The White Male Oppressor Speaks

While Domestic violence is a problem for for women it is by no means a one way street.  Are the Statistics that you see and hear a realistic interpretation of the facts? Domestic abuse towards men has been a problem as long as it has been for women. We can even find instances of domestic abuse towards men in the history books and in well known celebrity relationships.

A prime example of this is Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. According to Michael Burlingam a history professor at Connecticut College and author of “The inner world of Abraham Lincoln” said “Mary Todd used to beat the hell out of Lincoln.” Some recorded reports state that at one time President Lincoln did not put enough wood on the fire so Mary Todd beat him with a log. There are a number of other recorded cases where she drew blood on the President for indiscretions as slight as buying the wrong meat for breakfast. By many reports Lincoln hated his marriage and in 1864 he pardoned a Union soldier who abandoned the Army to marry his childhood sweetheart. While signing the pardon, Lincoln said, “I want to punish the young man. Probably in less than a year, he’ll wish I had withheld the pardon.”

And in the celebrity world we have Bobby Brown. The common belief is that he used to beat on Whitney Houston. However the truth comes out in an interview in an April 13, 1999 Associated Press article Ms. Houston admitted “Contrary to belief, I do the hitting, he doesn’t. He has never put his hands on me. We are crazy for one another. I mean crazy in love, love, love, love, love. When we’re fighting, it’s like that’s love for us. We are fighting for love”

The point of those two examples was to show that this is not a new phenomenon but does the rhetoric hold up to the facts? One of the favorite statistics that is commonly thrown about is that 90-95% of the domestic violence is by men against women this number is as erroneous as it gets but like most other false information if you throw enough money into promoting it pretty soon people will believe it.The following information is taken from US Department of Justice National Violence Against Women Survey.

I am sure you noticed as did I that there is a major discrepancy between previous 12 Months and lifetime domestic violence rates of 1.5% female and 0.8% male in that previous year vs. 22.1% female and 7.4% male over the lifetime. Dr. Malcolm George of the St Bartholomew of Royal London Hospital Medical School, author of Aggression in British Heterosexual Relationships suggests that the discrepancy between the number is due to the fact that men do not report assaults that happened a long time ago, further he found that very few male victims considered they had been the victim of a crime. These male victims most of the time explained their assaults as, “Just one of those things that happens.”

Reports also state that the annual physical assault rate is 44.2 out of 1000 women and 31.5 out of 1000 men are assaulted by domestic violence each year. This averaged is 3.5% victimization per female and 3.4% victimization per male. look at that a statistical dead heat as the data below indicates:

Interesting how the real numbers don’t add up to the numbers that we are told huh? But we have more myths to explore so let us continue…

Next we will look at a myth about emergency room and injuries to women due to domestic violence. What if I were to tell you that 20-35% of emergency room visits by women are due to domestic violence. You like most people would immediately think, “Yup that sounds right I have heard that before.” But is that number really a fair representation of the data? Not according to real numbers shown in the table below.

The reality of the data presented as you can see from all forms of violence accounted for a total of 5% of total ER visits of which 37% were due to domestic violence which leaves a grand total of 1.85% of ER visits were actually due to Domestic Violence. Interesting how if you leave out the first part of the facts they can claim that 37% of emergency room visits by women are due to domestic violence but unfortunately for them anyone who looks up those numbers knows that is not true. However; fortunately for them the general population is to lazy to learn the truth and is happy to believe bumper sticker tag lines.

And finally probably one of the most damaging myths that Domestic violence by women against men is not serious assault. As you can see by the Tables below, this is not the case at all. In the table below the highlighted portions are the percentage of each type of assault by gender of which were assaulted by that means.

