Link to article here. Excerpt:

'POOL- THE much anticipated ‘Circumcise’ Pool Challenge tournament, which was scheduled for this coming weekend has now been postponed to January 22.

The E30 000 Population Services International (PSI) Swaziland sponsored tournament will be open to circumcised players only.

It was initially slated for November 27 last but had to be postponed to January 8 this year after it was felt that some of the would-be- players were not able to circumcise for them to be eligible to enter the competition, as they were held up at school.
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The tournament, meant to encourage pool players to embrace a healthy lifestyle was launched at the Swaziland National Sports Council offices about three months ago.'

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'NEW YORK -- A TV meteorologist told police she concocted claims of being attacked because she was under personal and professional stress and wanted attention, a court document released Wednesday shows.

Heidi Jones said nothing as she appeared briefly in a Manhattan court Wednesday to answer misdemeanor charges of false reporting. Her lawyer, Paul F. Callan, said she would fight the charges and had been "unfairly characterized and vilified" in some press reports on her case.

Jones, who has been suspended from her job at New York's local ABC station, told police Dec. 1 that she'd been attacked in Central Park in September and then again outside her apartment in November, according to a court complaint prosecutors filed Wednesday.'

Article here. The story describes how an affluent Hong Kong businessman skipped marriage and used a surrogate mother to get his three new sons. One quote from the article, offered by a surrogate mother brokering agency employee in California:

"She says about 40% of clients are single men who pay anywhere from $20,000 to $35,000 for a surrogate mother, "depending on her experience.""

Perhaps men have been for too long thinking they needed to get married to have children? Want to avoid all the legal hassles, financial jeopardy, and emotional trauma associated with marriage, but you still want to have kids? Maybe using a surrogate is the way to go? Feminism, and all its efforts to make marriage inhospitable and unattractive, seems to be pushing men into this. At the same time feminism seems to be objecting to the use of surrogates, in part because women often think that the surrogates are forced to do this for money.

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

In Protecting Kids: Rethinking the Hague Convention (12/10/10), Time magazine uses a study that’s so bad as to be almost spurious to promote the article’s astonishing anti-father bias.

The Hague Convention was originally drawn up in 1980 to address the problem of parents absconding with children across international borders. Time asks:

So what happens, three decades later, when research indicates that 68% of the abducting parents in cases under this treaty are mothers — and that many of them are fleeing abusive spouses?

To which the obvious answer should be, “Nothing.” Without evidence showing that the courts aren’t competent to deal with claims of abuse by parents, why should the Convention be changed?

Watch it here. As long as we have men who are ready to excuse violence done to them (publicly, no less), then does the movement really stand a chance against the tide of self-loathing so many men have internalized? If you didn't find that clip very disturbing, then may I suggest you consider the idea that you are like a fish that has been swimming in dirty water for so long, he doesn't even know clean water when he sees it.

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'DALLAS – A Texas man declared innocent Tuesday after 30 years in prison had at least two chances to make parole and be set free — if only he would admit he was a sex offender. But Cornelius Dupree Jr. refused to do so, doggedly maintaining his innocence in a 1979 rape and robbery, in the process serving more time for a crime he didn't commit than any other Texas inmate exonerated by DNA evidence.

"Whatever your truth is, you have to stick with it," Dupree, 51, said Tuesday, minutes after a Dallas judge overturned his conviction.'

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The Foundation for Male Studies needs your help. FMS is working hard to add courses of study, centers and departments to the educational institutions of this nation - to spread the understanding of all aspects of boys and men - from anthropology to education to biology to psychology. We must do something now to stop the tide of lack of understanding, misdirected behavior that is prevalent from the youngest of boys all the way up to their maturity as men.

Many statistics prove that looking away will ultimately lead to a meltdown in our society. Here are just a few:

* According to the US Census Bureau, more women are going to college today than they did a decade ago, while the percentage of men attending college is decreasing relative to women;

So feminists insist men start fights and women are the peacemakers. Sometimes, sure. Other times, not. In this case, a father of 7 is killed trying to break up a fight between two women. Charges she faces? Manslaughter, and assault. Excerpt:

'Rochester, N.Y. - The family of James Singleton, 46, said the way they understand it, Singleton was simply trying to break-up a fight between two women when he was stabbed early Saturday morning.

