jewsyonkersislam # 663 sex (love)...feminist excess ; most articles are edited

jewsyonkersislam # 663 sex (love)...feminist excess ; most articles are edited


Making money at any(???) price ;
In UK, prisoners watch porn on TV (disgusting) ;
Nude people too have right to privacy: Court
In this case I disagree with the court ; see below ;



Facebook's war on nipples (truthfully, I am absolutely pro-breasts, pro-nipples, pro-aerolas...on women - the biger and shaplier [natural], the better) ;


Sex can be absolutely unimportant to many (not to me ) ;

crimes against women increasing (all the fault of feminist nonsense -worldwide) ;
Woman has sex with her daughter's 14-year old boyfriend ;
Clint Eastwood (I like the old curmudgeon) ;
Sex on a beach in Dubai (and consequences) ;
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Dec 29, 2008
Making money at any price
By SHMULEY BOTEACH








Our community (he means the Jews, but I, a Roman Catholic, am not so restrictive...I blame ALL Americans) idolizes people with money. Their names are on our buildings; they get the most aliyas in shul; they are feted at large communal banquets. Our kids are watching. They see that rabbis, social workers and teachers struggling to get by while Wall Street traders have their names in bright lights.
It took Gavi and Rivka Holtzberg being murdered by terrorists in Mumbai for Chabad emissaries to finally get the recognition they deserve as heroes of the Jewish people. The same is true of Israeli soldiers, who seem to come back into the American Jewish consciousness only when Israel is at war with Hamas in Gaza. The rest of the time we go back to what truly matters - that our kids get into Harvard.
IF WE have learned one thing from the Bernard Madoff scandal, it's that the Jewish community is in need of new heroes. No longer can we look up only to those who are billionaires, even if they are significant philanthropists. If we continue to highlight money men as Jewish role models, then we create the conditions for more Jews to cut corners to make a buck at any cost so that they receive the recognition of their peers (lawyers of ALL faiths are particularly affected by this predicament).
Our community must stand first and foremost for godly values. Everything else is secondary.
From the age of 16 I wanted to be a rabbi, and shortly after my 22nd birthday, I had the honor of becoming the Rebbe's emissary at Oxford University. My wife and I worked our guts out to build Jewish life at the university, which meant spending about half my time fund-raising, about the norm for the average Chabad emissary. After a few years, my students graduated and went on to lucrative careers. They had none of the money problems I did. Some of them may have worked a quarter as hard but got paid 10 times as much, especially if they went to work on Wall Street.IT DIDN'T seem fair (life can be like that). As Chabad emissaries, where was our security? I watched many of my rabbinic colleagues borrowing money just to pay for their childrens' weddings, and this after a lifetime of hard work. Where was the justice? But what sustained me in communal work was the fact that in Chabad the models at the top of the communal ladder were not the money men but the shluchim. To be an emissary of the Rebbe is seen as life's highest honor (although even in Chabad these days the money men are beginning to assume a preeminence that they didn't enjoy before). We see the same model in the settler movement in Israel. The heroes are those who sacrifice by living in dangerous areas where they face incessant terror attack. Yes, settler yeshivot and institutions are assisted by millionaire philanthropists, but it is still the settlers themselves who are the role models of the movement. This is why both Chabad and the settler groups continue to attract strong pools of talent rather than losing their most gifted souls to technology startups or making yerida to make more money in America. It all comes down to whom you hold up as heroes.
LOOK, I'M not naïve. I understand that money makes the world go round. Without cash, the shuls can't open, the schools would close and Jews would be returned to the impoverished life we suffered for centuries.
But there has to be a balance(!!!). Surely we can elevate those who work for the communal good for little financial reward to positions of glory in our community so our children get the message that righteousness(!!!) rather than wealth is what Jews most respect. Can anyone reading this article name five famous contemporary Jewish thinkers? Can you name any lawyers celebrated for defending Israel other than Alan Dershowitz? Can you name 10 famous Jewish educators?
When the Lubavitcher Rebbe died, I wrote an article about his life on the plane back from his funeral. I called it "The colossus and me" and began by mentioning that what I first noticed about the Rebbe were the holes in his shoes. Here was a man utterly divorced from materialism, even though he was one of the most influential Jews of the 20th century. The same would be said of people like the Dalai Lama. Wouldn't you be surprised if you heard that the robe he was wearing was Dolce and Gabbana? The fact is, saintly individuals don't care much for things. Those who do are possessed of an inner emptiness(!!!). They stuff every Rolex watch and Chanel suit into the black hole of their existence in the hope of filling up the chasm in their lives. But since these things are ultimately valueless, it can only create a shopaholic addiction that is neither satisfying nor fulfilling.
WHAT I am saying is that our community's obsession with material wealth bespeaks a spiritual crisis that can only be resolved by returning to our core spiritual commitments of family, community and tradition. We need to attend more classes and fewer shopping malls. We need to tell our kids that it's more important to us that they act righteously than succeed professionally. And we need to recommit ourselves to our families, putting the bedroom before the boardroom and the family dining table before the office desk.
After the Holocaust, many in the Jewish community concluded that money is the best guarantor of continuity and security. If we were wealthy, we could lobby for Israel and build vital communal institutions that would lead to a rebirth.
This notion was only partially correct, because without emphasizing to our children that the Jewish people stand for tradition, ethics and a holy way of life, we stood the risk of being corrupted by wealth and coming to see money as the end rather than the means.
Once you remove morality from the picture (you lose morale, social cohesion and), everything is lost. Once we produce billionaires without values, there is no telling where their greed will stop. So you can wake up one morning and discover that everything you lived for - membership in the most expensive country club, access to the most exclusive investment vehicle - has vanished in a puff of hot air. Both figuratively and literally.
The writer is the founder of This World: The Jewish Values Network. In January he will publish his new book The Kosher Sutra: Eight Sacred Secrets to Rediscovering Desire and Reigniting Passion for Life (HarperOne). www.shmuley.com