Type of Assault by an Intimate
as Percentage Surveyed and Percentage Assaulted, by Gender
Re-analysis of data from NVAW Survey, Tjaden & Thoennes (2000), Exhibit 11

As you can see in none of the cases are the numbers that you are told close to the truth of this problem. However you hear about male domestic abuse so rarely it is easy to understand why people do not think it is a real problem. Add in that men more often than not will not report being the victim of domestic violence because of social and legal stigma and you have a perfect storm. Men are taught that being hit by a woman is somehow emasculating from the time we are children. I am sure that the men reading this can remember maybe a time when they were in school or in another social situation when they were assaulted by a girl. What happened? Your buddies or classmates immediately made fun of you with comments like “I can’t believe you got beat up by a girl” or other similar taunts to the point where we learned just to shut up when it happened because either no one would believe us or we would be ridiculed.

It is easy to understand why it goes unreported when even in the legal world domestic violence against men is considered a joke. In some states with what are misnamed Primary Aggressor laws if a man calls the police because he is being threatened or physically abused he will be arrested because he is the larger of the two, therefore he is the primary aggressor even if he has cuts and bruises and she does not have a scratch on her. It is automatically assumed that she did it in self defense. Which in some cases may be true but as you can see by the numbers that would most likely be a small percentage.  Until men start to stand up this will continue.

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Hello my dear reader. Today I would like to talk about a very serious and sensitive issue. Sexual Abuse. Now I realize that at just the name of the post the angry facts don’t matter, feminists are already gearing up to discredit this piece, I have seen it many times before. I will be addressing facts about a very serious issue from a male perspective.

If you just pay attention to the news and the skewed rhetoric of well funded media campaigns by feminist organizations you could easily come to the conclusion that sexual abuse is a one way street as can be seen by these quotes from noted feminists “All men are rapists and that’s all they are” — Marilyn French Author, “The Women’s Room” and “And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual [male], it may be mainly a quantitative difference.” — Susan Griffin “Rape: The All-American Crime” (p. 86). This is a very powerful tool that the feminist organization uses to keep those dollars flowing, but is that really the fact of the matter? You may have been driving down the road and seen billboards like this by groups like StopItNow.org, to be fair to Stop It Now – on their website I could not find any indications (at least where I looked) that they specifically mention one gender over the other but this billboard does seem a little suspect to me.

But why do I find this billboard suspect? Because like all other anti-child sexual abuse advertising that I can remember seeing it only shows men, and when I typed “Child Sexual Abuse Prevention” into Google Images if there was a man in the add it was in the role of the aggressor or abuser. But is that how it really is? the answer to that is an easy – NO. But with that aside the more important question facing us though is not whether it is just men that abuse but the ramification and potential harm that this misconception can cause.

Society has been taught by the movies, television and the media that men are dangerous abusive rapists or batterers. To the point that women who sexually abuse children or adults are more often overlooked than their male counterparts. There are a number of myths surrounding sexual abuse by females and I would like to take a look at a couple of the more common ones that I have heard throughout my life.

The first myth I will address is that Sexual abuse committed by a female has little or no harm. The reality is that sexual abuse by females can be just as damaging as sexual abuse by males. In other words sexual abuse is sexual abuse. There have been a number of studies that have found that sexual abuse by a female could be more damaging for some victims than being sexually abused by a male. There has been research looking at long-term effects that are unique to being sexually abused by a female. For example a 2004 study by Denov found that,

• 93% reported that the sexual abuse was highly damaging and difficult to recover from.
• 100% reported a strong mistrust of women as a result of the sexual abuse experience.
• 29% reported having sexually abused children at some point in their lives. The men were charged and convicted. The sexual abuse by the women was never reported.

Another common myth is that sexually based offenses committed by females is extremely rare. Once again the reality does not match the myth. The truly unfortunate reality is that all sexual abuse is widely under-reported and when it comes to female sex offenders this truth is compounded. There have been a number of studies that show that less than 10% of sexual abuse over all is ever reported and even less than that go to court. Of course as with anything the reporting rates will very from study to study based upon the wording of questions, what the research is designed to find out, what data is used as a baseline and the demographic of the study. But here is an example of an officially reported statistic from The United States Department of Justice which found a rate of 8.3% for “Other sexual offenses” from females.

