via Facebook... RJ just snarked me into oblivion... I am so proud of this kid!
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... ZOMG! Jim Beam Honey and ginger ale. Do it. DOOOOO EEEEET! Trust me, I would never steer you wrong.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... You know it's going to be a good night when you leave the ABC store with a box... Moderation is for monks. RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... YES! I had issues with the ad but was having trouble voicing them. Specifically, who is the ad for? It isn't directed at abusers, telling them not to abuse. It isn't directed at those being abused, telling them there is a way out. It isn't even directed at bystanders, telling them to intervene. It's just generally saying "this happens and the police are the only ones who can help, after its over". And I just don't think that's the message to send. " But if the only thing we’re being asked to do is have compassion after someone has already experienced violence, we’re accepting that violence as a part of culture. We’re conceding something I’d rather not — that we can’t prevent men from beating women. We can only care for these women’s wounds."
Friday, January 30, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Oh. My. God. The argument is...compelling. Mark, you're the film guy...
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... " The welfare of "worn out" allies is not a progressive concern; it's an elitist's preoccupation. Prioritizing the emotional and cognitive safety of those already in power or privilege is not a sign of health or political savvy; it is a sign of fearful regression."
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... " "I realized there is a real agenda here because [the school] explained to me English III is teaching social issues," she said, according to Raw Story. "How is that going to help my child read better and write better?"" Oh. My. Sweet. Baby. Zeus.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... " Norfolk Public Schools officials say a bus driver messed up when she let a severely autistic student off the school bus Monday afternoon." No, that wasn't a 'mess up'. A child had to walk four miles in the freezing cold to the alternate address which the driver was supposed to drive him to. That was negligence and child endangerment.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... This. Applies to so much more than fat hate. " A person who hates seeing a happy, liberated person wishes they had the strength to do that, but they are too entrenched or “bought in” to the way things are right now to see it as a beautiful thing. "
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... What the hell? " A new bill has been proposed which would allow police officers to enter any home, regardless of whether or not they have a warrant, if there is a pit bull on the property. Even worse, the bill would allow officers to shoot and kill the dog if only a handful of conditions were met. The Huffington Post reported that measure would make Mississippi the only state in history with a policy against a specific dog breed. House Bill 1261 not only says police may enter homes without warrants, but they could actually kill the animal if they determine the dogs are “not under proper restraint when on the premises of its owner” or if they are not wearing vaccination tags and “attempts to peacefully capture the dog have been made and proven unsuccessful.” If my dog is on my premises it is under proper restraint, my dogs are often nekkid at home because collars can catch on things, and why do you need to capture a dog IN MY OWN HOUSE?
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... I'm not sure if ice cream is a typical migraine palliative, but I'm on day two of a wicked one and I'm considering finishing off the whole container as a distraction. How bad of a migraine? I COULDN'T PLAY VIDEO GAMES. And that little yell actually hurt my ears. Why am I on Facebook? Because I need something to keep me occupied until my meds kick in. If they do. Funny and cute pictures, please. And shhhh, not so loud please. And if someone could bring my the carton and a spoon....
Monday, January 26, 2015
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Time for a rousing game of indoor Terv Tennis! Who says you can't play ball in the house?
