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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAntonio Sabato, Jr is speaking at the Trump Convention
I had no idea he was such an a-hole.
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Here is a safe way to keep the country safe arrest Obama & Hillary right now . Problem solved
8:58 AM - 16 Jun 2016
Here is what he was most famous for:
Botany
(70,657 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 14, 2016, 12:00 PM - Edit history (1)
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)hatrack
(59,606 posts)Sheesh, the dumpster fire just keeps getting bigger . . .
Botany
(70,657 posts)i wonder if they will have Susan Summers pushing some kind of phony
ass diet products or Chuck Norris with his home gym?
demmiblue
(36,920 posts)In the early 1990s when the company first launched, it used catalogs to introduce men to Russian women. The company launched its first website in January 1997 and expanded its business in more cities throughout Russia and the Ukraine.[7] By 2003, it experienced global growth beyond northern Asia.[8]
Following the growth of AnastasiaDate, the company spun off three websites during 2007, each connecting western men with women from different areas of the world: AmoLatina, AsianBeauties, and AfricaBeauties.[8]
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The site is mostly used by wealthy American men between the ages of 35 and 60.[2] The site makes money by charging users who want to meet Eastern European women. As of 2012, such users buy credits "priced on a sliding scale, starting at $15.99 for 20 credits, and going up to $399.99 for 1,000. Each minute of simple, instant messaging-style chatting costs one credit. Special, premium smilies like a vibrating, multi-color 'LOL' cost extra. Cam share (audio not enabled) costs six credits a minute. Video chat with voice costs even more." The Fortune article observes: "And thanks to people like me willing to pay to talk with beautiful young women like Anastasia who was paid to respond -- the trade is doing pretty well".[2]
With the growth of online services like AnastasiaDate, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act was passed in 2005 to regulate the industry.[2] News outlets call AnastasiaDate the leading "premium international dating" website and have observed its efforts to seemingly rebrand the mail-order bride industry, within which it is grouped.[2] The Guardian journalist reported that "none of the men I became close to on my tour ended up in lasting relationships, and the majority appeared to fall victim to a number of sophisticated scams". A girl on the site who was interviewed "explained the whole sordid array of techniques, from a light impersonalised online-chatting version to a full-service chauffeur-driven platinum fraud, where men are rinsed of cash for a full week in Odessa, thinking they are cementing a lifelong relationship while actually they are being strung along on platonic dates that end with them dispatched to the airport with heavy hearts and empty wallets". [17] The same article added that "AnastasiaDate insists that it weeds out scams whenever it finds them, and has banned some women from the site."[17]
Even acting within the regulations, international dating sites like AnastasiaDate could potentially exploit women in less-developed countries and male suitors in developed countries.[2][17] A 2014 report in The Guardian found examples of exploitation for both genders.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnastasiaDate
Botany
(70,657 posts)Lonely in the UK or America we can help you? Got a credit card?
Funtatlaguy
(10,896 posts)will speak together discussing religious freedom, abstinence, and chastity.
All while comparing abs backstage.
riversedge
(70,464 posts)the teabagger from Milw would always is all over fox news.
Botany
(70,657 posts)I took 1 minute to look @ his twitter account. 100% nut case.
Beacool
(30,254 posts)riversedge
(70,464 posts)tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)I resent what he is turning our Democracy into.
tanyev
(42,677 posts)CanonRay
(14,146 posts)I must be blessed.
Yupster
(14,308 posts)I must be old.
maryellen99
(3,790 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)Probably the same reason for Tebow. Claire McCascall says that's the same reason Trump will choose Pence. Trump is so shallow and believes the rest of us are as well. Where's his pretty black and pretty Latino?
applegrove
(118,926 posts)who honors with celebrities all the time. That is so telling. Even his own community does not like him.
AnnieBW
(10,482 posts)I'm involved in the fandom for "Earth 2", in which Antonio played the pilot of the ship that crashed. I heard some interesting stories about him from some of the cast members about how he would disappear into his trailer, not socialize with the other cast members, and get mysterious packages all of the time. They thought it might be drugs.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Did you hear that? That was the sound of the bottom of the barrel being scraped.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,365 posts)wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)in November without that Sabato endorsement