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Amy Chozick at The Wall Street Journal asks the burning question, “Is Barack Obama so physically fit that he makes the 66% of the voting-age population who are overweight feel bad enough about themselves to want to vote for a guy who’s more out-of-shape?”

To quickly test this theory, I went to Michael Moore’s website. Moore makes Jabba the Hut look emaciated, and yet he appears to be backing Obama for president.

So, the extensive data I culled is conclusive: If the obese don’t vote for Barack Obama, it’ll not be because Obama’s skinny, it’ll be because those fat people are racists.

But then there are those overweight people who will back Obama, such as the aforementioned film director who, on any given night, can eat his weight in Funyuns. Why? Because when they see a skinny guy, they don’t get jealous. They instead immediately think, “more food for me.”

So we can now divide all fat people into one of two camps: Racist or greedy. Which are you, fat America?

Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage, and the Family by Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D. examines one of the greatest and most destructive civil rights abuses in America today–our family law system.

In the Taken Into Custody excerpt below, Baskerville asks an interesting question–when judges accept divorcing mothers’ claims of abuse and grant them sole custody of the couple’s children, are they really “erring on the side of caution”? Or, by allowing fathers to be driven to the margins of their children’s lives, are the actually “erring on the side of danger,” as fathers are their children’s natural protectors?

Baskerville writes:

…divorce and single-parent homes are not precipitated by child abuse, as the courts, bar associations, and feminists would have us believe, but the other way around…some maintain that judges who summarily award sole custody to mothers on the merest accusation of abuse, even when they know full well that the father has done nothing wrong, are acting on the principle to “err on the side of caution.”

Yet this explanation is more charitable than tenable, since it is clear that the judges are erring on the side of danger, and it is difficult to believe they do not realize it. Judges are well aware that the most dangerous environment for children is precisely the single-mother homes they themselves create. Yet they have no hesitation in creating them, secure in the knowledge that they will never be held accountable for any harm that comes to the children.

To learn more or to purchase Taken Into Custody, click here.

Baskerville, author of many articles on fatherhood and family issues and a frequent media commentator, is assistant professor of government at Patrick Henry College and an Earhart Fellow at the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society.

Parental-Alienation-Awareness.com Stop Parental Alienation–a terrible form of Child Abuse. Nine states have now officially recognized Parental Alienation Awareness Day. To learn more, go to Parental-Alienation-Awareness.com.

No more calls please, we already have a winner for this week’s “Andrew Meyer Golden Taser Award,” and the proud recipients are from just down the expressway from me.

My only regret is that I wasn’t invited to this reception:

The Michigan wedding of Durango newlyweds Andy and Ania Somora came to an abrupt end last weekend after the bride and groom were tasered by local police and spent their wedding night in jail.

According to a news release from the Chikaming Township (Mich.) Police Department, Officer Jeff Enders responded Saturday to the Burnison Art Gallery in Lakeside, Mich., after gallery owner Judi Burnison asked for assistance with unruly guests at the Somoras’ wedding reception.

Apparently a big row developed at the reception when the bride grew cranky after running out of Skoal and the groom refused to put his tank top back on and run down to the 7-11 for another tin.

It’s bound to be a long night when the wedding theme is “As seen on COPS”

The website www.exrants.com has some interesting…well, rants from people about their exes. This one–Being Single Sucks and So Do Men–caught my eye:

Wanna know what blows? Being single.

More specifically, being a 32 (almost 33) year old divorcee (typing that word makes me want to vomit only slightly less than when I say it), single mom with NO prospects sucks.

As I lay here alone, aside from Peter and Phoebe (the beginnings of my soon to be cat lady collection), now is a good time to remember all of the GOOD things about being single.

In no specific order:

1. I can actually get some decent sleep at night. My ex used to snore so loudly that almost nightly I thought about killing him in his sleep. I’m not even kidding. I used to fantasize about smothering him with his pillow. Yes, it might be a little dramatic, but sleep deprivation at 2 a.m. does crazy things to a woman. Now I want to kill him all of the time

2. No more copious amounts of body hair in the shower.

3. I get Tuesday & Thursday evenings and every other weekend off.

4. I can eat cereal for dinner and don’t hear the bitching that went a little something like this, “If it’s not meat, it’s not dinner”…

Ah, f*** this list. Who am I kidding? Being single sucks.

So what was really the problem in the relationship? A few possibilities:

1) He was (sigh) a man who worked no more hours than his wife did but still expected her to cook and clean.

2) He worked substantially more hours than his wife did (as is often the case), and thus expected her to do more cooking and cleaning than him.

3) Their house was messy and it didn’t bother him but it bothered her a lot. Thus where he saw no issue, she continually saw a crisis. She often asked him, “This house is a disaster–what are we going to do about it?” and he didn’t see a problem.

4) She is temperamental and emotionally immature (witness “almost nightly I thought about killing him in his sleep”).

Or some combination of the four above. Do readers have other possibilities to add to the list?

Help for Michigan Dads Michigan family law attorney Mindy L. Hitchcock has experience fighting for noncustodial parents against Michigan's abusive FOC. Her holistic approach to divorce gets results for her clients while avoiding the scorched earth approach to law that leaves families emotionally and financially devastated. Lady4Justice.com

Kathleen Parker’s Save the Males criticizes the way “men, maleness, and fatherhood have been under siege in American culture for decades.”

