Me, Her, the Boy and a Dog
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The Occupy Wall Street commercial that you might soon see on air.
Reblog this, folks. Show it to anyone who still says they don’t know what the Occupy movement is about.
(via The Atlantic)
Amen.
It’s like they’re not even pretending anymore.
Also important: Cain believes banks may have had “something to do with the crisis in 2008,” but hey, he says, we’re not in 2008 anymore! “We’re in 2011! Okay?” No. That’s not OK.
Yep, absolutely no apologies from the 1 percenters.
Wow. Good job, ESPN.
The song has been renamed “All my tea party friends from Fox are coming over toniiiiiiiiight!”
This is an important precedent, and it happened here in the U.S.
Five workers fired for complaining about their jobs on Facebook will go back to work after the National Labor Relations Board ruled in their favor, affirming workers can safely vent their frustrations about the workplace on social networks.
The dust-up began last year when an employee at the non-profit agency Hispanics United of Buffalo vented on Facebook, on a non-working Saturday, about a co-worker’s accusation that she didn’t do enough for the organization’s clients.
Other co-workers chimed in to make comments like, “What the f… Try doing my job. I have 5 programs,” and “Tell her to come do [my] f***ing job n c if I don’t do enough, this is just dum.”
The co-worker saw the messages and passed them along to a supervisor, who fired the workers, citing the company’s social media policy banning cyber harassment of co-workers.
One of the terminated employees complained to the National Labor Relations Board. The judge, in the first social media case that didn’t involve a unionized workplace, ruled the employees were within their rights to converse among themselves about working conditions.
“The tradition of Festivus begins with the Airing of Grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you’re gonna hear about it.” ~ Frank Castanza
To our great shame, among the 20 major advanced countries America now has
- the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children;
- the greatest inequality of incomes;
- the lowest government spending as a percentage of GDP on social programs for the disadvantaged;
- the lowest number of paid holiday, annual, and maternity leaves;
- the lowest score on the United Nations’ index of “material well-being of children”;
- the worst score on the United Nations’ gender inequality index;
- the lowest social mobility;
- the highest public and private expenditure on health care as a portion of GDP,
yet accompanied by the highest
- infant mortality rate;
- prevalence of mental health problems;
- obesity rate;
- portion of people going without health care due to cost;
- low-birth-weight children per capita (except for Japan);
- consumption of antidepressants per capita;
This is why I drink in the morning.
We’re no. 1.
How Michele Bachmann Bought the Iowa Straw Poll.
I wonder, of the five — FIVE — news organizations that had Bachmann on their Sunday morning talk shows, how many of them asked about this?
I just … I can’t … I … I … Oh screw it. I give up.
Some people decry violence for violence. In this case, those people would be wrong.
And she put it down the garbage disposal and turned the disposal ON. GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Be advised: This post will discuss emotionally and politically charged topics and the thoughts, ideas and concerns expressed are designed to engage thought and conversation. They are not intended to take sides or incite flaming on the comments section. Read on at your risk.
I saw the news over the weekend that New York legalized gay marriage and since then, on my Tumblr feed, I’ve seen some posts that concerned me.
I’ve not seen one post on my dash objecting to the news. I don’t know if that’s because the people that would object to it won’t do so for fear of being labeled bigots or homophobes, or if it’s because the people I follow support gay marriage. Frankly, I don’t care because people are entitled to their opinions and their beliefs and I respect that.
What bothers me is that there seems to be this extreme push toward anti-political correctness, meaning it seems that if you believe in anything that is deemed politically incorrect, you are immediately considered anti something. Why is this? Just because someone believes in pro-choice doesn’t make them a murderer. Just because someone believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman doesn’t make them homophobic or a bigot.
Think for a minute. Why has the tea party movement gained so much traction in the last two years? Because people who believe in doing things the way they used to be done (i.e. traditional values) are being pushed out, shouted down and condemned for their beliefs. And if history has taught us anything, those groups whose beliefs are denounced and condemned tend to become more extremist in nature and when you’re talking about a nation of 300+ million people, a lot of whom still believe in “traditional values,” there should be no surprise that the tea party has gained momentum.
I know and understand that the GLBT community has fought long and hard for equality and acceptance, and continues to fight. I also understand that I am talking about a small group of people that are spewing this kind of hatred towards people that don’t support their cause. But at the same time, it saddens me that some people with such a broad reach on Tumblr would attack so viciously, those who don’t support their opinion. That’s now how it’s supposed to work and you’re not endearing your cause to others. You are, instead, promoting hate against those you accuse of hatred.
And as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said,
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I’m not a right-wing conservative. Nor am I a left-wing liberal. I consider my political ideals to be based on common sense, but every day I think the term loses it’s meaning just a little bit more.
I believe in democracy. If the majority of voters in a town, city, county, state and even a country vote in favor of a law, a candidate or anything else, then I believe the citizens should respect the will of the people. They don’t have to agree with it, but that’s how this country works.
And I’ll leave you (if you’re still reading) with this thought… there was a time, not too long ago, that black man could fight and die in a war to defend this nation or protect another, yet couldn’t eat at certain restaurants because of his skin color. Today, especially for people my age, that’s unfathomable - to discriminate against someone because their skin color is not white. Time changes everything, even people’s minds.
