Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Christian homeless shelter bans women and children for tempting men into "ungodly sex"

Women banned for "ungodly" sex

 

Nita and Shaunna, UltraViolet info@weareultraviolet.org

3:13 PM (6 hours ago)
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Women were just kicked out of the only homeless shelter in Williamsburg, Kentucky. Yes, all of them, out in the cold, because the shelter's director claims he doesn't want the residents having "ungodly" sex.1

It's outrageous anytime of the year, but the decision by Emergency Christian Ministries to kick homeless women and girls out during the holidays is especially cruel.

The shelter gets taxpayer funding, so it's more susceptible to public pressure. If we act quickly and keep heat on the shelter's board and director, we can push them to reverse the decision--and get the women and girls back into the shelter before the year is out. 
Tell Emergency Christian Ministries Director Billy Woodward: 
Lift your sexist ban on homeless women and children. 
Sign the petition
To make things worse for the women, the nearest homeless shelter accepting women is in the next city over, nearly 30 miles away. Director Billy Woodward denies that the policy is sexist and claims that the staff "are not biased or prejudiced whatsoever."

The decision is attracting condemnation from everyone, from the city's residents to the mayor. Thousands more of us can easily force Emergency Christian Ministries to lift its ban on homeless women and children.

Will you tell the Emergency Christian Ministries director to end its sexist ban?
--Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kaili, Kathy, Onyi, Susan, Clarise, Anathea, Audine, Ryan, Shannon, Vanessa, Megan, Kaytee, and Libby, the UltraViolet team

Sources:
1. Women no longer accepted at homeless shelter after "sex problem", WYMT, December 9, 2015

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From AlterNet: 10 biggest lies and distortions from the Republican debate. News flash, Republicans: objective reality is a thing!

Terror panic always brings out the biggest bullsh**ters.

December 15, 2015



Another GOP debate, another steaming pile of half-truths, lies and pseudo-facts. The Republican Party seems to be almost entirely post-truth at this point, and if you call them out, you're the liberal media! It's a brilliant racket and one that led us to the current state of affairs where facts aren't just dispensable, but a political liability. Without further ado, here are the top lies and distortions from tonight's debate.

1. Ben Carson and Ted Cruz: "We cannot vet refugees."
A popular refrain in the wake of the Paris and San Bernadino attacks is that the U.S. government (or more specifically President Obama) cannot properly vet Syrian refugees. This has been repeatedly debunked as hysterical posturing, yet remains a popular trope among the far right. In addition to a rather thorough takedown by John Oliver two weeks ago, PoliticoFact rated this claim, "Mostly False" in its detailed analysis this evening.

2. Marco Rubio claims Assad created ISIS.
This is an old canard, and one that even nominally lefty outlets like Vox like to push, but it has little to do with reality. In an effort to shore up his neocon credentials, Rubio has doubled down on regime change in Syria while other GOP candidates like Paul and Cruz - as well as Bernie Sanders - have run away from this position. To do this Rubio has pushed the conspiracy theory that the reason ISIS grew in Syria is because the U.S. didn't back the rebels opposed to Assad when in fact the CIA, according to documents revealed by Edward Snowden, spent $1 billion a year arming, funding and assisting the opposition.

3. Donald Trump cites bogus poll that 25% of Muslims condone acts of violence.
A popular trope among the nativist wing of the Republican Party (aka the Republican Party), the bogus stat that 25% of Muslins support violence is thrown around quite often. But it originates from noted Islamophobic "think tank" Center for Security Policy. As the New York Times notes:
Mr. Trump vouched for the group at a rally on Monday night. But the poll — conducted by the Polling Company, a Republican firm — is in no way truly representative of all Muslim Americans because of its methodology. The poll was not based on a random sample, but included only people who chose to participate, and therefore is not representative of the population being studied. In addition, some of the questions were leading and biased.
4. Chris Christie insists he was appointed U.S. Attorney on Sept 10, 2001.
Why does Christie keep repeating this lie? It's been debunked several times and it's a matter of public record. It's a great sound-bite to be sure, and if true, would put Christie in the heart of the most significant foreign policy crisis of the past 20 years. But the reality is that George W. Bush nominated Christie on Dec. 7, 2001, as one can clearly see from a White House press release.

5. Ted Cruz claims George W. Bush deported 10 million people.
George W. Bush deported 1.8 million people. Obama deported 2 million. It's unclear where Cruz is getting this number from.

