retired professional whores.
Dutch twins Louise and Martine Fokkens (probably not their real last name, since "Fokken" is a Dutch term for "old whore") have become international celebrities since the 2011 release of their biographical documentary Meet the Fokkens. Women's magazines like Cosmo picked up on their story shortly after the film's release, publishing quick little details like:
Louise and Martine (mothers of four and three respectively) became prostitutes before the age of 20 in order to escape violent relationships.
It's an interpretation that, at best, qualifies as a half-truth. Louise was forced into the sex trade by an abusive husband. Martine, however, became a prostitute out of spite:
Martine followed her sister into the trade, working first as a cleaning lady at brothels before she began turning tricks herself. "I was angry at how everybody around us shunned Louise," Martine said. "I did it out of spite, really."
Both women eventually divorced their husbands, whom they now describe as "a couple of pimps." But they continued working in the district "because that had become our lives," Louise said.
"Our life in the business became a source of pride, a sport of sorts," Louise added.
In retrospect, both women say they regret becoming prostitutes.
Reading their story, one can't help but wonder if mainstream feminist advocates for slut walks and "Yes Means Yes" legislation would condemn the pair for regretting the life they chose. After all, their body, their choice, right? They took control of their bad marriages, divorced the husbands they referred to as "pimps" and chose, fully of their own volition, to remain in the sex trade after their exes were fully out of the picture. Martine and Louise, it would seem, are the originators of the Slut Walk.
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Ross Douthat Loves Lena Dunham for All the Wrong Reasons
Conservative columnist Ross Douthat has declared his love for Lena Dunham. It hardly comes as a surprise that a New York Times writer, even one who dwells to the right of the aisle, would find the Girls prodigy appealing. What makes Douthat's devotion disturbing is that he has managed to transform a goddess chained to a slew of liberal causes into a sacrificial lamb for conservative culture. In his struggle to do so, his misses the mark in what could have been one of the most culturally relevant critiques of Girls to date.
The critic defends Dunham's showpiece Girls, writing,
She's making a show for liberals that, merely by being realistic, sharp-edge, complicated, almost gives cultural conservatism its due.
It's a seemingly ironic observation, based in the idea that Girls "often portrays young-liberal-urbanite life the way, well, many reactionaries see it…" That is, a subculture on the verge of self-destruction due to excessive amounts of what sociologist Robert Bellah dubbed, "the view that the key to the good life lies almost exclusively in self-discovery, self-actualization, the cultivation of the unique and holy You."
In other words, as Gawker so simply put it:
He likes watching the show because it allows him to feel superior to Dunham and her fellow sluts.
By employing a rote, traditionalist perspective, Douthat argued himself into a hole, turning his love into judgement and burying his point in poorly-worded theory and equally bad theology.
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The Joy of Matchmaking
I don't generally read fiction, I prefer non-fiction. However, Glenn received a book from Instapundit reader Suri Rosen who wrote a gem of a book called Playing With Matches that I couldn't resist reading last night while everyone else in the country was watching football.
I worked as a matchmaker at a dating service for a while in graduate school and it was really a skill to figure out what people actually wanted and liked in a potential mate. Rosen's book tells the story of a 16- year- old girl who has these skills in a close knit Jewish community where she anonymously matches up desperate singles from twenty to seventy and older. From the description:
When 16-year-old Raina Resnick is expelled from her Manhattan private school, she's sent to live with her strict aunt — but Raina feels like she's persona non grata no matter where she goes. Her sister, Leah, blames her for her broken engagement, and she's a social pariah at her new school. In the tight-knit Jewish community, Raina finds she is good at one thing: matchmaking! As the anonymous "MatchMaven," Raina sets up hopeless singles desperate to find the One. A cross between Jane Austen's Emma, Dear Abby, and Yenta the matchmaker, Raina's double life soon has her barely staying awake in class. Can she find the perfect match for her sister and get back on her good side, or will her tanking grades mean a second expulsion? In her debut novel, Suri Rosen creates a comic and heartwarming story of one girl trying to find happiness for others, and redemption for herself.
