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David M. Smolin, professor of law at Samford University, Birmingham Alabama has written a series of articles pertaining to the subject of child trafficking and laundering.
Child Laundering: How the Intercountry Adoption System Legitimizes and Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stealing Children
Intercountry Adoption as Child Trafficking
The Two Faces of Intercountry Adoption: The Significance of the Indian Adoption Scandals
Child Laundering As Exploitation: Applying Anti-Trafficking Norms to Intercountry Adoption Under the Coming Hague Regime
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
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Alexandria, Va., 22314
From Adoption-News-Service
Micky Duxbury is the author of the recently released book entitled: MAKING ROOM IN OUR HEARTS: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption.
The book presents the stories of families throughout the United States who share the joys and challenges of maintaining relationships between birth and adoptive parents. Duxbury interviewed over one hundred and fifty birth and adoptive parents, extended family members, adopted children, and national experts. Listening to the families and their children does what no other book has done: describes how important open adoption is from the child's perspective. As one 19 year old put it: "I have known my birth mother as long as I can remember and I can't imagine it any other way. I would be a completely different person if I had grown up without knowing who I was and where I came from. Open adoption has allowed me to be the person I was intended to be - with a connection to the people who made me what I am."
from sptimes.com
A life filled with family turmoil ends as he feels everything closing in on him.
Published August 18, 2004
TAMPA - Robert G. Able started his crime odyssey Monday morning by shooting his ailing girlfriend, once in the head and once in her heart.
Then he lured a 12-year-old neighborhood girl into his home and raped her.
Less than 24 hours later, as police searched the city for him, Able shot himself in the head with the same gun. He died inside a pickup truck at the Bill Currie Ford body shop where he has worked for the past 16 years.
In between, police say, the 40-year-old former neighborhood crime watch leader visited the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing south of Ocala and found time to write a suicide note with detailed instructions on how to care for the Rottweiler and three mixed-breed dogs he left behind.
Police say Able apparently caved in to the pressures of mounting debt and his girlfriend's health troubles.
Veronica J. Maddox, 40, had diabetes and arterial-venous malformation in her brain, a condition that meant an oversized vein could burst at any time, killing her.
By: PATRICK MAY
The Miami Herald
A Coral Springs man who state officials say has been illegally arranging adoptions failed Friday to convince a Broward judge to let him reopen his business.
Circuit Judge Larry Korda refused to lift the temporary injunction he had placed April 25 against Richard Gitelman, president of the National Adoption Counseling Service. That order bars him from conducting any adoption-related business in Florida.
I found this outstanding website that focuses on the failures of Child Protective Services. For those who think adoption is all about saving orphaned babies, please read between the lies Adoption Web-sites are selling people. Read what's really happening:
from: fightcps.com/
from: fightcps.com/
"The more things change, the more things stay the same." How true this is for me.
I fear being ALONE. Yet I don't know how to manage well with another person always around me.
I enjoy the company of others, but only in small controlled doses.
Loud noise is obnoxious to me, and fake sincerity is a stench I can smell miles away from me.
I am a loner, yet hate being alone, even on websites.
When I come to the website I anally check two things. I check New Comments and Visitors.
These are my vital-statistics.
June 21, 2007 by Barbara Bisantz Raymond
Adoption, a respected institution that has brought millions of people joy, has a secret history. Its architect was a criminal named Georgia Tann, who from 1924 to 1950 operated out of Memphis, Tennessee, terrorizing poor, often single parents by stealing their children and placing them with wealthy adoptive parents, including Joan Crawford and Dick Powell.
Mother kept toddlers indoors, and the mother superior of a local orphanage hid children in attics, but, protected by political boss Edward Hull Crump, Georgia Tann arranged more than 5,000 illegal adoptions. She also killed so many children through neglect that the Memphis infant mortality rate soared to the highest in the nation. She sexually abused some of her female charges and placed some children with pedophiles.
While building her black market business, she also invented modern American adoption. It's hard to underestimate her influence. When she began working in Tennessee in the 1920s, adoption as we know it didn't exist. Eugenicists had made Americans afraid to adopt, and thousands of children were languishing in orphanages.
Lawsuit: Abuse claims overlooked
Ex-state employee takes court action
Post staff report
A former state social worker has filed a whistle blower lawsuit against two of her former supervisors with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, alleging they pressured her to overlook allegations of abuse in foster homes that were trying to adopt special-needs children.
The pressure was applied because the cabinet was under the gun to approve more adoptions so it wouldn't lose federal subsidies, the suit says.
The suit was filed Jan. 14 in U.S. District Court in Covington by Pat Moore of Elsmere, who, the suit said, was forced to resign as Northern Kentucky Health and Family Services Office Permanency Team supervisor when she refused to comply with her superiors' orders to keep quiet about abuse claims and allow the adoptions of special-needs children to proceed.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Michael Moore Where Are You?
