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Comment by Chris on May 23, 2012 at 4:01am

I can't imagine what a cross burning would be like. Do you think they have bible readings? The web site they mentioned didn't open to much.

Check this out. Its from a couple of days ago

Idaho Sheriff Candidate hosts KKK Cross Burning

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on May 22, 2012 at 8:07pm

I wish these people would give it a rest already: KKK invites NC residents to ‘whites only’ cross burning

Comment by Chris on May 12, 2012 at 4:48am

They keep a stockpile of frozen sperm from winning horses. The more wins the horse has the more it's breeding fees are worth. The horse isn't needed to be alive to make money from breeding it.

Comment by doone on May 11, 2012 at 9:15pm

You needn’t know anything about horses, nor horse racing, nor even the damn Kentucky Derby to get sucked into “Breakdown,” a horrifying New York Timesinvestigation into horse injuries and deaths at race tracks across America.

Award-winning reporters Joe Drape and Walt Bogdanich spent months analyzing three years of race reports — 150,000 in all — and their findings, laid bare in the ongoing, multi-story series, have prompted at least one state to take a closer look at its lack of law and order regarding horse doping.

Not to be missed.

[nyt]

Comment by doone on May 10, 2012 at 7:15pm

 

Comment by Chris on May 4, 2012 at 3:08am

Pastor Says Parents Should Punch ‘Girly’ 4 Year Olds

The Pastor of a North Carolina Baptist Church has been captured on audio urging parents to punch 4 year old boys if they ‘act girly’ and to ‘break their limp wrists’.

Sean Harris has been the Senior Pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville (near Fort Bragg) for six years.

In audio obtained by the website Good As You, Harris says:

“So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, ‘Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,’ you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.”

“Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male.”

“And when your daughter starts acting to Butch you reign her in.....

Adds Harris:

“Can I take charge like that as a parent? Yeah, you can. You are authorized. I just gave you a special dispensation this morning to do that.”

Harris’ rant was part of the ‘Marriage Sunday’ campaign of those supporting North Carolina’s Amendment One campaign, which would define marriage as between a man and a woman in the state’s constitution. As well as his call to violence by parents, Harris condemns LGBT people as “sick” and says that rejection of the constitutional amendment will lead to ‘Muslims taking over’.

Harris’ church also runs the Berean Baptist Academy....

Here is the Church’s website. Here they are on Facebook, where comments appear to be being deleted.

UPDATE: Pastor Sean has apologized for his words, saying, “I misspoke.” See the full story here.

Comment by Neal on April 30, 2012 at 1:23pm

Damn, surrounded by jackasses.

Comment by Adriana on April 30, 2012 at 7:23am

@Doone. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable. Who are these people??

Comment by Chris on April 30, 2012 at 1:37am

There is always another Rush Limbaugh waiting in the sideline and unfortunately and an audience for it.

Doesn't the job description of morning radio personalities include: "a-hole?"

Comment by doone on April 29, 2012 at 11:50pm

Screwed straight?

by digby

I'm sure that Monica Crowley and the rest of the right wing comedy troupe think this is just another of their hilarious jokes and we should all lighten up, but I think it's horrifying. From Jezebel:

Cleveland radio personality Dominic Dieter, a surely sonorous voice that squawks to every morning to listeners of the Rover's Morning Glory Show on "The Buzzard" 100.7 FM WMMS, gave a father who wrote to the station worrying about whatever to do about catching his daughter kissing another girl some of the worst advice ever, facetious or otherwise. Dieter responded to the letter on-air, telling the father, "You should have one of your friends screw your daughter straight."

I wouldn't call that advice. I'd call it incitement to a criminal act.Which is what it is:

Corrective rape is the use of rape against women who violate social norms regarding human sexuality and gender roles, often lesbians but sometimes gay men, with a goal of punishment of abnormal behavior and reinforcement of societal norms. The crime was first identified in South Africa where it is sometimes supervised by members of the woman's family or local community, and is a major contributor to HIV infection in South African lesbians. Corrective rape has also been known to occur in Thailand, Ecuador, Canada, the United States, and Zimbabwe. Corrective rape and the accompanying violence can result in physical and psychological trauma, mutilation, HIV infection, unwanted pregnancy, and may contribute to suicide.

This is a very specific crime against LGBT people. But I've always gotten a similar feeling from the oft told "joke" about how some woman men don't like "needs to get laid," or "needs a good fucking." You can interpret it as saying that a woman is unhappy because she isn't getting any sexual pleasure, and I'm sure there are those who mean it that way. But far too often there's a coercive, violent tone that sounds an awful lot like she needs to be raped to teach her a lesson of some sort. Maybe you have to have someone say directly to you to get the full effect. 

In any case, this radio creep is beyond the pale. Encouraging a man to have one of his friends rape his daughter to stop her from being gay is so wrong on so many levels that I honestly can't see how any decent person could excuse it. 

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