Ideological Glass Houses

Today, the Seattle PI criticized the Bush administration for falling back on ideology instead of science and facts on the issue of morning-after contraception.

If there's a conflict between science and political pandering, Bush officials are happy to ignore the facts, flout the law and place their faith in bringing out far-right voters.

According to the PI, the Bush administration does what Carl Rove orders on issues like this. And, I couldn't agree more. It is outrageous that the morning-after pill is a political issue and not available for people to use based on their own conscience.

But, .... on the same editorial page, the PI then whips up hysteria about the David Brame case. Brame was the police chief of Tacoma who murdered his wife and then committed suicide.

The PI says all of the information and reports regarding this case should be released to the public. The facts should come out. We agree, with emphasis on all, such as the reports and testimony that contradict the picture of Brame painted by the domestic violence industry. Brame probably was no angel, but these things almost never fit the ideological "blame the patriarchy" model pushed on us by feminists. It does not appear that his wife was an angel either.

It is ironic that the Seattle media criticize the Bush administration for being ideological and anti-science, but then turn around and push an ideological agenda on domestic violence and other so-called “women’s issues” that ignore reality. They are happy to repeat misinformation such as “1 in 3 women will suffer domestic violence in their lifetime” and “women get paid less for the same work,” even though these myths have long since been debunked.

But, when it comes to “women’s issues,” the Seattle PI (and the Times, for that matter) seems to follow the orders of feminist madrassa ideology and ignore the facts, science, and real scholarship.

Getting ideology out of public policy starts in your own glass house.

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Huh?

What? Is that Bill Hemmer I see on Fox News? Oh my ...

Looks like CNN lost their pretty boy. Perhaps CNN should adopt the name of Paula Zahn's show for the entire network: NOW.

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Put It Out of Our Misery, PLEASE!

Turns out, the Seattle Monorail Project Board hired an idiot consultant. According to the PI, here is what Phelps said:

Phelps said he's uncertain what the monorail agency and the city think is an "acceptable" plan in cost and length of repayment, but that the project should be judged on value in relieving traffic congestion.

Even the lunatics at SMP have already admitted that their circus ride will not relieve traffic congestion. But, what’s even more outrageous about Phelps’ statement is that it would appear that he is saying that financial criteria and bang-for-the-buck should not be criteria used to evaluate this useless project.

The monorail would have been cool to ride once or twice, but the novelty would wear off fast. After that, it is not a solution to any of the city’s problems. Worse, it represents an immature and irresponsible use of funds.

Somebody, PLEASE, throw in the towel on this thing! We've had enough of watching this long, agonizing death.

Meanwhile, Phelps and the SMP Board are saying they want more time. Just like a typical consultant. Since the firm he works for, Booz Allen, is making $38,000 per month to do little more than rehash SMP's make-believe numbers (which is being performed by some 22 year old jerk-off that Booz Allen is paying maybe $5,000 per month) while Phelps only has to sit in on a few Board meetings, of course he wants more time to milk this baby.

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Seattle's Silly Newspaper

The pathetic state of Seattle’s newspapers is amazing, and depressing. Seattle has one of the highest percentages of college graduates of any city in the country. We all know it because people around here love to brag about it. Yet, reading the printed media from the city is about as interesting as watching the grass grow in August.

You would think that the Seattle PI and the Seattle Times would have already caught a clue. Everyone knows .....
that their readership and circulation is in decline. Yet, these newspapers exhibit customer focus and sensitivity that makes the big airlines look good. After all, do you know of any other business that deliberately alienates its largest customer segment?

In the case of newspapers, the largest customer segment is male. There is and has been plenty of hang wringing about this fact. Of course, any Women Studies madrassa graduate would tell you that this is simply because newspapers are part of the larger patriarchal conspiracy they are so paranoid about. But, really, newspapers are just a format that is better suited to men, while women, like it or not, prefer other formats.

They say the problem is that newspapers are run by men who stereotype women when they try to write for them. I’d say that is probably true, but for the opposite reason than, say, Maureen Dowd would give. Newspapers tend to hire Women Studies madrassa graduates when they are looking for female reporters. These women are obsessed with painting women as victims. Problem is, far left feminists are hardly the “voice” of women in the country (even though they scream the loudest). Who wants to read about what a victim they are everyday? Worse, what guy wants to read about how they are victimizers every day?

So, what do the Seattle newspapers do? They turn around and alienate men as often and as vehemently as they can. That would be like the NFL alienating beer drinkers or the Oxygen network running nightly programming about bitchy women with PMS.

