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American women leading us out of this Great Recession.

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A California woman builds a home in a shipping container and lives in it with her daughter.

http://wimp.com/livescontainer/

 

A young Oklahoma mother shot and killed an intruder to protect her 3-month-old baby on New Year's Eve, less than a week after the baby's father died of cancer.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/okla-woman-shoots-kills-intruder911-operators-shoot/story?id=15285605

 

Oak Park, Michigan's city planner's office is threatening Julie Bass with jail time for planting a vegetable garden on her property.

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=1D577A9747A66FE9316E584F7E781867

 

For those of us that have read Kunstler's The Long Emergency and his two World Made By Hand novels, it is easy to recognize after watching the above three videos that the future is now. 

 

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Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:19 | 2040824 ilovefreedom
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Really? They're going out more because they have higher paying jobs and thus more disposable income?

That may very well be true, but spending that "me" time partying and drinking isn't exactly useful if we are debating being useless.

You might also want to tell that to those who say women are paid 75 or 80 cents on the dollar to men.

 

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:40 | 2040888 MachoMan
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The people that I see doing this have monthly student loan payments (20 years worth mind you) of about 25-35% of their takehome pay. 

As far as facebook goes, it seems like it's become a purely female endeavor...  having to post pics/updates of every which way the wind blows and checking on the same.  The only men I know just go there to "creep," in jersey shore terminology.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 16:24 | 2040410 RKDS
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Just yesterday, a friend of mine was introducing a couple of us, over a conference call, to a friend of his who'd gone off the radar awhile back and suddenly returned.  Boy was he shocked at what unfolded.  Apparently the escort industry is booming.  I thought maybe things were going to stabilize a little, at least until the November dog and pony show was over, and then my friend's friend becoming a prostitute kind of broadsided me.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 16:20 | 2040393 LFMayor
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bitch, who lit the fuse on your tampon?

Your big feminized experiment went to shit.  These men you're disparaging are simply following the approved patterns as modeled on any mainstream television show seen these days.  Fat, bumbling, meek, subservient to the womyn of the house.

stupid quiff, sometimes you get what you ask for.

as for us Beech Nut chewing, shotgun totun, rusty '83 Ford pickup driving Neanderthals, well,  once the wheels come off we'll be back in charge.  And if you're worth knocking over the head and dragging off by the hair, then you've got no worries.  If you're some muffin top, blue chambray shirt wearing crewcut having bull dyke you're just shit out of luck.

Keep up that man hatin Virginia Slims, you've come a long way, baby.

Sat, 01/07/2012 - 10:46 | 2041987 flattrader
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>>>as for us Beech Nut chewing, shotgun totun, rusty '83 Ford pickup driving Neanderthals, well,  once the wheels come off we'll be back in charge.<<<

Perhaps not so much.

Guns.  Thre great equalizer.

Get some girlz.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 15:49 | 2040295 trav7777
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where the fuck is the father?

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:38 | 2040881 forexskin
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where the fuck is the father?

just another thing to not possess - or borrow if you please

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:34 | 2040866 MachoMan
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He probably ran the fuck away after the one night stand...  [can you imagine the damn fur bush she sports?  Not a fucking chance of any trimming on that thing]

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 15:54 | 2040309 hedgeless_horseman
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That's what she said.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 14:59 | 2040156 JW n FL
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http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/06/10005159-despite-tensions-us-rescues-13-iranian-seamen-from-pirates

Dont forget our Women in the Navy!

As much as OUR! Government SUCKS!!

We can still be Proud of Our Troops!!

The Ladies at sea with their PMS finger on the Tomahawk fire control button!! are really what makes the Camel Jockeys Nervous! Try and Stone one of OUR Girls and we will see what the Marines have to say about it!

God Bless the Women in Uniform! (and the ones half out of Uniform especially, LOL!!!)

