Saturday, July 31, 2010

Kirby Fantastic Four Covers

I was obsessed with these comics when I was a kid.I didn't start buying them until 1966. Before that I thought the drawings were too bizarre.Once I got hooked I wanted to buy all the back issues.Luckily, in those days there was always a garage sale every weekend where some kid would be selling all his comics for a penny each so I went and bought all the issues dating back to the beginning.It was

Phyllis Schlafly: The Awesome Power of Family Courts

The month of June when we observe Father's Day is a good time to review some of the injustices committed against fathers by family courts. Family courts routinely deprive divorced fathers not only of their own children, but even many constitutional rights.

For example, do you think judges should have the power to decide to which religion your children must belong and which churches they may be prohibited from attending? In December 2009 a Chicago judge did exactly that.

Cook County Circuit Judge Edward Jordan issued a restraining order to prohibit Joseph Reyes from taking his three-year-old daughter to any non-Jewish religious activities because his ex-wife argued that would contribute to "the emotional detriment of the child." Mrs. Rebecca Reyes wants to raise her daughter in the Jewish religion, and the judge sided with the mother. Joseph Reyes' divorce attorney, Joel Brodsky, when he saw the judge's restraining order, said, "I almost fell off my chair. I thought maybe we were in Afghanistan and this was the Taliban."

Mr. Reyes took his daughter to church anyway and let the Chicago media know about it. Soon he was back in court to be prosecuted for contempt in violating the family court order. The good news is that Reyes, fortunately, drew another Cook County judge, Renee Goldfarb, who ruled on April 13, 2010 that Reyes can take his daughter to "church services during his visitation time if he so chooses." Judge Goldfarb said her decision to let Reyes take his daughter to church was based on "the best interest of the child," but then criticized Reyes for going public with his case.

This case is a good illustration of the dictatorial power of the family courts. Both judges purported to decide what church a child can attend based on the judge's personal opinion about what is "the best interest of the child." The choice of a church should be none of the government's business, even if the parents are divorced, and "best interest" should be decided by parents, not judges.

Not only did the family court try to take away a father's parental rights and his freedom of religion rights, but also his First Amendment free-speech rights. The second judge severely criticized Reyes for telling the media about his case. But publicity was the reason the family court backtracked from sending Reyes to jail for violating the restraining order. It's important to shine the light of publicity on the outrageous denial of parental rights by the family courts.

In another divorce case last year, a family court in New Hampshire (where the state motto is "Live Free or Die") ordered ten-year-old Amanda Kurowski to quit being homeschooled by her mother and instead to attend fifth grade in the local public school. Judge Lucinda V. Sadler approved the court-appointed expert's view that Amanda "appeared to reflect her mother's rigidity on questions of faith" and that Amanda "would be best served by exposure to multiple points of view."

Where did family court judges get the power to decide what church and what school the children of divorced parents must attend? Family court judges have amassed this extraordinary power by co-opting and changing the definition of a time-honored concept: "the best interest of the child."

This rule originally came from English common law as compiled by William Blackstone in 1765, and meant that parents are presumed to act in their own children's best interest. For centuries, English and American courts honored parents' rights by recognizing the legal presumption that the best interest of a child is whatever a fit parent says it is, and should not be second-guessed by a judge.

However, when U.S. state legislatures revised their family-law statutes in the 1970s, the "best interest of the child" became disconnected from parents' decisions. Family courts assumed the discretion to decide the best interest of children of divorced and unmarried parents, and enforce their opinions by using their power to send fathers to jail and to tell them how they must spend their money.

The notion that persons other than parents should decide what is in a child's best interest is illustrated by the slogan "it takes a village to raise a child." Those who use that slogan understand "village" to mean government officials and employees of the courts, the public schools, and the departments of children and family services.
The "best interest" rule is totally subjective; it's a matter of individual opinion. Parents make thousands of decisions about their children, and should have the right to make their decisions even if they contravene so-called experts. Whether the decision is big (such as where to go to church or school), or small (such as playing baseball or soccer), there is no objective way to say which is "best."

Since judges are supposed to base their decisions on evidence presented in open court, and there is no objective basis for deciding thousands of questions involved in raising a child, judges often call on the testimony of expert witnesses. A big industry has grown up of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, custody evaluators, and counselors who are eager to collect fees for giving their opinions. Having opinions produced by persons with academic degrees is a way to make subjective and arbitrary judgments appear objective. With the volume of cases coming through family courts, judges can evade responsibility for controversial decisions by rubber-stamping opinions of these court-appointed experts.

Sometimes these rulings are against women, but most decisions are against men, especially fathers. It's time to call a halt to the practice of letting family court judges make decisions that are rightfully the prerogative of parents.


