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Sometimes, I see stuff in the news that makes me realize how old habits and beliefs still linger in the minds of us imperfect mortals. So, I thought it might be interesting to start a thread for those comments hitting the news that make us go "huh?" or "did they really say that?" kind of stuff. Today I found this: New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs ripped Gisele Bundchen on Tuesday for comments the supermodel made defending her husband, NE Patriot quarterback Tom Brady, after Super Bowl XLVI. "She just needs to continue to be cute and shut up," the victorious Jacobs told reporters at the Giants championship parade in Manhattan. Teammate Osi Umenyiora, perhaps attempting to try and be more diplomatic, added..... "I mean she's supposed to stay out of things like that," said the Giants defensive end."But at the end of the day that's their relationship and she has the right to say whatever she wants to." http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...170639760.html
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Hugh Hefner Reacts to Son's Domestic Violence Arrest
Hugh Hefner is holding hope things will work out after his son Marston Hefner was arrested for investigation of domestic violence on his live-in Playmate girlfriend Claire Sinclair.
"If they care about each other, they'll patch it up," the Playboy founder tells PEOPLE. http://www.people.com/people/article...ntent=My+Yahoo
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And what ticks me off about the Tom Brady -Giselle thing is that had that been the other way around, Tom would have been expected to defend his wife . I don't know if he needed defending or what the deal was but from what i understand the media was pressuring Tom Brady to answer on why they lost the Super Bowl, but those details don't make a difference to me.
For Hell's sake don't let the women speak out when they want to. and PATCH it up, I'm sorry but once you have shown what you are capable of (domestic violence) you're done in my book. You either have it in your character to do that sort of crap, or you don't. |
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Women in the Military Should Expect to Get Raped
For someone who's so pro-war, commentator Liz Trotta sure has trouble figuring out who the enemy is. On Fox News over the weekend, she belittled proponents of women in combat and derided "feminists" who complain that uniformed ladies "are now being raped too much" by male soldiers. As evidence, she cited a recent DOD report that assaults on women had risen 64 percent in the past six years. "Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact," she told anchor Eric Shawn. Did Trotta just suggest that women who defend this country should expect to get raped as a matter of course, as routinely as wearing a uniform and getting up early? Yes. Did Trotta just suggest that men who defend this country are monsters who can't stop themselves from raping women in close proximity, and shouldn't be expected to? Yes. SHAWN: Well, many would say that they need to be protected, and there are these sexual programs, abuse programs, are necessary— TROTTA: That's funny, I thought the mission of the Army, and the Navy, and four services was to defend and protect us, not the people who were fighting the war. SHAWN: Well, you certainly want the people fighting the war to be protected from anything that could be illegal. TROTTA: Oh, look, I mean, that's—nice try Eric. This whole question of women in the military has not been aired properly, and it's the great sleeping giant.
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Trotta is implying there is an acceptable vs excessive amount of rape? I'm gonna need more coffee for this.
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It would be interesting to know what the parameters are. I guess it wouldn't matter. You know how it is, give 'em an inch and all. There are always people who are going to take advantage. Coffee is not going to cut it.
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A decidedly un-serious mouth/foot incident
Uncle Bulgaria:"You look great in those trousers darlin, I've not seen you in those before." *kotc and sits on end of bed*
Madame Cholet: *turns to show UB her lovely bum and how well the trousers fit* Uncle Bulgaria: "Schexy fekker aintcha, where did you get them, Tesco?" (major UK supermarket) Madame Cholet: *gives a look that could freeze hell over* "No Dar-ling, they're Armani!" Uncle Bulgaria: *opens mouth and changes feet* |
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Happy Savages Castle Bravo was a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb blast, the largest U.S. test ever, detonated over Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. Rongelap was heavily contaminated by the Castle Bravo blast. The official explanation is that the wind suddenly shifted. Many of the islanders believe that the wind direction was known and the blast occurred anyway. The U.S. Navy waited several days before evacuating the island. In 1957, the Rongelapese were told their island was safe again — a blatant untruth — and were transported back to their ancestral home, where they proceeded to die of cancer and give birth to large numbers of stillborn, deformed children. The bodies of many of the islanders were removed by U.S. personnel and examined. A year before they were moved back to Rongelap, Merril Eisenbud, the first health and safety chief of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, had said, according to the transcript of a 1956 meeting: “That island is by far the most contaminated place on earth and it would be very interesting to get a measure of human uptake when people live in a contaminated environment. . . . While it is true that these people do not live the way Westerners do, civilized people, it is also true that these people are more like us than the mice.” |
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Ignorance....