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... I have decided things: I need a fireplace. Not this fake propane thing, but a real fireplace that makes fire. A wood burning stove will be an acceptable alternative. I want soup. It's cold and rainy and I want soup. Dogs need raincoats and boots. I need to not live in a bloody swamp. Know what happens when it rains and you live in a swamp? Your yard turns into a mud soup of grossness. The grass gets churned by thundering feets and more mud happens. Today is a Skyrim day. And also I'm hooking my pc up to my regular tv and that's final. Also because I broke my moniter (which is a different story) and its way easier to get a wireless keyboard. That is all for today.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... I smell fruit punch. There is no fruit punch but I smell it. Now I'm hungry.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... In a group someone asked why there was a divide with white and black feminism. This is how I answered, and I hope I got it mostly right. Please let me know if I need to correct something... It isn't a "growing" disdain, it's one that's been there while early feminists fought to vote but were publicly racists as well, when black feminists were ignored or co-opted. While white feminists ignore their role of white women in lynchings, which were usually done with the excuse of protecting white womanhood. When white women feminists fight to work, ignoring that black women have always had to work and take care of their families and didn't have the luxury of leaning in or hiring a nanny, since they were the nanny. When white women fight for reproductive justice that means abortion, forgetting that the luxury of not having your child gunned down in the street is also a form of reproductive justice. When white women don't call out the racism of Bill Cosby getting zingers at the awards while Woody Allen got to keep his career. When white women act like white saviors instead of sisters. When they ignore the missing black children and women. When they say #alllivesmatter and #notallwhites instead of putting themselves on the front lines for equality. When white families adopt little foreign babies to "save them" while promoting the economics and politics that lead to a country being torn apart by violence and poverty. When they don't acknowledge their role in white patriarchy and how they benefit from it. Every time a white woman talks about being in a scary neighborhood--which means a black neighborhood--ignoring all the women who live there. If you've ever been afraid when a black man got in the elevator with you? Clutched your purse tighter? That. White women have been complicit in the white supremacy, and any feminism that is not also about that is not black feminism, it's just about the patriarchy. If you go to Google, read some bell hooks, read black feminists, do some research, see what woc fight for, what their reality is... Because it really isn't the same. My feminism includes immigration, knows that poverty and housing and education are all tools of white supremacy used against POC. Knows that a few dead French are worthy of a hashtag and a march of world leaders but 2000+ massacred Nigerians barely get a news blip. That a white shooter is a disturbed and mentally ill young man, a black shooter is a thug and a Muslim shooter is a terrorist. It's a huge, huge divide, and to be a real ally one needs to not assume what others *should* care about or realize, but ask and listen what being treated fairly means to a woc, because it's not necessarily the same thing you have in mind.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... This. " The conservative response to King--to demonize him in the '60s and to domesticate him today--has always been essentially the same: It has been about coping with the fear that seekers of justice may overturn what we see as the natural order and still be lionized. But if we manage to forget that, sometimes, doing things that terrify people is the only recourse to injustice, there is no point in having a Martin Luther King Day at all." "
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... " Latinos should remember that while some of us have privileges associated with Whiteness, this is not White Privilege. However, the only way we can understand our own racialization is to identify those areas in which some of us benefit from White Supremacy and where we don’t – a category Eduardo Bonilla Silva calls “honorary white” – and attack those areas if we are truly in the business of killing White Supremacy. " This.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... So, if anyone knows a Sarah Jones who hates me? Tell her to bring it on face to face instead of hiding like like a coward trying to get me thrown out of groups. And she blocked me, so it's no one I know now. But I'm more than happy to face her in any arena she chooses. Like a civil court. I'd be very very happy to sue her for slander or libel, so unless she had proof of her allegations? I'll be soon be hiring a lawyer unless she shuts up. Otherwise I've had an awesome day.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... This. "Some forms of expression–among them obscenity and fighting words–do not convey ideas and thus are not subject to First Amendment protection. In this case, Chaplinsky uttered fighting words, i.e., words that “inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.”
Friday, January 16, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Good question. " But are the sacrifices of war still sacrifices when you enjoy them? Is heroism still heroism when you’re motivated by hatred?"
