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ilyagerner: From the Monkey Cage: Gilligan found that, over the 108 years covered by his analysis (1900-2007), the age-adjusted suicide rate increased by an average of 9.7 per million over each Republican four-year term but decreased by an average of 11.1 per million over each Democratic term. The age-adjusted homicide rate increased by an average of 3.6 per million over each Republican term but decreased by an average of 4.2 per million over each Democratic term. […]  Applying Gilligan’s figures to those baseline levels (and assuming 1% population growth per year) implies a projected total of 213,000 violent deaths over the next four years under a Democratic president, but 236,000 under a Republican—a difference of 23,000 lives… Gilligan attributes these very different trends in violent death rates to consistent differences in the parties’ policies and performance with respect to unemployment, economic inequality, and recessions, which in turn have substantial effects on “individual emotional and psychological health and welfare.” 

ilyagerner:

From the Monkey Cage:

Gilligan found that, over the 108 years covered by his analysis (1900-2007), the age-adjusted suicide rate increased by an average of 9.7 per million over each Republican four-year term but decreased by an average of 11.1 per million over each Democratic term. The age-adjusted homicide rate increased by an average of 3.6 per million over each Republican term but decreased by an average of 4.2 per million over each Democratic term. […]

 Applying Gilligan’s figures to those baseline levels (and assuming 1% population growth per year) implies a projected total of 213,000 violent deaths over the next four years under a Democratic president, but 236,000 under a Republican—a difference of 23,000 lives…

Gilligan attributes these very different trends in violent death rates to consistent differences in the parties’ policies and performance with respect to unemployment, economic inequality, and recessions, which in turn have substantial effects on “individual emotional and psychological health and welfare.” 

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slaughterhouse90210: “Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.”—William Gibson, Zero History

slaughterhouse90210:

“Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.”
—William Gibson, Zero History

The Inner Machinations Of My Mind: Abortion.

stfuconservatives:

goodreasonnews:

delrinn:

Being pro-life does not mean you’re sexist.

Whoever decided to throw that analogy out there should be punched multiple times in the face.

Like really? What?

I hate abortion. I see it as the destruction of the process of life, which, to me, is the most basic fundamental miracle of the universe.

Fundamental miracle? hmmm. Here’s the thing, kid: It is sexist, but in some cases, like yours, it’s not a commissive sexism, it’s more of an omissive sexism. In other words, you don’t necessarily consider yourself morally superior based on your gender identification, but your views express that.

See, here’s the real illusion about abortion that both the pro-choice and anti-choice sides are pushing: That the choice is up for debate. The choice exists, there’s no stopping that. The debate is over who gets to make it. People who are pro-choice support the individual’s right to make decisions regarding their bodies. People who call themselves pro-life are in favor of the government making the decision. You can call it a immoral and come up with reasons and justifications all day long and it’s a fun exercise in rhetoric, but at the end of the day there’s only one thing really up for debate here: Who’s choice is it, the individual’s or the government’s?

Let me add this: If it’s the government’s decision and not the individuals than should it not also be the government’s decision to donate one of your kidney’s to a needy relative? Say mom has two good kidneys and, through know fault of her own, daughters are failing. Shouldn’t the government prevent, what you see as, the destruction of life by forcing mom to give one of the good kidneys to save daughters life? If daughter dies because mom made the choice to keep the kidney, we can call it immoral and grandstand and feel better about ourselves, but if government makes the choice, …well, how do we feel about ourselves then?

(Also, quick note of acknowledgment that abortion rights apply to anyone with a uterus, that includes trans-men and girls, not just women).

Things that are sexist: promoting ideology and laws that would directly and negatively affect women and other uterus owners. Is that really so hard to understand?

Like GRN said, the truth is that the choice is always there. Remember, abortion rates are actually higher in places where abortion is outlawed. If you support pro-life laws and candidates, you’re not taking away pregnant people’s choice to terminate a pregnancy. You’re taking away the opportunity to do so safely. Read this Mother Jones article about what it was like for pregnant people in America before Roe v. Wade. Making abortion illegal is akin to advocating the death and mutilation of people with uteruses, and that shit is sexist.