Putting Men in Debtors' Prisons
 
Did you know that a family court can order a man to reimburse the government for the welfare money, falsely called "child support," which was paid to the mother of a child to whom he is not related? Did you know that, if he doesn't pay, a judge can sentence him to debtor's prison without ever letting him have a jury trial?
Did you know that debtor's prisons (putting men in prison because they can't pay a debt) were abolished in the United States even before we abolished slavery, but that they exist today to punish men who are too poor to pay what is falsely called "child support"?

Did you know that when corporations can't pay their debts, they can take bankruptcy, which means they pay off their debts for pennies on the dollar, but a man can never get an alleged "child support" debt forgiven or reduced, even if he is out of a job, penniless and homeless, medically incapacitated, incarcerated (justly or unjustly), can't afford a lawyer, serving in our Armed Forces overseas, or never owed the money in the first place?

Did you know that when a woman applying for welfare handouts lies about who is the father of her child, she is never prosecuted for perjury? Did you know that judges can refuse to accept DNA evidence showing that the man she accuses is not the father? Did you know that alleged "child support" has nothing to do with supporting a child because the mother has no obligation to spend even one dollar of it on a child, and in many cases none of the "support" money ever gets to a child because it goes to fatten the payroll of the child-support bureaucracy? These are among the injustices that the feminists, and their docile liberal male allies, have inflicted on men.


Most of these family court injustices are caused by the Bradley Amendment, named for its sponsor former Democratic Senator from New Jersey and presidential candidate Bill Bradley. That 1986 federal law prohibits retroactive reduction of alleged "child support" even in the circumstances listed above. The Bradley law denies bankruptcy protections, overrides all statutes of limitation, and forbids judicial consideration of obvious inability to pay. Most Bradley-law victims never come to national attention because, as Bernard Goldberg wrote in his book Bias, mainstream media toe the feminist propaganda line, denigrating men, especially fathers, and using the epithet "deadbeat dads."

But one egregious case did make news in 2009. Frank Hatley was in a Georgia jail for more than a year for failure to pay alleged "child support" even though a DNA test nine years earlier, plus a second one in 2009, proved that he is not the father. His ex-girlfriend had lied and claimed he was. The August 21, 2001 court order, signed by Judge Dane Perkins, acknowledged that Hatley is not the father, but nevertheless ordered him to continue paying and never told him he could have a court-appointed lawyer if he could not afford one.
Hatley subsequently paid the government (not the mom or child) thousands of dollars in "child support." Even after he was laid off from his job unloading charcoal grills from shipping containers and reduced to living in his car, he continued making payments out of his unemployment benefits.


But he didn't pay enough to satisfy the avaricious child-support bureaucrats, so Judge Perkins ruled Hatley in contempt of court and sent him to jail without any jury trial. With the help of a Legal Services lawyer, he was released from jail and relieved from future assessments, but (because of the Bradley Amendment) the government demanded that Hatley continue paying at the rate of $250 a month until he paid off the $16,398 debt the government claimed he accumulated earlier (even though the court then knew he was not the father). He paid the debt down to $10,000 but was jailed for six months in 2006 for falling behind on payments during a period of unemployment. When he became unemployed and homeless in 2008, he was jailed again.
Altogether, Hatley paid so-called "child support" for 13 years and spent 13 months in jail because of a woman's lie, the Bradley Amendment, the ruthless "child support" bureaucracy, and the bias of the family court against fathers.

In 2009, the court relieved Hatley of any future child support payments (probably because of press publicity about this case) but did not restore his driver's license. This system is morally and constitutionally wrong and the Bradley Amendment is particularly evil, yet all authorities say the court orders were lawful.

Another type of feminist indignity is the use in divorce cases of false allegations of child sexual abuse in order to gain child custody and the financial windfall that goes with it. Former Vancouver, Washington, police Officer Ray Spencer spent nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted of molesting his two children who are now adults and say it never happened.
 
The son, who was 9 years old at the time, was questioned, alone, for months until he said he had been abused in order to get the interrogator to leave him alone. The daughter, who was then age 5, said she talked to the interrogator after he gave her ice cream.

There were many other violations of due process in Spencer's trial, such as prosecutors withholding medical exams that showed no evidence of abuse, and his court-appointed lawyer failing to prepare a defense, but the judge nevertheless sentenced Spencer to two life terms in prison plus 14 years. Spencer was five times denied parole because he refused to admit guilt, a customary parole practice that is maliciously designed to save face for prosecutors who prosecute innocent men.


Depriving Men of Constitutional Rights
 
Family courts routinely deprive men of their fundamental right to parent their own children, by charging them with a wide variety of trivial offenses. Family courts generally uphold feminists' demands to kick a man out of his own home, and take control of their children and his money, based on a woman's unsubstantiated allegations. The principal tactics in this racket are domestic violence accusations and court-issued restraining orders.

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was passed in 1994 as a payoff to the radical feminists for helping to elect Bill Clinton President in 1992. Personal sponsorship of this law was taken over by then-Senator Joe Biden.