In UK, prisoners watch porn on TV

LONDON: Believe it or not, some of Britain’s top paedophiles and perverts are watching porn on television in prisons.
According to the Sun, these criminals rush back to their rooms each night to see an explicit show called Sexcetera. Even notorious inmates such as Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe and Rachel Nickell’s killer Robert Napper are known to tune in to scenes featuring bizarre fetishes, sex toys, wife swapping and sado-masochism.
Bosses at the Berkshire prison hospital granted the controversial perk to most of the 270 patients when the old terrestrial TV system was upgraded with digital Freeview boxes, providing 23 channels.
Almost all the patients have TVs in their private rooms -- often bought out of benefits paid for by the taxpayer. A Broadmoor source said: "At 10pm it’s as quiet as a morgue in the hospital. Everyone disappears off to their rooms to get an hour of porn fed in by the bosses."
Other inmates able to watch the show include cannibal killer Peter Bryan and Soho bomber David Copeland.




Times of India
Nude people too have right to privacy: Court
1 Jan 2009, 0101 hrs IST, AP


MADISON, WISCONSIN: A state appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a person who is voluntarily nude in the presence of another still has privacy rights against being secretly videotaped, in a decision that bolsters Wisconsin’s video voyeur law.
The ruling upholds the felony guilty plea of Mark Jahnke, who videotaped his girlfriend while she was naked and while they were having sex. He argued in his appeal that because the woman agreed to be naked around him, she had no reasonable expectation of privacy.
The department of justice (a cesspool of feminist nonsense) argued that shared intimacy does not give a person the right to film another unknowingly(its just like taping a phone conversation: its OK if you're one of the speakers,so it should be OK). Jahnke’s attorney, Michael Herbert of Madison, argued that the court had found in a previous case that an expectation of privacy existed when a nude person reasonably believed he or she was “secluded from the presence of others.”
In April 2007, Jahnke pleaded guilty to illegally making a nude recording. He was sentenced to three years’ probation and six months in jail, which was put on hold pending his appeal. Jahnke’s ex-girlfriend said she became suspicious when she saw a flash of a red light from beneath a pile of clothes in her bedroom. She then complained to police


Facebook's war on nipples
(truthfully, I am absolutely pro-breasts, pro-nipples, pro-aerolas...on women)

Should Kelli Roman's breastfeeding image be permitted on Facebook?
Yes
51% 65,659
No
49% 62,141

(feminist nonsense and older and deluded feminists who do not believe a woman's place is at home with her children -and they are absolutely wrong)

The breast-feeding wars have long followed a familiar pattern. A woman gets thrown off a plane for nursing her toddler; she sues Delta. Barbara Walters says sitting next to a breast-feeding woman made her "uncomfortable"; ABC's headquarters get surrounded by 200 women staging a "nurse-in." Maggie Gyllenhaal is photographed nursing her daughter in public; tabloids rush to either praise her as a role model or tell her to throw a blanket over her shoulder.
The sides have been distinct: breast-feeding advocates insist that women should be able to nurse anytime, anyplace, while opponents use words like discretion and discomfort. But the latest battle apparently has nothing to do with the best way to nourish a baby or the boundaries between private and public. It's about the nipples, stupid.
Facebook has drawn a line in the sand by removing any photos it(!!!) deems obscene, including those containing a fully exposed breast, which the site defines as "showing the nipple or areola(best things to show)." In other words, plunging necklines or string bikinis are fine — just no nips(stupidity today). The purging of bare-boob pics began last summer and has swept up, alongside any girls gone wild, a growing number of proud — and very ticked-off — breast feeders.
On Dec. 27, some 11,000 protesters held a virtual nurse-in by uploading breast-feeding photos onto their Facebook profiles, and 20 or so women showed up at the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., to breast-feed there. By Dec. 30, more than 85,000 members had joined a Facebook group called "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!"
The group, founded by San Diego mom Kelli Roman, urges Facebook to change its obscenity policy. "We expect you to realize that nursing moms everywhere have a right to show pictures of their babies eating, just like bottle-fed babies have a right to be seen," their petition reads. "In an effort to appease the closed-minded, you are only serving to be detrimental to babies, women, and society."
Assisting their cause is the Topfree Equal Rights Association (TERA), a Canadian group that has started posting on its website photos that breast feeders claim were removed from Facebook. One or two are vaguely pornographic shots of naked women holding babies, but most are straightforward and innocent.
"There are two problems," says Paul Rapoport, coordinator for TERA, which has been advocating that women should not be penalized for going topless since 1997. "First, Facebook removes photos arbitrarily. Second, its policy clearly implies that visible nipples or areolas always make photos of women obscene. Facebook stigmatizes breast-feeding and demeans women."
Facebook counters that it is far from the only organization steering clear of Areola City. "Could I place an ad related to breast-feeding that showed a woman breast-feeding a child but exposed her full breast in TIME or on your website?" asks spokesman Barry Schnitt. "During the course of this protest, I've called many media organizations and asked them this question. Not a single one has said yes."
The Facebook furor has brought up a bizarre cultural issue. We're all for breasts — the more cleavage the better. But the second a nipple is visible or we are reminded of nipples by the sight of a baby attached to one, all hell breaks loose.
When a tabloid website catches a star like Britney Spears, Keira Knightley or Tara Reid in a red-carpet "nip slip," traffic goes through the roof, as Web surfers click to catch a glimpse of the forbidden bit of skin. (See the 50 best websites of 2008.)
It is perhaps understandable that we'd be so enflamed by the sight of women's nipples because we see them so rarely. Barbie dolls don't have nipples. Magazines routinely airbrush out nipples on fully clothed (but presumably chilly) models.
In the past decade, some 40 states have passed pro-breast-feeding legislation. Rapoport, however, says he considers such laws a "two-edged deal because it exempts nursing women from prosecution but reaffirms the sense that a topless woman is obscene without a baby."
Meanwhile, men's nipples aren't a problem. Recent photos of President-elect Barack Obama walking shirtless on a beach were greeted with puns about how he is "fit to be President," "buff-bodied" and "chiseled." (See pictures of Presidents at the beach.)
And perhaps the surest sign that "pregnant man" Thomas Beatie has been accepted as a man — even though he still has female sex organs and the ability to deliver a baby — is the fact that his nipples, the same ones he had when he was a woman, are suddenly O.K. to look at. They are acceptable features for the cover of a book, the pages of a magazine —and the profile photos for the Facebook groups supporting him.






