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Dukes of Hazzards' John Schneider facing jail time

Sasha Savitsky
Fox News
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:55 UTC
John Schneider
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Actor John Schneider (right) and wife Elly Castle arrives to the premiere of "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" at Universal City Walk on October 1, 2007 in Universal City, California.
John Schneider may be facing jail time if he doesn't pay up.

The "Dukes of Hazzard" star's estranged wife took the actor to court over unpaid spousal support, according to a report from The Blast.

The gossip site reports that Schneider owes his ex Elvira Castle $185,000 and she filed documents to ask for the maximum punishment of nearly three months in jail.

Schneider reportedly argued in court that he has "been willing, but unable" to pay the $18,911 per month that he is required to pay Castle.


Comment: That's a lot of soy lattes.


According to the 57-year-old, he "tried his very best and has used his best efforts to earn a regular, reasonable, steady income" since his ex filed for divorce in 2014.

Comment: Isn't it a bit strange that someone could be made the debt slave of another human being, and failure to pay could lead to prison? Hmm. Weird.

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12yo female student in custody after shooting classmates in LA


RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:42 UTC
Salvador Castro Middle School
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Salvador Castro Middle School, Los Angeles
A female student is in custody after opening fire at a middle school in Los Angeles, California. Police said at least two students were seriously injured.

Salvador Castro Middle School in Westlake North went into lockdown Thursday morning, with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) warning of a shooting in progress.

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Government should do more to help people: poll results surprise

Charles S. Clark
Government Executive
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:17 UTC
America USA flag statue of liberty
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In a clear break from recent polling, a new survey has found that as many as 58 percent of Americans want the government to do more to "solve problems and help meet the needs of people."

Only 38 percent agreed with the statement that "Government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals," the NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll found.

The 58 percent support for government marks an all-time high during the 20 years the question has been posed, analysts noted. The poll was taken nationwide Jan. 13-17, in the run-up to the recent three-day government shutdown.
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Being a cuckhold is good for you, study suggests

Ian Kerner
CNN
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:04 UTC
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Acting on adulterous fantasies may strengthen a relationship, as counterintuitive as it may sound.
In our current political climate, the term "cuck" -- short for "cuckservative" -- has become an insult of the so-called alt-right, aimed at men they view as spineless and emasculated. The slur has its roots in the concept of cuckolding, or having an adulterous partner.


Comment: From "cuckservative"? Umm, no. The euphemism was inspired by the Cuckoo bird, who would lay its eggs in another bird's nest.


But, according to a recent study by David Ley, Justin Lehmiller and the writer Dan Savage, acting on cuckolding fantasies can be a largely positive experience for many couples, and hardly a sign of weakness.


Comment: That stretches even our credulity.


References to cuckolding appear in literature as early as the 13th century, usually in the form of male characters who fear that their child has been sired by another man during an act of infidelity.


Comment: No. A cuckhold is a person who knowingly raises the child of an adulterous affair. It's not just someone who "fears that their child has been sired by another man."


Today, however, cuckolding has become fetishized into a powerful sexual fantasy for some men, who get aroused by the idea of their romantic partner engaging in sexual activity with someone else.


Comment: We wonder how that happened.


Women also share this fantasy, but less so than men."This fantasy has been around as long as marriage and sexuality," said Ley, whose book "Insatiable Wives" addresses cuckolding in heterosexual couples. "But we're hearing more and more about it these days, and more people are rejecting the social stigma against this fantasy."

Comment: Words fail us. They truly do.

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But, muh wage gap! Carrie Gracie slams "toxic" BBC for gender pay gap "lies"


RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:09 UTC
Carrie Gracie
© AFP
BBC journalist Carrie Gracie
The BBC is stumbling towards a "Greek tragedy" over its lies about the corporation's gender pay gap, according to Carrie Gracie, who told MPs the atmosphere at the broadcasting house has become "toxic."

During a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, the former China editor said the BBC risks indelibly tarnishing its reputation as it falls short of admitting the pay discrepancy that exists between its male and female staff.


Comment: Admit your predetermined guilt, BBC. The pitch forks are coming.


"Yet the BBC lives or dies by its reputation for telling the truth," Gracie said.

She was giving evidence to MPs during her grievance process after she resigned last month in protest over what she called the "secretive and illegal pay culture," which she detailed in an open letter published in the Times.

It came after a report found that two-thirds of those earning more than £150,000 ($213,800) a year at the BBC were men.

Comment:



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More gender insanity: Manchester museum removes famous Waterhouse painting because it has nude nymphs


RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:52 UTC
hylas nymphs
© Manchester City Art Gallery / manchesterartgallery.org
Reinforcing gender stereotypes?
An art gallery in Manchester, England has taken down a painting that features naked women, ostensibly to spark discussion amid the #MeToo movement. Critics say it's simply censorship.

On Friday, the Manchester Art Gallery announced it would be temporarily removing a painting from the 1890s in order to "prompt conversation about how we display and interpret artwork" during a time when several sexual harassment scandals are in the headlines.

