via Facebook... ((((ALL THE HUGS))))
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Hey, Heidi...I got tickets to Flogging Molly and Gogol Bordello with Mariachi El Bronx in June! Like 20th row...
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Via Baratunde R. Thurston: "Here we go again. A bunch of people with extra time on their hands are turning on Trevor Noah as quickly as they praised his selection as Daily Show host. Why? Because based on a few tweets, they say he's sexist, anti-semetic, and more. I'm getting sick of the internet lynch mob, regardless of the politics of the mob's members. I can tell you, personally, and vouch: Trevor Noah is an incredible human being. He's hilarious. He's smart. He's been through more than most can imagine. All the people throwing him under the bus right now need to check themselves. There is no perfection in the human species. There is no ideological line any person can walk that will withstand the scrutiny of people looking for transgressions. If we continue to hold human beings to impossibly inhuman standards, we will just be left in a lonely world with our self-righteousness and no nice things. *I* have made remarks I'm sure would be called sexist, racist, ableist, and more. Does that mean at core I'm a bad person? That I should lose my job? If I went through every statement you ever made... If I went through your garbage, and your notebook scraps... If I overheard every utterance... I would find something ugly. I would find your racism. I would find your sexism. I would find your lack of neurodiversity sensitivity. And I would find that you probably killed Biggie. And then what? Do I tell your spouse to leave you? You friends to abandon you? Your landlord to evict you? And you employer to drop you? Because you're not perfect? And because I conclude from a few scraps mined from the totality of your life, who you are as a person? You know where else we behave this ugly? Our criminal justice system. We are willing to physically throw certain human beings away because of a single transgression. We assume they cannot grow or learn or improve or be more than that one act. And for people of color in general, or ANY marginalized group to jump on the anti-Trevor bandwagon is rich, rich irony. Have we not suffered enough under the microscopic glare and outsized standards of the majority? Was it not the poll tax standards of perfect memorization of the Constitution that was used disenfranchise so many? Did we not have to get straight As to not be considered merely affirmative action admissions at universities? If we were not perfect, we were dead. Why continue that legacy today? I've been a part of internet attack mobs before. I am not perfect in my actions, nor in my response, but I'm tired now. We have to stop this rapid reaction force of snap judgement. We have all said and done things that truly are or can be construed as wrong, inappropriate, and the like. And none of us. NONE OF US could withstand the scrutiny and judgment we're applying to this brilliant, imperfect, beautiful, flawed, hilarious, nuanced, talented human being named Trevor Noah. I repeat my call to watch the documentary about his life by David Paul Meyer. http://ift.tt/1h5aXYt It will paint a more relevant picture than a few damn tweets. Otherwise just stop it. P.S. if you really think this is about "who deserves to host the daily show," check your ego. You're not in charge. You're not the selection committee. You don't own the show. You're not responsible for pulling it off every day. You probably have no idea what it would take, and you'd fail in the first five minutes probably after urinating yourself cause you couldn't find the bathroom."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Nope. Oh nope. "“I was so shocked she asked for a boys suit for the child,” the clerk posted. “I asked her why she was encouraging this. This is child abuse from the mother.”"
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "There are the people who say that “skinny-shaming is the same as fat-shaming." And because on the surface, that comparison seems to hold water, I think we need to examine it a little more closely to see why – when using an intersectional, anti-oppression lens – it’s actually a false equivalence. This piece is not in defense of skinny-shaming. Body-shaming in all forms is inexcusable. Rather, this piece aims to point out the ways in which fat-shaming entails an extra layer of oppression – fatphobia – that skinny-shaming lacks. [Image: A person facing a reflection of themselves, the version on the left being larger in size than the one on the right.]"
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "Oh, people don’t even know. If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets." Feed the poor...
