A few more Majority Report clips. I love the show.

#BorderCrises

For Republicans a problem at the border is worth more than a solution.

Fox News Rages Over Green Day’s ‘MAGA’ Lyric During NYE Performance

Great short even toned video from the rational national.  David is so unable to get loud or show outrage that it makes great videos to show conservatives.   Hugs.  Scottie

Bucks County mom behind conservative school movement charged with assault, giving teens alcohol

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/28/clarice-schillinger-conservative-pa-schools-activist-charged-with-assault-bucks-county-pac-lt-gov/72038859007/

She is one of the people who claim to know more and be more moral than everyone else so she / them get to tell the rest of us how we must live and how our schools should be run.   The article below shows how unqualified these people are to tell others how to live their lives.   These people are simply self entitled ego driven people who feel entitled to rule over how others live, while often not living that way themselves.   I won’t be coloring this one, too much in it is triggering to me.  

Randy was visiting us the other day and we touched a bit on my abuse. For something realted.  I told them something I had not told before.   By the time I was 7 during my adoptive parents parties with their friends, I would be set / perched on the counter with all the booze and mixers and would be required to fix drinks for the people.   They would come to me and hand me their glass, tell me what they wanted, I would make the drink and hand it back.  If I did the job correctly and everyone left happy, I was rewarded but if anyone complained I was disciplined.  Often right then and painfully humiliated.   Sometimes I would have to stand at the counter and wait on the people playing cards, watching for their drinks to get low and offering to refill them.   I learned to never let an empty glass go unaddressed.  Needless to say, I did not go into detail and it was a brief mention. 

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A former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor candidate and outspoken voice in the conservative “parental rights” school movement has been charged with punching a teenager while hosting an underage drinking party at her Bucks County home in September. 

Clarice Schillinger, 36, is facing criminal charges of assault, harassment and furnishing minors with alcohol during her daughter’s birthday party, according to the case filed in late October. Her attorney has denied all charges and said she will fight them in court.

Schillinger made an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor as a Republican last year and has played an instrumental role in a political action committee that has poured more than $800,000 into Pennsylvania school district races since 2021. The PAC has focused on supporting school board candidates who opposed COVID-19 lockdowns and argue left-wing ideologies are invading the education system.

Clarice Schillinger, a former Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor and a founder of a PAC favoring conservative school board candidates, faces multiple charges in Bucks County for allegedly providing alcohol to minors.

Clarice Schillinger, a former Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor and a founder of a PAC favoring conservative school board candidates, faces multiple charges in Bucks County for allegedly providing alcohol to minors.
 

In the recent criminal case, Schillinger is accused of punching a partygoer several times in the face during a series of alleged outbursts by drunken adults at her home on Liz Circle in Doylestown, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

The documents state that during the event — which started Sept. 29 and went past midnight — Schillinger’s then-boyfriend allegedly grabbed a 16-year-old by the neck for intervening in a fight between the couple and hit a 15-year-old in the face during an argument over football. According to the allegations in court papers, her intoxicated mother also punched the older teen in the eye and chased him around the kitchen island. Police said they had cellphone recordings of some of these reported events.

To escape the unruly adults, several minors started making their way out of the home, even as Schillinger ordered them to stay, court documents allege.

Cellphone footage showed that as the teens gathered in the foyer Schillinger lunged toward one partygoer before others began restraining her. That individual told police Schillinger struck him three times with a closed fist but that he wasn’t injured, according to the affidavit. 

Schillinger had been throwing a 17th birthday party for her daughter that night, hosting about 20 teens in her basement, where there was a bar stocked with New Amsterdam vodka and Malibu Bay Breeze rum, police wrote in the affidavit. In addition to supplying the underage group with alcohol, she allegedly poured liquor for the teens, asked them to take a shot with her and played beer pong with them, witnesses later told authorities.

State law makes it illegal to serve or allow minors to drink alcohol.

One of the teen’s parents called police early the morning of Sept. 30 to report the assaults and the underage drinking at Schillinger’s home. Investigators interviewed multiple teens who had attended the party, the affidavit states. 

This wasn’t the first time police visited Schillinger’s home — which she’s been renting since the spring — for reports of an underage party, according to court documents.

Emergency dispatch data provided by the Bucks County Emergency Service Division logged at least four different calls at the address.

Buckingham Township police responded to a noise complaint call and possible underage party at Schillinger’s home on Sept. 24, the weekend before the birthday party, according to 911 data and court records.

Police reported in one affidavit spotting a number of beer cans strewn around the property and street that night. They also saw about 20 teens dart into the home and, when they tried speaking with Schillinger, found her to be “intoxicated and uncooperative,” the affidavit states. 

Authorities responded to another noise complaint at Schillinger’s home involving “intoxicated subjects” just after midnight on Sept. 29, though an affidavit says police only made contact with Schillinger’s then-boyfriend, Shan Wilson, that night.

