Some genius replaced the music in the Party Rock video with the cantina song from Star Wars and it matches perfectly
Why do some folks feel that transgender people need to disclose their history and their genitalia and non transgender people do not? When you first meet someone and they are clothed, you never know exactly what that person looks like. And when you first meet someone, you never know that person’s full history. Why do only some people have to describe themselves in detail—and others do not? Why are some nondisclosures seen as actions and others utterly invisible? Actions. Gwen Araujo was being herself, openly and honestly. No, she did not wear a sign on her forehead that said “I am transgender, this is what my genitalia look like.” But her killers didn’t wear a sign on their foreheads saying, “We might look like nice high school boys, but really, we are transphobic and are planning to kill you.” That would have been a helpful disclosure.
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When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it’s a very vicious cycle.
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If you’re not sick & don’t need to use your health insurance that often, I’m happy for you.
If you don’t have health insurance but you’re healthy in general, I’m happy for you too.
If you’ve got a job that gives you health insurance that does the things you need it to do,…
There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know white people went all the way to Africa to get out of doing work.
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Lance Crouther (via rattlingbone) Sometimes you read something and your whole perspective of a situation changes. This is one of those things. (via interactivesleep)
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This is brilliant.
Things that are unconstitutional:
- The Civil Rights Act, but ONLY because it destroyed privacy, not because Ron Paul is racist.
- Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Fed, and paper money, but we knew that already.
- Use of executive branch powers to create jobs for struggling Americans absent Congressional action.
- The federal debt ceiling limit because it leads Congress to take on functions outside its constitutionally mandated purview.
- The Affordable Care Act (that’s “Obamacare” in GOPspeak).
- Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank because they over-regulate, which is unconstitutional. Regulate women, not markets, amiright bros? Which brings us to…
- Roe vs Wade, except possibly for raped and sodomized virgins who can mercifully be given a “shot of estrogen” if they come to the emergency room on time, are insured, and are lucky enough to have a presiding physician who isn’t rabidly pro-life.
- The Federal Marriage Amendment because these things should be left up to the states.
- Regulation of sexual and reproductive practices on a Federal level as described in his “We the People Act.” How does this articulate with his introduction of the Sanctity of Life Act, which defines life as beginning at conception and would have outlawed hormonal birth control if passed? This, like so many things in Ron Paul’s mind, remains a mystery.
- Funding Family Planning (on the Federal level, of course); Paul introduced the “Freedom of Conscience Act” to protect us from this particular ill.
- Public school, because the federal government has no business promoting education.
- Federally funded loans and scholarships for college because “education is not a right.”
- National Parks, which should be sold to private investors, because camping is not a right either.
- The VA because Veterans should be served by private hospitals, which will “honor” them better.
Things that Are Constitutional
- Biblical law. Yes. Biblical law, which articulates nicely with
- Letting poor people die of being poor (video at link).
- The Defense of Marriage Act, and yes, DOMA is constitutional even though the Federal Marriage Amendment is unconstitutional.
- A patriarchal society wherein the church appoints judges to solve all of our problems.
- The Sanctity of Life Act, an Act introduced by Ron Paul himself, and which would have defined life as beginning at conception.
- Funding stem cell research using federal tax credits, even though life begins at conception.
- Sexual Harassment, which is probably the fault of the woman anyway.
