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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9329766730815189482019-01-30T21:55:26.184-08:00The Decline Of AmericaThis blog seeks to address how the lofty stature of America is declining due to state-sponsored feminism, glamorized social pathology, anti-intellectualism, and foolish consumerism in pursuit of that elusive concept of "American Dream." The country that I love has become virtually unlivable and here's why.The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-54215063885074400302018-01-20T22:03:00.000-08:002018-01-21T07:41:51.792-08:00Make A Choice American Men, Either Rise Up or Go Abroad!

The current groundswell of awareness among American men that feminism, the mainstream media, educational institutions, and American women have long conspired to keep men manipulated and under control is encouraging. However, what is the next step to righting the wrongs that are being exacted against men in legislatures, courtrooms, and workplaces across the country? There are two options aware men should consider, hastening the collapse and rebuild, or going abroad to opt out of the society.

The election of Donald Trump was the shot across the bow for gynocentric America, but it is a day late and a dollar short. President Trump could never achieve a complete reset of American society and culture without the assistance of collapse. Perhaps this is why he is provoking North Korea, Turkey, and America's historic allies. Whatever the case, he seems to be aware that only a catastrophic event can justify rebuilding the society in a way that avoids the mistakes of permitting women to vote, and immigrants to overrun this nation.

I, being a Man Going His Own Way (MGTOW), have seen the writing on the wall for decades so I have carved out an existence for myself abroad. My ancestors came to America and I had the prerogative to leave it. Don't be afraid to do the same because in this way, the gynocentric system of power will starve from a brain and wealth drain of its most able men abandoning ship.

But the important point is that American men MUST do something instead of sitting by idly and taking the losses by the day. Do what you can to save yourself and restore the proper and natural balance of power between men and women without state interference. It is not enough for America to proudly declare that it is still the greatest country in the world when it treats its men as second class citizens. Do something to hasten the Great Reset or simply opt out of living in America to starve it of your talent and money.The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-51159815570404664622017-08-29T03:03:00.000-07:002017-08-29T03:03:41.148-07:00Is Misogyny Justifed?Misogyny can be defined as either the hatred of women OR the lack of trust of women. Feminists tend to view it as the former only when they attempt to shame rational men, but it more commonly is simple lack of trust.

I am a misogynist and without apology. However, I am very fond of certain women that I choose to have in my life. What gives?

We first must understand that at a very basic level, women are programmed by nature and social conditioning to dispossess men of resources in whatever way they can.

-Some women use wiles and attraction to prompt men to willingly use or give resources to women (ie marriage).

-Some women engage in "damseling" to ignite the rescuer impulse in men (I lost my cellphone on my date with you! Oh, honey let me buy you a brand new one!).

-Some women shame men into buying them drinks as a gauge for future resource grabs.

-Some women accept money or gifts for sex (prostitution and Sugar Baby activity).

-Some women befriend men at work so the willingly men take on the women's work for a fake hint of sexual favors later.

-Some women strategically pull legal levers against men in the form of fake or frivolous lawsuits to strong-arm monetary settlements or judgments from men (EEO complaints and divorce).

-Some women nag, stress-out, hen-peck their men into an early grave, or they procure the killings of their husbands for insurance money and resource grabs.

-Some women bat their eyelashes and repeat how much they like something to trigger the, "Let me get that for your dear" impulse in men.

You get the point......

Women, with the aid of the state and other men, want what you have to offer. And some will use passive means to get it and others more active means. This is their primal charge in life.

With this in mind, misogyny (in the context of lack of trust) is morally justified even in the face of feminist screams of, "You're a misogynist pig who hates women!" which is nothing but an attempt to put you on the defensive and prove otherwise to gain female approval/potential sexual access.

This is not to deny the existence of exceptional women who have the intellect and grit to override this female imperative, but as we know exceptions cannot disprove what is generally true.

The man who generally "trusts" women, is either a fool or a future man-slave in the making.

If you are not a misogynist (in the lack of trust sense), you had better be one soon before you are eventually duped like most men.

Read more about this in Esther Vilar's groundbreaking book, "The Manipulated Man." It will change your life.The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-19627921103200853432017-07-02T04:01:00.002-07:002017-07-02T04:01:46.507-07:00Banning Islam Is The Only SolutionModern life in the West now includes the ever present threat of Islamic attacks. Although Islam, as a quasi-religion, enjoys protections under the guise of religion, it is an ideology pure and simple. Nazism and Communism never enjoyed the unfettered and unassailable existence that Islam currently does. That is why a new paradigm is needed: The banning of Islam from the West.

Currently political leadership in the West, with the exception of President Trump, are not yet able to get their minds around the only solution to Islamic terror wreaking havoc in polite society. So this will be a long and painful process. As more and more carnage piles up in the streets of the West, people will become more and more angry with the lack of effective action on the part of their leaders. They will vote out the Angela Merkels and Emmanuel Macron's for pragmatic leaders who will wage effective wars against the Islamic incursion.

One country will have to take the lead and simply ban Islam and the rest will follow. This ban of Islam will likely come from an Eastern European nation like Czech Republic or Hungary and this will set off a cascading trend among other Western nations. The major Western powers will be the last to make these changes due to their tendancy towards politically correct brainwashing, but the changes will occur.

Predictably , this will set off a massive explosion of violence in societies with significant Islamic populations and wars of Islamic purging will be the result.

The problem of Islamic terrorism is but the latest offensive of the Neo-Ottoman's who want to retake the world. They failed in the past and they will likely fail again, but the West needs to prepare itself for the fight that is coming. That means:

-Acknowledging Islam as an existential threat.
-Banning additional Muslims from immigrating into the West.
-Banning Islamic activity as national security threats.
-Neutralizing recalcitrants Islamists in the West.
-Requiring Westernization of all Muslims as a requirement for residence in the West.

Buckle yourselves in folks, the process will be bloody, protracted, and fierce, but it will take place and the West is very likely to prevail.

Spread the word: Ban Islam in the West and banish all Muslims from the West! Our survival depends upon it.The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-15573529704655441212017-06-08T05:24:00.000-07:002017-06-08T05:24:27.792-07:00I'm Baaaaaaack!

To All My Readers:

My apologies for not posting on this blog for so long. At the time the blog was active, I held a sensitive government position. BUT NOW I'M RETIRED!!!!

I plan on posting here periodically again because the things I predicted several years ago are coming to fruition.

I hope you all are doing well and continuously preparing for the Decline in America.

The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-5602418342208032672013-08-27T06:16:00.001-07:002013-08-27T06:16:19.065-07:00Is Syria Putting Us On the Verge of World War III?

The Obama administration has announced that airstrikes on Syria are a possibility. In case that does not strike you as troublesome, consider the implications that such simple "airstrikes" could be the shot across the bow that triggers WWIII.

In case you were not aware, Russia prefers to keep the Assad Regime in place for reasons that range from financial to the fear of the alternative. Iran has also pledged to defend Assad at all costs. So if you think the possibility of Russia and Iran against the US, Israel, and a few other nations constitutes a good bet, think again.

Obama is being cajoled by his new feminist UN Ambassador Samantha Power and his new feminist National Security Adviser Susan Rice who, ironically, never had to risk life and limb in combat due to their status as females. Nonetheless, these two might just succeed in convincing the President to spark World War III.

With the economic doldrums weighing down the US, a world war might prove to be the undoing of this nation. Domestic strife would ensue and the US would suffer the same fate as the former Soviet Union, death by imperial and military debt. Russia has bounced back nicely given the autocratic pragmatism of Putin, but the US could not given our democratic gridlock and corporate supremacy in politics.

Our forefathers specifically warned us against the dangers of "foreign entanglements" yet we find a way to fall into these quagmires again and again and again.

Stay tuned for how this all plays out.The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-9419425701489059452013-08-10T06:14:00.001-07:002013-08-10T06:14:23.072-07:00Americans Renoucing Citizenship In Record NumbersWall Street Journal Article

The number of U.S. taxpayers renouncing citizenship or permanent-resident status surged to a record high in the second quarter, as new laws aimed at cracking down on overseas assets increase the cost of complying and the risk of a taxpayer misstep.

 A total of 1,130 names appeared on the latest list of renunciations from the Internal Revenue Service, according to Andrew Mitchel, a tax lawyer in Centerbrook, Conn., who tracks the data. That is far above the previous high of 679, set in the first quarter, and more than were reported in all of 2012.

Taxpayers aren't required to explain the move, but experts said the recent rise is likely due to tougher laws and enforcement "The IRS crackdown on U.S. taxpayers living abroad seems to be having an effect," said Mr. Mitchel. The IRS declined comment. Lags in reporting renunciations might mean that many who appeared on the current list made the move months earlier. Taxpayers who renounced can be subject to an exit tax, and people who renounced last year may have avoided higher taxes on capital gains and income that went into effect in 2013.

The U.S. is rare in that all income earned by citizens and permanent residents, even those living abroad, can be subject to U.S. tax, according to Bryan Skarlatos, a New York lawyer. The U.S. also confers citizenship on people who are born on American soil.

