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    Image of boredparalegal boredparalegal
    10/30/09

    In reply to Administration Recommends Political Asylum For Rody Alvarado Peña
    I wrote my senior thesis in college about this case. You can't tell from the NY Times article, but she was subjected to horrific violence on a daily basis. She left her children with a relative when she fled and I'm not sure if she's seen them since.

    Each asylum applicant has to prove a certain level of violence/discrimination/etc. to be considered "persecution." If she had been abused by a local officer or a member of the military because of political beliefs or ethnicity, she would have been granted asylum and INS would not have appealed. The fact that it was a domestic situation and the US government is (properly) hesitant to expand asylum law without studying the impact of that change means she was just barely outside of established asylum regulations. In a way, she was lucky-ish because her case was picked up by Karen Musalo, who runs a gender and refugees clinic at Hastings. (There's been a link to Alvaradi's case since as long as I remember and students at the clinic learn about the case.) I'm just happy that DHS, after initially appealing a grant of asylum to someone who clearly deserves it, finally came to its senses and made this recommendation.

    [cgrs.uchastings.edu]

    Check out the court filings, they're pretty extraordinary. #asylum
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    Image of Atomic Bowling Atomic Bowling
    10/30/09

    In reply to Administration Recommends Political Asylum For Rody Alvarado Peña
    I think this makes perfect sense if the asylum seeker is from a country that does not really provide legal protection to victims of domestic abuse, thus making them, as said above, a particular social group facing persecution. Of course, that still leaves a lot of room in our own system for providing better protection for victims of domestic violence, and I'm fairly certain that this unfortunately will not apply equally to male victims of domestic violence, but it's a good start. #asylum
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Administration Recommends Political Asylum For Rody Alvarado Peña
    It seems to me the real problem here is the insanely pervasive culture of violence in the countries the women are fleeing. Why don't we spend some money on that? #asylum
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    Image of TheocratsForDarwin TheocratsForDarwin
    10/30/09

    @wordinedgewise: Much of U.S. foreign assistance is inefficient and tied to security issues. Aside from all the issues of imposing outside values, the U.S. government simply does not have the capacity to change other cultures in any kind of time frame that would actually help these women now. However, many NGOs are working toward women's rights, and often have local implementers - they would probably be happy for any support. #asylum
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    10/30/09

    @TheocratsForDarwin: Thanks for pointing that out. I should clarify that by "we" I meant American people (read: NGO's), not necessarily government agencies. #asylum
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    Image of Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana
    10/30/09

    In reply to Administration Recommends Political Asylum For Rody Alvarado Peña
    It would be interesting to see if any women left the US under the same provision. Lord knows we have the same problems here. #asylum
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    CurtCole promoted this comment Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana was starred Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana was unstarred
    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    10/30/09

    @Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana: But, we have resources and agencies for men and women subjected to domestic violence, whereas these countries, for the most part, do not.
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    Image of Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana
    10/30/09

    @CurtCole: I know, I know. These resources do fail our women though, and so I was just posing the point that while it's wonderful and very necessary to help elsewhere there is still much to be done here. #asylum
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    10/30/09

    @Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana: I totally agree. My best friend works for Child Protective Services and sees women fall through the cracks all the time. She'll refer them to Adult Services, but after that is is out of her hands. #asylum
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    Image of Notes from the underwhelmed Notes from the underwhelmed
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    Also, in his book, Tony Curtis revealed that he actually had the same measurements as Marilyn Monroe.
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    Image of Cunning_Linguist Cunning_Linguist
    08/06/09

    @Notes from the underwhelmed: But what size was he?
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    08/06/09

    @Notes from the underwhelmed: Was that the chapter after he admitted to being Spartacus?
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    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    Also, bender (n) and bent (adj) = male homosexual (slang, pejorative). Well known (in the UK) but not commonly used. The more you know!
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    Image of veronykah veronykah
    08/07/09

    @Plum-Pie: I've heard this about Leo from a friend in NYC who allegedly saw him at some very gay bars...
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    08/07/09

    @Plum-Pie: I have a fairly strong feeling that a "mad bender" is a big night on the town, in The Sun's lexicon at least....
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    Plum-Pie promoted this comment CircleSquare was starred CircleSquare was unstarred
    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    08/07/09

    I AM British.
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    Edited by Plum-Pie at 08/07/09 2:33 PM Plum-Pie was starred Plum-Pie was unstarred
    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    co op
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    08/06/09

