Had to confirm that this one was actually true, because, well, jeeze. Yep. Totally true.
I’m just kind of surprised that the politicians in Mississippi would take such a controversial move at this time. Surely this will anger a lot of their voters.
To my followers from Mississippi, you have my deepest sympathies. :-\
Mississippi goddamn.
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Source: skepticalavenger
I had my father get sick when I was 22. And I was poor, alright. And my father had an ulcer, and it exploded and you know all these toxins get in your blood. And basically, my father died, whatever, 50 days after his ulcer. So I had a father get sick while I was poor.
My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know… I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘Was I in the right place?’ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man.
People don’t… if the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this motherfucker down!”
"Chris Rock [video]
Bringing this back, because some people don’t seem to understand that there is a discrepancy in the quality of care among poor, middle-class, and wealthy people, NO MATTER HOW DEBILITATING THEIR RESPECTIVE DISEASES MAY BE.
(via cgdageek)
Forever reblog.
(via missgingerlee)
(via bittersweetaubade)
I’m sorry, what the fuck is this shit.
I get looking for autism spectrum disorders because it’s better to pick it up now than when they’re in high school and failing miserably,
but jesus fucking christ,
this is going way too far.
I get that as a country we have a lot of trouble with mental health but JEEZ YOU’RE NOT HELPING VERY MUCH. This sort of crap is NOT going to encourage people to get help, it’s only going to make them feel worse, and it sends completely the wrong message to these kids.
[S] Jane: Cautiously approach.
omg gamzee
why
why are you selling their blood
I said it once
I’ll say again
You 100% sure it’s blood?
I only had to read the ‘cobalt makes you strong’ bit and I was like
OH GOD
now I’m annoyed that you can’t seem to go past the buying troll’s blood potions screen.
(via carcinogeneticisthaha)
Source: revengeance
Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by theAmerican Journal of Public Health. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.
The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
“The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors, and baseline health,” said lead author Andrew Wilper, M.D., who currently teaches at the University of Washington School of Medicine. “We doctors have many new ways to prevent deaths from hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease — but only if patients can get into our offices and afford their medications.”
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Source: sarahlee310
California has built just one college campus since 1980, but it’s created 21 prisons.
I can’t find a GIF for this, so.
*slams head through wall*
*sets California on fire*
*ollies outtie this planet*
(via anarcho-queer)
Source:
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Please support bill A1008/S232 by signing this petition! This bill would stop police and…
Signal boosting because this is just fucking ridiculous.
(via stfuconservatives)
Source: latinosexuality
AMERICA I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A LITTLE TALK
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
IS THIS REAL?
HE SOUNDS LIKE HE’S FROM THE YEAR 1890
I JUST. I CAN’T. I’M DONE. FUCK
I literary want to shoot him in the face.
And yet my parents just continue to support him in everything aldkjfasfd
There is no way a world can exist where a man like this would become president.
There is no way he’s going to make it.
No way.
this caaaaaan’t be real, no way. i mean yeah dude’s a fucking conservative, uninformed otol but holy shit lol. where’s the source?
the fact
that Rick Santorum even exists
makes me want to set things on fire
and/or weep for the future of America and by extension the world.
how anyone can stand even living on the same planet as him is beyond me.
(via joanjcampbell)
The House AGRICULTURE Committee in Illinois has now decided transvaginal probe ultrasounds ought to be required in at least some cases when women seek abortions.
As my friend Mike Gizzi says: the AGRICULTURE Committee. Because women are apparently cows.
And let’s be clear: ALL THIS TO GET A PROCEDURE THAT IS LEGAL!
It’s time to stop abusing women in the law.
When PoliticalProf uses an exclamation point, you know it’s serious.
The Agriculture Committee?
…
The whole situation is still incredibly fucked-up and wrong and now it’s spreading someone send help.
(via jgreendc)
Source: politicalprof
CNN contributor and Andrew Breitbart blogger Dana Loesch, however, sees no problem with a law that effectively legalizes state-sponsored rape, saying the procedure is no different than penetration that occurred during consensual intercourse that “resulted in the pregnancy,” as Little Green Footballs reported:
LOESCH: That’s the big thing that progressives are trying to say, that it’s rape and so on and so forth. […] There were individuals saying, “Oh what about the Virginia rape? The rapes that, the forced rapes of women who are pregnant?” What? Wait a minute, they had no problem having similar to a trans-vaginal procedure when they engaged in the act that resulted in their pregnancy.
[…]
Unfortunately, such a radical view isn’t unique to conservative talking heads like Loesch. According to Lithwick, an unnamed Republican delegate made the same argument in support of the bill, saying women consented to being “vaginally penetrated when they got pregnant.”
Grade A Assholes
From Corey Robin earlier today:
That notion “once-probed, always-probed” sounds an awful lot like the notion of implicit sexual consent that dates back to the 18th century and that justified marital rape in this country until the 1980s. […]
Resonances like these are why I sometimes suggest that modern conservatism is just a neoliberal gloss on medieval domination.
Virginia, please stop your shit. Just…stop.
Source: sarahlee310
