First, I want to apologize to the Greeks for my fellow Americans who are now greedily taking your country apart…like a bunch of vultures.  Actually, that’s not fair to vultures because they actually do a service by cleaning up nature’s messes….

…these lizards masquerading as humans created the situation they are now gorging on…it makes me sick.  Celebrities like Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie want to portray themselves as progressives…worried about caged chickens and adopting orphans…while they participate in feasting on a democracy…give me a freaking break.  This is exactly why I don’t call myself a progressive anymore.  Too many phonies.

When Max mentions “paying pennies on the dollar…”  it made me angry.  This is exactly what happened with my debt — the vultures paid pennies for my debt and then wanted to get all of it.  When in court, I asked them how much they paid for the debt.  Before the creep could answer, the judge interjected and answered for him, saying that I did not have a right to that information.  This was the same judge that had a good chunk of the testimony off the record and had ordered my wages garnished while I was making $200 per month.

Well, now, I have to give the French some credit.  Remember when America used to be like this?

WTH??  So…now that they have made it seem that bdsm is mainstream with fifty s-h-a-d-e-s of g-r-e-y (spelling it out so I don’t get some search engines looking for that to come to my site)….I’ve been seeing this offensive ad depicting a woman with her face covered, ass up, in leather clothing appearing to be part of a bondage outfit.

Covering the face is a common practice of denying a person’s humanity.  Ask any good police officer about rapists who cover their victim’s faces.

This is disgusting and offensive to me and I can’t believe that I have to ask not to see that kind of crap on a mainstream website (this one was off of DailyKos, but it was also on Yahoo’s main site).

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**edited:  I removed the offensive photo because apparently the creeps who like depicting women in vulnerable, degrading, dehumanizing positions are showing up here.   The post I wrote is apparently lost on them…big surprise./snark

Traverse City, Michigan.  The industry that poisoned the land and water is looong gone, but today, 2015, they are still cleaning up from environmental contamination during the years of 1955-87–dry cleaning until 1987.

Tetrachloroethylene (PCE)   (PERC) Note that it took only four hours to reach toxicity for rabbits, rats, and mice if I’m reading this correctly.  It’s also very interesting that this toxic chemical can cause hepatitis.

Trichloroethene (TCE)

1,2 dichloroethene (DCE) Note that the toxicity of rabbits, mice, and rat was also at 4 hours exposure.

Vinyl chloride  Note that toxicity can include death.  Ataxia is best described as walking like you’re drunk.  You run into walls, you lose your balance easily.  This is part of heavy metal poisoning and resulting leaky gut, as well.  **edited to add 3.17.17: being off balance may have a co-factor of gallstones or gallbladder inflammation, due to a toxic liver.

And so we have the neocons/neolibs fighting EPA once again for cracking down on polluters….whining they are being too haaaard on them.  I’d say they’re not hard enough.  They started cleanup in 1970…45 freaking years to clean up after themselves is more than lenient.  And they’re not even footing the bill…you, the public, are.  And the fish. And the wildlife. And the no-see-ums that make up a healthy soil….