Shout-Out: 8 yr old Finally granted Divorce from 50yr old husband

I kid you not..., and I repeat my headline"
Shout-Out: 8 yr old Finally granted Divorce from 50yr old husband

and it continues:
A court in the central Oneiza region previously rejected a request by the girl's mother for a divorce and ruled that the girl would have to wait until she reached puberty to file a petition then.

AP (Via ABC) reports: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces husband, 50, after her father forces her to marry

You really don't think I could make these up, do you?

One Saudi human rights activist Sohaila Zain al-Abdeen was optimistic that the girl's divorce would help efforts to get a law passed enforcing a minimum marriage age of 18.

"Unfortunately, some fathers trade their daughters," she told The Associated Press. "They are weak people who are sometimes in need of money and forget their roles as parents."

Saudi Arabia's conservative Muslim clergy have opposed the drive to end child marriages. In January, the kingdom's most senior cleric said it was permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who believe they are too young are doing the girls an injustice.

Anyone for some good Saudi Child Porn sites? (Just kidding!)

Shame-OUT: Soldier's Husband Stabbed, Raped Her

A Shame-OUT. We need the military to START re-training the men (PIGS) in the military. AP says:

The soldier's husband ...
kicked her in the face,
stabbed and
raped her
before KIDNAPPING her from her off-post apartment last week and taking her to Nevada

police told the family that the apartment was a wreck and blood was found inside.

SO happy she's actually alive (for a change...)


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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

WTF: Judge bars use of word "Rape" in RAPE TRIAL!

Ms. Tory Bowen (33), sued Lancaster, (NE) District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront, claiming that he violated her free speech rights.

WTF???

Lancaster District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront, recently barred words such as "rape" and "victim" from a sexual assault trial.

Wait... A JUDGE..barred the word RAPE from a TRIAL involving SEX??

Look HERE:
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Summary:
The JUDGE issued (IMHO) A STUPID male centrist; paternalistic ruling. He had his REAR Reamed, when about 75 people staged a lunchtime protest at his courthouse, while the Jury pool was there.

The Judge then declared a mis-trial, and said the case should be moved out of the city.

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Mark Says:

FOR SHAME judge.... This is the Year 2007, and male chauvism SHOULD be DEAD.
YOU PRESUMED that the WOMAN was GUILTY, and your ruling SHOWS that. YOU should be CENSURED!
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(back to the Case...) THe MALE's ol' boy network (Judge) approved a defense motion before the first trial that banned certain prejudicial terms from testimony. The motion was granted based on a state law that gives judges authority to ban certain evidence and language.

The words the judge banned were "rape," "victim," "assailant," "sexual assault kit" and "sexual assault nurse examiner," the title of the nurse who examined Bowen.

The victim, Bowen, said, "This wouldn't have been an issue if the court had ruled that I had the right to say I was raped."

"It's a huge issue, and all eyes are on Nebraska," Bowen said.

This was the second trial, as Last Winter, a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, and a mistrial was declared.

The Judge, a district judge for 24 years, said from the bench it was not an unusual ruling.

However, several lawyers, both prosecutors and defense attorneys, have said banning terms like "victim" is common, though some said Cheuvront went too far in banning the word "rape."

They say the language ban would force her to commit perjury by describing what happened as "sex" or "intercourse," terms they say imply consent, rather than rape.

Bowen, who now lives in the Washington, D.C., area, said she has no memory of leaving the bar with Safi or consenting to sex. She said she woke up the next morning with Safi on top of her.

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SOUNDS like Date RAPE to me....

I think the answer to people this stubborn is to award, my brand new,

Male-Chauvinist-pig award.

Congratulations, Judge Cheuvront:
Here's your award!

MALE CHAUVINIST PIG, Soooeee!

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