30 Year Old Ramblings It’s Been A Long Time… …but I’m baaaaaaaaaaccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkk…………….
New posts to follow. :-) Missed you all! Nearly half of Americans can't come up with $2000 in 30 days. tobia:
“Which means that they stand only one emergency or crisis away from really quite dire circumstances. This isn’t picked up in the national economic statistics.”
(via stfuconservatives) I really need to remember to stop and count my blessings more often. It’s easy to lose sight of them when lemons keep getting thrown your way, but I am determined to make lemonade out of mine! ;-) TGIF, people!I December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
Mark Twain (via hippiecrack) On Wednesday, all 42 Republican senators signed a letter declaring that they would block Congress from any action at all until tax cuts for the wealthy have been safely extended
get your guns, this is a class war.
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I find the word choice interesting. “Safely extended”. Are the wealthy in danger if they’re required to pay a little more in taxes when they’re making more money than some countries? And why isn’t this considered a conflict of interest? Surely 100% of those republicans are considered “wealthy” and they are voting because they don’t want to pay more taxes. Why? Is it so they can use 168 million of their own dollars for their next political campaign? This only benefits them. None of them are being faced with minimum wage or not being able to feed their kids because they’ve lost their unemployment benefits, that’s why the rest of the country is focused on getting jobs while they are throwing a temper tantrum over having to pay taxes. Fuck the taxes, can we do something about the unemployment rate?
This is ridiculous. So goddamn ridiculous.
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UGH! Disgusting.
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I am SO sick of the rich getting richer while there are so many (including myself) that are unemployed. And, my husband makes $200 too much per month for us to receive SNAP (food stamps). EFFING ridiculous. So sick of the Republicans and their catering to the rich. What about the MAJORITY of the people??? (via stfuconservatives) wild child, full of grace: Civil Unions Approved in Illinois stfuconservatives:
sisterhoodispowerful:
Chicago Tribune:
Civil unions for same-sex couples would be allowed in Illinois under historic legislation the state Senate swiftly sent today to Gov. Pat Quinn, who is expected to sign the measure. The bill would give gay couples the chance to enjoy several of the same rights as married…
HURRAY!
(Source: gordon-crisp, via stfuconservatives) A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you’ve committed a holocaust of potential human beings… Let’s say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it’s morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can’t have this dialogue in the way that we should. I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intuitions have been obscured by religious metaphysics.
Sam Harris, on stem cell research. (via cocknbull)(via stfusexists)  fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:
On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Her action was not the first of its kind. Irene Morgan in 1946, and Sarah Louise Keys in 1955, had won rulings before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, respectively, in the area of interstate bus travel. Nine months before Parks refused to give up her seat, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on the same bus system. But unlike these previous individual actions of civil disobedience, Parks’ action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Parks’ act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including boycott leader Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement.
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Today is World AIDS Day.
Show your support for World AIDS Day. Visit these organizations to see how you can get involved and make donations: World AIDS Day, UNAIDS, (RED), World AIDS Campaign and The Global Fund.
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World AIDS Day 2010
(via stfuhomophobes) Everything I’ve seen — every post spreading the gospel of small business support, every I-would-never comment on overnight queues, every joke about Zombies of Walmart and duels over the last flat screen TV — grew from the fetid soil of classism. Because Buy Nothing Day is great — if you can afford to pay full/er price on your holiday presents (or clothes or kitchen tools or household goods). Buying local is wonderful — if you can pay $13.95 for a small skein of wool instead of $1.95 for super bulk acrylic. But y’know, not everyone can. And I have no patience (but plenty of pointed words) for anyone who says that if you can’t afford handmade from Etsy then you don’t deserve anything under your tree, or that if you’re struggling to make rent or don’t have savings you’ve not the right to “extras” like Christmas presents or DVDs or cell phones with cameras. We all of us — unless you are reading this at a public access point on a mandatory fifteen minute break from your 100 hour a week unpaid job of serving the disadvantaged — make “selfish” decisions sometimes. We indulge. We allow ourselves luxuries — yes, sometimes when we don’t have the basics, because it helps us feel a little more human in a world that would deny us our humanity. This isn’t a trait of those poor people over there, it’s something we all of us do; it is only kyriarchy and classism that somehow makes it ok when it is our own indulgences (or those of persons of a similar class), yet calls it “imprudent” and a sign of “stupidity” when they do it. We cluck our tongues at those who fail to buy handmade, while clutching our Kindles and fretting about our retirement and ignoring our hypocrisy.
Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and the discomfit of classism « Raising My Boychick (via apsies)
Love this. If you can afford to shop local or buy handmade, great. If not? You do your thing.
(via stfuconservatives) (via stfuconservatives) But my family and I…thick skin…we can take it, you know…we can take what the haters say despite the fact that there’s injustice in the situation. I mean, look at the other day. Willow, finally, my 16 year old, she had had it up to here with somebody saying very, very hateful things about the family and saying mean things about her little brother Trig, and Willow finally responded and she used a bad word when she responded in defense of her family. And her response became national news, even hard news copy it turned into, so that’s ridiculous and I had to explain to her, ‘Willow, there is no justice here but you have to just zip your lip and let’s move forward.’
Sarah Palin responding to her daughter Willow using the word “faggot” amongst other derogatory slurs on Facebook
Gee, Sarah, thanks for sticking up for the gays… and no one said anything about your son.
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except that willow was responding to people not liking her mother’s habit of pimping out her children on television for a profit that is unimaginable and undeserved. i haven’t ever heard anyone say anything ‘mean’ about trig, except that his name is ridiculous. which it is. sarah palin often tried to rewrite history, and we need to remember that she called for rahm’s resignation for using the word ‘retarded.’ and we all definitely know if one of the obama daughters had said ‘faggot’ on a public forum, she would have spoken out against the obamas’ parenting. so…fuck you, sarah palin.
(via stfuteabaggers) (Source: mohandasgandhi, via greenstate)  liberal-lad:
jasonmustian:
First of all, Sarah, its pretty fucking “explicable.”
You see, US Courts (which are like the “Mama Grizzlies of the Law”, if that helps), have jurisdiction over things like copyrights, (which are what you would want to get if you, say, want to protect a book you wrote, or the word “refudiate,” that you invented).
WikiLeaks on the other hand is hosted by a Swedish based company (FYI Sweden is a lot like Alaska in that it’s cold and white, but DIFFERENT in that their economy is based on meatballs & apartment furniture rather than raping the earth for oil). ANYWAY. Long story short, US courts don’t have jurisdiction over Sweden because it’s a different country.
Secondly, I’m not sure WikiLeaks act was “treasonous.” Actually, I’m pretty sure that for something to be “treasonous” it must contain elements of “treason,” a word which is defined as follows…
treason |ˈtrēzən|
noun (also high treason)
the crime of betraying one’s country, esp. by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government
So, you see Sarah, unless WikiLeaks and its founders were American, WHICH they aren’t, they would be incapable of being “treasonous” against the United States.
NOT that any of this matters though, as the blatantly obvious point of this Tweet was to conceal a plug for your new book within your ill conceived political philosophy.
And for THAT merging of private business and government, Sarah Palin, I hereby certify you as ready to take the Republican nomination for President.
You are a stupid whore.
Good thing there’s plenty of ice in Alaska for that massive burn.
(via greenstate)   stfuconservatives:
This made me well up a little bit.
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