You need to start fact checking. This is really getting ridiculous. I've been reading a lot of the other articles. I understand that you're not a news source, but "about" the news, but still, get your facts right.
They didn't date, they just shared a class.
He stalked her. She got a restraining order. He followed her to Massachusetts.
Today, he turned himself, asking a convenience store clerk to call the police when he "saw his face on the front page."
@sassypants: @Goethewritesdrivel: Please. What next? Whining that the FBI is "generalizing" when it says that women kill their partners to get rid of them, while men kill to keep? Maybe complaining that a cop is spewing "nonsense" because he believes the suspect in a violent crime was a male? They're generalizations backed up by reality.
So most men are not accepting of misogynistic bigotry? Most men don't find rape or domestic violence to be a source of amusement? Then why is it almost universally men who commit these crimes, targeting women and girls, at epidemic levels?
I get that you're against technical absolutes, fine, but she (?) was trying to get at a larger issue here: the culture of anti-female hate that men, in general, are strongly complicit in. Yes, women engage in misogyny as well, but men are way more influential in changing the culture that produces these gender crimes en masse. Especially, since it's overwhelmingly men who commit them and men look to other men to model their behavior.
My reading is that this was one presidential duty that GWB was pretty good at too -- connecting with ordinary people, maybe on some basic level short of "feeling their pain."
But this one talent of the man was played down by the Administration's agenda-setters -- since it could have given Saddam Hussein ideas, or something.
In a way, this might be the most damning indictment of that eight-year horrorshow: Aside from all the things they got wrong, they didn't even know when they got something right.
Was I the only one, though, who got to this line: "So someone says, 'I'm despondent and I want to commit suicide,' or 'I have a life-threatening illness and I need help here,' " Mr. Kelleher said. "We immediately respond to those." and thought of Gawker's star of the moment? Hope they keep up with Brooklyn grifters ...
People in hotels are cheering in the hallways. Kids were just running across the Brooklyn Bridge cheering for Obama. I heard my neighbors next door and down the hall cheering loudly. This is really quite amazing and I'm happy.
I haven't been this happy since 1980 when I was waaay too young to vote, but the ERA was on the verge of getting on the constitution and " A vote for Anderson was a vote for Reagan". The Clintons were too centrist for me. I also think Barack will be a great president. And quite centrist.
HEY!.....Was the CLINTON slam really necessary? I mean HE came from a disadvantaged background as well, and was basically hated for being from "Po White Trash"! We can only hope that Obama produces a return of the Clinton years and NOT some rehash of Carter (buoyant optimism followed by dashed hope, finally ushering in the REBIRTH of the right-wing Republican era). If only people had been as enthused about GORE! The whole 2000 election should NEVER have been that close people! I blame the left for allowing it to happen! Especially after the prior 8! So let this election be a lesson....and don't you ever, EVER, LET SOMETHING LIKE BUSH EVER EVER HAPPEN AGAIN!! Now off to bed.
After years of "where I was and what I did on 9/11" stories it'll be nice to read some "where I was and what I did when Obama won" stories.
Personally, I took my fever-having, PJ-clad self out to my stoop and listened to the shouts, horns, and sirens. I started to cry and spilled my TheraFlu and thought about calling my mother, and some German-seeming tourists took a picture of me from across the street. I'll admit that I took some pains to make the happy, hopeful, relieved nature of my tears plain to make their picture that much more meaningful. Then a random guy game up to me and said, "How old are you? Can I get your number? Maybe we could hang out sometime! And talk!" and the homeless guy who I'm always kind of sad about but also afraid of rounded the corner and either there wasn't anything to cry about anymore or else it was going to be a different kind of tears so I went back inside and read some Gawker and went to bed, looking forward to saying "Good morning!" to everyone tomorrow and meaning it in a different, special way.
"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our Founders is alive in our time, who still question the power of our democracy - tonight is your answer."
05/08/09
They didn't date, they just shared a class.
He stalked her. She got a restraining order. He followed her to Massachusetts.
Today, he turned himself, asking a convenience store clerk to call the police when he "saw his face on the front page."
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How fucking depressing.
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@Calraigh: Spare me the "all men suck and hate women" nonsense.
05/08/09
So most men are not accepting of misogynistic bigotry? Most men don't find rape or domestic violence to be a source of amusement? Then why is it almost universally men who commit these crimes, targeting women and girls, at epidemic levels?
I get that you're against technical absolutes, fine, but she (?) was trying to get at a larger issue here: the culture of anti-female hate that men, in general, are strongly complicit in. Yes, women engage in misogyny as well, but men are way more influential in changing the culture that produces these gender crimes en masse. Especially, since it's overwhelmingly men who commit them and men look to other men to model their behavior.
05/08/09
It's a famous quote and you know why? Because it's true.
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But this one talent of the man was played down by the Administration's agenda-setters -- since it could have given Saddam Hussein ideas, or something.
In a way, this might be the most damning indictment of that eight-year horrorshow: Aside from all the things they got wrong, they didn't even know when they got something right.
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04/20/09
Was I the only one, though, who got to this line: "So someone says, 'I'm despondent and I want to commit suicide,' or 'I have a life-threatening illness and I need help here,' " Mr. Kelleher said. "We immediately respond to those." and thought of Gawker's star of the moment? Hope they keep up with Brooklyn grifters ...
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Personally, I took my fever-having, PJ-clad self out to my stoop and listened to the shouts, horns, and sirens. I started to cry and spilled my TheraFlu and thought about calling my mother, and some German-seeming tourists took a picture of me from across the street. I'll admit that I took some pains to make the happy, hopeful, relieved nature of my tears plain to make their picture that much more meaningful. Then a random guy game up to me and said, "How old are you? Can I get your number? Maybe we could hang out sometime! And talk!" and the homeless guy who I'm always kind of sad about but also afraid of rounded the corner and either there wasn't anything to cry about anymore or else it was going to be a different kind of tears so I went back inside and read some Gawker and went to bed, looking forward to saying "Good morning!" to everyone tomorrow and meaning it in a different, special way.
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- President-elect Barack Obama
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