Notice Russia is not attacking military targets. This is terrorism, it is targeting civilians and infrastructure needed to survive to get what they cannot achieve fighting the Ukraine army. They want to make the people so scared and desperate that they will just give in and give Russia what it wants. This is about a bully making the victim suffer. My gods how can the world just let this continue when we can stop it. Think of what it is like in the US snow belt when the power goes out? This is what is going to happen in Ukraine all over the country. Think about when there is no running water. That is what is happening in Ukraine due to Russia. Russia is losing the war, so they want to make the Ukrainian people so miserable and frightened that they will negotiate giving Russia parts of their country. We have the tech to stop this, we have the tools. We need to move in and stop these missiles. But even more we have tied Ukraine’s hands, we have given weapons and support only as long as they don’t attack inside Russia. Yet Russia can attack inside Ukraine. So Ukraine cannot fight back, cannot make Russia suffer as Russia is doing to Ukraine. It means that while Russia gets to do anything it wants to hurt Ukrainians we are preventing Ukraine from hurting Russia back. Damn one sided if you ask me. Hugs
Russia launched 70 missiles at Ukraine in its latest “large-scale attack on crucial infrastructure facilities,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Telegram. Fifty-one of the 70 missiles were intercepted, as well as five attack drones, the military’s statement read.
The official booking photo of Anderson Lee Aldrich was released by the Colorado Springs Police Department on Wednesday afternoon. The newly released photo shows Aldrich with multiple marks from the beating he took after being subdued by two patrons of the club.
Richard Fierro, 45, has been hailed as a hero after he says he reacted on instinct to help subdue the suspect.
Fierro said he smelled the acrid tang in the air, saw the muzzle flash of a firearm being discharged, and dove for cover, taking his closest buddy with him. When he saw his chance to tackle the shooter, he took it. Bystander Thomas James also helped subdue the shooter.
The Colorado shooter’s dad on finding out his son murdered people: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting… And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.” (@CBS8) pic.twitter.com/7Zw4vpLtjE
The Colorado shooter’s dad: “I praised him for violent behavior really early. I told him it works… You’ll get immediate results.”
He then went on to praise the Colorado shooter’s grandpa, a MAGA Republican politician named Randy Voepel who supported the January 6 insurrection. pic.twitter.com/LAxevQwKDF
The Colorado shooter’s dad on finding out his son murdered people: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting… And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.” (@CBS8) pic.twitter.com/7Zw4vpLtjE
I recommend reading the linked article. I did and it has some good information. But the idea of the shooter being non-binary is nonsense. I normally allow people to state their gender and their sexuality, but in this case all evidence of this person’s past including all their writings and social media shows he hated LGBTQI+. His family was maga, his grandfather ultra maga. Sorry this is another case of trolling. The defence wants to mute the hate claim so they claim he was a member of the community so how could it be a hate crime. But he really never was part of the community was he. Did he march in support, write in support of the community on social media, did he fly pride or trans flags? No he instead spewed hate and vitriol on the community. I read a story once where a person killed their parents, and then asked the court for mercy because they were an orphan. It really doesn’t matter if he was non-binary. He killed 5 people who shouldn’t have died that he had no right to pronounce death to, he injured so many more that now have high medical bills they are struggling to pay that he is not paying for. It doesn’t matter if he is non-binary what matters is what he did and what it cost others. That said a lot of complaints and issue in the LGBTQI+ community is that the media is agreeing to use the lawyers claim of they / them pronouns. Stop it now, the complainers are wrong. Yes it is a scam, an attempt to avoid the hate charges that increase the penalties. It doesn’t matter that the media honors how he wants to be identified. It is important that the media and the authorities honor those requests, those different gender identifications. How often do we as the LGBTQI+ community get rightfully angry over police not honoring the gender identity of suspects or prisoners? We legitimately do. We can point out it is a dodge and an attempt to avoid punishment for what he did, but we can still honor the request. it doesn’t change what he did. Hugs
A recent neighbor of Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich said he spent hours talking to the FBI on Tuesday morning. He told investigators the suspect made several hateful comments toward the LGBTQ community. “Just expressed he didn’t like the LGBTQ community,” said Xavier Kraus, who lived across the hallway from Aldrich. “And pretty sure at one point he expressed he hated the LGBTQ community, he hated gays.”