Sex can be absolutely unimportant to many

30.12.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru

Scientists proved several years ago that people’s sexual appetites come from their genes. Some inherit a high libido from their ancestors and want to have sex every day (and sometimes more often, like me for 30 years), others have this wish once a week, some others are asexual and can live without sex very well.
Libido can vary depending on various circumstances. As a rule, people want to have more sex when they go on holiday. In general, libido remains stable all the time. If it decreases considerably, it is most likely a consequence of health problems.
The sexual appetite, or libido, is directly connected with the hormonal background of an individual, with male sex hormones, or with testosterone, to be more precise. If there is a lot of testosterone, a man’s sexual desire will be higher than the average. It is generally believed that such men are well-built, short-tempered, hairy on the body and hairless on the head.
The level of testosterone decreases with age, but the process is difficult to notice until the age of 60. It is difficult to accelerate the process, although it is quite possible. One would need to put on weight, drink a lot of alcohol, let others hit you between the legs all the time and take hormonal medications(like some faggots*, transgenders...).
Testosterone is responsible for women’s libido too. The more testosterone a woman has, the more she thinks about sex. The female hormonal background is not as stable as that of men. It depends on the menstrual cycle(cyclicity, confusing and confused), pregnancy, child labor and climax. If a woman complains of low libido, she will have to consult a doctor. However, the first thing that a woman must think of in such cases is her morning after pills. Those women, who take birth control pills on a regular basis, have a much lower level of the male sex hormone in the blood.
Libido is much more complicated that it may seem at first sight. A certain amount of testosterone is not enough - the brain needs to react adequately to it. It goes without saying that the brain reaction will not be adequate at all if a person suffers from serious stresses or depressions.
If there are no health problems and the level of testosterone is fine, but there is no sexual desire anyway, one has to think of moral issues. Desire may often depend on a person’s attitude to sex and his or her relations with their partner.


Times of India...crimes against women increasing



NEW DELHI: A secure environment for women appears to be a far cry in India. Crime against the fairer sex is steadily increasing, and less and less number of the accused are getting convicted. National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data tells this sorry tale, prevailing for the last three years.
In 2005, a whopping 1.55 lakh cases of crime against women were registered across India, but convictions were recorded in only 30,826 cases - a mere 19.8%. In 2006, case registration jumped to 1.64 lakh, but convictions declined to 28,998, or 17.5%. Continuing the trend, more than 1.85 lakh cases were registered in 2007, but the trial courts found the charge sustainable only in 27,612 cases, a meagre 14.9%.
In Delhi, where working women's security has been a concern, conviction in these cases remained lower than national average in all three years - 10.8% in 2005, 12.4% in 2006 and 13.4% in 2007.
Andhra Pradesh remained at the top of the list in terms of number of cases relating to crime against women -- 20,819 in 2005, 21,484 in 2006 and 24,738 in 2007. And there were convictions in 5,353 cases in 2005 (25.7%), 3,579 in 2006 (16.6%) and 3,911 in 2007 (15.8%).
Such mismatch between cases registered and conviction surely casts an ominous shadow on functioning of the justice delivery system at the lower levels, but importantly, it also raises a serious question about the ability of the police to conduct proper investigation and prepare a watertight case (if there really is one and the woman isn't just playing a game)).
In Maharashtra, the conviction rate remained abysmally low at around 4% in each of these three years - 616 of 13,370 cases in 2005, 584 of 14,452 in 2006 and 597 of 14,924 in 2007.
This trend negates the consistent efforts of the Supreme Court to sensitise judges to the heinous crime that scars the victim for rest of her life. It had in numerous rulings said: "Courts must hear the loud cry for justice by the society in cases of heinous crime of rape of innocent helpless girls of tender age, and respond by imposition of proper sentence(that is true -YET... who or what is really and overwhelmingly at fault other than feminist nonsense, worldwide)."
This passionate appeal of the apex court through its ruling appears to have gone unheeded even in Delhi, where the conviction rate in these three years has remained low despite the city registering an increase in such cases from 10.8% in 2005 to 12.4% in 2006 to 13.4% in 2007.
While 4,351 cases of crime against women were registered in 2005, the trial courts recorded conviction only in 473 cases. In 2006, as many as 4,544 cases were registered, but conviction was recorded in 565 cases and in 2007, 4,804 cases were registered, while courts found the police case true in 646 cases.
West Bengal was another state, like Maharashtra, that recorded very low conviction rate, or as statistics tell us, the accused went scot-free. If in 2005 the conviction rate was 6% of the cases registered, it recorded a small increase to 7.8% in 2006 before falling to 2.8% in 2007.
With these statistics staring at us, another missive of the Supreme Court to the trial courts has fallen in deaf ears. It had said: "Protection of society and deterring the criminal was the avowed the object of the law and that was required to be achieved through appropriate sentencing policy."
But, if the police does not prepare a water tight case, there is little the courts can do to bring the culprits to book.
Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu appear to have somewhat acceptable(??? more politically correct nonsense fostered by the feminists and their male allies ?) levels of conviction rate. In UP, 2005 saw a conviction rate of 43.5%, but it steadily declined(what is this, affirmative action in conviction and sentencing ? Disgusting.) to 41.5% in 2006 and 32.9% in 2007. Tamil Nadu, which had recorded a conviction rate of 53.5% in 2005, also showed a downward trend - 45% in 2006 and 27% in 2007.


