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PBS NewsHour: “I’m really struggling here. I’m having a hard time getting out of...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:46:53 -0400

PBS NewsHour: “I’m really struggling here. I’m having a hard time getting out of...:

“I’m really struggling here. I’m having a hard time getting out of bed, I’m having a hard time sleeping because this one incident that I have relived through investigation, it’s never died in my mind. I go to sleep and I think about this, everything reminds me about it.”

-Former Airman 1st Class…

stfuconservatives: pilosopogyno: This man, James Verone,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:40:25 -0400

stfuconservatives:

pilosopogyno:

This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.

On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”

He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.

Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.

To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous.

This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.

This is what sick people in America are resorting to. But BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, right guys?

sourcedumal: discoverynews: teamepiphany: Virtual...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:13:08 -0400

sourcedumal:

discoverynews:

teamepiphany:

Virtual supermarkets are popping up in subway stations in South Korea, where commuters can virtually shop for items while waiting for the train to come. Customers simply scan an item’s QR code using the free “Homeplus” app and can have it delivered to their doorstep before they even get home. Ranked as the 2nd most hard-working country in the world to Japan, South Korea is rewarding its workers with this timesaving gem.

Wow! I kinda love this idea.

We have that here in Chicago. I forget which red line stop its on (I believe it’s Monroe or one of the Loop stops)

iamthejim: Faith in humanity

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:42:59 -0400

iamthejim:

Faith in humanity

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Wed, 22 May 2013 15:40:22 -0400

the-hunger-festivities: magicalorphanboy: bronzebasilisk: ryun...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:33:53 -0400

the-hunger-festivities:

magicalorphanboy:

bronzebasilisk:

ryunwoofie:

sonneillonv:

autumn-and-eve:

erinsmomma:

How can someone stand behind abortion, when you have a life inside of you that God created for you? How can you say that this life isn’t worth it? If you can’t take care of the baby for whatever circumstances than there is always adoption available to couples who can’t conceive, but still want the joy of being parents. OPEN YOUR EYES! God has bigger plans for us all that we don’t even realize the picture.

Excuse me but it appears your baby is actually upside down
Did you take Sex Ed freshman year because babies come out headfirst

Hi, OP! As someone who was given up for adoption, allow me to call bullshit on your little post there! You see, when I was adopted, I was a white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical infant, which basically put me at the top of the list, right underneath white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical MALE infants! There’s only one kind of infant people wanted to adopt more than me! I was SOOO lucky! But if you actually bothered to look at the information readily available on the interwebs, you would be aware that the majority of people who are forced to rely on abortion for family planning are poor people and people of color. Of course, those two demographics intersect, thanks to the institutionalized racism of our society! Neat huh?!

Of course, even babies of color are not in high demand with couples looking to adopt. Many who do want to adopt outside their race choose to go outside the country, where laws are less strict and the process is often less expensive. Of course, most of the infants adopted this way are obtained in unscrupulous fashion, but who cares about that when you’re saving a little Korean or African baby from the horrible fate of growing up in Korea or Africa??? And all those children who have birth defects, are born with diseases or disabilities, or have other issues… WELL. Who wants to invest that kind of expense and time? Why would you adopt someone broken, LOLOL?!

Granted, there are some wonderful people who understand the system a little better, and make it a point to try and give POC and disabled children a good home. But they make up a very small fraction of potential adopters! This difference in supply and demand leaves a lot of children stuck in the foster system, where their chances of being adopted diminish with every passing year, and their chances of being physically or sexually abused INCREASE! Isn’t that wonderful?