The adoption industry needs a Michel Moore figure to bring public attention to the corruption and harm being done in the name of child protective services.
Michael Moore, is on tour not just promoting his latest expose documentary Sicko a cinematic indictment of the American health care system. He has also pushed his prescription for reform: a single-payer system, with the government as insurer, that would guarantee access to health care for all Americans and put the private insurance industry out of business.
What a unique idea! Government actually helping the end user instead of big business! If only. Government actually being what it was intended to be - what we were all taught as children it was: of the people, by the people and for the people. But what has become instead of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. United Corporate America. In the almighty dollar we trust.
By The Editors of Men's Health
"Your dog will always look to you for leadership. He wants it," says Brian Kilcommons, a dog trainer and the author of My Smart Puppy. "You can't let him get the best of you." Here are three fundamental principles of assuming the alpha role:
1. Take the Pole Position
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Kirsten Stewart
The Salt Lake Tribune
June 18, 2007
When Walt Webster signed up with Focus on Children last November to adopt two Kazakhstani girls, the Utah adoption agency neglected to mention it was under criminal investigation.
Four months later, the agency's owners were charged with violating immigration laws to bring Samoan children into the country. Webster remained oblivious.
from: cbc.ca
Last Updated: Monday, June 18, 2007 | 8:48 AM ET
CBC News
A man is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after the slaying of an Ottawa woman who neighbours say was his adopted mother.
An arrest warrant on a charge of first-degree murder against Aaron Howard, 19, was issued on Saturday morning after a woman was found dead in a west end home at about 4:20 Friday afternoon, an Ottawa police news release said.
from: prisonpotpourri.com
Current entry at Richard Wexler's NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
June 11, 2007
Last week's post to this Blog dealt with the issue of reimbursement for foster parents. At the end of that post, I wrote that it seemed as though every story I've ever read about this issue included the same false analogy, almost always presented in the same terms of shock and outrage. And sure enough, when the issue of raising foster-parent reimbursement arose in California last month, there was this from Capital Public Radio:
"The average Californian pays more to kennel their dog than our state pays to support the care of foster children."
And this from the San Jose Mercury News:
"The average kennel charges you $620 a month for taking care of a dog," said the measure's author, Assemblyman Jim Beall, D-San Jose, "so our kids don't even get as much money as a dog."
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Accusing someone of illegitimate birth has long been one of the greatest insults possible, so it's not at all surprising that some of history's greatest shoulder-mounted chips have been securely fastened to people with murky parentage. In fact, by the look of the names on this list, it just might be a recipe for success.
CONFUCIUS (ca. 551-479 BCE)
The scandal of the baby snatchers
By SUE REID
8th June 2007
This picture was used to advertise Crystal's availability for adoption - appearing in a tabloid national newspaper with an accompanying blurb describing her as a "clever, lively, cheerful toddler" who likes puzzles and swimming.
A phone number was printed alongside for anyone interested in becoming her new parents.
Perhaps a million people saw the heart-breaking advert which had been placed by a London council, and streams of callers offered to take care of her.
Yet that is not the whole story. The truth is that Crystal had become a pawn in an adoption system that should shame
Lynne Pearl, Post Adoption Resource Centre
What do we know about these particular late discovery adoptive families? Are they in fact radically different from those where adoption is open?
We would need to look at a comparative sample of adoptive families to be able to answer this question with any degree of accuracy. However, from our own sample of 40 people it is interesting to note that over a quarter of the participants, in fact indicated that their adoptions were unhappy prior to the late discovery disclosure.
Could it be said that the keeping of the secret created an environment where guilt and blame flourished? Is the secrecy about adoption symptomatic of unresolved issues of the adoptive parents? These are confronting and controversial questions.
A silent plague of fear, dread, stress and abusive behavior is born from child-abuse, and I strongly believe it's very foolish to think these problems exist only in "First-Families"! Abuse is a family-tradition passed from generation to generation, infiltrating and infecting the life-stories of far too many to count. For the abused-adoptee this is a double-whammy, because those are family traditions that did not have to be passed to a child of pure innocence. No one has yet dared to count the numbers of adoptees abused by adoptive family
from: Deseret Morning News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A couple was arrested on neglect charges for allegedly forcing their malnourished 17-year-old adopted son to sleep in a locked cage. The teenager was wearing a diaper and weighed just 49 pounds when he was found.
Wilson and Brenda Sullivan were ordered jailed Wednesday on $200,000 bail.
Do you know who's caring for your children? Do you even KNOW who has your children? Does relinquishing parental rights mean all care and concern for that child's well-being are null and void? Please read the following, and ask, does a natural parent have the right to know if his/her child has been raped or murdered by a stranger..... (text is taken from: wikipedia) Consider, too, how many children have been adopted/put in foster care prior to 1994.
