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1. Comment by Pablo on 8/15 @ 12:34 pm #

   Ah, something good comes out of Michigan. Well done, gentlemen.

2. Comment by Jeff on 8/15 @ 1:04 pm #

   Yeah!

3. Comment by dicentra on 8/17 @ 1:52 am #

   You also got linked by Insty. Any ‘lanche?

4. Comment by Robert Pedersen on 8/17 @ 1:59 am #

   Dan and Protein Wisdom – Thank you again for covering this event and the DC Festival 2008. I was not able to cycle this year with the other four fathers that made this journey but I look forward to 2009. Unfortunately my personal case kept me out of this year. For 2009 we have been working on the game plan for over a month. We have a new route, a professionally designed logo, new sponsors and a bigger push on gaining media coverage with hopes for nationwide in 2009. We are also adding an additional 150 miles on bicycle to make it a total of 900 miles. http://cycling4children.typepad.com/cycling4childrencom/equalparentingbiketrek2009.html

   Special thanks again to Protein Wisdom and Dan…you guys are awesome!

5. Trackback by DaddyBlogger.com on 8/17 @ 3:01 am #

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6. Comment by Jim Bailey on 8/17 @ 3:05 am #

   Greetings from North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand.

   We honour those who took part, organised, funded and supported the **Equal Parenting Bike Trek**

   Equal Parenting as the Basis of World-Wide Law and Social Policy is best way forward for our Children, inside and outside marriage, residing together or not.

   In fact HandsOnEqualParenting from conception will cure even more Social disasters

7. Comment by Teri Stoddard on 8/17 @ 4:21 am #

   Thank you for highlighting this very important issue. So many co-parenting partners (inside and outside marriage) have no idea that other parents who wish to, can’t. Shared parenting works.

8. Comment by Elaine Pedersen on 8/17 @ 6:30 am #

   Thank you for bringing this issue to the front. A special thanks to everyone involved who stepped up by simply getting involved.

9. Comment by Frank Cornelius on 8/17 @ 10:24 am #

   Thank you for your coverage. Please keep news about the struggle for family rights in the forefront. For more information, check out Dr. Stephen Baskerville’s expose, “Taken Into Custody–The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family”.

10. Comment by Giorgio Ceccarelli on 8/17 @ 10:31 am #

    Thank you for highlighting the very important event Equal Parenting Bike Trek because Children of all the world need both parents inside and outside marriage, residing together or not.
    Greetings from Rome Italy.

11. Comment by Randall Scotti on 8/17 @ 12:10 pm #

    Thanks for the coverage guys! We remain steadfast in our determination to reverse governmental intrusion into our families! The Bike Trek culminating in the DC Festival is our year end rally. Be sure to find your way to Grand Rapids, MI in January ‘09 for the annual Fatherhood Summit, a nationally attended event drawing not only fathers, but high ranking political figures- judges, congressmen, etc.

    While our national rallys take back seat, we cease not our activities in the local arena. This year’s elections are proving to be fertile ground as we have many viable candidates seeking office and/ or judgeships. We all must do due diligence with every prospective candidate rooting out each candidate’s philosophical belief system discerning whether said candidate is aligned or opposed to our Constitutional agendas. Make this election cycle the one you join ranks in supporting, canvassing for, passing out literature, door knocking and linking your social pages too! Advocacy on the net is only one great resource for getting the word out about candidates who support family/ parental rights!

    In MI, we have two freshman candidates wholly committed to our movement- Scott Hudson 43rd District for State Representative and Brian Downs for Kent County Circuit Court Judge! Brian was one of the four riders participating in the Bike Trek, while Scott Hudson did not personally ride, he had his nephew Bill Foster take to the trail on his behalf. Support both of these men as they have committed their lives to our work!

    Randall Scotti, President
    Dads and Moms of MI
    An ACFC Affiliate

12. Comment by Phillip Wurm on 8/17 @ 4:42 pm #

    Thank you again for the marvelous coverage of the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek. So many, both individuals and media, choose to ignore the facts and the truth. ONLY by enlightening and educating the general public as to what is REALLY happening will we ever enact the proper solutions to the abuses committed by our Family Law Court System.

    Phil Wurm
    West Regional Director, A Child’s Right, http://www.achildsright.org

13. Pingback by Correction, Men's Issues Video on 8/17 @ 6:28 pm #

    [...] contacted me about my bad link, here.  It ought to be this (and I’ve fixed it).  Apologies. Posted by Dan Collins @ 6:28 pm | [...]

