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Main / Runaway bride indicted on a felony charge

Jun 16, 2005, 01:03 PM

Well there ya go...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8239889/

ATLANTA - Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks made a deal with a company that is pitching a television movie about her life -- annoying officials who spent thousands of dollars searching for her.


And I'm sure the bitch will come out looking like a hero.

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Main / Audio of the runaway bride's call to her fiance

Jun 05, 2005, 05:26 PM

Disgusting.

Scary how so many women can still get the water-works going even when they know they're lying.

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Main / Female Boxer wants to Fight Man

Jun 02, 2005, 06:05 AM

I wonder what the reaction would be after the fight. Seems like it would be another no-win situation for the guy. If he wins, would he have to listen to "oh, you beat up a poor little woman. Big deal."? Or if he loses would he be emasculated & shamed?

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Main / Runaway bride indicted on a felony charge

May 26, 2005, 06:41 AM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157601,00.html

Wilbanks has offered to pay $13,250 to the city of Duluth to help offset the costs its police officers incurred in the three-day search. Lassetter said the city is prepared to accept that offer, if it is made in writing, and would write off the rest -- about $30,000.

WTF!!!

Why is this a NEGOTIATION!? She broke the law.  That shouldn't allow anyone the position to just sit back & make an offer. If she doesn't get jail time then IMO she should at least get a few years probation, several months of community service AND pay back twice (or more) the amount of expense she wasted.

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Main / Runaway bride indicted on a felony charge

May 25, 2005, 10:06 AM

So, wonder if she'll get a book deal after all the dust settles?

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Main / What's with women and computer games?

May 06, 2005, 12:51 PM

Nice. I can't wait to down a few beers tonight as well.  

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Main / What's with women and computer games?

May 06, 2005, 12:32 PM

Attention wasn't in all caps after "...generate the attention". So now you lost me.   :lol:

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Main / What's the matter? Can't handle equality?

May 06, 2005, 12:22 PM

It gets better as you get older.  Women start losing their looks, and men start getting richer.  Those are the reciprocal things.  When you're 20, you have no money and women are at the peak of their game.  When you're 30, it starts slowly evening out, and when you're 40, women start decaying rapidly and a lot of men start exploding with money.  A lot of older women are bitter because of that.  But they had their day in the sun when they were 25, while men were struggling.  That's something that they'll never acknowledge.

I'm seeing this first hand right now. It's amazing how easy it is to get a date when she learns you have a good job, nice home, & no kids. I seem to be much more attractive to women now that I've hit a good finacial stride. Too bad none of them have been worth a damn. But then again I'm not emotionally available either.

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Main / Mothers' work seen valued at $130,000/year

May 02, 2005, 11:09 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7709166/


Study: Stay-at-home moms deserve high pay


Updated: 1:03 p.m. ET May 2, 2005NEW YORK - The old adage that "a mother's work is never done" remains as true now as ever. Today's stay-at-home moms are learning what their predecessors always knew -- they'd be making a lot of money doing their job outside the home.


Just in time for Mother's Day, an informal study conducted by Web site Salary.com shows that stay-at-home moms would earn an average of $131,471 annually, including overtime, if they received a paycheck.

A sampling of the 5.4 million stay-at-home mothers were asked to come up with job titles that fit a general description of their daily routines.

The titles -- which reflected the most time-consuming parts of their day -- include day-care center teacher, van driver, housekeeper, cook, chief executive officer, nurse and general maintenance worker, the survey showed.

Of course, a stay-at-home parent does not work typical office hours. The hypothetical median salary is based on a 100-hour work week and assumes caring for at least two children of school age.

"The importance of this calculation or this estimate is just calling attention to the fact that being a stay-at-home mom is not a cop out, it's not the woman's way out of the work force and it's not a job of no value," said Bill Coleman, senior vice president of compensation at Salary.com. "There is a lot of value there, and some would say it's even priceless."

Salary.com, which tracks what jobs pay, suggested that the annual base pay for a 40-hour stay-at-home mom's workweek would be $43,461. Mothers would earn an additional $88,009 a year for 60 hours of overtime each week.

"I think I should definitely make that much," said Joanna Butti, who stays at home to care for her twin boys. "It's a hard job."

Coleman said feedback on the figure was mixed. Some felt mothers deserved more, some less. In general, though, many were pleased to see a figure above $100,000.

"Stay-at-home moms are enthusiastic and upbeat about their jobs, they didn't seem to need external validation," Coleman told Reuters. "They were also happy that they were getting attention, and that somebody was out there telling the world that what they do is valuable, and perhaps more valuable than one would expect."

Mothers said you cannot attach a figure to the time spent with their kids.

"I'm giving 150 percent of myself to them many hours a day," said Debra Miley, who stays home with two-year old daughter Olivia and four-month old son Gregory. "You cannot attach a dollar value to the time that you spend nurturing your child if you're lucky enough to be a stay-at-home mom."

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Main / I-95 never looked so good! Male positive DV Billboards

Apr 28, 2005, 05:07 AM

Nice!  

Lets hope it gets people thinking.

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Main / Chivalry Now

Apr 10, 2005, 07:08 AM

Interesting thread on chivalry over at the askmen.com boards at the moment -

http://p094.ezboard.com/faskmenfrm1.showMessage?topicID=86746.topic

raj52 posted this and is getting a lot of heat for it  :roll:

Thats awesome! I'm saving this.

Looks like a lot of good points are made there to back it up as well. You gotta love how almost every female post on that thread is just some one-liner personal attack.

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Main / Why Women's Studies Departments are Worse Than Worthless

Apr 05, 2005, 06:51 AM

Nice find. I graduated from Charlotte and didn't even know there was a wimmin's studies program until reading this. Long way to go but this is still good news though. Hopefully NC will drop it's funding for this crap soon.

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Main / UNH tolerates feminist calls for violence.

Mar 23, 2005, 01:43 PM

Would have been nice if you could have gotten a few pictures of this. Obviously you couldn't walk around waving a camera but if you had say a camera phone or something easy to hide...

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Main / Men's rights even more important to me now that....

Mar 23, 2005, 06:32 AM

Congrats, Mary!  :wink:

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Main / Greed - Money is fun, especially when someone else earned it

Mar 22, 2005, 06:48 AM

Ditto. Being amused at the shallowness of some people does not automatically equate to insecurity concerning what these people are being shallow about.

This is an attempt to discredit valid observations by discrediting the observers.

So true. And it's a shame how many men out there are still silenced by these pathetic attacks.