Monday, March 30, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Oh HELL YES! "A New Brunswick-based aboriginal group and three men are suing the New Brunswick and federal governments for $13 billion in damages for alleged "genocide" and loss of native lands over the past 400 years. They are also seeking a declaration that the two levels of government have no jurisdiction over aboriginal and Métis people in the province."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... LOL LOL! "That radioactive-looking stuff is beet horseradish. One reaction to this dish: "I can't believe I ever complained about my mom's cooking. At least the first ingredient wasn't sorrow.""
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... RUM! Being made locally! Because PIRATES! Rain now you have to visit :D And Ashley, you need to come back, too...
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Members of the Heiltsuk Nation in Canada are occupying a Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) office in British Columbia, vowing to protect the herring in their territory from "unsustainable" fishing by "any means necessary":
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... I will totally start wearing giant I AM QUEER buttons to every store I go to.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "I’m not going to stop talking about the unprecedented grasp that Citigroup has on our government’s economic policymaking apparatus ... And I’m not going to pretend the work of financial reform is done, when the so-called 'too big to fail' banks are even bigger now than they were in 2008."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Damn tourists. But the New Yorkers all rush to help because that's what we do. Love my city.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Well, damn. And good. “If you had asked me two years ago if you could treat PTSD with medication blockade, I would have said yes, but now I don't think so,” Glanzman says. On the bright side, he adds, the idea that memories persist deep within brain cells offers new hope for another disorder tied to memory: Alzheimer's."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... But who cares about dead people, right? After all, we are a "Christian Nation", and Lord knows the bible never cared about foreigners seeking refugee or anything.... Oh, wait, my bad...."You shall neither vex a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt" Exodus 22:21 "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Hebrew 13:2 Bloody hypocrites. The sheer inhumanity disgusts me. We, the 'land of plenty', have no business turning away the desperate. And for the US to ever think we have any moral standing in the world? Bollocks. Bloody bollocks.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "A Baton Rouge, La., hospital is closing the only emergency room on the city's impoverished north side, a real-world ripple effect of the ideological clash over President Barack Obama's health care law. The shutdown on April 1 serves as an early warning for hospitals in states like Louisiana, where Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal turned down federal money to expand the Medicaid program for the poor. Charity hospitals will lose billions of federal aid beginning late next year, a cut that was supposed to be offset as more residents were covered by Medicaid."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... ZOMG. So much squee. And trust for mama to let Stryker be so close. What a fabulous dog. I do really <3 GSDs.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "If John Boehner thinks that U.S. troops should be on the ground in Yemen fighting the Houthis, or that we should re-occupy Iraq, or that the United States should bomb Iran to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon, then he should have the courage of his convictions to actually say so."
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... ALL OF THIS "In a country that has identified black people as its criminal element, public safety (and perceived security) is more tied to the suppression of blacks than it is to the suppression of crime. And as long as the public insists on its myth of black criminality—almost as an article of faith—police practices will be impossible to reform." "Rates of violent crime are down and have been falling sharply for more than 20 years. In fact, since the early 90s, the national homicide rate has fallen by 51 percent, forcible rapes have declined by 35 percent, robberies have decreased by 56 percent and the rate of aggravated assault has been cut by 45 percent. And black Americans have contributed to the decline. For blacks, rates of robbery and serious property offenses are the lowest they've been in more than 40 years. Murder, rape, assault, domestic violence—all down."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Great idea. "If it's gonna prevent a robbery, if it's gonna prevent a homicide, if it's gonna make our citizens feel safe ... we can live with it," says Hartford's chief of detectives. "We don't want it to become a flea market out there, but certainly it hasn't been a problem."
Friday, March 27, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Jesus take the wheel "The “world’s first genetically engineered superfont,” he as describes it, is called Comic Papyrus and will forever haunt your dreams. “Your two most favoritest fonts ever have FINALLY been smooshed together typographically, just as Darwin intended. Cross-bred. Cross-awesomified,” he adds."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Yup. You early birds can have your worms. I'll take my late nights...