 

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 14:38 | 2040079 El Viejo
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OK Mom would've been arrested in NY where the second ammendment is ignored.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 14:07 | 2039944 Marley
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Just wanted to point out the hypocrisy.  There appears to be rampant castration anxiety amoung the Ann Rand worshipers.  Just saying. :)

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 21:49 | 2041363 StychoKiller
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In my experience, such "men" are completely out of touch with their feminine side, which is NOT a good thing.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:33 | 2040862 MachoMan
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If she was the only woman left on earth, then castration might be the lesser evil...  Although I'm not sure how that would work if you still wanted to pee on her...  necessity is the mother of invention.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 15:48 | 2040292 NotApplicable
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Who is Ann Rand?

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 22:09 | 2041396 The Alarmist
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First cousin of Ayn Rand?

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 13:59 | 2039891 Towgunner
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women have led us into the great recession and will eventually lead us into the great mean reversion. Our current predicament says everything about women and society namely we need to correct our monetary system and 30 years of malinvestment. The medicine will be painful and politically disastrous for anyone bold enough to do it, so, the elites in power have no other choice but to keep the game going. And what is that...the feeble attempt to induce growth > the money supply which is becoming increasingly more difficult as we are all seeing. women are the perfect people to keep this "game" going, they are heard-creatures, they need to be led and told what to wear, think, eat, drink and act...the media-corporate complex knows exactly how to sell to them and they're 1/2 the population. Shoes, bags, dresses, makeup accessories...etc. Mind you it’s all useless, all disposable all to placate some demented ego and has nothing to do with productive use of resources - trillions worth of it. In our low rate environment, the key to it all, who is punished...responsible and productive people who are disciplined and smart enough to save. The system doesn’t want those people; they need voracious feeders...locus-women who will devour a hand bag sale like sharks on a bait ball. They need impulsive automatons that will buy until they have no money and borrow so they can buy more just because a TV show, musician or celebrity said so. The old Roman proverb "buyer beware" does not apply to women, they have been scammed to buy outrageous outfits and pay $100s of thousands of dollars for a degree that might as well be a perverse kind of a fashion statement. All the while the system keeps the scam going, academia, government, corporations and, of course, the banking system. women will led us out of this...by bringing the system to its breaking point.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:00 | 2040770 prains
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towgunner you just need to get the fuck out of the united states of oligarkistan where most of the paris hiltons of the world preside.

the constant state of judeo gucci flux can wear a man down and make him irrational. the housewives of oligarkistan are toxic for the soul but that doesn't mean

the rest of the world is the same.

 

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 15:51 | 2040300 trav7777
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they drove the mcmansion phenomenon and large SUV craze too; talk to ones like them all the time, many of whom question just WTF they needed another acre for when all it is is more work to keep looking like ONLY a woman would give a fuck to see.

I never met a real man who gave a fuck if his yard was manicured.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 21:46 | 2041357 StychoKiller
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There are good reasons for keeping the grass cut.  Long grass attracts undesirable vermin and encourages them to homestead on yer property.  You would know this if you owned yer own home.  "Life is 95% maintenance."

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 14:10 | 2039959 3.7.77
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Your hangin' out with the wrong women.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 15:39 | 2040266 NotApplicable
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Wait, you're supposed to hang out with them?

I've been doing it wrong!

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 13:21 | 2039713 williambanzai7
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There are many writings on the social role of the female in pre-agrarian times and how it changed once livestock was domesticated, farming replaced nomadic foraging and mankind entered city life.

It is very interesting to consider who is the master of the house in primitive societies.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 13:40 | 2039795 Sudden Debt
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So right! Man ijust sn't made to clean, only womn can do so!

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 21:43 | 2041348 StychoKiller
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What a lazy, little fuzzy monster you are!

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 19:47 | 2041062 tamboo
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she doesn't need a watch, there's a clock on the oven.

luckily i can cook so dont have to put up with any bs.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 15:38 | 2040257 NotApplicable
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Swing and a miss, SD. (or did I miss the sarc?)

