I can’t deal with the news. I really can’t. The political insanity that’s going on in this country right now is appalling. I can’t wrap my head around the laws that are being passed, nor can I understand why other laws are being stopped. 

Marry the person you love? Not on our watch faggot. 
Loose your job because you’re gay? Hell yes!
 Give women the choice of motherhood? No, we don’t negotiate with whores.
 Guilt women into keeping unwanted children by raping them with a vaginal probe? Absolutely, she’s totally asking for it!
 And you better not break the law if you’re a shade darker than pale, ‘cause there’ll be a whole world of hurt coming your way.

All in the name of “freedom”, and perserving the “American Dream”. Assuming you’re a white, straight, evangelical male.

It’s like the fucking Twilight Zone over here. But then again, we’re letting it happen. 

In pure idiot politician fashion, Rick Santorum tried to defend himself when he was quoted ( and recorded) saying ” I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money..”

He later said ” I didn’t say black people, I said blah people.”

The fact that this man is one of his party’s top candidates is beyond disturbing to me

The group’s lack of cohesion and its apparent wish to pantomime progressivism rather than practice it knowledgably is unsettling in the face of the challenges so many of its generation face — finding work, repaying student loans, figuring out ways to finish college when money has run out. But what were the chances that its members were going to receive the attention they so richly deserve carrying signs like “Even if the World Were to End Tomorrow I’d Still Plant a Tree Today”?

One day, a trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Adam Sarzen, a decade or so older than many of the protesters, came to Zuccotti Park seemingly just to shake his head. “Look at these kids, sitting here with their Apple computers,” he said. “Apple, one of the biggest monopolies in the world. It trades at $400 a share. Do they even know that?”

I really wish I could understand the protests in NYC, because I keep seeing all these reports of people being mistreated by police and I’m appalled by what the police are doing to these people…but I don’t get it…what are they protesting? The economy? Unemployment? Capitalism? 

I want to feel sympathetic for these people, but all I feel is annoyance. What are they trying to accomplish?

transcendthestars:

inothernews:

POUNDED   Surging waves ahead of Typhoon Roke hit against the breakwater in Udono in a port town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, Japan.  Officials have ordered more than one million people evacuated in central and eastern Japan as the storm made landfall 125 miles west of Tokyo; Roke’s projected path threatens the part of Japan already ravaged by a, an earthquake and tsunami earlier this year.  (Daiji Yanagida/AP)

Have a friend from Mie, hope his family’s alright. :-\

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Buddha 

I know today may be dredging up some traumatic feelings for some of you, and if you need to reflect and mourn, by all means do so, but I want to encourage you to also give yourself permission to celebrate the life you’ve been given. Today may mark the anniversary of a horrible tragedy, but guess what? You’re still here.

Don’t waste it.

-Naomi 

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inothernews:

Billy Stinson comforts his daughter, Erin, as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood in Nags Head, North Carolina. The home, built in 1903 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was destroyed by Hurricane Irene.  (Photo: Getty Images via the New York Post)

From tragedy, an amazing work of photojournalism.

i can’t even imagine :(

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I’m getting really irritated by all these ” hurricane was a bust” types of updates on my FB and Tumblr, luckily instead of writing about it, this cool chick I follow summed it up very nicely here.  Now, may I also add that if I have to see another ” God was watching over my house.” ” Lord I want to thank you for keeping our power on.” ” Jesus had his hand over my trees”, I’m really gonna loose it. 

“God” had as much to do with your safety and survival as Gandalf. Believe me, neither of them were standing in front of your house waving a staff and telling Irene not to pass. You just got lucky…

there are a lot of people out there without power, food, shelter, cars, homes to return to, some have even lost their lives. do you mean to tell me your “god” destroyed their lives because he/she/it was too busy keeping your FiOS up and running?

fuck you and fuck you god. 

sucks to be you tonight!

inothernews:

Thanks to Disney loosening up a little on protecting its intellectual properties, you can now buy the house from Up, sort of.  Listing price: $400,000 — which is about the cost of maybe one admission to DisneyWorld.

(Photo: Jeffrey Allred / The New York Times)

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The London riots started over a man who had been shot by police? Am I understanding that correctly?

James Fell, author of this very classy article over on FOX News ( where else?), titled ” Don’t Bring Her To The Gym.” 

DICK SHIT FUCK ASS