The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
What is this world coming to? Oh, and the prison officer offered up this reason for 43 kids getting blasted with the stun gun -- "it wasn't intended to be malicious, but educational." And this can also go under the tag "Parents Behaving Badly":
According to information released Saturday by the Florida Department of Corrections: During "Take Our Children to Work Day" events at three prison facilities, 43 children were hit with stun guns while others were exposed to tear gas.
"Three prison guards have been fired, two have resigned and 16 more employees - from corrections officers to a warden - will be disciplined due to the incidents that unfolded April 23, said DOC Secretary Walt McNeil," reported The Miami Herald. "An investigation is ongoing.
"None of the children in any of the incidents required medical attention or was notably harmed, McNeil said. He said the children, who ranged in age from 5 to 17, were all children of prison officials." "The jolt sent at least two of them sprawling to the floor, crying out in pain and clutching at agonizing burns on their arms. One child ended up in hospital," reported the Mail Online.
Again, "suffer the little children" takes on a new meaning for an amoral spiritual leader. This time, it's Elgin, IL, and the pastor is Rev. Daryl Bujak of the First Missionary Baptist Church. He's on trial, accused of clearly un-Christian behavior -- battery on a young girl who was 12.
Rev. Daryl Bujak didn't believe the girl when she said she had been sexually abused, and he wanted to cure her rebellious at-home behavior. So week after week, when her mother brought her in for counseling, he allegedly punished her with a bruising spanking.
...Bujak is accused of battery for allegedly beating the girl, who was 12 at the time, with a piece of crown molding during their weekly counseling sessions at First Missionary Baptist Church in Elgin.
...The girl, now 16, took the witness stand Tuesday and described nearly ritualistic spankings during her meetings with the pastor. She said the number of blows depended on her mother's account of how she had behaved at home that week.
"Fifteen [blows] was a good week," she said.
The spankings raised painful welts, the girl said, and her backside became so sore she had to sit on her hands during the church service.
Bujak's attorney, Ross Bartolotta, admits his client hit the child in this manner; the defense is that the "discipline" was legal because it was approved by the parents. I can't imagine the level of trust that has been destroyed in this girl by the evil perpetrated by her own family; they might as well have dealt the blows themselves.
Reality-based people know that one's sexual orientation -- if you're heterosexual --doesn't automatically come with special parenting powers. Fundies seem to think so for some unknown reason. They really should reconsider that thinking, since we find so many horrid stories like this:
A woman charged with murder in the death of her 13-year-old stepson, who died last June after being tied to a tree overnight, has been released on bond, authorities said.
Sandra McMillan posted a $200,000 bond Monday. She pleaded not guilty in January to first-degree murder, felony child abuse, aiding and abetting murder and aiding and abetting felony child abuse.
McMillan and her husband, Brice, are accused of tying up Tyler McMillan overnight last June for being disobedient. The teen also was tied to the tree the next night, and Sandra McMillan found him unresponsive the following afternoon.
An autopsy determined Tyler McMillan died of dehydration and heat stroke.
Read the full extent of the injuries below the fold.
(But oh, we must hail the sanctity of man-woman marriage and that only an opposite-sex couple can raise children... - promoted by Pam Spaulding)
Twenty-one year old Adam Herrman has been missing since about 1999. Unfortunately, his parents who adopted him after fostering him failed to notify the authorities of the boy's disappearance. . . for 10 years.
Wichita attorney Warner Eisenbise, who is representing Adam's adoptive parents, said the couple "really rue the fact that they didn't" report the boy missing.
"They feel very guilty" about not doing that, he said in a telephone interview. The couple told him the boy had run away frequently, he said, and they believed him to be either with his biological parents or homeless.
Although the Herrmans did not report him missing, "they were very worried about him," he said. CNN
The kid was about 11 or 12 when he "ran away", and just assumed he was homeless if he wasn't with his biological parents - yet they neither contacted the biological parents to confirm his safety nor bothered to report him missing??!?
I feel sorry for this child. How could this Pennsylvania couple name their child after Hitler and think there was not going to be serious problems down the road?
The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance. Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry Internet postings in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend on their flare-up over frosting.
"I think people need to take their heads out of the cloud they've been in and start focusing on the future and not on the past," Heath Campbell said Tuesday in an interview conducted in Easton, on the other side of the Delaware River from where the family lives in Hunterdon County, N.J.
Deborah Campbell, 25, said she phoned in her order last week to the ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son's name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.