WB7 was likely referring to a matriarchal society.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 13:14 | 2039693 Dangertime
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Yeah, I wouldn't call this women leading.

 

Men have been doing this stuff all of the time!

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 17:00 | 2040556 Willzyx
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The guy who lives in the woods in a school bus is a deranged loner, but a woman and her child in a container house are trendsetters.

Sat, 01/07/2012 - 01:13 | 2041666 DeltaDawn
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Only deranged if he does it in Alaska with 3 cans of tuna and a journal to overwintering with.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 13:41 | 2039800 alphabrew
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Exactly.  Every March (women's history month) I'm amazed at how everything is "first women to do <insert activity men have been doing for decades>"

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 13:44 | 2039820 Dangertime
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Of course, when men shoot intruders.....the defending men end up going to jail.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 16:12 | 2040372 I Got Worms
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As depraved as it may sound, I wouldn't lose a wink of sleep after blasting someone between the eyes, the second they crossed the threshold of my home without permission, and would probably even take some pleasure in it.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 13:09 | 2039673 minosgal
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Having read both of Kunstler's novels, I wouldn't call his female characters innovative, or even remotely interesting. Not a lot of career choices in his dystopia.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 14:17 | 2039991 LFMayor
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You mean there are men out there somewhere, writing about females and it's not published in the "friends and neighbors" section of Jugs?

What damn good is that?

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 14:32 | 2040059 minosgal
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My point was, it (Kunstler's novel) might have well been.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 13:02 | 2039637 LFMayor
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Women leading.  What could possibly go wrong?

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 14:55 | 2040142 krispkritter
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Paraphrasing Robin Williams: "No wars...just severe negotiations every 28 days..."

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 14:14 | 2039981 LFMayor
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Some pudgy, gentle tone using sweater vest wearer down arrowed me, because I blasphemed his Bull Dyke celebrated golden calf.  Or Max, or maybe Simon Black.  But likely some effete, agreeable lesbian with a beta penis.  The feminization of Western Society up and fucking ruined it.  When we crash back into a rougher sort of society, the exploited won't even realize they brought it upon themselves.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 21:40 | 2041340 StychoKiller
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Bet you get laid a lot (NOT!)

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 13:00 | 2039621 Sudden Debt
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So what do you wanna be when you grow up little girl?

A self employed hooker and crackhead?

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 12:50 | 2039559 I Ching
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I like her decision NOT to go into debt to live in a more conventional residence.
I like her intelligent re-use of materials at hand.
This is the independent and innovative spirit I used to call 'American' but which I still celebrate.
Fri, 01/06/2012 - 12:30 | 2039472 williambanzai7
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The last Blackberry...

LAST BLACKBERRY

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 21:39 | 2041331 StychoKiller
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Whoa!  The Droid must be powered with Plutonium!

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 17:51 | 2040736 sgt_doom
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Jesus, that's funny!!!!

But what's with all the female-bashing today?

After all, doesn't anyone remember that super-executive who did so much for both HP and the economy, that California transexual (nothing against trans types), Carley Fiorina (born Carleton Fiorina)?

I mean, didn't she contribute her time to Business Execs for American Security, after all???? (WTF was that all about????)

Didn't Fiorina make that memorable quote:

"The American worker doesn't have a God-given right to a job!"

I guess she meant we should all kick back with the six-pack, and watch sports-porn, huh?

And any woman who can't cook with only a stick and some spit, can't justifiably be called a real woman.....

NOW THIS IS A REAL WOMAN:

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tumblr_lx3yleX8XE1qzcyoto1_400.jpg

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/05/woman-pees-out-of-a-moving-san.html

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 15:07 | 2040177 Raging Debate
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Powerful imagery Banzai. But have any of us asked the question of why or why not this is happening? Is it a collective phenomena or not a collective phenomena. Is it a long difficult cycle or a short difficult cycle. Perhaps how we measure these things can be considered or not. Women pyschologist are awsome at their job, they relate to feelings far better than men.