A study by Bobbie Rosencran in 1997 of female perpetrated sexual abuse found that only 3% of the female victims and 0% of the male victims told anyone about the sexual abuse during their childhood, even though 100% of them reported it was damaging. Another study by Johnson and Shrier’s in 1987 found that even though the male victims experienced the abuse as highly traumatic, none of them reported it to a mental health, social service, or criminal justice agency. It is statistics from studies like that discussed in many sexual abuse seminars and the low numbers of males reporting the assaults due in part to it being such a social taboo and a socially accepted lie that males can not be sexually abused that make it so the false impressions that these female advocacy groups can get away with skewed numbers and downright false statements about this problem.

Other studies have found the following.

• One in six adult men reported being sexually molested as children, and — in a surprise finding — nearly 40 percent of the perpetrators were female, a new study found. (Source Link)
• In cases of daycare molestation, more than 60% of children who were molested, were molested by women. – (Source link)
• Approximately 95% of all youth reporting staff sexual misconduct said they had been victimized by female staff. In 2008, 42% of staff in state juvenile facilities were female. (Bureau of Justice Report)
• In a study of 17,337 survivors of childhood sexual abuse, 23% had a female-only perpetrator and 22% had both male and female perpetrators. ( Dube, Shanta R et al. “Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Gender of Victim.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine. (2005):28(5), p 430 – 438.
• According to a major 2004 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education – In studies that ask students about offenders, sex differences are less than in adult reports. The 2000 AAUW data indicate that 57.2 % of all students report a male offender and 42.4 % a female offender with the Cameron et al. study reporting nearly identical proportions as the 2000 AAUW data (57 % male offenders vs. 43 % female offenders).. (Source .PDF Download)

David Finkelhor, Ph.D The following comparison of sexual abuse rates between boys and girls as perpetrated by a female is based on research summarized in . “Current Information on the Scope and Nature of Child Sexual Abuse,” Sexual Abuse of Children (1994), this link shows some percentages of female versus male assailants and victims.

While it is true that more girls than boys are sexually abused the one in one hundred rate is identical for the perpetrator being female. Some people have pointed to the extremely low number of women who are incarcerated for sexual crimes as a indicator of the lack of female sexual assault perpetrators. However this is like pointing to the number of men incarcerated for sexual crimes as an indicator of its prevalence which the same groups of people that use female incarceration rates to prove the low numbers quick to point out. Those in either case are not even close to reliable data sets.

Other things that make it so that these numbers will be lower than reality is for example, In Idaho it is impossible for a woman to be convicted of Rape. Idaho statute title 18 chaper 61 defines rape as the following. 18-6101. Rape defined. Rape is defined as the penetration, however slight, of the oral, anal or vaginal opening with the perpetrator’s penis accomplished with a female. There is no provision for female perpetrated statutory or non statutory rape. The only amendment to the State of Idaho rape definition is to the statutory wording in house bill 169 Which only changes ages and still words the rape definitions to only include females as victims.

It is social stigma and laws like the one above that perpetuate the ignorance of boys and girls being sexually abused by females. Remember young men you did nothing wrong. You were victimized and you need to speak out about this. It is not only possible but more common than you are told for women to be sexual assailants no matter what lies you have heard from women’s groups or society. RAINN: The Rape Abuse and Incest National Network has an Online hot line and they are there to help. If you have been abused talk about it you have nothing to be ashamed of you will not be blown off because you are male. here is the URL for the hot line:

RAINN: National Sexual Assault Online Hotline

Further Reading:

julie brand: the best kept secret mother daughter sexual abuse

Top Ten Myths About Female Sex Offenders

Sameritan Counseling- Female Perpetrated Sexual Abuse of Children: The Best Kept Secret

Until Next Time: Courage.

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Hello my friends. I would like to take a moment to congratulate the Russian Navy for proving that they know how do deal with pirates. I wish our government wasn’t so full of pantywaists that are afraid of what some BS third world shit hole that propagates pirates like fleas will think if we kill a few. This is how they need to be dealt with.