VAWA shows the hypocrisy of noisy feminist demands that we kowtow to their ideology of gender neutrality, to their claim that there is no difference between male and female, and to their opposition to stereotyping and gender profiling. There is nothing sex neutral about VAWA. It is based on the proposition that there are, indeed, innate gender differences: men are naturally batterers and women are naturally victims. VAWA is not designed to eliminate or punish violence, but to punish only alleged violence against women. Most of the shelters financed by VAWA do not accept men as victims.


VAWA has been known from the getgo as "feminist pork" because it puts $1 Billion a year of U.S. taxpayers' money into the hands of the radical feminists. They have set up shop in domestic violence shelters where they promote divorce, marriage breakup, hatred of men, and false accusations, while rejecting marriage counseling, reconciliation, drug-abuse treatment, and evidence of mutual-partner abuse. There is no investigation or accountability for the taxpayers' money spent in these shelters.


VAWA makes taxpayers' money available to the feminists to lobby state legislators to pass feminist laws, to train law enforcement personnel and judges in using the laws, and to fund enforcement.
VAWA provides the woman with free legal counsel to pursue her allegations, but not the man to defend himself. He is on his own to find and pay a lawyer — or struggle without one.


Feminists have changed state laws in order to get family courts to operate on a loosey-goosey definition of family violence. It doesn't have to be violent. It can simply be what a man says or how he looks at a woman. It can even be what a woman thinks he might do or say. Definitions of violence include calling your partner a naughty word, raising your voice, causing "annoyance" or "emotional distress," claiming to be "fearful," or just not doing what your partner wants.

Feminists have persuaded most states to adopt mandatory arrest laws. That means, when the police arrive at a disturbance and lack good information on who is to blame, they are nevertheless legally bound to arrest somebody. Three guesses who is usually arrested.

Feminists have lobbied most states into passing no-drop prosecution laws. Those laws make the prosecutor legally bound to go forward with prosecution even if the woman recants her charges or wants to drop them. Studies show that women do recant or ask to drop the charges in 60% of criminal allegations, but the law requires prosecution against the man to proceed regardless. Along with the loss of other constitutional rights, the man thus loses his right to confront and cross-examine his accuser.

VAWA has a built-in incentive for the woman to make false charges of domestic violence because she knows she will never be prosecuted for perjury. Charging domestic violence practically guarantees she will get custody of the children and sever forever the father's relationship with his children even though the alleged violence had nothing whatever to do with any abuse of the children. Judges are required to consider allegations of domestic violence in awarding child custody, even though no evidence of abuse was ever presented.

'Gamesmanship' of Restraining Orders
 
Family court judges issue restraining orders virtually for the asking, without any evidence of actual domestic violence or even threat of violence. The Illinois Bar Journal (June 2005) explained how women use court-issued restraining orders as a tool for the mother to get sole child custody and to bar the father from visitation. In big type, the Journal proclaimed: "Orders of protection are designed to prevent domestic violence, but they can also become part of the gamesmanship of divorce."


The "game" is that mothers can assert falsehoods or trivial complaints against the father, in order to get a restraining order based on the presumption that men are naturally abusers of women. Restraining orders are in reality a tactical legal maneuver familiar to all family court attorneys as a way to obtain an order of contempt and unfairly increase the leverage of one side (typically the woman) in bargaining with the other (typically the man).

The Fourth Amendment guarantees U.S. citizens the right to be "secure in their persons, house, papers, and effects." But each year, restraining orders are issued against at least two million men without proof or even evidence, forcing innocent men out of their homes. In 33 states, fathers can be thrown in jail for even a technical violation of a restraining order, such as sending a child a birthday card or telephoning a child on an unapproved day.

Family courts have avoided facing up to whether the restraining orders issued against fathers are constitutional. Accused criminals enjoy a long list of constitutional rights, but feminists have persuaded judges to issue orders that restrain actions of non-criminal husbands and fathers, and punish them based on flimsy, unproved accusations. Most states do not require proof by a clear and convincing standard of evidence. Even though these restraining orders are issued without the due process required for criminal prosecutions, they carry the threat of a prison sentence for anyone who violates them.

The New Jersey Law Journal reported that an instructor taught judges to be merciless to husbands and fathers, saying, "Throw him out on the street, give him the clothes on his back, and tell him 'See ya' around.'" People have a better chance to prove their innocence in traffic court than when subjected to a restraining order.

Too often, the restraining order serves no legitimate purpose, but is just an easy way for one spouse to get revenge or the upper hand in a divorce or child custody dispute. Once a restraining order is issued, it becomes nearly impossible for a father to regain custody or even get to see his own children. That is the result even though the alleged domestic violence (which doesn't have to be physical or proven) did not involve the children at all.