Schillinger is scheduled for a late January preliminary hearing. Her mother, Danette Bert, and Wilson were charged with assault and harassment in connection with the party, but those charges were withdrawn when they pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in early December, court records show. 

In an email, Schillinger said that her case had been dropped and suggested Wilson, whom she described as an “angry ex boyfriend,” was behind the accusations. However, online court records show the case is still active, and a spokesman for the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that the charges are not being dismissed. 

Schillinger has not responded to a request for further comment, including why she believes the charges against her were dropped.

While Wilson did contact the USA Today Network about the incident, the affidavit against Schillinger did not include any statements from him and relied instead on the testimony of teenage witnesses and the cellphone footage. 

“Ms. Schillinger has dedicated her life to public service,” Schillinger’s attorney Matthew Brittenburg said in an emailed statement Wednesday. “Additionally, she has always been a law abiding citizen. Ms. Schillinger looks forward to the opportunity to defend against these allegations.”

Who is Clarice Schillinger?

Dissatisfied with school closures that followed the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Schillinger created a political committee to help fund school board candidates who made strict adherence to in-person education their top campaign promise.

That PAC, Keeping Kids In School, focused more closely to school districts near Schillinger’s former home in Ambler, Montgomery County, by giving out thousands of dollars to smaller PACs backing slates of candidates running on an “open schools” platform.

Bucks County venture capitalist and Central Bucks parent Paul Martino took notice of Schillinger’s PAC before the municipal primary in May 2021, and the two created Back To School PA later that summer. 

Martino initially put up $500,000 of his own money for Back To School PA to disburse $10,000 checks to local school board races across the state. 

From 2021, more on Back To School PA:Meet the local parents spending $500K to support school board candidates statewide

Schillinger told the conservative news organization Broad+Liberty after that year’s election that Back To School saw an “incredible win” with 113 of 182 candidates supported by the PAC winning elections.

Back To School took credit for flipping at least six school districts in that story, including Pennridge and Quakertown Community school districts in Bucks County; Harrisburg City in Dauphin County; Hempfield in Lancaster County; Palmyra in Lebanon County; and Southeastern in York County.

The PAC also gave $10,000 to Bucks Families for Leadership, which was an earlier PAC Martino created and funded backing Republican candidates in the 2021 Central Bucks school board race.

Three of the five Central Bucks Republicans that ran in 2021 made it onto the board, but this year’s municipal election saw Democrat candidates sweep five seats and take a 6-3 majority. 

New CBSD board pauses old policies:New Democrat-led board in Central Bucks takes control, reverses controversial policies

While Schillinger’s original PAC and Back To School were described as bipartisan and focused on the single-issue of school closures by her and Martino, most of the candidates endorsed were Republican and often opposed to other pandemic mitigations like requiring masks in schools.

Schillinger threw her hat in the ring for public office in 2022 joining eight other candidates in the Republican primary for lieutenant governor. Schillinger finished fourth, gaining over 148,000 votes of the 1.2 million cast for that office.

Schillinger announced that Back To School PA would be going national during a July 25, 2022, episode of 1210 WPHT’s The Dom Giordano Program.

“Back To School USA is really going to be focused on putting candidates in place that will put our children and their education first,” Schillinger said. “Right now, we are not doing that. We are more focused on these woke and gender ideas.”

More on 2023 school board races:Inside this year’s fight over Pa. school board seats and what happens in the classroom

A website for the national PAC, created in October 2021, is no longer publicly accessible.

Martino told Lehigh Valley News in September that Back To School USA was “more of an idea right now” but indicated Schillinger was still involved in a fundamental way.  

He declined to comment on the charges against Schillinger but wrote in an email this week that Back To School USA “never got off the ground” because other projects took priority last year.

Cop Crashes Into Bar, Charges Bar Owner For Being Mad

St. Louis bar co-owner Chad Morris was charged after he got upset when an officer randomly crashed his SUV into his bar.

If You Behaved Like God

Wow this short animated video shows how silly / and abusive the Fundamentalist version of the Christian God is!  Hugs Scottie.

GOP House Candidate Destroys Satanic Temple Display

The guy is proud of himself.  After all, only his religion should be acknowledged in the US.  After all, religious freedom is only for Christians.  If the country is to be a democracy for everyone, then Christians must understand that they don’t get to rule over others.  They don’t have the right to make rules that allow only their way of life and force others to live as they do.  What do you think these same assholes would do if a Muslim or a person from another faith destroyed one of their Christian displays?   Plus remember that this guy destroyed private property.  That is a crime. Hugs.  Scottie


Des Moines’ CBS affiliate reports:

The Satanic Temple of Iowa says a statue in its Iowa capitol display was destroyed “beyond repair.” The display made headlines this week when an Eastern Iowa state lawmaker called for the governor to remove it, calling the display “blasphemous.”

