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Friday March 30, 2007
You know, posting here on blogstream can be kinda interesting at times, but it gets to where people become insulted when you deface that saintly portrait that they have been painting of themself, seems that if you don't make comment praising them, and telling them what a caring person they are when in fact you know that to be just a facade and an image of someone that they would like to be. To prove my point, when I infact made comments about someone whom I had never mentioned their name or their blog title, I was viciously attacked and harrassed by people that person was associated with from other forums. Now these people claimed that they knew nothing about me, however they posted my real name, knew what work I did, and as a matter of fact knew personal things about me that they couldn't have just guessed. they were being informed by this person of all this information, and when on several occassions they were warned that they were causing this person to be in violation of a court order they ignored those warnings. And I hope that those people that was posting my name and giving all that information about me remember that they were the ones that opened that door when they start reading real names and blog titles and personal information. Lastnight I made a comment to A post that one of them did that i thought was rather humorious,and what happens? well you guessed it, here they start with their vindictiveness And then the one who hides shows up to inform this person that we never found them. So the only answer that I have is why would I even be looking for them, because that person is so insignificant, what would it even matter. it doesn't..
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Thursday March 29, 2007
Twenty One Indicators of Systemic Discrimination Against Men The American woman by the 1960s lived in the nation with the world's highest standard of living and owned 65% of the wealth in that nation. Feminists "felt victimized", however, and convinced American women that they are "discriminated against". Never have they been required to nor been able to produce a shred of statistical evidence to back up that claim. Twenty one key statistical indicators each illustrate how men have been and are being systematically discriminated against by government fiat.
WEALTH: Women hold 65% of the country's wealth [Fortune Magazine] CHILD CUSTODY: Women receive custody of 92% of the children of divorce and illegitimacy, and men only 4%. [Department of Health & Human Services] INCOME: Men constitute 60% of workplace hours, work longer hours, work harder, and are more qualified, rarely file sexual discrimination or harassment lawsuits or take pregnancy leave, yet earn only 42% more than women [Dept. Labor] SUICIDE: Interestingly, men complete suicide (do it successfully) at a rate FOUR times higher than females, but females attempt suicide at a rate THREE times higher than males. So women arent REALLY trying, are they? (j/k). LIFE EXPECTANCY: Men's life expectancy is seven (7) years shorter than women's [National Center for Health Statistics -- males 72.3 yrs vs females 79 yrs] yet receive only 35% of government expenditures for health care and medical costs. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: Men are discriminated against BY DESIGN through affirmative action. FEDERAL TAXES: Even though men pay 115% of federal income taxes women constitute 11% more of the voters. VOTE: Because there are 11% more female than male voters, males have little to no influence on how the male tax dollar is spent. WAR: Men, not women, fight and die in battle [Dept. Defense -- Vietnam Casualties 47,369 men vs 74 women] while women sue the taxpayer when they have their butt pinched. WORKPLACE FATALITIES: Men account for more than 95% of workplace fatalities. MURDER: Men are murdered at a rate almost 5 times that of women [Dept. Health & Human Services -- 26,710 men vs 5,700 women] JURY BIAS: Women are acquitted of spousal murder at a rate 9 times that of men [Bureau Justice Statistics -- 1.4% of men vs 12.9% of women] COURT BIAS: Men are sentenced 2.8 times longer than women for spousal murder [Bureau Justice Statistics -- men at 17 years vs women at 6 years] JUSTICE SYSTEM BIAS: Even though the amount of the average "child support payment" due from women is half the amount due from men, and even though women are twice as likely as men to default on those payments, fathers are 97% of "child support" collections prosecutions [Census Bureau] WELFARE: Even though men are the recipients of less than 10% of all welfare disbursements, men are required to refund welfare payments made to women. SECONDARY EDUCATION: Even though zero percent of American 12th grade girls were able to correctly answer basic math and physics questions, less than one quarter of America's secondary and elementary school teachers are men. HIGHER EDUCATION: There are more than 200 all-female colleges for women and now not one single all-male college for men. 5.8% fewer men than women are enrolled in 4 year colleges, even though two thirds of those who score higher than 550 in SAT Math are males. In 1993 only 44.5% of college enrollment were men, and that figure has declined since then. Only 45.8% of of bachelor's degrees were conferred to men in 1992, even though 98.2% of the top fiftieth percentile of the GRE are men, and ZERO PERCENT of American high school girls correctly answered 28 out of 67 TIMSS advanced math questions. Only 38.4% of private 4 year college students were men as of 1990, and this figure has declined since then. LEGAL SYSTEM BIAS: 96% of physical altercations resulting in injury to a spouse occurs AFTER the date of separation. [Read: spousal abuse laws that pretend that husbands are dangerous discriminate against husbands when we know that only a very small percent of domestic violence is associated with them]. [Chadwick and Heaton, "Statistical