As usual, amateur journalist extraordinaire Nicole Brodeur provides the perfect example. Her recent column is all full of angst over the fact that restaurants prefer young and attractive women (and men for that matter) to wait on tables and behind the bar. Oh, and the larger societal problem is that ugly waitresses get tipped a lot less than attractive young waitresses.

Brodeur defines a entirely new victim group: old unattractive women that are trying to make it as cocktail waitresses. I could go on about how stupid this, but let’s just leave it at stating the obvious. Most jobs in restaurants were never designed to be long term careers. They are tailor made for the young and mobile.

Brodeur, however, wants to blame it all on men. (Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah … all over the Seattle newspapers on a daily basis). I guess she’d like to have some sort of affirmative action program for overweight and angry butch waitresses pushing fifty and a law forcing the young attractive waitresses to share their tips.

And then there is another whinny column by Susan Paynter of the Seattle PI complaining about a woman tutor loosing her job in a Seattle school. Odd that Paynter and the rest of the preaching simpletons of Seattle's media had nothing to say about the teacher who was transferred out of a Seattle public school because he was charged with harrassing the Principal. Apparently, pointing out contaminated water coming out of fountains that children drink from in the school is now harrassment. Well, that is as long as the one doing the pointing is a male and the Principal is a female.

With the space and the eyes they have available, newspapers in Seattle could do so much more, especially for their most loyal readership: men. Instead, they will continue down their path to oblivion because, well, it’s the politically correct thing to do.

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Fresh Asphalt Sighted

Have you been to Seward Park lately? It now has the nicest stretch of asphalt pavement of any road in all of Seattle on the 2.5 mile walking path that encircles the park. The walking path, which was just fine before, recently received a first-rate repaving.

Take a look at Seward Park Avenue, the road that leads down to Seward Park. Driving up that big hill is akin to the experience of 4-wheeling up a rocky hillside in a 4x4 competition. There are cracks all over the road and bumps galore.

The City did do something about the horrid state of Seward Park Avenue shortly after the top-of-the-line repaving of Seward Park’s walking path. Trucks were out spraying tar on some of the cracks.

I asked a guy on the tar crew if they were prepping the road for repaving. “Nope, just sealin’ the cracks,” was his response. Now, Seward Park Avenue is still as bad as it was, but is even uglier than before, with a squiggly black disorganized mess of tar the web of a drunken spider. It just so happens that the stretch of Seward Park Avenue I am talking about is much less than the 2.5 miles of Seward Park's parameter.

Herein is the reason nobody trusts Mayor Nickels – Protector of Nipples with a transportation project. The City has its priorities entirely fucked up. An already perfectly fine walking path in a park takes precedence over a major thoroughfare that serves the park and surrounding neighborhoods.

This is the reason that the Seattle Times is simply exhibiting wishful thinking in its editorial about supposed softening support for I-912. People want to know why they are stuck in traffic caused by the bottleneck on I-5 below the Convention Center. They want to know why it is so difficult to get onto I-5 from Downtown Seattle. Why I-90 is so often backed up.

People want to know why the only new construction on major highways is for HOV lanes, which are underutilized, while all the other lanes are a parking lot. And why Seattle’s politicians spend the transportation money already available on light rail, support the monorail debacle, and spend millions on a trolley car that serves no transportation purpose. They also want to know why Nickels is adamant about building a tunnel that will not increase road capacity through Seattle. They want to know why the previous gas tax increase did not fix these problems and how their future tax dollars will work to improve traffic congestion.

Well, drive down to Seward Park to see what is going on. Seattle politicians would rather pave a park path than pave an important road. They hate the fact that you drive a car and want to discourage in the strongest possible way since they can't quite outlaw it (which I'm sure they would if they could). They have a vision of everyone going “multi-modal.” Multi-modal is their favorite buzzword these days and it simple means, “multi-pain in the neck to get around town.” Walk to bus, wait, bus to light rail, go slow on rail to downtown, then take a taxi I guess. That’s their vision. But, check the bus stops downtown any evening and the piles of trash lying around will tell you why that vision will never work.

In the meantime, enjoy the newly paved Seward Park. It’s about the only fresh asphalt you can find around town. And, if that’s the way its gonna be, I-912 will pass with plenty of room to spare.

You want to stop I-912? Detail and codify specific projects, tell us how much they will cost and, most importantly, tell us exactly how they are going to improve traffic conditions for the typical driver.

