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Courtesy of Levi's Facebook page.

Courtesy of Wonkette:

Snowbilly sperm donor Levi Johnston, that paragon of Alaskan manhood, filed a civil custody suit in Alaska against Bristol Palin on October 19. The Alaska judicial website doesn’t provide any details (dumb privacy laws), but presumably the suit will attempt to resolve the custody issues left hanging when the former couple’s previous case was dismissed for “lack of activity” in 2012. We hope that the two estranged/very strange parents can come to a workable agreement that includes a trust fund to cover all the counseling poor Tripp is going to need. As the social workers in Family Court sometimes say, this is one of those cases where you wish there was an option for a court order to have the child raised by wolves.

I have to admit that it is hard to get too excited about this as we have been through all of this before.

I think the majority of us (Excluding of course the Palin-troll) are in agreement that Bristol is possible one of the worst mothers imaginable, and Tripp seems to do much better when he is with his dad.

Levi is by no means perfect, but he has a good heart and he was raised by two parents who loved him unconditionally and did not use him as political prop or force him to spout some mythologized version of his life for public consumption.

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Courtesy of The Sydney Morning Herald:

Recently departed Labor foreign minister Bob Carr, a close student of American politics, has declared himself "delighted" with Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel.

Not, however, for the normal reasons that a person might support the predominantly right-leaning US cable channel, owned by Rupert Murdoch.

"I am delighted because it is a textbook experiment in how to make the Republican Party unelectable," Mr Carr told the Public Knowledge forum on Monday, an event hosted by Sydney University's US Studies Centre.

"If you are running as a candidate for the Republicans, you must do Fox News and you must pander to the table thumpers. By the time the general election comes around the candidate is too right wing to get elected. I think it is delightful," he said.

I can't say I agree with all of Carr's political viewpoints, but on THIS we are in 100% agreement.

And considering that Rupert Murdoch got his start in Australia this guy would certainly know what he is talking about.

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Courtesy of Slate:

AR Wear is for you, the woman who’s “ever been out walking alone, wishing you could feel safer.” But it’s also for that other “you—parents and friends,” who have spent nights “worried about a loved one” walking alone. AR wear will give you, “women and girls, additional power to control” your bodies “when things go wrong.” But they’ll also give you, parents and friends, a pointed, yet elegant, holiday gift for the women in your lives whose bodies need safety locks.

“Rape is about as wrong as it gets,” the two New York women behind AR Wear note in their Indiegogo campaign, which has raised a little over half of its $50,000 goal for finalizing production-ready prototypes of the design. “The only one responsible for a rape is the rapist and AR Wear will not solve the fundamental problem that rape exists in our world. Only by raising awareness and education, as well as bringing rapists to justice, can we all hope to eventually accomplish the goal of eliminating rape as a threat to both women and men. Meanwhile, as long as sexual predators continue to populate our world, AR Wear would like to provide products to women and girls that will offer better protection against some attempted rapes while the work of changing society's rape culture moves forward.”

I am sorry but this is a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

Rape is NOT about sex, it is about power, and if a rapist finds himself stymied by uncooperative clothing it does not mean that the woman is suddenly safe. In fact in my experience that only increases the chances of the attack becoming more aggressive and more dangerous for the victim.

Look I trained women in rape prevention techniques and self defense, and I think I speak from a place of experience and knowledge.

The best prevention is to instruct young women in how to avoid putting themselves in a vulnerable position, but the second is to treat rape seriously, and to prosecute rapists, and put them in jail for as long as the law will allow.

Having said that I think it is disgusting that women have to feel such fear for their personal safety and consider taking such drastic precautions.

How about all of us, especially those of us raising boys, simply make it our job to teach our kids that it is simply not okay to rape? I mean how fucking hard is that really?



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Courtesy of Times Live:

“The first time I came here to Cape Town I almost got in a fight with the president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, because he was refusing to let Aids be treated,” Carter told the Sunday Times newspaper.

He said at the time, then-health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was standing with Mbeki.

“That’s the closest I’ve come to getting into a fist fight with a head of state”.

Carter said he and Bill Gates senior were trying to convince Mbeki to at least provide antiretroviral treatment to pregnant women with Aids, “but Mbeki was against that”.

Well over eighty years old and still willing to knock a mofo out if he does not help prevent AIDS.

I will ALWAYS be a fan of Jimmy Carter's.

He was the first presidential candidate for whom voted. Sadly he lost to Ronald Reagan, a loss that still pisses me off to this day.

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Click on image for more information about how this storm formed. Action must be taken to correct this grave wrong. Crimes have been committed.

