Jesus-Loving Home Depot Employee Blasts Company For ‘Preaching Evil’ With LGBT History Month

The letter starts out innocently enough. Lakewood, CO Home Depot employee Timothy Noffsinger writes, “At The Home Depot® (THD) where I work, presentations have been posted on an employee bulletin board declaring June as LGBT History Month and calling for “INCLUSION.”

But that all-caps ‘inclusion’ in quotes is the first tip-off of the next-level douchebaggery to come.

Things devolve, and fast.

“Promoting LGBT lifestyles as “INCLUSION” demonstrates sexual confusion and amounts to preaching a message against God that requires employees to accept deviant behavior as normal and good.  As an employee, I was surprised and dismayed to see THD preaching evil.”

Oh boy, one of these ones.

The letter goes on and on (and on), showing all the telltale signs of potential mental derangement gussied up by religious blinders.

Here are some of the more eye-rolling parts, though the whole thing basically induces one long, extended sigh:

“We should warn LGBT individuals that God will not tolerate those who destroy His order of creation…Truly, LGBT are destroying themselves and other people around them.”

“Jesus is however the Prince of Peace, the Author of Life and Liberty; and the sustainer of THD’s profits, and therefore our paychecks.”

“Our current prosperity blinds many from seeing the dead end reality facing the LGBT community, for arrogance against God brings self-destruction and destroys Liberty.”

If you have the stomach for it, here’s the full letter(warning: it’s way too long).

Timothy posted the letter to Facebook, and received such pearls of wisdom in response as:

“I am so sad to see them do this. We have stopped purchasing at Starbucks for the same reason. May the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, bless you.”

“WOW!!! Good for you Timothy!!! It takes real guts to stand up for one’s principles.”

Our sincere thoughts go out to everyone, gay or straight, who has to work with him. We imagine conversations tend to go like this:

Timothy: The Prince of Peace sustains life, gives us all that is good and demands our respect of God. Those who disobey be damned.

THD Manager: Dammit Tim, all I asked you is where you put that shipment of quarter inch nails.

"This week I may be jailed for writing a book on human rights abuses"

This week I may be jailed for writing a book on human rights abuses

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Mass Surveillance and Beyond: the Human Rights Council Takes an Important Step to Protect the Right to Privacy

In a landmark resolution adopted today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) created a new mechanism dedicated to addressing the many, multi-faceted and transnational challenges and violations arising from mass surveillance of communications and other infringements on the right to privacy.

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“In a world where communications and surveillance technologies have developed at an extremely rapid pace, their use threatens to dramatically curtail fundamental freedoms and individuals’ rights to security and privacy. Most citizens of the world have been subjected, knowingly or unknowingly, to infringements on their right to privacy. Beyond, activists and human rights defenders have been directly targeted in efforts to further suppress their voices and limit their work,” said Karim Lahidji, FIDH President.
The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy will give victims a voice and will be able to intervene in core situations of violations and abuses of the right to privacy, notably, as documented by FIDH, with regard to:

• The use of mass surveillance, interception of communications, and collection and use of personal data on a mass scale by state agencies, as was done under the US National Security Agency PRISM program and the Colombian Department of Security DAS;
• The use of surveillance techniques and technologies by business enterprises against trade unionists, human rights defenders and journalists, and the related states’ obligations to regulate their use and respond to abuses, notably in Brazil, Peru and Colombia; and
• The export of surveillance technology to states responsible for serious human rights violations, as was done with the export of surveillance technology by French companies to the Gaddafi regime in Libya or the Al-Assad regime in Syria (see FIDH’s report on Surveillance technologies "Made in Europe": Regulation needed to prevent human rights abuses, and litigation against Amesys and Qosmos).

FIDH had been calling on the HRC to take such a move at its 28th regular session (2-27 March 2015) in order to address, including through monitoring, country visits, individual communications and public reporting, all violations and abuses of the right to privacy, and make recommendations thereon.
Following the adoption of this resolution, the President of the HRC will appoint a Special Rapporteur – an independent, unpaid expert assisted by UN staff members – at the Council’s next regular session (15 June-3 July 2015). The expert will be able to start his or her work immediately, including through receiving and handling individual complaints (“communications”) and making public statements, for instance in the form of press releases.
For more information on the mandate, read FIDH’s advocacy note.

