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Transgender man in Ecuador makes history with pregnancy

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) A couple in Ecuador is making history with a unique pregnancy: The father-to-be is carrying the baby of his transgender partner.

Fernando Machado and Diane Rodriguez announced their pregnancy, believed to be the first of its kind in South America, on social media earlier this month and it's received widespread attention in a continent that has seen a sudden explosion in the rights and visibility of trans people.
Rodriguez, who was born Luis, is one of Ecuador's most-prominent LGBT activists and says she and her Venezuelan-born partner, whose birth name was Maria, decided to publicize the pregnancy to help change attitudes in the staunchly Roman Catholic society. Although both take hormones, neither has undergone gender-reassignment surgery, so the child-to-be was conceived the old-fashioned way with no known medical complications to date.
"We're trying to break the myths about transsexuality," Rodriguez told The Associated Press

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Here’s another “people of Wal-Mart” story … with a twist.

A Florida woman driving a motorized shopping cart around a local Wal-Mart made herself at home while in the store, eating and drinking to her heart’s desire.
Josseleen Elida Lopez, 20, was arrested by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office after she consumed $32.36 worth of food and wine, according to WFLA-TV.



Source: Citrus County Sheriff’s Office

Included among her dining choices were cinnamon rolls, mini muffins, sushi, a rotisserie chicken with sauce and two bottles of S. Home wine.

A loss prevention employee took the hungry shoplifter into custody after seeing her helping herself while riding around the store.
Deputies found two empty syringes on Lopez, one in her purse and one in her backpack, WFLA-TV reported. She admitted to the officers that she had used the syringes to inject crystal meth earlier.
Lopez told deputies that she was homeless and said she ate the food because she was hungry, but didn’t want to bring it outside of the store.
She faces shoplifting and drug paraphernalia charges.

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Akron woman to be sentenced after stabbing boyfriend for eating all of the salsa

AKRON – Phyllis Jefferson, 50, of Akron is set to be sentenced Monday after she plead guilty to aggravated assault.
Police say that Jefferson was arrested back in April after she stabbed her boyfriend.. Officials say she stabbed him with a pen for eating all of the salsa.

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Canada rejects African-American's asylum claim

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian tribunal has rejected a claim for refugee status from an African-American man who said he feared persecution and police abuse in the United States based on his race, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said on Friday.
While saying he did find Kyle Lydell Canty to have a genuine fear of returning to his home country, adjudicator Ron Yamauchi said that was not enough to grant asylum.
A string of shootings of black men by U.S. police over the past 18 months have led to widespread protests and the issue has fueled a civil rights movement under the name Black Lives Matter.
"The Act does not protect claimants from every form of ill-treatment, suffering, and hardship," he wrote in the decision, dated Dec. 3. "It is addressed at situations of persecution, which is serious harm, an interference with a basic human right."
He added: "There are no substantial grounds to believe that his removal to the United States of America would subject him personally to a danger of torture."[continued]

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Fannie Mae Rolls Out Easy Mortgage, Catering To High-Risk Immigrants

Subprime 2.0: The White House is rolling out a new low-income mortgage program that for the first time lets lenders qualify borrowers by counting income from nonborrowers living in the household. What could go wrong?
The HomeReady program is offered through Fannie Mae, which is now controlled by Obama's old Congressional Black Caucus pal Mel Watt. It replaces the bankrupted mortgage giant's notorious old subprime program, MyCommunityMortgage.
In case renaming the subprime product fails to fool anybody, the affordable-housing geniuses in the administration have re-termed "subprime," a dirty word since the mortgage bust, "alternative."

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This Is The Cartoon Germany Hands Out To Sexually Frustrated Refugees

Earlier this evening, we noted that the western German town of Bornheim has banned adult male asylum seekers from its indoor public pool after some German women complained of harassment.
"There have been complaints of sexual harassment and chatting-up going on in this swimming pool ... by groups of young men, and this has prompted some women to leave (the premises)," the towns deputy mayor said.

Bornheim, as it turns out, is just a stones throw away from Cologne where a wave of sexual assaults allegedly perpetrated by men of “Arab origin” at a New Years Eve festival has mushroomed into a bloc-wide scandal.

Now, officials from across Europe are struggling to deflect criticism and devise a way to ensure that women are safe in large crowds.
As we documented on Thursday, Switzerland has adopted an Austrian cartoon flyer for its upcoming Lucerne carnival. The pictogram lays out various instances of accepted behavior such as kissing and praying, while making it clear that flying into a mad rage and open-hand slapping women and small children is frowned upon in polite society.