 The U.S. launched the tax crackdown after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and ratcheted up its efforts after 2009, amid evidence that UBS AG UBSN.VX 0.00% and other foreign institutions helped U.S. taxpayers hide assets. Some taxpayers have applied for IRS limited-amnesty programs, in which they pay stiff penalties for past noncompliance but avoid prosecution. Tax lawyers say the crackdown has ensnared smaller violators who weren't intentionally evading U.S. taxes. In addition, a law enacted in 2010, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or Fatca, requires foreign financial institutions to certify they aren't hiding U.S. taxpayer assets, which lawyers say is leading some to reject U.S. customers.
 Taxpayer penalties for failing to report assets can be severe, including up to 50% of an account balance for each year.

 The web of rules is "overly burdensome," said Jeffrey Neiman, a former federal prosecutor who led the 2009 UBS case, which resulted in the bank's agreeing to a $780 million settlement. He now is a lawyer in private practice in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "You basically find yourself in this continuous nightmare."
 The cost of complying with various rules and regulations can be steep even for people with small tax bills.
 Carol Tapanila, who moved to Canada more than 40 years ago and is now retired, renounced her citizenship in November and appeared on the current list. She says her U.S. taxes amounted to about $250 last year and she didn't take the step to avoid paying them. Legal and accounting fees and other costs of making sure she was in compliance in recent years have added up to nearly $40,000, says Ms. Tapanila. "It is nothing but stress."

 Expatriation can also be costly, requiring that taxpayers prove they have properly paid five years' taxes, among other things.The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-73579136215261523322013-07-24T21:35:00.001-07:002013-07-24T21:35:06.488-07:00America, We're Number 27!The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-40172477738289609472013-07-24T19:59:00.002-07:002013-07-24T19:59:43.263-07:00Goodbye To My American Dream

This is what one young lady born in Trinidad has to say about her decision to leave America. I think she is right on the mark and a courageous woman to speak out on this issue.

 Goodbye To My American Dream, By Tiffanie Drayton

On the day of college graduation, I told my friends and family the news: I was leaving the country I had lived in since childhood. "I just need a change," I told them, but they knew there was more. Was it some romance gone awry, they wondered? Some impulsive response to a broken heart? And I was running from heartbreak. My relationship with the United States of America is the most tumultuous relationship I have ever had, and it ended with the heart-rending realization that a country I loved and believed in did not love me back.

Back in the '90s, my mother brought me from our home in the Caribbean islands to the U.S., along with my brother and sister. I was 4 years old. She worked as a live-in nanny for two years, playing mommy for white kids whose parents had better things to do. She took trips to the Hamptons and even flew on a private jet to California as "the help." My mom didn't believe that nanny meant maid, but she did whatever was asked of her, because she was thirsty. She had a thirst that could only be quenched by the American dream. One day, she thought, her children would be educated. One day, they might have nannies of their own.

That was our path. Get a "good education." When the neighborhoods with quality schools became too expensive for my mom to afford as a single parent with three kids, we traversed the United States with GreatSchools.net as our compass. New Jersey, elementary school: decent, mostly Hispanic school, even though my gifted and talented program was predominantly Indian. Texas, middle school: "Found a great school for you guys," my mom said while rain poured into our car through the open windows where the straps of our mattresses were tied down. It had an "A" grade and was 70 percent white. Florida, high school: "Hey, Tiffanie, you should have this egg. It's the only brown one like you!" my classmate told me during AP biology. Philadelphia, Hawaii, North, South, East, West. Car, U-Haul, Greyhound, plane, train. New York City, private university: "I really want to write an essay on being the gentrifier," one courageous young man pitched in a journalism class. I was one of only two people who were disturbed.

For a long time I survived by covering myself in the labels I'd accumulated over the years. I plastered each one to my body with super glue as if they were Post-It note reminders that I was someone. Sports fanatic (hot pink). Feminist, beautiful, writer, comedian, fashionista, friend (fuchsia, yellow, blue, purple, red, green). I hid behind them; they were my only shields.

Green covered my eyes when a childhood friend's family banged down my front door and demanded their daughter get out of the house full of blacks. Blue protected my heart when my black peers ostracized my enjoyment of complete, complex sentences. Yellow blocked my ears when whispers floated through the air at my ex-white-American boyfriend's home like haunted ghosts: I can't believe he is dating a black girl. The words passed like a gentle breeze barely creating flutter.

I existed right there on the fringe of ugly, ignorant and uncultured. Black but not black enough for my positive attributes to be justified. "Where are you from?" potential dates asked when they met me. "I am from Trinidad and Tobago," I said. "Oh, that's why you are so beautiful and exotic — I knew you couldn't be all black."

"Black people don't really know how to swim," my co-worker once told me when I worked as a swim instructor at my neighborhood's pool. "What about me?" I asked. "Oh, you aren't black. You're from Trinidad," she said.

"The black children don't like to read very much," I overheard one librarian discussing with another while I sat down reading a book a couple feet away. They passed right by me with smiles.
I was the model minority — absent, yet present. The yardstick to which other minorities were measured. If I could finish high school and college, why couldn't so many African-American people find their way out of their hoods and pull themselves up by their bootstraps? If I could speak English without using a single ebonic slang, why do others call themselves "niggas"? If I managed to make it through 23 years without contracting an STD or getting pregnant, why do black women have the highest statistical risk of disease and teenage motherhood? Daddy America looked to me to prove that he did something right. After all, one of his children turned out all right. The others must simply be problem kids.

I survived because I was never able to make America my home. I never watched my childhood neighborhood become whitened by helicopter lights in search of criminals or hipsters in search of apartments. No state, city or town has been a mother to me, cradling generations of my family near her bosom, to then be destroyed by unemployment or poverty. No school system had the time or opportunity to relegate me to "remedial," "rejected" or "unteachable." I never accepted the misogynistic, drug-infested, stripper-glamorizing, hip-hop culture that is force-fed to black youths through square tubes. I am not a product of a state of greatness but a byproduct of emptiness.

In that empty, dark space I found my blackness. I stripped myself of the labels, painfully peeling them off one by one. Beneath them there is a wounded, disfigured colored woman who refuses to be faceless anymore, remain hidden any longer. My face may be repulsive to some since it bears proof that race continues to be a problem.

Still, I count myself lucky. Where my open cuts remain, eventually scars will take their place and those scars will fade with time. For many, their wounds will never heal. Gunshots bore coin-size holes into their chests that will never close. Their chained wrists and ankles will continue to bruise. Their minds have collapsed under the weight of a failed education system.

I was already back in Trinidad and Tobago when the Trayvon Martin verdict came down last week. I wasn't surprised, but I was speechless. My hope is that it will force Americans to reexamine their "post-racial" beliefs. A friend of mine posted on my Facebook page, "You made the right choice." I think I did, too.
I have found freedom by leaving the land of the free.

     Tiffanie Drayton is a freelance writer and graduate of The New School University. She hopes to one day return to an equal and racially tolerant America. The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-75781445311264046532013-07-06T01:16:00.000-07:002013-07-06T01:16:06.775-07:00The Institutionalized Extortion of Heterosexual Men

by Joe Zamboni on July 5, 2013

Over the last few years, I have been increasingly wary of and doubtful about the motives of all women who wanted to have sex with me. There has been plenty of evidence to support this wariness. One woman, who I had not met prior to our brief discussion, without any apparent self-consciousness, proposed to have a child with me as soon as she heard the street on which I lived, a street with many expensive large houses overlooking a large body of water. When with another woman, after we had come back to my expensive house, which has several acres of gardens, just after our first date, and immediately after laying eyes on my property, she proposed that she would be my girlfriend. There had been no prior mention of any relationship, let alone sex.

To be seen by women as super-attractive and desirable just because I have significant financial resources disgusts me. It is objectification pure and simple. The last I heard, most women were strongly opposed to objectification, but their behavior shows that's a lie. When I was not so well off, many women wouldn't even give me the time of day. As I see it, American women are increasingly mercenary, or perhaps just significantly more willing to show their long-standing gold-digger inclinations. Some are even proud of what I am coming to appreciate is the intention to commit extortion.

I remember sitting in a restaurant at the Atlanta Airport, waiting for my connecting flight, and overhearing three middle-aged women talking at the next table. They made no effort to prevent those nearby from hearing them. They were all divorcees, and they were comparing how much loot they had extracted from their ex-husbands, as though it was a competition. They squealed with glee about the significant resources that they had gotten from their former mates. Nowhere in the discussion amongst these three was there any consideration of any adverse impact on those men. I was then shocked and dismayed that so many American women had become so blatantly money-hungry, heartless, and manipulative. Now I take it for granted.

More recently I have come to appreciate that Feminism has successfully changed American laws to establish the legalized extortion from heterosexual men, or at least from those men who are willing to have sex with a woman, and from those men who are still sufficiently reckless and clueless to marry an American woman. Yes, extortion technically is a crime, but through children and/or marriage, women can, and many do, legally engage in it. Consider the elements of the crime as defined by common law. Extortion is the: (1) present use of threat or force (2) of a future harm (3) to obtain money or resources (4) from another (5) with the intent to steal. We will take each of these five elements in turn, but I invite you, if you are an American, to consider the women in your life, and whether they too are engaged in some form of legalized extortion from men.

