Deep Thoughts
Sometimes I just have to speak my mind
Saturday, May 04, 2019
The Mormon Church Is Accused of Using a Victims' Hotline to Hide Sexual ...
Thursday, November 15, 2018
The worst person in the world today
I tried to shut it all off today. I watched a movie that was meant to put me to sleep. I played with my grandson. I talked to my boys, my wife and a few friends. It did not work. I’m still here and my mind is doing hate flips. Today, the hate is real.
Sunday, October 28, 2018
A she-monster escapes accountability
But what the presiding judge would not do was declare McEwen a dangerous offender, which the Crown had sought and with impassioned urgency.I facepalmed when I read the article. It's wrong-headed. The judge should have focused on McEwen’s acts. She acted like a pedophile. She should be treated like one. Science does not exclude the possibility of a female pedophile and we have ample evidence of women committing these acts. Put Dylan McEwen of the pedophile registry. She deserves the recognition.
- via thestar.com
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Wait… what?
I read the news on Saturday mornings and sometimes I scratch my head and say to myself, "Wait… what?"
Take this article: Oakland Police Will Stop Asking Recruits if They Were Sexually Assaulted. It’s 2018. Do we really have policies like this one in place? How wrongheaded does something need to be before our leadership takes action? This policy stopped female and minority applicants from joining the Oakland police force. It’s a clear roadblock to progress and equality. Mayor Libby Schaaf did the right thing here. We should celebrate people like her. Doing the right thing… we should always do the right thing. Thanks Mayor Schaaf… now, can you we do anything about International Avenue?
Saturday, May 05, 2018
Not so proud to be an American
A pair of Native American brothers who had traveled seven hours to tour Colorado State University this week had their visit cut short after a parent on their tour reported them to the campus police.
- via www.nytimes.com
Monday, February 19, 2018
Revisiting hypocrisy
- Priest accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old
- Pastor arrested, accused of raping teenage boy, breaks silence
- Arrested pastor please guilty to sexually assaulting 5 juveniles
- Ex-pastor pleads guilty to hidden juvenile bathroom camera case
- Ex-priest who fled to Philippines pleads not guilty to sexually abusing kids
- Former youth pastor charged with Child exploitation, possessing child porn
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
And so passes a demon
I am happy to hear this news. Every day he lived was a slap in the face of the victims of clergy sexual abuse.
Cardinal Bernard F. Law, whose stature as archbishop of Boston and America’s senior Roman Catholic prelate was shattered in a maelstrom of scandal, acrimony and resignation in 2002 after revelations that he had protected abusive priests for years, died Wednesday. He was 86 and lived in Rome.
- via www.nytimes.com
Monday, December 18, 2017
File this under wtf
Newspaper headlines… sometime they make me say wft.
In Michigan's Wayne County, Prosecutor Kym Worthy has spent years processing 11,341 rape kits. The kits, found in 2009, were forgotten in a police storage warehouse, where they were routinely dumped without investigation.Are they going after the officials that did not do their jobs?
- via Boing Boing
Wait… 86% people of color. Oh geez what asshats.
Sunday, December 17, 2017
The Christian Machine
This is a fascinating article about evangelical author and speaker Jen Hatmaker’s fall from favor. Her sin… she did not support Trump. It’s worth a few minutes just to see how the Christian Machine works.
“This year I became painfully aware of the machine, the Christian Machine,” she wrote in April on her blog. It was Good Friday, a somber day for Christians to observe the crucifixion of Jesus. Hatmaker wrote that she understood now the machine’s “systems and alliances and coded language and brand protection,” not as the insider she had long been, but “from the outside where I was no longer welcome.” During the election season, she added, the “Christian Machine malfunctioned.” It laid bare the civil war within her Christian community.Horrifying.
- via POLITICO Magazine
A church cover-up of sexual assault
The pastor of a church in Hamilton Montana allegedly urged the victim to not report sexual assaults to the police as the pastor was more interested in protecting the rapists because he was a sex addict.
“The pastor then asked for all the details of their sex life and specific instances where defendant forced himself on her. Female 1 reported that the pastor urged her not to make any reports to law enforcement, tell other members of the church, or defendant’s place of employment,” the affidavit continued.
- via www.rawstory.com
The pastor’s name and the church’s name are protected in the reports I’ve seen. Hamilton is a small city with a lot of churches, but I’m willing to bet it’s a baptist church. The alleged rapist is Seth Wirick, 30 of Hamilton Montana.
Saturday, December 16, 2017
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Sunday, November 26, 2017
A list of convicted Republican Pedophiles
I found this horrifying list via Reddit while reading this morning. I spent a few minutes reading up on cases I did not know about. Again… horrifying
- Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
- Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
- Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
See 42 more here or in the original post from the Constantine Report.
I’m looking for a corresponding list of Democratic offenders. I’ll post that when I find it.
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Atheists in action
This is one of the first things I read this morning. It made me smile.
The Atheist Alliance in Spartanburg collects items for the homeless throughout the month.They have an Amazon wish list. Please donate if you can. I did.
They meet on the third Saturday of every month and donate what they have collected to about 100 homeless people.
- via The Independent