U Not Gonna Like This

This story comes from the Cool Tools 4 Men Blog:

Battle of the sexes leaves men groping for equality
By Leo Lewis in Tokyo
July 24, 2006

What started as a desperate measure to protect women from gropers on trains has blossomed into a fully fledged movement. Single-sex places have become a lifestyle choice for many women and a source of outrage for men.

Once women-only carriages became standard on many Japan Railways services and the Tokyo Metro, other businesses quickly followed. Spas and gyms were among the first to pick up the trend, with restaurants, comic-book cafés and convenience stores joining the no-men-allowed movement.

Hotels, apartment blocks and pachinko gambling parlours are experimenting, and restaurants that do not exclude men have taken to giving free desserts to women.

The “women only" trend flies in the face of a massive government effort to put Japanese men and women closer together. Facing tumbling birth rates and a potential demographic crisis, the Government has tried to promote marriage matchmakers and encouraged companies to give staff time off for dating.


“If men want not to be discriminated against, they should have better manners,” Ms Suzuki said. “They sit so they take up lots of space, read newspapers wide open, leaf through pornography in public and some are really arrogant, too.”

Takashi Naito, the male owner of Men-Ya Sora, said: “I wanted to have as many repeat customers as possible and I noticed that female diners often asked me to give them a table away from men who were drunk and noisy.”

another story via al-Reuters:

Women applaud no-men, pink-striped metro cars
Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:17am ET

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Women commuters filled female-only, pink-striped subway cars in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Monday on the first day of a scheme to avert groping and other unwanted sexual advances.

A law passed by the state legislature and signed by Rio Gov. Rosinha Matheus last month obliged the underground Metro and above-ground railways to have separate passenger cars for women during the weekday rush hours.

"It's the first day today and we had women applauding when men, who had entered their carriage without knowing about the rule, got off," a spokeswoman for the private Metro Rio company said.

Frequent complaints from women commuters about sexual harassment in crowded railway cars had prompted state legislators to pass the bill.

One car in every of Metro Rio's 33 trains is marked with pink stripes on doors and windows. The company said female passengers would themselves control men's entry into the cars, seeking the help of security guards if necessary.

Railroad company Supervia, which serves Rio and its suburbs, identifies its female-only cars with signs similar to those on women's restrooms.

Men won't be barred from the female-only cars during an initial phase but after that railroad police would enforce the new rule, a Supervia spokesman said.

Rio joins Tokyo and Mexico City as major cities that provide female-only train cars.

Sex war officially over - almost
Max Ponti

A story in the news today - In Laboratory, Ordinary Cells Are Turned Into Eggs. It's about the work of a couple of scientists, who have just changed the very face and soul of human reproduction - the basis of gender wars, the fundamentals of sexism and the very core foundation of feminism itself - forever.

Yes, feminism's foundations have just been cracked wide open. You see, their one big claim to fame as women has just evaporated. It's gone! Poof! Just like that! This claim has always been based on a bizarre female assumption, that as egg bearers of the human species they were a more important sex than men. They believed that because each man can produce enormous fountains of sperm, the liquid of life, that he, along with most men - in fact Germaine Greer stated 99.9% of all men - were expendable and "surplus to requirements".

They fancied, that because just one man's gusher could service the reproductive needs of literally millions of women, or so they thought and earnestly believed, that by comparison with their limited egg production, that made them, women, special creatures worthy of awe, adoration and privilege. Their special eggs made them special. This, they believed, made them the elite sex.

Well, after having read the story, it turns out that scientific experimentation with simple ordinary stem cells, male or female, and a little know how, can now easily grow eggs from just any old body, including men. So women and their precious eggs just became as un-special as they've been claiming men have been all the time and now there's a potentially never ending supply of human eggs.

 

A link to this  ebook was posted at Cool Tools 4 Men:

EXPOSING THE CORRUPTION IN THE MASSACHUSETTS FAMILY COURTS
by Kevin Thompson

Description:

I am just one of the thousands of fathers who have been victimized by the system of organized crime in the Massachusetts family courts. This book exposes the motives, tactics, and hypocrisy that all fathers must endure. The book also details my specific case including the "spin off" corruption that resulted from my efforts to hold the racketeers in and outside of this kangaroo court system accountable. The book has been "banned" in Massachusetts for five months now by a judge who is criticized in the book and who banned it without ever "officially" opening it since the book was not submitted into evidence by the moving party. This illegal order, which confirms the claim made in my book that constitutional law does not apply to fathers in family court, has been temporarily lifted. Since the availability of this book could change at any moment, I encourage you to purchase it while you still can.