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein urges Jews to ‘kick ass’ in anti-Semitism fight

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein urges Jews to ‘kick ass’ in anti-Semitism fight - Jewish World News

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[full article] History goes full circle, israel’s IDF behaving like Nazis, terrorising children

History goes full circle, israel’s IDF behaving like Nazis, terrorising children

Posted on March 27, 2015 by michaellee2009

Videos: Israeli night raids on sleeping Palestinian children

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem today released two harrowing videos of heavily armed Israeli soldiers raiding the bedrooms of Palestinian children in the middle of the night.
The first video, above, is titled “Night search of Sameeh and Mai D’ana’s home, Hebron, 24 February 2015.”
The video was shot during a night raid on ten homes in the occupied West Bank city. B’Tselem does not say who shot the video, but typically the videos it releases are made by Palestinians.
After forcing the children – at least one as young as four – out of their beds, the video shows the soldiers in full combat gear, armed with rifles and hand grenades, photographing and interrogating them.
The father asks the soldiers why they are invading his home in the middle of the night.
“Because stones are thrown at us all day long,” one soldier replies.
“What’s that to us?” the father asks. “I don’t have to explain my schedule,” the soldier shouts and orders the father to “go wake up your children.”
We see the soldiers follow the father into the room and order the children – one of whom is visually impaired – out of bed.
The soldiers then interrogate the children, including the four-year-old.
“Do you think he understands?” the father asks.
“Yes, I think so,” the soldier says. A short time later the soldiers leave.

Children terrorized

This video is titled “Night search of Nayef and Dalal D’ana’s home, Hebron, 24 February 2015.”
It shows the soldiers forcing their way into a home and shouting to wake everyone up, demanding their ID cards.
The mother protests that the children are young and asleep. The soldier shouts at her, “Get them all here.”
The mother tries to persuade the soldier, telling him the children will be terrorized, but the assault on the home continues and the soldiers enter a bedroom occupied by the family’s sleeping children.

Frequent night raids

Such night raids are a frequent occurence.
In 2013, more than half of Palestinian children detained in the occupied West Bank were taken from their homes in the middle of the night, according to Defence for Children International–Palestine.
The children’s rights group estimates that annually 500-700 Palestinian children are prosecuted in Israeli military courts after being arrested, interrogated and detained by occupation forces.
These disturbing scenes underscore that many more children who are not arrested are nonetheless subjected to traumatizing assaults in the very place they should feel safest.
B’Tselem has posted more information about the videos and testimonies from the parents on its website.

No accountability

They also provide an insight into what Palestinians live and have lived through for decades with no respite in sight as Israel continues to enjoy immunity and impunity for its violations.
“Not only is this policy of entering Palestinian homes by night unjust and terrifying,” B’Tselem says in its description of the video, “it illustrates how casually and arbitrarily the lives of Palestinians under occupation are disrupted and their rights violated.”
B’Tselem “calls on the military to discontinue this policy without delay.”
B’Tselem should call for those who perpetrate these harrowing attacks and those who order them to be brought to justice.
These videos depicting systematic violence against children should also give pause to the UN officials who are allegedly sabotaging moves to have Israel’s army included on a UN list of serious violators of children’s rights.

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Pro-Israel Campaign Contributions to U.S. Congress Legislators

Pro-Israel Campaign Contributions to U.S. Congress Legislators

 

 