6. Donald Trump keeps saying he self-funds, but we know that's demonstrably false.
7. Moderator lie: CNN's Wolf Blitzer claimed terrorism fears are higher than they've been since 9/11.
That's not true. A recent Gallup poll shows terrorism fears have spiked recently but are the same as in 2005 and nowhere near as high as after 9/11.

8. Lie by omission: Why was the attack on Planned Parenthood not mentioned in a debate about terrorism?
As Sean McElwee of Demos noted, in a debate that was nominally about "terrorism," non-Muslim terrorism was completely absent. The recent Planned Parenthood terrorist attack carried out by a man who claims to be a "warrior for babies" wasn't discussed in the broader context of terrorism. Why this is so remains unclear.

9. Lie by cliche: What the hell is Fiorina talking about?
Fiorina keeps referencing "building up the sixth fleet" because presumably it sounds like some important walk-and-talk dialogue in the West Wing, but it actually makes no sense. Several experts have chimed in on this strange refrain and pointed out that it's basically nonsense. As military magazine Stars and Stripes noted:
Her meaning wasn’t immediately clear — the U.S. 6th Fleet is less a collection of ships than a command structure for operating American warships in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Moreover, the fleet is one of the few growing military commands in Europe. It is building land-based missile interceptor sites in Romania and Poland, and in the coming days it will welcome the last of four guided-missile destroyers to arrive for permanent stationing in Rota, Spain.
10. Several candidates keep claiming the Iran deal "gives $150 billion to Iran."
As the LA Times notes, it's not "giving" $150 billion to Iran, it's relieving sanctions that will ultimately unfreeze more than $150 billion in assets to Iran, but the funds were already Iran's to begin with. No one is "giving" Iran anything.
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Adam Johnson is an associate editor at AlterNet. Follow him on Twitter at @adamjohnsonnyc.

From "Yahoo! News": Republicans distort facts to attack Obama, Clinton, each other. They got nothin'. Otherwise, they'd speak the truth! News flash: objective reality is a thing!

AP FACT CHECK: Republican debaters go astray


WASHINGTON (AP) — The vast complexities of a dangerous world were cast in too-simple terms in the latest Republican presidential debate.
In addition, Chris Christie pledged to make common cause with a Jordanian king who's actually dead and debaters twisted aspects of immigration policy beyond recognition.

Here's a look at some of the claims Tuesday night and how they compare with the facts:

TED CRUZ on immigration policy: "What you do is you enforce the law... That means you stop the Obama administration's policy of releasing criminal illegal aliens. Do you know how many aliens Bill Clinton deported? 12 million. Do you know how many illegal aliens, George W. Bush deported? 10 million."

THE FACTS: Cruz vastly overstates the deportation numbers for both presidents. Statistics from Immigration and Customs Enforcement show that roughly 1.6 million were deported under Bush. Under Clinton, when the old Immigration and Naturalization Service oversaw deportations, the figure was about 870,000, according to the Migration Policy Institute. So far, about 2.4 million have been deported under the Obama administration.

To get the larger numbers, Cruz appears to be combining deportations with arrests made by the Border Patrol in the previous administrations, the institute says.
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CRUZ on people in the U.S. illegally: "I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization."

THE FACTS: That flies in the face of the Texas senator's record and past rhetoric. Cruz has indeed been against an explicit path to citizenship for people in the country illegally, but he introduced legislation in 2013 that proposed eventual legal status for millions of them.

His legislation proposed stripping out the option of citizenship from a bill overhauling immigration policy. Instead, he told the Senate in June 2013, his bill would set up a process so that "those who are here illegally would be eligible for what is called RPI (Registered Provisional Immigrant) status, a legal status, and, indeed, in time would be eligible for legal permanent residency."

Cruz defended that course on multiple occasions in the Senate and in interviews — usually stressing his objection to extending citizenship but also making clear he envisioned eventual work permits and other means of legal recognition short of citizenship.
The overarching effort to overhaul immigration policy that year failed. One of the principal authors of the initiative was Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, another presidential contender, and Cruz's claims emerged in a tussle between the two on the subject.

Also notable from Cruz's statement in the debate was that he subtly avoided closing the door to supporting legal status in the future. He said "I don't intend" to do that, which doesn't mean he won't.
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DONALD TRUMP: "Our country is out of control. People are pouring through the southern border."