Probably two million restraining orders are issued each year in domestic relationships. These restraining orders almost certainly increase violence and harm, because studies show that the safest place for adults and children is in a home with two parents, rather than one that is broken by a restraining order. In 1999 there were 58,200 abductions of children by non-family members, a crime typically the direct result of inadequate adult supervision. When an adult is ordered out of a home based on some allegation of domestic violence, the children in that home are no longer supervised, and victimization by crime (and accidents) necessarily increases.

There is no evidence that the millions of restraining orders issued annually each year increase the overall safety of the applicants or their children, and most likely the opposite is true.

It is false to claim that because domestic violence often occurs behind closed doors, it is somehow difficult to prove. In fact, real domestic violence is easier to prove than most crimes. Medical record and forensic evidence is clear and convincing for real domestic violence, and the time and place of the crime are easy to determine, and a restraining order may be appropriate.

What is difficult is to disprove false allegations of non-serious domestic violence, so a higher standard of proof is essential to sift fact from fiction.

It seems elementary that husband and fathers who are accused of crimes by their wives or girl friends should have the same constitutional rights accorded to any criminal, but they do not in family courts. They are routinely denied equal treatment under law, the right to a fair trial, the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, the right to confront accusers, and a court-appointed lawyer when they can't afford to hire an attorney.
It's time to restore basic constitutional rights to husbands and fathers and repudiate the feminist agenda that treats men as guilty unless proven innocent.

VAWA will be coming up for reauthorization soon, and it must be reformed. Reforming the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is today's basic civil rights issue. Domestic violence must be redefined to mean violence. State laws must be changed to repeal mandatory arrest laws and no-drop prosecution laws. We must eliminate the incentives for false accusations of domestic violence, which include using restraining orders as the "gamesmanship" for divorce, child custody, money, or ownership of the family home.


Persons accused of domestic violence, man or woman, are entitled to have fundamental constitutional rights, including due process and presumption of innocence until proven guilty by clear and convincing evidence in court.

http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2010/june10/psrjune10.html

Friday, July 30, 2010

Your Favorite Comic Titles

Alley Oop had the best dinosaur and jungle drawings.No one can forget Catman.Felix and the bulb-noses - a kid favorite.Henry was once beloved by millions. The "Funniest Living American". He doesn't have a mouth. Is he Popeye's bastard son?.Smokey Stover must be the wackiest comic ever. A big influence on Clampett.I love this Oswald drawing!Comics are for everybodyWalt Kelly Snow WhiteDon't you

Ukrainian Ranger Mating Urges

Yes, every spring the Rangers come out of hibernation to spread their pheromones around the Urals.The garish males perform spectacular displays to impress the blander female of the species.Ranger Horst goes all out, puffing his breast, spreading his feathers and finally extending his perfume bladder which emits a pungent odor - offensive to we civilized folk, but quite pleasant to female Rangers

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Look What's Coming

Actual good printsUncropped!No DVNRNo Line ThinningNo Grain RemovalJust the films as they were meant to be seen

Quick someone give me an award for being the most self-absorbed blogger!

Took a ton of camwhoring shots when I was doing my last essential advert so here they are!!

I made a lot of stupid faces.

Also, numbered for your easy criticism/reverence. See? I'm so considerate. Now instead of saying "In the fourth photo from bottom you look like a whore with ebola" you can just say "In photo 19 you look like a whore with ebola". Nice!
















































That's all folks!!


p/s: LOL Hilarious follower on twitter suggested I really put a photo of a whore with ebola as photo 19 so I went to google image "whore with ebola" and all I got were super gory photos wtf. So yeah, I guess ebola is not really that funny, ahem.

p/p/s: Also generated a photo of Paris Hilton.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

I'll Be At the Flagstaff Film Festival

Join me at the Flagstaff Film Festival in Arizona, Saturday August 14th!!!A brand new independent film festival.JOHN K. PRESENTS A KIDDIE MATINEE shows from 1:00 - 2:30 PM at the historic Orpheum Theater in downtown Flagstaff, Arizona.I suggested this event because I remembered that when I was a kid, they used to have Saturday matinees with old cartoons, comedy shorts and dinosaur movies. I

I like this Harvey artist too

This is the other Harvey artist that draws the characters in a really appealing style.http://davekarlenoriginalartblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/steve-muffatti-friends-salute-to-unsung.html

Los Lobos

Their new album 'Tin Can Trust' is due out on Aug. 3.

