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Sunday, March 18, 2012

News Sunday Morning News

Posted by Riya Bhattacharjee on Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:05 AM

Assessing Iran's nuclear ambitions: Tricky

The GOP presidential nomination: Could be decided at the party's convention in Florida in late August rather than on the campaign trial.

Romney "improving dramatically" as a candidate: Says Arizona Senator John McCcain, not me.

Blame Obama for rising gas prices: Says Romney. (And pretty much everything else.)

Karilyn Bales: The wife of Sgt. Robert Bales kept a blog, where she wrote about the anguish of being a military wife.

The agony and ecstasy of Mike Daisey: Writer eliminates questionable sections from his monologue after being criticized for distorting the truth.

Russia TV protest: Dozens held as they protested Putin's election as president.

Morocco: Several hundred women demonstrated outside its parliament, asking for a repeal of a law on sexual violence. The rally came after 16-year-old Amina Filali committed suicide after being forced to marry her rapist. Morocco's penal court allows a rapist to marry his victim.

India's former Mr Universe: Turns 100, shows off his muscles.

And it's snowing in Monroe! CRAZY weather strikes again.

And now, here's how to piss off a frog:

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Jackass in the video deserved it, poor frog

Posted by Nitidiuscula on March 18, 2012 at 9:37 AM

Another Teabagger arrested. This time in San Diego for sexual assault. Teabaggers=pervs.

Posted by Vince on March 18, 2012 at 9:41 AM

Yep. And a whole shit-ton of Occutards arrested in New York too.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on March 18, 2012 at 10:04 AM

McCain's ability to judge candidate qualifications is without peer.

Posted by seatackled on March 18, 2012 at 11:51 AM

@4

FTW

Yeah, how did his pick for VP turn out again?

Posted by passionate_jus on March 18, 2012 at 12:02 PM

Another caucus meltdown for the GOP, this time in the important swing state of MO.

Police had to shut down the biggest caucus site of the day, police helicopters were called out and two Ron Paul supporters were arrested.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-…

It's never a good idea to piss off your supporters and potential volunteers, especially in such an important state.

Could Obama win the Show Me State this year?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Stat…

Posted by passionate_jus on March 18, 2012 at 12:20 PM

The Washington Post:

In many societies in the Middle East, the loss of a girl’s virginity outside of marriage—even in cases of rape— can be seen as a stain of honor on the family and the girl. The family’s honor can often be restored if she marries her rapist.

Filali’s father said in an interview with online Moroccan newspaper goud.ma that the court officials themselves had suggested the marriage option after Amina’s family reported the rape. Amina is believed to have been first accosted on the street and raped when she was 15.

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Then he started beating once they were married. She went to her mother for help, who suggested that she be patient. "Just try to make it work," I imagine Mom saying.

Amina killed herself by swallowing rat poison. Again, she was sixteen. What were you doing when you were sixteen?

Posted by floater on March 18, 2012 at 12:21 PM

The forced to marry rapist thing is a really terrible system. It seems like it would encourage men to rape the girls the want to marry.

Posted by treefort on March 18, 2012 at 6:52 PM

Sometimes they got honor killings too.... That is when the father, brother or uncle kill the bad guys..

Posted by pupuguru on March 18, 2012 at 7:08 PM

@7,

Did you get the impression that Sloggers think that case was an outlier?

What's egregious about this specific case is that Morocco is supposed to be more modern than most of the rest of the Arab world.

Posted by keshmeshi on March 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM