Good morning!

The passage of the Homosexual Propaganda legislation in Russia is just horrific. I recently read about a horrifying new video that has hit the web this past weekend. The video which has been removed from YouTube, documented what appears to be a brutal attack on a Russian transgender woman by five men after she had allegedly been ambushed in a public park.

Although, the video is no longer available, here is the write. This is just so sick and so sad.

Graphic Video of Russian Trans Woman Being Beaten Surfaces Online

A number of news sources are reporting that a graphic video showing what appears to be a Russian transgender woman being attacked has surfaced on the Internet.

Five men allegedly ambush and brutally attack the unnamed transgender woman in a public park during broad daylight. In the video, the men knock the victim to the ground, kick and punch her repeatedly while laughing and talking to each other in Russian. They also drag her around the park causing the woman’s skirt falls off. The men then kick her in the buttocks as she crawls on all fours, trying to escape. There also appears to be a witness who stands around, taking no action against the attack.

The video is titled, “Violent attack on Trans woman by five men in Russia,” and was uploaded by YouTube user GayWaterford on Aug. 19.

“This video is of anti-LGBT activists in Russia, five men brutally beating a trans woman in broad daylight, in a public park,” the user wrote in the video’s description. “The video, posted on popular Russian social networking site VK, appeared on a page titled Straights for Equality, a group advocating for LGBT rights. The intention was to highlight the persecution of LGBT people in Russia.

“In the video, five men kick the woman in the head and body, and throw her around the park, whilst one of them films the attack. They also remove some of her clothes, and tear her underwear before she runs off,” the description reads. “The title of the video refers to the trans woman as a “homosexual”, and it also says ’view from 16 years old.’ It is unclear how old the victim in the video is, and its origin.”

Towards the end of the video, the woman appears to escape.

The video comes shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the country’s controversial“homosexual propaganda” law on June 30.

According to America Blog, the Russian government “refused to investigate” crimes like the one allegedly depicted in the clip. But the Moscow Times recently published an article, taking notice of anti-gay crimes by groups who lure LGBT teens looking to hook up with older men. One of these groups, which has made headlines, is called the Occupy Gerontophilia, which means having a sexual preference for the elderly.

“At least one official has drawn attention to the potential harm being done by the Occupy Gerontophilia group,” the Moscow Times writes. “Federation Council Senator Konstantin Dobrynin appealed to Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin and Prosecutor General Yury Chaika over the matter earlier this month, saying a probe should be opened to determine whether the group’s leader and members could be held criminally liable for ’coercion to perform acts of a sexual nature.’ The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.”

The report goes on to say that groups like Occupy Gerontophilia use the Russian social media site Vkontakte to lure LGBT teens. The site’s officials have “been responsive to the increasing public outcry over the group’s activities, blocking its official page,” however. The article then questions why it’s taken so long for authorities to respond to these anti-gay attacks, writing that some have suggested the reaction from officials “isn’t sincere.”

“It’s pure PR,” former Pussy Riot lawyer Mark Feigin told the Moscow Times. “The fact that the perpetrators are minors makes it very difficult to prosecute them.” Feigin added that the criminal charge Dobrynin called for would likely not hold up in court.”

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Readers: Putin needs to be put out. Why can’t people live and let live? Love and Let love? Blog me.

Wishing peace and sending love….

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Good morning!

No shit.

They’re Doing It Wrong

BY JOSH DORNER ON AUGUST 16, 2013 AT 3:01 PM

*S*I*C*K*O*S*!*

Readers: As many of you know, if you’ve been reading here for a few years,  it is my early day. So no time to comment today – will catch up with you tomorrow. The blog is open. You know what to do.

Love…Love…and more Love to all of you.

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Good morning!

Oh…just when you thought the Birther BS was over…

They’re Baaaack!

BY JOSH DORNER ON AUGUST 12, 2013 AT 6:00 PM

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Good morning!

Happy Saturday Everyone!! I HOPE it is a beautiful day wherever you are. 

Sometimes on Saturdays I post something wonderful about women and what they’re doing in this world to bring about good change. This is a write that I found on Think Progress which isn’t in that vein. However, the write is about congressman Tom Cotton. Is he promoting women? Oh, yes he is…in his own way. He somehow thinks that “A woman’s hope in life, is being a good wife and mother.” He claims that he has been asking women two questions and that is the answer to one of them.

Here’s the write, and it gets even better:

Congressman Tom Cotton in 1997: A Woman’s ‘Deepest Hope In Life’ Is ‘Being a Good Wife And Mother’

A woman’s “greatest fear in life” is losing a man’s support, and they desire nothing more than to marry “a man who worships me and whom I worship.” At least, that’s what Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said in 1997 in a column published by the Harvard Crimson:

I have been asking women two questions. My first question was “What is your greatest fear in life?” Uniformity characterized the responses. (Yes, these are actual responses from Cliffies; I did not fabricate them.) “Watching my husband walk out on me.” “Losing my lover.” “Getting a divorce.”

My second question was very similar: “What is your deepest hope in life?” Again, the responses were uniform. “Finding and holding onto the love of my life.” “Being a good wife and mother.” “Marrying a man who worships me and whom I worship.”

Really?

My sample is admittedly small and perhaps unrepresentative. If it is representative-I tend to think it is-then maybe men can unlock the secret to a woman’s heart and soul.