Forget about appealing to our romantic side with dreams of sparkling water.

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Dig a Ditch

Mayor Nickels – Protector of Nipples has a guest column in the Seattle Times editorial page. Whenever he writes one of these columns, it reminds me that while I do think he is a genuinely likable guy (sort of fat and jolly), I have very little respect for his “vision” thing.

The purpose of his column is to explain to us why he wants to build a tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. As usual, he is full of clichés:

That's because we are not a city of diminished expectations. We don't just "make do." We make better. We look to the future. When we see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, we act.

The problem, of course, is that he does not give a strong economic or transportation reason for building his Tunnel of Love. These are the two essential factors, yet all he wants to talk about is “reconnecting with our gleaming waterfront.”

According to Nickels, the tunnel would cost $4 billion while a replace bridge would cost $3 billion. With just $1 billion difference, why not buy the tunnel, he asks. The former is definitely under estimated; the latter is over-estimated. But even if those numbers are correct, what are the transportation implications of each? How will each option help to make traffic move faster through the city?

The problem, unfortunately, is that Nickels and the rest of the silly Seattle politicians do not want to make traffic move faster. They want to force us to live in one of their institutionalized “urban villages” in which the city over-plans everything and leaves a drab, vanilla village (see what they are doing around planned light rail stations in the Southeast Seattle).

What we want to hear is how much money will it take to eliminate the I-5 bottleneck under the Convention Center? How much money will it take to make access to I-5 and I-90 from downtown a zip instead of like trying to find your way out of a maze? (By the way, I’ve found the Spring Street entrance to I-5 even though you shit heads in the city want to hide it.) Finally, what can we do with the Alaskan Way Viaduct that would double its capacity so that average trip time is cut in half and we all pollute less as a result?

Answers to these questions are anathema to Nickels. So, my recommendation is that we just dig a ditch to replace the Viaduct. It doesn’t need to be a tunnel. A ditch could be several lanes wide, increase capacity, and it would be below the site line to the water.

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Eve, You Have Another VW

Eve Ensler, you have another recruit! Another Vagina Warrior has been caught in action. This one is from the UK. From the look of it, UK should now stand for Undress the Kids.

A married primary schoolteacher was jailed for 15 months yesterday after admitting having sex with an underage teenage boy.

Hannah Grice, 32, pleaded guilty ….. to two counts of indecent assault on the boy, who was aged 14 and 15 at the time of the offences.

It’s sad that Hannah only got 15 months. Statutory rape of a boy is as bad, if not worse, than an adult man having sexual relations with a teenage girl.

If the girl gets pregnant, she can always have an abortion. At least she has options. But, if an adult woman gets herself pregnant by a boy, he has no options. He is at the complete mercy of his predator.

He will be made into a father with all the responsibilities that involves before he even reaches adulthood. In the state of Washington, he could find himself in jail before he graduates from high school for failing to pay imputed child support.

An adult woman, especial a teacher, should know better than to have a sex with a teenage boy. One would hope that the boy she is making an advance on is being taught by parents that having sex with an adult woman is a bad thing too, but for obvious reasons we do not expect minors to have the decision making capacity that an adult should. Moreoever, in this era when fatherhood is treated like a dirty word and government deliberately drives fathers out of the lives of children and leaves large numbers of single mother households as a result, it is too much to hope that most teenage boys are being taught what probably only a father can teach: patience and discipline to wait for the right girl.

Those that think that it is different when a boy is seduced by an adult woman because he is “gettin’ some” could not be more wrong. It’s this thrusting of the enormous responsibility of fatherhood on a mere boy that makes statutory rape of them by their female teachers so egregious. While making a circus of these sorts of sordid relationships, the mainstream media never mentions the permanent harm that is done by these predatory female teachers.

As if boys, who as a group have been failed miserably by our feminized public school system, needed another threat to their precarious futures. But, that does not matter because we can be sure that Eve Ensler is proud of Vagina Warrior Hannah Grice.

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Australia Leads the Way

The United States is far behind many other countries in so many respects. We like to call ourselves beacons of freedom, but with reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act just around the corner, we appear to be leaders in folksy fascism only.

Australia, on the other hand, is doing something about vindictive gender feminist legislation. They are making sweeping changes to their Family Law Act. Included are increased rights for non-custodial parents and penalties for false accusations of domestic violence.