THE FACTS: Arrest statistics are widely regarded as the best measure, if an imperfect one, of the flow of people crossing illegally into the U.S. And Trump's suggestion that illegal immigration is increasing at the border is not supported by arrest statistics discussed in recent months by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

Johnson has said that during the 2015 budget year that ended in September, about 330,000 people were caught crossing the Mexican border illegally, a near 40-year low in border arrests. During the 2014 budget year, roughly 486,000 people were arrested.

In recent months there has been a spike in the arrests at the border, but primarily of children traveling alone and families, mostly from Central America.
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CRUZ: "You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city."

THE FACTS: The Texas senator's conviction that the Islamic State group can be routed with an air campaign of overwhelming force is hard to square with the reality on the ground. IS fighters are holed up in a variety of cities, amid civilians, raising questions about how he could direct a carpet bombing that only singles out the enemy.

He was asked in the debate if he'd be willing to cause civilian casualties in Raqqa, a major Syrian city that has become de facto capital of the Islamic State group's so-called caliphate. ISIS is also in control of the Iraqi city of Mosul.
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JEB BUSH: "We need to embed our forces, our troops, inside the Iraqi military."

THE FACTS: The U.S. is already doing that.

U.S. special forces are working side by side with Iraqi forces in the fight against Islamic State militants and American military advisers and trainers are working with Iraqi troops in various locations. To be sure, Bush has called for an intensification of the military effort in a variety of ways, but debate viewers would not know from his comment that U.S. troops are already operating with Iraqi and Kurdish forces.

His comment fits a pattern in the Republican race as a number of candidates criticize President Barack Obama's course against IS while proposing largely the same steps that are already underway.
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RAND PAUL: "Every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration."

THE FACTS: Not so.

One of the San Bernardino, California, attackers was 28-year-old Syed Farook, who was born in Illinois. Nidal Hasan, who perpetrated the 2009 Fort Hood shootings that killed 13 people, was not only an American but an Army major.

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CHRISTIE: "When I stand across from King Hussein of Jordan and I say to him, 'You have a friend again sir, who will stand with you to fight this fight,' he'll change his mind."

THE FACTS: He won't, because he died in 1999. Jordan's king now is Abdullah II.
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CRUZ: "And even worse, President Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees."

THE FACTS: Cruz repeated inflated estimates of how many Syrian refugees the Obama administration plans to admit to the United States. Obama has announced plans to resettle about 10,000 refugees in the next year.

The vetting process for refugees takes, on average, about two years and is routinely longer for refugees from Syria and Iraq. The administration has said refugees being considered for resettlement in the United States are subject to additional scrutiny. The administration has declined to describe what the scrutiny involves, saying it is classified.
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TRUMP, responding to questions about his stated desire to "close" the Internet to terrorists: "This is so easy to answer. ISIS is recruiting through the Internet. ISIS is using the Internet better than we are using the Internet, and it was our idea. What I wanted to do is I wanted to get our brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places and figure out a way that ISIS cannot do what they're doing."

THE FACTS: The Internet is so decentralized that no government can shut down parts of it, short of physically destroying major infrastructure. Websites aren't restricted by geography, can be located anywhere in the world and can move anywhere on short notice.

China, Iran and a few other nations have erected "firewalls" to prevent their citizens from connecting to particular websites but even those are leaky. No such firewall exists in the U.S. and would raise big free-speech issues if anyone attempted to build one.
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MARCO RUBIO on facing terrorist threats: "We need more tools, not less tools. And that tool we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal."

CRUZ: The USA Freedom Act passed by Congress ended the federal government's bulk collection of telephone metadata for all Americans, and "strengthened the tools of national security and law enforcement to go after terrorists."

THE FACTS: Both are right, but are emphasizing different aspects of the new law. While the government has lost speed and ability to reach back in time, it has gained volume of coverage.
The controversial NSA surveillance program revealed by leaker Edward Snowden had allowed the intelligence community to quickly analyze five years of calling records in search of connections among Americans and foreign terror suspects.

Under the new law, the government can no longer collect and store calling data. Instead, it has to request a search of data held by the phone companies, which typically hold the records for two years. It's unclear how quickly those searches can take place, but it's probably longer than in the previous system. Rubio is correct in this regard.

Cruz is correct that under the prior program, a large segment of mobile phone records went uncollected. Under the new regime, a larger universe of phone records can be searched.