Vigilante Killer Ellie Nesler Dies ;
US soldiers fight to save their marraiges ;
struggle to be equal - mentally ill ;
Gays (lesbians...) are so STOOPID : 'courageous' director who committed suicide ;
civil unions
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Woman has sex with her daughter's 14-year old boyfriend

CLAYMONT, Del. - December 29, 2008 (WPVI) -- Police in Delaware have arrested a woman they say had sex with her teenage daughter's friend.38-year-old Juli Faunce, a resident of the unit block of Commonwealth Avenue in the Overlook Colony Apartments, has been charged with four counts of rape in the 3rd degree.On Sunday December 28, police were called to a home in the Overlook Colony Apartments. When they arrived, officers spoke with Faunce who said a neighborhood teen had allegedly forced her 14-year-old daughter to have sex with him.Police contacted the boy's mother who said she had just learned that her son had sex. However, the boy's mother said her son had sex with Juli Faunce - not her teenage daughter. Police say Faunce had sex with the boy on at least two occasions in November while he was "staying the night" in her apartment. Faunce later learned that her daughter had also engaged in a sexual relationship with the boy. She called police Sunday to report the teen had forced himself on her daughter, because they say she was unhappy with the news of her daughter's new relationship. Faunce has been arraigned and released on $40,000 bail. She was ordered to have no contact with the victim and also ordered to not have any teenage boys in her home for any period of time.


Clint Eastwood
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Clint Eastwood doesn't know if he's a legend.
"Maybe, what is it?" he asks, before making a reference to a line from director John Ford's "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." But for more than 50 years, he's appeared on the screen and behind the camera. His film credits include "Dirty Harry," "Every Which Way But Loose" and the three "Man With No Name" Westerns. He owns four Oscars -- two for direction of "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby" and best picture wins for those two films -- and he's been nominated for six others. His most recent contribution to the film world is "Gran Torino." In the film, which Eastwood also directed, he stars as Walt Kowalski, a Korean War veteran who is forced by immigrant neighbors to challenge his prejudices. Kowalski is a recognizable type, the gruff, sometimes bigoted old man who may be hiding more heart than he lets on. Even though he's not too caring at the start, "he ends up expressing love to a family he's never known before," Eastwood said. CNN talked with Eastwood, 78, about the movie, his future as an actor and what he expects in terms of awards. The following is an edited version of that interview: CNN: When you read the script, were you at all concerned about the nature of the language? Clint Eastwood: No, I wasn't. If you're going to learn something and progress in the movie as a character, you have to start as something else in order to learn tolerance. And your character obviously is never too old to learn that, so he has to be a certain way. But I -- being politically incorrec (and I am decidedly so : I am opposed to feminism, homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism...) ; -- I find [it] fascinating because I hate the so-called PC thing. I think that's one of the things that's damaging our generation at the present time (me too). Everybody is taking themselves and everything so seriously. If they just relax a little more and take themselves and everything else a little less seriously, they'd have a lot more fun. CNN: I understand Nick [Schenk] was the original screenplay writer. Boy, did he get a grand slam, getting Clint Eastwood to sign onto his project. Eastwood: Well, it was interesting because he had a hard time getting it to us for some reason. Anyway, they did and finally they got it to Rob Lorenz, who's my associate. And he read it and said, "Well, it's kind of interesting. You might find this character interesting." He says, "He's got a lot of -- he's kind of a racist -- he's a little bit of a lot of things." I said, "Well, it sounds interesting, I'll read it." You know, he said the same thing you're saying. He said, "It's not exactly politically correct." I said, "Perfect. Let me read it. I'll read it tonight." CNN: It's great that after doing so many films in your long career, you're still looking for that edgy material. The material that's not quite in the box obviously. And I heard that you don't know if you'll be doing too much acting anymore? Eastwood: I don't think so. I just don't think there's going to be that many good roles, or as you say, edgy material. CNN: Maybe not edgy material for the typical senior that's an actor, but you're a legend. You're Clint Eastwood. So I'm thinking people are writing stuff for you. Eastwood: I'll tell you why. It's that I do enjoy being behind the camera. I started directing 38 years ago in order to be involved in the whole project and not just the one component of acting. And so it became interesting to me to look at the whole picture. And so I'm enjoying it back there. And next picture I do, Morgan [Freeman]'s going to be upfront and I'm going to be behind the camera. And that's where, I think, where I belong. CNN: And you guys are shooting that film [about Nelson Mandela] in South Africa? Eastwood: Yeah. CNN: You guys are buddies now. Eastwood: Well, this will be our third together film over the years. The other two films ["Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby"] seem to be reasonably successful, so we just hope we can keep a trend. CNN: You've got "Changeling," and then you've got "Gran Torino." Both of them are getting a lot of buzz. What's your reaction to the fact that you'll probably be getting a lot of [award] nominations? Eastwood: Oh, I don't know about that. I don't think about that. I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad. It's just you -- you just make this picture. Actually, I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself. Or it's a story I might want to follow. I never think too much about anybody seeing it. And then when you're done with it, you go, "Oh my God. Now we got to see if anybody wants to see this thing."


