When most rapist, war criminals, and perpetrators of mass crimes don’t spend a day in jail, this really makes me angry!
Posted 5 hours ago
We have great company in the world. We join Saudi Arabia, China, the Sudan, North Korea and others in our determination to allow the state to kill.
Is this the best we can do?
Look at all the countries that have abolished the death penalties: Russia, most of Eastern Europe, South and Central America…weren’t we suppose to be more advanced and better then them? Interesting…..
(Source: valleydia)
Posted 5 hours ago
Next book: ‘The Slave Next Door’
The first two books were testing. This should prove even more so. Comfort snacks? Check! Okay- lets do this!
Posted 10 hours ago
My favorite….
When we are talking about putting much needed safe rooms into schools to protect our children from tornados and then some official says it is too expensive.
Oh silly me! I thought we loved our children and wanted to protect them! Wasn’t that the logic behind the ridiculous idea of having armed guards at our schools? That would be acceptable and not a ridiculous idea, but having safe rooms for natural disasters we know will occur in areas of this country is too expensive.
I am starting to wonder if we actually care about the children of this nation or if we just use them as political pawns.
Posted 11 hours ago
'Love Gives Way'
If I ever get married, this is what i will be doing with my photography and with my gifts.
The love between my partner and I will be a celebration of love not just for us, but for everyone we love. Why not share that love with others who need love to heal?
Love can cure all our ailments, if we just learn to give it without expectations.
Love is the answer.
Posted 11 hours ago
From ‘The White Umbrella’:
‘Survivors of sexual exploration have already experienced the failures of individuals, organizations, and agencies at the time of their greatest need. But collaborating in the best interest of sex trafficking survivors sends a new message to a girl [or boy]: her [his] new community is different, and this new community recognizes her [his] value. It shows her [him] that while people of her [his] past may have used her [him], this new community exists to serve her [him].
When people rally together to support a good cause, it shouts a second message to the community at large, that people can work unselfishly together if our eyes are on…those in need, rather than on our own advancement.’ (PAge 153)
I can’t say I have loved this book as a whole, but it is full of little moments like this that make me glad I picked this book up and stuck with it!
♥
Posted 12 hours ago
Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted 12 hours ago
To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan
When I taught you
at eight to ride
a bicycle, loping along
beside you
as you wobbled away
on two round wheels,
my own mouth rounding
in surprise when you pulled
ahead down the curved
path of the park,
I kept waiting
for the thud
of your crash as I
sprinted to catch up,
while you grew
smaller, more breakable
with distance,
pumping, pumping
for your life, screaming
with laughter,
the hair flapping
behind you like a
handkerchief waving
goodbye.
Posted 12 hours ago
[TW Sexual Assault]
I once had a guy (my supervisor) tell me, after spending three hours alone in a company vehicle being verbally harassed by a coworker who had previously assaulted me, that he was “just hitting on me” and that I would have to be in the vehicle alone with him again the next day.
(submitted by angiepants)
UNWANTED COMMENTS OR PURSUING IS NOT A COMPLEMENT! IT’S ASSULT!
It is never acceptable!
Posted 12 hours ago
Song of the Day….actually, a song for everyday: Think, Aretha Franklin
Why: Sometimes the news about peoples actions make me wonder if we THINK before we act. Common scene anyone? No? Too bad.
Posted 12 hours ago
I Love United Kingdom: Attacks on Muslims soar in wake of Woolwich murder
This- this makes me so mad! If you want terrorism to end, then stop acting like terrorists! ‘Guilty by association?’ Okay, we can play that game- all Christians will face punishment for their part in the genocides in North and South America. Hows that? What, not the same? How about all Christians not being able to attend funerals because the Westborogh Baptist Church can’t behave?
Here is a news flaw- the few don’t speak for the many. Does Timothy McVeigh speak for you? Does the KKK? Skinhead? Human traffickers? Hopefully they don’t speak for you. Wouldn’t be a shame if they were held up as universal images of a certain group of Americans. And don’t think this outrage only happens in the UK; there just happens to be a story about it today.
Come on world! We are better then this!
Posted 2 days ago
“Bombing Muslims: Not terrorism. Drone murder: Not terrorism. Bludgeoning a British Muslim: Not terrorism. Killing a British soldier: terrorism.”
This makes a valid point.
Posted 2 days ago
Posted 2 days ago
[TW Rape/Abortion]
I once had a guy tell me that a woman who was raped, got pregnant from it, and had an abortion was “worse than her rapist” because “at least he let her live”.
(submitted by anonymous)
Hold it….What? UNACCEPTABLE!