The first Megan's Law was passed in New Jersey in 1994 after the rape and murder of Megan Kanka. Jesse Timmendequas, who years earlier had pleaded guilty to the attempted aggravated sexual assault of a girl, was convicted of Kanka's rape and murder and was sentenced to death, although he maintains that he is innocent of the charges and continues to fight his conviction and sentence.
The Megan Kanka Foundation suggests, "Every parent should have the right to know if a dangerous sexual predator moves into their neighborhood." That is the core principle of the law: parents should know when a sex offender moves into the neighborhood so they can protect their children.
The first Megan's Law was passed in New Jersey in 1994 after the rape and murder of Megan Kanka. Jesse Timmendequas, who years earlier had pleaded guilty to the attempted aggravated sexual assault of a girl, was convicted of Kanka's rape and murder and was sentenced to death, although he maintains that he is innocent of the charges and continues to fight his conviction and sentence.
The Megan Kanka Foundation suggests, "Every parent should have the right to know if a dangerous sexual predator moves into their neighborhood." That is the core principle of the law: parents should know when a sex offender moves into the neighborhood so they can protect their children.
from: wpunj.edu
Betty Reid Mandell
from: eclectica.org
by Karen Wilson-Buterbaugh
For some time, I have wondered how in the world I got to this place. I have always tried to do the right thing in life, yet the results from making wrong choices were constantly staring me in the face. An example, and granted it is a huge one, was getting pregnant at the age of seventeen, which caused the loss of my child to adoption.
Factsheet for Families
Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway
Year Published: 2004
Often when people hear the word "adoption," they think of an infertile, childless couple delightedly gazing into the eyes of their recently adopted newborn baby. They are thrilled to finally be parents, and are totally involved in meeting the immediate needs of the child. But what about the years that follow? Do the effects of adoption stop the moment that a child comes home to the new parents?
Those closely associated with adoption-adult adopted persons, birth parents, adoptive parents, and their friends and families-know that its effects can be felt for a long time, in fact for a lifetime. Adult adoptees often talk about them.1 For example, Steve Harris, a 39-year-old program director at a Dallas radio station who was adopted as an infant, has been plagued with low self-esteem throughout his life. Marie Haverton, a 24-year-old office manager who was adopted at birth, has always been afraid that people are going to leave her, whether it is the men she dates or the people with whom she works. Mary Lou Roman did not know she had been adopted until she was 17 and about to be married. Her parents could not produce her birth certificate, but instead handed her the legal document stating that she had been adopted. Suddenly she knew why she had so many identity problems in her early teenage years.
Ann McElhinney reports on new revelations regarding Romanian orphan Mihaela and her life before Ireland and the Hughes family
DOLLS and teddy bears line a bedroom overlooking the garden of a detached house in Romania. But the child who owns the toys is in Dundalk with a family who love her and don't want her to go home.
Mihaela Florica-Porumbaru is four-years-old and oblivious to the diplomatic storm brewing around her. But her name could soon become a by-word for the already fraught relations between Romania and Ireland.
Kathy Freston from the Oprah.com exclusive "Rules to Live and Love By"
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Soul mate love is a mystical partnership that exposes us to the most profound life lessons and gifts. The One is about finding that relationship and keeping it strong, but also about embracing the spiritual path that partnership offers. With soul mate love we learn to recognize the divine spirit in each of our hearts and go beyond the self so that two in a relationship truly can become One.
Kathy Freston delivers a powerful breakthrough prescription for how to awaken and sustain soul mate love by tapping into the spiritual power we all have within.
We celebrated the twin's birthday this past weekend. One of the balloons escaped from the car. It was Katie's pink balloon, the one she wanted most.


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No. 12 Florida State lost leading rusher Chris Thompson to a left knee injury in the second quarter of its game at Miami on Saturday night. Thompson was injured with 12:44 left in the period, on a play where he made a 32-yard reception. He remained down on the turf after the tackle, then was helped to the sideline for further evaluation. The Seminoles said he would not return. Thompson missed much of last season with two broken vertebrae, and said he feared that back injury would end his career. He had 47 yards on seven carries Saturday night, giving him a team-best 687 yards for the season. He also has 248 receiving yards, including 47 more in the Miami game before getting hurt.
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Man held on $5k cash bail after allegedly choking girlfriend
LACONIA — A former Blueberry Lane man who allegedly tried to choke his girlfriend on June 2, was arrested yesterday by Belknap County Sheriff's deputies when he appeared in Belknap County Superior Court for an unrelated matter.
David Nelson is being held on $5,000 cash-only bail after appearing by video in the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division.
Nelson, 26, is charged with second-degree assault, one misdemeanor count of criminal mischief for allegedly punching holes in the wall of his apartment and tearing out a light fixture, and one count of criminal threatening for allegedly threatening to slash the tires of the alleged victim's car.