If Russia keeps doing the right thing with this kind of human trash their citizens will get grabbed far less often and the rest of the world will hopefully follow suit. Although I can not think of a time when I have ever said this. I think it is warranted in this case. Dear US Government step up. At least Russia did. Don’t get me wrong the Navy Seals did a fantasic job of marksmanship on some of this swine but these guys really sent a message.

For those that do not wish to watch, this video is not for the feint of heart. But if you have a feint heart I don’t know what the hell you are doing here?  What happens is that the Russian Navy boards a pirate vessel that recently kidnapped some Russian citizens, rescues them handcuffs the pirates to their boat and blows it the hell up.

UPDATE: News Links to this story claiming that the Pirates went down with the ship

http://somalilandpress.com/somalia-russia-executed-all-somali-pirates-spokesman-15559

http://www.radiodaljir.com/xview.php?id=744

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Short post, getting late, but while I was sniffing around anti-porn propaganda, I came (no pun intended) across this little gem from our friends in Ireland. I have seen many spanking good anti-porn propaganda pieces and if this one had been say in the Christian Science Monitor or some other religious or self righteous publication I would not have given it a second thought. But no this gem is on the side of a Metro bus. I see stuff like this and it makes me wonder which is worse porn or the myriad of blow up dolls that are sitting in class next to a teen boy. Just saying….

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Step right up and purchase your lottery ticket and you to could win thousands of Pounds towards your very own lab-grown bundle of joy. You know times are tough when Britain’s Gambling Commission has granted a license to a fertility charity,  to run a lottery where for the price of a 20 pound lottery ticket you could be entered to win a prize of 25,000 pounds which equals $40,175 USD. This money can be used towards tailor-made treatments at one of the UK’s top five fertility clinics. The lottery is open to single, gay and elderly players as well as heterosexual couples that are having trouble starting a family.

Currently, you can only buy the tickets for this particular lottery online. However, soon enough you’ll be able to buy them at News stands, convenience stores, or anywhere else that lottery tickets are sold. You may be thinking – what if the procedure fails does it void your prize? Nope, this is a full featured prize. If the standard invitro fertilization fails the fertility clinic will offer the winner reproductive surgery, donor eggs, sperm or surrogate birth. The winner will only get to choose one of the alternative treatments, you do not win as many chances as it takes for you to figure out which ones gonna work. Bare in mind, if it fails you only get one more shot. Ms. Camille Strachan who is the founder and Chair of the charity who has had fertility treatment of her own was quoted as saying she wanted to create the “ultimate wish list” for individuals and families who are having trouble or can’t conceive.

But of course, as usual, there are medical and ethical groups that are strongly condemning the Gambling Commission for this wonderful idea of licensing this fertility charity to raise some funds through lab stimulated life. Britain’s fertility regulator, The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority said, “using in vitro fertilization as a prize was wrong and entirely inappropriate.” These same critics are trying to convince people that it trivializes what is for many people a central part of their lives.

Josephine Quintavalle, from the campaign group “Comment on Reproductive Ethics”, said “creation of human life should not be reduced to a public lottery … this demeans the whole nature of human reproduction.” This is absolutely ridiculous – at what point is having a lottery that can bring in necessary revenue an ethically bad idea when it comes to helping families that normally would not be able to afford the 25,000 pounds it would cost to have these procedures done?

I don’t see an ethical issue here in any way shape or form. In vitro fertilization has been an accepted medical treatment for well over a decade now. And in a country where one and seven couples suffers from one fertility problem or another, I don’t see a downside. They’re balking at this lottery when figures show that 40,000 patients in the UK were treated with in vitro fertilization in 2008 which led to 15,000 babies being born for couples who wouldn’t probably be able to conceive otherwise. I mean hell we have lotteries for everything else why not lab-grown turkey baster babies…

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Here we are once again. Today I will be discussing probably one of the most dangerous mainstream cults on the planet, Scientology. Many of you may be familiar with some of it’s members – John Travolta, Kirstie Alley or Tom Cruise to name a few, as well as a host of other celebrities. But what is Scientology? In short it is a dangerous cult that uses intimidation, brainwashing and torture to keep its adherents in line and it is also damn expensive. As my motto goes,  “what are accusations without proof?” So let’s start at the beginning.

