People who think that no one uses welfare/food stamps to actually buy things they need can tell that to my hungry 11 year old self who wouldn’t have had decent lunches or meat (at all) without government assistance.

Oh, and who might have gone hungry if there had been drug testing involved. Thanks. I’m glad that you know more about my life than I do! If only I had realized sooner that my mom wasn’t really buying food with that money! I mean, I don’t know what she was doing with it, since our lives were fucking awful at that point and we had a grand total of zero luxuries (I shared a room with my mom! In the basement of my grandma’s condo! I did laundry for the whole house to earn enough dimes to buy myself sodas and candy!), but really, please, enlighten me.

Also, as a child of a drug addict, this law fucking terrifies me. The idea that some kid who is trying to cope with having an addict for a parent (not always easy) also might go hungry or without new clothes or whatnot because some privileged assholes think poor people have to be suffering saints to qualify for help literally makes me cry to think about.

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This “idea” is another in a long and getting longer line of ultrarightwingnutjob plans to make the policestate all powerful in the USA. Prison has never ever solved ANYTHING, denying people help only dooms them and us, understanding the REAL issue and helping people get better is the ONLY answer. The Netherlands handles the drug issue in the best way possible take it out of the back alley and the profits out of the pushers pockets and suddenly it can be recognized as the disease it really is…

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nymphgonebad: stfuhatemongers: lysergicacidiethylamide:ver2go: The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600 000 signatures. That is, the death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency. Please if you are reading this take 30 seconds of your time to reblog or at least read this. Even if it doesn’t match the “theme” of your blog or if you think it does not affect you. LOOK at that man crying.  We should care about indigenous people and want them to have complete respect. He shouldn’t be crying alone. He’s not the only one crying - what happens to him and his people affects us all. Not, perhaps, in quite the same way, but deforestation may very well lead to the destruction of the human race. I cry for all of us.  Shame on us all….
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stfuhatemongers:

lysergicacidiethylamide:ver2go:

The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600 000 signatures. That is, the death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency.

Please if you are reading this take 30 seconds of your time to reblog or at least read this. Even if it doesn’t match the “theme” of your blog or if you think it does not affect you. LOOK at that man crying. 

We should care about indigenous people and want them to have complete respect. He shouldn’t be crying alone.

He’s not the only one crying - what happens to him and his people affects us all. Not, perhaps, in quite the same way, but deforestation may very well lead to the destruction of the human race. I cry for all of us.

 Shame on us all….

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lickypickysticky: Picasso’s Guernica depicts the suffering wrought by a German bombing in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Three years later, when the artist was living in Nazi-occupied Paris, a Gestapo officer saw a photo of the painting in his apartment. “Did you do that?” he asked. “No,” Picasso said. “You did.”
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Picasso’s Guernica depicts the suffering wrought by a German bombing in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.

Three years later, when the artist was living in Nazi-occupied Paris, a Gestapo officer saw a photo of the painting in his apartment. “Did you do that?” he asked.

“No,” Picasso said. “You did.”

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Sorrowful

I find tonight swaddled in unbearble(though it will be borne) sorrow and saddness…I have two sons both in their late 20s they both have had drug problems and I will take my share of the balme for the issues that may have contributed to the emotional damages that led to the addictions. Afterall I was not there after they were 4 and 6 years old due to divorce from thier mother (she filed for it not I but it was likely inevitable as we were not a good match and truly never were from the start, odd story that one). Tonight I find the oldest to be in the Hoover, AL jail for charges stemming form a confrontation with his mother…tragic circumstances!! But I can find some solace in the hope that this will be a turning point for him perhaps he will see the folly in pursuit of this lifestyle and its inherent dangers.

If he can not find his way back to a path without drugs and without abusing alcohol and fighting for a life like the rest of us I worry I will lose him from this life. It is difficult but I can not be swayed to pity him or to offer succor to him until he has made a showing of change.

I hate what drugs are doing to a large number of our young people it is a national tragedy that we have yet to recognize for the huge problem that it is for us all.

Thank you for listening, and as god is my witness I will never go weepy again…. for tomorrow is another day   (apologies to Margaret Mitchell, GwtW)

BREAKING: “Don’t Say Gay” Passes the Tennessee Senate / Queerty

goodreasonnews:

As expected, lawmakers have passed the bill that would make it illegal to talk about gays in Tennessee schools. Or, as George would have us say, “to talk about Takeis.” There was just one minor tweak before they passed it: now, it only applies to K-8. So, the very thin silver lining is that at least it won’t apply to high schoolers. Because to discuss Ellen DeGeneres and Tchaikovsky with anyone who has not yet reached 9th grade is to put them in mortal danger. The crazy law limits sex education to “natural human reproduction,” which is a very nice topic and certainly worthy of discussion, but to the exclusion of all else? That’s just nuts, given how often humans have sex for reasons other than reproduction. Humans like, oh, for example, Republican Paul Stanley, a former Tennessee legislator who had to resign after admitting to an affair with a 22-year-old staffer.

 Don’t say Gay??? A LAW that makes saying the word GAY illegal?? Really?? That shit is sooooo   GAY!!!!!

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kellyoxford:

 We are so going to hell… you for posting this and me for laughing till I choked!!! Funny stuff here on Rapture Eve…is there a Hallmark card for the Rapture??

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The world is indeed not fair

Randy “Macho Man” Savage is gone but Zha Zha Cher Larry King and Hugh Hefner live on…how the hell is THAT shit right??!!!

Palestinian anniversary thoughts

The conflict that has consumed two generations of people living in the world today has an anniversary and instead of any real effort to end the conflict it only flares up again to claim more lives. There is no “RIGHT” side of this conflict and as such there can also be no “WRONG” side.

I do not have the answer but I do know this as long as there are rock throwers and suicide bombers willing to take the lives of Israelis and Israeli army personnell willing to shoot young protesters there will NEVER be a resolution or peace in the middle east.

An atheist doesn’t have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can’t be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question.
John McCarthy - American computer scientist, based at Stanford.  Coined the term artificial intelligence; received the Turing Award in 1971 for his contributions to the AI field. (via helvetebrann)

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nedhepburn: NBC Rejects Wonder Woman … which means this is my last chance to post this photograph of what would have potentially been a great show. Why does Hollywood test-screen the shit out of everything? Anyway. So without further ado, I bring you your moment of zen.  LONG PANTS??? They put Wonder Woman in LONG PANTS??!! No wonder it didnt test well! Are studio executives required to have the intelligence of a nit and the courage of a worm??
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NBC Rejects Wonder Woman

… which means this is my last chance to post this photograph of what would have potentially been a great show. Why does Hollywood test-screen the shit out of everything? Anyway. So without further ado, I bring you your moment of zen. 

LONG PANTS??? They put Wonder Woman in LONG PANTS??!! No wonder it didnt test well! Are studio executives required to have the intelligence of a nit and the courage of a worm??

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