More here: First Listen: Los Lobos, 'Tin Can Trust' : NPR

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Monday, July 26, 2010

Burka Ban: Syria 1 England 0 by Dr Helen Bright 26/7/2010


Predictably, England remains backward when it comes to social justice and interestingly, national security. Syria has banned the wearing of burka in public places but UK has not.
Burka has been banned in many countries before eg socialist states. Some Arabic states, where Muslims are the majority faith holders, have also banned burka for a variety of reasons: security as well as allegedly some respect for women to be more free.
I read various arguments for and against burka.
My thinking is along these lines:
1. Burka unjustifiably segregates men and women. We know that millions of women are telling men every day what to wear and what not to wear. Men, usually, do obey. Women cannot use the excuse of wearing burka just to look a total mess underneath it. It is not fair to men! And to women who see a lot of self-neglected women.
2. Burka gives false impression that men are in charge. All the evidence of chaos in our world shows nobody is in control, but that the second principle of thermodynamic dominates matters. Please, read about it here.
3. It is a security risk. Criminals and terrorists can and do use it to hide their identity.
4. Women can make rude faces while hiding behind the veil and that is not honest communication. In fact, burka prevents effective communication. General Medical Council in London is very keen on effective communication. They blew it up when it came to the wearing of Christian religious dress and working with mentally ill (now one million men have been raped by Catholic clergy world wide and some of these men find the sight of religious uniforms panic provoking. Those who have panic attacks have twice as high mortality rates from cardiac arrests)
5. It is unsuitable for dining out etc. Burka looks silly in a swimming pool. Not dignified. Not fair to ice cream sellers, either.
6. It is not very good (protective) when it comes to radioactive radiation as it absorbs more radiation energy and causes more damage to the body. Look at the radiation burns on the body of a Japanese woman (photo above right) and how the pattern of radiation skin damage matches the pattern on her dress. Where the fabric is darker in colour it has absorbed more radiation. This is also interesting, as the last time I visited one Arab country, I noted some Arab men wearing long white shirts while women are dressed in black burka. In Saudi Arabia women do have reduced life expectancy compared to men. I am not aware that anybody thought of burka contributing to decreased life expectancy for women.
In Afganistan where one finds white burkas (and blue) women have slightly increased life expectancy over men, but still both sexes have life expectancy of only 44 years.

Free: Clampett Frame Grabs To Study

Here are some great frame grabs from Clampett cartoons thanks to Chris Lopez. His site is a wonderful resource for cartoon and comic lovers.Daffy in his absolute prime. Look what an appealing design that is!More teeth in Clampett cartoons.Best eyes.Funniest poses- this is McKimson here! He never drew like that in his own cartoons!This is the best cud chewing scene ever animated. Chris..please put

Mythology of abused Women in Quebec, Canada

The Feminists in Quebec, aided by your taxpayers dollars supplied through Status of Women Canada and Quebec's own Provincial Government are not unlike feminists organized every where tax dollars are available. They malign, impugn, and lie about maleness and masculinity and don't care how they destroy men and boys. Their mythological victim status is all that matters. Did you know testosterone is not found to be causally linked to male aggression? I thought not.

They want the public at large to believe that masculinity is a malignant curse on society and everyone would be better off if all were feminized. In the 20-30 age group of Ontario's teachers females outnumber males over 4-1. In elementary levels it is higher. Boys, who in 90% of divorces, are in the physical custody of mom, seldom see a male role model through their emotional growth as dads are marginalized and cast off as visitors. Most, if lucky , see their children 14% of the time. 

Feminist spin is demagoguery and propaganda at its worst. They learned well from those, of the past, who used propaganda to destroy whole ethnic groups.  It matters not that single moms are the sole largest perpetrators of child neglect, abuse and homicide. It matters not females are shown to be in large studies 70% most likely to initiate intimate partner violence in non-reciprocal situations, and DV is pretty much equal between genders.  (Search this blog for the real truth).  The MSM and the public at large, having being subject to the propaganda for over 30 years believe the nonsense. Mendacity has never deterred a feminist.

Women’s Shelters are found throughout Canada. There are an estimated 550 to 569 of them across the land and they are represented in every province and territory.

Canada’s Budget to keep these shelters operational is $377 million annually (Stascan 2005-2006)

Stats Can states  In 2008 the percentage of abused women reporting domestic violence by male partner = 8%

In 2008 percentage of abused men reporting domestic violence by female partner = 7 %

Number of Shelters for abused Men in Canada = 1 (privately run. In Calgary, Alberta)
Canada’s budget for men’s shelters = $ 0
Whenever you see a feminist use the term women and "children" (the latter of whom are abused more often by females in domestic situations) you have found a Life Boat Feminist (LFB) (see the right side bar for definitions).
Thanks to Barbara Kay for helping to highlight the myths of feminist dogma. To suggest (by me) this idolatry of the feminine borders on religious zealotry is not far off the mark. 