Meanwhile, Seattle along with the rest of Washington State is moving in the opposite direction. Mayor Nickels – Protector of Nipples is working on his Soviet-styled five year strategic plan to “end domestic violence.” This plan pretty much puts to rest the debate about whether men and fathers still have rights within Seattle’s city limits: they don’t. And, the state is now taxing marriages in order to pay feminist madrassa educated advocates who work hard to end as many of them as they can.

All of this adds up to declining marriage rates, increasing divorces, and more than half of the region's children living in single parent homes (primarily single mother homes). This is particularly the case in King County. As with all markets (and there is a market for marriage), government involvement creates ugly and unnatural distortions.

So much for silly claims of “livability."

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They Know Their History

Jack Johnson marries Lucille

In an excellent column, Carey Roberts compares the contemporary hysteria and misplaced chivalry driving the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) with the White Slave Traffic Act passed by Congress in 1910.

The latter was a response to racist beliefs prevalent at the time that black men represented a threat to the sexual chastity of white women. The fact that Jack Johnson, a black man and the greatest and toughest boxer that ever lived, dated white women provided the impetus for the white men of Congress to act. Similarly, and perhaps more extremely, VAWA is based on the idea that all men, through an ill defined conspiracy called the patriarchy, represent a domestic physical threat to all women. Members of Congress again rise with chivalry to protect women.

Neither Act is based on reality. But, hysteria, hatred, and chivalry are powerful forces. One has to admire the political genius of gender feminists in their war against the phantasmal patriarchy. In their effort to eliminate traditional families and remake society, they have harnessed the desire of old white men to appear to be tough and protective of women. As a result, they achieve aims that are quite different from that of the underlying legislation: to batter men and fathers into a state of insecurity and fear of marriage. There does not appear to be much evidence that such a thing as a “patriarchy” exists, but the opportunity to curtail the civil rights and destroy the individual lives of men and fathers is apparently satisfaction enough.

Gender feminist deconstructionist social policy provides punishment without cause. Our current Congress implements this policy with debate more befitting the former Soviet Union than the world’s oldest democracy. But, one has to hand it to the sisterhood for being students of history. They understand the power of hysteria and the desire of men to feel they protect women.

I guess they learned something in the taxpayer funded madrassas they maintain on college campuses around the country.

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Lights Out and a Light Coming On

Update: Oh, well I feel better now. Cindy Laws is seeking "sensitivity training." Isn't that the course where you learn to hide your true feelings? Maybe she will learn something about being sensitive to the taxpayers of Seattle and work to put the Monorail debacle to sleep.

Say goodbye to your political career Cindy Laws. We always knew Seattle’s Democrat politicians bordered on fascism, but you seem to have crossed over that line in too obvious a manner. Politicians around here work harder than that to hide their true views (and corruption, in the case of Ron Sims). Looks like you’ll need to find gainful employment that does not involve spending taxpayer’s money on useless Disney rides.

Since we are on the subject of useless projects, Danny Westnut of the Seattle Times finally wrote a compelling column about mass transit. He finally seems to see the light about the fact that every transportation plan Seattle and King County come up with does too little for way too much money. Is it any wonder that passage of I-912 is pretty much a foregone conclusion?

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Nuclear Free Silly Seattle

Amidst much fanfare and cheering, Silly Seattle joined Olympia, WA by declaring itself a nuclear free zone today.

All nuclear weapons will be removed from the premises, as will nuclear waste ... and a few reactor rods of high-grade uranium that are just lying around. Furthermore, super spicy buffalo wings from Wingdome will not be permitted on the property (we have our suspicions).

While admitting that it will be difficult to enforce the ban, a green lizard from Silly Seattle said, "We believe this will have a ripple effect throughout all of the blogs of America."

The lizard continued, "We are committed to using only fuels that produce carbon dioxide." Without them, he said, we would have no way to assist the regular media in generating hysteria among the general public about global warming. Mayor Nickels – Protector of Nipples would be signing the Kyoto agreement for no reason. Ron Sims would have one less reason for his light rail boondoggle. And, the Seattle silly-rail might even die a dignified death instead of providing employment to washed up public transit hacks.

All ports of entry to Silly Seattle shall be closed to nuclear traffic too. This means YOU World Nuclear Association. We hereby forbid you to link to our blog.

Silly Seattle challenges the Seattle Silly Council to follow suite and add to its other irrelevant city ordinances. Remember, after much debate, circus animals are still legal in Seattle, so the least we can do is ban nuclear weapons in order to avoid contaminating these animals.

Where is Heidi Wills when you need her?