Pro-Israel

• Contributions
• Bills supported and opposed

Top Senate Recipients Funded

Recipient	Amount
Mark Kirk	$687,569
Mitch McConnell	$427,772
Robert Menendez	$341,170
Cory A. Booker	$333,549
Kirsten E. Gillibrand	$294,637
Lindsey Graham	$288,150
Gary Peters	$276,057
Sherrod Brown	$272,551
Harry Reid	$267,708
Bill Nelson	$262,500
Charles E. Schumer	$258,999
Tim Kaine	$256,020
Barbara Boxer	$245,179
Benjamin L. Cardin	$238,493
Ron Wyden	$235,531
Claire McCaskill	$212,671
Jeanne Shaheen	$203,515
Richard J. Durbin	$184,250
Tammy Baldwin	$180,980
Barbara A. Mikulski	$169,250
Debbie Stabenow	$167,852
Martin Heinrich	$158,623
Al Franken	$148,866
Christopher A. Coons	$147,974
Robert P. Casey, Jr.	$146,975
Dianne Feinstein	$140,541
Kelly Ayotte	$140,498
Pat Roberts	$140,450
Bill Cassidy	$137,844
Jon Tester	$133,971
Edward J. Markey	$132,950
Brian Schatz	$132,550
Tim Scott	$128,546
Jeff Merkley	$127,202
Sheldon Whitehouse	$121,900
Roy Blunt	$120,500
Jeff Flake	$119,350
Ben Sasse	$119,300
Joe Manchin, III	$117,110
Susan M. Collins	$115,410
John Cornyn	$114,566
John Thune	$112,675
John McCain	$109,974
Michael F. Bennet	$109,126
Marco Rubio	$107,880
Ted Cruz	$106,054
David Vitter	$104,619
Joni Ernst	$103,900
Bob Corker	$102,950
Tom Udall	$98,729
Mark R. Warner	$95,005
Maria Cantwell	$93,562
Orrin G. Hatch	$91,500
Amy Klobuchar	$89,547
Elizabeth Warren	$87,838
John Barrasso	$85,700
Roger F. Wicker	$83,411
Lisa Murkowski	$83,400
Daniel Coats	$82,733
Mike Rounds	$82,150
James E. Risch	$81,560
Patty Murray	$81,550
Richard Blumenthal	$80,640
Joe Donnelly	$79,062
James Lankford	$75,800
Patrick J. Leahy	$74,062
Dean Heller	$71,100
Richard Burr	$70,850
Michael B. Enzi	$70,225
Rob Portman	$68,815
Jack Reed	$68,350
John Hoeven	$67,535
Thomas R. Carper	$62,700
Heidi Heitkamp	$62,188
Thad Cochran	$58,750
Chuck Grassley	$58,600
Steve Daines	$54,250
Tom Cotton	$53,450
Jerry Moran	$53,400
Christopher Murphy	$49,050
Angus S. King, Jr.	$46,500
Mike Crapo	$45,750
Mike Lee	$45,030
Lamar Alexander	$40,900
Patrick J. Toomey	$40,750
Deb Fischer	$39,900
Mazie K. Hirono	$39,050
David Perdue	$36,393
John Boozman	$34,250
Shelley Moore Capito	$33,200
Daniel Sullivan	$32,783
Johnny Isakson	$31,600
Cory Gardner	$29,950
Richard C. Shelby	$27,250
James M. Inhofe	$26,575
Jeff Sessions	$13,600
Thom Tillis	$12,850
Ron Johnson	$10,400
Rand Paul	$5,500

Contributions shown for the last six years of available data, Oct 1, 2008 - Sep 30, 2014, including contributions to presidential campaigns.