In 1953 Science Fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard, along with his wife and a few disciples  opened the first Church of Scientology in the city of Camden, New Jersey.  This “religion” promotes a set of beliefs centered around the mind, body, and spirit that collectively are known as Scientology. This belief system also revolves around the self-help regimen prescribed in Hubbard’s unfortunately successful book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, published in 1950. Dianetics is known within the Scientology world as “Book 1″. However, all of the books, materials and lectures of Hubbard are considered scriptures to the cult. The adherents to Scientology are expected to listen to and read all of the scriptures, but to do so is very expensive because you are expected to purchase from the cult all of the materials. Current estimates put the total global adherents to the Scientology Doctrine at 8,000,000 with more than 6,000 churches and Missions existing in 159 countries in 66 languages.

At the core of the initial teachings it is discovered that each person is a “Thetan” or Soul which is considered to be immortal. This Thetan supposedly lives through past lives and long past the death of its current human incarnation. Unlocking the true power and ability as an immortal Thetan requires engaging in a type of spiritual counseling session called “auditing” which the cult offers in most cases for as little as $150 dollars an hour. According to the doctrine of Scientology this auditing process removes any and all negative influences and psychic barriers. Auditing seems to be nothing more than an information gathering session where the “Minister” or “Minister in training” asks you a specifically worded set of questions about your life. You being a good adherent to your new cult answer all of the questions truthfully which it is said they keep in your file in case you try to leave the cult or discredit it in any way. You and anyone else who speaks out against this cult fall under what they used to call the “fair game policy” in which the Church actively harasses, discredits and destroys the live(s) of the decenter.

But what are these negative influences and psychic barriers that these info gathering sessions are meant to dispel? The answer to this question is something that the unwitting victim of Scientology does not learn for thousands of dollars and hours upon hours of brainwashing, but I shall tell you for free.

Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack. Xenu, the alien ruler, had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all of the overpopulation, so he had a plan.

Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyze them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralyzed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in the hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them, H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.

The story doesn’t end there though. Since everyone has a soul, (called a “Thetan” in this story) he then had to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds, he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams, (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper). After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like. In these films they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called “implanting”.

When the films ended and the souls left the cinemas, these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same films they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.

As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. Xenu is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and he is still alive today. But through the auditing process a person can, for a price remove these body Thetans from themselves and reach a state which the Church calls “clear”. The cost of reaching a proper state of clear can greatly exceed $100.000 USD. Remember this “religion” was started by a science fiction writer.

But, if they are just another, all be it extremely well funded, spaceship religion, who cares? they aren’t hurting anyone. I wouldn’t count on that, considering the founder.  You remember the bad science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard himself is quoted as saying: “Anyone who attacks Scientology is a criminal all you have to do is dig up their crimes to silence them and if you cant dig up any crimes, manufacture them” he also said “never defend: always attack” And this from the people that claim to be the most ethical people on the planet.

A MESSAGE TO THE SCIENTOLOGIST – YOUR FAMILY LOVES AND MISSES YOU

Until Next: Time Courage and a tin foil hat…

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Big Surprise, a story about one of the most unfriendly uber banks in the U.S. next to Bank of America of course. That bank would be JP Morgan Chase. I know what you are thinking – Chase bank treating people like crap? the hell you say. But as hard as it is to believe, I am afraid so. This tale of woe revolves around a construction worker named Ikenna Njoku, a 28 year old man from Auburn, Washington, who made the horrible mistake of trying to cash a Chase issued check at a Chase bank branch, mistake #1.