14. Comment by Don, the 14%er on 8/17 @ 6:49 pm #

    People should listen to the message Robert Pedersen is ‘pedaling.’ Children need both parents!

15. Comment by Michael on 8/18 @ 1:50 am #

    Hmm, I still want a child, but it’s still difficult to rationalize with the risk of giving the child a broken home seemingly so easy. I suppose if events like this become more successful I may be persuaded that it’s worth the risk.

16. Comment by Doug Dante on 8/18 @ 8:12 pm #

    These guys are doing a great service by pedaling through America and letting the people know about problems in family law.

    The more money that child support enforcement agencies transfer, the more dollars go into their pocketbooks. ( http://tinyurl.com/6benex )

    They have substantial control ( http://tinyurl.com/623d5r ) over the child custody decisions through recommendations, and some agents have been reported to manipulate facts on which child custody decisions are based, potentially for their own financial benefit ( http://tinyurl.com/69mblv ).

17. Comment by Jeff C. on 8/18 @ 8:37 pm #

    Thank you Protein Wisdom for posting and for keeping all of us up to date about Equal Parenting Bike Trek. They all need to be Saluted and Thanked.Many Kudos to you all for bringing to light that children need both parents whether the parents are together,separated or divorced

18. Comment by James Lapensee on 8/18 @ 9:36 pm #

    I feel bad that I could not be apart of this GREAT event, WE the People need to keep moving forward, One Day at a time…. I will never give up on America, it our Government that I have giving up on. Family Court has changed my Life, now its time to change Family Court because the cost is to high.

19. Comment by Factory on 8/19 @ 12:47 am #

    Let me add mine to the thanks for the coverage. This bike trek deserves as much exposure as it can get. Very much appreciated, I hope you follow some leads you might find down this particular rabbit hole..

20. Comment by Avante guarde on 8/19 @ 12:53 am #

    Thank you for covering this event.

21. Comment by Harry Crouch on 8/19 @ 5:11 am #

    Thank you very much for posting the link to the “Men’s Issues” video. This short video should be watched by every American with access to a computer. It clearly shows the disparate treatment of men in our society. You can see it here: http://www.californiamenscenters.org/mensissuesvideo.html

    Harry Crouch
    President National Coalition for Men
    Director California Men’s Centers

22. Comment by Darrick Scott-Farnsworth on 8/19 @ 8:18 pm #

    Thank you very much for helping to shine the light on actions being taken on behalf of parents who are being denied a significant relationship with their children. Please be aware that reading and agreeing is not enough getting politically active and involved is what we need to further parental rights for all fit, willing and able parents.

23. Comment by Drew4Justice on 8/19 @ 9:33 pm #

    Thanks for this coverage. It is enlightening!
    Look for something in Pittsburgh, PA in October!

24. Comment by Lary Holland on 8/19 @ 10:01 pm #

    Anothe successful event has passed but it is not over. In fact, we have just begun. More news coverage and more exposure to our issues have already begun from this fantastic group of people coming together and demonstrating to tens of thousands simultaneously that now agree with our cause. “The Call” heard us and spoke to us and agree that our government is part of the problem. Check back soon to hear more official announcements.

25. Comment by Drew4Justice on 8/19 @ 10:17 pm #

    Excellent coverage. Watch for something in Pittsburgh, PA in October.

26. Comment by Dan Collins on 8/19 @ 10:51 pm #

    Thanks, guys, for all the comments.
    We’re honored, though, to be of any little help, because we believe that justice delayed is justice denied, in every case, everywhere.
    You know best how to help each other, but if I were you, I’d take a look at NAMI’s organizational model and materials. That, I think, is your way forward.

27. Comment by James Milton on 8/20 @ 4:41 am #

    The Equal Parent Bike Trek should have more coverage than it does. The reason for the epic journey is for the right to be an equal parent. As a society we have used one eye and made one blind. Some organizations believe that you can replace a father with another person that can occupy the mother’s bedroom. In two U.S. Congress resolutions for Joint Physical Custody in households where a parent is missing, 84% of the time that parent is the father. About 27% of children, 19,400,000 children live apart from their biological fathers. Reports on Child Abuse and Neglect statistics show that the mother and the mother’s partner are responsible for 80% of this abuse. Since divorce rates have increased since the 1930’s when 1 out of 6 where divorced to the present of 1 out of 2 are divorced has society improved? Has taking the Bible out of public schools made schools better? Has the inner city high schools improved in graduating its pupils who come many times from single parent households? No. Instead the out of wedlock births have passed the births in two parent households. The Child Abuse and Neglect numbers have increased, the numbers of out of wedlock has increased as well as teenage births, the cost of divorce, and the cost of high school dropouts. Therefore the cost of adults offenders in the criminal justice have increased as the nation now leads the world in incarceration.