For example, how long does your female partner spend getting ready to go some where compared to you? How many different products does she use to prepare for a day or night out?  Do you think there is a  healthy market for these products? Who do you think marketers target with respect to shopping. Why do you think they don't care about men unless it is to buy a pickup or watch sports?MJM






The Métropolitain

 

300,000 abused

By Barbara Kay on July 22, 2010


“A bad statistic,” says sociologist Joel Best, “is harder to kill than a vampire.” Bad statistics come from bad intellectual faith. And in no field does bad intellectual faith run more rampant than that of domestic violence.
In an up-to-date example of the phenomenon, we find the “World Soccer Abuse Nightmare” out of England, in which the British Home Office carelessly endorsed a bogus study put forward by England’s Association of Chief Police Officers, purporting to find that a full 30 per cent increase in domestic violence (DV) during the World Cup. A subsequent investigation by reliable scholars found the so-called study to be riddled with errors and corrupt methodology.
domestic-violence-25394980.jpgThe World Cup stats fiasco recalls the 1993 Super Bowl hoax, when it was “reported” that DV escalated by 40 per cent during the game, a falsity that tore through the media like wildfire, to the point that the Super Bowl was hyped by NBC as the “abuse bowl.” Only a single Washington Post reporter tracked the figure to its source in a casual remark at a press conference by an irresponsible feminist activist. It was completely bogus, but the pernicious rumour circulates every year, despite 17 years of statistical tracking that reveals the same constant message: There is no substantiation whatsoever to any sports-DV linkage.

Here in Quebec, we have our own equally persistent scandalous version of this hoax. In 1980, a false statistic was promoted by a supposedly scholarly study (Macleod et Cadieux, 1980, later conceded to be based on false statistics), to the effect that one Canadian woman in ten is beaten by her husband or live-in partner.

The unkillable “vampire” morphed into another false statistic circulated by the Minister of Social Affairs. Now, the message was that there are 300,000 victims of DV in Quebec each year. Anyone with common sense, thinking of the enormity of this charge, would realize this was an astronomical figure and highly suspect in a population of at most 8 million people – far less when you subtract the men, the very young and the elderly.

But strategically it made sense for political militants to fear-monger amongst Quebec women in order to pave the way for social changes feminists were demanding. In 2008, Quebec upped the ante in the fear-mongering game by flooding the province with print, radio and TV ads claiming that “one in three” Quebec women would be a victim of DV in her lifetime, another patent falsehood (it’s more like a lifetime risk of one in 14, which doesn’t take into account the obvious spread of the risk: A probable zero likelihood for most prudent women and the probable 90 per cent risk for prostitutes and drug addicts).

That one-in-three “statistic” was based not in research, but in an opinion poll asking women what their perception was of their risk for DV. Moreover, they included in their definition of DV such trivialities as insults, the way men looked at them and any number of subjective categories all supposedly part of a spectrum of abuse. No attempt whatsoever was made to gauge how much abuse is perpetrated against boys and men by women, even though the numbers of such sexual and physical assaults is significant.

How such a demonization of all males might affect actual boys and men psychologically, or how it might affect society’s perception of sons, brothers, fathers and husbands never came under consideration.
For an in-depth exploration of the phenomenon – that is, the whole phenomenon of the demonization of the male sex, of which false statistics are but the tip of a treacherous iceberg – I recommend a recently published anthology of essays, 300,000 Femmes Battues: y avez-vous cru? Full disclosure: I wrote the preface to it.
The book brings together Quebec’s leading researchers and “good faith” intellectuals on the subject of feminism’s crusade against men, each one expanding on the effects of radical feminism in his or her own field. The problem is approached from all sides: philosophical (François Brooks); juridical (Georges Dupuy); political (researchers Jean-Claude Boucher and Jean-Pierre Gagnon); familial (Lise Bilodeau); media (Bob Lérétik); and historic (Jean-Philippe Trottier).

Feminists in Quebec are far better organized for political action in Quebec, because women politicians, for historic reasons having to do with the Quiet Revolution, have been at their game longer and with greater focus than their sisters in the ROC. Their influence is widespread and deep and in many ways corrupt as a result of too much political power concentrated in the hands with those of a monolithic view of society that excludes men’s rights, and increasingly fewer scruples in whatever methods it takes to further the interests of women.
Meanwhile, boys are dropping out of school like flies, Quebec male suicide numbers are alarmingly high, and sexually abused boys and men have nowhere to turn for help. But escalating millions upon millions of public dollars are lavished on women’s problems, real and imagined.

The abandonment of boys and men in Quebec is an orphan topic that deserves a little more media gruel. This is the first credible book to gather all the topic’s important background and relevant information in one volume. It won’t get the attention it deserves, alas, but that it exists at all is a hopeful sign that intellectual good faith on this thorny subject may yet have its day in the court of public opinion, so long dominated by the feminist movement’s merchants of duplicity.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Beautiful People 25

Important pelvic wrinkle mechanics.The way girls' arms bend backwards always baffles me. I'd like to get a cartoon version of this but I'm struggling to figure out how it works. I toned it down too.