Regarding the use of (1) threat or force, consider false rape accusations. Without evidence or justification, a woman can unilaterally, and without any supporting evidence, have a man thrown in jail, can cause him to lose his job, and can cause him to lose his community reputation. Often used in retaliation for some perceived slight, such false rape accusations are a threat of force, a threat to get the power of the state to punish a man for doing what a woman doesn't like. The very real possibility that a woman can do this, and get away with it, without being punished in any way, is an indication that she has the present power to threaten force. Thus, if they know what's good for them, men had better not offend a woman, lest the woman call out the cops, and get these same men thrown into jail based on false rape accusations.

The same is true for claims of domestic violence. A woman, simply by calling the police, can bring the force of the state down on the man involved. Mandatory arrest laws require that the man be arrested. Never mind whether or not there actually was any domestic violence, and never mind who the perpetrator was. The power is held exclusively by the female, and if the male does not do as she wishes, the man will be made pay (if not financially, then certainly suffer via time in jail, being forced to move out of his own house, inconvenience to his life via an injunction, etc.).

A similar analysis applies to men who are behind in their child-support payments. As perverse as it may seem, a significant number of men who are behind in their child support payments are now thrown into jail. In some cases, their professional licenses and driver's licenses are revoked. Never mind that these actions severely compromise their ability to pay child support. Logic is not the dominant motivation here. A display of power, and sending a strong message to men, that women control the power, that is the primary message that is being sent. And a showing of power is necessary as the first element of extortion.

Divorce-related child custody disputes provide another example. Women can, and in many cases actually do, falsely accuse the men of abusing their own children. The women, through these allegations, can cause men to be estranged and separated from their own children. Of course there are financial considerations here, such as the desire for more child support. The greater the percentage of time that the mother has the children, the more the child support will be. But taken from a wider perspective, it appears as though there is also an important message that is sent to men thereby, and that is that men had better comply with not only the desires of women, but also the dictates of the legal system.

You may ask "what about compassion for the fate of men?" There is none of that here, we have a systematic extortion process underway, where not only the woman gets money, but so do lawyers, psychologists, child support collection clerks, etc. This is a systemic government-supported racket with big money at stake. So forget about compassion for men, the institutionalized incentive systems that are now in place help to keep things the way they are.

The threat of force can also show up in allegations of sexual harassment at work. Even if men go their own way, and have nothing to do with women, they will in many cases be required to work with women. The threat of a sexual harassment complaint, and the very real possibility that the man could lose his job thereby, or have his reputation in an industry thereby tarnished, is a very real and serious threat. What about the prosecution of false accusers? Are you kidding? It's just like false rape accusations, false domestic abuse allegations, and false child abuse allegations. The woman is virtually never prosecuted for her vengeful and/or extortionate display of power exerted in an effort to get the man to fork over the resources.

Many men ignorantly fail to see that they are living under a profound and serious threat that force will be used against them. For years I wondered why so many American men were acting like hopeless wimps when interacting with their wives. I was dismayed to note how they refused to stand-up for themselves, and refused to correct their wives when their wives were obviously in the wrong. Now I get it — they had at least unconsciously internalized the threat of force discussed here, and at least on some level they fully understood what they were up against. They dared not let people know they had any balls, that they might actually be able to stand up and be counted. Most slaves threatened with severe punishment do not generally stand-up for themselves.

Consider next the (2) future harm that a woman might do to a man. She could have him thrown in jail, could get him to pay her outrageous child support (entirely unrelated to actual child support needs), could get him to pay for another man's child (paternity fraud), or could get him to pay lifelong or at least long-term alimony. She could force him to attend "anger management" classes (state-sponsored brainwashing as I see it). She could get him thrown in jail on criminal charges like rape, child abuse, stalking, or domestic violence. These future harms are exercised regularly, and both men and women are fully aware of how much more harsh the criminal justice system's punishments are for men than they are for women. For example, as Bill Price has recently reported, American men are executed about 100 times more often then women. [Note 1]

The next element is the (3) money or resources obtained thereby. Most young women I know don't want to be some high-powered corporate executive, or for that matter any other type of wage earner. Instead they want to stay home and have kids, and they want a man to make that possible by paying for her to live that lifestyle. On a basic level, it makes sense that women would want a man to provide resources so that her offspring can do well, but this fundamental old-fashioned motivation has been twisted for selfish monetary purposes, twisted to the point where it is no longer recognizable. The extortionate and forced transfer of money and resources from men to women is now at the expense of (a) male freedom, (b) male self-determination, and (c) basic human decency. The fact that men are thrown in jail for not paying child support, in many instances for not paying money they don't have, that shows that this is not a system based on either a man's ability to pay, or a policy intended to promote harmonious family arrangements. Thanks to misguided chivalry, the strident and ceaseless complaints of feminists, the compliant white-knight politicians who respond to the feminist demands, and the widespread greed of women, America's legal system now provides for the institutionalized extraction of money and resources from heterosexual men.

Notice that this extraction (4) comes only from heterosexual men. These men are the sole target of the extraction process. Women, by and large, do not pay alimony, and they do not pay child support. Women do not, by and large, go to jail for domestic violence, stalking, or rape. Women are not generally accused of, nor do they generally lose jobs because of sexual harassment accusations. The heavy-duty punishments, directed at heterosexual men, are intended to make men pay. It's as simple as that.

So, for example, if you never wanted a child with a particular woman who "got pregnant," and you objected to becoming a father, it doesn't matter. So what if she lied abut being on birth control? The woman is nonetheless supported by the legal system in collecting child support from you. Never mind that she can unilaterally get an abortion, or put the baby up for adoption, both without your permission. Nobody said this was fair. And let's give up the myth that it's about supporting children. That's just the excuse used to legitimize the extortion. For example, a good number of men, who have proven with DNA evidence that they are not the fathers of certain children, are nonetheless forced by the courts to pay child support. [Note 2] You, the man, are going to be made to pay anyway. The man has absolutely no say in the matter.

Which brings us to the place where there is an (5) intention to steal behind all this. At some point in the past, I imagine some men and women, with good intentions, wanted to enter a partnership where they both contributed to raising a family. More recently in history, men got a job, and women stayed home and took care of the kids. That separation of duties may have made some sense in 1950, but it no longer does. While men are legally obliged to keep being the providers, women are no longer required live up to their side of the bargain. Instead, men are legally required to support women in their efforts to do whatever the hell they want with their lives (via tax dollars at the very least, for example having children on their own without any involvement of a man). The current arrangement is way beyond a lopsided allocation of gender-based financial responsibility, it is now outright extortion of heterosexual men. Under the current system, no matter what the woman does, men are forced to pay.

The Twisting Of Natural Impulses: It is natural, and I believe on some deeper level innate in heterosexual men, to want to give and support women and the family. But the current legal system has gone way beyond the desire to give and support. It has used that inclination, that desire, that deeper urge, and twisted it into something so draconian and oppressive, that for an increasing number of men who dispassionately and clearly see what is happening, all desire to give to a woman or "her" offspring (as she often puts it) evaporates.

A desire to give to the family, in mutuality, as a matter of choice, as a contribution to the welfare of the family — that could be a wonderful thing. But when this giving becomes a slavery-like institution, as it now has become in America, men are increasingly abandoning it, and with good reason. The statistics indicate what's happening, and the laments from the women of child-bearing age, such as "where have all the good men gone?" are just another indication of the male abandonment of the family that's now underway. Marriage rates in the USA in 2009 were 6.8 per 1000 people. This rate has steadily declined since 1970, at which point it was 10.6 per 1000 people. Note that 1970 was around the time when feminist lies and propaganda became well-entrenched in the American legal system. [Note 3]

In this case, the "good men," as the women refer to them, are the men who are willing to put themselves in the saddle of husband and provider, with all the legal fetters that go along with that. There are still some brave ("ignorant" might be a better term) men who are willing to put themselves, their assets, their careers, and their reputations, at great risk, in the statistically unreasonable hope that the women they chose won't call out the sheriff and have them manacled and bound into some sort of an institutionalized payment arrangement (divorce asset splits, alimony, and child support are the most widely employed mechanisms). These "good men" desperately need to get the message discussed herein.

It is perverse that the most illogical and primitive part of man, his innate desire for sex, partnership, and love with a woman, is used for, and played upon to effect, this institutionalized extortion. Men have historically been driven by instinct and hormones in this place, but they desperately now need to use their logical brains to understand what is really happening. So long as men don't use a detached, rational, and objective perspective to see the institutionalized extortion that's underway, they will continue to fall prey to the ploys of women surrounding marriage and children.

Institutionalized Abuse: Feminism has brought with it the illogical notion that women can do no harm, and when this myth is combined with nearly unchecked power, abuse will be the result. We see this same result in many areas, not just the institutionalized extortion of resources from men as discussed above. Consider a 2010 US Department of Justice study that examined the sexual abuse of teenagers in detention (juvenile halls, group homes, etc.) [Note 4]. This study surveyed 8,700 juveniles housed in 326 facilities, representing about 25% of the nation's youth living in such detention facilities. Among the 10% of youths who admitted to being sexually abused, 92% said the abuse was perpetrated by females. That's not a typo — that's 92%.
 Lovisa Stannow, the executive director of California-based non-profit Just Detention International, which advocates for the elimination of prison rape, had a very insightful comment about this same study. She said, "When you have an extreme power differential and absolute unchecked power, bad things start happening. When you combine this with a culture where sex abuse by females on males isn't taken seriously, then you have the perfect set-up for women with all this power to get away with it."

