Showing posts with label Threat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Threat. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Rant: [t]Rump and His Threats

Cue rant …

I don’t listen to [t]Rump when he speaks — my remote control has a fully functioning mute button just for that reason — but I do read what he says and, well, it most often annoys me and sometimes it infuriates and sometimes, well …

He said this:
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the second amendment. And if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the second amendment folks, maybe there is…”
Here’s how I took that:

Hillary is like Obama, if she gets elected she’s coming for your guns — like Obama who has so far in his eight years in office collected one … two … three … oh yeah, no guns at all — but if you wanna stop her from appointing anti-NRA judges to SCOTUS, then the Second Amendment folks can do something about it by not voting for her, and voting for [t][Rump who'll protect your guns.

That’s how I took it; maybe I’m wrong. I might be; I have been before.

Cut to this morning when GMA had professional [t]Rump Ass Kisser, Rudy Giuliani, on to discuss the comment and Rudy says it was nothing … that [t]Rump didn’t mean it …

… well, if it was nothing then why say he didn’t mean it …

… and then he said …

“What about Hillary’s 33,000 emails?”

Seriously. The GOP response to criticism is to not answer the question but shout …

Emails!

Benghazi!

Clinton Foundation!

Sit the fuck down Rudy. You pandering sack of excrement. Your fifteen minutes of fame on bodies of 3,000 dead Americans is over.

And so now, because that fuckwad spoke out, I'm thinking [t]Rump meant what most people think he meant.

Fuck him.

Rant over.

Oops ... maybe not ...

Cue Mini Rant ...

[t]Rump also never said the word "shoot" so for all those liberal news sites and blogs, and you know who you are, who printed the headline that [t]Rump said Hillary should be shot? 

You're part of the problem.

Stop it.

Stop it now.

Okay.

Rant over.

For now.


Thursday, September 19, 2013

Gay Student Threatened With A Knife...Receives Letter Of Discipline

For people who wonder why we fight for equality in every area of our lives — housing, employment, healthcare, hospital visitation, marriage — it’s because once we are treated equally, maybe we won’t hear any more stories like this one.

Alex Worthley is a freshman at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg; and, he’s gay. Now that shouldn’t mean a thing, really, except Alex’s roommate in the dorms didn’t like having a gay roommate and so he threatened Alex with a knife. You know, because he’s gay and stuff.
It all started innocently enough when Alex asked his roommate to turn down his music:
“He was like, ‘I do have a knife and I’ll use it if I have to … And that’s when he repeated that and he was like ‘I don’t like gay people.’”
Then, Alex Worthley did the right thing by reporting the incident, and the threat to the Office of Student Housing, where an investigator agreed to put the two students in separate dorm rooms. Problem solved, right?

Well, not really, because after he was moved into a different room and no longer lived with a knife-wielding homophobe, Alex received a letter of discipline just like his accuser, saying he shared the blame for the threatened assault:
“There seems to be a strong possibility that some of your own actions and comments were part of the reason this situation escalated from jesting to threatening.”
Jesting? With a knife? Someone holding a knife and saying ‘I don’t like gay people’ and somehow Alex Worthley is partially to blame? Why, because he’s gay and open? For shame, Alex, if you’d just stayed closeted and kept your mouth shut this whole thing could have been avoided.
UCM spokesman Jeff Murphy provided this statement:
“The university cannot comment on specific details regarding a conflict between students, but UCM takes seriously the process in handling such situations and in addressing student concerns, including communication procedures with those involved. We are confident in our existing procedures, but will review this matter, with a goal to make certain there is no misunderstanding about the roles everyone at the university plays in ensuring a positive, supportive campus environment.”
Worthley says that UCM should have never paired him with that other student because his former roommate told officials he didn’t want a gay roommate. But, again, UCM spokestool Jeff Murphy said UCM does not make room assignments, or reassignments based on sexual orientation, so they felt justified pairing an openly gay student with a student who said he didn’t want to share a room with a gay student. And then they seemed surprised that this threat occurred? And then they had the nerve to blame Alex Worthley, the victim, of being somewhat to blame?

Worthley, who now has a dorm room to himself, has filed an appeal with the university’s Office of Student Housing, asking that his letter of discipline be removed from his student file.

And I hope they agree. Whether or not there was any other conversation or activity that took place before the roommate threatened Worthley with a knife does not mean that Worthley exacerbated the situation.

But he’s gay, and he’s open and out, and the university knew that and paired him with a bigot with a knife?


Go figure.