Sex on a beach in Dubai

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British businessman jailed in Dubai after being convicted with a female companion for having sex on a beach said he had acted naively as he spoke publicly Monday for the first time since returning to the UK.
Vince Acors said he had been "extremely naive" about Muslim law.
Vince Acors, 34, and Michelle Palmer, 36, were arrested on a Dubai beach in July and convicted to three-month jail terms in October on charges of public indecency and for having sex outside marriage. Their jail sentences were suspended on appeal and both returned to the UK last week.
Acors, a telecommunications executive, admitted being drunk at the time of the incident after an afternoon of drinking but denied that sex between the couple had occurred and said that worldwide media interest in the case had given authorities no choice but to convict them.
"Sex in this country (the UK) is not the same as sex in Dubai," Acors told a news conference, adding that there was "physical contact but intercourse did not take place."
But Acors admitted he had been "extremely naive" about Muslim law in the Middle Eastern country.
He described how drinking was commonplace in the Emirate's Western hotels, and how his "champagne glass was never empty" during a Friday afternoon "all-you-can-drink" reception where he met Palmer.
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Acors said the Dubai authorities had confiscated his passport during deportation proceedings that took three months. He returned to Britain on Christmas Eve and is now looking to sell his story.
(CNN) -- A British man convicted of having sex on a Dubai beach was re-arrested as he prepared to board a flight back to the UK, according to media reports.
File image of one of the co-accused -- Vince Acors -- arriving at court in Dubai in September.
Vince Acors, 34, from London, was due to fly to Heathrow Monday following his deportation from the Gulf state. But he was detained at Dubai Airport and returned to jail as his flight confirmation was allegedly "not in order," the British Press Association said.
Acors and fellow Briton Michelle Palmer, 36, were initially given three-month jail terms for unmarried sex and public indecency, but these were suspended on appeal.
Acors had been due to return last Friday but a hold-up in the deportation process meant he was unable to board a UK-bound plane and spent the weekend in jail, PA said.
His lawyer Andrew Crossley said: "The return of Vince Acors has been delayed yet again and he will not be returning to the UK. The situation is close to becoming farcical and Vince is severely disappointed.
"After having booked and confirmed his return flight on three separate occasions through the course of the day Vince was re-arrested at Dubai Airport, as his flight confirmation was allegedly not in order. He has been returned to jail, his precise return is now unknown."

Palmer and Acors were arrested on a public beach shortly after midnight on July 5. Police charged them with illicit relations, public indecency, and public intoxication. A court found them guilty in October and fined them 1,000 dirhams ($367) for the charge of public indecency.

Both denied they had intercourse. And during the trial, Mattar argued that the public prosecutor failed to produce corroborative evidence against his clients on the first two charges, though he said both tested positive for liquor.
The United Arab Emirates, where Dubai is located, is home to thousands of expatriates and is among the most moderate Gulf states. Still, the oil-rich kingdom adheres to certain Islamic rules.
Vigilante Killer Ellie Nesler Dies
By TRACIE CONE
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FRESNO, Calif. (Dec. 29) - Ellie Nesler, who sparked a national debate about vigilantism after killing her son's accused molester in a courtroom in 1993, has died of cancer. She was 56.



Nesler died Friday morning at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, according to hospital spokeswoman Phyllis Brown. She had battled breast cancer since 1994.
Nesler made headlines when she shot Daniel Driver five times in the head in a Tuolumne County courtroom during a break in his preliminary hearing for allegedly molesting four boys, including her then-6-year-old son William, at a Christian camp. Some hailed her for exacting her own justice, while others condemned her for taking the law into her own hands.
Nesler was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, but her 10-year sentence was later overturned because of jury misconduct. She cut a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to manslaughter and get out after serving three years because she had breast cancer.
The case became a 1999 TV movie, "Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story," on the USA cable network.