Karen Meleta, a spokeswoman for ShopRite, said the Campbells had similar requests denied at the same store the last two years and said Heath Campbell previously had asked for a swastika to be included in the decoration.
The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.
Why couldn't the father or mother change their own names if they felt this strongly about expression, rather than impose it on a child who hasn't any understanding and will no doubt suffer for their arrogance?
Why did she do it? Because she was concerned that her boyfriend would dump her if he found out the baby wasn't his.
China Arnold, 28, showed no reaction when the jury's verdict was announced and then lowered her head, looking down at the defense table. Relatives in the courtroom cried and covered their faces with their hands. They later left the courthouse without commenting.
...Prosecutors said Arnold intentionally put her baby in the microwave oven and cooked the child to death after a fight with her boyfriend.
The defense tried to float the idea that another person, an eight-year-old, did it, but there was testimony by multiple witnesses that the child was not present to have committed the crime.
Didn't John McCain say the best home for children is one with a father and a mother? If that's really the be all and end all, perhaps he and the fundies should ask the children of Kimberly and John Quebe of Anaheim about the upbringing experienced this home. (KNBC):
The charges include 21 counts of false imprisonment by violence, 21 counts of child abuse, 18 counts of corporal injury on a child with great bodily injury and two counts of torture, Simmons said.
If convicted, the maximum sentence for the torture charges is life in prison, Simmons said.
...The children -- a 15-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy -- are in protective custody.
Authorities said the abuse occurred over the past six years at the family's Anaheim Hills home. Investigators said the children were bound by the hands and wrists with tights for hours at a time, and sometimes left to sleep on the floor.
A couple of you sent me a link to this horror story; I just want to believe this man was high or mentally ill because the abuse this two-year-old baby was subjected to is beyond belief. Sergio Casian Aguiar, a 27-year-old grocery store worker in Stanislaus County who had never been in trouble with the law before, not only kicked his child to death, his behavior was so unhinged that police had to take him out because he would have continued attacking the baby to get the demons out. (SFGate):
[Witness Deborah] McKain, of Crows Landing, said she drove past Sergio Aguiar's pickup Saturday night on West Bradbury Road and, at first, thought he was "kicking garbage or something." But she said her boyfriend, Dan Robinson, told her to back up and put her headlights on Aguiar.
"Sure enough, he was kicking a baby around," McKain said. She said the child was unconscious, his clothes falling off, and looked liked a "rag doll." Robinson, a volunteer fire chief in Crows Landing, showed Aguiar his badge and ordered him to stop, but Aguiar calmly said something like, "It's just trash," McKain said.
Aguiar also said, "Look how they make toys now," McKain said, and at one point asked Robinson for a knife.When Robinson went into the pickup to turn on the hazard lights, Aguiar stopped kicking the boy, helped him find the flashers, then went back to his attack, McKain said.
You just don't know what to say. Another slice of insanity is after the jump.
In Macclesfield, NC, deputies and paramedics were called to a residence to try to revive Tyler Gene McMillan, who had suffered from cardiac arrest. The father, Brice Brian McMillan, 41 had been performing CPR on the teen when the paramedics arrived, but it was clear once law enforcement assessed the situation, that the health of the young man was not at the forefront of the father's mind.
The boy's father told deputies he had tied the teen to a tree outside the home Tuesday night because he was being disobedient and other disciplinary actions had failed.
The father said he untied the boy Wednesday morning and allowed him back into the house, but he was tied to the tree a second time that night when he started acting up again. The boy remained tied up until his stepmother found him unconscious at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.
...Edgecombe County Sheriff James Knight said the boy's wrists and ankles were bound with plastic ties and that he was also tied to the tree with some other material. Although a rope was seen dangling from a tree in the yard outside the house Friday, he wouldn't confirm whether that was used to tie the boy.
The remains of four premature babies have been found hidden in garbage bags and a blanket at the home of the owner of a taxi company in Ocean City, Maryland, police said on Monday.
Christy Freeman, 37, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with the death of one of the babies. Further charges may follow, said Ocean City police spokesman Barry Neeb.
...At the apartment, police also found a garbage bag hidden in a trunk in Freeman's bedroom. Inside were three smaller plastic bags, two of which contained the remains of two more infants, and a third contained what police said was a placenta.
The next day, the remains of a fourth infant were found in another garbage bag inside a Winnebago motor home parked in Freeman's driveway, according to a police statement.