Top House Recipients Funded

Recipient	Amount
Edward R. Royce	$148,700
Eliot L. Engel	$135,900
Steny H. Hoyer	$116,750
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	$105,200
John A. Boehner	$103,601
Theodore E. Deutch	$103,230
Nita M. Lowey	$97,796
Patrick Murphy	$96,787
Tammy Duckworth	$88,901
Robert J. Dold	$78,520
Cheri Bustos	$77,395
Carlos Curbelo	$69,800
Bill Foster	$68,050
Ami Bera	$62,270
Ann M. Kuster	$60,446
Peter J. Roskam	$59,750
Janice D. Schakowsky	$59,600
Paul Ryan	$57,640
Brad Sherman	$57,450
Sean Patrick Maloney	$55,072
Raul Ruiz	$53,402
Lois Capps	$51,499
Scott H. Peters	$51,155
Kevin McCarthy	$50,125
Marcia L. Fudge	$48,902
Pete Aguilar	$46,555
Mike Bishop	$44,775
Jackie Walorski	$43,900
Doug Lamborn	$42,353
Nancy Pelosi	$40,950
Mario Diaz-Balart	$39,900
Eric Swalwell	$39,150
Harold Rogers	$37,130
David P. Joyce	$35,950
Kathleen M. Rice	$35,560
Frank Pallone Jr.	$34,250
Kay Granger	$31,750
Joseph Crowley	$31,550
Adam B. Schiff	$31,150
Julia Brownley	$31,000
Adam Smith	$27,395
Elizabeth H. Esty	$26,200
Matt Salmon	$25,450
Frank A. LoBiondo	$25,200
Lee M. Zeldin	$24,800
John Garamendi	$23,350
Aaron Schock	$23,150
Michael M. Honda	$23,000
Lois Frankel	$22,600
James R. Langevin	$22,350
Suzan K. DelBene	$21,750
Adam Kinzinger	$21,400
Trent Franks	$20,050
Martha McSally	$19,616
Charles B. Rangel	$18,700
Louie Gohmert	$18,450
Albio Sires	$18,400
Mike Quigley	$18,300
Steven M. Palazzo	$18,100
Ann Kirkpatrick	$17,652
Michael G. Fitzpatrick	$17,600
Alexander X. Mooney	$17,400
Gwen Graham	$17,152
Debbie Wasserman Schultz	$17,100
Marc A. Veasey	$17,100
Mark Meadows	$16,810
Todd Rokita	$16,550
John Lewis	$16,400
James E. Clyburn	$16,350
Mike Coffman	$16,300
David Loebsack	$16,300
David N. Cicilline	$15,750
Bill Pascrell Jr.	$15,750
Diana DeGette	$15,700
Mike Rogers	$15,500
Kyrsten Sinema	$15,454
David Young	$15,400
Jared Polis	$15,200
Derek Kilmer	$14,750
Todd C. Young	$14,500
Bradley Byrne	$13,800
David Schweikert	$13,800
Mike Thompson	$13,500
Cathy McMorris Rodgers	$13,300
Andy Harris	$13,250
Bill Posey	$13,100
Hakeem S. Jeffries	$13,000
Walter B. Jones	$13,000
Tom Reed	$12,726
Bob Goodlatte	$12,700
Ryan A. Costello	$12,700
Robin L. Kelly	$12,400
Tony Cárdenas	$12,350
Donald S. Beyer Jr.	$12,300
Anna G. Eshoo	$12,200
Steve Scalise	$12,200
Elijah E. Cummings	$12,200
Luke Messer	$12,000
Mark Takano	$11,925
Rodney Davis	$11,700
Tulsi Gabbard	$11,600
Jason Chaffetz	$11,500
Ron DeSantis	$11,350
Bonnie Watson Coleman	$11,200
Zoe Lofgren	$11,100
Carolyn B. Maloney	$11,050
Bob Gibbs	$11,000
Alan S. Lowenthal	$10,975
Steve Chabot	$10,800
Cedric L. Richmond	$10,726
Reid J. Ribble	$10,600
Linda T. Sánchez	$10,450
Gus M. Bilirakis	$10,250
Earl Blumenauer	$10,200
Michael F. Doyle	$10,000
Sander M. Levin	$9,900
Katherine M. Clark	$9,850
Jerrold Nadler	$9,750
Gerald E. Connolly	$9,650
Ed Whitfield	$9,500
Pete Sessions	$9,500
Evan H. Jenkins	$9,250
Richard B. Nugent	$9,250
Michelle Lujan Grisham	$9,250
Jim Costa	$9,250
Peter Welch	$9,000
Sean P. Duffy	$8,950