Handbook of the American Family"] DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Even though study after study shows that women are the majority of the initiators of domestic violence, and 58% of the above mentioned physical altercations are initiated by the female, Congress passed the obviously anti-male VAWA and VAWA II.which are known would make the problem far worse. [Read: despite the fact we discriminate against husbands in protective orders, women still cause more than half of domestic altercations because they know they can get away with it]. CHILD VIOLENCE: Even though mothers commit 55% of child murders and biological fathers commit 6%, even though NIS-3 shows that Mother-only households are 3 times more fatal to children than Father-only households, children are systematically removed from the natural fathers who are their most effective protectors and men are imprisoned at rate 20 times that of women. FAMILY BREAKDOWN: The US Surgeon General notes that divorce is more harmful to a man's health than smoking tobacco, yet as much as $1.3 Trillion of federal expenditures accomplish little else than undermine family stability. WOMEN PILOTS: Even though women pilots have an accident rate four times that of men pilots, federal laws require that airlines risk the safety of passengers and hire women pilots anyway. WOMEN DRIVERS: Even though the crash rate of women drivers is twice that of men drivers, and even though drinking alcohol increases the crash rate of men by only 5%, the majority of those imprisoned under DUI laws are men, and women are almost never imprisoned for their much higher number of non-alcohol-related crashes. INCARCERATION: Even though feminists brag that 1.4 million American brides commit adultery, and even though women file more than 90,000 false allegations of rape, every year, only 99,000 of the 1.8 million Americans behind bars are women.
Modified Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:56 PM
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Wednesday March 28, 2007
By GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press Writer Wed Mar 28, 5:10 PM ET
The first newborn was discovered swaddled in a blanket on a park bench, an umbilical cord still hanging from his tiny body. Then, at neat 11-month intervals, two more abandoned babies were found in parked pickup trucks in the same neighborhood.
This week, DNA tests established all three babies were almost certainly born to the same mother. Now, in a heartbreaking mystery that has transfixed this central California farm community of 7,300, investigators are trying to find the mother and figure out what drove her to such desperate lengths. "How can the relatives not see this girl pregnant, and then see that she's not pregnant anymore and not ask where's the baby? Somebody must know something," said Hortencia Espino, 81. All three newborns were found within a two-block radius. The first two — a boy and a girl — survived and are now wards of the state. The third baby was found dead of exposure on the cold night of Dec. 3. She was enveloped in a sweatshirt in the bed of a pickup parked near the high school, some 60 miles southeast of Fresno. The coroner concluded she was alive for less than a day. On Wednesday, a Catholic church held a baptism and funeral Mass in Spanish and English for the baby girl, who was dubbed "Angelita DeOrosi," or Orosi's little angel. Later, under the shade of a corrugated plastic awning, sheriff's officials and grandmothers delicately sifted handfuls of dirt onto her white coffin before it was lowered into the earth. Marely Pena, who found the infant in her father's truck, cried behind dark glasses. "I ask myself every day what if she had been alive. We could have saved her," said Pena, 25. "I just hope the mother comes forward to please just make us feel at ease." Orosi, a town encircled by fig and lemon orchards, has long been the kind of place where everyone seemed to know each other. But that is changing, with new housing developments going up and a burgeoning gang problem that has led to a rise in violent crime. As upset residents built makeshift shrines in honor of Angelita, authorities interviewed local women they thought might be involved. But DNA testing eliminated them as the babies' mother. After exhausting all leads, officials are asking the community for help finding the parents and are offering a $5,000 reward. Police said the mother could face criminal charges. But they also said they want to make sure she doesn't do it again and isn't in some kind of distress. Investigators would not speculate as to the reasons for the abandonment, such as whether the mother might have been a prostitute or a rape victim. "Whether the mother is in a physical state of danger or a mental state where she feels she can't ask for help, our heart goes out to her," Karen Franzen, manager of Dopkins Funeral Chapel in Dinuba, which donated a casket and cemetery plot for Angelita. The first deserted newborn was found on Feb. 10, 2005, a barely breathing boy with a body temperature of just 85 degrees. On January 8, 2006, a resident discovered a full-term baby girl inside a pickup two blocks away, clothed in an undershirt and pants. On Monday, sheriff's officials announced the DNA results. The first two babies probably had the same father, but Angelita was fathered by a different man. California and 46 other states allow parents to legally abandon a child at a hospital or other designated safe zones within 72 hours of birth, no questions asked. Since California's law went into effect in 2001, parents have safely surrendered 182 babies at fire stations, emergency rooms and other safe havens, according to state officials. "This little community is a family. We know pretty much everyone else's business and they know ours," said Eugene Etheridge, principal of Orosi High School. "It's concerning that this could happen again when the most precious thing we have is our children."
