Canadian woman verbally attacks Sikh politician believing him to be a Muslim.

I don't know how many of you have already had the pleasure of watching this video of Canadian politician Jagmeet Singh demonstrating extreme patience and kindness when confronted with the kind of hatred that might have inspired Mahatma Gandhi to drop a bitch, but I thought it was just too good not to share here.

Courtesy of Global News:

Singh was speaking to supporters at one of his “JagMeet and Greet” outreach events on Wednesday, when he was accosted by a heckler.

“When is your Sharia going to end?” the woman shouted, referring to traditional Islamic law. “We know you’re in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood!” 

As she continued ranting, Singh told the audience, “We don’t want to be intimidated by hate, we don’t want hatred to ruin a positive event… so let’s show people how to treat someone with love. 

“We welcome you. We love you, we support you,” he told the woman, who eventually stormed off.

When asked why he did not simply identify himself as a Sikh, Singh had this to say:  

“Many people have commented that I could have just said I’m not Muslim. In fact many have clarified that I’m actually Sikh. While I’m proud of who I am, I purposely didn’t go down that road because it suggests their hate would be ok if I was Muslim,” he said. 

“We all know it’s not. I didn’t answer the question because my response to Islamophobia has never been ‘I’m not Muslim.’ It has always been and will be that ‘hate is wrong.”

I pride myself on having gained control of my once legendary temper, and of course I would never strike a woman, but damn this lady would have pushed me right to my limits. 

I only hope that by now she has seen this video multiple times and can see just what a hateful, ignorant, despicable human being she really is.

And if she doesn't see it I hope that those around her remind of this incident everyday until she does.

Teacher harassed on Facebook and at her school for her work as an abortion clinic escort.

Courtesy of Cosmopolitan:  

Shana Broders has been an elementary school teacher for over two decades. For the last year and a half, she has spent her downtime as a clinic escort, helping patients at a nearby North Carolina abortion provider navigate their way past the protesters and into the building for services. For that, a group of extreme anti-abortion activists wants to get her fired from her job. As a new school year begins, they have escalated their efforts, harassing her school by phone and threatening to picket. Broders tells Cosmopolitan.com how her school has responded and why no threats will make her give up supporting a person's right to a legal, safe abortion procedure. 

Ms. Broder explains in the article how her world got turned upside down:  

I have very strong and passionate beliefs and views on bodily autonomy and women's rights. I was following something on Twitter and I saw a video clip of protesters at a clinic in another city. I tweeted or made a comment, "Wow. That's so horrible. I'm so glad that doesn't happen where I live," in my ignorance. Then someone commented back, "Oh, yes it does, right down the road." I was like, "What? Where? Can I be an escort?" They said, "Yes and let me hook you up," so I got hooked up though Twitter with an escort group in Raleigh, North Carolina. That's how it started. 

I'm not sure how I was targeted for this. All I can tell you is that I got [one activist] called out for trespass, me personally. It was July of 2014, and I was escorting, and he went behind our building and another building, and he hid in the bushes waiting for the doctor. I was afraid if he jumped out of the bushes at him, someone could get hurt. I called the police for that reason. I think that made it personal. He learned my name fairly early on and he calls me by name. "You know, Shana, you were nice when you first started." I have him on video saying, "You were nice. What you were doing was evil but you weren't a bad person when you first started this but the darkness is taking over you." 

He called me out. He told me he would come to my school. He named my school. Another man who is in this group, AHA [Abolish Human Abortion], who lives in my town — that scares me — he has told me he's going to come to my school and tell all the parents that I'm a baby murderer. Pure intimidation tactics.

At first nothing happened, but then the next year the anti-choice folks followed up on their threats and the school started receiving harassing phone calls referring to her as a "baby murderer." And then they took to Facebook and started sharing the graphic at the top of the page, until it was essentially everywhere.

Now this poor woman, a teacher of small children, feels threatened and under siege in her own community.

Fortunately her school has rallied around her and she has support from her fellow teachers, and of course she is in no danger of losing her job.

However the question remains how long will it be before the people making these threatening accusations are no longer simply happy using words to cause her harm?

Because as we have seen time and time again, this kind of illogical hatred can often take the form of physical violence and even murder.

Dr. George Tiller.

Personally I think this woman is incredibly courageous and hope that she serves as an inspiration for others to consider volunteering at their local clinics as well.

Sunny Johnston weighs in on Levi's statement, and expands on it a bit.

Courtesy of Sunny's Facebook page:

My little two cents about the recent news regarding Levi today: 

1) I'm so proud of him for always taking the high road. Even when his name was being drug through the mud he ignores it or says something positive. 

2) We REALLY need to take new family photos lol 

3) I wish they would have written about his message to other parents about co-parenting and how important it is. I was sitting right next to him and I thought that was the best part of it all. You really do have to put your differences aside and put your children first! 