Canada's National Treasures

Did you know that Canada produced both the world's greatest actor and the greatest supermarket?I was molded by these commercials and there are even earlier and more thrilling Shatner/Loblaws commercials. Are there some Canadian commercial collectors out there? Help educate the world and share our cultural heritage. I'd also love to see the old Dominion commercials too. With the "Mainly because

Friday, July 23, 2010

This Guy

Does All This Human Drawing Help Cartooning?

Honestly, I'm not sure yet.I'm realizing that I use a whole different type of thinking when I copy live humans (or photos of them) than when I draw cartoon characters and I haven't yet figured out how to link the two types of reasoning.Boy I see even more mistakes when I compare the drawings to the photos after I blog them. Like many cartoonists I tend to shrink open spaces when I copy real

Thursday, July 22, 2010

4am...

A good friend of mine just recently lost his mother. So I'm right here right not accompanying him through the first night of the ceremony at the funeral parlour. It's quite sad because his family are all overseas and they can only make it by Friday or maybe Saturday, so it's been friends visiting and paying their respects to his mom.

I can say that I do know her personally, very cheerful and talkative lady. It was quite sudden that she would pass away just like that but I can say that she has lived a full 76 years. My friend is holding it in as much as he can trying not to tear. If something like this were to happen to me. I think I would be crying rivers.

But all and all, I hope everything will turn out better though, for me and for my friend.

Peace

xoxo

Jeffrey James

Caricaturing The Body

Sure, people have funny heads but doesn't the body deserve some ridicule as well?I remember when I was a caricaturist at a theme park during summer break, my caricature boss told me what I was doing wrong: "You aren't drawing the heads big enough. A 'caricature' is when you draw a really big head and a small body. - oh and you take one feature -like the nose, and you make that really big too. -

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Smoking

I was just thinking about how anti-smoking campaigns are always going via the "soft" approach. You know, how it's like an addiction and there are hotlines, support groups and nicotine patches to help smokers quit.

Like they are going through some kind of unfortunate crisis.

Sure, there are also damn ugly photos on cigarette packets and maybe they work, but after a while, they lose their impact too! Honestly when I look at the photo of the reddish baby that looks like the baby octopus cold dish they serve at restaurants, all I think is, "URGH! That's hideous. I bet it's photoshopped for dramatic effect."

And when smokers see a photo of an abused, tarred lung, you think they pause and imagine that lung inside them and decide to quit?

No way. All these are effects that are not instant, so what happens is that they decide they will eventually quit, but not today. What's another week of smoking gonna do to a lung that's already soot black?

When you want people to quit smoking, you need to give them bloody good reasons, and because a lot of these reasons are not POLITICALLY CORRECT, nobody ever says them.

Well now I'm going to.

The most obvious of all is that nobody likes smokers except other smokers.

Yeah, I said it. Smoking makes people dislike you. For every smoker in Singapore there are 9 non-smokers. And ALL these 9 non-smokers will prefer it if their smoker friend did not smoke anymore.

Obviously I don't mean that every non-smoker hates smokers. I have smoker friends. I'm just saying that I'd like then even better if they don't smoke. For example, if I have to only pick one friend to go on a free holiday with me, and I like both smoker and non-smoker friend equally, I'd pick the non-smoker friend. Why? Coz even if my smoker friend is really considerate, I still have to wait for him to finish smoking, thus eating up my holiday time. He'd ask if we can eat outdoors when I like indoors aircon and I don't like to have to reject people. I'd be alone while he smokes, etc.

Of course the opposite is true that smokers also prefer to have smoking friends but non-smokers WAY outnumber smokers.

So...

Here are eleven demotivational posters I created!!

I give all anti-smoking campaign folks permission to use them coz they are way better than your posters, though, please credit me, thanks.
























I guess the tone of the last poster is a little different from the rest because I read up on how smoking while being pregnant can cause so much harm to an innocent baby and I got so fucking upset and angry with these horribly selfish people I actually cried wtf.

Yeah so stop smoking, NOW!

Or don't ever start, even better.

POSTNOTE: Why are adamant smokers telling me they don't care what non-smokers think of them? YOUR OPINIONS ARE IRRELEVANT to this blog entry. Who cares if you care that people dislike you? I'm just telling you we do, full stop.

POSTNOTE 2:
Retards are telling me my statistics are wrong. They are accurate, and from various sources. If you wish to verify them, go google. And keep in mind when I say that 88% of Singaporeans don't smoke, this also includes children, babies, and thousand year old grannies.

RELOCATION

Hey guys,

I am terrible at blogging, so I have started afresh over at www.sixkilosofpumpkin.blogspot.com

Follow me like I'm a white rabbit and you are Alice in Wonderland and madcap adventures shall ensue.

x

this is what happened.

:(

xoxo

Jeffrey James

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

17th of July 2010

I was browsing through the camera and found some pictures I took before the whole accident happened. I quite like this one, me, my sister and my cousin jen.

:(

xoxo

Jeffrey James

Monday, July 19, 2010

My Permanent Scar.