After the shooting, the Nesler family remained entangled in the legal system. In 2002, Nesler was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to selling and possessing methamphetamine. Outside the courtroom, she maintained her innocence, saying she felt she couldn't get a fair trial in Tuolumne County.
She was released from a women's facility in Chowchilla in 2006.
Meanwhile, her son got into legal troubles of his own and was convicted of first-degree murder in 2005 for stomping to death a man hired to clean the family's property in Sonora. The 23-year-old said he believed David Davis was letting people pick through the family's belongings.
William Nesler killed Davis less than an hour after he was released from a 30-day sentence for an earlier assault on him. He is serving a 25-year-to-life sentence.
Prison officials allowed William Nesler to speak with his mother on the phone when she was hospitalized, and he spoke to family members Christmas night about her condition, said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
"He knew she was very ill, and he knew her death was impending," Thornton said.
William Nesler has asked for a temporary leave to attend the funeral, and the request is being reviewed by prison officials, Thornton said.


Times of India
US soldiers fight to save their marraiges


Cries for help in divorce proceedings are increasingly making their way into battlefield psychiatric clinics for US soldiers in

Iraq. Such is the strain on soldiers’ marriages that the US military has built a mental health clinic near Baghdad airport where 45 specialists offer counselling and therapy and even hand out copies of the self-help manual ‘The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work’, Times Online reported.
The threat is acknowledged at the highest rank. “We need to keep our warriors happy and healthy to fight, and that includes them talking about their feelings,” said Commander Kevin Gormley, of the Combat Stress Control Centre. “The generals now understand that.” Soldiers are advised to “react to problems with emotion(!!! -that's the female way of "talking") rather than trying to solve them” and to become “attentive listeners”.
The internet has made it possible for soldiers to be in daily, even hourly, contact with their families. While this has eased the strain of being apart for some, it has created new problems. Conflicts at home are swept swiftly into bases, where psychiatrists caution against knee-jerk reactions and tell soldiers to “wait till you’re both in the same room again” before trying to resolve a problem. They also warn against trying “to manage or control a situation from afar”, including telling wives how to wash the family car.
The psychiatrists mediate between spouses, sometimes using videoconferencing and webcams to keep marriages intact. “The war has shifted. It’s not the same as before. Social issues predominate right now,” said Edmund Clark, a military psychiatrist. “Often we have to be the moderator. We are dealing with 18 and 19-year-olds who had no time to develop their marriages.”
The clinic also deals with suicide and other mental health problems. According to the Pentagon, at least 21 US soldiers killed themselves in Iraq between January and August this year, and 39 after returning home.Eighteen per cent of US soldiers experience psychological problems during their tour of duty, with a similar percentage suffering from post-traumatic stress once they get home.



Dec 20, 2008
The struggle to be equal
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH







How many of you are afraid of people suffering from psychiatric disorders? Eight out of 10. How many would refuse to be in contact with them? One in five. Prefer not to have them as neighbors? One in three. To share an office with them? One in three. To employ them? Half. To be a close friend with whom one shares all secrets? One in three. To have one as a boss? Three in four. And to marry? There's no point in asking.
A public survey conducted recently by Dr. Naomi Struch of Jerusalem's Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute on a sample of 1,500 Israeli adults showed that stigma is this group's biggest barrier to integration in society.
But Struch, who presented her results at the Health Ministry's annual conference on mental health - focusing this year on stigma - said that even these responses are optimistic, as many people are embarrassed to admit prejudices even in an anonymous poll.
Sufferers of such psychiatric conditions - from schizophrenia to depression and from bipolar disease to obsessive-compulsive disorder - prefer not to be called "mental" or "psychiatric" at all, the speakers stressed, but rather mitmodedim (copers) or tzarchanim (consumers of mental health services). But since the general public doesn't know what these terms refer to, pollsters must use the accepted terminology.
More than 900 people attended the all-day conference at Jerusalem's International Convention Center, most of them psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and Health Ministry professionals but also numerous "copers" and their families. Those who know mental illness from personal experience rose to the podium to tell of their own or their loved ones' experiences, and some even appeared as a band named Knafayim (Wings) that performed the song We are all the children of life. Their message was: "We are not to blame! We are not ashamed!"
BUT SELF STIGMA, in which copers believe the stigmatic image of people with mental disorders, prevents many of them from rehabilitating themselves, said Dr. Galia Moran, an Israeli clinical psychologist and currently a post-doctoral researcher on mental health at the University of Boston. One of her patients said: "I think of myself as garbage. I won't even walk on the sidewalk; I'm not suited for humanity." Such copers tend to be alone, said Moran, and have low expectations for their own recovery. "Stigma means seeing a person only from one angle - not as a whole person from all angles. The person is equivalent to his disease: he is schizophrenic, he is bipolar, he is depressive." Due to a major change about a decade ago in ministry policy regarding treatment and rehabilitation - shifting all but the most seriously ill from psychiatric hospitals to non-profit organizations in the community - the general public is having more contact with copers than ever. Thus the ministry and community services are doing their best to change public perceptions.
"The general impressions today are irrelevant," said clinical psychologist Yehiel Shereshevky, the ministry official in charge of rehabilitation. "This leads to stigma and positions that are difficult to change because they are very deep," he said, even though surveys have found that 20% of the public admit to having a family member with psychiatric problems (what are "psychiatric problems" ?). He added that while most apartment owners would be reluctant to rent to someone known to be a coper, if they had guarantees that the rent would be paid and the flat would not be damaged, they would agree. Another optimistic finding is that the younger generation is less likely to hold stigmatic views than older people.
Shereshevsky said many Israelis have no idea that there are effective psychotropic medications that keep copers able to function in daily life. "Sixty years ago, there were no effective drugs, so perhaps then there were more people on the streets who acted unexpectedly and violently."
The ministry is contracting organizations to provide rehabilitation services in the haredi and Arab sectors as well as in the general population. There is even a café run solely by copers. "We can bring back people we would otherwise lose," the psychologist said. "If the Israel Police were to reveal that the level of serious violence committed by mentally ill people is much lower than in the public at large, it would help, because the common view is that patients are dangerous," Moran noted (the problem is that psychology... is "dangerous" with its feminist bias, its belief that men and women are "equal").
The Israeli researcher in Boston stressed that thanks to new medications and other treatments, more than half of all people with serious mental disorders recover - and after a few years are able to function well, finding employment or doing volunteer work. She(!!! - a woman, thus naturally confused and confusing) blamed much of the media for stressing a negative and sensational view rather than one which shows that those who recover can live satisfying lives.
Meir and Maya Agassi, a couple both "coping" with schizophrenia who married after meeting in a patient hostel, were stars of a moving documentary shown during the conference. "It's a disease that persists, but treatment helps us disregard it. We are not normative people, but we try to do what others do," said Maya. "Both of us are working in paid jobs. We are not ashamed and don't hide it anymore."
They take their medication together. "The drugs balance us. We can function to a level of 95% compared to normative people. Our psychiatrists think we are well enough to have children. We have a right to do it... We never hurt anybody."
Tzofit Grant, wife of famous soccer team manager Avraham Grant, appeared in the movie alongside her brother, a recovering psychiatric patient. Her eyes filling with tears, she admitted that as a youngster she was ashamed of him. "Mom cursed me," he recalled, "I was insufferable when I refused back then to take my pills. Mom and I used to feel like enemies, but today we are friends."
Living in a hostel for recovering patients, Grant's brother functions well, going with fellow dwellers to the cinema and cooking together for Shabbat.