Rochester Police Investigators say Singleton was stabbed in the leg with a piece of broken glass and that the wound severed his femoral artery; Singleton died at the hospital Saturday night.

Monday morning Nancy James, 52, pled "not guilty" at her arraignment in Rochester City Court. James is charged with manslaughter for Singleton's death and with assault for stabbing the other woman, Patria Brown.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'After a night of drunken revelry that escalated into a violent street fight, Crystal-Dawn MacKenzie grabbed a knife from her neighbour's kitchen, yelled "I'm going to kill him" and stabbed her common-law husband in the collarbone.

If the knife had moved just a centimetre in either direction, Patrick Andrew Thomas likely would have lived, a pathologist later testified. But the 29-year-old bled to death on a downtown Saint John street.

Eight months later, Ms. MacKenzie walked out of a New Brunswick court a free woman after a nine-woman, three-man jury in Saint John acquitted the 28-year-old mother of three of second-degree murder, accepting that she had finally snapped after years of abuse at the hands of Mr. Thomas.

The Crown filed an appeal last week, a rare move for a jury trial. Prosecutors are arguing that the judge erred in his definitions of murder and self-defence and that Ms. MacKenzie had alternatives to killing her husband to escape his violence.'

The Core Values of Feminism and Christopher Kilmartin and the Frozen Vagina. Excerpts:

'With this piece I take you close to the edge without dropping off. I take you as close as I can to feminist thought while still having a brain left to think with. Won’t you come with me on a tour of this haunted mansion, the feminist cranium? I don’t pretend to have distilled feminist thought in its entirety. You’ll notice that many of these bleed together, but like the female mind, things aren’t so distinct and separate.'

and

'Kilmartin, the real postmodern man among men, lays out the plain, simple and unassailable facts as only a men’s studies scholar could, or would. He writes,

Story here. Excerpt:

'Unspecified psychological studies or evaluations have been ordered for a jailed father who, in violation of the procedures of the government-run social services that instructed police officers to abduct his then-7-year-old son because he was being homeschooled, took him home for a visit.

Details are sketchy about the local court hearing, held just before Christmas, in the Gotland, Sweden, case involving Christer Johansson, but a Swedish broadcast station website reveals that Johansson is accused of kidnapping or unlawful detention for the Thanksgiving week incident in which he took his son, now 9, with him following a social services-supervised visit.
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Government authorities then awarded custody of Domenic to social services because he was being homeschooled, and he has been allowed visits with his parents only about once every five weeks since.'

Story here.

'A Camden County, N.J., woman was in police custody Saturday charged with setting her boyfriend on fire on New Year's Eve.

Richard King Jr. was in stable condition in a Philadelphia burn center after a blanket he was using was set on fire, local newspaper the Courier-Post reported.

Police in Audubon, Pa., said Pamela Rozzelle, 50, was charged with second-degree aggravated arson and second-degree aggravated assault.

Rozzelle told police she could not find her car keys and tried to wake King, who was asleep on a couch. Rozzelle said she then lit a cigarette and a match fell onto a blanket that covered King, which in turn lit on fire, according to the report.'

http://www.cleaningforareason.org/

I guess men don't get cancer. What is up with these women-only deals?

Story here. Excerpt:

'PHOENIX – The daughter of a county supervisor has been arrested on suspicion of sexual misconduct with the same teenage boy that her mother is accused of sexually abusing over a three-year period, police said Thursday.

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'A family acquaintance has been charged with capital murder in the case of Jonathan Foster, a 12-year-old Texas boy last seen Christmas Eve before a burned body believed to be his was found Tuesday, according to local media reports.

Mona Yvette Nelson, 44, an acquaintance of Foster's family, was named a person of interest early Wednesday and questioned by police, ABC News station KTRK in Houston reported. The Harris County, Texas, District Attorney's Office later told KTRK that it had accepted capital murder charges against Nelson.
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"The body ... is that of a child, but it was so badly burned that we can't determine the gender or identification," Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith told ABCNews.com. "The Medical Examiner's office has that unfortunate task to determine, and until that happens, we are treating these two incidents as separate cases.'