 The same conclusion applies to the institutionalized extortion of resources by women from heterosexual men. It's about time that more of us American men honestly acknowledged what's happening to us. It's about time that we older American men started honestly and fully informing the younger American men what the deal is with women and the legal system. We older men need to do this informing before it is too late — that is before the younger men get married, get a woman pregnant, or move in with a woman.The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-86297857789340060012013-01-20T05:48:00.001-08:002013-01-20T05:48:55.704-08:00American Girl Does The Unthinkable To Garner Attention For Herself
 You all are quite aware that I am very critical of American youth culture, especially regarding young women. It appears that things have gotten even worse in the USA when young women debase themselves for 15 minutes of fame.

This video has gone viral, but for the wrong reasons. It is not funny, and it is not entertaining. It is disturbing. Disturbing for the young woman who felt compelled to sabotage her life like this and disturbing for seeing further deterioration of American society.

I post this video as a wake up call to Americans. What will it take for it to dawn on you that we are declining as a once great nation and a once great people?

Seeing videos like this makes me think that we have reached the point of no return.

Poor girl, and poor America......
The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-47721032138072393202012-11-13T15:00:00.001-08:002013-01-01T03:55:33.596-08:00Is a college degree worth the cost? You decide.This short video is very telling.......

Americans have long been brainwashed into thinking that a college degree is worth the high debtload. It is not and this video illustrates why.

So the next time you hear a parent explaining why he or she is spending $150,000 on their child's education when they should be funding their retirement, think of this video. The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-12151427392838042942012-10-27T11:19:00.000-07:002012-10-27T11:29:45.487-07:00Before You Vote, Know That "It's NOT The Economy Stupid!"

The Presidential candidates are remarkable in their ability to convince Americans that the economy and taxes are the biggest issues at stake on November 6th. The reality is that regardless of which candidate wins, the economy will react to global market forces similarly. Demanding that the candidate focus on "creating jobs" in the private industry is based on a pipe dream.

For men, this election is really about seeing the Supreme Court (and other federal courts) continuing to be occupied by Sonya Sotomayors and Elena Kagans who have been programmed since undergraduate school to advance the feminist legal agenda. Keep in mind that for every feminist Justice on the US Supreme Court, there are hundreds more working as judges in the Federal District Courts, and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal. The President appoints ALL federal judges, so keep that in mind before you actually vote.

This election is really about ending the fiscally parasitic wars that sap the strength from this nation, and kill off or maim thousands of our best and brightest men.

This election is really about a Department of State that finances with your dollars male circumcisions, women's health clinics, micro-finance loans for female businesses, and other discriminatory feminist initiatives that Hilary Clinton oversees.

This election is really about allowing the Obama-signed FATCA law to remain intact so that internationally-minded men like you and me are prevented from legally storing wealth abroad. FATCA is so onerous, that many foreign banks are now beginning to refuse new American clients! This benefits the US federal government so wealth stays here.

This election is really about immigration amnesty which would allow undocumented immigrants to be permitted to stay thereby deflating wages and displacing native-born American workers.

This election is really about getting America back to where men were men, or moving America forward to where men are indistinguishable from women.

The choice is yours, but don't let anyone tell you the candidates represent the same interests or that this election is all about the economy.

Vote to reignite manhood in America! No excuses......... The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-32910391960314745422012-09-08T23:31:00.001-07:002012-09-08T23:31:21.502-07:00The Male-Female Wage Gap Myth Expained

This video is a wonderful example of the propaganda spewed by feminists and the left to have girls walking around bitter and resentful of men. Trouble is, the facts are incorrect. The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-38255850135420151352012-09-01T22:27:00.000-07:002012-09-01T22:27:05.820-07:00Female ICE Chief Of Staff Resigns For Harrassing Males

Finally men are getting the message that legal action against women pays high dividends! In this case, Suzanne Barr (pictured below), has been engaging in a discriminatory course of conduct against male officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Among other things, she made lewd sexual comments in front of others, and she promoted a female over a far more qualified male. This male employee, James T. Hayes, is the Special Agent in Charge of the NY Field Office for ICE. The female who was promoted over him is a light-weight with little practical experience by comparison. Sadly, the article below from the Washington Post does not go into detail about the discriminatory promotion, just the hostile environment allegations.
Bravo to James Hayes for not sitting on the sidelines when an unjust and discriminatory female rears her head. I hope more and more follow his lead and get an attorney. I have my workplace lawsuit against a female still pending, and each one of us should strive to do the same when the opportunity arises.

WASHINGTON — A senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigned Saturday amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior lodged by at least three Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees.
Suzanne Barr, chief of staff to ICE Director John Morton, said in her resignation letter that the allegations against her are "unfounded." But she said she was stepping down anyway to end distractions within the agency. ICE, a division of the Homeland Security Department, confirmed Barr had resigned. The Associated Press obtained a copy of Barr's letter.
Barr is accused of sexually inappropriate behavior toward employees. The complaints are related to a sexual discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by a senior ICE agent in May.

In her letter to Morton, Barr said she has been the subject of "unfounded allegations designed to destroy my reputation" and is resigning "with great regret."
"Of greater concern however, is the threat these allegations represent to the reputation of this agency and the men and women who proudly serve their country by advancing ICE's mission," Barr wrote. "As such, I feel it is incumbent upon me to take every step necessary to prevent further harm to the agency and to prevent this from further distracting from our critical work."
Barr went on leave last month after the New York Post reported on the lawsuit filed by James T. Hayes Jr., ICE's special agent in charge in New York. Additional employees came forward with their allegations around the same time.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, R-N.Y., said in a statement Saturday that Barr's resignation "raises the most serious questions about management practices and personnel policies at the Department of Homeland Security." He said his committee will continue to review the case and personnel practices at DHS.
In one complaint, Barr is accused of telling a male subordinate he was "sexy" and asking a personal question about his anatomy during an office party. In a separate complaint, she is accused of offering to perform a sex act with a male subordinate during a business trip in Bogota, Colombia. She's also accused of calling a male subordinate from her hotel room and offering to perform a sex act. The names of two of Barr's accusers were censored in affidavits reviewed by AP.

Homeland Security's office of professional responsibility and inspector general have been investigating the allegations. Prior to the lawsuit, there were no complaints about Barr, according to a homeland security official who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

In the lawsuit, Hayes described a "frat house" atmosphere at ICE designed to humiliate male employees under Barr's leadership. Hayes, who was transferred to New York from ICE headquarters in Washington, is asking for more than $4 million that, among other things, would cover compensation he believes he is owed for relocation expenses and financial losses associated with his transfer.

Hayes' lawyer, Morris Fischer of Silver Spring, Md., has declined to comment.

The Justice Department is seeking to dismiss Hayes' lawsuit on the basis that he did not state a claim for retaliation.

Barr, a 1995 graduate of the University of Arizona, was among Napolitano's first appointments after she became secretary in 2009. Barr started working for Napolitano in 2004, while Napolitano was governor of Arizona. Prior to that, Barr worked for Arizona Republican Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain.The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-85090284986820924052012-08-18T02:56:00.004-07:002012-08-18T02:58:18.577-07:00Arrogant "Can-Do" American Women Killed By DogsAmerican women often have a certain arrogance when it comes to danger. Part of this is media-created, and part of it is the feminist "can-do" myth.
When it comes to dangerous animals or people, American women often believe that their love and charm prevent them from being harmed. I wonder if this is why so many of them choose abusive partners.
Whatever the case, women are not immune to harm with animal and danger unlike Hollywood portrays. Had the young woman in the story below not been deluded into that thinking, she might very well be alive today.

A 23-year-old woman who devoted her life to saving animals was mauled to death by dogs she had lovingly rescued.
Rebecca Carey, of Decatur, Georgia, worked in an animal clinic and had been taking in abandoned animals for 10 years.
But, in a tragic turn of fate, the college student was savagely killed sometime over the weekend by at least one of the dogs she had rescued.

Authorities say Carey had five dogs living with her at the time of her death, including a pit bull she had owned for six years.

The other dogs included another pit bull, a boxer mix she had taken in and a Presa, a large Spanish breed. She was also dogsitting another Presa for her friend, Jackie Cira.

Cira discovered Carey's mauled body on Sunday afternoon after her friend failed to show up for work at Alpharetta's Loving Hands Animal Clinic.

'There was a lot of blood,' Cira told wsbtv.com. 'And when first got there, it looked like she had fallen and hit her head.'

Police initially thought they were dealing with a homicide but the DeKalb County medical examiner ruled Carey's death the result of dog bites.

DeKalb County police spokeswoman Mekka Parish says all of the dogs were euthanized on Wednesday with the consent of Carey's parents.
Cira told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Carey would have been devastated to find out that her dogs has been put down, adding that it would have been possible to determine which animals were responsible for the attack.