It seems that Mr. Njoku had the unmitigated gall to purchase his own home and receive the first time home buyer credit on his income tax.  That was mistake #2. He also made the mistake of having said tax return electronically deposited into a Chase bank account, mistake #3. He was planning on using the tax return to pay off his car but being as he had some financial issues earlier he had overdrawn his account and Chase closed it. Which is a reasonable response to overdrawn accounts and not why they suck.

When good ole Uncle Sam deposited his refund check, which amounted to a little over $9000 thanks to the home buyer credit, Chase took the $600 out that he owed them and then cut and mailed him a check for the rest. That sounds fair right?

Here is where our story takes a twist. While you can get a check for what you are owed from Chase let’s see what happens when you try to cash said check at Chase.When Mr. Njoku showed up to cash this check he was greeted with all the warmth and customer service one would expect. He was arrested. But perhaps I am getting a little ahead of myself. It is important to remember the check had his name and address on it and was issued by JP Morgan Chase to him. However and rightfully so the Chase Customer Banker who handles large checks at the Auburn branch was immediately suspicious of Mr. Njoku trying to cash a check at their bank. Mr. Njoku recounts the encounter “She asked me what I did for a living. Asked me where I got the check from, looked me up and down—like ‘you just bought a house in Auburn, really?’ She didn’t believe that,”. The Customer Banker said the check looked fake. So she, just to be sure this was on the up and up took the check, along with his drivers license and credit card, and called Bank Support. After standing their for around 15 minutes he informed them that he had to run an important errand and left. By the time he returned the bank was closed for the day.

Mr. Njoku that evening called the JP Morgan Chase customer no-service hot-line and was told that he could return the next day to claim his check, license and credit card. When he arrived at the bank the next day it was not the money and what shreds of dignity he had left that were waiting for him but the Auburn police who arrested him for check fraud (a felony) and subsequently locked him up on June 24 2010 which was a Thursday. Being confused by the situation Mr. Njoku exclaimed as he was being arrested “you’re making a mistake, you’re making a mistake, don’t take me to jail, I got work tomorrow. I can’t afford to miss work.” The following day Chase realized its mistake and called the detective who was handling the case to let them know it was a mistake. But being as it was the detectives day off just left a message and called it good. Because as we all know police departments don’t have 24 hr 7 day a week phone numbers in case of a situation. Strike that, I am sure they all have 24 hr hot-lines in case of “The Situation.” sorry bad joke back to our story. As it turns out they do or so says Auburn Police Commander Dave Colglazier who said “Chase could have done a lot more to let them know they’d locked up an innocent man .” followed by “We do have a main line that comes into our front office. There are ways to reach someone 24/7 at a police department.” So Njoku spent the entire weekend in jail.

Being as he sat in jail for 5 days you would think the bank would just apologize and cash his check.  Not exactly what really happened was that he lost his job for not showing up for work and his check was confiscated as evidence which took till August of 2010 for him to recieve. In the mean time since his car was towed from the bank parking lot and he had no job and no check he was unable to pay the towing fines and fees before his car was sold at auction.  For an inconvenience this big you would expect maybe a xeroxed, apology form letter. That would at least be an acknowledgment of oops on their part. Sadly not, But what they did do is out right ignore him with all their collective might for over a year.

Then an attorney decided to take up Mr. Njoku’s case and wrote a strongly worded letter to JP Morgan Chase. Finally after OVER a year on June 30th 2011 Chase apologized for the mishap. As seen here by what Darcy Donahoe-Wilmot of Chase Public Relations wrote. “We apologize to Mr. Njoku and deeply regret what happened to him. We are working quickly to understand all the details so we can reach a fair resolution.” Right I am sure they are.

And the moral of the story is, If you like your job and you like your car don’t cash a check a JP Morgan Chase.

Until Next Time: Courage

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Well Big Trouble in little database so I must start this experiment back at the beginning so let the games begin…… Again. I shall be back in force after a couple more days of configuring so stay tuned.

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