-Jess

thedailywhat: Purrfect Prank of the Day: Redditor frackyou’s little cousin posted his phone number to Facebook along with a status update informing everyone that he was bored. Cat Facts to the rescue. [reddit.]

thedailywhat:

Purrfect Prank of the Day: Redditor frackyou’s little cousin posted his phone number to Facebook along with a status update informing everyone that he was bored.

Cat Facts to the rescue.

[reddit.]

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

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Fidel Castro Calls Republican Field a ‘Competition of Idiocy’ - NYTimes (via brooklynmutt)

The former dictator of a country completely out of touch with the remaining western society is now officially more sensible than about half of the American voters. 

(via stfuconservatives)

stfuconservatives: timekiller-s: righteousblasphemy: mohandasgandhi: sinidentidades: Karen Santorum: Gays ‘vilify’ my husband Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s wife, Karen, on Monday accused the gay community of vilifying her husband. At an event with mothers in South Carolina, a woman, who said her son was gay, told the candidate that she felt guilty for supporting him due to his opposition to gay rights. “I still have that sense of guilt because his friends react to what they hear,” the woman explained. “Help me. How do I deal with that?” Karen Santorum spoke up in defense of her husband. “As Rick’s wife, I have known him and loved him for 23 years,” she said. “I think it’s very sad what the gay activists have done out there. They vilify him. It is so wrong. He loves them. What he has simply said is marriage shouldn’t happen.” “As far as hating, it’s very unfortunate that has happened,” Karen Santorum added. “A lot of it is backyard bullying, where people will come up to us and they’ll say something. And we’ll ask them to give us an example, and they can’t even provide one example as to why they took the position they took.” After Santorum compared homosexuality to “man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be” in an interview with The Associated Press in 2003, gay activist Dan Savage created a website redefining the former Pennsylvania senator’s last name as “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.” For years, Google has returned Savage’s website as the top search result for “Santorum.” “The Internet allows for this type of vulgarity to circulate,” the candidate complained to Roll Call last year. “It’s unfortunate that we have someone who obviously has some issues. But he has an opportunity to speak.” Speaking to CafeMom’s “Moms Matter 2012″ on Monday, Santorum said he was “doing what I’m called to do, which is to love everyone and accept everybody.” “This is a public policy difference,” he said. “And I think the problem is that some see that public policy difference as a personal assault, that because I believe that marriage, which has existed before governments existed — marriage existed from the very beginning of time — it’s the way we were meant to be.” Is she crying? Is all of this over THIS? *sniff* Won’t SOMEBODY think of the bigots? As well should the LGBTQ community vilify Rick Santorum. I reserve the right to vilify him as he has vilified me and people like me on a regular basis. Fuck him and the high horse he rode in on. I like that he’s now trying to characterize his obvious hatred of non-straight people as a “public policy disagreement.” All of a sudden (after kinda becoming a contender) he’s now pretending that it’s just “gay marriage” he’s opposed to and that has nothing to do with him being a bigoted puddle of shit lube. What he really wants is to “welcome and accept everybody”…. -Joe The GOP Primaries are like a parody of… well, the GOP Primaries

stfuconservatives:

timekiller-s:

righteousblasphemy:

mohandasgandhi:

sinidentidades:

Karen Santorum: Gays ‘vilify’ my husband

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s wife, Karen, on Monday accused the gay community of vilifying her husband.

At an event with mothers in South Carolina, a woman, who said her son was gay, told the candidate that she felt guilty for supporting him due to his opposition to gay rights.

“I still have that sense of guilt because his friends react to what they hear,” the woman explained. “Help me. How do I deal with that?”

Karen Santorum spoke up in defense of her husband.

“As Rick’s wife, I have known him and loved him for 23 years,” she said. “I think it’s very sad what the gay activists have done out there. They vilify him. It is so wrong. He loves them. What he has simply said is marriage shouldn’t happen.”

“As far as hating, it’s very unfortunate that has happened,” Karen Santorum added. “A lot of it is backyard bullying, where people will come up to us and they’ll say something. And we’ll ask them to give us an example, and they can’t even provide one example as to why they took the position they took.”