'We're talking about three very different breeds weighing around 80 pounds, 55 pounds and 15 pounds,' she said.
But, Tim Medlin, interim director of DeKalb Animal Control, told wsbtv.com that would not have been possible. 'We didn't know which dog did which,' he said.
'I can't be wrong. Not just myself, no one can be wrong in putting out a dog that possibly had to do with these type of injuries. I will not put another person at that kind of risk.'
Cira said that Carey, a skilled dog handler, was experienced when it came to dealing with aggressive animals.

'If she found out it was a dangerous dog, they were gone,' she told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 'She felt strongly that dangerous dogs had no business being in society where they could attack a child or something.
Cira added to the newspaper that perhaps Carey had fallen on her head after attempting to break up a fight between the dogs.

Carey's parents, Greg and Ellen Carey, released the following statement after their daughter's tragic death. 'Rebecca Carey of Decatur was 23 years old and an avid animal lover.

'Since the second grade when she read the book "Throw Away Pets," she vowed to be a voice for all animals.'

Betsy Duffey's novel follows the lives of two girls who find a dog, a cat, and a rabbit in a temporary animal shelter and try to find them homes before they are put to sleep by the authorities.
'Upon placing her first abandoned animal in a permanent loving home in 2003, she volunteered countless hours with rescue networks and animal shelters,' the Carey family statement continued.
'There she did what she loved the most: rescuing animals from untenable situations to find them safe, loving homes.'The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-14070488264463391952012-07-02T18:46:00.001-07:002012-07-02T18:46:13.406-07:00America is not the greatest country anymore!This clip from The Newsroom is creating a huge buzz in the media. It depicts an American man telling the truth about the USA that few wish to acknowledge.

His toughlove message seems to resonate with the audience, and more importantly, with Americans who are tired living a lie that if more difficult than ever to maintain.

The word is getting out folks. Too bad that it is likely too late to turn the tide.

The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-44812217664624192532012-05-26T18:54:00.000-07:002012-05-26T18:54:01.918-07:00Brian Banks: Another "God Damn America" Story

Allow me to tell you the story of Brian Banks and Wanetta Gibson. Banks, now 26, was 16 years old when he was wrongfully accused of rape by Wanetta Gibson. Banks was then a high school football standout destined for the University of Southern California and a possible career in the NFL according to some scouts.

In 2002, Banks was arrested and charged after classmate Wanetta Gibson said that he dragged her into a stairway at and raped her. Faced with a possible 41 years to life sentence, he accepted a plea deal that put him in prison for more than five years, followed by five years of probation. He also had to register as a sex offender.

In March 2011, Gibson contacted Banks through Facebook and wanted to "Let bygones be bygones."
Banks informed the California Innocence Project of the California Western School of Law that Gibson had contacted him, and they videotaped her recanting her story.

According to the California Innocence Project, "She said she had made it up, that what they had wasn't even sex but it was consensual. When he was on his way to the office, they decided to go to the stairwell and started making out. Brian said something that upset her, and she told the police he had dragged her down the hallway and raped her."

Gibson's family had won a $1.5 million judgment from Long Beach Unified School District because of Banks' conviction. After realizing that she jeopardized her new found riches, Gibson later tried to recant her confession of no rape having taken place, but it was too late. The DA viewed the matter anew and Banks' conviction was overturned. Gibson will have to repay the 1.5 million dollars.

What we have to see here is the feminist hysteria surrounding claims of rape, no matter how untrue they are. False claims of rape are often used as weapons of revenge or means to garner sympathy at the expense of innocent men.

No less inportant is the fact that Banks, as an American of African descent, could not rely on the criminal justice system to determine truth and administer justice. The system failed him like it fails men every day at the hands of wickedly unjust women who game that system.

At one time, African Americans had to fear false allegations of white Americans in the old south. Back then, an untrue vengeful allegation could mean prison or execution. Those days are behind us. However, today men risk losing their liberty, livelihoods, and lives at the hands of women.

The Banks story has barely been reported in the press because it is not big news in America. Gibson's lies wasted public funds in both the criminal and civil trial, and she deserves to be prosecuted for malicious prosecution and perjury. She stands little chance of suffering that fate however, because she is female in a feminist-infected society.

For this and other tragedies that befall American men at the hands of opportunist women, I say "God Damn America!" This nation has lost its way and it is too far gone to get it back. Feminism has corrupted this country and all sense of truth and justice.

The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-22994577974229553242012-05-12T07:28:00.000-07:002012-05-12T07:28:21.234-07:00The Great National ImpasseBy now it is common knowledge that the US government labors under crushing national debt. The problem is how we are going to reduce this debt. Everyone from elementary school math students to Nobel laureate economists realize that BOTH reductions in federal spending AND tax increases are necessary to begin chipping away at the morass that is our debtload.

If it were only so easy. Democrats are loathe to cut spending and Republicans are loathe to raise taxes, hence our current fiscal dilemma.

Americans have a lot to decide this November when the choose between Obama and Romney. Since neither candidate is serious about confronting our debt, we'll have to vote for the lessor of two evils.

Things obviously must get worse before we can break out of this impasse. The question is whether or not that will be too late.

The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-74423668101925586702012-05-11T05:12:00.001-07:002012-05-11T05:12:29.790-07:00American False Optimism - "Smile or Die"This video shows the sickening American impulse to remain optimistic regardless of the circumstances. It led to the economic meltdown, and the political inertia of the last decade or so. Being a realist is more difficult and just plain smarter.

Take a look at this matter as presented below. You will be surprised at how prevalent is the problem.

The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-77420382163509417982012-03-04T08:45:00.000-08:002012-03-04T08:45:29.303-08:00New Book: Why America FailedMorris Berman has been a critic of America's current downward spiral. In the below link, he talks about it in depth. I feel he is right on the mark at a time when most Americans are oblivious to what is going on.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/WhyAmerThe Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-7388688297080590422012-02-27T15:19:00.000-08:002012-02-27T15:19:52.166-08:00What Is Wrong With This Picture?

The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-72402771961636189112012-02-26T05:21:00.000-08:002012-02-26T05:21:06.346-08:00Failure of FeminismThis video is one of the best commentaries about the evil of feminism that I have seen in a long time. Watch and share it with others.

Feminism teaches women to have a collectivist mindset akin to racism, nationalism, etc. Feminist-orthodoxy has been permitted to creep its way into the typical American classroom, legislature, and courtroom; it is this reason why getting rid of it will be so difficult. Long after most Americans will disagree with female-privilege, the institutions will STILL be perpetuating it due to its prevalence.

The best defense is to move abroad to non-feminist countries. Starve it of your tax dollars!The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-91951309151048960032012-02-12T13:20:00.000-08:002012-02-12T13:20:48.481-08:00Manginas Now Accepting Wives' Last Names And "MENgagement Rings!"

If your man pops the question this Valentine's Day, or if you're one of the 2 million people who will get hitched this year, listen up– some of the traditonal aspects of marriage are starting to change.
First we told you how a growing number of men starting to wear "mangagement rings" (male engagement rings.) Now we've learned there's a new trend on the rise: Men in the US are taking their wife's last name, or hyphenating it with their own.

Taking the Name Change Plunge
Mark Tyler is "man enough" to admit to GalTime that he actually did all of the above. Mark wore a mangagement ring during his engagement, and soon after he and his bride Carol Tyler got married last January, Mark took his wife's last name. He started the ceremony as Mark Harper and ended it as Mark Tyler. The minister even announced, "Here come the Tylers" as they made their way down the aisle.

Mark says he's proud. "Shortly before the wedding I decided to make the change. She (Carol) was stunned. Actually, she asked me to reconsider, that it was cool with her for me not to change. But I told her it was too late, and then she said GREAT!"

The couple started talking about it before they got married and decided it was important they both have the same last name so their children would as well. According to Mark, Carol said, "If we all have the same last name, why can't it be mine?"

She said it as a joke, but I told her that I'd think about it seriously. So I did. And then I found myself in the position of the typical female. Hyphenate? Too bulky. Keep my name? But then we'd have different family names. Take her name? Yowww. Big blow to the male ego."

In the end Mark says he thought about Carol's career. "She is well established in her career and I am not. Our plan is for her to be the primary breadwinner and me to be the primary parent. So, "Carol Tyler" is a well established professional while "Carol Harper" is who? I don't have the same dynamic going from Harper to Tyler."

Gayle Brandeis and her husband did the name swap for the same reasons when they got married: Kids and career. "It is a second marriage for both of us. I had kept my name with my first marriage as well, and my kids from my first marriage have long hyphenated last names. I was pregnant when my current husband and I married, and we liked the idea of everyone in the family having the same last name. I had already established myself as an author with my name, and he felt no particular loyalty to his father's last name, so now my hudband is a Brandeis, as is our son."

How Many Are Doing The Reverse Name Swap?
The Centers for Disease Control and the Social Security Administration says it doesn't track these types of name swaps. But an up and coming company called Hitchswitch, which offers newlyweds "a one stop shopping name changing service for a fee" has some interesting numbers.