“This is not the type of person I would take around my gay friends,” he said. Kraus said he and Aldrich became close friends last year. They bonded over tech and video games. According to Kraus, Aldrich and their mom moved into the apartment building in August 2021, which was shortly after deputies in El Paso County arrested Aldrich on multiple felonies.
According to a just-aired report on CNN, Kraus says Aldrich never mentioned being nonbinary in their times together.
In the video below, Aldrich’s biological father, a former porn actor, claims that Aldrich’s mother told him in 2016 that Aldrich had committed suicide. As CNN has extensively documented, Aldrich’s mother has had a hosts of arrests related to arson and substance abuse.
The cynicism of Anderson Aldrich’s legal team to toss the “non-binary” label out there for sympathy is, legally-speaking, every bit as ugly as the crime itself because it mocks the dead and everything they stood for.
The father has a history of drug abuse including methamphetamine. His porn name is Dick Delaware. He isn’t bad looking for a straight dude in porn, he has a big cock. You can see him on Pornhub.com.
How offensive and over whelming Christian privilege. This woman is a right wing die hard LGBTQI+ hater and so wants to change the conversation from the damage done to the victims bodies and to the fact that hate ended their life. Yes these people died because of the hate spewed by people like her, herself at various times, and the party she represents. Their lives on earth ended due to the hate rhetoric she spews. But she doesn’t want you to think about that, she wants you to worry about their souls, something not proven to exist nor can be proven to be in jepoardy even though she hopes they will be. I would like to think that if a real deity exists they would judge a person on far more than the gender they love and what they do with those gender parts with consenting adults. Hugs
“The five people who were killed in the nightclub that night, there is no evidence at all that they were Christians.
“And so assuming they have not accepted the truth of the gospel of Christ and affirmed Jesus Christ as the lord of their life, they are now reaping the consequences of having eternal damnation. And that is far, far greater.
“We should be having that conversation instead of just the tragedy of what happened to the body, we need to be talking about what happened to the soul and the fact that they are now in eternal separation from our lord and savior Jesus Christ.” – Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis.
You don’t have to be an activist or have any strong opinions on LGBTQ+ issues to be appalled by this. You just need to be a human being capable of seeing other human beings as having an intrinsic value. https://t.co/wsTzGay9Nf
A U.S. company is being investigated by the Department of Labor for employing children in slaughterhouses. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.commondreams.org/news/202… “A federal judge on Thursday granted a nationwide injunction against an industrial cleaning company, ordering the company to end its use of “oppressive child labor” after an investigation found it was employing dozens of children as young as 13—some of whom were injured while working in meatpacking facilities. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) requested the injunction in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska after completing an investigation of Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI) that began in late August. The federal government had received a tip alleging that PSSI was illegally employing children and that they were working in hazardous conditions.”
*** Trigger Warning *** The following article describes the beating of a small dog to prove his authority / superiority over the dog. He also says that a child will challenge you and needs to feel pain to be brought under control. He feels he is a super Christian who feels entitled to tell others how to live. This is not written back in a time when child abuse and hitting kids was not recognized as the horrible thing it is, this was written in 2015. This man shouldn’t ever be let near a dog or child and has no right to tell others how to live. If he will do this to a dog what would he do to a LGBTQI+ who he believes is an abomination who his god hates. He gives a detailed way to use a sensitive muscle to cause so much pain a child will collapse on the ground, and he is proud of that. *** Again Trigger Warning for violence / cruelty *** Hugs
I want to thank Ali for the link. It is important we understand this religious group that Dobson started and leads, that has spun off many other hate groups. Also I won’t be highlighting the passages as I can’t. I left in his books so if a person wants to cite them as child abuse or let the sellers know what they are pushing. Hugs
James Dobson on How to Get to Heaven – Beat Your Dog, Whip Your Kid
James Dobson then.