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Interesting. And concerning. And, yeah, race and class play a role... " In past studies, Chasnoff has found that doctors are more comfortable interviewing poor and African-American women about alcohol use than they are their white, middle-class patients—even though white women are, in some states, likelier to drink during pregnancy." Also, a few drinks doesn't do this. Don't freak out over a glass of wine.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Dear People Who Read My Stuff: My kindle is being all possessed. If it is charging the keyboard will randomly pick other keys so y when two xxx ok try to trpe it looks alias like I this If I stop charging it behaves as normal. What sorcery is this? How do I make it stop? Thank you.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... First, this is the future of fraking: "Everyone had expected that in 2014 the Saudis would move to limit supply and maintain stable oil prices by cutting back production, as OPEC has done for decades. But an unexpected shockwave hit the industry in November 2014: The Saudis laid down the gauntlet and announced their intention to continue full production and let oil prices drop. For the Saudis, this serves two purposes: First, it undermines the expansion of US shale oil by forcing prices down so low that many of the wells have to be shut down or lose money. Second, it punishes their enemy, Iran, whose oil export-based economy has been savaged by the lower prices. The Saudis are sitting pat, with a trillion-dollar war chest savings account accumulated over a decade of $100 per barrel oil. Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi has publicly admitted that the Saudis will wait as long as needed to retain market share, even if prices plunge further." Second, get your money out of those banks.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Did you ever lie down to have a quick short nap and wake up a few hours later with something dead in your mouth and the feeling of having barely escaped an apocalypse? With a weird pattern etched in your cheek and memories of something fleeting but important slowly being erased? That. That is what just happened.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... My plans for sleep have failed me. Ambian has failed me! Can't stop braining. Added Ativan to the cocktail (which really sounds very dirty) and we will see if that brings on the Sandman... Having longish blank pauses. Think it's working. Oh sleep, beautiful lovely sleep. Into your arms I drift. Distance had made my heart grown fonder. I'll ignore that you are a callous and flighty bitch with your own agenda....at least for tonight. Sweet dreams.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Okay, gonna try this sleep thing. If it doesn't work I'll be putting up an ad for a live in night owl....
Monday, January 12, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... #howisleep They take turns on the pillows and my head through the night, or both hold my legs in case gravity suddenly stops.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... " The terrorist attack in France that took place at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was not about free speech. It was not about radical Islam. It did not illustrate the fictitious clash of civilizations. It was a harbinger of an emerging dystopia where the wretched of the earth, deprived of resources to survive, devoid of hope, brutally controlled, belittled and mocked by the privileged who live in the splendor and indolence of the industrial West, lash out in nihilistic fury. We have engineered the rage of the dispossessed. The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism. And rather than understand the roots of that rage and attempt to ameliorate it, we have built sophisticated mechanisms of security and surveillance, passed laws that permit the targeted assassinations and torture of the weak, and amassed modern armies and the machines of industrial warfare to dominate the world by force. This is not about justice. It is not about the war on terror. It is not about liberty or democracy. It is not about the freedom of expression. It is about the mad scramble by the privileged to survive at the expense of the poor. And the poor know it."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Karen, you'll like this one, if you haven't seen it... http://ift.tt/1z0xGBk
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... The dogs in elk story! With pictures! (Of carved pumpkins, not of the actual scene). Wow, I do remember this story....hysterical.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... This. " But while the sharp uptick of U.S. drone strikes has succeeded in taking out a handful of key figures, including AQAP deputy emir Said al-Shihri and charismatic extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the barrage of remotely operated American airpower has failed to deliver anything resembling a knock-out punch to the terror group. Yemenis overwhelmingly oppose the strikes, which they see as violations of the nation’s sovereignty and the rule of law. These misgivings have only been heightened by a series of civilian casualties resulting from the strikes. A number of observers—including former U.S. deputy ambassador to Yemen Nabil Khoury—have vocally criticized the strikes, arguing that they ultimately risk creating as many militants as they kill, ironically threatening to inflame anti-American sentiments to the point of spurring the very attacks the U.S. is aiming to prevent."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... No marches or Twitter hashtags for these dead....I wonder what the difference is? ……… Here is a full, current list of those journalists who have been killed by the IDF while working in Gaza: 1. Hamid Abdullah Shehab – “Media 24″company. 2. Najla Mahmoud Haj – media activist. 3 Khalid Hamad – the “Kontnao” Media Production company. 4. Ziad Abdul Rahman Abu Hin – al-Ketab satellite channel. 5. Ezzat Duheir – Prisoners Radio. 6. Bahauddin Gharib – Palestine TV. 7 Ahed Zaqqout – veteran sports journalist. 8 Ryan Rami – Palestinian Media Network. 9 Sameh Al-Arian – Al-Aqsa TV. 10 Mohammed Daher – Editor in al-Resala paper. 11. Abdullah Vhjan – sports journalist. 12 journalist Khaled Hamada Mqat- Director of Saja news website. 13. freelance journalist Shadi Hamdi Ayyad. 14 photojournalist Mohammed Nur al-Din al-Dairi – works in the Palestinian Network. 15. journalist Ali Abu Afesh – Doha Center for Media. 16 Italian journalist Simone Camille – photographer in the Associated Press. 17. Abdullah fadel Murtaja
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Annnnnnnnd...OBAMA! Because there is then and there is us. And them we can tell by the color of their skin. Humanity fail.