However, when it comes to framing the choices for treatment (that is if we men can swallow our pride, I tried it and pleased I did) they are or may not being framed properly. For example, when I asked my logical guy questions of true or false (which agitated the Pyschologist) BUT allowed time for this woman to draw her own conclusions on my logic and then apply the to her excellent suggestions, the two choices exposed the risks for me and the risks to my family.

What had happened initially which drove me INSTA AGITATED was when the two choice were frame like this:

1) Treat at home

2) Treat at at "Crisis Emergency Center"

 But I practiced patience with my own logic so the Pyschologist could draw here own conclusions as to whether I was in "Crisis" or just needed a "Chill Pill" regiment.

 By making the devil she knew the option, she rescinded my two sets of choices and didn't even KNOW it! It took an hour to get there. I got no apology for her treating me innapropriately or not, according to her and mine lack of understanding. When I walked in, I thought this star-trek looking Amazon was going to send me into a tizzy but I was so fascinated at the end of it, I couldn't help but consider the VALUE I got out of that experiment for trying something new.

 She then rephased the question like this:

 1) Treat at home

 2) Treat outside the home

 3) Have one assigned family member I trusted as the 'alarm bell' to society at large if I lost my marbles and they had to 'come to take me away'. This was a win for me and my wishes, a win for her as a BRILLIANT mind and a win for society.

 What I may or may not have come to realize is that if we demand ACCOUNTABILITY, the choice of at least three option can and should be provided for the WIN-WIN-WIN.

If we are asking for CHOICE, recognizing FACT is needed and not mixed in with opinion, at least on the initial exchange. To get truth for the FACT, you ask a question like this: Do you or do you not agree the earth is flat? Sounds backwards because I did it on purpose but the answer is one both parties MUST tell the truth on. Pyschology tells you that one.

So women, I will make you a deal. You gallop right on into your moment of political sunshine. However, if you expect respect and be heard instead of being fought (which eventually you and I lose asmale is physically stronger) then phrasing the choices as left or right must be done. If you add in to us men my choice if left or yellow, we may or may not snap and use our physical might including armies and weapons to force CHOICE. Didn't women fight 100 years for this very thing I just explained?

The problem with statement headlines are they TELL you your choice in advance. Note, I didn't say MAKE your choice for you. See what I mean about woman and how they frame it? Let's try another one and here is how a guy inteprets that.

"Honey do you want to make-love to me tonight?"

 1) Yes

 2) No

 3) HELL NO I WANT TO FUCK THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF YOU AND HAVE A CIGARETTE AFTER! 

  

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 15:44 | 2040275 ebworthen
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Poor Fractured Atlas (by Elvis Costello, or Ian Declan Aloysius McManus)


He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun
To try to recapture his anger
He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs
Until he begins to feel younger
But back at his desk in the city we find
Our trembling punch-drunken fighter
Who can't find the strength now to punish the length
Of the ribbon in his little typewriter

Poor Fractured Atlas
Threw himself across the mattress
Waving his withering pencil
As if it were a pirate's cutlass
I'm almost certain he's trying to increase his burden
He said "That's how the child in me planned it;
A woman wouldn't understand it"

I believe there was something that I wanted to say
Before I conclude this epistle
But you would forgive me for holding my tongue
'Cause man made the blade and the pistol
Yes man made the waterfall over the dam
To temper his tantrum with magic
Now you can't be sure of that tent of azure
Since he punched a hole in the fabric

Chorus

A woman wouldn't understand it
A woman wouldn't understand it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaE_nJdnUhM

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 15:20 | 2040211 MachoMan
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lighten up francis

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 15:34 | 2040251 NotApplicable
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I was thinking more Tom Cruise.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 14:59 | 2040155 Hulk
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I just love how she has done her hair, 15 years of body oils buildup...

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