After Santorum compared homosexuality to “man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be” in an interview with The Associated Press in 2003, gay activist Dan Savage created a website redefining the former Pennsylvania senator’s last name as “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.”

For years, Google has returned Savage’s website as the top search result for “Santorum.”

“The Internet allows for this type of vulgarity to circulate,” the candidate complained to Roll Call last year. “It’s unfortunate that we have someone who obviously has some issues. But he has an opportunity to speak.”

Speaking to CafeMom’s “Moms Matter 2012″ on Monday, Santorum said he was “doing what I’m called to do, which is to love everyone and accept everybody.”

“This is a public policy difference,” he said. “And I think the problem is that some see that public policy difference as a personal assault, that because I believe that marriage, which has existed before governments existed — marriage existed from the very beginning of time — it’s the way we were meant to be.”

Is she crying? Is all of this over THIS?

*sniff* Won’t SOMEBODY think of the bigots?

As well should the LGBTQ community vilify Rick Santorum. I reserve the right to vilify him as he has vilified me and people like me on a regular basis. Fuck him and the high horse he rode in on.

I like that he’s now trying to characterize his obvious hatred of non-straight people as a “public policy disagreement.” All of a sudden (after kinda becoming a contender) he’s now pretending that it’s just “gay marriage” he’s opposed to and that has nothing to do with him being a bigoted puddle of shit lube. What he really wants is to “welcome and accept everybody”….

-Joe

The GOP Primaries are like a parody of… well, the GOP Primaries

Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you”? No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thecoolofnight)

thedailywhat:

Debunked Myths of the Day: C.G.P. Grey takes a break from explaining one thing multiple times to explain multiple things once. In his latest video, “10 Misconceptions Rundown,” Grey debunks nine common misconceptions (the tenth, though funny, is false). 

[cgpgrey.]

stfuconservatives: This is Janet Liang. She has been fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia since August 2009. Her doctors told her she needs to find a bone marrow donor by April. Liang is Chinese-America. Currently, only 25% of the people registered in the National Bone Marrow Registry are racial minorities. Watch her heartbreaking video and please, please, please sign up for the Be The Match Registry. Sign up online and they’ll send you a kit in the mail. All you need to do is send them a cheek swab. Here’s some information about donating. Basically, they remove some bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells with a needle. Your body will grow back whatever they take, and most people can expect a full recovery from the outpatient procedure in 2-3 weeks. I’ve been a member of the registry since 2005 and I’ve never been matched as a donor. So don’t worry—it’s not like you sign up and you’ll be in the hospital the next day. You can always update your membership with them and/or ask to be removed from the registry if you change your mind. But imagine being able to save someone’s life with the stuff your body grows naturally. It’s an incredible gift to give. My friend Kevin is alive today because of a stranger who donated marrow. Janet is a friend of a friend from college, and she’s hoping social media can save her life. Please consider signing up, especially if you’re a POC. And please reblog this to help find a match for Janet and thousands of other people waiting for a miracle. -Jess

stfuconservatives:

This is Janet Liang. She has been fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia since August 2009. Her doctors told her she needs to find a bone marrow donor by April.

Liang is Chinese-America. Currently, only 25% of the people registered in the National Bone Marrow Registry are racial minorities. Watch her heartbreaking video and please, please, please sign up for the Be The Match Registry. Sign up online and they’ll send you a kit in the mail. All you need to do is send them a cheek swab.

Here’s some information about donating. Basically, they remove some bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells with a needle. Your body will grow back whatever they take, and most people can expect a full recovery from the outpatient procedure in 2-3 weeks.

I’ve been a member of the registry since 2005 and I’ve never been matched as a donor. So don’t worry—it’s not like you sign up and you’ll be in the hospital the next day. You can always update your membership with them and/or ask to be removed from the registry if you change your mind. But imagine being able to save someone’s life with the stuff your body grows naturally. It’s an incredible gift to give. My friend Kevin is alive today because of a stranger who donated marrow. Janet is a friend of a friend from college, and she’s hoping social media can save her life.

Please consider signing up, especially if you’re a POC. And please reblog this to help find a match for Janet and thousands of other people waiting for a miracle.

-Jess