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Moms, children to hold Mother’s Day events in 8 states to raise gun violence awareness. Details here!

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A press release from Mayors Against Illegal Guns:

MOMS, CHILDREN TO HOLD MOTHER’S DAY EVENTS IN EIGHT STATES TO RAISE GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
 
Gun Violence Survivors Will Deliver Mother’s Day Cards to Senators Who Voted Against Background Checks on Friday, Rally Against Gun Violence on Saturday
Roxanna Green, Daughter Killed in Tucson Mass Shooting, Releases Video Message
 
Mothers, children, and others who have been affected by gun violence will gather in eight states for Mother’s Day events this Friday and Saturday to raise gun violence awareness. This week those affected by gun violence gathered to create Mother’s Day cards for their U.S. Senators, urging them to stand with moms across the country to prevent gun violence. They will deliver those cards to their U.S. Senators at Friday events and rally to end gun violence at events on Saturday. Recent independent polls that have found that more than 90 percent of Americans support background checks for all buyers.  
 
Americans can sign a Mother’s Day card urging their Senator to take action on gun violence here.
 
In addition, to mark Mother’s Day and the nationwide events, Roxanna Green, whose nine-year-old daughter Christina-Taylor Green was killed in the 2011 Tucson mass shooting, released a video message. Link to the video here.
 
The events and rallies will be held in states of Senators who voted against bipartisan legislation proposed by NRA A-rated Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey that would have closed the loopholes that make it easy for criminals and other dangerous people to get guns, including: Senators Kelly Ayotte (NH), Richard Burr (NC), Saxby Chambliss (GA), Dan Coats (IN), Jeff Flake (AZ), Dean Heller (NV), Johnny Isakson (GA) and Rob Portman (OH).
 
Event details are below (all times local.)
 
ARIZONA
 
Tucson
What: Mother’s Day Card Signing Rally – Mothers will then deliver cards to Senator Flake’s Tucson office 
Who: Jocelyn Strauss, Chapter Leader of Moms Demand Action; Mayors Against Illegal Guns, concerned citizens
Where: Fort Lowell Park: 2900 North Craycroft Rd, Tucson
When: Saturday, May 11, 10 AM
 
 
GEORGIA
 
Atlanta
What: Moms Demand Action Mother’s Day Walk and Rally Against Gun Violence 
Who: Co-chapter head of Moms Demand Action of Georgia Piyali Cole, Co-chapter head of Moms Demand Action of Georgia Melinda Ennis, Mayors Against Illegal Guns and concerned Georgians
Where: Piedmont Park, 400 Park Dr. NE, Atlanta
When: Saturday, May 11, 11:00 AM 
 
INDIANA
 
Indianapolis
What: Mothers deliver Mother’s Day cards to Senator Coats’ Indianapolis office
Who: Moms Demand Action Chapter Lead Nicky McNally; Joantyonette (Tony) Grundy, whose husband and son were both shot and killed in Indianapolis; Mayors Against Illegal Guns and concerned Hoosiers
Where: Senator Coats’ Office: 10 West Market St, Indianapolis
When: Friday, May 10, 11:00 AM 
 
NORTH CAROLINA
 
Charlotte
What: Mother’s Day Rally against Gun Violence
Who: Susanne Rallis of Moms Demand Action, Mayors Against Illegal Guns and concerned North Carolinians
Where: Freedom Park, 1500 Princeton Avenue, Charlotte 
When: Friday, May 10, 3:15 PM
 
Winston Salem
What: Mother’s Day Rally against Gun Violence and Petition Delivery 
Who: Brandon Dandy, who lost his brother to gun violence; Mayors Against Illegal Guns and concerned North Carolinians 
Where: Senator Burr’s Winston Salem Office: 2000 West First Street, Winston Salem, NC 
When: Friday, May 11, 2 PM 
 
Durham
What: Mother’s Day Rally Against Gun Violence 
Who: Kaaren Haldeman of Moms Demand Action; Joslin Simms, who lost her son Rayburn eight years ago to gun violence; Yolanda Bagley, who lost her son Jelani four months ago to gun violence; Brenda James, who lost her son Randolph five years ago to gun violence
Where: Sister Cities Grove at Durham Central Park, next to the Durham Farmer’s Market at 501 Foster St, Durham, NC 
When: Saturday, May 11, 11:30 AM 
 