What neither acknowledged is that the phone records program was not regarded inside NSA as an important tool in ferreting out terrorism plots. The only case the government has said was cracked because of the program over a decade was a relatively minor terrorist financing scheme.
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Associated Press writers Alicia A. Caldwell, Ken Dilanian and David Hamilton contributed to this report.
Yahoo! News EDITOR'S NOTE _ A look at political claims that take shortcuts with the facts or don't tell the full story

From WaPo

The Bowe Bergdahl case, explained

    

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been a controversial figure ever since he slipped away from his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured by the Taliban. On Monday, the Army announced he would face a general court martial and be charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. The latest season of the podcast “Serial” also explores Bergdahl’s story. Below, we try to answer some of the most common questions regarding this unusual case:

How did Bergdahl end up leaving his base?
Bergdahl was five weeks into a deployment in southeastern Afghanistan and frustrated with his mission and his leaders. He and his fellow soldiers weren’t going after the Taliban as aggressively as he wanted, and his sense of disillusion added to the disgust for the Army that he had begun developing while still in basic training.

Looking to make a stand, Bergdahl hatched a plan: He would run away from his platoon’s tiny outpost in Paktika province late on June 29, 2009. He would stay away from the Army a day, maybe two, and then reappear about 19 miles away at a larger installation and demand to air his grievances with a general. He knew that the region was crawling with insurgents, but he had “outsize impressions of his own capabilities,” according to an investigating officer.

Carrying just a disguise, a knife and some provisions, Bergdahl was captured by insurgents by 10 a.m. the following morning, beginning four years and 11 months of captivity and torture by the Haqqani network, a group affiliated with the Taliban, according to Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, the senior officer who carried out an investigation of Bergdahl’s actions and interviewed him at length.

Is there any evidence he was trying to join the Taliban?
There’s a lot of mystery surrounding this question. The Washington Post’s Kevin Sieff reported last year that Afghan villagers near their base remembered Bowe wandering around. He appeared to be heading deliberately toward areas where there were Taliban, the villagers said.

The question is: What was his motive? Bergdahl said in “Serial” that he deviated from his plan to head 20 miles to a larger base when it dawned on him that he was in a world of trouble. It made sense in his mind at that point, he said, to find Taliban fighters so he could bring back some sort of intelligence as a way of trying to get out of trouble.

Did any soldiers die or get injured while looking for Bergdahl?
This is a complicated question, and one that has received a fair amount of reporting over the last year.
Coalition forces across eastern Afghanistan altered their operations that summer looking for Bergdahl, exposing soldiers to additional and dangerous missions. That remains a sensitive point, amid allegations from Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers that at least six U.S. troops died because of his actions. The problem is that the Army has kept a lot of what those operations involved under wraps even today, and it’s hard to say from the outside which expeditions were aimed at finding Bergdahl and which would have been done anyway.

This part is indisputable, though: He absolutely put the lives of others at risk, and did so knowingly. His take in the “Serial” podcast so far is that he knew he was causing massive problems, but felt compelled to do so to report problems in his unit.

How did he come back?
Bergdahl was recovered in May 2014 in a controversial swap in which the White House approved the release of five Taliban detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They are now in Qatar.

Critics say the Obama administration did not get the best deal it could considering that other American hostages were being held in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it appears the government could not make secure the release of others, and was concerned that Bergdahl would not be able to manage for much longer.

What do we know about his five years of captivity?
He was kept in isolation and was beaten regularly to the point that his body was permanently damaged. Bergdahl will require a lifetime of medical care as a result of the injuries he sustained, according to Curtis Aberle, a family nurse practitioner and case manager for Bergdahl at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Aberle has said the soldier suffered muscular nerve damage in his lower legs, degenerative back damage and a loss of range in motion in his left shoulder that prevents him from lifting heavy objects. The nurse practitioner has also said that Bergdahl suffers from post traumatic stress disorder.

What is Bergdahl doing now?
He has a desk job now with the Army, which said Bergdahl is suitable for duty after going through a battery of tests. Notably, the Army has assigned a couple of soldiers to watch over him. His case remains hugely controversial. On Monday, the Army said he will face general court-martial, raising the possibility that he could face life in prison after being held captive for five years.

General court-martial is the highest level of trial in the military justice system. If convicted, Bergdahl could face life in prison. Desertion can carry a death penalty, but Army officials have said that will not occur in Bergdahl’s case.