 

Again via Kitten News:
 
Woman charged in husband's stabbing

BOARDMAN — Police arrested a 21-year-old West Boulevard woman accused of stabbing her husband in the buttocks with a kitchen knife.

Casey Jackson was charged with felonious assault and is scheduled to appear in Mahoning County Court here Tuesday. She was released from the Mahoning County Justice Center on a $12,000 bond.

Police were called to a West Boulevard apartment about 9:30 a.m. Thursday. They found her husband, Joethan Jackson, 21, lying on the living room floor, holding his side, and a puddle of blood on the carpet.

Joethan Jackson told police that he and his wife had gotten into an argument and she smacked his face. He said that he pushed her onto the couch to avoid being hit. She ran into the kitchen, grabbed something and ran back to the living room, he said.

As he was walking away, he felt a poke to the right side of his buttocks, looked back and saw his wife with a knife in her hand, he told police. The man then went into the bedroom to get dressed. He was naked when the assault occurred, a police report said.

and this:

Woman charged with trying to burn ex-husband's home
By DAVID BALL

LUMBERTON A Silsbee woman was arrested for setting fire to a Lumberton home on Tuesday, July 11, according Hardin County Sheriff Ed Cain.

Linda Faulk, 49, is accused of using a Bic lighter to set fire to a shutter at the residence of her
ex-husband, Ricky Devillier, who lives on Orchid Street in Lumberton.

Faulk had just been released on bond from Orange County on a charge of arson when she allegedly committed the crime in Lumberton. She is also under investigation for arson by law enforcement agencies in mid-Jefferson County.

She was charged with arson of a habitation and released from the Hardin County Jail the same day after posting a $20,000 bond.

and this:

Man Dies After Fight With Ex, Another Man
Alleged Intruder Stabbed To Death

POSTED: 12:38 pm EDT August 15, 2006
UPDATED: 12:46 pm EDT August 15, 2006

UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A man is dead after a confrontation with his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in Washington County.

Police said the fight began at a home in Union Township Monday night between Shawn Gildea, of Bethel Park, and his ex-girlfriend 31-year-old Christine Limbers.

Police said Gildea arrived at the home of Berry James on McChain Court Road in Union Township around 11 p.m. – a home that Limbers now shares with her current
boyfriend, James.

A verbal confrontation escalated and Gildea pushed a window air conditioner into the
home to gain entry, police said.

This from the Brussels Journal:

Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship
From the desk of Paul Belien on Mon, 2006-02-27 21:13

Vladimir Bukovksy, the 63-year old former Soviet dissident, fears that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union. In a speech he delivered in Brussels last week Mr Bukovsky called the EU a “monster” that must be destroyed, the sooner the better, before it develops into a fullfledged totalitarian state.

Mr Bukovsky paid a visit to the European Parliament on Thursday at the invitation of Fidesz, the Hungarian Civic Forum. Fidesz, a member of the European Christian Democrat group, had invited the former Soviet dissident over from England, where he lives, on the occasion of this year’s 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. After his morning meeting with the Hungarians, Mr Bukovsky gave an afternoon speech in a Polish restaurant in the Trier straat, opposite the European Parliament, where he spoke at the invitation of the United Kingdom Independence Party, of which he is a patron.


An interview with Vladimir Bukovsky about the impending EUSSRIn his speech Mr Bukovsky referred to confidential documents from secret Soviet files which he was allowed to read in 1992. These documents confirm the existence of a “conspiracy” to turn the European Union into a socialist organization.

Coast woman charged with dumping hot oil on husband faces murder charge

Associated Press

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. - A Hancock County woman who allegedly dumped a pot of heated cooking oil on her sleeping husband last month is now facing murder charges.

Investigators said Edna May Sanders, 45, whose maiden name is Miller, fled the couple's home with their two children after allegedly dumping a pot of hot grease on her husband, leaving him with third-degree burns on more than half of his body.

Sherman Sanders spent a week in the burn center at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. After his death Friday, county investigators intensified the search for his wife.

Authorities said the two were married only a short time.

"She has family in Texas and Louisiana and that's where we are concentrating all our efforts right now," said Kenny Hurt, the county's chief investigator.

Police believe Edna Sanders heated about two quarts of household cooking oil on the stove and allowed the grease to reach a simmer while her husband slipped into a sound sleep. Then, she poured the smoldering grease over his head, face, chest and arms.

"I've been in law enforcement 14 years and that was the worse thing I've ever seen," Hancock County Sheriff's Department investigator Ricky Fayard said after the July 28 attack. "His skin was dripping off of him."

"When we got there he was in bad shape. His entire hand, the skin came off, and it looked like a glove," Fayard said.



