New campaign ad up from the Hillary Clinton campaign that utilizes video clips from decades ago, highlighting her work on behalf of children her entire life.
Campaign Ad: Hillary Clinton “Children”
Icelandic Kids TV Show Talks On Being Gay
Long-running Icelandic kids’ TV show, Stundin Okkar, on the air since 1996, featured a non confrontational scene in which former Eurovision singer Páll Óskar is asked that fateful childhood question, “Do you have a girlfriend?”
The scene played out exactly as it should, with simple, honest truth.
“Actually, no I don’t… and I’m never going to have any girlfriends. I don’t get crushes on girls. I get crushes on guys, because I’m gay.”
When asked “When did you know you were attracted to guys and not girls?”, he replies, “When did you know you were attracted to guys and not girls?”
“Some guys like other guys, some guys like girls. Some girls like guys, some girls like other girls. You don’t decide what makes your heart beat, it just beats.
“Think about what it would be like to live in a world where it didn’t matter who you were attracted to! We just need to create that world – that’s our responsibility.”
Madonna Chimes In On Dolce & Gabbana Dustup
All babies contain a soul however they come to this earth and their families. There is nothing synthetic about a soul!! So how can we dismiss IVF and surrogacy? Every soul comes to us to teach us a lesson. God has his hand in everything even technology! We are arrogant to think Man does anything on his own. As above so below! Think before you speak.,,,,,,,,,,,❤️#livingforloveA photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on Mar 18, 2015 at 5:49pm PDT
Little Boy Sets Up Camera To Catch Santa Claus – Guess What He Sees
Seven year old Evan borrows his older brother’s Go-Pro camera to try and catch Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
You’ll never guess what he finds on the camera Christmas morning.
Watch the video – big smiles – then go here for the full story. I don’t want to spoil anything.
1.3 million views in a day.
(h/t TRR reader John)
Little girl’s reaction to dad shaving his beard is priceless
Man buys all the Burger King pies in the house to spite cry baby
You’re having a tough day, so you decide you’re gonna splurge for the moment and make a quick stop at Burger King (if you call that a splurge).
But what happens when the folks behind the counter are backed up, you’re losing patience and then the small child behind you starts screaming at his mother about wanting some pie?
Eater.com shares this Reddit user’s story:
It turns out it was so slow because they had 1 trainee on cash during the lunch hour rush.
All I can think of is how the people behind me ruined my splurge and gave me this headache. I then decide to ruin their day.
I order every pie they have left in addition to my burgers. Turned out to be 23 pies in total, I take my order and walk towards the exit.
Moments later I hear the woman yelling, “what do you mean you don’t have any pies left, who bought them all?” I turn around and see the cashier pointing me out with the woman shooting me a death glare.
I stand there and pull out a pie and slowly start eating eat as I stare back at her.
She starts running towards me but can’t get to me because of other lineups in the food court. I turn and slowly walk away.
Children at gay pride / children at church
New study shows children of same-sex parents do as well or better than peers
A new study of 315 same-sex couples, mostly lesbians, and their 500 children disputes the claims of anti-gay marriage folks that same-sex couples can’t effectively raise children.
In fact, in some ways, those children do better than their peers.
From Salon:
“We found that children from same-sex families scored, on average, 6 percent better on two key measures, general health and family cohesion, even when controlling for a number sociodemographic factors such as parent education and household income,” wrote lead researcher Simon Crouch. “But on most health measures, including emotional behaviour and physical functioning, there was no difference when compared with children from the general population.”
The finding same-sex couples make perfectly fine parents echoes plenty of other research to that effect. That their children appear in some ways to be at an advantage, the authors suggest, could have something to do with the way their parents don’t default to gender stereotypes, creating a “more harmonious family unit and therefore feeding on to better health and well being.”
Those benefits were somewhat undercut, however, by the continued experience of stigma, which negatively impacted their mental and emotional well-being.
One of the biggest arguments against marriage equality by the haters is that “marriage is about children” and “children need both biological parents to thrive.”
This one study echoes the findings of several studies – that children do well in homes where they are well-cared for. Period.
Read the study at this link.
Documentary: Life According to Sam
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Michael and I just finished watching this very touching, moving and thought-provoking documentary currently on HBO – Life According to Sam.
At the age of 2, Sam is diagnosed with progeria, a rare and fatal aging disease. The film documents the years in which he takes part in the first ever trial for a possible treatment, led by his mother.
Beyond the medical story, what is most emotionally compelling about the film is watching Sam do so much more than cope with this disease. He achieves. At his middle school graduation he wins honor after honor. His dream of being in the high school drum corp becomes just one more challenge for him to conquer.
Sam shares his hopes and vision for his future throughout, as his mother works diligently to find a first ever treatment for progeria.
From Fine Films‘ description:
Life According to Sam follows one family’s courageous fight to save their only son from a rare and fatal ageing disease.
Eleven years of the parents breakneck research, (they both are doctors), has led to the first experimental drug trial for Sam and 28 other children from around the world, just as Sam has reached 13, the average age of death for children with progeria.
This highly personal and unexpectedly life affirming journey is championed by the captivating presence of Sam Berns himself.
Funny, perceptive and fiercely intelligent, Sam is the catalyst for his parents relentless drive to discover a medical breakthrough that may one day shed light on unlocking the aging process in us all.
We all know there are more difficult lives than our own. Somewhere. Everywhere.
Watching the documentary, I marvel at Sam’s achievement after achievement – and then wonder “what did I do today?” I think about the small slights or excuses so many of us hang onto, when we could have something REALLY big to cope with, like progeria or cancer, as many do.
The film is beautiful, thoughtful and honest in a very human way.
Learn more about Sam and this powerful documentary at the official website here.
And learn more about progeria and how you can perhaps get involved by visiting the Progeria Research Foundation.
Missouri man arrested for allegedly searching for someone to rape his 11 year old daugher
A Missouri man has been arrested after posting a Craigslist ad looking for a woman to sexually assault his 11 year old daughter.
At a press conference Monday, St. Louis County Detective Mike Slaughter said it takes a lot to shock his team of detectives, but when the father appeared at a pre-arranged meeting with the child in hand, they couldn’t believe it:
Slaughter said that the Missouri Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was called into action after someone reported a Craigslist ad Brinkman posted last week. He told an undercover officer posing as 27-year-old woman that he was looking for a girlfriend and someone who would help him assault the girl with sex toys, according to Slaughter.
If the undercover officer liked what he saw at the Cracker Barrel then the plan was for them all go back to Brinkman’s place and begin sexually assaulting his daughter.
“From the time he posted that ad to the time we arrested him was less than 48 hours,” Slaughter noted.
Brinkman was charged with attempted statutory sodomy and was being held on a $100,000 cash-only bond. Prosecutors were considering additional charges for sex trafficking.