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Discussing the new Indiana law with my Teen. Him: Well, like back when whites--or as I like to call them, dumbasses--had white only stores. It's just wrong. Me: *laughs* Him: (in full sarcasm mode) I'm allowed to call them dumbasses 'cause I'm white. #parentpride
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... CN: rape and violence of minors. And they were never prosecuted. Yeah, let's talk about the US and it's to moralize to the world.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "It is infuriating that our voice as Jews has more legitimacy on this campus than that of Palestinians"
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... CN: Rape. Bull. They should have been prosecuted. If not there, here. "An 800-page independent report commissioned by the US-friendly Colombian government and the radical left rebel group FARC found that US military soldiers and contractors had sexually abused at least 54 children in Colombia between 2003 and 2007 and, in all cases, the rapists were never punished–either in Colombia or stateside–due to American military personnel being immune from prosecution under diplomatic immunity agreements between the two countries."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "Millennials are fluent in colorblindness and diversity, while remaining illiterate in the language of anti-racism." -Mychal Denzel Smith is a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Fuck her. I don't get why anyone thinks she's worth a damn.... "“Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz.” It’s a list of “funny” things, where you’re not supposed to be able to tell if she’s talking about her dog or her Jewish boyfriend." Because Jews are hard to tell from dogs. Just fuck her to hell. It's not funny. It's not a joke. It's not satire.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "This piece of legislation is designed as a cost-saving measure for the employer. Anywhere they save a dollar, it costs the employees a dollar. It's just a shift in costs." Walmart, Lowe's, Safeway, and Nordstrom are just a few of the companies trying to screw employees out of worker's compensation.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Alix Jules at The Graffiti Wall on Ferguson and Franklin Graham’s message of submission - "And when you’re on the wrong end of a racially charged beating due to immoral behavior from an unjust authority – asking those people to submit to that authority is just freaking evil."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... " It’s important. People, particularly abled people, try to separate disabled people from our disabilities a lot. For example, if you tell me (like many abled people have) “You’re not your autism!, ”“You’re not autistic, you’re a person!” or “Don’t think of yourself as disabled” you’re separating me from my disabilities. The same is true of “I don’t really think of you as disabled,” “Don’t let your disabilities become your identity,” “You’re a person with autism, not an autistic person,” and “Your disabilities don’t define you!” When you say those things, you probably mean well. I know that. You probably think you’re being kind. Maybe you think you’re being encouraging. To put it bluntly, you’re not."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Le sigh. I haz...The Gout. It's from one of my blood pressure meds. It feels like the part of the Little Mermaid when she gets to walk on land but it feels like knives in her feet? Like that. Only in one spot. Because literally from head to toe I needed something wrong. The delicious perfection of my imperfect life never ceases to amaze me...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "Why is it that diversity in young adult, middle grade, and children’s literature is often represented as an either/or, without intersectionality? Characters can either be autistic or gay, for example, or a wheelchair user or Black, but rarely both. Why do you think we see so few characters who are marginalized in more than one way?"
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "We all — especially trafficking victims — deserve better than a bill that lets law enforcement and Christian conservatives play "HERO" via overcriminalization rather than looking to less coercive, more nuanced, and more effective solutions."
Monday, March 23, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "Over half a century of research has failed to produce a single study where more than a tiny fraction of people lose weight long term. There is not a single study showing that long term weight loss leads to better health."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Just fuck this racist piece of shite and if you defend him fuck you too.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... TW: Transphobia, medical abuse, medical assault I hope justice is served.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... TW: Medical abuse, medical assault, forced/non-consented to surgeries, pregnancy, birth, religious abuse, victim blaming "Critics blame the continued use of the operation on a toxic mix of medical experimentation, Catholic aversion to caesarean sections and an institutional disregard for women’s autonomy. They claim it has left hundreds of surviving women with life-long pain, disability and emotional trauma. For some in Ireland, it is yet another scandal perpetrated against women and girls, joining revelations over the Magdalene laundries (where “wayward” women were abused), the deaths of children at mother-and-baby homes and sex abuse in the Catholic church."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "I'm totes sorry about all that racist shit I said. Not so much sorry, really, as someone is making me say I regret if I offended Any of those people I hate and wish were dead..."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Yup. I don't much care what you believe I care what you do. The love you put out in the world.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "One of my students aptly points out that if you are conditioned to have no emotion, if you are programmed that way, it isn't possible to believe that other people have emotions. It's not possible in this scenario to have empathy, because you feel nothing."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "I know we all have different experiences, but I learned feminism disproportionately from black women.”