    @NewsBunny: Sorry, I was searching on the page and entered info in the wrong box.
    Carry on.
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    Image of Lazy Line Painter Jane Lazy Line Painter Jane
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    When I read the first part of that jennifer anniston quote "My friends love coming over [to my house], because they get fed" I was like, aww isn't that nice. Stars they'e just like us! But then I got to "says her personal chef" and my heart sunk.
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    nessalicious promoted this comment Lazy Line Painter Jane was starred Lazy Line Painter Jane was unstarred
    Image of trikota trikota
    08/06/09

    @Lazy Line Painter Jane: It was pretty hilarious!
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    nessalicious promoted this comment trikota was starred trikota was unstarred
    Image of LoSpaz LoSpaz
    08/06/09

    @Lazy Line Painter Jane: Yes, it's easy to run the best restaurant in town when you employ a chef.
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    Image of Highsmith Highsmith
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    "Dr." Phil is always guilty in my book. I loathe that toad.
    He isnt' even a doctor.
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    J.D.Regent promoted this comment Highsmith was starred Highsmith was unstarred
    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    08/06/09

    @Highsmith: Just the fact that he was treating his intern is weird.
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    Image of squeakel squeakel
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    That Dr. Phil lady is the same one who's been making accusations for like ten years. I don't know why the National Enquirer is making it news again. It's a very, very old story.
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    Image of Lazy Line Painter Jane Lazy Line Painter Jane
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    What was that man doing in the dumpster anyway? I've read quotes from lots of celebs bemoaning that paparazzi and tabloid reporters steal their garbage. Something seems fishy about this guy.
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    Plum-Pie promoted this comment Lazy Line Painter Jane was starred Lazy Line Painter Jane was unstarred
    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    08/06/09

    @Lazy Line Painter Jane: Looking for a pipe?

    Actually the UK press are well-known for accepting stuff found in bins. A few years ago there was a garbage collector who was on the payroll of several mags and used to look for stuff especially for them. Gutter press, indeed.
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    Edited by Plum-Pie at 08/06/09 7:37 PM Plum-Pie was starred Plum-Pie was unstarred
    Image of jeska jeska
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    I really hate Kid Rock as a man and a musician, but I keep reading all these nice things he does with his money and it's leaving me very conflicted.
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    Image of sybann sybann
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    By the way - Tyler was singing "Love in an Elevator" when he went down.
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    Image of scandalouskiki scandalouskiki
    08/06/09

    @sybann: Well played. :)
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    Image of LipstickLibrarian LipstickLibrarian
    08/07/09

    @scandalouskiki: He really was!
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    Image of Michelle13 Michelle13
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    Bender: British for binge or wild partying.
    Example: "I went on a weeklong bender and woke up naked holding a grapefruit with no memories."
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    Image of rhymeswithfeather rhymeswithfeather
    08/06/09

    @Michelle13: I had no idea "bender" wasn't common slang. Maybe because I'm Canadian.
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    Image of vulcanized vulcanized
    08/06/09

    Edited because I give up trying to insert images. Gah.
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    Edited by vulcanized at 08/06/09 7:38 PM vulcanized was starred vulcanized was unstarred
    Image of ritualtheory ritualtheory
    08/06/09

    @Michelle13: My grapefruits have very long memories.
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    Image of LadyFabulous LadyFabulous
    08/06/09

    @heatherwritesstuff: So am I, but I use bender at the appropriate times. But I have strange speech patterns, so that might be why...
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    Image of Cookie Dough Monster Cookie Dough Monster
    08/06/09

    @LadyFabulous: Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've seen the word bender thrown around on Jezebel and have heard it used plenty with friends, on tv, etc. I sort of took that bit to mean "we don't really know who these British celebs are," not "what's a bender?"...
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    08/07/09

    @heatherwritesstuff: Me too, people here use bender, uh, don't they?
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    Image of envirodesigner envirodesigner
    08/06/09

    In reply to Winehouse Wedding Album Found In Dumpster; Dr. Phil Accused Of Molesting A Patient
    Wouldn't the person who released Vanessa's naked pics be charged with child pornography?
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    Ailatan promoted this comment envirodesigner was starred envirodesigner was unstarred
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    08/06/09

    @envirodesigner: Mabe, I'm too cynical, but I think that she released them herself.
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