“Cliffies” in this context refers to Radcliffe College, an elite women’s college that began to merge with Harvard in the 1960s. So Cotton is claiming that women at one of the the most famous and selective universities in the world live in terror of someday finding themselves without a man.

The remainder of his column envisions a struggle between Christian right groups like the Promise Keepers, a men’s organization that rose to prominence in the 1990s, and “feminists,” who he criticizes for wanting the right to seek a divorce. As an alternative to this scourge of couples who have the legal right to end unhappy marriages, Cotton points to so-called “covenant marriage.”

Covenant marriage is an arrangement, originally proposed by former Louisiana state Rep. Tony Perkins (R), that allows couples to effectively sign away their right to a no-fault divorce. Couples who sign up for this relationship, Cotton explains, “can divorce only with fault, defined as abandonment, physical abuse, adultery or conviction of a capital crime.” So a couple that is merely miserable together must remain married. Forever.

In the sixteen years since Cotton wrote his column, covenant marriage hasn’t exactly taken off. Just three states, Louisiana, Arkansas and Arizona, have some form of covenant marriage law. In Perkins’ home state of Louisiana, fewer than 5 percent of couples opt for a covenant marriage. (Perkins now leads the Family Research Council, a conservative advocacy group which believes that gay people harm “society at large” and that unmarried people should be punished if they have sex.)

Yet, despite covenant marriage’s failure to thrive, Cotton viewed such efforts to force couples to remain together as America’s great hope. “Few men,” he wrote in 1997, see the danger presented by divorce — and “women are quite lucky to hook” one of these men. Ultimately, Cotton concluded, women must “defend these men against feminism.”

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Readers: Ok – Well,  I think that being a “good wife and mother” is a good thing. I mean who wants to be a “bad wife or mother?” But is it a woman’s “deepest hope in life?” Perhaps for some and no judgement if it is for any of you women out there. But I wouldn’t say for all.  I mean, look at me, I decided not to have children, So it is certainly not my “deepest hope.”

However, I was married and while I was married,  I did want to be a good wife, in whatever the definition of “being a good wife” meant to me and my husband at the time  - but was it my “deepest hope” to be a good wife? My deepest desire? No, not for me. Again, no judgement, if it is or was your “deepest hope.” I just don’t think that we can make such a blanket statement about a woman as Cotton has.

And, like the writer of this write, I question too Cotton’s “research” claiming “…that women at one of the the most famous and selective universities in the world live in terror of someday finding themselves without a man.” I don’t buy it.

Oh…I am out of time. There is plenty more to say here so I will leave it up to you. Thoughts?  Blog me.

Peace & Love…

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Good morning!

Are you sick yet of the racism that continues to be displayed by people in our country? Here’s yet another example. These days, they aren’t hard to find.

A write from my latest fave online news, Think Progress:

Mostly-White Ohio Suburb Fighting To Prevent Mostly-Black Bus-Riders From Entering Community

A lily-white Ohio suburb is doing everything it can, including risking millions in federal highway funding, to keep mostly minority bus-riders from a nearby city from entering their community.

The showdown began in 2010 when the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority proposed adding three new bus stops in Beavercreek, a largely white suburb 15 minutes east of Dayton. These new stops would give Dayton bus-riders access to Beavercreek’s major shopping mall and nearby businesses, as well as a medical clinic and Wright State University.

Facing the prospect of buses coming in from Dayton, the Beavercreek City Council began enacting as many hurdles as they could to stop the new bus stops. Among the dozen roadblocks included mandating that bus shelters included heated and air conditioning as well as high-tech surveillance cameras, features that would be hugely expensive and are not common at other stops. Unsurprisingly, these demands couldn’t be met and the council rejected the expansion. “We turned downed an application because they didn’t meet our (design) criteria,” Beavercreek City Councilman Scott Hadley explained to Eye On Ohio.

Many in the area argue that their opposition boils down to a simple reason: race. According to the 2010 census, 9 in 10 Beavercreek residents are white, but 73 percent of those who ride the Dayton RTA buses are minorities. “I can’t see anything else but it being a racial thing,” Sam Gresham, state chair of Common Cause Ohio, a public interest advocacy group, told ThinkProgress. “They don’t want African Americans going on a consistent basis to Beavercreek.”

A civil rights group in the area, Leaders for Equality in Action in Dayton (LEAD), soon filed a discrimination lawsuit against Beavercreek under the Federal Highway Act. In June, the Federal Highway Administration ruled that Beavercreek’s actions were indeed discriminatory and ordered them to work with the Dayton Regional Transit Authority to get the bus stops approved without delay.

Beavercreek, though, isn’t particularly keen to do that. The city council voted most recently on Friday to put off consideration of the matter until later this month. They are weighing whether to appeal the federal ruling, or perhaps whether to just defy it altogether. Appealing the ruling could cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, according to a Washington D.C. lawyer the council hired. However, non-compliance with the ruling could cost Beavercreek tens of millions of dollars in federal highway funds.

The city council has until September 11, 2013 to begin complying with the Federal Highway Administration order. They will meet again on August 12 to decide how to proceed.

Gresham, for one, is flabbergasted that the council would even consider risking millions of dollars in federal highway funds. “Their worldview and logic are two entirely separate things,” he said.

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Readers: Once again, racism takes the lead at the expense of others. Whats your view? Blog me your opinion. I promise there is no censoring here.

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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