http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20050905.shtml
(After this point, she goes on a rant, that while justified, doesn't add any new or information or insight.)

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The man in the wilderness asked of me,
How many strawberries grow in the sea?
I answered him as I thought good,
As many red herrings as grow in the wood.
---Anonymous

Sickening. As long as we continue to treat soldiers like a necessary evil that should be kept from view, we will continue to have soldiers mistreated by the courts and society in general. People who oppose the war say "We love the troops, we just don't like this war". Heck, I say that. But when decision like this get made, it turns that statement into a lie.

Also, doesn't anyone find it extremely odd that drawing a picture of a gun or holding up your finger and saying "bang" or wearing a plastic axe with your halloween costume can get you suspended. Meanwhile, almost every game in the local arcade is a shoot-em-up. I remember the days of Pac Man and Asteroids and Space Invaders. Now there are mostly one-on-one karate games and shooting games. Hundreds of games on Playstation and X-Box concentrate on violence and death. What kind of fucked up message are we sending our children when we tell them that soldiers with weapons are so offensive that you will be removed from school for even drawing a picture of one, but it is OK to go home and blast away your opponents in a rousing game of Halo?

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We're drowning in our own wastes, down here. - Starhawk

Miserable bastards. I would have thought that the judgement couldn't have been made in his absence, let alone when he was absent because he was serving in the forces overseas. This sort of thing makes me sick.

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God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind I will never die!

*shakes head in disbelief*

That is so messed up it is beyond belief.

/Magnus

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I have not lost my mind, it is backed up somewhere on disc...

Again I am amazed (and disgusted) at the idiocy of others.

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"...it's a strange scientific revolution that seeks to establish its position in secondary school curricula before the research itself has been accomplished. But this obvious impediment is removed if the revolution is based on a redefinition of science rather than on new research." - an ID critic on "Wedge strategy"

"Disarming is for pussies who don't know how to properly hit the solar plexus." - Belphanior

I have no words to express how this disgusts me.

This is not the way to treat one of our soldiers.

This is par for the course in Michigan. What the mother asks for the mother gets 90% of the time and the man loses based on that fact that he is a man essentially. The laws are written to basically castrate him of any parental rights unless he live's a saints life and coughs up about 30% of every paycheck to the mother of the child for her to spend as she sees fit. (Say on crank and beer for example...)

I have seen drug abusing, do nothing, incompetent mothers retain their custody of children against honest, hard working, good fathers on no other grounds then that the state laws state that the mother is to be grossly favored.

Basically in MI a custody lawyer doesn't have to be very good at his job to win if he's on the lady's side of the arguement and in many cases the lady won't even need a lawyer. The judge will advocate for her of their own accord...

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Wook

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming:
WOW! What a ride!"

"Finish Your Beer... There are Sober People in China."

"take a look inside
it ends with your fear
to fall while falling with the fallen"
Project Pitchfork - Kaskade - Dance in the Air

This isn't sad, it's not even terrible. It is a travesty of justice. No offense to any of you women or moms out there, but unless the mother is living on the street, a junkie, or been arrested a thousand times, she will always get her way where the kids are concerned.

This custody case is sickening. It shows how much the government systems honor those that are forced to defend this country. I do say forced since if a person is in the active military, it's not a choice for them. Anyone not in the military has the choice.

I don't need to show the rewards they get. This article says it all.

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The goofy thing is that the pronounced bias in favour of women in family court is largely based on a falacious study that was not only methodologically flawed, but actually had mathematical errors in the data analysis...

http://www.abs-comptech.com/~aewhale/2020_000107_baddads_trans.html
http://www.public.asu.edu/~devra1/
http://archives.his.com/smartmarriages/1999-May/msg00008.html

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