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urytfavesrugly: Your Fave is Ugly Beniduct[tape my eyes shut]...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:13:33 -0400

Your Fave is Ugly

Beniduct[tape my eyes shut] Scoopapoop

this dude is what i call ugly with an alibi, his alibi being apparently he’s a great actor. i wouldn’t know because i can only stand the sight of him long enough to write this blog entry

REAL Lesbians React to Lesbian Porn!

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:46:17 -0400

REAL Lesbians React to Lesbian Porn!

scitechfitness: theankle: fbbmax: Undulating pecs and delts:...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:37:20 -0400

scitechfitness:

theankle:

fbbmax:

Undulating pecs and delts: Virginia Sanchez Macias

Nice solid pecs

Yes.

elledark: Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a United States federal...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:28:40 -0400

elledark:

Memorial Day.

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in the military service. It originally honored soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War) but was expanded after World War I.

By this Memorial day over 6,400 US troops will have been killed in Americas middle-east ‘wars of choice’ along with unknown numbers, probably hundreds of thousands, of Iraquis, Afghans and others. Let us be perfectly clear, these deaths were unnecessary. America was lied into the invasion of Iraq. It wasn’t an honest mistake or faulty intelligence. The American public were played for fools. The same administration that lied so shamelessly over Iraq also invaded and occupied Afghanistan with no plan and no clue what success would look like. Over a decade later the killing still goes on in the same bone-headed, bloody, muddled way and nothing has been achieved. Nothing. Collectively these ‘wars’ have been one of Americas biggest foreign policy blunders to date, right up there with Vietnam.

Blood and money. America has spent at least $1.38 trillion so far in operational costs for its unnecessary wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Money America could not afford. What does $1 trillion look like ? Can anyone even comprehend a sum that vast ? If you made a million dollars a year, it would take you a million years to earn $1 trillion. A mind-boggling sum of tax-payers money. Imagine the homes and schools and hospitals that money would have built. Imagine the good it could have done in these hard recessionary times if it hadn’t been so foolishly squandered on destruction and death. There were always other choices. There are now.

Soldiers who risk their lives for their country deserve our respect. The craven politicians who lied America into unnecessary and immoral ‘wars’ and those who now want more of the same deserve none. War must never be the default option, as it has been. War must not be ‘never-ending’, as the ‘War on Terror’ was cynically designed to be. War must always be the absolute last resort, where every other possibility has been explored and failed, and there is no other choice.

This Memorial Day it seems to me that the best way any patriotic American can support the troops is to demand .. not ask .. demand that America ends its catastrophic meddling in the middle-east and brings its soldiers home safe. All of them. Complete withdrawal from all countries where they have no business being. No sleight of hand. No smoke-and-mirrors. No private mercenaries or troops re-branded ‘advisers’ left behind as looks likely in Afghanistan. All out. Now.

President Eisenhower who, unlike recent American leaders actually knew what he was talking about on this subject, said “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” He also said ..“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.”

With cowardly, secretive drone attacks escalating and with the usual warmongers now clamoring for involvement in Syria and conflict with Iran, America’s leaders could usefully reflect on Eisenhower’s words this Memorial Day. I hope they do.

Ellie

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Thu, 23 May 2013 22:28:08 -0400

anarcho-queer: NYPD Data Proves White People Are More Likely To...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:14:20 -0400

anarcho-queer:

NYPD Data Proves White People Are More Likely To Possess Drugs Or A Weapon Than Racial Minorities When Stopped, Yet 84% of Stop & Frisk Victims Are Black/Latino

During the just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the city argued that officers’ disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers was not due to racial profiling but because each stopped individual was doing something suspicious at the time. The data, however, tells a different story: weapons and drugs were more often found on white New Yorkers during stops than on minorities, according to the Public Advocate’s analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 statistics.

White New Yorkers make up a small minority of stop-and-frisks, which were 84 percent black and Latino residents. Despite this much higher number of minorities deemed suspicious by police, the likelihood that stopping an African American would find a weapon was half the likelihood of finding one on a white person.

• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered a weapon in one out every 49 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 71 stops of Latinos and 93 stops of African Americans to find a weapon.

• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded contraband was one-third less than that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered contraband in one out every 43 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 57 stops of Latinos and 61 stops of African Americans to find contraband.

It’s unlikely that the appropriate lesson to take from these findings is that stops of white people should increase because they are more likely to carry weapons and drugs. Rather, they suggest that police are excessively targeting minorities. Officers may be netting more successful stops of white New Yorkers because they are only likely to stop a white person when they actually suspect that person of committing a crime. Considering one officer’s testimony that superiors explicitly directed him to target young black men, minorities are judged by a much more flexible definition of “reasonable suspicion.”

In general, stop-and-frisk has proven to be remarkably ineffective; nearly 89 percent of all stops result in no charges. The city has also had to settle a surging number of civil rights lawsuits against police to the tune of $22 million in one year.

jackpowerx: zenpencils: SOPHIE SCHOLL ‘The fire within’ I...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:29:47 -0400

jackpowerx:

zenpencils:

SOPHIE SCHOLL ‘The fire within’

I legit teared up at this.

politi-gal: Barack Obama 1979 prom pics published in TIME...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:28:10 -0400

politi-gal:

Barack Obama 1979 prom pics published in TIME magazine.

…he couldn’t go wrong either way.

motherjones: “I Built This AK-47. It’s Legal and Totally...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:26:09 -0400

motherjones:

“I Built This AK-47. It’s Legal and Totally Untraceable.”

In which our reporter attends a “build party” where anyone can make a rifle that no cop will ever know about.

videohall: Siri is a scumbag

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:25:01 -0400

videohall:

Siri is a scumbag

recall-all-republicans: Republicans will always think welfare...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:22:25 -0400

recall-all-republicans:

Republicans will always think welfare and food stamps are the problem because they are racist and classist.

Register and VOTE.

Get rid of as many Republicans as possible in 2014.

A reminder…

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:44:35 -0400

A reminder…

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:12:16 -0400

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys':

For months, every morning when my daughter was in preschool, I watched her construct an elaborate castle out of blocks, colorful plastic discs, bits of rope, ribbons and feathers, only to have the same little boy gleefully destroy it within seconds of its completion.

No matter how many times he did it, his parents never swooped in BEFORE the morning’s live 3-D reenactment of “Invasion of AstroMonster.” This is what they’d say repeatedly:

“You know! Boys will be boys!”

“He’s just going through a phase!”

“He’s such a boy! He LOVES destroying things!”

“Oh my god! Girls and boys are SO different!”

“He. Just. Can’t. Help himself!”

I tried to teach my daughter how to stop this from happening. She asked him politely not to do it. We talked about some things she might do. She moved where she built. She stood in his way. She built a stronger foundation to the castle, so that, if he did get to it, she wouldn’t have to rebuild the whole thing. In the meantime, I imagine his parents thinking, “What red-blooded boy wouldn’t knock it down?”

She built a beautiful, glittery castle in a public space.

It was so tempting.

He just couldn’t control himself and, being a boy, had violent inclinations.

She had to keep her building safe.

Her consent didn’t matter. Besides, it’s not like she made a big fuss when he knocked it down. It wasn’t a “legitimate” knocking over if she didn’t throw a tantrum.

His desire — for power, destruction, control, whatever- - was understandable.

Maybe she “shouldn’t have gone to preschool” at all. OR, better if she just kept her building activities to home.

I know it’s a lurid metaphor, but I taught my daughter the preschool block precursor of don’t “get raped” and this child, Boy #1, did not learn the preschool equivalent of “don’t rape.”

Not once did his parents talk to him about invading another person’s space and claiming for his own purposes something that was not his to claim. Respect for her and her work and words was not something he was learning. How much of the boy’s behavior in coming years would be excused in these ways, be calibrated to meet these expectations and enforce the “rules” his parents kept repeating?