I found the idea of a matchmaker who acts as a coach to nervous singles kind of interesting. Nowadays with Match.com or other online dating services, no one gets much good advice in an old fashion way about how to deal realistically with another person. Dating and relationships have lost a lot of the human touch that this book brings to life. It's a fun book and was a nice change from the political and financial books I generally read.
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The Battle Against Israel's Orthodox Patriarchy
I didn't fully appreciate how spiritually free I am as an American woman until I set foot on an El Al plane.
"Do you speak Hebrew?" the fretting woman in front of me asked.
"No, not really."
"It's okay, I speak English," she hurriedly replied, obviously looking for a friendly face. "These Orthodox," she motioned to the people sitting next to her, "they don't like sitting next to women."
"Well, that's their problem." My response was pointed, matter-of-fact, American.
She smiled as if a light bulb went off in her head. "You're right!" Her expression grew cloudy. "But what if I take off my sweater? They won't like that I expose my shoulders with my tank top."
Again, I simply replied, "That's their problem."
She smiled, empowered. Removing her sweater, she took her seat and stood her ground.
And at that moment I thanked God I was raised in pluralistic America, and realized, oddly enough, that the Holy Land was giving me my first chance to practice the biblical feminism I've preached.
Israel is a Western nation in that women have equal rights by law. Israel is also a confluence of religious and ethnic cultural attitudes, not all of which are friendly to women. Two days into our trip to Jerusalem, a family member who also happens to be a retired journalist explained the latest story to hit the nightly news. A man accused of spousal abuse was released to return home. Later that evening, police found his wife had been shot dead. The husband confessed to the murder. Apparently, domestic violence and death is a relatively small but significant problem in Israel. When I asked my former journalist why, he pointed to the influence of Middle Eastern (both Arabic and radical Islamic) patriarchal culture as the primary source.
Yet, even religious Jews in Israel (and around the world), despite their insular nature, are far from immune to sexual abuse. Sex scandals among the Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) show up frequently on the evening news. In this case it's not the Arab/Muslim influence, but perverted behaviors that arise from rabbinic abuse of biblical teachings. How do you expect a man to relate to a woman sexually when he's not even allowed to look her in the eye?
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15 Songs Millennials Must Listen to in Order to Understand the 1980s
You've seen Thriller and heard all about Madonna, but what do you really know about the decade that ushered in the millennial generation? Think the era of scrunchies, boom boxes, pump sneakers and DeLoreans was just a fad? Think again. Some of the 1990s' greatest pop culture trends were birthed in the millieu of Reaganomics, cable television, and a music video-loaded MTV.
15. Culture Club – "Karma Chameleon"
The '80s was the decade of John Waters, the B-52s and all things camp coming to fruition. Decked out in eyeliner, lipstick and braids, Boy George popularized the aesthetic of this gay subculture with a poppy little tune about conflicted relationships. As for the music video, where better to set a gay guy's love song in the '80s than an 1870s riverboat called the "Chameleon" where a cheating gambler's karma comes back to haunt him? Dude, it's the '80s: "Don't ask, don't tell" started here.
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What Is Your Take on Singles Now Outnumbering the Married?
The New York Post had this recent article on the state of marriage in America (via Newsalert):
Unmarried American adults outnumber their married counterparts for the first time since the federal government began tracking that data in 1976, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
There were 124.6 million single Americans in August — accounting for 50.2 percent of the 16-and-over US population, the BLS data showed.
Eric Klinenberg, an NYU sociology professor who tracks marriage trends, predicts the unmarrieds will probably be edging their married peers by this small margin for the foreseeable future….
But while the numbers might look stark, Americans are still getting together — they're just not racing down the aisle.
"Just because people are not getting married doesn't mean they're not partnering and cohabitating," said Karen Guzzo, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University.
How much of the decrease in marriage rates is because men are on strike? How much of it is for other reasons? Whatever the reason for singles taking over in the U.S., it is important that the laws reflect equality in partnerships between men and women; or better yet, the law should stay out of personal relationships as much as is humanly possible.