According to affidavits obtained from the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division, Nelson allegedly came home drunk and began fighting with his girlfriend. The argument allegedly began in the living room but moved to the bedroom which is where Nelson tried to choke her.
The victim told police she had to squeeze his groin to get him to stop.
The victim texted her neighbor who called police. As the police began to arrive affidavits said Nelson ran into the woods. He was spotted by a responding police officer but when the officer turned around to talk to him, he had fled.
Police issued the warrant for his arrest on June 2.
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Natural-filter catch basin stands guard over Paugus Bay
LACONIA — At the annual meeting of the Lakes Region Planning Commission the city received an award of excellence for an innovative stormwater management project to protect and improve water quality in Paugus Bay, the source of municipal drinking water.
Luke Powell, assistant director of Public Works, who accepted the award, said that the project grew out of a comprehensive study of drainage throughout the city that began in 2009. The original stormwater drainage system, he explained, was designed to move water off the streets and into the lake as quickly as possible, which ensured that pollutants would be carried into the lake as well. He said that most pollutants — brake dust, oil residue, bird droppings and so on — are swept into the lakes by the "first flush," or first inch of rainfall. Capturing and treating the that first inch of rain, Powell said, has a significant impact on the quality of water in the lakes.
The Department of Public Works chose to address the situation at the junction of Lake Street, White Oaks Road and Weirs Boulevard where severe storms have caused damage to private property and carried sediment into Paugus Bay. With a grant from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services a bio-retention basin, designed by Mike Redding of Louriero Engineering Associates of Plainville, Connecticut, was constructed by a crew from the DPW consisting of John Neill, Steve Smith, Hank Denison, Jason Storey and Jim Culpon. The Paugus View Condominium Association granted an easement, which ensured the basin was large enough to be effective.
Powell said that the basin operates with compost and plants to remove pollutants from the "first flush" of stormwater. As stormwater enters the basin it passes through an open rock surface then through a layer of compost two-and-a-half feet thick, which acts like a sponge to remove pollutants. The treated stormwater slowly seeps into the surrounding soils and groundwater, lessening the discharge to the lake. When stormwater ponds in the basin, plants on its slopes absorb it and removing pollutants.
Powell said that bio-retention basins can remove between 80-peercent and 90-percent of petroleum residues and between 70-percent and 80-percent of nutrients and metals.
Powell said that although this is an effective means of safeguarding water quality in the lakes, there are few sites in the city with sufficient space to construct similar systems.
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On average, House Republican Alliance rates Belknap County reps as the most loyal
LACONIA — The 18 members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Belknap County topped their counterparts from the other nine counties in the annual ranking compiled by the House Republican Alliance (HRA), which grades the voting records of lawmakers according to how closely they match the GOP platform.
The county delegation, including its five Democratic representatives, posted an average score of 66.1 percent, indicating that the members followed the recommendations of the HRA on two-thirds of the 118 bills it scored. The Rockingham County delegation recorded the second highest score of 59.9 percent. Cheshire County, where 20 of the 23 representatives are Democrats, returned the lowest score of just 16.9-percent. The HRA scored the entire House of 400 members at 43.3 percent.
In Belknap County, Rep. Jane Cormier (R-Alton), who resigned her seat last month when she moved to Hooksett, was the only member to achieve a perfect score of 100 percent while voting on two-thirds of the scored bills. However, nine of the 13 Republican members of the delegation topped 90 percent — Reps. Michael Sylvia of Belmont (97.9), Herb Vadney of Meredith (97.4), Guy Comtois of Barnstead (96), Bob Luther of Laconia (95.7), Charles Fink of Belmont (92.9), Colette Worsman of Meredith (92.8), Bob Greemore of Meredith (92.2) and Stephen Holmes of Alton (90.8).
Among the Republicans, Rep. Dennis Fields of Sanbornton posted the lowest score of 58.5-percent, followed by Don Flanders of Laconia (69.9), Frank Tilton of Laconia (73.7) and Richard Burchell of Gilmanton (84.5).
Excluding the Democrats, the average score of the 13 Republican members of the Belknap County delegation was 87.8 percent.
Among the five Democrats, Ruth Gulick posted the highest score of 11 percent and Ian Raymond of Sanbornton the lowest score of 8.5 percent. Altogether the average score of the Democrats was 9.7 percent.
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Bond between innkeepers & guests forged over decades of Motorcycle Weeks at the Weirs
LACONIA — Although Ava and the Blonds sounds like the name of a 1950's pop band, this group of gal-pals doesn't know how to sing — but they do know how to party.
On any given night during Motorcycle Week, the Blonds, ring-leader Ava Doyle and all their husbands can be found somewhere on the property of Sun Valley Cottages at the Weirs — the place where they all met and became friends for life.