Loretta Sanchez	$8,850
Billy Long	$8,800
Raúl M. Grijalva	$8,550
Lloyd Doggett	$8,250
Randy Hultgren	$8,200
David E. Price	$8,091
John Kline	$8,000
Matt Cartwright	$8,000
Alan Grayson	$7,950
Gwen Moore	$7,950
Susan W. Brooks	$7,900
Leonard Lance	$7,700
Emanuel Cleaver	$7,600
Chaka Fattah	$7,500
Charles W. Boustany Jr.	$7,500
Donna F. Edwards	$7,350
Daniel T. Kildee	$7,000
Ben Ray Luján	$7,000
Erik Paulsen	$7,000
Niki Tsongas	$7,000
Scott Garrett	$6,950
Elise M. Stefanik	$6,916
John A. Yarmuth	$6,870
Jared Huffman	$6,750
Charles W. Dent	$6,750
Henry C. "Hank" Johnson Jr.	$6,500
Kathy Castor	$6,450
Paul A. Gosar	$6,250
Eddie Bernice Johnson	$6,250
James P. McGovern	$6,250
Luis V. Gutiérrez	$6,250
Jackie Speier	$6,250
Barbara Comstock	$6,166
Steve Cohen	$6,100
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen	$6,000
Thomas MacArthur	$6,000
Ryan K. Zinke	$6,000
David W. Jolly	$6,000
Gregg Harper	$6,000
John Fleming	$6,000
Ron Kind	$5,933
Devin Nunes	$5,900
Steve Stivers	$5,861
Thomas J. Rooney	$5,750
Betty McCollum	$5,750
Mark Pocan	$5,483
Robert B. Aderholt	$5,448
Mike Pompeo	$5,300
Renee L. Ellmers	$5,250
John Conyers Jr.	$5,250
Jeff Denham	$5,200
Marlin A. Stutzman	$5,100
Martha Roby	$5,100
Paul Tonko	$5,000
Sam Farr	$5,000
Danny K. Davis	$5,000
Suzanne Bonamici	$5,000
Chellie Pingree	$5,000
Barbara Lee	$5,000
Duncan Hunter	$5,000
Wm. Lacy Clay	$5,000
Garret Graves	$5,000
Jim McDermott	$5,000
Peter A. DeFazio	$5,000
Susan A. Davis	$4,750
Bill Johnson	$4,500
Roger Williams	$4,450
Scott R. Tipton	$4,250
Dina Titus	$4,250
Christopher P. Gibson	$4,100
James B. Renacci	$4,000
Ander Crenshaw	$4,000
Kristi L. Noem	$4,000
Virginia Foxx	$3,800
Keith Ellison	$3,800
David Scott	$3,750
Ken Buck	$3,600
Mark Takai	$3,502
Paul Cook	$3,500
Mark Sanford	$3,500
Michael E. Capuano	$3,500
David B. McKinley	$3,100
Tim Ryan	$3,000
Jim Cooper	$3,000
Daniel Lipinski	$2,950
Sheila Jackson Lee	$2,850
Frank C. Guinta	$2,750
Jerry McNerney	$2,750
Joe Wilson	$2,500
Peter T. King	$2,500
Mo Brooks	$2,500
Bill Huizenga	$2,500
Brad R. Wenstrup	$2,000
Xavier Becerra	$2,000
Frederica S. Wilson	$2,000
Judy Chu	$2,000
E. Scott Rigell	$2,000
Doug Collins	$1,800
Dennis A. Ross	$1,750
Chris Collins	$1,500
Joseph J. Heck	$1,500
Alcee L. Hastings	$1,500
Janice Hahn	$1,500
Timothy J. Walz	$1,500
Robert Pittenger	$1,300
Jeff Miller	$1,100
J. French Hill	$1,000
Mac Thornberry	$1,000
Ted Poe	$1,000
Daniel Webster	$1,000
Grace Meng	$1,000
Ed Perlmutter	$1,000
J. Randy Forbes	$1,000
Will Hurd	$1,000
Ted S. Yoho	$1,000
Mike Bost	$1,000
Jeff Fortenberry	$800
Richard M. Nolan	$502
Steve King	$500
Rick W. Allen	$500
John K. Delaney	$500
Curt Clawson	$500
Brian Babin	$500
Jim Jordan	$500
Jason Smith	$500
Mark E. Amodei	$300
Robert E. Latta	$300
Mike Kelly	$300
Michael R. Turner	$300
Tim Huelskamp	$300
Christopher H. Smith	$250
John L. Mica	$250
Patrick Meehan	$250
Steve Israel	$-2,250

Contributions shown for the last two years of available data, Oct 1, 2012 - Sep 30, 2014, including contributions to presidential campaigns.