Obama is NOT incompetent. Everything that he, Michelle Obama, and Valerie Jarrett do is guided by and operating under the far-left political science strategy, the Cloward-Piven Strategy, and is purposely designed to ultimately fail or make our economic system collapse which in turn will make our nation collapse. The Obamas and Valerie Jarrett want to collapse the system. That sets things up for a complete Socialist/Progressive takeover. We cannot let this happen. Barack Obama is a fraud. The forged documents are his Achilles heel. Crimes have been committed. Enforce the law, investigate and disclose the evidence compiled by Sheriff Arpaio in open hearings before Congress, and when the facts and truth are presented and known that way, Obama will be removed. Support the efforts to get Sheriff Arpaio’s Obama ID document fraud evidence taken up and further investigated before the appropriate committees, or a select committee, in Congress. Congress must act to avoid an economic and constitutional disaster and subsequent Cloward-Piven planned socialist takeover at some point in the remainder of Obama’s term!

Watch this short two minute video for an overview of the issues via this YouTube video: http://youtu.be/BFmhS2f_UV8


Visit AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse website to learn more about the evidence that Obama’s ID documents are forgeries. Donate to help their efforts: http://www.mcsoccp.org/joomla

What Has Happened to our Constitution and the Rule of Law Under Obama? Get the Facts and Evidence. Click on Image to Learn More About Obama’s Crimes.

Get a Sheriff’s Kit from http://www.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.com and make a presentation to your U.S. Representative or U.S. Senator.

Visit the BirtherReport.com website for that latest news regarding Obama’s criminal identity fraud activities and constitutional ineligibility.

WorldNetDaily online newspaper (WND.com) coverage of Sheriff Arpaio’s news conferences and appeals to Congress to investigate the overwhelming evidence that Obama’s identity documents are backdated and forged: http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/sheriff-joe-to-congress-investigate-obamas-eligibility/print

Visit and subscribe to ThePost&Email online newspaper which is also covering the Obama fraud and ineligibility issue: http://www.thepostemail.com

UPDATE — WheresObamasBirthCertificate teams headed by Mike Volin to personally deliver “Sheriff’s Kits” to members of Congress in Washington DC: http://www.birtherreport.com/2013/11/wobc-heads-to-dc-to-put-officials-back.html

CDR Charles Kerchner, P.E. (Retired)
Lehigh Valley PA USA
http://www.protectourliberty.org
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P.S. Regarding the Article II presidential eligibility clause in the U.S. Constitution, read this essay regarding the legal term of art “natural born Citizen” and basic logic, i.e., trees are plants but not all plants are trees. Natural born Citizens are a subset of “born Citizens (citizens at birth)” but not all “born Citizens (citizens at birth)” are “natural born Citizens”: http://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/of-natural-born-citizens-and-citizens-at-birth-and-basic-logic-trees-are-plants-but-not-all-plants-are-trees-natural-born-citizens-nbc-are-citizens-at-birth-cab-but-not-all-cab/ … AND … http://www.art2superpac.com/issues.html




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New York City (AFP) - YouTube's first-ever music awards thrilled and spilled, with Eminem named Artist of the Year though most winners were lesser known acts who featured in an eclectic show filled with stunts.

Sunday's webcast was kicked off by indie rockers Arcade Fire performing their new song "Afterlife" in a live video performance featuring a chorus of young girl singers in Pier 36, a sprawling indoor events space in New York.

Up next was a crying Lady Gaga, minus her trademark peroxide blonde hair and make-up, dressed in a tomboyish baseball cap marked "Dope," for a first performance of an eponymous song that she delivered in a haunting, melancholic tone while playing the piano.

Pictures later showed the enigmatic artist, well-known for unpredictable behavior, scantily clad and in an apparently distressed state on stage, with fans reaching up to touch her.

Hosted by actor Jason Schwartzman and musician-comedian Reggie Watts, the show's creative director Spike Jonze said before the event that he wanted to stay true to the video-sharing website's experimental origins.

The 90-minute affair may have split the Internet audience down the middle, judging by comments posted on Twitter, in which some people complained of censorship, when the show's live stream stopped several times.

The Breakthrough Act award, however, seemed to stay loyal to Jonze's aim, as it was taken home by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, whose featured video was shot for $5,000 and placed on YouTube, leading to great success.

The inaugural YouTube Music Awards joins a variety of industry events such as the Grammys, MTV Video Music Awards and American Music Awards, entering the fray at a time when people increasingly turn to the Internet for streaming and on-demand programming.

Unlike the established awards ceremonies, YouTube's event organizers said the nominees and winners were tallied in a distinctly Internet-age manner, based on "viewership, subscriber, and/or engagement metrics."