However, I doubt that will happen, so men must be ever vigilant that they do not end up being responsible in traditional ways for women while the women pretend to be "empowered" as the society changes to one of a nation of singles Given the lack of due process, the tendency to blame men for relationship problems, and unequal treatment in domestic relations, men might be better off not living too long with any one woman. This is bad for society and families, but might be a better solution for individual men.
image illustration via shutterstock / Thomas Reichhart
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13 Reasons to Fall in Love with Lana Del Rey
13. She has discovered a close kinship with George Costanza.
Sure, she may come off all serious in her videos, but Lana Del Rey has a seriously good sense of humor. According to Rolling Stone, Lana Del Rey "has a George Costanza-like plan for the future."
"I'm really specific about why I'm doing something or writing something," she says. "But it always kind of gets translated in the opposite fashion. I haven't done it yet, but I've learned that everything I'm going to do is going to have the opposite reaction of what I meant. So I should do the opposite if I want a good reaction." She's surprised to learn that George tried this approach in an episode of Seinfeld. "Oh really? That's awesome. Me and George Costanza! Oh my God!"
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10 Reasons Why I Will Forever Love Joan Rivers
I pushed off the idea of writing this article when I first heard that Joan Rivers, one of my comic icons, was rushed to the hospital after a botched outpatient procedure last week. I didn't want to think about having to say goodbye to Joan, to bid farewell to yet another icon of an age gone by, a powerhouse who managed to be a cultural force until her last breath. The only solace we can muster is in knowing that, for these ten reasons at least, Joan's memory will be a blessing.
10. Joan never grew old or gave up.
At 81, she was as attuned to pop culture, politics, and current events as a 20 year old. A self-made fashionista, the comedian never retired, sat in a chair, or gave in to technology. Joan will forever be a role model to women who refuse to trade style for a shapeless moo-moo and an office chair for a rocking chair. In her later years she paired up with Melissa, illustrating that mothers and daughters really can work together and get along. She was a modern Bubbe, surrounded by her children and grandchildren as she took the world by storm.
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15 Tricks and Tips for Getting the Most Out of College
15. Everything you know about the social stratosphere is wrong…
College is nothing like high school. You understand this in theory, but have never experienced the kind of social freedom you will in college. There are no cliques. There is no lunch table. Welcome to the world of being an adult. For the first couple of weeks you'll attend pre-arranged mixers, usually orientation events or annoying team-building activities your RA spent all summer training to lead. These awkward moments are helpful for one reason: Discovering who has a car. As a freshman, be aware that the parties you crash at frat houses aren't for making friends, they're for getting drunk and hooking up. You've been warned.
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College Men 'Going on Strike'?
You've come a long way, baby — and then gone all the way back and then some.
Ashe Schow writes in the Wash Ex about the fallout from the campus sexual assault hysteria:
Thanks to an increased focus on sexual assaults on college campuses – mostly due to an overblown statistic claiming 20 percent of college women have been sexually assaulted – young college men are starting to rethink how they talk to women.
At first glance that might seem like a good thing – men learning to be more respectful of women and not be so rapey – but that's not what this is.
This is about men actually avoiding contact with women because they're afraid a simple kiss or date could lead to a sexual assault accusation.
Bloomberg reporters John Lauerman and Jennifer Surane interviewed multiple men from colleges like Harvard and Stanford who expressed concern over what was once known as a "hook-up culture" but is now labeled by feminists as "rape culture." The change in terminology ensures that all responsibility is placed on men, just because of their gender.
Take Malik Gill of Harvard University, who said he wouldn't even give a female classmate a beer.
"I don't want to look like a predator," Gill told Bloomberg. "It's a little bit of a blurred line."….
As I've written before, women used to demand to be treated as equals; now they demand to be treated like eggshells.
Count me out.
Yeah, me too. We will keep hearing the question from women, "where have all the good men gone?" as they live in their cocoons, never understanding that the guys went on strike a while back and many have left for good. Are college women to blame for this? Yes, because as Martin Luther King says: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. If college women do not understand the injustices they are witnessing against men in our colleges today and strive to help, then they are part of the problem. They reap what they sow.