CEO Jake Wolff says they've helped about two thousand couples change their names since June 2011– and 5 percent of those clients have been men. Out of that five percent about three percent of men take their wife's last name and the remaining two percent create a hybrid or hyphenate their last name.
Jake says he's seeing this trend increase. "Even though Q1 of 2012 has just started, we have seen an increase in the number of males taking a hybrid name."

Turning in the Man Card?

Jake polled his male name changing clients for GalTime on why they went against the name grain and they all told him, "They felt weird taking their spouse's name not because they had anything against using the name of their wife, but because they felt they would be "de-masculized" (is that even a word?!), and teased (seriously) by their friends and family who heard that the groom took the name of their wife. Most of our clients fall in the 22 to 35 age range, so I guess the grooms still had some angst."

Mark says when he told people about his untraditional name change a majority of the responses were actually negative. "As for the man card issue, I get it. I guess that in many ways I have turned in my man card. Of course, I treat the whole man card thing as a joke in the first place. It's a satirical term that, to me, describes a physically grown man who has the mind and interests of an adolescent."

Happily Ever After
The Tylers and the Brandeis' all report they're still very happy with their choices. Their kids have the same last name, and all is well in nameville. Mark gushes, "I'm so proud to be a Tyler. My wife absolutely rocks and our family is the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me."

Jake Brandeis sums it all up quite nicely from his informal customer poll of men who handed in their man card with class. "The grooms told me that they did this because the couple was starting a new life together, and their new name was their new identity. They saw it as a great compromise."The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-21247225914472396272012-02-06T19:22:00.000-08:002012-02-09T20:58:51.078-08:00MRA CALL TO ACTION: Email A Letter To Your Federal Senator And Representative

For all you so-called "Men's Rights Activists" out there who have yet to email your Senator or Congressional Representative, the below letter is a template you can use, modify, edit, and email. If you do nothing else, you should be periodically doing this. I'll soon give an example of what you should write to your State-level Senators and Representatives who are sometimes more active in passing anti-male laws.

Below are are the websites that can direct you to the email portal of your members of Congress:

 https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Dear Senator or Representative (Fill in the Blank):

I am a registered voter of the ##th Congressional District of (Your State). I write this letter as an appeal for your support in stemming the tide of discrimination against men, and repealing anti-male legislation which is often passed under the guise of feminist or "women's rights" legislation.

While on the surface, any legislation that prevents discrimination or undue hardship towards women is positive. However, much of this legislation has created unfairness, undue hardship, and discrimination against men.

For example, the VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) discriminates against men by not permitting shelter funding for male victims of abuse, and for presuming that only women can be victims.

The IMBRA (International Marriage Brokers Regulation Act) which treats all American men seeking US visas for their foreign fiancees and spouses as if they were criminals, and it requires their personal information be passed to the foreign individuals (women) out of more concern for them then the American sponsor (men).

More and more affluent and taxpaying men are choosing to emigrate away from the USA due to the suffocating effect that feminist-inspired legislation has exacted upon men in the USA. There is a plethora of men's rights advocate groups on the internet that are growing due to these types of laws that create more injustice than they seek to prevent.

Our appeal is for you to more closely scrutinize all new "women's rights" legislation for language that would be discriminatory towards men. Second, please support all efforts to modify the discriminatory language in current federal laws like VAWA and IMBRA.

Two additional issues worthy of change would be to require females also to register for the Selective Service, and to require women to serve in combat arms occupations in the US military. Women currently receive pay and promotions at the same rate as men in the US military, yet they are not required to shoulder the same burdens that men shoulder. Equal pay for equal work is a goal we wish to see actually achieved in more than just lip-service.

Falling rates of marriage, male academic underachievement, and discriminatory treatment of men vis a vis women in the criminal justice system are rife in this society. If the opinions of American men with whom I correspond are any indication, we are in the verge of seeing men checking out of this society and emigrating with their votes and tax dollars in increasing measure.

American men are becoming more and more cognizant of the legislators working towards fairness between men and women, and of those who blindly support feminist-pressured legislation to the detriment of men. We ask that you be among the first we can identify as hospitable to fairness between the sexes. We hope that you, and several others, can lead the vanguard against anti-male legislative agendas and bring about gender equilibrium in this society.

Many thanks for listening to our concerns. For more information on men's rights, please avail yourself of the below:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/

http://www.the-spearhead.com/

http://antimisandry.com/articles/#axzz1lf0OCs7n

http://thedeclineofmyamerica.blogspot.com/

Best regards,

(Your Name)The Contrarian Expatriatehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-932976673081518948.post-61550767554060372132012-01-13T18:16:00.000-08:002012-01-13T18:16:22.707-08:00Fluency In Another Language Is Now Bad Politics in America!

ORLANDO, Fla. — Newt Gingrich, parlez-vous français?
In a sign that the spat between Mr. Gingrich and Mitt Romney is definitely on the low road, the Gingrich campaign posted a Web ad on Thursday mocking Mr. Romney for, among other deviations from conservative orthodoxy, speaking French.

The minute-long ad, "The French Connection,'' includes a cheesy bistro accordion tune and juxtaposes Mr. Romney welcoming the world to the Salt Lake City Olympics in French – "Je m'appelle Mitt Romney'' – with a clip of the French-speaking John Kerry, whose knowledge of the tongue of Molière was used to stamp him as elitist during his failed bid for the presidency in 2004.

"Just like John Kerry, he speaks French, too,'' the ad says of Mr. Romney, who spent 30 months in France as a young Mormon missionary.

Now comes intriguing circumstantial evidence that Mr. Gingrich, too, may have better than a tourist's knowledge of French. He often tells campaign crowds of living in France as a teenager, when his Army father, Robert Gingrich, was stationed near Orléans. A visit to the World War I battlefield of Verdun awakened him to the seriousness of world events and made him aspire to public office, he says.
Mr. Gingrich attended an American school. But an article by Agence France-Presse quoted a biographer, Mel Steely, as saying that the teenage Newton "had enough French to survive.''

Mr. Gingrich went on to earn a Ph.D. in history from Tulane, writing his dissertation titled "Belgian Education Policy in the Congo 1945-1960." Belgium, of course, is a French-speaking country, as were its African colonies. Many of the sources Mr. Gingrich cited in the thesis were in French. He either read the language well at the time or paid someone a small fortune to translate them.

A spokesman for Mr. Gingrich did not immediately respond to a request for edification. But as Mr. Romney might put it, touché.
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Big butts like it big presents: Trina gets her tight ass pounded by a huge slong
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Once again Trina demonstrates her sexual prowess. She is definitely one of the best anal stars in the Brazzers cast. The outfit was great, and make-up deliciously slutty. Now if she could only animate her scenes with a little more verbal action. Get your screnewriter out of his coma and toss the girl a few good lines.
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I have nothing against Keiran but where was Evan Stone for this story. I do know that Trina looked insanely hot in her ensemble. Kudos to you Keiran for wearin that ass out. His cock was like a heat-seeking missile when she was in reverse cowgirl. Also had some other stellar positions like doggy, cowgirl, and her ass hanging off the bed was tremendous. Keiran is gonna have to stop aiming for the eye. Was that a cameo by Tricia Oaks at the start?
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It's nice to be back in this space, sharing with you. It's also great to be home again, although I walked into a huge mess..which became even more gigantic as we unpacked. While we were gone, Jay had ripped up the last bit of carpeting going up our stairs, knocked down some walls in the basement, repainted the dining room, and installed sconces in our living room. Our wood floors were also oiled; I have been slipping and sliding all day long. A lot went on while we were gone, including fraud on my bank account..eek! Someone attempted to pay for escort services in the UK using my PIN number and debit card. That's the one perk about having an almost always negative balance...no one can steal money you don't have:)
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I hope to continue studying Eurythmy in the future! I can see how this expressive movement can be therapeutic...I do wish I could say more about it, but I know so little!
Rudolf Steiner. The Study of Man, Lecture IV
During the evening, we discussed storytelling and fairytales and how they indirectly teach precious lessons to children through archetypal characters...when they are developmentally ready. For very young children, it is best to tell simple and descriptive tales; stories they can identify with. (i.e, "a little boy went to the park with his family, and there they saw rabbits and trees....") Nature stories are wonderful, and pedagogical stories follow. Fairy Tales aren't introduced until the kindergarten year, which makes sense when you consider the phase of development they will soon enter into.