Gee look, they BOTH took the high road. 

Someday I think I will post a bunch of texts that Bristol has sent to various people, who then forwarded them to me, just so everybody can see how nasty she can be, and how hard it must be for the Johnstons to treat with any kindness whatsoever.

Take it from me, that the ugliness you have seen from her publicly is nothing compared to what happens in private.

This is what happens when the President is the only one with an umbrella.

The man's a gentleman.

It should also be noted that the man's not afraid to get wet if he has something important to say.

Final palate cleansing thought for the day.

(Source.)

Mr. Rogers makes everything better.

Adorable four year old sings with her Daddy. This ought to start your morning off right.

Courtesy of Dad's You Tube page:  

She thought she kept hearing fireworks and couldn't sleep, so we sang to keep her mind preoccupied. In the end, nothing competes with fireworks.

THAT my friends is good parenting. 

Lucky little girl. And her father is making memories that will last two lifetimes.

I have an almost preternatural inability to write anything nice about the Bush family, but I thought this was pretty cool.

Courtesy of the New York Daily News:

Former President George H. W. Bush shaved his head Wednesday as a show of solidarity with a 2-year-old-boy who is battling leukemia. 

The boy, named Patrick, is the son of one of the members of Bush’s security detail. He had lost most of his hair due to his cancer treatments, a Bush spokesman said. 

Bush, 89, got the idea to shave his head to show his support after he noticed that several members of his Secret Service detail, known as the Bush Protective Division, had also shaved their heads in solidarity with Patrick. 

 I have to admit that my disgust for the Bush family has not always included "Pappy" Bush who I saw as a MUCH more moderate President, and one who inspired anger from his own party for at least trying to do what he thought was right.

Here is a picture of the former President getting his head shaved.

Since today was all about babies I thought you all might enjoy this as our final post of the day.

Yesterday somebody mentioned that at times like these it would really be nice if we could still be comforted by Mr. Rogers. I could not agree more.

Well I feel better, how about all of you?

And do you know what? I think Mr. Rogers advice is for adults too.

After all it is not only children that sometimes feel the need to be comforted.

Something to keep in mind as we help each other deal with the shock and the fear left over from yesterday's tragedy.

As Americans celebrate our holidays of giving, perhaps we could learn more about TRUE giving from this amazing man.

That really put a smile on my face.

I especially appreciated that he had to go against his own cultural and religious beliefs in order to reach out to those in need. That is huge and definitely a lesson to us all.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the generosity shown to him by the late Carl Sagan, and his desire to pay that forward.

Click photo to see video.

I found myself deeply touched by this anecdote concerning how deGrasse chose the university he would attend and the incredible humanity demonstrated by Carl Sagan.

I now actually have MORE respect for both of these men then I did before, if such a thing is even possible.

Just our President being awesome!

I assume that Fox News will come up with a much different headline than mine.

Something along the lines of "Your tax dollars at work," or "President Obama giving young American the run around." To me that picture represents a great deal of why I like this President so much. When you can engage a child in play, without feeling self conscious or embarrassed, it speaks to your humanity and self confidence.

Hey speaking of Fox News, guess whose poll has Obama moving significantly ahead of Mitt Romney?  

Mitt Romney has had a tough couple of weeks on the campaign trail -- and it shows in the latest Fox News poll. After a barrage of campaign ads, negative news coverage of his overseas trip and ongoing talk about his tax returns, Romney’s favorable rating and standing in the trial ballot have declined. As a result, President Obama has opened his biggest lead since Romney became the presumptive Republican nominee. 

The president would take 49 percent of the vote compared to Romney's 40 percent in a head-to-head matchup if the election were held today, the poll found.

You know it must really chap all of the the asses over at Fox News to have to report that Obama is smoking their candidate so badly.

Gee sucks to be them.

Since I am always posting those cute pictures of President Obama with babies, I thought I should give equal time to his most likely opponent.

"Oh my God, he thinks I'm a football! Mommy come get me!"

Well you can't say I didn't try.

Sarah Palin and babies, a love story. Well a story anyhow. Update!

"Watch how I make my kids cringe with terror."

"Quit squirming your screwing up my signature."

"Okay I've held it long enough, take the damn picture already."

"Hey stop crying, I'm supposed to be good with retarded children."

Okay perhaps I was unfair, I mean surely she is much more competent with her OWN babies.

I stand corrected.

Gee I hope that is not something genetic which gets handed down from mother to daughter or anything.

Can't say I am surprised.  Of course not being very good with babies does not necessary make you a bad person or anything.

Just not my day for being right is it?

Update: Okay I wasn't going to rub it in, but since so many of you asked...