Image via shutterstock / auremar
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Beyonce's 10 Worst, Anti-Woman Songs
Also check out Leslie Loftis' analysis of Beyonce's performance at last night's MTV Video Music Awards here.
10. "Bow Down/I Been On"
The Church of Bey has clearly gone to the pop goddess's head. A critic at New Wave Feminism writes:
Aside from repeatedly yelling "bow down bitches", the song also contains lyrics such as "I know when you were little girls / You dreamt of being in my world / Don't forget it , don't forget it / Respect that, bow down bitches". Apparently, Beyoncé thought the appropriate response for young women who admired her and looked up to her was to call them misogynistic slurs and demand they genuflect in her presence.
This Bey Anthem doubles as the death knell of the sisterhood.
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The 10 Most Important Life Lessons I Learned from Mork from Ork
As a Gen-X/millennial crossover, I was fortunate enough to first meet Robin Williams as Mork from Ork on the sitcom Mork and Mindy. A comedic powerhouse, Mork's colorful wardrobe and loud laugh were the first things I imitated as a child. As I grew up, I would look back and realize the many character lessons I learned at home were reinforced by a supremely acted alien outsider with a predilection for sitting on his head. In virtually every role he played, Robin Williams taught his audience a life lesson. As a young kid there was no one more fun to hang around with and learn from on TV than Mork from Ork.
10. Old people rule.
Mork marvels at the way the elderly are ignored and maligned on earth. On Ork, old folks are revered as the wise, experienced ones to learn from. "The Elder" is called on to remind Mork of his Orkishness. His was an early lesson in the importance of respect and reverence for the elders in your life and how very important all people are, no matter and, perhaps, especially because of their age.
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30 Bad Ideas Men Should Embrace If They Want To Destroy Themselves, Part III
Click here for Part 1, and here for Part 2 of this list-letter to Lisa De Pasquale in response to her memoir. Also see here for Hannah Sternberg's contribution to the discussion, "5 Life and Relationship Lessons from Finding Mr. Righteous."
21. Hedonism: "It is perfectly possible for entire peoples to live only for their own pleasure and feel nothing for their prospective obliteration." – David P. "Spengler" Goldman, page 351 of It's Not the End of the World, It's Just the End of You: The Great Extinction of the Nations.
Dear Lisa,
I concluded part II with this question:
What does it mean to love someone? How do we learn to do it?
Amongst my book piles, I stumbled across this excerpt from page 141 of A Mystical Key to the English Language by Robert M. Hoffstein which points to the linguistic similarities between LIVE, LOVE and LEAVE as a clue:
I think the concept of what it means to "worship" someone, something, or God is no longer understood by most people. Do you think there's a significant difference between love and worship? Are the series of patterns that you identify throughout the men in your book indicative of links between the way humans' interpersonal relationships mirror their intellectual relationship with transcendence? Does the way in which we try to love others mirror the way in which we have learned to love God? Is worship a kind of training for loving others?
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30 Bad Ideas Men Should Embrace if They Want to Destroy Themselves, Part I
See the previous parts of this ongoing series exploring culture, relationships, and religion through books:
April 11: Men Should Read Lisa De Pasquale's Sexy Memoir
Lisa's book provokes many questions and this post is the beginning of a series to host and encourage a discussion about them. Lisa organizes her book around 7 different men — Chris the Atheist, Joe the Catholic, John the Evangelical, Preston the Quaker, Ryan the Preacher, Adam the Jew, and Brandon the Nondenominational Believer — and how her pursuit of them shaped her own religious journey. I'm going to give each one at least one blog post excerpting from her book and raising a question for debate…. Lisa's memoir is an inspiring journey through her own struggles with the idols she's worshiped. In future posts I'll consider an idol-based reading of her book in juxtaposition with other texts and the stories of the day. Recognizing the idol we're worshiping that's keeping us enslaved is the first step to picking it up, smashing it, and finding the free life God wants us to have. Lisa's book collects the fragments of seven of her smashed idols and there's much we can learn from her. Stay tuned, in future posts I'll also consider Lisa's insights alongside two related books I've read recently, Kathy Shaidle's Confessions of a Failed Slut (which Ed Driscoll interviewed her about here today) and Dr. Helen Smith's Men On Strike…
April 17: The Normal Way Godless Men Treat Women (A discussion of Chris the Atheist's sexual violence against Lisa and its ancient cultural roots.)