There was another boy who, similarly, decided to knock down her castle one day. When he did it his mother took him in hand, explained to him that it was not his to destroy, asked him how he thought my daughter felt after working so hard on her building and walked over with him so he could apologize. That probably wasn’t much fun for him, but he did not do it again.

There was a third child. He was really smart. He asked if he could knock her building down. She, beneficent ruler of all pre-circle-time castle construction, said yes… but only after she was done building it and said it was OK. They worked out a plan together and eventually he started building things with her and they would both knock the thing down with unadulterated joy. You can’t make this stuff up.

Take each of these three boys and consider what he might do when he’s older, say, at college, drunk at a party, mad at an ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him and uses words that she expects will be meaningful and respecte, “No, I don’t want to. Stop. Leave.”

The “overarching attitudinal characteristic” of abusive men is entitlement.

sportsnetny: OMG! Bo Jackson throws out Mike Gallego, Aug, 1993

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:35:27 -0400

sportsnetny:

OMG!

Bo Jackson throws out Mike Gallego, Aug, 1993

smdos-dream: perf

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:14:11 -0400

smdos-dream:

perf

littleorphanammo: This dude was happily taking pictures of...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:13:06 -0400

littleorphanammo:

This dude was happily taking pictures of girls legs, feet and whatever else he pleased without their consent. So I snapped my own pic and said “enjoy the internet motherfucker’. He laughed at me. Plz share. #publicshame #newYork #subway

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:10:14 -0400

liberalsarecool: The GOP hates students, loves their debt...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:08:52 -0400

liberalsarecool:

The GOP hates students, loves their debt payments.

odinsblog: A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:08:15 -0400

odinsblog:

A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO,’” the New York Post reports.

The company, Real Bronx Tours, has taken largely white foreign tourists around the Bronx. The tour guide was caught mocking the Bronx by Post reporter Candice Giove.

Three times a week, Real Bronx Tours takes riders — mainly white Europeans and Australians — on a trip that includes stops at food-pantry lines and a “pickpocket” park.

“Last week, on the first stop of the $45 tour, guide Lynn Battaglia, from Pittsburgh, pointed out a housing project. She then mocked the Grand Concourse, modeled after a Parisian boulevard,” reports Giove.“‘Do you feel like we’re on the Champs-Elysées?’ she teased a couple from Paris.”

The tour also included a drive near a food pantry at a church. Battaglia wondered out loud, “I don’t know what that line’s about, but every Wednesday we see it. We see them go in with empty carts, and we see them come out with carts full.

The tour guide warned of the dangers of going to a park in the Bronx and also gave inaccurate information about the origin of the word “pig” to describe a police officer. While Battaglia claimed the word came from the Bronx, in reality it originated in London.

The Bronx borough president harshly criticized the guide and the tour.

The guide is “the biggest fool on the planet,” said Ruben Diaz, the borough president. “To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that and to view them as they are some sort of entertainment is pretty disgusting.” [emphasis mine]

Everyone shares the blame in this one.

awkwardpandalalala: siddharthasmama: mariavontraphouse: prince...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:02:00 -0400

awkwardpandalalala:

siddharthasmama:

mariavontraphouse:

princessneeshydoomcuddles:

tashabilities:

When I tell you white folks are trying to take over ALL our shit,

Including the language that they call us ‘ghetto’ and ‘ignorant’ for using?

And they sellin it on teeshirts like a white woman would come up with that phrasing.

AAVE is the same language they penalize us for using, denying us opportunities and resources, calling us ignorant,

But they put it on a shirt with a BLONDE bitch and SELL IT?

I feel kicked in the chest.

WHITE PPL YOU NEED TO STOP

This is why don’t no body fucking like you white people

but remember it is only really cultural appropriation if u wear ~ blue jeanz ~.

its not even some random blonde chick either, it looks like a hipster princess aurora…. wtf white people…