It was bedtime and James Dobson wanted his dog—a dachshund named Sigmund Freud—to get into his overnight enclosure in the family room.
Siggie didn’t want to go. He growled and bared his teeth at his master.
Dobson went for his belt.
“I had seen this defiant mood before,” Dobson explained in the first chapter of his 1978 book, The Strong-Willed Child.
“There was only one way to deal with it. The only way to make Siggie obey is to threaten him with destruction. Nothing else works. I turned and went to my closet and got a small belt to help me ‘reason’ with Mr. Freud.”
Dobson, an evangelical Christian and a licensed psychologist, gave Mr. Freud a firm swat across the rear end.
The dog tried to bite the belt.
“I hit him again and he tried to bite me . . . That tiny dog and I had the most vicious fight ever staged between man and beast. I fought him up one wall and down the other, with both of us scratching and clawing and growling and swinging the belt.”
Finally Siggie backed himself into a corner and snarled at the belt-wielding child psychologist. It was to be the little dog’s last stand. “I eventually got him to bed,” Dobson writes, “but only because I outweighed him 200 to 12!”
The next night when Dobson ordered the family pet into his nighttime enclosure, Mr. Freud went “in perfect submission.”
Two-hundred-pound man with belt wins. Twelve-pound dog loses.
Here’s Why You Must Beat Your Dog . . .
And that is as it should be, according to Dobson’s lights. For just as a dog will challenge authority, so too will a small child–“only more so.” Whenever a child resists authority, some physical pain–a swat or lash with a switch or a belt—is in order.
The entire human race, you see, is afflicted with a tendency toward willful behavior, Dobson says. Adam and Eve had it. You and I have it. Our children have it.
Which puts our children’s very souls at risk. The child who fails to submit to his parents “leadership” will surely fail to yield to God’s formidable will as an adult, Dobson reasons.
In “The Strong-Willed Child,” Dobson recommends you inflict pain on your kid so he can get to heaven
Make no mistake, he tells his readers, God possesses “majestic authority.” God is in charge of the universe, and as such, God, the supreme Lord, requires obedience from his children. Those who do not submit to him will learn to their eternal horror that “the wages of sin is death.”
. . . And Your Kid
And that is why parents have to spank their children, or hit them with a switch or belt. For the sake of their eternal salvation, children must be brought under parental and, later, divine authority. To that end, Dobson insists, “most of them need to be spanked now and then.”
I’ve owned two copies of The Strong-Willed Child over the years. One, a copy of the 1985 trade paperback edition, sits on my desk right now. I ordered it online the other day to make sure I remembered the dog beating incident correctly. I had.
The first copy of The Strong-Willed Child found its way into our house back in the 1980s when our children were small. As a new parent, I was eager to learn everything I could from the experts, and Dobson’s book was a big seller at the time. As I read Chapter One, however, I was stunned by the spectacle of a man—a psychologist—beating his dog into submission.
Submission to God–And You
I was just as appalled, then and now, at this popular writer’s understanding of the nature of God. The man’s overarching goal in rearing his children—and helping you to rear yours—is to make sure that as adults they submit to God. Using a switch or a belt on a child is part and parcel of Dobson’s theology.
Of course, there was no way I was going to spank, whip, or use a belt to terrify my little son or daughter into submission to an all-powerful (and purportedly loving) God who sends the disobedient off to hell.
So I stopped reading and put Dobson’s book on a shelf. I eyed it uneasily for some time, then got rid of it. It probably wound up in the garbage, which is where my second copy of The Strong-Willed Child will probably go.
Dobson began writing his childrearing books back in the 1970s. Around that same time he also founded the socially and politically powerful–and very conservative–Christian media ministry Focus on the Family.
Dobson Thirty Years Later
You’d think that, in the three-plus decades since, Dobson would have toned down his opinions on corporal punishment. He hasn’t.