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In the present work, we study the capabilities of a one-side segmented wavemaker to generate multidirectional sea states. We want to reproduce typical West Africa sea conditions in a rectangular basin, that is, two spectra representing swell and wind waves with ±45deg main directions relative to the basin axis. For that purpose, we study two generation techniques proposed, respectively, by Dalrymple and Molin which rely on the control of sidewall reflections in order to enlarge the testing zone. Both numerical and experimental results show that the use of such methods in combination with a one-side wavemaker provides high quality wave fields as well as large extent testing area. The Molin method appears to be more efficient in terms of wave field quality within the testing area although the tuning of its setting parameters requires more care than the Dalrymple method.
Rectangular wave basin
Error (in percent) on target amplitude for snake principle, Dalrymple method, and disk method (from top to bottom)
Amplitude at the fundamental frequency for 45deg regular wave, left: Dalrymple method, right: Molin method
Normalized amplitude ηmax∕a and quality index Q against disk radius R̃
Evolution of the normalized radius R̃
Wave field error on the free surface (in percent)
Target (in solid lines) and measured (in contour levels) directional wave spectrum; Dalrymple method (the dashed line is the Biésel limit)
Weighting coefficients for the quality index Q: P1⪡P2⪡P3
Quality index with top: Dalrymple method and bottom: disk method
Target (in solid lines) and measured (in contour levels) directional wave spectrum; Molin method (the dashed line is the Biésel limit)
Basin equipped with left: one-side segmented wavemaker, right: two-side segmented wavemaker
Spectral density of wave elevation, nondimensionalised by Stargetmax
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Monday, June 27, 2011
{Tips} For Toes
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This post couldn't have come at a better time! I am in desperate need of a pedicure but can never bring myself to pay for it. I have got to try the pot scrubber. Thanks for the tips!ReplyDelete
Love the sandals, by the way!
I can't believe you use a pot scrubber. What an ingenious idea. I've tried everything but that. Guess what is now on my grocery list? Thanks for the tip.ReplyDelete
Your toes look great - very professional! What excellent tips. Thanks! x SharonReplyDelete
Funny I just got off the phone with a friend and we were talking we need pedicures. I said I think I may do a home one this time around...thanks for the tips.ReplyDelete
Barb, I am your newest follower! I used to spend so much on mani/pedis. Now I save the money, unless traveling and it is a treat!ReplyDelete
Would you believe my 11 year old granddaughter, Isabella showed me the Sally Hansen French manicure. I have better luck on my toes, if she is here she does my hands !
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Thanks for the TIP! I will give Sally a chance this weekend. KathyReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 8, 2011 at 8:08 AM
What a great tip, Barb. I think I'll join you this Sunday while watching the Housewives which, yes, I admit, I like watching too. New York are my favorites. Love the green scrub pads but never used them this way. I could see how they would work wonders. Thx!ReplyDelete
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Furthering my goal to monetize the crap out of this blog and purchase my own island, here's a review of something you can't buy any more from a company that (as far as I can tell) no longer exists. Savvy marketing plan there, Don Draper.
Long, long ago, there was a component manufacturer named Avocet. They made their name in saddles (among other things) with one of the first modern anatomic (translation: bumpy under your bum) models, the Touring. Avocet also cornered the market on cyclometers for what seemed like an eternity, offering their cute little mile-counters in an astonishing array of 80s colorways (confession: I had one in tennis-ball yellow to match my mountain bike of the same hue).
The Avocet folks really showed their weird genius in tires, though. They made two. When you chose an Avocet tire, the question was "dirt or not?" If the answer was "not", you got the FasGrip: A pure, Telly Savalas-esque slick with nary a hint of tread. If the answer was "dirt", you got the Cross II. (I'm disregarding the Cross, Avocet's first draft, with its chunkier tread and square shoulders, which had a disturbingly binary feel in corners: "I'm not leaning at all... OH SWEET MOTHER OF GAWD, I'M LEANING WAY TOO MUCH!")
Unlike pretty much every other treaded tire that got its grip from protruding features added to the tire, the Cross II got its grip from a zig-zag groove cut into the tire, like it started life as one of those nice, round FasGrips and then got snazzy racing stripes:
The black stuff is (logically enough) black rubber, while the white shows the negative space. When you're on hard asphalt, you're riding on just the center ridge and the shoulders -- pure, smooth, rubber, Telly Savalas-style. Hit the dirt, and all those edges around the grooves come into play, providing bite and traction. Granted, the grooves hummed like mad on pavement (and thus sounded slow), but this was a surprisingly fast tire on the road. The round casing (unlike its Frankenstein-head-shaped Cross ancestor) cornered like Velcro on the street... and in all but the gloppiest mud, those grooves hooked up like something much knobblier without clogging. (Fun fact: Riding a Cross II in fresh snow would shoot powder out the front of your front fender like a tiny snowblower.)
Sadly, the Cross II is no more, long out of production, a tire before its time. If someone found the molds and started popping these out again, I suspect the gravel nerds would be on them like the word "gravel" on dumb bike marketing. However, in one of those strange moments of Internet time-stoppage, the Avocet website (where I found the links and horked the tread image above) still exists, tantalizing me with a glimpse into a time when I had a full head of hair and no aftermarket parts. I think I'll sign up on their Receive Updates page and sit by my dial-up modem, waiting patiently for the AOL voice to say, "You've got mail!"
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Great Moments In Obscure Parts: The Avocet Cross II Tire
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I loved the way that powdery snow would shoot out from the front fender! Especially at night, where my fork mounted headlight would light it up! Very fun.
I don't recall the Cross II's making much noise on pavement, but I mostly used them in the winter for good traction on snow and crap. Plus.. these are Illinois roads, so they are automatically rougher than any tire tread -- sigh --
Steve in Peoria
where I still have a couple of used Cross II's.
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The last time the Authority called for applications, 2.5 lakh citizens applied for sites in the layout. But most of them were sent back empty-handed as there were only a handful of plots at the BDA's disposal. Subsequently, 8,813 citizens were allotted sites, but seven years later, they are still waiting for their promised land. Reason: Indiscriminate denotification, farmer compensations and litigations that the layout has entangled itself in.
Very few allottees now harbour any hopes of building houses in the layout. This is one story that has set the alarm bells ringing among most urban planners and the BDA to ensure that such a fiasco does not recur.
Having mooted the concept of group housing, the BDA is now looking at extending a olive branch to citizens who wish to own a property in the City. Reason: Shrinking land space and increasing pressure on the modes of traffic has left the City in the throes of a chaos.
But can their plan of providing group housing be considered an alternative?
For nearly five years, Subbaramaiah (70) and his son-in-law, Shiv Prakash (41), have been running from pillar to post at the BDA to find a solution to their predicament. Having invested Rs 2.27 lakh for a 30x40 (1,200 sqft) site in Arkavathy Layout, Subbaramaiah is now finding it difficult to even move out of his home. "With age catching up with my father-in-law, I have been representing him, meeting the BDA officials and running around for the site. But there has been no respite," lamented Prakash.
His meetings with engineers and officials from the BDA have yielded nothing but empty promises or rude remarks, something that any citizen would wish to avoid. When asked if he would have preferred buying an apartment instead of a piece of land, Prakash said: "How can we trust the BDA? While the concept is truly admirable with the shrinking land space in the City, there is no trust in the Authority to provide citizens with quality construction."
An answer that many believe is closer to truth.
Despite the likelihood of the BDA going under a public-private partnership model, it is still not clear whether there will be any checks and balances in place to look into the quality of construction.
Yet another beneficiary of a site in Arkavathy Layout, Sanjay Marlecha, also echoed the same view. "There is no guarantee that the BDA will provide quality housing on land that can be denotified in a fraction of a second. Look at Arkavathy Layout. Where is it heading? Nobody can say when we will receive our rightful share of land," he rued.
Fifty-three-year-old Subbaramu, who has attempted thrice previously to procure a BDA site, blamed the BDA for its inefficiency in allotting sites to those who have been in the queue for a long time. "We can never trust the BDA when it comes to apartments.
Already they have a huge backlog in providing sites to citizens; when will they construct the apartments? Even if they do, what is the guarantee they will not throw us out. If there is a site in my name, I can, at least, show my rightful ownership."
So, can the BDA allay these fears of the citizens? While the proposal to provide group housing is still under consideration, it seems the citizens' opinions are yet to be taken into account. Will the BDA give any clear answers?
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Wilson Firth
My first job as a consultant psychiatrist was at the Towers Hospital on the edge of Leicester. At the time I believed I had been inspired by such postwar pioneers as Maxwell Jones and Tom Main, who had made asylums more egalitarian and democratic. Now I wonder if I just wanted to work in a Victorian asylum before they were all closed down. The Towers was a red-brick, three-storey structure built around a number of gloomy courtyards, its several wings steeply roofed in dark metallic slate. Under the whole complex ran a tunnel, maybe two hundred yards long, that had once joined the male and female wings of the hospital. In 1986, when I started, most of the admission wards had been moved to the district general hospital, leaving the long-stay wards for adults who suffered from chronic schizophrenia and for elderly demented patients. In the 1930s and 1940s, when asylum populations were at their peak, the Towers housed 1400 or 1500 patients, but by 1986 there were around 4oo. The decline in numbers began after the introduction of Chlorpromazine, the first antipsychotic drug, in the early 1950s.
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SONG OF THE DAY: Bonnie Bailey – "The Little Things"
I've been a fan of Bonnie Bailey since I first her cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere." Her angelic, pretty voice has a bit of a growl to it which sounds amazing on both uplifting and disco house tracks "The Little Things" starts off mellow, with the "Just Breathe" phrase, and then slowly builds into hands-in the-air gorgeous chorus. It's one of those rare songs that will work in a sexy lounge, at the end of a big room club set, or even on the radio. Bonnie sounds amazing singing the emotional and meaningful lyrics, and the mixes by Bassmonkeys and The Fierce Collective (Richie Jones and Mark Doyle) both nail the vibe. As much as I love the quite-well done lyric video, a video featuring the gorgeous Bonnie Bailey would be even better. Here's hoping this record becomes so massive that such a video will surface.
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Wilson Cleveland, the executive producer and star of the Silicon Valley dramedy Leap Year on Hulu and the founder of new media studio Unboxd, is this week's guest curator of TVGuide.com's recently launched mobile app.
Cleveland's list — which includes "a little something for everyone," he tells TVGuide.com — features comedies Community and Family Guy, the "most truly terrifying" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the reach-for-the-tissues series finale of Six Feet Under.
What's Trending's Shira Lazar is first guest curator of TVGuide.com's new mobile app
Future guest curators will include Mike Proulx, senior vice president and director of digital strategy at ad agency Hill Holliday and the author of Social TV: How Marketers Can Reach and Engage Audiences by Connecting Television to the Web, Social Media, and Mobile and Kevin Beggs, president of Lionsgate's television group.
The new TV Guide iOS mobile app is an innovative, one-stop TV companion app exclusively for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, designed to make TV simple again by allowing fans to find, share and watch instantly — anytime, anywhere. It's available for free from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.
Here's the full list of Cleveland's picks, with commentary. Watch his introduction to his channel below, and then watch his picks on the TVGuide.com app.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Hush" (Season 4, Episode 10): "The most truly terrifying episode of the series with one of the most unique premises: Nobody talks for 40 minutes."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Chosen" (Season 7, Episode 22): "This is how you do a Buffy series finale: 1) bring Dushku and Boreanaz back with a cross-network crossover; 2) kill off a few beloved fan favorites; and 3) give the fans the smackdown royale they've waited seven years for."
Leap Year, "A Moment of Weakness" (Season 2, Episode 7): "This episode of Leap Year is the dramedy's darkest, exploring the emotional tolls of entrepreneurship. Also: Eliza Dushku is handcuffed in a closet, so there's that."
Community, "Modern Warfare" (Season 1, Episode 23): "This Season 1 finale spoof of the action comedy genre is funnier and more action-y than the films it parodies. I love you, Joel McHale."
Scandal, "Grant: for the People" (Season 1, Episode 7): "A perfectly intense Season 1 finale with a gasp-y, sucker-punch of a cliff-hanger."
The Guild, "End and Begins" (Season 5, Episode 4): "Felicia Day's wildly popular gamer comedy is the Seinfeld of nerd culture."
Six Feet Under, "Everyone's Waiting" (Season 5, Episode 12): "I defy anyone not to cry during the last 10 minutes of this series finale."
Melrose Place, "Postmortem Madness" (Season 4, Episode 1): "The Melrose Place Season 4 premiere literally started with a bang, but it also served as its mid-series crescendo."
Saturday Night Live Digital Short: "Natalie Raps": "Natalie Portman takes a blowtorch to her pixie-haired nice-girl image and then blows the smoke in your face. Love. It."
The Office, "Diversity Day (Season 1, Episode 2): "Steve Carell's Michael Scott [is]at his most cringe-worthy. A celebration of awkward political incorrectness."
Backwash, "Meet Nick Fleming" (Season 1, Episode 3): "Allison Janney waxing nostalgic on her love of St. Elmo's Fire is worth the watch, but Josh Malina, Michael Payne and Michael Ian Black are masters of retro-absurdist comedy."
Family Guy, "Something, Something, Something Dark Side" (Season 8, Episode 20): "The real star of this Family Guy two-parter... is George Lucas for trusting Seth McFarlane with his bazillion-dollar franchise."