NEVADA
 
Las Vegas
What: Mothers and children deliver Mother’s Day Cards to Senator Heller
Who:  Local activist and concerned mother of four Leisa Moseley, Mayors Against Illegal Guns and concerned citizens 
Where: Lloyd D. George Federal Building, 333 Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas 
When: Friday, May 10 at 4 PM
 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE
 
Nashua
What: Mothers and children deliver Mother’s Day cards to Senator Ayotte’s Nashua office
Who: Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Granite State Progress and concerned Granite Staters 
Where: Senator Ayotte’s Nashua Office: 1444 Main Street, Nashua 
When: Friday, May 10 at 12:00 PM 
 
 
OHIO
 
Cleveland
What: Moms Demand Action Mother’s Day Walk and Rally Against Gun Violence
Who: Cleveland lead for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America Jane Burgett; Pastor Kristine Eggert, Disciples Christian Church; Christina Antenucci, MD, Doctors for Healthcare Solutions; Mayors Against Illegal Guns and concerned citizens
When: Friday, May 10 – 11:00AM
Where: Public Square, Corner of Ontario St. and West Superior Ave, Cleveland
 
Columbus
What: Mother’s Day Rally Against Gun Violence
Who: Mother of gun violence victim Felicia Saunders, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Mayors Against Illegal Guns and concerned citizens
When: Friday, May 10 at 4:30 PM
Where: Worthington Village Green: corners of SR 161 and High St, Columbus
 
PENNSYLVANIA
 
Pittsburgh
What: Mother’s Day Rally Against Gun Violence
Who: Marsha Grayson, mother of Honor Student Jeron Grayson who murdered while home on Spring Break; Ms. Sharon Fields of Healing Wounds Family Support Group; Reggie Roberts of Ceasefire-PA, State Rep. Ed Gainey and Mayors Against Illegal Guns 
When: Saturday, May 11, 11:00  AM 
Where: Rodman Street Baptist Church, 6111 Rodman Street, Pittsburgh

What I will not write about today

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Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood pressure hit the roof. I am avoiding delving into them at length out of concern for my physical and mental health.

See what I mean? So who’s up for a couple of Margs or a trough of wine?

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“A Week of Upchucks: Keep on recruiting for bad guys while you root to undermine education, science, equal rights”

gop fail 3Please welcome back guest blogger K.C. Boyd. You might remember her from her earlier posts:

A Week of Upchucks

By K. C. Boyd

 “Pro-Life” Upchucking

  • Add Ohio’s to the ever-growing list of states whose House voted to defund Planned Parenthood.
  • Senator Brownback signed House Bill 2253 this week. Scribbled at the top of his marked up copy of this “Pro-Life Protections Act,” were the words Jesus & Mary, with “Pro-Life” further down in the margins. Good to confirm in writing that legislators really do govern by Sharia the Bible. After North Dakota, the Kansas bill is second to define life as beginning at conception.

Beyond Upchuck: Second child of faith-healing couple dies after no medical care

  • With the death of an 8-month old baby resulting from Fundamentalist Christians putting faith over science, this is well beyond your average upchuck. When you become a parent, you are responsible for your children’s health and welfare, and that includes after the child is born. If a mother or father chooses God over medicine for themselves, that’s their choice, and their problem. But to sit by and pray while their 8-month baby struggles for days with severe diarrhea and breathing problems, such negligence is criminal (even more so, this being their second child to have died from prayerful neglect.)
  • Meanwhile, out in Oklahoma, self-proclaimed pro-lifers, more accurately described as pro-negligence once the baby is born, have decided that public education’ isn’t all that important or necessary. In line with the ‘drown-it-in-the-bathtub’ meme, Kansas’ governor and legislators have enacted public school cuts that are among nation’s highest and which, over time, may well destroy public education, as we know it. At the same time, the goodly legislators are looking for ways to cut taxes (for the rich.)