And if you're a regular at the Blend, like clockwork, summer means more stories on children left to fry in cars. This AP report is interesting because it is not about any one incident this year, but the disparity in treatment of the person arrested for the act -- the mother, father or caregiver.
An Associated Press analysis of more than 310 fatal incidents in the past 10 years found that prosecutions and penalties vary widely, depending in many cases on where the death occurred and who left the child to die - parent or caregiver, mother or father:
* Mothers are treated much more harshly than fathers. While mothers and fathers are charged and convicted at about the same rates, moms are 26 percent more likely to do time. And their median sentence is two years longer than the terms received by dads.
* Day care workers and other paid baby sitters are more likely than parents to be charged and convicted. But they are jailed less frequently than parents, and for less than half the time.
* Charges are filed in half of all cases -- even when a child was left unintentionally.
In all, the AP analyzed 339 fatalities involving more than 350 responsible parties. July is by far the deadliest month, accounting for nearly a quarter of the total.
Also, the states where this happens most frequently are Texas (41 deaths), Florida (37), California (32), North Carolina (14), Arizona (14) and Tennessee (13).
Of course, the fundamentalists are more concerned about whether gays can adopt or foster children, not whether all children are safe and cared for, regardless of the caregiver's orientation.
Parenting -- a responsibility and joy so important to the shaping of this country's future that some feel it should be restricted to heterosexual couples only. Time and again, we find proof that good parenting has nothing to do with the superiority of an opposite-sex couple procreating or adopting. (AP):
The children of Michael and Iana Straw, a boy age 22 months and a girl age 11 months, were severely malnourished and near death last month when doctors saw them after social workers took them to a hospital, authorities said. Both children are doing well and gaining weight in foster care, prosecutor Kelli Ann Viloria told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Viloria said the Reno couple were too distracted by online video games, mainly the fantasy role-playing "Dungeons & Dragons" series, to give their children proper care. "They had food; they just chose not to give it to their kids because they were too busy playing video games," Viloria told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Police said hospital staff had to shave the head of the girl because her hair was matted with cat urine. The 10-pound girl also had a mouth infection, dry skin and severe dehydration.
Her brother had to be treated for starvation and a genital infection. His lack of muscle development caused him difficulty in walking, investigators said.
Kimberly Forder was a stay-at-home mom and her husband Robert was a painter. The Forders had the reputation of a "happy, religious family that moved to Africa to pursue Christian missionary work." They home-schooled their eight adopted children.
There was something else going on in that home, and it was straight out of hell -- the Forder's eight-year-old child Christopher, ended up dead on the bedroom floor. This sadly familiar tale of the publicly pious Christian one-man, one-woman headed family gone horribly wrong comes to us from the Kitsap Sun in Washington State. Blender Gary said the press conference was held two blocks from his house.
As 8-year-old Christopher Forder lay on his bedroom floor, stricken with pneumonia, heavily bruised and nearing death, his father called a family meeting.
Inside the family's Seabeck-area home, the father, Robert, told his seven children they had a choice: They could bury their brother in the backyard, or call 911 and risk having the state snatch all of the children away because of Christopher's obvious bruising.
The account of Christopher's last moments is contained in court documents alleging that his mother, 44-year-old Kimberly Forder, abused and neglected her son to the point of death, never seeking outside medical help as his pneumonia grew worse.
This wasn't a one-time event. The court records show a pattern of abuse, hidden from authorities. Both parents say they are innocent of the charges, claiming the boy had bruising from undiagnosed reactive detachment disorder -- basically they are saying the kid scratched and picked at his skin, and hurt himself by throwings his body against walls. Of course that doesn't explain why the child died from pneumonia. It also doesn't explain this:
One child told detectives that Christopher was beaten an average of six times a day. It was alleged Kimberly Forder was the primary disciplinarian.
If he didn't chew his food correctly, his mother would take away his food, sometimes for days at a time, documents allege. The boy resorted to stealing scraps from a compost heap, and eating dog food.
If the boy soiled himself, he was forced to wear the dirty diaper, sometimes on his head. If he didn't wash his clothes correctly in a 5-gallon bucket, his parents were accused of dunking his head in the dirty water "until he stopped struggling," court documents said.
UPDATE: Oh man -- today 
Didn't John McCain say the best home for children is one with a father and a mother? If that's really the be all and end all, perhaps he and the fundies should ask the children of Kimberly and John Quebe of Anaheim about the upbringing experienced this home. (
