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I am heading to Target right now to get a Gung Ho Commando Outfit-Iraq Edition!

Posted by StrangerDanger | June 11, 2008 9:12 AM
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I would have killed for a army set up with a machine gun like that! But instead we had Explorer GI Joe with fuckin fuzzy beards and rescue equipment...

Posted by cracked | June 11, 2008 9:12 AM
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Those who perform the procedure say they are empowering patients by giving them a viable future and preventing them from being abused — or even killed — by their fathers or brothers.

One Muslim born in Macedonia said she opted for the operation to avoid being punished by her father after an eight-year relationship with her boyfriend.

“I was afraid that my father would take me to a doctor and see whether I was still a virgin,” said the woman, 32, who owns a small business and lives on her own in Frankfurt. “He told me, ‘I will forgive everything but not if you have thrown dirt on my honor.’ I wasn’t afraid he would kill me, but I was sure he would have beaten me.”

This kind of shit just makes me crazy with rage. I want to say more about how barbaric and wrong it all is, but I get so angry I can hardly breathe to talk.

Posted by Greg | June 11, 2008 9:14 AM
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What kind of doctor wouldn't be able to tell that this procedure was performed?

Posted by w7ngman | June 11, 2008 9:33 AM
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@4 Let's hope the doctors are sympathetic enough toward women to only say "the hymen is intact." and leave it at that.

Posted by PopTart | June 11, 2008 9:37 AM
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I love it. The father expects his 32-year-old daughter to still be a virgin. And of course they're not going for the most obvious solution: Leave. Change your name. Move to the other side of the country or to a different country.

Posted by keshmeshi | June 11, 2008 9:38 AM
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Died in his sleep. At age 56? Somethings not right there... Dan needs to put one of his crack investigative reporters on this one. I smell foul play. (Or worse...)

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me | June 11, 2008 9:44 AM
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So, James Johnson was about 1/20th as greedy as Dick Cheney, is that the sum of the Republicans' complaints?

Posted by Gordon Gekko Greed is Good | June 11, 2008 10:20 AM
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@@4 and 5 -- staining the sheets on the wedding night will be sufficient.

Posted by Purity Ring | June 11, 2008 10:23 AM
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@9: RTFA plz.

Posted by Greg | June 11, 2008 10:39 AM
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These medieval idiots do know it's possible for a virgin *not* to bleed, right? I wonder what was the one guy's criteria for his wife lying. She didn't bleed? She didn't scream out in agony when he rammed his pinky-sized cock into her?

Fucking novices.

Posted by w7ngman | June 11, 2008 10:45 AM
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@11,

If you're talking about the French annulment case, she didn't bleed and that was enough for that Medieval knuckledragger.

Posted by keshmeshi | June 11, 2008 10:58 AM
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@6 - um, they did leave for a different country - France.

Posted by Will in Seattle | June 11, 2008 11:06 AM
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Gung Ho would be great. But only one kid of the five of us would have it as we ran through the woods.

Posted by Lawrence Molloy | June 11, 2008 11:41 AM
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The oyster virus scares me. It could be the death knell for the entire Sound if it gets in (the article makes it sound coastal).

Posted by Fnarf | June 11, 2008 11:47 AM
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@10: Get real. What possessive Muslim father is going to let a man look up his daughter's hooha? And what female doctor is going to tell her patient's father that she Daughter lacks a functioning hymen? Or at least she'll interpret an ambiguous structure so as to give Daughter the benefit of the doubt. Ergo, not an issue till the crucial moment.

Posted by Purity Ring | June 11, 2008 1:09 PM

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