"We really are like a big family," said Doyle who loves Bike Week for bringing the entire gang together at her family business at least once annually. "We've been through weddings, funerals, birthdays, and graduations."
The Doyles bought Sun Valley Cottages 22-years ago after relocating to the Lakes Region from Louisiana. Ava said her husband Dave worked for an oil drilling company that was facing some cut backs.
"He told them he'd leave if they relocated us to any place in the continental U.S.," said Ava yesterday. She said he grew up outside of Boston and used to vacation at the Squam Lakes as a child so this was where he wanted to be.
She said they initially had a deal to buy a bread-and-breakfast inn in the area but the deal fell through. "And I'm grateful for that everyday," Ava said.
They — Ava, Dave, two children, two dogs, a cat, and two hamsters — came to Laconia anyway, "like something from the Grapes of Wrath."
She said all of their worldly possessions except for the cars they were driving were in storage. She said the family found a landlord who would take them in and the next year they bought Sun Valley Cottages.
Over time the business flourished, there have been a number of upgrades along with one addition, and the Doyles have made some fast friends both from their guests and within the Laconia community.
Within a few years, the Blonds – Kathy, Jen, and Kim and two others – were regular fixtures during rally week and fast friends with the Doyles.
This year Kathy, Jen, and Kim are back. Jen is not blond any more but that doesn't mean she's not one of the Blonds.
According to Kim, the "Blonds" started years ago when all of the girls grabbed their lawn chairs and went to watch traffic go by on Route 3 — one of the favorite past times of most Bike Week attendees.
Husbands Dan, Ken, and Barry thought it would be funny to make a sign warning motorists not to feed them. "The Blonds" moniker stuck and so did the sign, which came with them every year since they made it.
Last year someone stole the sign but Barry warns they'll be a bigger and better one this year.
For prospective, since they have been coming to Laconia, Barry and Ken said between them hey have had 13 different motorcycles — all Harley Davidson's.
When asked how Bike Week has changed over the past 20 years, Doyle said the crowds are smaller and the attendees are older. Most of the couple's cabins are filled with the same people for years, including a group from New Brunswick called simply "the Canadians."
Ava, who represents Ward 1 on City Council, said she likes the way the police are handling Bike Week now. She remembered when she first opened, officers would walk up and down Route 3 in teams of two and harass people who were sitting by the side of the road.
"Now they just drive by and wave," she said.
She also said Bike Week has moved north since they first opened. "When we first came everything across the street was woods," she said, noting except for traffic, there wasn't much in her immediate area.
She also said young people would come from Rollercoaster Road and try to hangout and party on her corner.
She recalled one group of 16-year-olds dragging a couple of coolers of beer and offering her $50 to let them hang out on the corner of her property.
"I said no," she said.
All of them said the crowds are much smaller now and there are more cars than there used to be.
"Traffic used to be lined up all the way down the hill," said Barry.
But the thing most important to all of them has been the camaraderie and friendships that have developed and lasted over the past 20 years.
For Ava, this has been a tough year. Now in remission, she was diagnosed with cancer last fall and said the visits and phone calls from "the Blonds," "the Canadians," and all the rests of her guests and their families was one of the most important things that helped her though the winter.
"They were just so supportive," she said.
And now for this group of friends and as Barry would say, "Every night is a good night."
CUTLINE: Ava Doyle, (center left) the co-owner of the Sun Valley Cottages at the Weirs surrounded by long time guest and long-time friends Kim, Dan, Kathy, Barry, Jen and Ken outside Barry and Kathy's cabin yesterday afternoon. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Gail Ober)
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For years now, Republican politicians and pundits have been trying to find the proper counter for claims that the party is conducting a "war on women." They've paraded out a number of new (and mostly unsuccessful) female candidates, claimed that blocking workplace reforms is about making sure more women have the option to stay at home with their children, or touted that blocking access to birth control is really about ensuring women's religious liberties are kept sacrosanct and unimpeded. The real anti-woman platform, according to the GOP, is providing any sort of assistance to a woman in order to level the playing field economically or socially. After all, how else can they prove they are truly equal than by overcoming the additional roadblocks they encounter by virtue of being female?
Somehow, that talking point hasn't played well with the general public. Now, a new one is being tested out, relying on a "men are from Mars, women from Venus" mentality that continues to place traditional gender roles firmly front and center. By fighting for gender equity, one pundit notes, Democrats are actually proving they have a man problem.
"Democrats have held varying advantages among females going back decades, just as Republicans have with men," argues columnist David Catanese in US News and World Reports, in an article titled "The Democrats (White) Male Problem." "There are age-old reasons for this. Men are more drawn to the abstract ideology embraced by the GOP of self-reliance at home and a muscular defense abroad. Women are unsurprisingly more concerned about social issues like abortion because they directly affect their life and health care choices. Women also gravitate to a more collectivist view of society's role, which fits neatly into the fabric of the Democratic Party, whereas men's natural instinct to protect their herd attracts them to the individualist Republican identity."