Governor Kim Reynolds issued a statement saying, “In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech.”

The Satanic Temple said in a Facebook post, “We are proud to continue our holiday display for the next few days that we have been allotted. We ask that for safety, visitors travel together and use the 7 Tenets as a reminder for empathy, in the knowledge that justice is being pursued the correct way, through legal means.”

The right wing Republic Sentinel reports:

Michael Cassidy, a Christian and former military officer, tore down and beheaded a Satanist altar erected in the Iowa Capitol as the display provoked nationwide controversy, The Sentinel has exclusively learned. Cassidy said in comments exclusively provided to The Sentinel that he destroyed the shrine on Thursday in order to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.”

Cassidy turned himself into police officers present in the Iowa Capitol, who confirmed that the Satanic Temple of Iowa desires to press charges. The Sentinel obtained a complaint and affidavit which said Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. “I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,” Cassidy continued. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”

Cassidy ran for the US House in Mississippi last year, finishing 35 points behind incumbent GOP Rep. Michael Guest in the primary. Earlier this year he lost a bid for the Mississippi House.

 

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Yes. So proud of the Episcopal Church for this move. Sure it split the world-wide Episcopal Church, but boy will they look good in the future.

Unfortunately, the right thing to do is not always the popular thing. I respect them very much for doing the right thing, anyway. They did it with women in the church, too. Surprise! The world did not come to an end.

Unless he was in Iowa for other reasons, this cultist drove 13 hours from Mississippi to Des Moines to earn social media cred from Christian nationalists.

He’s probably already raising money.

Social media cred? Is that a thing? I mean, it’s social media where there’s literally no credibility whatsoever.

Their god must be really weak if he is unable to destroy a statue by himself.

Omnipotence. It ain’t what it used to be.

I’m beginning to wonder if they mistranslated “Impotence”.

Pfft. Their god can’t protect them from being shot up in fucking church.

What a useless, impotent little god He must be.

 

That’s the problem with monotheism, the god has to run everything and even deities can get worn out. It’s why pantheons are better, the work gets delegated and important aspects get more focus.

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And they still call it love.

They kill because they care.

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Imagine if a Muslim beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary and said it was against his religion. I don’t think many Christians would applaud that. But they’re cool with beheading a satanic statue.

As they would be fine with a Christian defacing an Islamic display.

For evangelicals, religious freedom is only for them.

 

‘They violently beat us’: Harrowing testimony of released Palestinian child

A Palestinian child describes how he and his family were trapped in their home for five days at the start of Israel’s attack on Gaza.  He said that if anyone went outside, the soldiers shot them, killing them.  When they took the house they made sure to damage it as much as possible to make it unlivable, then they forced everyone including the women to come out naked, then allowed them to redress, took them to separate places where they beat him and those with him.  The US and western governments are supporting Israel on this.  Why?  Over 18,000 Palestinians dead, many more wounded.  All because Israel lost less than 1,200 in the Hamas attack.  Israel got their pound of flesh and a hell of a lot more.   Hugs

“They kidnapped us in a house and violently beat us.”

WATCH: The testimony of a Palestinian child, who was released after days of being detained with others by Israeli forces in the Zaytun neighbourhood in Gaza city, after his home was stormed and Israeli soldiers “bombed it all and shot at the walls”.

“The women were taken to another unknown place. We didn’t know anything about them.”

Mohammad Mahmoud Saleem described being strip-searched, before Israeli forces took the men and women to separate unknown houses, saying that he doesn’t know the whereabouts of his mother and younger siblings.

“I had to carry a decapitated body”: Gazan child after fresh Israeli strike on Jabalia

Israel is ensuring there will not be peace with Palestinians nor those of Palestinian desent.  As this young boy said “God will take my vengence!” which you can beleive means he now is willing to hurt those who hurt him and those around him.  But the question asked is true, where is the UN, where is anyone to help stop Israel.   Hugs.  Scottie

An Israeli air strike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, according to a doctor at al-Shifa Hospital.

According to CNN, the Israeli Defense Forces allege the Central Jabalya Battalion took control of civilian buildings, adding collapsed tunnels were partly a reason for the destruction caused by the strike on Tuesday.


“I carried a body and another decapitated body with my own hands,” a Gazan boy said at the site.


At least 9,488 Palestinians including 3,900 children have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza said on Saturday.
“There are 15 martyrs and the number is expected to increase,” Mohammad Abu Selmeyah, who is also an official in the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave, said.