Schaudenfreude Upchuck

  • Things aren’t looking too promising for a successful GOP’ wooing of the LGBT community. Despite the spoken desire by one wing of the party to at least appear more gay-friendly, the RNC couldn’t help caving to the Rebiblicans’ that make up its base. At the RNC April meeting in Los Angeles, The GOP confirmed that they cannot and will not change their platform when it comes to gay marriage. Why schaudenfreude, you ask? Quite frankly because this upchucker loves nothing more than to see than the GOP engage in all manner of self-sabotage.

Dino Upchuck

  • Ken Ham is smiling these days thanks to a deal his Answers in Genesis’ ad agency made to screen an animated Creation Museum commercial during previews at each of the 458 theaters showing the newly released Jurassic Park 3-D movie. Not only that but these theaters will also continuously loop said commercial in their lobbies, exposing evermore young people to the Big Lie.

And finally, heading over to the land of whack job Upchucks

  • Ann Coulter exercised her right to persecute Muslims on Fox (cough) News when she stated that the Boston bombing suspect’s wife should be in prison for wearing a hijab. Talk about denying a woman’s rights – - someone needs to sew her mouth permanently shut.
  • Pat Robertson, never one to disappoint averred that “Islam is to blame for not only the Boston Marathon bombing, but terrorism around the world.” Comparing ‘Evil’ Islam To Nazism, Robertson is sure to have ruffled the feathers of many a future would-be terrorist.
  • Lastly there’s the Beckster’s continued accusations of a dreamt–up government cover-up with regards to the Marathon bombing. Informed by what can only be a super-duper top-secret source, Beck accuses the Dems of hiding “damning evidence” that a Saudi National was involved in the Boston bombing. Of course we know he’s a nutcase but something that most folks aren’t aware of is that Homeland Security Chairman Michael T. McCaul, Jeff Duncan, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, Peter King and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, Candice Miller wrote to Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano requesting an immediate classified debriefing on the Saudi whose identity is said to be hidden and who the government instantly spirited out of the country/ This can’t help but make one remember when Bush and Co. really did whisk the Bin Laden family out of the country just after 9/11, well before private or commercial planes were permitted back in the air.

I say, keep it up guys. Keep on recruiting for the bad guys while you root to undermine education, science and equal rights.

We’ll see you in 2014.

Novelist K.C. Boyd is the author of Being Christian: A Novel. According to Mikey Weinstein, President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, “Boyd created a story so riveting that not only could I not put it down, but upon finishing it, I found myself, like an addict, craving more.

What I will not write about today

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Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood pressure hit the roof. I am avoiding delving into them at length out of concern for my physical and mental health.

See what I mean? So who’s up for a couple of Margs or a trough of wine?

i do not get drunk i get awesome

VIDEO: “A needed response to the Steubenville rapists… or any rapists out there.”

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Today while I was on with Nicole Sandler doing my weekly radio spot, she ended the show with this must-see PSA aimed at teenage boys on what to do with a girl who’s passed out on your couch.

I had never seen it, and immediately teared up. What a simple and perfect message about respect and compassion:

Samantha Stendal:

To the Steubenville rapists…or any rapists out there.

It was posted on March 22, and already has 1,282,067 views.

Check out this comment that was posted under the video on YouTube:

Madd Lawgick:

This society has far more misandric beliefs then it does misogynist beliefs at this point. The man hating is at a ridiculous level in every aspect from elementary school to Prison sentences.

“real” Feminist always claim to be fighting for the rights of both genders but you NEVER see this in action. In actions all you see is feminist trying to gain more and more PRIVILEGES(not rights) for women and ignoring an issues dealing with men.

The radfems are heading the Feminists movement now.

Yeah, we “radfems” hate men so much that we try to prevent and cope with the devastation of rape. 

Melissa Harris-Perry must be trying so hard to “gain more PRIVILEGES” that she showed all kinds of compassion to rape survivors, having been one herself. She’s clearly “ignoring all those issues dealing with men,” those poor men who brutally abuse women, when she said to the Steubenville survivor, you “are not alone. We have failed you. I believe in you.”

What a radfem.