That Catanese, a reporter who was forced in 2012 to apologize after he defended Senate candidate Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" pregnancy comments, might have some 1950′s era views about how men and women instinctively behave is par for the course. What is more interesting is how this idea that by supporting gender equity — fair pay, the ability to prevent pregnancy so a person can continue to work or better parental leave so a person can work and raise children, abortion, affordable, available health care — that these initiatives somehow harm men, as if there is only so much wealth, jobs and economic security to go around.
Is the flip side to fighting against the GOP's anti-women agenda an "anti-men" agenda? Catanese appears to believe so. By his description of male and female instincts, he implies that women are turning to government to assist them, which should be the role of the man who is created to want to "protect the herd."
The language there is telling, and is what is really the key to the battle between Republicans and Democrats: who should be "protecting the herd?" When the government offers a social safety net, the ability to earn and get paid equally regardless of gender, free quality public schools, accessible health care — both reproductive care and otherwise — is it then taking over what the GOP sees as the instinctive role of the man, who should be father, husband and provider?
What the GOP doesn't yet grasp, and needs to in order to win back moderates, is that this isn't a male/female dichotomy as many of them see it. Men have just as much of a role in seeing women succeed, either as partners, parents, colleagues or a combination of the above. There are enough assets to go around, despite the efforts of a Republican party under whom wealth has consolidated more dramatically than at any point since the Great Depression. There is no magic scale that states that for every gain a woman makes, a man must be forced to give something up. Helping women in the U.S. does not come at the expense of harming men and there is not a limited pool of resources we must fight over and that requires blocking the other side from accessing it.
Supporting pro-woman legislation does not harm men, and both men and women benefit when economic security and equality for all genders is a plank in the agenda. Yes, even despite Catanese's and his cohorts' claims otherwise.
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Thomas M, I agree with you in almost everything that you stated, especially concerning David Catanese being 'a touch off this one.' (I would say more than a touch off...)
Your list of nicknames is interesting, except for that of Teddy Bore Cruz-out-of-control. You had inserted 'Canada' into his nickname. In this, you sound like a Republican, bringing up the 'foreigner' aspect to perhaps cast a bit of negativity on Cruz. However, in this respect, the eyes of most Canadians tend to glaze over when a connection to Cruz and Canada is mentioned (presumably, one assumes, to show that he is not really as 'American as Apple Pie' compared to those of you that are actually born in your country.)
He is as American as you are. Just because his parents lived in Alberta and worked in the oil patch for a number of years, doesn't make Teddy a true blue Canadian. He was born in Canada only because his parents worked here and he was four years old when his parents went back to the U.S. He was schooled in American schools, steeped in American culture and likely doesn't even know the names of all of Canada's provincial and territorial capitals. In reality, he is one of yours, don't blame us for the fact that his parents, as most adults do, had sex as a married couple while working outside your country.
Teddy Bore is an All-American dyed in the wool right wing teabagger. Please, don't try to pawn him off on us, we have our own right wing compost heap to deal with ...without taking any responsibility/credit for your right wingers.
Certainly, the GOP war on women, not to mention misunderstanding of women drags on and on and on, forevermore.
Thanks for sharing.
Poindexter, the only thing "amusing" here is your obvious reading comprehension problem and lack of critical thinking abilities. Go and re-read the information I have provided to you. This time do it more carefully and your inane question will be answered.
You make the mistake of thinking that names of parties mean anything, they do not, the conservative Republican party of today IS the same group that used to call itself Democratic party in the late 19th and early 20th century (as I clearly stated).
It is immaterial is the conservatives call themselves Republicans, Democrats, Nazis, or Know-Nothings, they are still conservatives.
Try studying issues and attempting to learn more, it will help you with your confusion.
Once again, I state, There have been a lot of tremendous accomplishments in this nation in the last 250 years, and the conservatives have been against all of them.
Kevin B.,
Actually, no. I was thoroughly amused by your previous post. Just out of curiousity, how do you explain the racial policies of the Democratic party from pre-Civil War until post-Vietnam? It was not called the "Solid South" for nothing. Must you always revert to insults when you cannot debate seriously?
Aw, Poindexter are you off your meds again? You must be after that last idiotic post.
I suppose your new response to being completely humiliated and made to look like a total fool on an issue is just to post a "word salad" and play some "pigeon chess."
You are really quite sad.
Well omniscient and everassine Kevin,
Thank you for completely refuting your previous post. I never thought you would agree with me so thoroughly. But your claim that you disagree, even though your post says otherwise, really made me laugh. But then again, you never really knew your own limitations. Even while you were insulting others, for no other reason that they are smarter than you. Better luck next time.