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... J.K. Rowling ✔ @jk_rowling Follow I was born Christian. If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I'll auto-excommunicate. http://ow.ly/H7Eps
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... I find my lack of sleep....disturbing. I'm going to eat all the things, randomly let my dogs share my food, play some video games and make sure that everyone on the internet is aware of my thoughts on random world events. I will also play tug and "give me back my shoe! Dammit I need something to trade...." (hands dog random collection of items, one by one)...."a pencil? No....a full water bottle? Not now....I know!" (Hand over Steve's left behind shoe) Misha will need to pee exactly zero times because her bladder is somehow psychicly linked to REM sleep. Happy Sunday!
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... This. " But make no mistake, the reasons the perpetrators carried out this attack were more complex than simply freedom of speech. For what is pitifully lacking in most every media representation of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo is the historical background of what this attack was about."
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... This. "The scale, intensity, and manner of the solidarity that we are seeing for the victims of the Paris killings, encouraging as it may be, indicates how easy it is in Western societies to focus on radical Islamism as the real, or the only, enemy. This focus is part of the consensus about mournable bodies, and it often keeps us from paying proper attention to other, ongoing, instances of horrific carnage around the world: abductions and killings in Mexico, hundreds of children (and more than a dozen journalists) killed in Gaza by Israel last year, internecine massacres in the Central African Republic, and so on. And even when we rightly condemn criminals who claim to act in the name of Islam, little of our grief is extended to the numerous Muslim victims of their attacks, whether in Yemen or Nigeria—in both of which there were deadly massacres this week—or in Saudi Arabia, where, among many violations of human rights, the punishment for journalists who “insult Islam” is flogging. We may not be able to attend to each outrage in every corner of the world, but we should at least pause to consider how it is that mainstream opinion so quickly decides that certain violent deaths are more meaningful, and more worthy of commemoration, than others."
Friday, January 9, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Yes yes yes YES! " But Cassandra's age seems to be a big factor in the court's ruling. How do doctors ethically consider a child's age? Have you heard of the rule of sevens? From ages 0 till 7, there's no voice of the child. From 7 to 14, there's assent; the voice of the child should be integrated into decision-making, but it's not determinative. And above age 14, kids should be able to make their own decisions."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Yes, so much this. It's the punching up v punching down problem. .... “Colorblind” or “equal opportunity” comedy ignores relationships of power and historical legacies of oppression. Using slurs against white people today that were used against Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, or Italians at the beginning of the 20th century in the United States does not have the same moral valence as using slurs against Latinos or African Americans. Those ethnic white groups have, using the terms of W.E.B. Du Bois, paid their “wages of whiteness” and transcended, for the most part, their racialized marginalization from dominant society."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "I mean, he is exactly pointing to this problem of the double standard in reacting to such events when they come from Muslims nowadays compared to any other religion, because, after all, this wave of extremism and fundamentalism is affecting everywhere, you know. I mean, we mentioned this Norwegian crazy guy, and you have these appalling demonstrations of the far right in Germany, of all places, that’s really frightening. You had—you have Jewish fundamentalist extremists in Israel killing regularly, actually, and no one is saying Judaism is the source of all these killings. You have Hindu fundamentalists doing all sorts of appalling things, and again, no one is saying this is the problem of Hinduism. But when it comes to Islam, Islam is finger-pointed immediately. And that’s really here an issue of double standard in dealing with that. And again, I mean, the freedom of speech is something, and I’m fully for the real freedom of speech, actually, which France is not a real country of freedom of speech, where you have a lot of laws hindering the real freedom of speech in France. It’s nothing like the First Amendment in the United States. But even in these limitations to the freedom of speech, you find double standards also. And as I said, I mean, for instance, France, of course, the sense of guilt—for very good reason, which is actually an awful historical reason—about the Jewish genocide is not equalled by any sense of guilt with regard to the colonial past of France. And Algeria, for instance, is one of the most appalling episodes in the history of colonialism. You know, I mean, there are few worse cases, like the Congo, with the Belgians in the Congo, and such, but the history of French presence in Algeria, which lasted until 1962—that’s not that long ago, you know—is just appalling. And there is no—no real—I mean, at the level of the whole French society and the French media, this is not really integrated. And you have this kind of secularist arrogance towards Islam, which is a continuation of the kind of arrogance and colonial spirit that existed at the time of direct colonialism."