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Nuclear Free Olympia

Oh, God bless. Olympia declares itself nuclear free.

I wonder if terrorists will follow the nuclear free rules. Ya think?

These are the people that run our state. Any wonder the place is such a mess?

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Sims Guaranteeing Reelection

Sims declared that Logan will oversee this Fall's elections. This is despite planning to have a "turn-around" team in the King County elections department at the same time.

Normally, if you have a turn-around team in an organization, the person in charge is long gone. But, in Sims' case, Logan is his only line of defense between reelection and getting kicked out onto the street.

Here is our prediction: Sims' will pull off a squeaker.

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Mayor Nickels Wields His Wet Noodle

About freaking time Mayor Nickels - Protector of Nipples took some action on the monorail wreck. Well, given who we are talking about, one has to call it action, even though the Mayor exhibits all the firmness of a wet noodle.

Does this guy even have a noodle? I am starting to wonder. He has tested the political current on the monorail for months. He even waited until after the filing deadline for mayoral candidates so that he could make his pronouncement without political risk. This silly project does not fit into any sort of rational transportation scheme and should have been shelved when it was clear, at least to sane people, that it would not have enough money. That was two years ago.

Of course, the Mayor is not really doing something about the monorail cash hole. He is only telling the monorail nutcases to do something and he is not specifying what.

So, with that, this seems to be Nickels’ agenda for Seattle in his next term:
- Build his Tunnel of Love;
- Protect the city's nipples;
- Put as many men as possible into the patriarchy retraining gulag;
- Remove as much of the middle class as possible from the city;
- Discourage car ownership at every opportunity;
- Give Paul Allen everything he wants;
- Save the pee patches;
- Make sure everyone knows that he is sensitive;
- Sign the Kyoto treaty;
- Worship at the multi-cultural / diversity alter.

Am I missing anything?

Meanwhile, Robert Jamieson continues his frustrated rant against the monorail insanity. He tells everyone to "wake up." But, perhaps it's time for Jamieson to wake up to the fact that he is living in a town full of loonies.

Just look at Mayor Nickels - Protector of Nipples´ agenda above for proof.

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"Victims" on the Cheap

Vagina Warrior Elizabeth Coan and her defense attorneys prove yet again that when it comes to violent and thieving women, King County has nothing to offer but excuses.

A mortgage broker, Coan was in a position to obtain confidential information about her clients. She used the name and information of one of her 87-year-old clients to lease a high-end Mercedes for herself.

She was caught and faced trial. After that, she started working her son to knock off witnesses against her. But, Coan's son cooperated with police to expose her plans.

In the middle of this entire affair, her son’s girlfriend, Sadie Eggleston, shot him. Her excuse is that she was playing with the gun, which she thought was not real, and shot boy Coan by accident. After being worked over by the "women’s advocates” King County keeps on staff, the police and prosecuter have apparently bought into Eggleston’s story. She is being tried, but only for manslaughter as opposed to murder.

It’s not surprising that Coan’s son would choose a violent women as a girlfriend. His mother obviously set the example for him.

After identity thief, conspiring to murder a witness, and setting a violent example for her son, Coan was sentenced to only seven years in prison. Her defense attorney had this to say:

"She suddenly has a keen sense of what it means to be a victim," she said.

Apparently, all it takes are a few sobs by a violent woman in order to turn the tables on our malfunctioning justice system. The word “victim” has become a cheap whore. Everyone lately clamors for victim status in order to be excused of horrible misdeeds. There are victims to be seen in this story. One is dead and another will live with the insecurity of knowing his identity is as safe as a $100 bill lying on the jailhouse floor. But, Coan is a victim? With half of Seattle claiming they are victims of one thing or another, do we really need to call Coan a victim?

It takes the sort of twisted mentality that is seen in Mayor Nickels’ 5-year plan to combat domestic violence in order to call Coan a victim. Nickels’ plan embodies the gender feminist belief that all women are victims, regardless of their willful actions. Thus, Mayor Nickels and his staff of unchecked gender feminists created a special and bizarre concept called “victim-defendant.” A victim-defendant is any woman charged with a violent crime: defendent because she has been charged, but victim because something else that she is not responsible for obviously made her do it. The city feels such sympathy for these women that it actually provides legal defense assistance that goes well beyond the standard defense attorney provided for poor defendents of other crimes.

Sadie Eggleston will face her manslaughter charges in court in a month. Don’t expect much more than a slap on the wrist. She will soon be free to corrupt her own children with her cycle of violence, just as Coan was doing with her own son.

