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[wa3zrm]

Saratoga Woman's Late Husband's Ashes, Death Certificate Stolen During Burglary
NBC Bay Area ^ |

Sheriff's deputies are seeking suspects in connection with a burglary, after an 83-year-old Saratoga woman reported a box filled with her late husband's ashes missing Friday.
Around 11:35 a.m., deputies responded to the 10000 block of Howen Drive for a report of an interrupted burglary, according to sheriff's officials.
When deputies arrived, deputies learned the victim had arrived home and saw two young men running away from the residence and get into a cream-colored four-door sedan, containing a male driver, sheriff's officials said.
The vehicle was last seen driving southeast from the residence, toward Saratoga High School.
When the victim got inside her home, she discovered the suspects had taken a dark mahogany box containing the ashes of her late husband. The box also contained her husband's death certificate and four silver coins, sheriff's officials said.
The victim told deputies she is willing to forego prosecution in exchange for the box with her husband's ashes, according to sheriff's officials.
Sheriff's officials described the first suspect looked to be between 16 and 18 years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 155 pounds and with dark hair. He was wearing a dark gray jacket with a white t-shirt underneath and jeans.
The second suspect is described as a heavy-set man, between 16 and 18 years old, roughly 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 180 pounds and with light brown hair. He was wearing a blue shirt and long tan shorts, according to sheriff's deputies.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. Adam Guzman at (408) 868-6630 or the anonymous tip line at (408) 808-4431.

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How Can I Convince My 3-Year-Old They’re Transgender?

Dear Jane,
I’ve been in such a state of perpetual turmoil ever since giving birth. My child, pronoun “they”, is now 3-years-old. I have been mired in a heinous state of chronic depression because “they” do not want to play with girl’s toys. It destroys me that “they” might be another white CIS male, and another future agent of the patriarchy. That’s just not the type of lifestyle I can support or agree with. “Their” father has also been deeply despondent over our child’s reluctance to conform to our stance and ideals on gender. My husband identifies as gender neutral, and whenever “Xe” (my husbands current pronoun) witnesses our child playing with toy trucks and trains, it triggers “Xer” so hard that “Xe” crumbles into a quivering pile of inconsolable PTSD jitters.
My question is, how can I persuade my child to blossom into the fabulous transgender individual that I know in my heart “they” truly are? All I’ve ever wanted was a trans child, and the fact that “they” seem so drawn to boys toys and refuse to don the lovely dresses I so painstakingly choose for “them” just crushes my soul. What can I do to make “them” understand the harm that they inflict on our family through their identity as a CIS-gendered white male? Please Jane, help us, it’s tearing our family apart.

(Excerpt) Read more at everywomanweekly.com ...

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Helen Mirren says men putting their arm around their girlfriend’s shoulders looks like ‘ownership’

Dame Helen Mirren is not shy to speak her mind.
The Oscar-winning actress has taken aim at men who sling their arm over their girlfriend’s shoulders because it looks like ‘ownership’.
In an interview with the Mail On Sunday’s You Magazine, Dame Helen compared women to ‘toddlers in this modern world’ in the sense they were were still ‘trying to find their position in the age of sexual liberation, birth control, education and financial independence.’

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'Stolen' diamond surgically removed in Bangkok

The woman is believed to have stolen the six-carat diamond from a jewellery fair on Thursday by swapping it for a fake gemstone.
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Police said the woman initially denied involvement, but an X-ray revealed the diamond lodged inside her.
She was initially given laxatives, but when nature failed to take its course, a colonoscope was used to extract the gem.

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GRADE SCHOOL GIRLS in Germany Ordered to Cover Up – So As Not to Incite Muslim Refugees
Atlas Shrugs ^

Let’s review: American schools under Common Core are teaching our children the shahada (the Muslim declaration of faith inscribed on the black flag of jihad).
Schools in Europe will stop serving pork in schools to avoid offending Muslims.
Magazine editors in Europe are murdered in cold-blood because they ran cartoons of Muhammad.
An event we organized in Texas was the target of a mass murder attempt by jihadis because Muhammad was depicted.
I have a fatwa on my head for organizing the event.
And still more submission, more surrender is required. Just the way I was attacked for organizing an art event, these little girls will be accused of inciting the Muslim gangs that gang-rape and traffic infidel girls.
Chancellor Merkel has agreed to spend 6.7 billion on relocating close to 100,000 of these devout savages in Germany.

GRADE SCHOOL GIRLS in Germany Ordered to Cover Up – So As Not to Provoke Muslim Refugees,” September 8, 2015 (thanks to Gateway):
Parents of children at a Bavarian grade school were told to cover up their grade school girls so they won’t tempt the Muslim refugees in the gymnasium next door.