"The gallery exists in a world full of intertwined issues of gender, race, sexuality and class which affect us all. How could artworks speak in more contemporary, relevant ways?" the gallery's statement reads.

John William Waterhouse's 1896 painting Hylas and the Nymphs depicts a scene from Greek Mythology where Nomia, a water nymph, lures Hylas, one of Heracles' companions, to his watery grave. The seven mythical creatures in the painting are all shown as naked women.

The painting used to hang in a room called "In Pursuit of Beauty," which features paintings of beautiful women, some of whom are represented without any clothing.


Comment: How best to make art speak in a "contemporary, relevant" way? Remove beauty.


"This gallery presents the female body as either a 'passive decorative form' or a 'femme fatale'. Let's challenge this Victorian fantasy!" the museum stated in the announcement.


Comment: Arguably all objects depicted in art are presented in a passive, decorative form. Free the apples! Free the flowers! Free the stern, unsmiling portraits!

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Police find over 4 tonnes of stolen oranges packed into two cars in Spain

Marlene Lenthang
The Daily Mail
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:29 UTC
stolen oranges
© Emergencias Sevilla
Police arrested five people for stealing 4.4tonnes of oranges from a nearby town
Five people have been arrested for stealing 4.4tonnes of oranges, which they squeezed into two cars.

The fruit robbery ignited a police car chase when local Seville police became suspicious of the three vehicles travelling together in a close line.

When the vehicles spotted the police they made a 'sharp' turn, causing police to pursue the cars on a dirt road to track down the group.

In one van a couple traveled with their adult son. In the second, two brothers traveled together. Both were packed with with massive amounts of oranges in sacks.
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Inclusion on Forbes' rich list 'now seen as toxic' by wealthy Russians

Marc Bennetts
The Guardian
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:13 UTC
Roman Abramovich
© Alastair Grant/AP
Roman Abramovich was estimated to have lost $60m from his $9bn fortune in the 24 hours after the ‘Putin list’ was published.
Wealthy Russians now view inclusion on the Forbes list of the world's richest people as toxic, rather than a cause for bragging rights, the magazine has said, after the US treasury department used it to compile its own "name and shame" list of Kremlin-linked oligarchs.

RBK, a Russian newspaper, reported on Wednesday that the business people included on the "Putin list" had lost a combined total of $1.06bn (£750m) in the 24 hours after its publication.

The biggest losses were reportedly incurred by Vagit Alekperov, the owner of Lukoil, Russia's biggest privately owned oil company, who lost $226m. Alekperov's total wealth is estimated by Forbes at more than $14bn. Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club, lost $60m from his total fortune of about $9bn, RBK reported, using figures compiled by Forbes.

"The Forbes list has been transformed from a list of vanity into a list of toxicity," wrote Nikolai Mazurin, the editor-in-chief of Forbes' Russian edition. He complained that some wealthy Russians who had previously been happy to speak to the magazine were now giving it the cold shoulder.
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Moscow court convicts ex-governor with ties to Aleksey Navalny of large-scale bribery


RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:27 UTC
Nikita Belykh
© Maksim Blinov / Sputnik
Former governor Nikita Belykh is being escorted to the court room
A court in Moscow has convicted Nikita Belykh, a former governor of Russia's Kirov Region, of large-scale bribery over a 2016 incident, in which he was detained while accepting €400,000 in cash from businessmen.

The ruling on Belykh's conviction was announced in Presnensky District Court on Thursday afternoon. The sentence is expected to be pronounced later in the day, with prosecutors demanding 10 years in prison and a 100 million ruble fine ($1.75 million) for the ex-official.

The case against Belykh began in June 2016, after the then-governor was detained in the process of receiving a €400,000 (over $440,000) cash bribe in a Moscow restaurant. Investigators suspected the bribe was intended as payment for including two local companies - a ski factory and a forest-management firm - in a federal investment program as priority projects. During the investigation, more instances of bribery were uncovered, bringing the total amount of received funds to €600,000 ($745,000).
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UK watchdog warns British values being 'undermined' by Islamic extremists


RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:21 UTC
schoolchildren
© Klaus Vedfelt / Getty
British values are being "actively undermined" by Islamic extremists using schools as a means of "indoctrinating impressionable minds," the chief of UK watchdog Ofsted warns.

Amanda Spielman, head of Ofsted, is calling on teachers not to shy away from reproaching religious fundamentalists who are trying to brainwash pupils and cut them off from society.

"Ofsted inspectors are increasingly brought into contact with those who want to actively pervert the purpose of education," she is expected to tell a Church of England school conference on Thursday.

"Under the pretext of religious belief, they use education institutions, legal and illegal, to narrow young people's horizons, to isolate and segregate, and in the worst cases to indoctrinate impressionable minds with extremist ideology."

Comment: One wonders just what British "values" are being undermined. Perhaps the values that led to colonialism, slavery, genocide, class warfare and xenophobia? Plenty of elite Brits would hate for those values to go away.

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