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Yeah. This. " And this is what I called previously the clash of barbarisms, with a major barbarism represented by Western intervention, by especially the United States’ conduct in this region, provoking a counterbarbarism, which is minor compared to the major one, but which is nevertheless a barbarism, this is. And this, we just had a new illustration of that. But this is part of a clash of barbarisms. We have to understand this. And this—I mean, even if we think of rampage killing, this action, which is absolutely shocking and appalling, but, I mean, it comes—you know, in the list of rampage killing for religious-related reasons, it comes far beyond the Norwegian Islamophobic murder of over 75 people"
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... For real. " In a similar vein, it’s important to note that the term “white” has not always meant the same thing. Although WASPs have always benefited from that term in this country, virtually every other European nationality has been considered lesser at some point, from Eastern Europeans (like Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians) and Southern Europeans (like Italians, Greeks, and Spaniards) to long-standing victims of Western persecution (like the Irish and the Jews)."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... This. " And when the horrific assassinations of 12 media people and the wounding of another 12 media workers resulted in justifiable outrage around the world, did you ever wonder why there wasn't an equal outrage at the tens of thousands of innocent civilians killed by the American intervention in Iraq or the over a million civilians killed by the U.S. in Vietnam, or why President Obama refused to bring to justice the CIA torturers of mostly Muslim prisoners, thereby de facto giving future torturers the message that they need not even be sorry for their deeds (indeed, former Vice President Cheney boldly asserted he would order that kind of torture again without thinking twice)? So don't be surprised if people around the world, while condemning the despicable acts of the murderers in Paris and grieving for their families and friends, remain a bit cynical about the media-circus surrounding this particular outrage while the Western media quickly forgets the equally despicable acts of systematic murder and torture that Western countries have been involved in. Or perhaps a bit less convinced that Western societies are really the best hope for civilization when they condone this kind of hypocrisy, rather than responding equally forcefully to all such actions repressing free speech or freedom of assembly. I could easily imagine (and regret) how some Islamist fundamentalists will already be making these points about the ethical inconsistencies of Western societies with their pomposity about human rights that never seem to constrain the self-described "enlightened democracies" from violating those rights when it is they who perceive themselves as under attack."
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... " Now, while not giving a fuck may seem simple on the surface, it’s a whole new bag of burritos under the hood. I don’t even know what that sentence means, but I don’t give a fuck. A bag of burritos sounds awesome, so let’s just go with it."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... This is the best piece so far. " RICK MACARTHUR: If I could just quickly interrupt you, because I—to say at the end that there’s a political question here which we’re not dealing with, which I keep trying to deal with, while separating it from the principle of freedom of expression, and that is, yes, there’s a huge Western, violent Western presence in the Middle East and in the Arab world that didn’t exist 25 years ago. When we sent troops to Saudi Arabia before the first Gulf War, we tore something in the Muslim world. We outraged people. But this is a political question that you should also be talking about. The American Army sending troops to holy soil in Saudi Arabia is a different issue and a different provocation from a French magazine publishing satires of the Prophet Muhammad. And if people don’t begin to look into—make the connections or discuss the political context of the Western presence in the Middle East, the military presence, I think we’re going to have a hard time getting around this roadblock. TARIQ RAMADAN: I really—I really agree with you on this. I think that this is essential. It’s essential for us, as Westerners, and Western Muslims should be involved in this discussion. We cannot cut this discussion from the big picture. And the big picture is, yes, the way, for example, our Western governments are dealing with dictatorships, are dealing with Gulf states, and by being silent about freedom, about dignity, and even supporting regimes where there is no freedom of expression. And this is the right point to make, but this is part of the whole discussion. And you and me, as Westerners from the United States as well as from Europe, we have to be clear: We are not going to defeat anything which has to do with violent extremism, if we are not dealing with justice, with freedom for the people, with the real reform—reformist approach in the Muslim-majority countries. And what is happening today is exactly the opposite. We have the West supporting the worst dictatorships and coming to us, as Western Muslims, say, "OK, now apologize for the consequences of what is happening." So, we should stand to principles, but we cannot avoid talking about the big picture, and a political one is essential."