Parents were warned — “Miniskirts could lead to misunderstandings.”
The grade school sent a letter home this week.
The Local reported:

A school in Bavaria has sent a letter home to parents warning them not to let their daughters wear revealing blouses or short skirts, because emergency accommodation for refugees has been set up next to the gym.
A week ago emergency accommodation for 200 Syrian refugees was erected right next to the gym of Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium in Pocking, Bavaria, Die Welt reports.
The gym has been closed as a result, and PE lessons have been relocated to a nearby primary school, but the school is still worried about the refugees interacting with students.
So worried in fact that the headteacher recently sent out a letter to parents to give reassurance about extra security measures.
“For the refugees, access to the school gardens and buildings is strictly forbidden. The same goes for the school grounds during the day. The number of teachers on duty during breaks has been increased,” read the letter from headteacher Martin Thalhammer.
The letter goes on to give students instructions on how to deal with the situation:
“The Syrian citizens are mainly Muslims and speak Arabic. The refugees are marked by their own culture. Because our school is directly next to where they are staying, modest clothing should be adhered to, in order to avoid discrepancies. Revealing tops or blouses, short shorts or miniskirts could lead to misunderstandings.”
The letter has not been met favourably by some parents, but a local politician, who did not want to be named, told Die Welt the move was “absolutely necessary”.
“When Muslim teenage boys go to open air swimming pools, they are overwhelmed when they see girls in bikinis,” he said.
“These boys, who come from a culture where for women it is frowned upon to show naked skin, follow girls and bother them without realizing. Obviously this is concerning for us,” he continued.

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Theater Renames ‘Snow White’ Because the Word ‘Dwarf’ Is Too Offensive [Seven "Friends"!]

The production will be called “Snow White and her Seven Friends” instead. De Monfort Hall in Leicester, England, has announced that there will be no dwarves in its Snow White Christmas pantomime because the word “dwarf” is too offensive. The production will be called “Snow White and her Seven Friends” and feature child actors as the “friends,”
according to an article in the Leicester Mercury. Despite the fact that that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been around for approximately 9 million years, a spokeswoman for the theater insisted to the Mercury that the word “dwarf” is “generally not a word that people feel comfortable with” and that the play had to be changed.
But Warwick Davis, a dwarf actor who has appeared in movies including Harry Potter and Star Wars, told the Mercury that he’s suspicious of that explanation: “The profit margins for pantos are not very big and it’s obviously much cheaper to involve schoolchildren than it is to pay lots of professional short actors,” he said. Davis also said that, as a dwarf, he found the decision to eliminate dwarfs to be far more offensive than the word could ever be.

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[Burnsey]

In answer to the question - they probably paid for the cellphones themselves or their parents bought them.

FWIW, the average income in Kenya is about US$ 1,250.......

I hear ya and agree about the cellphones... but don't agree about the condoms! Any kid that goes to a public school today can get them for free without a parents knowledge. Don't we live in a wonderful country? Parents pay for the cellphones and kids get their condoms for free.

Or, any kid that goes to public school can have sex without a parent's knowledge.........condom dispensers in boy's and girl's bathrooms would be good......

[wa3zrm]

11 year olds here, don't buy their own cellphones....or condoms. Let Kenya pay for it then, if they have "the standard of living of some European countries."

I hear ya and agree about the cellphones... but don't agree about the condoms! Any kid that goes to a public school today can get them for free without a parents knowledge. Don't we live in a wonderful country? Parents pay for the cellphones and kids get their condoms for free.

[Andy105]

In answer to the question - they probably paid for the cellphones themselves or their parents bought them.

11 year olds here, don't buy their own cellphones....or condoms. Let Kenya pay for it then, if they have "the standard of living of some European countries."

[squeezyjohn]

11 year old Kenyans have cell phones? Who paid for those?

I'm not sure I like the tone of that quote! Not everybody in the huge continent of Africa is in poverty and living on handouts from charity ... there are quite a few countries with a similar standard of living to some European countries.

I know it's nice to put people and other populations in to pigeonholes so we don't have to think too hard ... but it can lead to misunderstandings.

In answer to the question - they probably paid for the cellphones themselves or their parents bought them.

[Snusdog]

11 year old Kenyans have cell phones? Who paid for those?

That is a very astute observation

.........We're obviously going to need another study

[Burnsey]

I wonder what they will call the game......

[Andy105]

11 year old Kenyans have cell phones? Who paid for those?

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Feds Spend $236,517 for Cellphone Game to Teach 11-Year-Old Kenyans How to Use Condoms
Washington Free Beacon ^

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending over $200,000 to create a mobile game that will teach young teens in Kenya to use condoms.
The game also seeks to “educate very young adolescents” about HIV and “harmful gender norms.”
“The overall goal of the proposed project is to contribute to reductions in HIV incidence among youth in sub- Saharan Africa,” according to the NIH grant. “The objective of our proposed study is to advance that goal by developing, building and pilot-testing an interactive electronic game for preadolescents that will be informed by socio-behavioral and pedagogical theories, evidence-based practice, and unique formative research on youth sexual culture in sub- Saharan Africa.”
The primary goal of the project is to “design and develop a mobile phone game for young Kenyans ages 11-14 focused on increasing age at sexual debut and condom use at first sex.”
The game will be tested on 60 young teens in western Kenya to see whether they are willing to play the game and to evaluate how much they like it.
Researchers believe the game could reduce unintended pregnancy, “challenge harmful gender norms and HIV stigma, and foster dialogue with parents and guardians.”
The study has cost taxpayers $236,517 so far.

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Judge Won't Divorce Straight Couple Because Gay Marriage Is Legal

"The conclusion reached by this Court is that Tennesseans have been deemed by the U.S. Supreme Court to be incompetent to define and address such keystone/central institutions such as marriage, and, thereby, at minimum, contested divorces," Atherton wrote in his decision last week.
"With the U.S. Supreme Court having defined what must be recognized as a marriage, it would appear that Tennessee’s judiciary must now await the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court last to what is not a marriage, or better stated, when a marriage is no longer a marriage," he added.

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