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Will Folks: What Goes Around Comes Around

It is hard to have sympathy for Will Folks of South Carolina.

Here is a guy that helped to violate the most basic civil rights of the men and fathers of his state by working with the Governer of South Carolina to "toughen" DV laws. He soon found himself ensnared in the Napoleonic legal trap of the very anti-male DV laws he helped to write.

He got into an argument in the morning with his co-habitating fiancé, who then locked him out of the house. Once he got back in, he says she blocked him as he tried to retrieve things he needed for work and she got bruised while he was trying to get by her. She called the cops.

And, now, he has learned something about being guilty until proven innocent. This sort of thing happens thousands of times per day in our country. A couple, both arguing, bump up against each other, and finally the woman in the equation calls the cops. Often, she knows that with extreme DV laws designed to combat her "patriarchal oppressor," she can do no wrong in the eyes of the law. The guy finds himself guilty until proven innocent and soon is attending a Soviet-styles reeducation camp to have the patriarchal influence reprogrammed out of him.

Seattle and King County are famous for this. The City of Seattle alone employes 11 domestic violence "advocates," which are essentially Women's Studies trained man-haters who see this as their role in the War on Patriarchy. City Attorney Tom Carr says his office spends 11% of it's budget on domestic violence and a whopping 34% of the city's criminal budget is devoted to domestic violence.

Carr was quoted by the Seattle PI saying, "We do 1,500 cases a year and spend a lot of effort to get it right." Wow. Following the gender feminist mythical rant that 95% of victims are women, most of these cases are against men. Don't be fooled by the gender neutral language in Mayor Nickels' five year plan to combat domestic violence. The 11 "advocates" employed in Seattle make sure that it does not apply to women. In the rare case that it does, the female perp is called a "victim-defendant" and prosecutors find a way out of the case.

You'd be excused for thinking that all that money, use of city attorneys, and court time, is major overkill. Worse, though, are the lives and marriages that are ruined by their "no drop" policy that turns domestic squabbles into major legal battlefronts in the War on Patriarchy. And, without such an hysteria driven approach to a over-stated problem combined with misguided solutions, perhaps King County and Seattle could be depended upon to catch the likes of Joseph Edward Duncan instead of letting him go.

Will Folks helped to create this monster in his own neck of the woods. I don't feel sorry for him, do you? Send Folks an e-mail and let him know that it serves him right.

This sort of out-of-control silliness is a disservice to the rare, but genuine cases of severe domestic abuse. (Of which, at least 40% of the victims are male). Sensible Ireland seems to recognize this, perhaps it's time we did too.

I'm looking forward to seeing more male politicians swallowed by the beast they helped to create.

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Is Seattle Really So Hopeless?

Ted Van Dyk again provides a rare voice of sanity and reason in this silly town we call Seattle. He sums up the atrocious state of affairs and wonders whether Seattle’s voters have the good sense to get rid of some of the driftwood in elected office.

This fall's local elections will tell us whether Seattle voters are terminally apathetic or whether, as seems possible, a succession of revelatory events will cause us to shake things up.

That’s impossible to hope for in the case of Mayor Nipples. Unless some sort of miracle occurs, he is essentially going unchallenged. But, he has sown a wide path of destruction nonetheless. Ranging from inaction on such things as the monorail (which he should have been against from the beginning) and taking action on his Tunnel of Love to replace that Alaskan Way Viaduct.

With the exception of Conlin, the Seattle Silly Council of mini-mayors is so laughable that it’s hard to believe that these people can win any sort of election. Meanwhile, Dwight Pelz is up for reelection to the King County Council and looking as boneheaded as ever.

Unfortunately, Pelz will probably land back on the Council, which isn’t all bad because he provides some comic relief after watching I’m-so-beautiful Larry Phillips pretend that anyone takes him seriously.

But, Sims is in a tougher spot. After the huge mess this idiot has made of King County Elections, the Critical Areas Ordinance, and his general imperialism at the helm, this guy has got to go. It would be hard for anyone to take the region seriously if Sims is reelected.

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Protestors At Patty Murray's Secret Meeting

Here are a couple of wife beaters that were protesting VAWA at Patty Murray's secret "Community Meeting."

Oh, but wait, these are women! Yes, that's right, women!

The fact that women in Washington State are against VAWA in its present form certainly has Patty Murray confused, judging by the way she ran away after holding court in her secret "Community Meeting."

