 | Jean Schmidt Lying on TV Jean Schmidt blames her bogus resume problem on her web designer, when the site was built in 2001. Too bad for her she started claiming the fake college degree 12 years earlier, in 1989... |
 | Spanking/Hitting/Smacking Children, is Unconstitutional! Imagine if your boss spanked you, every time they wanted to get your undivided attention. Children have rights! It's not okay to hit adults, and it's not okay to hit children. http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/09/spare-rod.html Recently I have authored a few posts about spanking. This issue continues to weigh so heavily on me in part because I myself am no stranger to the belt, and because I truly believe in the right of all living beings to be free of violence. Spanking a child is a violent act and any attempt to justify it is just a denial. Children are amongst the most powerless in our society. They are considered to exist without bodily integrity and cannot legally act on their own behalf. Parenting by its very nature is authoritarian, and this has lead some to believe that they have right to strike a child in the name of discipline. Some parents repeatedly refer to a lack of spanking as a failure to discipline. This spank or no discipline argument is a ridiculous strawman and they know it. How do these parents believe that things like groundings and timeouts came into practice in the first place? There is also such a thing as rewarding positive actions to create a desire to continually perform behaviour that is socially acceptable, and responsible. When parents assert to legislators that they are taking away their right to parent/discipline, what they they are seeking is to maintain authoritarian control over children. Our offspring are of us, but do not belong to us. In a society in which many feel powerless, parenting is one of the few areas left where people feel that they have the right to complete control and ownership. Some continue to hide the desire to wield power over another by calling spanking an act of love. It is encouraged that the child be told that they are loved after each incidence of violence. What does this teach the child but to associate violence with love? How many women fall into abusive relationships after being abused themselves as children? This occurs in part because they understand violence as being part of loving someone. What hurts me the most is that there are not more pleas that base love as a supreme act of teaching. When you reach for your child their reaction should not be to shrink away with fear. We don't exhort parents to model the behaviour that we wish children to perform. It seems our entire focus is rushing them from one event to another without actually communicating about life and sharing lessons. We can schedule play dates but sitting down and critically engaging with children is something we simply don't have time for. Children are not robotic individuals that can be programmed to obey on command. Part of the process of growing is testing boundaries, and making mistakes. To be punished physically for maturing in the natural process impedes personal growth. It teaches a child that they are not worthy of respect. If we can socially decide that beating an animal is wrong why can we not decide that hitting a child, the fruit of our wombs is equally wrong? |
 | Rep. Bachmann Big Box Abortion Retailer Rep. Bachmann speaks against taxpayer funding for the abortion industry. (excerpts) |
 | Japan Smoke on the Water_ooedo no hikeshi http://int-gold.narod.ru/index.html |
 | Jean Schmidt cuts and runs, John Murtha doesn't On her first time ever speaking from the House floor, Representative Jean Schmidt causes a commotion by violating the tradition against personal attacks from the floor, accusing Rep John Murtha, a decorated Vietnam Veteran, of cowardice. Immediately afterward, she recants, and asks that her remarks be withdrawn from the record. Oddly, the person she "quoted" claims never to have made the statement attributed to him. It is one of a series of bizarre fabrications attrbuted to Ms. Schmidt. Jean Schmidt was recently listed as one of the "Ten Dumbest Congressmen" in the article linked below: http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/10/americas_dumbest_congressmen_a_radar_special_report.php |
 | Vic Wulsin - Closing Remarks 10/6/08 Vic Wulsin's closing remarks at a the OH-2 Debate 10/6/08 |
 | AAEI Pressures Jean Schmidt on Iraq War Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI) and the Iraq Summer Campaign are placing pressure on Rep. Jean Schmidt in Ohio's 2nd congressional district over her Iraq policy. |
 | Jean Schmidt Interview An exclusive interview with the Congresswoman from Ohio about her run for re-election and recent accident. |
 | Rep. Lamborn on Parental Rights Rep. Lamborn discusses taxpayer funding for abortion groups that oppose parental involvement in a child's abortion decision. (excerpts) |
 | Oklahoma State Rep. says Gays biggest threat to US Oklahoma State Rep.: Gays "Biggest Threat" to US An Oklahoma state legislator is coming under criticism for a speech in which she says homosexuals are destroying the United States and are more dangerous than terrorists. Republican State Representative Sally Kern was addressing a small audience when she was secretly recorded. State Rep. Sally Kern: "Studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades. So it's the death knell of this country. I honestly think it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam, which I think is a big threat... If you got cancer or something in your little toe, do you say, well, you know, I'm just going to forget about it because the rest of me is fine? It spreads. OK? And this stuff is deadly, and it's spreading, and it will destroy our young people, it will destroy this nation." Kern has confirmed she made the comments and has refused to apologize. |
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