June 26 at the PJ Tatler: 30 Books For Defeating Valerie Jarrett's Cult of Political Criminals.
That Sunday, June 29, excerpting a section of it at PJ Lifestyle: 5 Deep Books For Overcoming Our Addiction to Idol Worship
Here are links to round 1 of a debate at PJ inspired by the "spreadsheet husband" that ran July 20-24:
- Dr. Helen Smith: Would You Want a Wife This Clueless About Sex and Your Emotions?
- Dave Swindle: Would You Want a Husband This Incompetent at Turning You On?
- Dr. Helen Smith: A Classic Example of White Knighting
- Dave Swindle: Deeply Religious Marriages Are Better Than Secularist Civil Unions
- Francis W. Porretto: Some Thoughts on Sex and the Bonded Couple
- Dave Swindle: 'Man Is More Inclined to Do Evil Than to Do Good' – Machiavelli
- Kathy Shaidle, concluding: How to Be the Perfect Wife in 3 Easy Steps
This extended list article today, tomorrow, and
Wednesday Friday draws from the debate's comments and juxtaposes them with excerpts from Finding Mr. Righteous, 3 of the 5 books on idolatry, and a few more related titles.
This can be understood as opening up Round 2 and and inviting others to participate. Send submissions in response to these subjects to DaveSwindlePJM {@} gmail.com or please leave comments below or feel free to get in touch on Twitter: @DaveSwindle (We should start featuring more Twitter discussions at PJ Lifestyle…)
Dear Lisa,
I hope your last few months have been less tumultuous than mine. After almost a month in our new apartment in South L.A., April and I are starting to get comfortable and settled — we finally tested out the pool yesterday. (Siberian Husky Maura remained skeptical and chose not to go in even though our landlord said she could. Someday we hope to get her swimming. She does enjoy going to the beach.) Here's a picture of her exploring the new town, I'm going to try to collect more sunrise pictures of her:
After the first two posts in the series on your book I ran into a writer's block, a challenge that I've now at last overcome: how best to explain the difference between Judeo-Christians and pagan Christians, one of the phenomena your book illustrates so vividly. This is my way of trying to contribute to understanding the wide range of religious relationship experiences you had over the years and why they varied so much amongst men who were supposedly committed to the same holy book, worshipping the same God. Illustrating the paganism of your first failed Mr. Righteous, Chris the Atheist, was easy enough. Camille Paglia is probably the most perceptive writer today analyzing the cultural blend of secularism and amoral neopagan values.
But in analyzing the varieties of Christianity in the context of their ratio of pagan to Jewish influences, there's another writer — who's exhibited an even stronger influence on my views the last three years — who I want to encourage you to consider both for future writings and for his insights on life in general.
David P. Goldman is a PJ columnist with a diverse background and a knowledge base ranging from economics and finance to history, philosophy, art, music and culture, to religion and theology. I read his book How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam is Dying Too) a few years ago and make it a point to try and edit as many of his pieces here at PJ as I can. I've just recently acquired and read his essay collection It's Not the End of the World, It's Just the End of You: The Great Extinction of the Nations.
Among Goldman's unique insights is to apply the theological writings of Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig and his magnum opus The Star of Redemption to understand demographic and cultural trends today, particularly why it is that so many nations and people around the world choose to destroy themselves. Goldman's answer: secularism produces hopelessness and does not inspire people to marry and reproduce. There is a big link between religiosity, family size, and happiness. Goldman lays out the data to both show that it's there and then, through explaining Rosenzweig's analysis of pagan, Jewish, and Christian cultures, explain how to fix it.