And of course, we haven’t even talked about the person who is giving birth to the baby! I know you probably think pregnancy is a wonderful, happy time, and for some people it is, but it is also one of the greatest health risks a person can take. I love my son very much, and from the day I found out I was pregnant with him, I wanted him! But I also nearly died giving birth to him. You see, I had pre-eclampsia, the most commonly fatal birth complication in the world. My blood pressure was 180 over 130! At twenty-two years old, I was actually headed for a stroke, hah hah! How funny is that? And all it took was missing a single pre-natal appointment during which my blood pressure rose to dangerous levels and my body tried to kill both me and my son. Those seizures sure were fun, as was the emergency c-section performed without anesthetic! And being chained down while the operation was performed, because I was delirious and wouldn’t stop trying to fight off the doctors, that was a BLAST! It was great for my husband too, since he almost lost his wife and child in just forty-five minutes. You can imagine how thrilled he is at the prospect of me ever getting pregnant again. Babies are certainly cute, but pregnancy can have massive health complications, and I know it’s such a bummer, but they are PERMANENT. :( My abdominal muscles never recovered from being hacked through with a scalpel, and the flood of hormones caused by late pregnancy have changed things from heartburn (never used to have it, now, all the time!) to my emotional reactions (I cry when I see pictures of kittens now. I used to be tough). These are changes I did not ask for, cannot control, and cannot fix! And many people go through worse! I know, right? Unbelievable, but go look up the word ‘episiotomy’ and then look up ‘birth rape’ and I’m afraid you’ll find some stuff that just isn’t very shiny. Plus, the studies actually show that people who carry a baby to term, give birth, then give it up for adoption suffer HIGHER rates of post-pregnancy complications like post-partum depression and post-partum psychosis, general depression, and other mental health issues. Adoption actually isn’t good for the person giving birth at all!

I’m afraid the picture you chose to use there is also pretty disingenuous. I know, I know, it seems like nitpicking. I’m not trying to be mean! :( But that picture shows a fully developed, viable infant, and most abortions are performed when the fetus isn’t even a fetus - it’s a blastocyst. That’s just a clump of cells. Seriously! You can totally find pictures on the interwebs and they’re not even gross, LOLOL! Later-term abortions are usually performed because of health complications, though some of our intrepid state legislators are trying to change all that! They care so much about people who are pregnant, you see, that they want to force them to carry dead or dying fetuses inside them until their body either becomes infected while it rots in their tummies (this is called sepsis, and it makes people very sick, and can even kill them!), or forces it out naturally in a gush of blood and fluids! Isn’t that so caring of them? I’m so glad they’re around to make those decisions for me! And if a pregnant person is not allowed to terminate an unviable fetus, in some states, they have to carry the child to term, give birth to it, and then watch it die in their arms because its lungs weren’t developed, or its brain formed outside its skull, or any of a million possible birth defects that will kill you just as quick as lickity-split! Isn’t that wild?! Of course, these people go through terrible grief, and as I mentioned, some of them may get sick and die from not being able to abort dead or dying fetuses. But I guess that’s just A-okay with you, huh?

Basically, I think before you suggest adoption as a universal alternative, you should actually go do some research on adoption. And before you condemn abortion, you should do some research on abortions - not the stuff your church is giving you, the stuff the real doctors are saying. Go to Planned Parenthood (if they haven’t all been closed down, ROFLMAO!) and request whatever information they have on the process, the statistics of who has abortions and why… and actually, all of that is on the interwebs! Isn’t technology AMAZING?

And in closing, since I’ve been asked this question many times and I know it’s coming? Yes, I realize I am here talking to you because I was not aborted. But the thing is, if my mother had chosen abortion, I wouldn’t know the difference, so it wouldn’t matter to me. And if she decided that choice was best for her, then that choice would have been best for her, and I would never want to take that choice away from her. As it is, since I was given up for adoption, and since I have seen the statistics on how badly people who give their children up for adoption suffer, I have spent much of my adult life worrying about her, whether she’s healthy, whether she’s okay, and feeling that if she did suffer from any of the common post-birth symptoms, it is at least partially my fault, even though she made that decision on her own. Which is silly, I know, but at some point, all children have to stare down the consequences of their parents’ having them. For some, that’s poverty. For others, a life-time of their parents struggling to treat and care for a severe illness or disability. For others, it’s wondering if their mother ever got over giving them away, and wishing you could reach out and assure her that it’s okay, she doesn’t have to be haunted.

May your birth control never fail!

Pro.

Sonneillonv deserves a mother fucking standing ovation here.

Slow clap.

this is my favorite post because i think it’s the strongest argument for how abortion isn’t wrong and adoption is not always a solution so people should start researching and not just believing what ever is being shoved down their throats at church. This is not a slow clap this is thunderous boom of people all over the world saying thank you

unreconstructedfangirl: thinkingbox: mozartrules: switchbladek...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:53:13 -0400

unreconstructedfangirl:

thinkingbox:

mozartrules:

switchbladekiller:

lol.