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Dan Lamothe covers national security for The Washington Post and anchors its military blog, Checkpoint.

From Democrats.org: should America be a place where women are treated fairly? Where Muslims and others can seek refuge? Republicans don't think so!

So, another GOP debate has come and gone. And, once again, it only served to reaffirm my resolve to elect Democrats in 2016.

Because the truly terrifying fact is that one of the candidates we saw on stage last night is going to be the Republican nominee for president. And here's a sampling of what they believe: America is not a place for Muslims to seek refuge. America is a place that should not allow women to serve in the military -- because we're not capable. America is a place where we put up walls to keep away those who seek out the American Dream.

Well, here's what I have to say:

We will welcome refugees with the open arms that this country was founded upon -- and do so without compromising our safety. We will treat men and women with equal respect and dignity -- and emerge stronger for it. We will not deny access to the opportunities that this great nation can provide.

Or to sum it up another way: We will not accept the hateful and divisive rhetoric that has become the standard of today's Republican Party. We will stand up for the values that we share as Democrats -- and we'll do everything in our power to advance those values and protect the progress we've made under President Obama.

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Team Bernie's take on the Republican debate

If you’re watching tonight’s Republican presidential debate, then you’ve heard a lot of talk about "carpet bombing" cities, sending our men and women into another endless war, and completely closing our borders to women and children who have lost everything but the shirts on their backs.

In short, it was a debate designed to scare you into voting for candidates who want you to forget what this election should be about.

It’s about keeping our families safe, it’s about fixing an immigration system to unite families, restoring our broken economy, and taking back our democracy from the billionaire class.

We bet everything you’ve heard from Republicans tonight makes you feel like supporting a Democrat right now.

Poll after poll shows that Bernie does better against Republican candidates than any other Democrat in this race. And right now, we are on track to reach 2 million individual contributions to our campaign by tomorrow’s midnight deadline — an absolutely unprecedented achievement that we can only reach with your help.


In solidarity,

Team Bernie



Bernie CAN win if we support him (I do!) and vote for him (I will!)

"I'm tired of being told by fellow Democrats that Bernie can't win."

Jeff Weaver, Bernie 2016 info@berniesanders.com

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I wanted to share a few of the stories from people who contributed yesterday in the hopes it would inspire you to do the same today.
“I donate a small amount every month to Bernie, but knowing that he's set this goal I wanted to donate a little more. He's the only candidate that I feel really represents the people. He's out here earning his support from the regular people of the United States. He's the only one who isn't being bought and sold by big corporations. And his political views and ways of running his campaigns aren't something new that he's doing just to woo voters, he has a long history of standing up for what is right (even if it was unpopular at the time).” - Bailey from Oregon
Yesterday alone, over 25,000 people contributed to say they’ve had ENOUGH of the billionaire class buying our elections and our democracy. With just two weeks to go before our final FEC deadline of the year, Bernie really needs you to add yours today:
Add your contribution today and we’ll reach our goal of 2 million individual contributions by midnight tomorrow.
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Mick from West Virginia:
"I am a middle class union electrician, temporarily disabled from a workplace accident. I am so sick of watching every dime I make go to survival, unable to save for the future while the rich and CEOs are making record profits on my back. Bernie Sanders is the only politician I've been excited about and trust for years. If I had more to help this movement, I'd give more!”
Katie from Washington, D.C.:
“I am a mother, wife and own my own business. I've enjoyed the freedom to pursue my dreams and I want to live in an America where others who don't have the advantages I did have an equal chance to succeed and pursue their dreams as well. I want to see more early childhood education, ample paid family leave, good schools and affordable or free college education. I want corporate interests out of politics. I want to work toward a healthier planet. I want sanity in our foreign policy. I see my values reflected in Bernie Sanders and his vision for America. I'm proud to support him for president.”
Ana from California:
“I came to this country as an international student from Brazil. I was 25 and my son was 8. Today my son and I are American citizens. I have a graduate degree and my son is applying for his graduate degree. We earned it with a lot of courage, hard work and integrity. We support Bernie for his same values, courage, hard work and integrity. We believe that he is the only candidate that can put us back on track.”
Ellen from New York summed it up nicely with her contribution: “I'm tired of being told by fellow Democrats that Bernie can't win.”
Like Bernie says, when people stand together, there is no limit to what we can together. And that includes winning the Democratic primary, the general election, and ushering in a political revolution that will take our country back from the billionaire class.
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