And it starts with applying it to our own lives — his ideas are just as useful at the macro level as they are for understanding ourselves and interpersonal relationships. The same techniques the West needs to use for defeating the sex-and-murder worshipping barbarians on the global stage we can use for overcoming these challenges in their smaller manifestations in the people around us and in our own unruly, jealous hearts.
So here are some of the bad ideas that your book does a great job of exposing — warning signs for both men and women — and some related ideas too that will yield further insights into the challenge of overcoming the stumbling blocks preventing us from being the righteous people our friends and family need us to be.
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I've heard it plenty of times before: friends tell me all men are jerks and they just can't seem to find and keep a good guy. Maybe part of it is fate, but a much bigger part is your picker — your internal sense of who's a suitable companion for you. If more of my friends (and anyone else out there who bemoans the infestation of jerks in their dating lives) followed these simple rules right at the start of a relationship — in the choosing phase — they'd discover that the problem isn't that all men are a**holes, but simply that too many of us choose to date someone who's wrong for us for too long, making ourselves unavailable when the right guy comes along, and building resentment and bad feelings toward each other along the way. These rules go both ways — any man can (and should) follow them if he feels he often dates women who don't behave well toward him. Since most appeals for advice on this subject that I've received have come from straight women, I've assigned gender pronouns accordingly — but the ideas are universally applicable. Check out these five mind-bogglingly simple steps to avoid your next dating disaster.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial style in his debut Don Jon proves a bit jarring. But that fits the blunt, vulgar character he plays in the lead. You have to endure Don Jon to see it for what it is. It tramps deliberately through cliché expectations before finally defying them. Along the way, it explores 10 barriers to healthy relationships encountered in real life.
10. Overvaluing Appearance
As Don Jon begins, Gordon-Levitt's title character establishes himself as a porn-addicted philandering bachelor whose tastes prove highly superficial. He spends a lot of time at the gym maintaining his physique, and takes great pride in the appearance of his "pad." Of course, there's nothing wrong with nutrition, exercise, and cleanliness. It's Jon's motivation which deserves scrutiny.
On the prowl with his pack of like-minded friends, Jon rates women at the club on a scale of 1 to 10, basing his assessment solely on physical attributes. Upon meeting his match in the stunning Barbara (Scarlett Johansson), Jon rates her a perfect 10. It's her sultry appearance that drives Jon to pursue her, and blinds him to the uglier aspects of her personality.
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10. If guys didn't look like heroin-addicted street dwellers…
Before committing suicide, musician Kurt Cobain copyrighted the grunge look that came to define Gen-X/millennial crossovers in the '90s. A reaction to the preppie style made famous by '80s yuppies, grunge involved a level of disheveled that transcended even the dirtiest of '60s hippie looks. Grunge trademarks included wrinkled, untucked clothing complemented by greasy, knotted hair and an expression best defined as heroin chic. The style depicted an "I don't care" attitude that took punk's anti-authoritarian attitude to a darker, more disengaged level. Grunge became the look of resigned defeat among American males.
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(4), (5), and (6) unknown-class science ships USS Hawking, USS Planck, and USS Curie, one each to tag along with 1, 2, and 3 above. I had thought there was a mention of a USS Hawking in a TNG episode, but a cursory glance at Memory Alpha shows no listing.
(7) unknown-class specialty ship USS Galen (staffed by advanced holograms and serves as primary medical resource)
(8) unknown-class specialty ship USS Achilles (carries vital backup components for the fleet's technology along with industrial replicators)
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So the Xbox One isn't the console for you. Does that mean that it's a hellspawn demon just because it doesn't cater to your every whim?
I don't need tampons because I'm a dude. I'm not bashing Kotex on the internet because I can't use their product.
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well that sucks, PS4 also has monthly subscription fee for online...
looks like Wii U will finally make some sales again.
#112 - dayasalion (06/12/2013) [-]
Then buy an Xbox 360 you nigger. Obviously Microsoft and publishers will still be supporting the 360 since they released an updated version of it. Plus I hear it will be receiving the updated UI that comes with the XB1 as well.