At a meeting of the Religion Newswriters Association in Decatur, Georgia, last fall an unrepentant Dobson’s PR people screened a video of a child-rearing talk Dobson gave in the early days of Focus on the Family.
The video shows Dobson cheerfully describing what to do when your toddler disobeys. You hook the defiant behavior with consequences, he says. And you do that by making use of a conveniently located muscle, the trapezius.
“You squeeze that little muscle,” he tells his live audience, and “he goes down to the ground.”
The audience laughs.
I’m not kidding. The audience laughs. Hear the audio of James Dobson for yourself on the Religion Newswriters Association website.
The Dobson “Legacy”
The clip from the decades-old video was being shown at the conference as a promotion for Dobson’s latest book–Your Legacy: The Greatest Gift, which is all about passing on the Dobson values to the next generation, and the generation after that. And the one after that.
To be fair to Dobson, I want to point out that there’s a lot of wisdom in The Strong-Willed Child. Everything a parent does should be done with love, he urges. That feels right to me.
And so does this advice: “Ultimately, the key to competent parenthood is in being able to get behind the eyes of your child, seeing what he sees and feeling what he feels. When he is lonely, he needs your company. When he is defiant, he needs your help in controlling his impulses. When he is afraid, he needs the security of your embrace . . . ”
“Get behind the eyes of your child.” What a beautiful, helpful image for young parents to keep in mind.
Dobson is a smart man and an engaging storyteller. Too bad he thinks that heaven is so tough to get into that it requires him to wield a belt on his dog—and his kids.
Normally I pass along the publication information of the books I write about. But I can’t recommend books by James Dobson. They are not good for your children, nor you for that matter.
Tucker Carlson claims to be frustrated with the media and liberals for pointing he is culpable for violence that what happened in Colorado Springs because his past calls for Fox News viewers to arm themselves against Drag Queen Story Hours.
There will be two articles in this one post. This terrorism, it is minority rule by violence. This is to drive fear and intimidation for a political goal. What the right cannot win at the ballot box because it is unpopular with the majority that has accepted the LGBTQ+ as members of society, the right will try to enforce via violent threats that incite the killing of people. The rest of society must stand up to this attempt to promote their religious morality anti-tolerance of others of this Taliban wannabes. Dogs that love gravy, if we give into these people on this we will be forever giving in to them. Hugs
A local chapter of the far-right Proud Boys plans to disrupt a Dec. 3 drag story event in Columbus, Ohio, just two weeks after the killings at a LGBTQ night club in Colorado Springs.
The Columbus Proud Boys announced their plans to disrupt the kids story time event held at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus on Telegram last Tuesday.
Advance Democracy, Inc., a non-partisan, non-profit research organization, first flagged the post. The emphasis of a “wild” protest is likely a reference to Jan. 6. Trump had called on his supporters to attend a rally on Jan. 6, 2021, promising that it would “be wild!”
Earlier this year the leader of an Ohio Proud Boys faction was arrested for punching a black woman in the face after screaming the N-word. In August, a man linked to the Proud Boys was killed following his attack on Cincinnati’s FBI office. The photo above is from last month when Proud Boys menaced a drag event in North Carolina.
They’re a terrorist threat, not simply a protest, and should be viewed by law enforcement as such. No one should be intimidated—much less killed—for going about their lives.
Watched the local CBS affiliate evening news last night. They interviewed the straight owner of the new drag complex in Cleveland about safe spaces and the safety of drag brunches.
Proud Boys at Raleigh rally, November 2020 (Credit: Wikicommons)
A local chapter of the far-right Proud Boys plans to disrupt a Dec. 3 drag story event in Columbus, Ohio, just two weeks after the killings at a LGBTQ night club in Colorado Springs.
