| Obama Calls on Fathers to Be Responsible
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday that fathers have to share the responsibility for raising children and caring for families because their role doesn't end at conception. Days before Father's Day, the first-term Illinois senator and father of two daughters delivered his life message as well as an assessment of what government needs to do in remarks at a Baptist church.
"What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise a child," Obama said.
In his prepared text, Obama said: Men need to "stop acting like boys - who need to realize that responsibility does not end at conception"
He recalled his own upbringing as the son of a Kenyan father and a mother from Kansas. Obama said he grew up with a father he know only through letters and stories told by his mothers and the relatives who raised him.
Paternity Statutes Do Not Apply to Wrongful Death Actions ...
It seems that, in addition to proving wrongful death, when the decedent is an unborn child, you had better be able to prove paternity as well. In the case, Aranda v. Cardenas, both the mother and her unborn child were apparently subject to fatal medical malpractice. The Defendants, however, disputed whether the unborn child's father was indeed the child's father, raising the affirmative defense of capacity to sue. The Defendants were able to pursued the trial court to apply very harsh statutory presumptions and other requirements imposed by the paternity statutes, A.R.S. ยงยง 25-801 through 25-818, to the paternity dispute in the wrongful death case. On appeal, the Plaintiff argued that the trial court erred in referring to the paternity statutes and in requiring deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) tests to prove paternity.
Hostel: Part II
Case in point: "Hostel: Part II" (Lionsgate) is a repellently sadistic story of three American girls, Beth (Lauren German), Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) and Whitney (Bijou Phillips), kidnapped while traveling abroad.
They are lured to a Slovakian spa by a glamorous model who had posed for them in an art class. The resort's sole purpose is to allow wealthy international clients, including American businessmen Stuart (Roger Bart) and Todd (Richard Burgi), the privilege of bidding for, and afterward, torturing and slaughtering their prize.
Eli Roth's film has a glossy look and is not without style and even a smidgen of substance, in that there's a small attempt to give some psychological motivation to the clients. Inasmuch as human sex trafficking is a very real problem on a global scale, with victims actually sold in auctions on the Internet (as indeed these victims are), there's a chilling verisimilitude to a canny montage showing the various well-heeled clients getting notice of the latest victims for sale.
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