Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Facebook Status today

“Greetings IRS agents! We are ISI, the Intercollegiate Society of Independents. We don’t know any students. We just sit at our desks and read totally non-patriotic books. Please disregard all previous Facebook updates, which seem to have been sent by a team of evil Tea Party hackers. Nothing to see here…”

I love them.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

(Source: emilye)

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

hislittleflower-throughconcrete:

leftybegone:

stand-true-stand-proud:

The stinging tears and palpable heartbreak of a young woman deceived by Planned Parenthood say more than a book crammed with words ever could convey about the harm done to women when they are deprived of a glimpse of the humanity of their children before aborting them.

“I just got back from Planned Parenthood,” a visibly distraught young lady says in a YouTube video posted on January 19. She had just picked up records from a Planned Parenthood abortion that happened six years earlier. She says Planned Parenthood falsified the records regarding her age at the time of the abortion.

Struggling to maintain her composure, she sifts through the abortion records until she finds the ultrasound report. It indicates that she was offered and took advantage of the opportunity to view the image of her son prior to the abortion. She flatly denies that.

“I never saw my ultrasound,” she says. “I was told nothing was visible, and I was told that it wouldn’t matter—you couldn’t see a heartbeat, you couldn’t see anything… . I wouldn’t know what I was looking at.”

She displays the ultrasound form, which says that she requested and was given a copy of the image. “I wasn’t ever given a picture of my son. But when I went to Planned Parenthood today and I got all of the records, I saw that ultrasound for the very first time—about six years later,” she says, choking back tears. She points to an image in which she says she can see her baby’s heart beating.

She appeals to Planned Parenthood and to the people who support it with a heartfelt cry:

I just want to know why I was denied seeing this. You say that women don’t change their minds because of it. I don’t know if I would have, but if I had, would it have been so bad? You talk about choice, and all this crap, but when we want to pass laws about women having to see their ultrasound before having an abortion, [you say] that’s wrong. So basically, what you are saying is you don’t want to give them full choice. You just want them to pick your choice.

“I can’t even explain how much I sobbed when I saw that.”

She tearfully continues,

And my world just fell apart all over again. This was my child. This wasn’t a choice or just a little something that I got rid of in a simple medical procedure. This was my son. And this is the first time I’ve ever seen him. And there is something so wrong about that.

Until we stop allowing Planned Parenthood to obfuscate and lie about the humanity of those lives it considers worth sacrificing for the money it makes, the world will continue to be deceived and Planned Parenthood will continue to flourish, becoming fatter and fatter on our tax dollars and on the blood of the precious innocent aborted babies who so often get omitted from the abortion debate.

-From Live Action’s website

Look me dead in the eyes and tell me that Planned Parenthood doesn’t lie and hurt women like Miss Albany Rose.

Look HER straight in the eyes and tell her that what she went through was[n’t] wrong in the most extreme form.

Will you continue to defend PP’s lies? Will you continue to deny all of the information that is being presented to you because it doesn’t fit your paradigm paralysis?

Money money money. PP wanted their money, and they didn’t care if they took away the right of this woman to have an INFORMED choice.

PP is so corrupt it isn’t even funny.

Friday, April 19, 2013

queeniman:

thearcanetheory:

modernanglophilia:

Tumblr, please spread this like WILDFIRE. This teenager has been wrongly suspected of being one of the Boston bombers. He’s scared for his family. 

Please pass it on.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311248/Sala-Barhoum-track-star-teenager-denies-involvement-Boston-Marathon-bombing-picture-widely-circulated.html

racism kills

stop it

This really brings tears to my eyes wallahi

wrestleforgold:

greenteaandgreatworkouts:

descroissants:

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon.The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29. [Wiki]
Awesome women in history.

ALWAYS REBLOG

I can’t explain how much I love rulebreaking, society changing, progressive women.

wrestleforgold:

greenteaandgreatworkouts:

descroissants:

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon.The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29. [Wiki]

Awesome women in history.

ALWAYS REBLOG

I can’t explain how much I love rulebreaking, society changing, progressive women.

(Source: sabino)

HELP I’m looking for an article and might be going crazy…

Early on, right after the bombings this week, I read an article about how the police had a Middle Eastern suspect (or “person of interest”) - they tore his dorm room apart and interrogated his roommate for 4 or 5 hours or something - all because he was Middle Eastern and they saw him “running from the scene” (because no one else was?).  

Anyway, I can’t find that article ANYWHERE, and now any more recent articles about racial profiling or Middle Eastern or Muslim suspects just talks about the fear of it happening (e.g., “US Muslims ‘holding their breath’  as Boston investigators hunt for bomber,” the Guardian).  And those articles only mention how the media incorrectly said that the police have a Middle Eastern suspect.  

So like…what?  Did I just have a dream about the article?  Was it an uninformed blog post?  

EDIT: http://www.ktvz.com/news/Early-Boston-bombing-report-Racial-profiling/-/413192/19794048/-/pdl0g8z/-/index.html

This mentions searching his room and then clearing him, but omits the part where they interrogated his roommate.  

Thursday, April 18, 2013
iliffe:

hey look its mumford and sons

iliffe:

hey look its mumford and sons

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
socialismartnature:

From Children in Iraq
I just can’t even… I mean, can you imagine? The U.S. is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, including countless children, as a result of its recent barbaric invasion and occupation of that country. Yet these Iraqi children somehow find it in their hearts to express solidarity with the suffering of regular American people. If only all people everywhere had the courage and compassion of the two young souls pictured here.

socialismartnature:

From Children in Iraq

I just can’t even… I mean, can you imagine? The U.S. is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, including countless children, as a result of its recent barbaric invasion and occupation of that country. Yet these Iraqi children somehow find it in their hearts to express solidarity with the suffering of regular American people. If only all people everywhere had the courage and compassion of the two young souls pictured here.