The Columbus Proud Boys announced their plans to disrupt the kids story time event held at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus on Telegram last Tuesday. Advance Democracy, Inc., a non-partisan, non-profit research organization, first flagged the post. The post read:
The Columbus Proud Boys would like to announce that we will be attending the Holi-drag Storytime being held at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus on December 3rd! We look forward to meeting all of the attendees and welcome Americans from all over to join us. It’s gonna be wild! Stand by for details…
The emphasis of a “wild” protest is likely a reference to Jan. 6. Former President Donald Trump had called on his supporters to attend a rally on Jan. 6, 2021, promising that it would “be wild!” Many of attendees of that rally, including members of the Proud Boys, later marched on the U.S. Capitol, attacking police officers and storming the building.
While the Proud Boys is probably best known for its role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol—for which several members face seditious conspiracy charges—the far-right, neo-fascist group is also known for its members’ presence at the 2017 white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one counterprotester was murdered. Since the failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Proud Boys members have focused their efforts locally, disrupting school board meetings over mask mandates and LGBTQ-inclusive policies, and harassing attendees of drag story events, fearmongering that trans people are “grooming” children.
Already this year, the Proud Boys have disrupted drag events in Texas, Nevada, North Carolina, and California. In Idaho, the right-wing extremist group Patriot Front took it a step further; 31 people associated with the organization were arrested after they were found in a trailer full of weapons next to a Pride event.
The post by the Columbus Proud Boys announcing its plans to disrupt the Columbus event has been viewed more than 1,600 times. Just 45 minutes after posting, the post was further promoted by the Official Cape Fear Proud Boys, a North Carolina-based chapter that coordinated multiple efforts to disrupt drag events in the past six months. It was also shared by an Ohio Proud Boys channel and “the Infamous Legend Valley Proud Boys” channel, which shared an image the following day promising “Ohio Proud Boys Season Beatings.” On Monday, the Legend Valley Proud Boys shared a meme calling for violence against perceived perpetrators of pedophilia.
A meme posted on the Legend Valley Proud Boys channel. The image depicts a character in the “Walking Dead” who randomly choses a victim and kills him with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed-wire.
The Dec. 3 event is sponsored by Red Oak Community Schools, a school dedicated to fostering “students’ sense of their place and power in the natural world and in their communities.” A Facebook page promoting the event describes “Holi-drag Storytime” as “a new family-friendly, LGBTQ+ holiday tradition” in which local drag queens “will read stories for children of ALL ages and perform a few holiday numbers!”
Of course, the Proud Boys have alleged that the event amounts to “grooming”—the rhetoric at the heart of recent political attacks on LGBTQ people. A video posted the Columbus Proud Boys channel last Thursday called on members to “stand against grooming” and provided the address of the church. “All I want for Christmas is an end to child grooming. Help Saint Nicolas scold the Naughty groomers,” text in the video reads, calling on members to arrive before 10 a.m. Another image shows a picture of Santa Claus giving the middle fingers. “Its rally time boys!” a final message reads.
Right Wing Watch reached out to Red Oak Community Schools and the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus. We will update this story should either respond. The church’s website describes it as a place to “come together to grow in religious depth, valuing freedom, reason, tolerance, love.” Shortly after the Proud Boys’ announcement, Red Oak Community Schools said they meet hate with love and invited donations, posting on Facebook, “For every nasty comment, dislike, negative email, phone call, etc. we receive about our upcoming FABULOUS fundraiser, we’re collecting donation pledges for a local LGBTQ+ organization.”
The Proud Boys’ announced plan to disrupt the event came just days before a lone gunman targeted patrons of a gay night club in Colorado, killing five people and injuring 25 others. LGBTQ leaders have noted that this attack follows years of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and an increasing number of Republican politicians characterizing trans people as “groomers.” Religious-right groups have drafted anti-trans legislation, encouraged lawmakers to sponsor such legislation, and laid the groundwork for their passage through disinformation and pressure campaigns, a Right Wing Watch investigation found last year.
On the Sunday morning following the attack on Club Q, Democratic Colorado state Rep. Brianna Titone said such rhetoric was to blame. “When politicians and pundits keep perpetuating tropes, insults, and misinformation about the trans and LGBTQ+ community, this is a result,” she wrote.
Proud Boys at Raleigh rally, November 2020 (Credit: Wikicommons)
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