…for being on welfare. That would make it sooo much easier for people to spot me on the street and hurl insults. Really, I can’t get enough of it from grocery store clerks who give me the *look* when I pull out my card….I need to have it from everyone I meet so they, too, can feel self-righteous about not being poor.
Here’s a news flash: nobody likes being poor. Nobody.
Your life is not your own.
You’ve lost your autonomy.
I lost my fucking house and the $10,000 I put into it.
Well, I’m glad Senate hopeful Todd Akin has cleared up the definition of rape. /snark
See, it’s not *really* rape if she gets pregnant…
Sadly, there are too many of the R’s that believe this garbage. Truly appalling that they don’t see women as human beings. I’m left to wonder what category they place us in? As a wise woman once said, rape is the only crime where the victim has to prove they didn’t want the crime to happen.
commondreams has this up on Illinois nuke plants dumping 100 degree water into the rivers and waterways…in essence, boiling the fish. The cavalier attitude is typical–it’s just a couple of fish, what are you so keyed up about?
The comments section has some thoughtful comments–forcing them to reuse the heated water, forcing them to power down. And as stated, they’re not in the business to power down–that’s cutting into their profits. And we all know that utility companies will not do the conscientious thing like actually taking into account the environmental damage they may be causing.
Good Grief.
…loved her humor. One of kind, for sure. May she be at peace.
My mother gave me a copy of her book “Motherhood” (pepto-bismol cover) that is now missing (probably stolen with my stuff in 2008).
She wrote about Fang (husband) coming home one day to see one of their kids running around with scissors. When he expressed alarm, she quipped that they, too, looked dangerous to her that morning…
…you have to be a Mom (or stay-at-home Dad) to get that joke…after a day of putting out fires, your perspective changes on what is important and what you can let slide…
…and with each kid, you get a little less uptight (at least, I did). With my firstborn, my son, I cried the first time he bled. I thought I was a terrible mother for allowing my baby to get hurt. Geesh. By the time the third one came, I just slapped a bandaid on it and went on with the day…
Back in the day, when the government actually called a Depression– a Depression — the homeless lived in “Hoovervilles”. A group in Tampa, Florida has dubbed an encampment “Romneyville”. A funny “Bad Lip Reading” video on the site.
In all accuracy, though, they should be dubbed “Congressvilles”…because they are the ones responsible for not raising the minimum wage to a livable wage, for not raising taxes on the 1%, for allowing banks to consolidate, for gutting banking regulations, for passing NAFTA and every other Free Trade agreement…I could go on and on…
Grist also has this up on the companies who don’t want the public to know what’s in their food.
Again, I go back to the often used Bush-era phrase: “If you have nothing to hide…” Why would one object to the GMO labeling unless they know that the public is going to stop buying that trash food in droves when they realize it’s GMO? Or perhaps they’re afraid that people will finally be able to link their health issues with GMO food–gut inflammation, allergies, skin rashes, lung issues, heart issues, etc.?
…to take food out of the mouths of the poor…
…so he won’t have to tax the 1% nor, heaven forbid, cut defense spending…
*note that the Senate has also opted to cut food stamps–just not to the same degree, so, yeah, they’re just as bad. You don’t cut a food program in the middle of a Depression…er, I mean Recession (like I’ve said before—it’s sooo much easier when you don’t acknowledge there’s a problem, then you don’t have to be held accountable for not getting off your butt to do something about it.)
“cruel” and “cold-blooded”, for sure.
…school lunches should not be subsidized, according to this: http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/no-low-too-low-todd-akin
It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant people are who live off the public dole, and then hold themselves up to be pillars of society while kicking people when they’re down…
Here in FW, the second largest city in the state, 70% of the children in school require lunch assistance. Seventy freaking per cent!!
All throughout the summer, the public schools (not charter schools, mind you) provided lunches at the public libraries…they always had a full room of hungry kids.
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And, as a side note, it irritates me that I cannot buy a very nutritious carrot-apple-beet juiced drink at the juice bar in the organic store, but I can buy nutrient-lacking, sugar loaded, gut destroying soda from that same store…makes perfect sense to me. /snark
Good God. Treat ’em like their criminals when they’re behaving like…kids? Is it now criminal to be a kid? What is the incentive to behave when you’re treated badly for stupid stuff? Holy crap, the adults are acting worse than the kids…
Link here. The first question I have: Why in the hell would you take a dog up on that kind of terrain? Second question is why didn’t you mount the same efforts to save her as the complete strangers did?
Of course, I’m for the people who saved her to get to keep her. The original owner lost is claim on her when he abandoned her. You’re done.
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The local case here of the soulless creep who allegedly threw a kitten in a fire was back in the news–he is claiming that he *might have bumped* the kitten into the fire while he burned pictures of his now ex-girlfriend….um-hmmm.
And when the reporters told the story, it led one to believe that the kitten perished. It’s still alive and people have called in wanting to adopt it. If they don’t get this particular kitten, they should get their butts over to the humane society shelter and adopt a pet from there. Two of the best pets I’ve ever had came from animal shelters.
…and if one goes to a shelter (or anywhere to get a pet) let the animal *choose* you…you’ll know what I mean with their body language–they’ll move in towards you, their eyes will brighten up, their tails will be wagging (dogs), or if it’s a cat, it will make its feelings known like my kitty Sammy did–she rubbed up against the cage as if she were rubbing against my leg….these two were the best pets because they chose. I didn’t know what it meant at the time, as I wasn’t where I’m at now in understanding, but now I get it.
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More animal stuff–
Remember that cool picture I linked to recently with the lion and porcupine? I thought that the porcupines were holding their ground….
…yeah, well, things weren’t quite as they appeared.
My kids used to have a subscription to National Geographic for Kids. I saved a few issues and found this same picture in it. The caption had three questions of what was happening. One of them asked if the lion flipped the porcupine over and pounced. With a feeling of dread, I looked at the answer…yep…the lion flipped the porcupine over….<sigh>
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