Moran noted that as Israel is a small country, there is a "significant potential for reducing stigma and rehabilitation" compared to much larger countries, where people fall between the cracks. The mentally disturbed are often unfairly described as being violent, unpredictable, childish or morally weak, rarely as creative or enlightened.
Showing a slide with a young couple and a smiling baby, Moran asked the audience to think of the man as having just come home from a cancer treatment. He would get a lot of sympathy. "But imagine if he were being treated for a mental illness. What are your reactions? Usually there is antipathy to people with psychiatric problems - even though half of them improve significantly; some don't even have to take medications and are employed in meaningful jobs. This helps us remember that people can overcome problems and live fully. Recovery is not just a straight line; it moves a few steps forward and a few steps back."
Moran told the story of a woman named Lynn whom she met at her center in Boston. "She felt so desperate that she almost cut her veins." A hospital psychiatrist told her he doubted she would recover, but she decided to study. Eventually, she became a paralegal adviser to patients and ran workshops in psychiatric hospitals.
"Years later, she was sent to the same hospital where she had been treated to present a workshop. The psychiatrist who so discouraged her thought she was a familiar face. She identified herself and reminded him of what he had told her. 'What are you doing here?', the shocked psychiatrist asked. 'I am here to run your workshop,' she replied. Today, they are friends," Moran said. "But even professionals in the field often have negative expectations of their patients. Research shows more stigma and pessimism among professionals than among the general public. It apparently comes from mental health workers seeing many patients in the worst condition."
THE UNIVERSITY'S Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation was established by Prof. William Anthony in 1979. "It is based on a vision of recovery and does rehabilitation and research studies, as well as teaching and producing a scientific journal," Moran said. Its facilities include a recovery center in which those with problems are invited to take courses - free - to become empowered, fight inactivity and become ready for change. "They are called 'students' and anyone can participate. We have 150 in 25 courses on work, health and personal development. We teach them how to manage their disorder."
But patients who are not in rehabilitation are at higher risk of physical diseases as well. "They have a 25 years' shorter life expectancy, and are more likely to get hypertension or diabetes." Project Dialogue, initiated and run by 20 Israeli copers, was described. "We travel all over the country, said Gidon Galon, a 34-year-old who had his first crisis at 24 and was hospitalized in the Talbieh Mental Health Center. "I went to a neighbor and offered my car, explaining that I would win the Lotto that day. But I didn't." Later, he told people that he wanted to die. But he received help and met the woman who became his wife. "Before, I just wanted the day to end. Today, I am happy with my lot."
Galon has coordinated Project Dialogue for three years, with 180 meetings bringing encounters with 5,000 normative Israelis around the country. "We tell our stories in first person and the audience asks questions. It's a very powerful experience, and people - with tears in their eyes - say they were moved. Our aim is to reduce stigma."
Copers, he concluded, "should not be ashamed. They should talk about it. They should feel they are equal to others - not better or worse, but equal.