Why, you ask, are women against VAWA? Well, Phyllis Schlafly says it best:

Here is some mischief in VAWA-funded activities that should be investigated in the upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

VAWA refuses to provide any help whatsoever for male victims of domestic violence. Let's hear from Professor Martin Fiebert of California State University at Long Beach who compiled a bibliography of 170 scholarly investigations, 134 empirical studies and 36 analyses, which demonstrate that women are almost as physically abusive toward their partners as men.

VAWA encourages women to make false allegations, and then petition for full child custody and a denial of all fathers' rights to see their own children.

VAWA promotes the unrestrained use of restraining orders, which family courts issue on the woman's say-so. This powerful weapon (according to the Illinois Bar Journal) is "part of the gamesmanship of divorce" and virtually guarantees that fathers are expelled from the lives of their own children.

A woman seeking help from a VAWA-funded center is not offered any options except to leave her husband, divorce him, accuse him of being a criminal, and have her sons targeted as suspects in future crimes. VAWA ideology rejects joint counseling, reconciliation, and saving marriages.

VAWA denies that alcohol and illegal drugs are a cause of domestic violence, a peculiar assumption contrary to all human experience. In fact, most domestic violence incidents involve those components.

VAWA uses a definition of domestic violence that blurs the difference between violent action and run-of-the-mill marital tiffs and arguments. Definitions of abuse can even include minor insults and refusing to help with child care or housework.

VAWA funds the re-education of judges and all law enforcement personnel to teach them feminist stereotypes about male abusers and female victims, how to game the system to empower women, and how to ride roughshod over the constitutional rights of men.

VAWA forces Soviet-style psychological re-education on men. The accused men are not given treatment for real problems, but are assigned to classes where feminists teach shame and guilt because of a vast male conspiracy to subjugate women.

VAWA-funded centers engage in political advocacy for feminist legislation such as the "must-arrest" laws even if there is no sign of violence and even if the woman doesn't want the man arrested, and political advocacy against non-feminist legislation such as shared parental rights.

It's time to stop VAWA from spending any more taxpayers' money to promote family dissolution and fatherless children.

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Disappointment in Seattle Media

Do you think Joni Balter, Susan Paynter, and Nicole Brodeuar are upset that they did not break the story first about Senator Patty Murray’s secret “Community Meeting” in Bellevue City Hall tomorrow at 1:15 PM?

They were oh-so looking forward to the chance to write about it – after the fact - while of course leaving out the secret part. This was their chance to put in a pitch for VAWA, which has every man in the State of Washington living under the oppressive control of the Seattle gender feminist establishment.

Oh, I’m sure Balter, Paynter, and Brodeur will follow their orders from Murray and Cantwell. But, before you read the silly drool of Seattle’s PC media, check out what some other woman have to say about the worst federal legislation since Jim Crow:

Phyllis Schlafly
Wendy McElroy
Trudy Schuett and here
Cathy Young
Lisa Scott
Terri Lynn Tersak

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Your Life is Eminent Domain under VAWA

Gender feminist Marianne Means often promotes the most extreme laws desired by her fellow radical feminists.

But, in a recent column, she laments the fact that the Supreme Court has ruled that a woman's house is not her castle. Eminant Domain, you see, could force an 86 year old woman to move from the home she loves. Means says:

This is not an ideological issue. The high-court majority, in fact, all came from the liberal/moderate wing. It is an issue of isolation. The justices simply didn't weigh the emotional importance of the place we call home.

So, then I take it she will use the same logic to argue the case of fathers that are ripped out of the lives of their children, not to mention their home, by false allegations? Talking about a group sitting up in their ivory tower of isolation. That is exactly what Congress looks like during its reauthorization of the Voilence Against Women Act (VAWA), the worst legislation produced by that body of government since Jim Crow's days.

Really, government has been in the process of exerting its power in the most intimate details of our precious lives for more than a decade. There is nothing new about the nature of the Supreme Court's decision on this issue.

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Patty Murray Holding Secret "Community Meeting"

Have you ever heard of a “Community Meeting” that was held in secret? Well, this is what Patty Murray and her cohorts from the King County gender feminist establishment are doing on Wednesday, August 3, from 1:15 to 2:15. They are even doing this in a public facility, Bellevue City Hall.

Following is an exclusive notice that was only sent out to those that Phyllis Schlafly says are feeding at the VAWA pork barrel. You will not find a notice of this meeting on the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence (KCCADV) web site, on Patty Murray’s web site, or anywhere else. In fact, the event is even conspicuously missing from Bellevue City Hall's calender on the web! The invitation list to this “Community Meeting” was carefully managed for obsequiousness.