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Um....I am awed and slightly turned on and impressed as hell. Also I can't do most of these things on the floor. This is one HAWT BAMF.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... The actual fuck? "Judge Jeffrey Weill seems to believe public defenders should be more deferential to him and less passionate in the representation of their clients. Apparently disapproving of the zealous advocacy of one public defender, Judge Weill removed her from all of her cases and, according to Public Defender Michelle Harris, to identify any specific behavior that violated the lawyer’s professional obligations to her clients, or the court. In doing so he has disrespected the right to counsel for the poor. When the Hinds County public defender office refused to abandon those they are charged with serving, and collectively resisted Judge’s Weill’s attempts to further interfere with their representation of clients, he held an attorney and the head of the office in contempt."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Why don't people trust doctors? "Virginia’s 1924 Eugenical Sterilization Act laid it all out. Three years later, the Supreme Court ruled the whole thing to be constitutional. In fact, this court decision was later even cited by Nazi doctors during the Nuremberg trials, in their defense. In all, 7,325 Virginians were forcibly-sterilized under the law. The State didn’t even scrub the act from the law books until 1979. By then, over 65,000 forced sterilizations had been conducted across the nation."
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... In my circles needing to pee after laughing means you need your very own special chair at bonfires...
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... That is just silly, stay in bed, he'll just eat it back up and it'll be clean by morning. Duh. Also: don't have carpet. Or at least don't have nice carpet.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "Remember that game where the small vulnerable kids were totally terrorized with complete permission? YEAH, thats would be PERFECT for autism awareness!"
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "Autism Awareness doesn't really help autistic people in general, and kids like my son Leo specifically. It makes it too easy for well-meaning people to feel they are "doing something" about autism if they wear a blue ribbon or buy a blue light bulb -- when neither of those actions translate to real-world benefits and support for autistics and autism families. Autism Awareness campaigns let people look at pictures of kids like my sweet Leo, and say "awww" or "bless his heart" while still considering him as a statistic, a number in an "epidemic" (autism is not a disease), a burden to society."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... I am in total awe. "Naziyah Mahmood is a woman of contradictions.She was a scientist for the European Space Agency, an artist and soon to be published writer/poet. Also, she is a deadly martial artist and weapons collector while being a peace loving woman of faith. Naziyah has overcome a tough upbringing and disability to become an academic of excellence……who can also kick your butt." "We’ve practiced many other martial arts to develop ourselves. We’ve trained together in empty hand arts such as Ba gua and Xing Yi (Quan) Aikido, Hapkido, Taekwondo and Tai Chi. Also on the pressure point arts, Dimmak, Fa Jin, Kyusho Jitsu and the internal martial arts; Qigong and Gicheon. For me though, the weapons arts are one that I especially love. I’ve enjoyed working on the Chinese Jian and Dao as well as the Nunchuku and the Korean twin swords.My favourite weapons (to train with) are the Jingum (Korean Steel single edged sword) and the Mokkum (it’s wooden counterpart) but the one sword that is most personal to me is a particular Japanese Katana. I’m a bit of a sword collector and historian. In fact my room is covered with them. My mum hates coming in there as it looks like she’s going into an armoury! I’ve got all sorts of weapons."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... I...yeah. Let's lock up the victims to 'keep them safe' because those facilities are oh-so-safe. No victimization there at all. Because this is way easier then putting in place resources to, you know, KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Asshatted turdbrained douchlords. "the parents were outraged that they had to talk to their kids about racism"
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