Oh Poindexter, you are so sad. Go and take a basic level history course. The "names" of parties mean NOTHING.
At one time the liberal party was the Republican party and the conservative party was the Democratic party (you know that red state-blud state graphic they use all the time? Well you could just flip it).
In 1860 the Republicans were the liberals who wanted to stop the spread of slavery, the Democrats were the conservatives and in the south spawned the Ku Klux Klan as a tool of political terror.
Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive Republican and his opposition were racist conservative Democrats, but this changed by the time of the New Deal and continued to change through the civil rights movement and finally the "southern strategy" put forth by RIchard Nixon.
The result was that the racist conservative Democratic party of the late 19th and early 20th century became the modern Republican party we endure today.
So I say again, There have been a lot of tremendous accomplishments in this nation in the last 250 years, and the conservatives have been against all of them.
But thanks for playing, Poindexter, we can always count on you to pontificate on subjects on which you are completely ignorant.
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The Playboy founder, 84, popped the question to 24-year-old Playmate Crystal Harris over the holiday.
"After the movie tonight, Crystal & I exchanged gifts. I gave Crystal a ring. A truly memorable Christmas Eve," Hefner tweeted.
He later clarified, "Yes, the ring I gave Crystal is an engagement ring. I didn't mean to make a mystery out of it. A very merry Christmas to all."
Hef was previously married to Mildred Williams and Kimberly Conrad.
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- Monday 27 DecemberBy Debbie
Why bother?
- Monday 27 DecemberBy BTDT
A little blue pill, a couple green bills and it's love.
- Monday 27 DecemberBy Karen
I thought he was still married to the second wife??
- Monday 27 DecemberBy The_HD_One
::shaking my head::
- Friday 31 DecemberBy gldnbrownHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
He is still married to his 2nd wife. That is why he was never able to marry Holly. How do you think Holly feels now? That is what she always wanted.
- Monday 27 DecemberBy Nico Toscani
No, he divorced that retarded gold digger so he could be with those three other retarded gold diggers. Then he was with some retarded gold digging sisters and now he's with this retarded gold digger.
- Monday 27 DecemberBy Melanie
Ahhh, love is in the air. She is probably hoping he kicks the bucket while they are married so she gets it all. How discusting is this?
- Monday 27 DecemberBy julie
About half as disgusting as having to have any kind of sex with a geriatric. She'll earn every penny. Good for her.
- Monday 27 DecemberBy Mark
He may kick the bucket on the wedding night! ; )
- Friday 15 AprilBy dee
i am sure if he dies she will get something but he has a daughter who he already gave his magaizine to and he had 2 sons so i am sure most of the stuff will go his kids but she will get something more then she would have if she didnt marry him. he is not stupoid i am sure he has it all written down with his attorney.
- Monday 27 DecemberBy kenny j
Viagra stock is going up again.
- Monday 27 DecemberBy pipor
Smart business women, from the looks of it she wont have to wait but a few days before he bites the big one.
- Friday 01 AprilBy Victoria
She doesn't look like she is in love with him like Holly. She seems to act like she is...not sincere.
- Monday 27 DecemberBy pepingatieza
If someone is going to wear IT out is this guy. That is, providing he remembers what to do with It.
- Monday 27 DecemberBy Tonette
I think it is disgusting. He would not consider marriage with Holly But lets do it with Crystal I bet holly has to pull that knife out of her heart!
- Monday 27 DecemberBy harry
oh puh-leeeze! IF he were meant to be married to Holly...he'd BE married to Holly! Can't you simply accept that?...she has!
- Tuesday 28 DecemberBy Natasha
I was thinking the same thing. Poor Holly! I wonder how she is feeling about now. I guess she was too old for him. Hef should just give up on the marriage thing. He is too old for all that and those young gals are going to try to drain him dry in more ways than one.
- Monday 27 DecemberBy Karen Yocom
Her parents must be so proud
- Monday 27 DecemberBy Thom
This was also my first reaction when I saw the headline.
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I can just see her parents reaction when they meet their soon to be son in law. Someone who can be their own dad. And Crystals grandpa. *Shudders.*
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May 20th, 2013 01:53 AM #16
Definitely thinking about doucheb** too. It's a horrible name..Cynthia/Luna
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I think it proves medieval parents had equally bad taste as modern ones.Blade, MD
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May 20th, 2013 07:58 PM #22
because a childhood of being called douche-bell won't be traumatizing...
you all need to remember this while picking names; kids are absolutely brutal.
May 21st, 2013 03:47 AM #24
I agree totally!
I definitely don't want my child to be teased about her name. But the kids will find something else tease if it is not the name.