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German TV station adds Islamic crescent and star symbol to its logo!?! [Rape of Europa]

German Television station Tele5 has changed its logo to a German flag emblazoned with the Islamic star and crescent, just weeks after the New Year’s Eve Muslim migrant sex attacks in Cologne and Muslim terrorist attack in Istanbul.



Tele5 justified the move on Twitter this afternoon, saying that it was a symbol "expressing our sympathy to the victims of yesterday's attack," on German tourists in Istanbul. The attack in Istanbul took the lives of 10 tourists, mostly Germans, in Sultanahmet square, near the Blue mosque and Hagia Sophia. According to Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, the suicide bomber who perpetrated the attack has been identified as a Syrian migrant from body parts recovered on the scene. The Deputy Prime Minister also clarified that the bomber was not on Turkey's terrorism watch list, and it has now been reported that he entered the country as a Syrian "refugee"

The move comes a few weeks after the German state broadcaster, ZDF, launched an Arabic-language version of its news service online, and emblazoned Arabic subtitles over German Chancellor Angela Merkel's New Year's address. Since tweeting their justification for their actions the Tele5 twitter has been full of mixed reactions and with outright criticism, leading user @EberhardFuchs to comment, "is it not inappropriate to to put an Islamic symbol on the German flag after an Islamist attack?"

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No more 'midshipmen'? Navy to create gender-neutral titles

ANNAPOLIS (ABC7)--Students at the U.S. Naval Academy might not be midshipmen for long -- at least not in name.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus thinks it matters, writing a memo ordering the Chief of Naval Operations to review position titles throughout the Navy and ensure they are gender integrated, removing "man" from their titles.
Midshipman could become a rank of the past.

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No more 'midshipmen'? Navy to create gender-neutral titles

ANNAPOLIS (ABC7)--Students at the U.S. Naval Academy might not be midshipmen for long -- at least not in name.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus thinks it matters, writing a memo ordering the Chief of Naval Operations to review position titles throughout the Navy and ensure they are gender integrated, removing "man" from their titles.
Midshipman could become a rank of the past.

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Gender integrated? Why not Midshipman and Midshipwoman........

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Gender integrated? Why not Midshipman and Midshipwoman........

Excellent point... far to logical though!

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First on CNN: Obama to push to clear leftover Vietnam-era bombs

Last fall, in anticipation of this year's ASEAN summit in Laos, the President sent one of his most trusted advisers, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, to visit. After shepherding last year's historic rapprochement between the U.S. and Cuba, Rhodes saw a similar opportunity to repair relations with Laos.
He returned to Washington profoundly moved by the scope of the unexploded ordnance problem and convinced clearance was key to helping the impoverished nation better develop its agriculture and economy.
The amount of unexploded ordnance in Laos hinders development and poverty reduction. Laos has less land to build factories, schools and farms on. He told Obama the United States had an obligation to help. Moreover, with Obama making engagement of Southeast Asia a priority, he argued it was smart policy.
The President agreed it was time to try to solve the problem once and for all.

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Officials Say Tennessee Teen May Have Died From Drinking Racing Fuel and Mountain Dew

Logan Stephenson, 16, died on Thursday. According to Greenbrier Police Chief K.D. Smith, Stephenson and a friend started drinking the concoction Wednesday.


Stephenson's friend was rushed to an area hospital where he is still in a coma.

Two other teens have admitted to drinking the same mixture of racing fuel and Mountain Dew.

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Officials Say Tennessee Teen May Have Died From Drinking Racing Fuel and Mountain Dew

Logan Stephenson, 16, died on Thursday. According to Greenbrier Police Chief K.D. Smith, Stephenson and a friend started drinking the concoction Wednesday.


Stephenson's friend was rushed to an area hospital where he is still in a coma.

Two other teens have admitted to drinking the same mixture of racing fuel and Mountain Dew.

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Yeah, that Mountain Dew should never be used as a mixer.

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Confederate flag tattoo stops man from joining Marines

The Marine Corps confirmed that a man was told his tattoo of a Confederate flag made him ineligible to join the Marines because it violates the service’s policy on body ink.

“These Confederate flag tattoos have been denied in the past,” said Capt. Dustin Pratico, a spokesman for the 8th Recruiting District. “It’s a not new thing. This isn’t the first time that it’s ever happened. This is just one of the times it happened to catch media attention.”
The story was first reported on Jan. 20 by the Little Rock TV station KARK 4. Pratico confirmed that Anthony Bauswell made a “verbal commitment” to join the Marine Corps on Jan. 18 at a recruiting station in Conway, Arkansas. A staff noncommissioned officer in charge then interviewed Bauswell as part of the recruiting process.