 

This from Canda Free Press:

For too many years, the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted. They have kept African-Americans in the fold by championing affirmative action and government programs which are supposed to be helping blacks achieve economic parity. However, they ignored the fact that a number of African-Americans might care more about the Bible than about welfare benefits…more about preserving the sanctity of marriage than about protecting the planet from big business.

For decades, the black family has been under attack from incompetent public officials who attempted to make blacks beholden to the federal government through government subsidies and positions on the public payroll. After all, if you delivered the promise of a job during a campaign, you naturally have an easier time winning the job-seeker’s vote at election time. But all those government giveaways and public jobs add up, resulting in bloated budgets, sky-high deficits, and extreme taxation. And many blacks are coming to realize that Uncle Sam is giving with one hand and taking away with the other, causing them to teeter on the brink of poverty.

What’s more, the federal government’s abortion policy has decimated the African-American population. While blacks make up only about 12 percent of the population, they account for more than 40 percent of abortions.

Isn’t it ironic that Democrats would push to abort future taxpayers who might also be future Democrats?


 

From Kitten News:

"It's no wonder that feminists, the government and the mainstream media in Australia have been so quiet about the release of this new survey. It exposes a huge raft of feminist baloney,
lies and deceptions."

You can tell that the feminists and their allies are still reeling from the news. Even the Office for Women, who commissioned the thing haven't put up anything on their website about it yet and it's been nearly a week since it was released. Also, news stories about it - and all the major daily papers here in Australia ran a page about it - have even begun disappearing from Google News. It's almost as if they've taken those pages down.

The survey in question is located here:

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Personal Safety Survey


 

Below are some graphic files I've collected from the net. To the best of my knowledge all of the graphics with the execption of the Girls Are Evil Equasion and the "Men think with their penis" cartoons are okay for use on other web site.

Okay, if those of you that have been here before I've warned you about the impending economic meltdown that is about to occur.

First please visit these Googled search results:

Subprime loan


housing market

precious metal prices



Also you can look at the Happy Bachelors sub forums:

http://happybachelors.proboards102.com/index.cgi?board=finance


Partick.net Hosuing Crunch Blog

http://patrick.net/wp

From a post made by member thousandmilemargin at the Happy Bachelors Forums:

Financial Sence

http://financialsense.com

iTulip

http://itulip.com

Dr Housing Bubble.com

http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com


Sites I've found while surfing:

Dollar Collapse

http://www.dollarcollapse.com

In Debt We Trust

http://www.indebtwetrust.com

Global Hosuing Crash Forum:

http://forum.globalhousepricecrash.com

Financial Armageddon

http://www.financialarmageddon.com

Boom To Bust

http://boom2bust.com

Bank Stocks

http://www.bankstocks.com/default.asp


NYC Housing Bubble Blog

http://nychousingbubble.blogspot.com/


DC Housing Bubble Meter

http://bubblemeter.blogspot.com/

Housing Bubble Central

http://bubble.mynn.com/


Housing Doom

http://housingdoom.com/


Portland Housing Bubble Blog

http://portlandhousing.blogspot.com/

Balitmore Housing Bubble Blog

http://www.baltimorehousing.blogspot.com/

New Jersey Real Estate Report

http://njrereport.com/

The Housing Bubble Blog

http://thehousingbubbleblog.com/


Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter

http://ml-implode.com


National Bubble

http://www.nationalbubble.com/

Okay. Now that you've seen just how bad this is going to be I'm going to now let you know that you can invest in either gold, silver, platinum, and palldium bullion coins.

There are two other precious metals that can be purchased in coin form as well:



(Palladuim Maple Leaf Coins from Canada.)


Palladium coins are a form of coinage made out of the rare silver-white transition metal palladium. Palladium is internationally recognised as a form of currency under ISO 4217. Tonga commenced issuing palladium coins in 1967, which included the Tonga Palladium Hau. Since then a number of countries have issued palladium coins, including Canada, the Soviet Union, France, Russia, China, Australia and Slovakia. Most of these have been special commemorative coins

List of all palladium coins ever minted

http://www.rene-finn.de/English/palladiumtabeng.html

What about Pallaidum?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund32.html

http://www.palladiumcoins.com/coinage.html


Platinum Eagle Coin




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Platinum_Eagle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_coin

If you have little or now money do not worry. You can use a precious metals IRA Account and purchase your bullion coins:

Rollovers





IRA Rolling over a Traditional or Roth IRA into a gold-backed IRA is relatively simple. The term "rollover" actually refers to the rolling over of assets in a 401(k) plan when the employee has separated from his/her employment. Separation from employment is the key to the ability to rollover the 401(k) assets into a gold-backed IRA. If no separation has occurred, then chances are very high that the plan holder will be barred from moving the assets out of the employer's 401(k) plan. However, there are exceptions to every rule and a telephone consultation is always in order to see if the exception applies to you.