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Friday March 23, 2007
Sharing the blame for child abuse Keith Thompson
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Stanford associate professor Carol Delaney has a four-letter word for people who brutalize children. The word is male.
"No one is stating the obvious," Delaney declared in a letter to The Chronicle ("Crimes are by males," Aug. 5). Citing the graphic string of high- profile child abductions and murders in recent months, she added: "These hideous crimes are being committed by men."
"What has gone so wrong in the rearing of males in this society?" Delaney asked. "I am disappointed by the silence of decent men who are not taking this on as a men's problem."
Delaney stopped short of saying what's probably on the minds of many cable news viewers these days. Males are violent because violence is masculine; females are the ones who suffer. Conversely, female brutality is rare and almost always unintentional - the result of provocation, mental illness, or various "situational" factors that cause women to believe violence is their only option.
The consensus for these beliefs runs deep in post-feminist America. We could just embrace them as self-evident truths and start from there, except for a niggling complication. The beliefs aren't supported by facts.
To the contrary, empirical data from numerous studies decisively challenges the notion that child abuse in America is exclusively -- or even primarily -- a men's problem. "Women commit the majority of child homicides in the United States, a greater share of physical child abuse, an equal rate of sibling violence and assaults on the elderly, about a quarter of child sexual abuse, an overwhelming share of the killings of newborns, and a fair preponderance of spousal assaults," writes feminist author and crime journalist Patricia Pearson in her book "When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence. "
A study by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System found that approximately 879,000 children were victims of child maltreatment in 2000. Based on reports provided by U.S. child protective services agencies, 60 percent of perpetrators were females and 40 percent were males. The Department of Health and Human Services reached a similar conclusion for the prior year: "Female parents were identified as the perpetrators of neglect and physical abuse for the highest percentage of child victims."
Powerful cultural prejudice works against recognizing abusive women as a widespread malaise. For instance, a Washington state human services professional reported that an accused female offender was brought before a judge who dismissed the case, declaring, "Women don't do things like this." Boston psychologist Laurie Goldman, who analyzed how society minimizes the scale and impact of female sexual abuse, initially located only one woman offender willing to discuss what she had done. Goldman knew from reliable sources that female perpetrators were getting treatment, but clinic administrators insisted that no such women were under their care.
Pearson says women in Western culture learned to express their bids for power in ways concealed from men. Paradoxically, many women also learned to hide their capacity for aggressive violence from themselves, "as if half the population of the globe consisted of saintly stoics who never succumbed to fury, frustration, or greed," she writes in "When She Was Bad."
If shining the spotlight on female perpetrators is overdue, it doesn't warrant holding male offenders less accountable. Fathers were responsible for 22 percent of sexual abuse in 2000, according to the NCANDS study mentioned above. So Carol Delaney's question waits. Why haven't decent American men as a whole accepted responsibility for the ghastly murders of Polly Klaas and Samantha Runnion?
Probably for the same reason decent American women didn't collectively confess to the wanton killing of Michael and Alex Smith. Remember them? They died horrendous deaths strapped to their car seats after their mother, Susan Smith, deliberately released the emergency brake on her car and let it roll into a South Carolina lake. Smith stood on the shore and watched as the car containing her defenseless sons disappeared under the water's surface.