In the following excerpt from her chapter “Our Fathers, Our Selves,” Parker discusses the damage that divorcing mothers and family law courts do to children when they limit fathers’ role in their lives after divorce or separation. Parker writes:

Seeing one’s dad fifty days a year—the average number of days children of divorce see their biological father—can’t be compared with having a father in-house, day-to-day. It’s an unnatural relationship, often awkward, in which fathers try to jam the month they missed into a single weekend. Never mind the impossibility of consistency in boundaries and discipline.

Experience teaches that we develop our sense of “self” from the ways in which we interact with both our same-sex and our opposite sex parents. Further, our success in future relationships hinges to some degree on how we navigate those first relationships. One does not need to be a psychotherapist to reckon that a girl abandoned by her father will have trouble trusting men or relating to them in healthy ways as an adult.

A boy without a father will have trouble learning that he belongs to the fraternity of men and, in the absence of a strong male role model, may over identify with Mother. How does a boy learn to be a father when he has none to show him?

And finally, if fatherhood doesn’t matter, how can we expect boys and young men to aspire to become responsible fathers someday? The answer is, we can’t.

Daughters have been especially wounded by the men bad/daddy lousy story they’ve heard from their mothers and the wider culture. How does a little girl reconcile her love of her first “hero” with the antihero messages all around her?

Interestingly, we seem to accept that children shouldn’t be raised without mothers, but we regard the contributions of fathers as optional seasoning, as though children are little casseroles, especially tasty with a pinch of Dad, but guests will hardly notice if you leave him out.

To learn more or to purchase Save the Males, click here.

Parker, a syndicated columnist who is published in over 300 newspapers every week, is concerned about the decline of fatherhood, and has favorably covered many of our action campaigns.

These include: Campaign Protesting Fox’s Reality Show Bad Dads; Campaign Protesting Florida DCF’s Mistreatment of Loving Father in ‘Elian Gonzalez II’ Case; Campaign Against PBS’s Father-Bashing Breaking the Silence; and Campaign Against ‘Boys are Stupid’ Products.

Are you or someone you love being abused? The Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men and Women provides crisis intervention and support services to victims of domestic violence and their families in order to help survivors recover from the trauma of domestic violence. Contact them by clicking here.

The lamestream media told you:

Islam is the religion of peace.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

In an AP story that got surprisingly little coverage nationally, nine Iranians are scheduled to be stoned to death for having sex. Eight women and one man convicted of adultery will be buried (women up to their necks, the man to his waist), and be stoned with pieces of rock too small to cause death immediately, which means the guilty parties will suffer, and plenty of pieces can be thrown by those carrying out the sentence.

According to AP, “Six of the nine were convicted based solely on judges’ decisions with no witnesses or the presence of their lawyers during their confessions.” One, reportedly, confessed without understanding what the charge was.

Stoning, very popular right after the 1979 Islamic revolution, is less frequent now, though the ruling mullahs don’t issue press releases when sentences are carried out.

While some in Iran are seeking an end to the practice, “opposition from hard-line clerics has sidelined their efforts,” according to the AP.

The lamestream media told you:

The Olympic Torch went through the capital of Tibet, Lhasa, with virtually none of the protests and demonstrations that marred the fine ritual in some other cities recently, on its way to the grand opening of the games.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Hundreds of Communist Chinese troops and police kept Lhasa virtually closed during the Olympic torch relay, to avoid the extreme embarrassment the Chinese dictatorship has suffered from protests for its treatment of Tibetans and human rights in general. Several hundred “pre-approved onlookers” lined the streets for cameras, according to The Week news magazine.

The U.S. Olympic shooting team, which had to get special permission from President Bush to bring firearms into the Communist stronghold for competing in the games, may receive some televised coverage from NBC and its satellite stations (MSNBC, CNBC, USA, OXYGEN, TELEMUNDO, more). For broadcast schedules (next-to-the-last link): http://usashooting.org/viewRelease.php?id=170

Complete game schedules, which begin on Aug. 8, 2008, straight from the commie website.

Below is 22 seconds of Barack Obama saying that we wouldn’t need to drill for any more oil if we’d just keep our tires properly inflated, and if we did so the country would save the same amount of oil we’d get if we did the domestic drilling that Republicans and some Democrats are calling for:

Will somebody please pull the dipstick from Obama’s head and check the lucidity level? I think he’s a few quarts low. I thought the gasoline problems were because of greedy “big oil” companies — now it’s because the left front tire of my Chevy Venture is at 33 psi instead of 35 psi?

“Get more tune-ups”? Somebody’s getting generous campaign donations from the Automobile Mechanics Union.

Environmental nutcase extra: This is an oldie but always worth a mention as long as Gore’s still peddling his hoax: Quiz — Who said it, Al Gore or the Unabomber?

Bonus question and answer:

Q: How come Gore called his movie “An Inconvenient Truth”?

A: Because “Capricorn One” was already taken.

This week’s “I saw Jesus’ face on…” story is brought to you by some people who claim to have a kitten that sports Jesus’ face on its fur. CNN even has a video of it. Here’s that image — use your imagination:

I’m only posting this because it’s an incredible coincidence. It just so happens that I saw an image of the Savior of All Mankind on my cat’s fur earlier this evening:

Creepy.

Via Redstate