JPost.com
Dec 23, 2008
AIDS group creating fund in memory of 'courageous' director who committed suicide
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH







Israel AIDS Task Force activists are establishing a fund to fight AIDS in memory of Dr. Gideon Hirsch, the organization's director, who committed suicide via a drug overdose last week.
Hirsch, 47, learned that he was an HIV carrier 20 years ago while studying psychology in at Stanford University in California. After earning his doctorate, he returned to Israel to begin studying medicine at the age of 35, becoming the country's first self-identified HIV-positive medical student (a faggot*, poor guy).
Although he had not practiced medicine in recent years, said task force spokeswoman Arik Milman, Hirsch devoted his time to the organization, which was about to close when he took over as its director in 2003.
"He realized that HIV was not a fatal disease in the West but a chronic one, in which drug treatment made it possible to have a good quality of life and contribute to society (not so, poor guy ; homosexuality is just like that)," Milman said. "Gideon was very courageous and a charismatic leader (too bad ; his cause was not so good)."
Milman said that Hirsch's tragic death surprised everyone, as his health was stable and that in recent years, he had accomplished much for the cause of HIV and AIDS patients and for prevention of the disease among homosexuals and others (yea, but...).
His body was found last Thursday in his Jaffa apartment by his only brother Arnon, who in an interview said he regularly feared Gideon would kill himself one day. Their mother Hannah committed suicide 14 years ago and their father Shaul killed himself in 2002 due to physical illness (key point). Hirsch, who left a short note expressing love for his brother and friends, was buried at Kibbutz Einat on Monday after an autopsy was conducted at the L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir. The note did not explain why he took his own life. Yonatan Karni, a 30-year-old behavioral science and business administration graduate of Ben-Gurion University and Hirsch's "right-hand man ( and pecker-pumper ?)," will serve as the task force's new director.
Milman said that the task force "is like a close family (all a dem gay boys -misdirected). Nobody dreamed he would kill himself now, when everything was going so well for him.
"In March, due to his pressure, a Knesset committee will discuss the right of women who are HIV carriers to undergo in-vitro fertilization to get pregnan (it seems a bit much)t. He had great concern for marginalized groups in our society including intravenous drug users, asylum seekers, undocumented workers and victims of human trade," Milman said.
The task force has provided many vital services including free and anonymous HIV testing, encouraging the use of condoms and safe sex, pushing to add new HIV drugs to the basket of health services and fighting discrimination among carriers and patients (he should have attacked feminist nonsense, instead).
Last year, in a newspaper interview, Hirsch said, "I would be glad to die in a room full of friends, to say good-bye with a hug and go to the bedroom to take some medication or drug and go.
"I am not afraid of death. The question is how much we put off death and what quality of life we have until then. I want to choose the day I die."
In the end, he was alone when he did it.





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Dec 24, 2008 23:15 | Updated Dec 25, 2008 8:54
Netanyahu vows to find compromise on civil unions
(as much as I like and respect Bibi, I have grave reservations concerning homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism..., spawn of feminist nonsense, and I do not agree)

By GIL HOFFMAN







Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu attempted to attract Russian immigrant voters on Wednesday by announcing that a government led by him would pursue some version of a "civil union" to register couples who cannot be married by the Rabbinate (well, this is a bit different from civil unions between gays, lesbians, transgenders...).
He made this declaration at a press conference at the party's Tel Aviv headquarters, which was called to launch its campaign aimed at Russian-speakers.
Civil marriage is not permitted in Israel, where the Rabbinate has a monopoly over Jewish marriage and divorce. But the state does register couples who marry abroad in non-religious ceremonies.
Immigrants who are not halachicly Jewish but do not want to fly to Cyprus to marry Jews have been lobbying for years to at least be allowed to register legally as couples at the Interior Ministry.
Orthodox immigrant MK Ze'ev Elkin, who recently left Kadima for Likud, sponsored a bill in the outgoing Knesset that would allow legal registration for couples without violating halacha.
Netanyahu did not officially endorse Elkin's bill, but he said he would work to find a compromise solution to help such couples, despite warnings from Shas that it would not join any government that advances civil marriage.
"No party in the coalition with have veto power on any issue, especially on matters pertaining to immigrants that require a solution," Netanyahu said. "I will look for compromises and try to reach a consensus and not try to force anything on anyone."
A Shas spokesman responded that "the people of Israel have vomited out parties that attempted to advance ideas contrary to Judaism (wait a minute; what is Judaism and should Shas have a lock on it ?). The Likud is saying such things just for elections."
Netanyahu vowed to appoint "a Russian immigrant from the Likud" as a minister, hinting at the head of his party's Russian-language campaign, MK Yuli Edelstein, and not just ministers from the Israel Beiteinu party.
Edelstein predicted that Likud would win seven or eight mandates from Russian immigrant voters.
The Likud's campaign will refrain from attacking Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman, but urges his potential voters to help Lieberman by voting Likud.
"The message will be that if you want Lieberman in the government, you have to vote Likud, because if not, [Kadima leader] Tzipi [Livni] will win the election and then Lieberman won't be in the government," said the Likud's spokeswoman for the Russian press, Dina Libster.
Israel Beitenu, naturally, disagreed with the Likud's assessment.
Uzi Landau, a former Likud MK and now No. 2 on the Israel Beitenu list, responded with a statement that called on "anyone who wants the Likud to continue to fulfill the principles of the national camp to strengthen Lieberman. Israel Beitenu is the anchor of the national camp, and will protect Netanyahu."
The Likud's political opponents, meanwhile, said it would be difficult for the party to attract Russian-immigrant voters, because both of its Russian-born candidates, Edelstein and Elkin, are Orthodox (not necessarily wrong).
They said Likud's image among Russian-speakers was damaged further when the party's internal court removed Vladimir Shklar from the party's list in favor of Ethiopian-born candidate Aleli Admasu.
The Tel Aviv District Court on Wednesday rejected Shklar's appeal to return him to the list.
"Bibi cannot give Russian immigrants what they want, because he said he would bring Shas into the coalition," said Kadima MK Marina Solodkin (confused and confusing women ARE a problem)
... "That will prevent Russian immigrants from voting for the Likud."
Haviv Rettig Gur contributed to this report.