If David Westerfield's murder of Danielle van Dam is a collective men's problem, does it follow that Smith's drowning of her young sons is a collective women's problem? Not unless we're ready to head down the road to full-blown ideological idiocy.
Still, collective responsibility has its place. As a culture, let's start by recognizing Westerfield and Smith as two faces of the same sadistic beast, concealed by gender wars that will end only when we're ready to see the universal face of human cruelty. In the meantime, maybe a minimum requirement for "decent" persons could be the refusal to exploit the tragedy of exploited children from the sanctuary of great universities.
Keith Thompson
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Friday March 16, 2007
The My Lai Massacre (pronounced mee-lye) (Vietnamese: thảm sát Mỹ Lai) was the massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, by U.S. soldiers on March 16, 1968, in the hamlet of My Lai, during the Vietnam War. It prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced American support at home for the war in Vietnam. The massacre is also known as the Son My Massacre (Vietnamese: thảm sát Sơn Mỹ) or sometimes as the Song My Massacre.
Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division arrived in Vietnam in December 1967. Their first month in Vietnam passed without any direct enemy contact.
During the Tet Offensive of January 1968, attacks were carried out in Quang Ngai by the 48th Battalion of the NLF (National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam). US military intelligence formed the view that the 48th Battalion, having retreated, was taking refuge in the village of Song My. A number of specific hamlets within that village—labeled My Lai 1, 2, 3 and 4—were suspected of harboring the 48th. US forces planned a major offensive on those hamlets.
Calley was charged on September 5, 1969, with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians near the village of My Lai, at a hamlet called Song My, more commonly called My Lai in the U.S. press. In this well documented incident, 500 villagers, mostly women, children, infants and elderly, were assembled and then shot by soldiers of Charlie Company, Americal Division. Some women who survived were gang raped by U.S. soldiers instead of being summarily executed.
US Army Lt William Calley was convicted in 1971 of premeditated murder in ordering the shootings and initially sentenced to life in prison; two days later, however, President Richard Nixon ordered him released from prison, pending appeal of his sentence. Calley served 3½ years of house arrest in his quarters at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was then ordered freed by Federal Judge J Robert Elliot. Calley claimed he was following orders from his captain, Ernest Medina; Medina denied giving the orders and was acquitted at a separate trial. Most of the soldiers involved in the My Lai incident were no longer enlisted. Of the 26 men initially charged, Lt Calley's was the only conviction. The entire episode inspired what is known today as a Medina standard.
On 17 March 1970, the United States Army charged 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident. Most of these charges were dropped.
William Calley-Lieutenant who led C-Company, the only person convicted David Mitchell - Sergeant Ronald L. Haeberle - Company Photographer Charles Sledge - Radio Operator - testified he saw Calley deliberately kill a young child Paul Meadlo - Private First Class - testified he was afraid of being shot if he didn't participate Dennis Conti - Private First Class - stated he was originally lost and had to find his company James Dursi - Private First Class Allen Boyce - Private First Class Ronald Grzesik - Private First Class Robert Maples - Private First Class, stated to have refused to participate Varnado Simpson - Private First Class, committed suicide in 1997, citing guilt over My Lai Harry Stanley - claimed to have refused to participate Gary David Roschevitz - Unknown Elmer Haywood - Unknown William Lloyd - Unknown Lenny Lagunuy - Unknown Sidney Kye - Unknown Robert Bergthold - Unknown Robert Mauro - Unknown Robert Lee - Unknown Isaiah Cowan - Unknown Bruce Cox - Unknown Harry Stanley - Unknown Charles Hall - Unknown Roy Wood - Unknown Herbert Carter - Unknown Gregory Olsen - Unknown Daniel Simone - Unknown
NB "Charlie Company" — the squads deployed in My Lai 4 on the day of the massacre — was overseen by Captain Ernest Medina. According to the sworn eyewitness testimony of many Charlie Company soldiers, Cpt Medina did not merely exhort his subordinate troops to commit wholesale and indiscriminate slaughter of the civilian inhabitants of My Lai 4 but was directly responsible for an unspecified number of civilian deaths himself. It also should be noted the platoon led by Calley was one of at least four that swept My Lai 4 on 16 March 1968. Other platoons are therefore implicated in the massacre at My Lai even if Calley's bears the greatest burden of criminality. The above list then supplies only a partial catalogue of the principal alleged perpetrators.
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