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thelizard60 replied to your post: HOLY FUCK Ive lost a lot of followers today. God…
how old are you that you give this much of a shit
The post is more of a commentary on WHY people un-follow than the fact that I lost followers.
PS: Piss off.
I saw this post among the slew of comments on this Planned Parenthood post regarding the decision on the after 20-week abortions ban in Arizona.
It was nice to see a conservative man standing up to the anti-choice bullies on the page.
(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
“During the 1970s sterilization became the most rapidly growing form of birth control in the United States, rising from 200,000 cases in 1970 to over 700,000 cases in 1980. It was a common belief among Blacks in the South that Black women were routinely sterilized without their informed consent and for no valid medical reason. Teaching hospitals performed unnecessary hysterectomies on poor Black women as practice for their medical residents. This sort of abuse was so widespread in the South that these operations came to be known as “Mississippi appendectomies.” In 1975, a hysterectomy cost $800 compared to $250 for a tubal litigation, giving surgeons, who were reimbursed by Medicaid, a financial incentive to perform the more extensive operation — despite its twenty times greater risk of killing the patient.” — Dorothy Roberts in Killing the Black Body (via daniellemertina)
(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
HOLY FUCK I’ve lost a lot of followers today.
God forbit I complain about the fact that credit trashed by medical bills can potentially cause you to end up homeless.
People man, people.
“… lobbyists have become a semi-permanent class with ever-expanding reach – they write legislation, they kill legislation. They have usurped many of the political functions that once belonged to elected officials, in part by adapting to new political ecologies faster than those who seek to counter their influence. Insofar as they are protecting the status quo, lobbyists insulate calcified interest groups from challenge….At a time when sectors of the economy ranging from health care to education to manufacturing are under more or less permanent siege, the tentacles of the lobbying community are choking off open exchange between officeholders and the voters they represent. They have created and now maintain a stifling stasis. It is hard to see how this ends well.”
- Thomas Edsall, in the New York Times
EXAMPLE: the prescription drug industry spent $116 million lobbying for legislation to prevent Medicare from bargaining down drug prices — legislation that enabled drug companies to make an additional $90 billion annually.That amounts to an extraordinary 77,500 percent return on investment.
We promise our food won’t make you sick or kill you.
… and if you don’t eat here you’re a bad person, we bought this building and all this food and everything for you.
Obama gives major foreign policy speech: President Barack Obama plans to limit the use of U.S. drone strikes and close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Obama also asked the Attorney General to report on how the Department of Justice investigates the media. The report is due by July 12, 2013.
Photo: REUTERS/Larry Downing
(via muchtoocynical)
House Republicans Destroy the GOP by Voting to Raise Student Loan Interest Rates -
By a vote of 221-198, House Republicans continued to destroy their party by passing a bill that would raise student loan rates.
“At MacKinnon’s (1987) request, and based on a random selection of 930 San Francisco households, Russell calculated the likelihood of a woman not being sexually assaulted or harassed in her lifetime. It was only 7.8 percent.” —
Dee Graham, Edna Rawlings & Roberta Rigsby. Loving to Survive: sexual terror, men’s violence, and women’s lives. NYU Press. July 1 1994. (p. 16)
Christ. I reckon most girls have been assaulted or harassed before they turn 16.
(via thatqueerchick)
Read that again and let that sink in, folks.
“[T]he likelihood of a woman NOT being sexually assaulted or harassed in her lifetime. It was only 7.8 percent.”
Shit needs fixed.
(Source: gynocraticgrrl, via thatqueerchick)
So Mississippi is considering criminalizing stillbirths and miscarriages.
Meanwhile the House is considering a statewide ban on abortions after 20 weeks, regardless of rape, incest, or danger to the mother.
Oh but the war on women isn’t fucking real. Women are fucking equal.
I am disgusted. What can we do? Is there anything we CAN do????
(via legacyofthunderstorms)
This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.
On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”
He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.
Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.
To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous.
This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.
(via boobytrapzap)
Republicans won’t let go of their conspiracy theory about some nefarious “cover-up” in “talking points” for Ambassador Susan Rice’s TV interviews on the Benghazi attack. But they should at least have better skills for detecting a real cover-up, since they’ve had direct experience, as Robert Parry documents.
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In 2011, I gained access to files at the George H.W. Bush library in College Station, Texas, showing how Bush’s White House reacted to allegations in 1991 that he had joined in an operation in 1980 to sabotage President Jimmy Carter’s negotiations to free 52 American hostages then held in Iran.
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However, the key to understanding the October Surprise case was that it appeared to be a prequel to the Iran-Contra scandal, part of the same narrative. The story started with the 1980 crisis over 52 American hostages held in Iran, continuing through their release immediately after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 1981, then followed by mysterious U.S. government approval of secret arms shipments to Iran via Israel in 1981, and ultimately morphing into the Iran-Contra Affair of more arms-for-hostage deals with Iran until that scandal exploded in 1986. […]
So, the lesson learned in our hunting for a new place to rent: Getting sick and having outrageous medical bills that you can’t pay can literally cause you to end up homeless.
This is so fucked up.
yeah, i was literally 5 points below the acceptable credit score, and he said that it was in fact all of my medical bills that brought it down, so
great
a genetic illness i did nothing to get could render us homeless
fucking perfect
Welcome to the United States of Fucking America.
Not to mention the fact that we have spent, what, probably almost $200 on application fees.
GOD I AM SO FUCKING MAD.
So, the lesson learned in our hunting for a new place to rent: Getting sick and having outrageous medical bills that you can’t pay can literally cause you to end up homeless.
This is so fucked up.