You see, just like with the July 19th Senate “hearings” on the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) arranged by patriarchy fighting superhero Senator Joseph Biden, the gender feminist owned and controlled domestic violence industry of King County does not want opposing views, science, or actual facts to pollute their cult ceremony.

Now that this event is no longer a secret, I urge all of you to attend and watch how our area’s domestic violence industry propagates its myths and grinds its gender-political ax.

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You are invited to a Community Meeting with U.S. Senator Murray to discuss the Reauthorization of VAWA 2005.

Wednesday, August 3rd
1:15pm-2:15pm
Bellevue City Hall
11511 Main St (corner of Main Street & 116th Ave.)

Panelists:
Amy Bonomi, PhD, MHP, Research Associate, Group Health Cooperative
Merril Cousin, Executive Director, King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Mary Guiberson - Domestic Violence Survivor
Lindsay Palmer, Director of Education, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center
Andrea Parra, Staff Attorney, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), first passed by Congress in 1994, was introduced in the Senate for reauthorization last month. A landmark piece of legislation for women's rights, VAWA provides federal funding and protections for the prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault and assistance to survivors. VAWA (here they link to The Feminist Majority) also includes critical provisions for improvements in law enforcement and judicial response to violence against women.

This crucial piece of legislation will expire if Congress does not reauthorize it by September of 2005.

The VAWA bill introduced last month would not only reauthorize critical programs and services already in place but would also expand these provisions. For example, VAWA 2005 includes the Sexual Assault Services Act which would provide funding for direct services for sexual assault victims, including 24-hour emergency and support services.

Please attend this meeting to learn more about this important legislation and how you can support it.

King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence
1419 S. Jackson #103
Seattle, WA 98144
(206) 568-5454
fax (206) 568-5462
www.kccadv.org

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Interestingly, through the link in the invitation used to describe VAWA, KCCADV makes no secret of their association with the Feminist Majority Foundation, which is hardly known for its nonpartison politics (in other words, these people do not vote for Republicans no matter how much pork they are handed, and in addition to working to keep the VAWA money flowing, are chiefly preoccupied with fighting the confirmation of John Roberts). You won’t find any voices from organizations that oppose VAWA, such as Lisa Scott from TABS or Joe McGill from The Other Parent. Even the timing of this event - in the middle of the afternoon - is designed to keep working fathers away. Debate is not allowed when ideology is at the center of an event.

A Soviet-styled "Community Meeting" is required because VAWA is based on distortions, exaggerations, myths, and above all, misandry. The recent brutal murder of Kao Vang Saeteurn by his girlfriend and mother of his children, Nai Wang Saeteurn, and many similar murders and attempted murders of men by women in Washington State, counter the women-as-victim mantra of the gender feminist controlled domestic violence industry.

Meanwhile, VAWA has inspired the obliteration of the most basic rights of the male half of the population. Fathers are forcibly removed from their homes and children's lives using unfounded allegations by women in family court as a divorce tactic. Often, these fathers are never able to see their children again. Police officers are fired as they loose their right to carry a firearm based solely on an allegation. Women abusers are labeled victim-defendents by “advocates” living within the Prosecutors office and released from prosecution, often to return to a home to abuse children who no longer have a father to help stem the tide.

All the while, the sycophantic Seattle media plays along, giving voice only to those calling for even more extreme abuse of Constitutional rights. And, while the media occasionally laments the lack of fathers in households, and blames the fathers solely, a connection is never made between the hostile environment created for fathers and families in King County and the fact that close to half of the region’s children grow up without fathers in the household.

And, somehow, women are never to blame. Despite the fact that women are more than 30 times more likely to abuse children than biological fathers. Fathers are treated as anethma to families even though statistically the safest and most successful children in the country are those that live with their biological father. In fact, Mayor Nickels calls the removal of fathers from the household "creating strong families." Whatever, guy.

Stephan Baskerville sums up the sad state of federal gender politics in a recent column. It is no surprise that you would find Patty Murray at the center of the gender political maelstrom, as she makes no secret of her disdain for the men and fathers of Washington State.

But, Representative David Reichert – who counts on the vote of fathers but then stabs them in the back from inside the beltway – is a hard person to forgive. Reichert may well be the first elected official to suffer politically for his pandering to the Seattle gender feminist establishment.

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