Well, that part of my head wont be seeing any hair growing from it anytime soon and is the worst outcome from my recent weeks of bad days. But I should consider myself lucky considering that the car was pretty badly roughed up. I am still recovering and is trying to get things back on track. Hopefully everything will be fine soon.

Oh, on a better note, I passed all of my subjects as well this semester :D

I'll be back soon.

xoxo

Jeffrey James

a couple days off

sorry I haven't posted anything, but I will catch up in a couple days.

China Crisis - African And White

On this date in 1982, China Crisis reissued their debut single, "African And White". It had originally been released in January, 1982 and barely got noticed. This time, it was re-mixed and reached the #45 spot on the U.K. singles chart. It was backed by "Red Sails". Both songs appeared on their debut album, Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun To Entertain. The Kirkby, England new wave band disbanded in 1996 but has recently done some performing.



Wikipedia: China Crisis

MySpace: myspace.com/chinacrisisgaryandeddie

Video: China Crisis - African And White - on TV - 1983 - youtube

Blogload: China Crisis - Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun To Entertain - yukies21-lu-odnyawib.blogspot.com

Court Martial - No Solution

On this date in 1982, Court Martial released their second and last EP, No Solution. Aside from the title track, it also included "Too Late" and "Take Control". The Bristol, England punk/Oi! band, originally called The Zeds when they formed in 1979, released two EP's in 1982 and then disappeared. They are back together again.



Blogload: Court Martial - No Solution EP - 666-musicforlife.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday!

Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus and Love And Rockets turns 50 today.


Bauhaus, left to right:
David J, Daniel Ash, Peter Murphy and Kevin Haskins (seated)

Wikipedia: Bauhaus

Official Website: bauhausmusik.com

Video: Bauhaus - Kick In The Eye - live - 1982 - youtube

Blogload: Bauhaus - Singles 1979-1983 - nitrofiles.blogspot.com



Wikipedia: Love And Rockets

Official Website: loveandrockets.com

Video: Love And Rockets - Ball Of Confusion (1985) - youtube

Blogload: Sorted! - The Best Of Love And Rockets - and more - musicaparatusorejas2.blogspot.com

The Prats - 1990's Pop EP

On this date in 1980, The Prats released their debut record, an four track EP called 1990's Pop EP. It contained the tracks, "Disco Pope", "Nothing", "TV Set" and "Nobody Noticed". None of the tracks appeared on an album. In fact, the Edinburgh, Scotland teenage punk band did not release an album before they disbanded in 1981. A later posthumous album eventually was released years later.



Wikipedia: The Prats

Unofficial Website: homepage.mac.com/emclaug1/theprats

Blogload: The Prats - 1990's Pop EP - isksp.blogspot.com

Toyah - Victims Of The Riddle

On this date in 1979, Toyah released their debut single, "Victims Of The Riddle". The B side was "Victims Of The Riddle (vivisection)". Both tracks appeared on the full album version of Sheep Farming In Barnet, originally released as an EP which did not carry either track. The Birmingham, England post punk/new wave band was fronted by Toyah Willcox. She stepped away from music in 1997 to concentrate more fully on her acting career but has resurfaced with her band in recent years.



Wikipedia: Toyah

Official Toyah Willcox Website: toyahwillcox.com

Video: Toyah - Victims Of The Riddle - live - date unknown - youtube

Blogload: Toyah - Sheep Farming In Barnet - nothing-b-t-d.blogspot.com

The Flying Lizards - Money

On this date in 1979, The Flying Lizards released their second single, "Money". It was backed by "Money B" (a dub of "Money"). The 12 inch version included their debut single, "Summertime Blues" and "All Guitars". The A side and "Summertime Blues" were on the debut album while "All Guitars" had to wait until a later CD re-release to be added. The single reached the #5 spot on the U.K. singles chart and the #50 spot in the U.S. The London experimental post punk band disbanded in 1984 with three albums, two EP's and several singles to their credit.



Wikipedia: The Flying Lizards

A Fansite: markallencam.com/theflyinglizards.html

Video: The Flying Lizards - Money - on Top Of The Pops - 1979 - youtube

Blogload: The Flying Lizards - debut album - totalwire.blogspot.com

The Tourists - The Loneliest Man In The World

On this date in 1979, The Tourists re-released their second single, "The Loneliest Man In The World". It was backed by "Don't Get Left Behind". Both songs were included on their self-titled debut album. This was the second time the single was released. This second release was a re-recorded version that differed from the album version. The first time out, the single reached the #52 spot on the U.K. singles chart. The second time, the single reached the #32 spot. The London new wave band disbanded in 1980 after three albums. Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox would be starting a new band soon. They called it Eurythmics.



Wikipedia: The Tourists

Video: The Tourists - The Loneliest Man In The World - on Top Of The Pops - 1979 - youtube

Blogload: The Tourists - debut album - and more - powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com