#121 - redneckhokage (06/12/2013) [-]
i have a 360 but that doesnt help due to the fact that i want to play Halo 5 and 6 and Star Wars Battlefront but its only for the Xboner
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Yes, because someone who can't even afford an internet connection is going to buy a $400 PS4.
#77 - ImStillAnAnon (06/12/2013) [-]
Its called SAVING UP. Like i did. Took me a whole fucking year to save up for my 360. but i finally got it. And i barely got internet. and i had my xbox for 3 years now. Imagine if it was the xboxone. I wouldnt be able to use it for 3 years. Not everyone is wealthy.
#124 - mrbuu (06/12/2013) [-]
if you got a computer you got internet. the xbox 360 and i bet the xbone comes with a Ethernet cord to connect it dirrectly to the router/modem for internet access. and i bet the xbone will come with wireless so you don't need the 100$ wireless adapter. so all you need is a router to make wifi. if you can afford the xbone you can afford a router. and since you are on the internet. i will guess you got internet.
#125 - ImStillAnAnon (06/13/2013) [-]
are you that dense or in denial?
A FAMILY PC is does not come included with internet man. Yeah at one time we had internet, but then because we are NOT WEALTHY LIKE YOU, we had to cancel it. we canceled our cable. Canceled everything BUT cellphones which was a prepaid.
Now imagine having the xboxone for 3 years with no internet. All i did was play offline or multiplayer split screen. I borrowed games from my cousins and friends. Now imagine doing that with the xboxone for 3 years. YOU CANT. There are people in similar situations. Stop being a rich insensitive prick.
#126 - mrbuu (06/13/2013) [-]
how are you on the internet right now and a family on minimum wage could afford internet where the fuck you live where internet and cable duo is only 80 a month or even less. and dude if you can afford a computer you should be able to afford internet. its 2013 you can steal wifi from your neighbors. where the fuck you living where this conecpt of internet is a magical invention of a elder dragon called ishta
#128 - ImStillAnAnon (06/13/2013) [-]
holy shit dude are you that dense? let me explain more SLOWLY.
years ago, my mom got a divorced. She raised us, 3 brothers. She fucking made 8.25 the hour. My dad gave us that old family computer. Idk how old you are but its fucking hard supporting yourself with just 8.25. imagine raising 3 kids, plus paying for school, plus buying clothes and food books
DO YOU UNDERSTAND? Not everyone lives a carefree life like you. There are A LOT of families like mine. Yeah now we are more stable. I can now afford internet. THATS HOW IM USING IT. because i BARELY GOT IT. But there were YEARS where I DID NOT HAVE INTERNET.
are you following so far? good.
Now imagine living those years with no internet with an xboxone.
Tell me do you understand now or are you still being a fucking retard?
#131 - mrbuu (06/13/2013) [-]
so in this poor faimly with no job you magicaly gain the ability to spend 500$. on an xbox one. there is no part of affording an xbox one and not affording internet then you shouldn't buy the xbox one. just don't stay away save for something better if you are this super mega poor
#132 - ImStillAnAnon (06/13/2013) [-]
I did mention it took a whole fucking year to save up the money.
You know what. PS4 all the fucking way because i know butthurt fanboys like yourself are dense as fuck. won't have to deal with douches like you. please let a plane fall and crush your family. Thank you
#134 - mrbuu (06/13/2013) [-]
you are so angry mr.super-poor. also i hate the xbox one. but im not complaining about a feature that should be available to every body who would buy the xbone. dude you hear that. its you and all the massive amount of butt hurt you got because you mom and dad hate you and your brothers. they where happily married till the kids came along
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same here, i had to save up for a while for mine
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Because everyone's been through the exact scenario you've been through and are just as unlucky as you. Also if you think online gaming is necessary to have fun with a gaming console you have a narrow opinion.
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my point was that i want to play offline, i only play offline, but apparently we wont be able to
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So the Xbox One isn't the console for you. Does that mean that it's a hellspawn demon just because it doesn't cater to your every whim?
I don't need tampons because I'm a dude. I'm not bashing Kotex on the internet because I can't use their product.
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