Best one I’ve seen :)

lmao

LULZ.

hsm7: soyeahimafangirl: ohiogurl: askarsswedishmeatballs: Whe...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:42:55 -0400

hsm7:

soyeahimafangirl:

ohiogurl:

askarsswedishmeatballs:

Wherein Alex gives his reaction to the last Sookie Stackhouse book…

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Really, you should. I love his reactions and how he says there’s got to be one more. Even he (trying to be polite) thinks this can’t be the REAL ending. Because it makes absolutely no sense.

His reactions are fantastic, particularly: *Three full seconds of stunned, open-mouthed silence* :)

Love him.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 07:42:36 -0400

techsgtjenn: nudityandnerdery: spuzz: ihavealotoffeelings: WE...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:23:39 -0400

techsgtjenn:

nudityandnerdery:

spuzz:

ihavealotoffeelings:

WE

THOUGHT

YOU

WAS

A

TOAD

Is you is, or is you ain’t, my constituency?

“And we was beat up by a bible salesman, and banished from the Woolsworth’s. I don’t know, Everett, was it the one branch of all of them?”

He’s bonafide!

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Tue, 21 May 2013 17:43:14 -0400

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Tue, 21 May 2013 17:33:58 -0400

lunaticmoth: The Rosy Maple Moth More of the cutest moth...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:25:26 -0400

lunaticmoth:

The Rosy Maple Moth

More of the cutest moth ever.

"This is a Holmes knocked from the pedestal of the dispassionate gentleman detective. His..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:25:48 -0400

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This is a Holmes knocked from the pedestal of the dispassionate gentleman detective. His relationship with his addiction forms the core of his character, of secondary importance only to Watson in his development throughout the season. And Jonny Lee Miller’s fantastic incarnation of Holmes makes sure we feel the weight of addiction in a show that takes it seriously. He suffers the aftermath, and must face the realities of recovery — no easy thing for a man who trades on the illusion of invincibility with all the gusto of the Conan Doyle original.

Also keeping him humble: his supporting cast. There’s a popular misconception — the fault of many an adaptation — that Holmes is a supergenius accompanied by an admiring everyman and surrounded by dunces. Conan Doyle’s Watson and Gregson would beg to differ, and so this Holmes lives in no such vacuum; he’s never the only clever person in a room. When he reveals his addiction, Gregson (not unkindly) points out that as a detective, he had that covered. His sponsor Alfredo’s skills in the repossessionary arts outclass Holmes’s by a mile. He acknowledges Moriarty as more than a match for himself. Even housekeeper/librarian Ms. Hudson has the effortless memory to which Holmes aspires.

And in Watson, he’s found an equal — and that’s what the show’s not-so-secretly about.

”

- from io9’s excellent analysis of the first season of Elementary - Elementary Demonstrates the Right Way to Update a Classic Hero (via gallifreygal)

tastefullyoffensive: hammpix: For those of you who don’t...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:59:03 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

hammpix: For those of you who don’t understand archaeology, I have made a diagram.

"Having been married eight times himself, Walder Frey is one of the most accomplished wedding..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:50:23 -0400

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Having been married eight times himself, Walder Frey is one of the most accomplished wedding planners in all of Westeros. Frey weddings are renowned for their well-coordinated color themes – as well as for pranks playfully mocking the traditions of visiting Houses. When asked about the upcoming nuptials, Lord Frey was careful not to reveal too much about what he has planned for Edmure and Roslin’s reception. However, members of his household hinted that they have been sending ravens to an unnamed friend of the groom’s family to ensure that everything goes off without a hitch.

Most important, the bride’s father tells us, they have hired ‘an absolutely killer band.’

”

- “Autumn Weddings, Dreams of Spring,” by Tobias Mallister. Society Pages, Riverlands Herald-Tribune 299AL (via trenchesfullofpoets)

grumpycatfan: Flowers. Meh.

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:40:25 -0400

grumpycatfan:

Flowers. Meh.

allcreatures: (Paignton Zoo via Buzzfeed)

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:24:40 -0400

allcreatures:

(Paignton Zoo via Buzzfeed)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 12:08:42 -0400

lickypickystickyme: A fluffy cow to forgive your sins.

Tue, 21 May 2013 02:07:45 -0400

lickypickystickyme:

A fluffy cow to forgive your sins.