I know a Anna - Sophia who gets teased about her name and I have the same experience because I get called Vaseline every time I say my name to someone. That's why I called Bellerose.
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Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer added two more interceptions to his season total in Thursday's 34-22 loss to the Seattle Seahawks, but Cardinals coach Bruce Arians is singing a familiar tune:
The interceptions aren't Palmer's fault.
"Neither interception was his fault whatsoever," Arians said Friday. "He protected the ball like he needed to, and we've got to make better plays."
Arians said after Thursday's game that he's more concerned about Palmer's thought process than he is the end result, adding "If it's his decision-making, then we'll make a change."
But while Palmer is often an easy scapegoat for the Cardinals' offensive woes, Arizona's offense had been plagued by small mistakes, like receivers not breaking off a route when they should or having two receivers run routes in the same area.
Still, Palmer has struggled with decision making at times, trying to force throws when the offense is struggling or making a throw he shouldn't under pressure.
Palmer has thrown multiple interceptions in five of Arizona's seven games this season, something he did only twice with the Oakland Raiders in 2012. The 11-year pro out of Southern California has thrown 13 interceptions to just 8 touchdowns this season and has been sacked 20 times.
Despite Palmer's inconsistencies and struggles, Arians said the Cardinals offensive woes are the result of a poor offensive line. Palmer was sacked seven times for -54 yards Thursday, and the Cardinals averaged just 1.7 yards per carry.
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It's been a remarkable rookie season for Dallas Stars forward Valeri Nichushkin, but that's a big reason why Lindy Ruff is making him a healthy scratch on Saturday.
As Ruff explains to the Dallas Morning News, the wear and tear of his first NHL campaign and the thrill of being a surprise selection for Russia in the 2014 Winter Olympics has left him fatigued.
"He's had a little bit of a tough ride, and he said he's felt real tired," Ruff said. "He's 18, and I think for him it's been a mental grind, so try to freshen him up and get him going again."
" … I think emotionally for him has been the craziest ride."
That's about as positive a spin as you can get for a healthy scratch (unless that player is welcoming a newborn baby, perhaps).
Nichushkin's most recent work does indicate a little lsot steam. He hasn't scored a point in his last five games and didn't even manage a shot on goal in two of those contests. He's still be a success overall, however, as the 10th pick of the 2013 NHL Draft has 22 points in 46 games.
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Jianfu Temple (Chinese: 荐福寺; Pinyin: Jiànfú Sì) is located on West Youyi Rd. outside south gate of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. It hosts the famous Small Wild Goose Pagoda.
Jianfu Temple was originally the residence of Zhongzong Li Xian (李显) before he succeeded as the emperor of Tang Dynasty. It was converted to temple on March 20 of lunar calendar in AD 684 (a hundredth day after the death of Gaozong Li Zhi(李治) of Tang Dynasty), in order to dedicate postmortem fortune to Gaozong. Thus it was named as "Xianfu Temple" (献福寺). In Wu Zetian's Tianshou 1st year (AD 690), it was renamed Jianfu Temple, and also bestowed an inscribed board handwritten by the emperor. The famous Small Wild Goose Pagoda was built in Jinglong years (707-710) of Tang Dynasty. Initially, the pagoda courtyard resided outside the temple gate, rather than inside the temple, but it was still a part of Jianfu Temple. Under the wing of the empire, Jianfu Temple, together with Da Ci En Temple, became prosperous. While in Dang Wuzong Huichang years when Buddhism was suppressed, Jianfu Temple was only allowed to keep 20 monks for daily maintenance, and it grievous days came. The temple suffered from the chaos of wars at the end period of Tang Dynasty, and was largely ruined. Only the Small Wild Goose Pagoda was preserved. According to the historical records of Zhezong Yuanyou years of North Song Dynasty, Jianfu Temple had been moved into pagoda courtyard at that time, integrated with the Small Wild Goose Pagoda.
In Ming Dynasty, Jianfu Temple was reinvigorated. There were five times of large-scale renovations, largely preserving the original pattern. In Xuande 1st year(1426), Ming Dynasty, A Tibetan monk, Shaosiji from Hongjue Temple of Xiningwei, Shaanxi Province, was awarded a certificate from government, and came to preside over Jianfu Temple. Seeing the dilapidated buildings in the temple, he swore to rebuild it. The reconstruction was completed in Zhengtong 14th year(1449), and Shaosiji appealed to government for its name. The current "Imperial Jianfu Temple"(敕赐荐福寺) was handwritten by emperor Yingzong.
Jianfu Temple was renovated many times in the Qing Dynasty. The largest renovation occurred in Kangxi 31st year. In late Qing Dynasty, more buildings were erected, including Sutra Library and Nanshan Gate.
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In addition, there is a small iron bell hanging on the iron scaffold beside the Bell Pavilion. It was built in Ming Hongzhi 7th year(1494)
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