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... " “When Christians commit acts of terror, we don’t asks priests and pastors to go on national television to condemn these acts, but sadly Muslim public intellectuals, thinkers, leaders, and Islamic scholars have that double standard that we have to deal with,” he added. “I think it’s important to keep in mind that bringing religion into it at all is actually serving the purposes of the terrorists.”"
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Why am I awake? Misha had a small seizure (minute and a half, very little disorientation after). That was dealt with. Then she need to go outside. So I grabbed my robe and put on my slippers and let her out, but she just had a seizure so I didn't want her outside alone just in case so I stepped outside AND HOLY SHIT IT'S FREEZING COLD ESPECIALLY WEARING ONLY A ROBE AND SLIPPERS THE WIND BLOWS IN PLACES THAT SHOULD NEVER BE FROZEN AND I AM REALLY REALLY REALLY AWAKE NOW. #tryingtothaw #indoorpooppadsinmyfuture
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "This year, the Notorious RBG had heart surgery, celebrated her 81st birthday, and served her 21st year on the Supreme Court of the United States. But most of all, 2014 was the year that everyone realiz
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... I just found a bunch of stuff on a yard sale site that I think I have to have. We are in discussions. Including an old rabbit fur coat. Which I looked at and thought: .....come on, you know me. What did I think? … … … … … DOG TOYS. LURING! May as well get some use out of it. Or is the Ambian speaking. Also there is ice cream but I'm not sure I can walk to the kitchen without toppling over. I need a wife here to help with such things! Must love dogs and cats and have a great sense of humor and much patience. Must be good at adulting when I'm not quite there. Pm me if you're interested. Can include room and board. Okay....sleep
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... Warning: I am Ambian. My fingers don't function normally. I get cuddly. And nommy. Brain slows waaaay down. It's awesome. My second and third thoughts are quiet, still. I suspect that this is what many call normal. It's like I'm blurry around the edges. Soft. I also say weird things. So, let the fun begin!
Monday, January 5, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... This. Disturbing to think of, but totally makes sense. " Oxytocin, a hormone that is released during arousal, can increase pain tolerance by as much as 75 percent. So I wasn’t surprised to read that some kids who are regularly spanked experience a surge of oxytocin when they sense danger. It makes sense. If a kid expects a parent to cause physical pain, why wouldn’t her brain trigger an unconscious state of arousal to release the hormone that helps mitigate that pain? Does the possibility that parental spankings trigger sexual arousal hormones along with tears make anyone else a little uncomfortable?"
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... I finally (after words of relaxation from a good friend) fell asleep about 4am. Then Misha woke me to go potty at 5:30. And at 7. And breakfast at 8:30. So now I'm awake. But....I'm going to take a nap. Soon. And on the plus side I'm so exhausted my headache isn't bothering me. Not sure if it's gone or idgaf,
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Friday, January 2, 2015
Darlene Pineda
via Facebook... "I am afraid of the police because it seems that if I do something to make them uncomfortable, walk in the "wrong" neighborhood, or am perceived as a threat, I could be shot and killed, and no one would be held accountable. I could be handcuffed in the back of a police car and shot, and it will written up as a suicide. I could be choked to death on camera, and no indictment will occur, even if the medical examiner rules it a homicide. I could pick up a BB gun in a Walmart and be shot, and there will be no state-sponsored funeral, no flags at half-staff. There will be only my wife and my community grieving, with another reason to be afraid of the police."
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