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Nishiyama Sōin, original name Nishiyama Toyoichi, (born 1605, Higo Province, Japan—died May 5, 1682, Kyōto?), renga ("linked-verse") poet of the early Tokugawa period (1603–1867) who founded the Danrin school of haikai poetry. Sōin's haikai (comical renga) became the transition between the light and clever haikai of Matsunaga Teitoku and the more serious and aesthetic haiku of Matsuo Bashō.
In his youth Sōin was a samurai retainer for a daimyo in Kyushu, but his lord encouraged him to develop his literary talents. In 1622 Sōin went to Kyōto and by 1633 he was a professional renga poet. His interest in haikai was slow to develop, and it was not until 1673 that his first anthology of haikai, Sōin senku ("One Thousand Verses by Sōin") was published.
The poems in this volume, although written in the Teitoku style, demonstrated a higher degree of sophistication than the earlier haikai. Young students—including Ihara Saikaku and Okanishi Ichū—who were dissatisfied with the old school flocked to Sōin's Danrin school. His numerous volumes of poetry include Sōin gohyakku (1676; "Five Hundred Verses by Sōin") and Baiō Sōin hokku shū (1681; "The Collected Hokku [Haiku] of the Plum Old Gentleman Sōin").


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Johanna Rothman – Scaling Agile Projects to Programs
In a presentation for OnAgile 2016, Johanna Rothman states that thinking small, and building upon the informal communication networks already at play in an organization, can help scale practices to manage large programs. Rothman provides advice on planning, architectural design, and measuring progress.
How Agile and Architecture Parted and Finally Became Friends
People stopped seeing the need to define the architecture or do software design due to incorrect interpretation of the agile manifesto, argued Simon Brown. Many software developers don't seem to have a sufficient toolbox of practices and the software industry lacks a common vocabulary for architecture. A good architecture enables agility with just enough up front design to create firm foundations.
Stop Over-Engineering, Build What the Customer Really Needs
After working with many different teams, Greg Young has found that they often are drastically over-engineeringing in their projects. Teams start to work on 9 month projects, but by thinking on the problem from another perspective they may be able to deliver 95% of the value in just a few weeks, Young claimed in his keynote at the recent DDD eXchange conference in London.
Characteristics of Evolutionary Architectures
The first principle of Evolutionary architecture is support for incremental non-breaking changes. Microservices architecture is one great example of such an architecture, Rebecca Parsons and Neal Ford from Thoughtworks claims when describing characteristics and principles of Evolutionary architectures.
Microservices at Spotify
Kevin Goldsmith talked about how Spotify uses microservices to break down architectures and be innovative at the GOTO Berlin 2015 conference. He argues that Microservices are easier to test, deploy and monitor than monolithic applications. Spotify also aims to have as few as possible dependencies in their product, and microservices are very helpful for that.
Directing complex IT-landscapes with Agile
Where many organizations use agile to develop IT products, agile principles and practices can also be applied for maintaining landscapes of commercial products. Gert Florijn and Eelco Rommes will talk about directing complex IT-landscapes in public sectors such as healthcare and local and national government organizations at the Agile and Software Architecture Symposium 2015.
Steve Freeman on What's Wrong with Most TDD Implementations and Building on SOLID Foundations
At the Agile Singapore conference last year Steve Freeman spoke about the way TDD has been misinterpreted and frequently misapplied in many adoptions and how the SOLID architectural principles are still important, perhaps more important now than in the past.
An Introduction to Minimum Viable Architecture
This post describes the minimum viable architecture for developing minimum viable product. It includes the architecture specification in different phases of startup.
Death by Planning in Agile Adoption
Management can get the feeling of losing control when their enterprise adopts agile and starts deploying self-organizing teams. Procedures, review boards and consultation bodies can become superfluous when switching to an agile approach, but they may not realize that, says Marcel Heijmans. Trying to regain control with additional planning can make things worse, causing "death by planning".
Applying Use Cases in Agile: Use Case 2.0, Slicing and Laminating
To incrementally develop and deliver products using agile software development, requirements are gathered and organized into a product backlog. A requirement technique that is used in agile software development is use cases. Some techniques to apply use cases for managing product requirements in agile are use case 2.0, slicing and laminating.
Implementing Hexagonal Architecture using Life Preserver and Spring Framework
Russ Miles recently shared some thoughts and ideas about the needs for adaptability in a system and how his implementation of the Hexagonal Architecture can help in achieving this. He used a Java and Spring based application to exemplify how such a system can be implemented.
Udi Dahan on Throw Away Prototypes
In his recent blog post "Build one to throw away" Udi Dahan is addressing the chicken-and-egg problem software developers often face. On one hand, customers don't exactly like what they want so that they need to closely interact with software engineers. On the other hand, building product-ready solutions for this interaction might lead to high costs.
Grady Booch Receives 2012 Lovelace Medal from British Computing Society
The British Computing Society has awarded its Lovelace Medal 2012 to Grady Booch for his "innovative work in software architecture, software engineering and collaborative environments."
Thoughtworks Technology Radar March 2012
ThoughtWorks recently published the latest update to its Technology Radar; a report produced to help technology decision makers understand emerging trends in software development techniques, tools, languages and platforms. There are some interesting observations of interest to Agile software development teams.
IBM is now wearing a Green Hat
On January 4th, IBM announced it is going to acquire the cloud and SOA integration service company Green Hat. Testing is one of the main challenges when developing cloud or SOA based applications. Buying Green Hat IBM hopes to offer more productive testing approaches and other benefits for such types of large scale software systems. Green Hat will be integrated into IBM Rational Solution.