During the conflict, Israel has consistently claimed it’s targeting Hamas militants following the Oct. 7 attack on the Israeli kibbutz, Be’eri kibbutz.
For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10070941/i…

Bomb Threat Shuts Down Maryland Drag Brunch

So the haters again got what they wanted.  This is terrorism.  They got something they hate / dislike shut down even though it was not harming anyone.  Plus tell me how it is “protecting the children” to threaten to blow them up?  I think we need to stop giving in to the threats.  The bomb threats always turn out false, no bomb, and yet the events get cancelled.  I am an atheist, a few weekends ago a church sent squads of believers in to our park without permission and they went door to door bothering people.  Does that give me the right to threaten their church or them? This attempt to control what other people can do, see, hear, places they can attend, and how they dress is Taliban shit.  It is horrible.   Why?  So a group of regressive people can be happy by forcing the world to be just like them?   Hugs.  Scottie

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Washington DC’s NBC affiliate reports:

A popular restaurant and bar in Takoma Park, Maryland, received bomb threats on Saturday morning over a drag brunch and story time event. The restaurant, Motorkat, bills itself as “a safe space for people of all orientations and backgrounds.

Motorkat was forced to cancel the drag brunch to keep its patrons safe, the restaurant said in the release. Those with tickets will get a full refund.

Police were emailed a bomb threat toward attendees at the restaurant’s drag event, and the police department and a bomb squad “swiftly responded to the threat, ensuring the safety of both patrons and staff,” Motorkat said.

Read the full article.

 

 

Because drag brunch and story hours harms children but threatening to kill children, their parents and drag queens does not. How the warped conservative mind works.

It is strange the universities are getting push back on genocidal speech when calls for our elimination will be permitted because “religion.”

But religion vs. religion is unacceptable?

The threat was emailed to the police, not the restaurant, that is odd…and probably from a local source. Email should be easy to trace. Even if sent from a public library computer, time stamps and security cameras everywhere will help identify the terrorist. But if a maga police officer receives (or even sent) it will the electronic trail be lost like a rape victim’s DNA kit?

Exactly my thoughts! How dumb do you have to be to email a threat? It could easily be traced back to the sender. But on the other hand, right-wingers are not known for their intellect.

Technically, it can be traced back to the IP address from which it was sent, not the person. That said, it’s not 100% true that an email can always be tracked back to the actual IP address, either. (And yes, I used to be a tech guy who worked with people occasionally tasked with tracking the source of an email – which usually led to some student spoofing the identity of a person of authority.)

They prolly thought no paper to leave fingerprints on. /s

Takoma Park and the rest of Montgomery County are fairly liberal areas right up against D.C. I’m worried that there aren’t “safe places” anymore. Maybe the concept was always an illusion.

This is my neighborhood, ate there last week. Every waiter I’ve had is gay which may be why it was targeted. Didn’t know they had a drag brunch.

On the on hand, nothing is 100% safe, ever. On the other hand, our “reasonably safe spaces” require protecting…enhancing.

Perhaps a few high profile prosecutions and harsh prison sentences will convince people that making terrorist threats doesn’t qualify as “free speech”?

Takoma Park is as blue as it gets. It’s probably Indigo. If a drag brunch is threatened by a bomb, shows that this is a very serious threat to the LBTQIA community.

On the other hand, it’s super easy to call in a bomb threat, just to fuck with us and keep us in fear for our lives.

I just watched an upsetting movie on Netflix last night about Americans turning on each other. So, one of my first thoughts was “did the email come from outside the police station or inside?”

Remember just a few years ago when this wasn`t a thing. Then the Repugs told the non-thinking rubes it was a thing, a very important thing along with CRT and “saying Gay”, etc. Though the rubes may have always disliked some of it most of it was stuff they never even thought about as being important until they were told it was. In fact now it is so important that a certain percentage of the rubes are willing to kill you over it to save our society. While they wait to be told what the next important thing is of course. It`s the time honored way the Repugs have always operated. Be afraid, be very afraid, only we can save you. You don`t need to think about it or ask why (as if you would anyway) drag shows are bad so get to work. Keeps the rubes occupied and keeps their votes and always works.

I think it has more to do with hatred and fear of transgender people than it does with drag. The ignorant dimwits involved in the protests and threats don’t understand that they are not the same thing. They think that drag queens=trans and that they are “promoting transgenderism” when they appear in public.

Grown adults, simply dressing up in whimsical, flamboyant costumes on a Saturday morning and trying to have some fun and help others do the same while they enjoy a meal. Sure, why not call in a bomb threat? That sounds just awful and depraved. Save the children! Christ on a cracker.

Yes, I personally feel like Putin has had more direct responsibility with these recent flare-ups of homophobia and transphobia than Trump himself, not that Trump was totally innocent. Also, the willingness of big sports stars and sports associations/leagues to sell out to Qatar, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other sponsors/venues which are effing horrible for women’s rights and LGBT rights. This has been a big social back-sliding moment.