When it comes to existing IRAs, then the term "transfer" applies. Existing IRAs with banks, credit unions, stock brokerage firms or other financial service providers can be transferred directly to one of our referred trust companies. One very convenient option is to transfer either the cash in the account or the securities themselves. However, this arrangement is not always acceptable to the firm who is transferring your account. Again, for every rule there are exceptions which is why telelphone consultation is highly encouraged.

Precious metals IRA account.

http://www.usagold.com/ira.html

http://www.churchtrust.com/iraservices/Forms/IRA_PM_Investor_Q&A.pdf

http://www.certifiedmint.com/ira_investments.htm

http://www.bulliondirect.com/IRA/overview.do?gclid=CMLGg5_cx48CFShsGgod1DAF_A

http://completeira.com/?gclid=CMfotbvcx48CFQtcgQodwy1K5w

http://www.coinmag.com/archive/spring99/ira.html

http://www.encoregold.com/w-ira.html

http://www.assetstrategies.com/pages/services/precmetalsira.html

http://www.blanchardonline.com/gold_as_investment/ira_establish.php

http://www.sterling-trust.com/Default.aspx?tabid=409

https://secure.swissamerica.com/offer/IRA.php?tcode=SA-IRAbanner

Remember you can always buy your coins directly from the mint. So please feel free to visit the mint sites below to purchase coins.

European Mints:

The **complete list** is located here:

http://www.coinsheetlinks.com/coins9.htm

http://www.usmint.gov

http://www.cbr.ru/eng/bank-notes_coins/coins/

http://www.monnaiedeparis.com/

http://www.mint.ca/

http://www.royalmint.be/

http://www.riksbank.se/

http://www.riksbank.com/

http://www.qcb.gov.qa/

http://www.norges-bank.no/

http://www.nbb.be/pub/Home.htm?l=en&t=ho

http://www.fnmt.es/

http://www.pbc.gov.cn/english/

http://www.europemint.eu/

http://www.eccb-centralbank.org/

http://www.centralbank.gov.af/

http://www.cbk.gov.kw/WWW/index.html

http://www.cbb.gov.bh/cmsrule/default.jsp

http://www.bot-tz.org/

http://www.bma.gov.bh/

http://www.bct.gov.tn/

http://www.bceao.int/

http://www.banque-centrale.dj/index.php?lang=EN

http://www.bankofalbania.org/

http://www.austrian-mint.com/cms/start.php

http://www.andorra.ad/

http://www.aasfn.sm/english/english.htm

http://www.mint.fi/en/

http://www.penzvero.hu/

http://www.sedlabanki.is/

http://www.igmint.org/

Not a mint but a very good place to buy bullion coins:

Panda America

http://www.pandaamerica.com

It would also be a good idea to investigate the field of numismatics to find out more about the vaule of your coins, how to properly store them and where to purchase coins:

Littleton Coins

http://www.littletoncoin.com

There are also many collector clubs you can join and coin magazines you can read:

American Numismatic Association

http://www.money.org


Numismatic News
http://www.numismaticnews.net/


Coin World Online
http://www.coinworld.com/

and then there's.

PCGS Professional Coin Grading Service
http://www.pcgs.com/

PCGS Authorized coin dealers
http://www.pcgs.com/dealer/index.chtml

NGC Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
http://www.ngccoin.com/

http://www.amnumsoc.org/

http://www.coinworld.com/

http://www.whitmanbooks.com/

http://www.canadian-numismatic.org/

http://www.canadiancoinnews.ca/

Good luck, please be wise and prudent in your decisions and you will weather this storm well.

Thank You for reading..

If you don't know already oil is quite possibly on it's way above $120 per Barrel. Here is at least one estimate that I have gathered from the internet:

$262 Per Barrel Oil?

To come up with some likely scenarios in the event of an international crisis, his team performed what's known as a regression analysis, extrapolating the numbers from past oil shocks and then using them to calculate what might happen when the supply from an oil-producing country was cut off in six different situations. The fall of the House of Saud seems the most far-fetched of the six possibilities, and it's the one that generates that $262 a barrel.


More realistic -- and therefore more chilling -- would be the scenario where Iran declares an oil embargo a la OPEC in 1973, which Browder thinks could cause oil to double to $131 a barrel.


The lastest estimate I've heard of as of 1-9-2008 is $150 Per Barrel Oil. At this point it would be wise for you to see alternative modes of transportation.

Please visit my post below for more details:


Hybrid Vehicals - Alternative Transportation List