VIDEO: Melissa Harris-Perry to 16-year-old Steubenville rape survivor: You “are not alone. We have failed you. I believe in you.”

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This is a must-see video.

I choked up right along with Melissa Harris-Perry (@MHarrisPerry) as she poured her heart out to the 16-year-old Steubenville rape victim who has been ridiculed and bullied after having suffered a devastating trauma that will affect her the rest of her life. This was as excruciating to watch as it was cathartic, as it was uplifting.

Melissa was speaking from experience, she was heartfelt and painfully empathetic, caring, loving, eloquent… and classy:

“I’m sorry. We have failed to teach your male peers that they heave no right to touch you without your consent. Or to use you to meet their needs. Or to discard you if your victimization does not fit their life plan.”

“I am sorry we have failed you.”

“…54% of survivors never report the assault. It’s the reason I kept my secret for nearly a decade. But not you, beloved.”

“You demanded the right to be heard.”

“You knew just how relentlessly they would try to silence you, and you knew that neighbors and friends and even members of the national media would mourn the loss of your attackers’ football careers more than the loss of your innocence.”

But you spoke out anyway… You spoke for my 14-year-old-self…”

This is me saying, ‘I BELIEVE YOU.”

” I don’t need to know your name, but I need you to know you’re not alone.”

“You will continue surviving, and if you ever get down, if you ever wonder how you’re gonna go on, take out this letter, because I BELIEVE YOU.

VIDEO– “Joe the Plumber” giving away free AR-15: “Every sane, freedom-loving law abiding citizen should own” one.

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Please note the huge “DONATE NOW” button prominently displayed on the site. Here’s what is not as prominently displayed, way at the top:

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Here’s what Liberty Alliance’s page claims:

Liberty Alliance is a network of web sites dedicated to advancing Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Our members and strategic partners leverage the power of new media to promote traditional values and generate more than 1,000,000 page views each day. Visit our web sites today to get informed and equipped; contact us for more information, including advertising and partnership opportunities. Soli Deo Gloria!

Soli Deo gloria is a Latin term for Glory to God alone.

Here are a few of their “Member Sites” listed on the same page (I removed the links):

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iPatriot

  • The 2nd. Amendment: Upon This Rock I Will Build A Republic
  • great article: Newtown shooting: Why Minutemen can protect against active shooters
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  • Bring God back into our lives and our schools.
  • What’s at the bottom of the fiscal cliff?
Kirk Cameron

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  • Unequally Yoked: What to Do When Your Husband Is an Unbeliever
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The Victoria Jackson Show

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  • Woman Escapes Iraq to Be Free From Islam, Rape & Execution
  • Miami Muslim Imam Convicted of Terrorism

Now here’s what Ohio’s own Not-Really-Joe the Gun Nut’s website says:

Despite what national news commentators say, the AR 15 is NOT an “assault weapon” or “weapon of mass destruction.”

In honor of this magnificent rifle, JoeForAmerica.com is giving away a new AR 15 to the lucky man or woman who wins this drawing.

If you support Americans’ right to own the AR 15 and want a chance to win this one, simply register below by submitting your email address. That’s it. Good luck!

– Joe Wurzelbacher (Joe the Plumber)

“The AR 15 is NOT an “assault weapon” or “weapon of mass destruction.” Tell the parents, friends, and relatives of the 26 who were shredded by an AR 15:

newtown children smaller gunBut none of that matters to Wurzelbacher, whose priority it is to raffle off the same kind of weapon that was used to massacre six-year-olds. Here’s what he said “pro-life” means to him:

Wurzelbacher:

“That little child grows up and becomes you, me, someone else…”

Not the children of Newtown. They never got a chance to grow up, nor would they ever become you.

That video was recorded back in 2009. Here is what matters to Wurzelbacher now:

“I think every sane, freedom-loving law abiding citizen should own an AR-15.”

This guy is certifiable.

And he is likely doing the Happy Dance now that the Senate assault weapon ban won’t be in the gun measure.

According to Whispers at U.S. News and World Report, more than 60,000 people have entered the raffle since he launched it last month.

Joe the Insensitive Ass’s website says he is available for speaking engagements. Instead, he should be available to STFU.

family values my ass

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