    The nation’s taxpayers spend $112 billion a year for the cost of Divorce and Unwed Births. The nation’s taxpayers spend another $103.8 billion a year for Child Abuse and Neglect. Together that is $215.8 billion a year. That should bother some people but instead we use the blind one to lead us further down the road to moral corruption and a nation of juvenile delinquents, teenage mother’s who by their own lack of adult maturity allow babies to die because they accidentally sleep with their babies in a adult bed or with a partner in the bed a well. Mix sleeping arrangements that with alcohol and drugs, and the death of 0-1 makes that the most dangerous age for a child. The years 15-18, are the next most dangerous. While marriage and maturity gives children a much better chance of growing up in a nurturing environment where a child could achieve the role of a productive citizen and not a Department of Human Services recipient.

28. Comment by Robert Collins on 8/21 @ 11:30 pm #

    EPBT is giving awareness to the millions of destroyed families and children that the Federal financial incentives to states for failed social programs. Blaming and beating down the fathers and forcing them out of families has resulted in millions of children unable to grow up as effective adults. The children growing up in these broken homes end up in jails, crime, drugs, and teenage pregnancy.

    We need to stop the destruction of families and stop federal financial incentives for states to destroy families.

29. Comment by Marty Lee on 8/29 @ 8:14 pm #

    A few rather disjointed musings on sexual humor that often repeat the same point.

    Few are offended by castration humor, everyone is offended by rape humor. Or so it would seem. It is not humor about rape per se that bothers anybody, just humor regarding the rape of women. Jokes about male rape, homosexual rape, and prison rape bother almost no one. Why? Because our sexual humor is sexist. It’s always easier to joke if the victim is male. This should surprise no one. Humor about the sexual abuse of women offends our pieties regarding them. And now, thanks to the self-serving moralizing of feminists, such humor is politically incorrect. On the other hand, humor about the sexual abuse and humiliation of men is standard. What could be funnier to the average American than the idea of some man losing his penis or getting his testicles cut off? What’s more hilarious than watching some guy getting his balls kicked up into his throat? Never mind our perversity, we can always find excuses for such humor — but our sense of propriety would always treat women better.

    Society is more pious about the abuse of women than of men. Humor provides no exception to this rule. If a joke involves violence, the victim will, without too many exceptions, be male. If a joke involves sexual sadism, the victim will invariably be male. There’s an unremarked rule that all sexually sadistic humor must be made strictly in reference to the sexual abuse, rape, mutilation, and humiliation of males.

    Others argue that violence against women is less “funny” because “it happens more often.” And on the face of it, this argument would seem to hold some weight. Nevertheless, it seems to me that incidence is largely irrelevant. I should think, rather, that the sex of the victim is more relevant to whether or not a joke is acceptable and therefore “funny.” Again, we are more circumspect in our language regarding women and therefore more pious about humor involving them. Consequently, it is easier to joke if the victim is male regardless of incidence.

    If women had testicles, do you think America’s Funniest Home Videos would make a lot of fun out of kicking them? Most certainly not. If criminal reports of male sexual mutilation were less uncommon, would we place some totalitarian ban on castration humor? Would people demand that such humor be deemed politically inappropriate? No. Not likely. Men can “take a joke” because when violent jokes are made at their expense we separate the joke out from the reality. We say, “It’s just a joke.” On the other hand, when humor and violence are mixed at women’s expense certain people insist on conflating the joke with the reality.

    The nature of humor is such that it deals in mistakes and what “ought not” be. Things are not humorous because they’re “funny.” That explanation of humor is no explanation at all. Rather, things are “funny” because we humor ourselves with them. Where our sense of propriety frowns on humor it cannot develop and we cannot be primed to laugh.

30. Comment by Fidelbogen on 8/31 @ 2:26 am #

    Your coverage of the Equal Parenting Bike Trek is greatly appreciated.Every year the snowball grows, and the avalanche will surely make its appearance — likely sooner than anybody anticipates! Here’s to 2009!

31. Comment by martin swash on 10/21 @ 10:25 pm #

    Thanks for the Equal Parenting Trek. Kids are being stolen from Dads every day, with the help of these secret corrupt family courts. There is a great injustice and human rights question here, when will something be done ? Your trek will help a little

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