It just never ceases to amaze me how so called educated, intellegent people can be so igronrant...... shaking my head!!!
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ESPN apologizes for racial slur
G Jeremy Lin ESPN was offered an apology by ESPN for its use of an "offensive headline referencing him and the New York Knicks early Saturday morning.
The headline, used on the media outlet's mobile website, contained a racial slur as it described the Knicks' point guard and the team ending their winning streak against the New Orleans Hornets on Friday night. The headline read "Chink in the Armor" and was up on the mobile site, which is seen on cell phones and tablets, for about a half-hour, according to ESPN. Lin, whose parents are Taiwanese, is the league's first American-Born player of Taiwanese or Chinese descent. He had helped the Knicks to the seven-game winning streak, sparking a national sensation playfully known as "Linsanity." ESPN posted an apology on all Knicks' stories on its website Saturday. It read: "Last night, ESPN.com's mobile website posted an offensive headline referencing Jeremy Lin at 2:30 a.m. ET. The headline was removed at 3:05 a.m. We are conducting a complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures and are determining appropriate disciplinary action to ensure this does not happen again. We regret and apologize for this mistake."
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Ben & Jerry's Removes Fortune Cookies From New 'Lin-Sanity' Flavor
Et tu, Ben & Jerry? The Vermont ice cream manufacturer have had second thoughts about a new flavor of frozen yogurt available at their Harvard franchise called Taste the Lin-Sanity. Why? Because initial batches of the Jeremy Lin-themed frozen dessert featured "pieces of fortune cookie," sfgate.com reports. Those have since been replaced with waffle pieces, a decision Ryan Midden, Ben & Jerry's general manager for their Boston and Cambridge outlets, insists was made because waffle pieces retain their crisp better. Midden does acknowledge, however, that some customers took offense at the implied racism.
Taste the Lin-Sanity's vanilla frozen yogurt also contains "lychee honey swirls," a decadent addition derived from the succulent fruit indigenous to southern China and Southeast Asia. So far, no one seems to have taken offense at that slightly subtler ethnic reference. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/enter...-flavor/49165/
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‘Racist’ Filipino Magazine Cover Axed After Online Outrage
On the March 2012 cover of FHM Philippines, the country’s top-selling men’s mag, a light-skinned model emerges from a group of black models accompanied by the caption, “Stepping Out of the Shadows.”
According to the New York Times, the photo of swimsuit-clad Filipino actress Bela Padilla immediately met backlash from readers and social media users who argue the photo is racist and insensitive. “Seriously, did you guys not sense how racist this concept was?” writes one user on the magazine’s Facebook page. The outrage prompted local publisher Summit Media to issue an apology, scrap the edition and promise to print a new cover featuring Padilla. “In our pursuit to come up with edgier covers, we will strive to be more sensitive,” the company, which publishes more than 20 magazines in the Philippines, wrote in its statement. Just hours after the cover ran, Filipino Victor Bautista launched an online petition on Change.org calling for Summit to apologize for and recall the cover, ABS-CBN News reports. “People of African descent have been unjustly stigmatized as embodying darkness, ever since the era of slave trading. The cover is a modern rendition of a regressive form of discrimination, and should thus be brought to utmost scrutiny, in a day and age wherein racial equality should be universal,” he wrote. The BBC caught up with Padilla for an interview, where she said she did not have any regrets about the photo shoot. “So they wanted me to come into a ‘coming-of-age’ sort of article — that’s why they chose that caption,’’ she told the BBC. She said some of the models in the photo included light-skinned women painted black. “Some people might think that it’s even more offensive that some people in that shoot were Filipinas who were painted black,” replied reporter Mishal Husain. The ad sparked debate on social media and news sites. “It is said that this is about Bela emerging from her ‘inhibitions.’ But pray tell, why would a white girl’s inhibitions appear as a bevy of black girls? Why pit one woman’s white body against five women’s black bodies? Why highlight one at the expense of the others?’’ Katrina Stuart Santiago wrote in an opinion piece for GMA News Online, a news outlet in the Philippines. Why indeed? Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/01/...#ixzz1nrao24vI
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