LADY GAGA’S NEW BLOCKBUSTER ALBUM “CHOW THIS WAY” IN STORES OCTOBER 23RD.
1. Marry the Starch
2. Chow This Way
3. Government Chowder
4. Chew-Dis
5. Americano Eating
6. Angel Hair
7. I Can Hold It
8. Someone’s Hungry
9. Black Cheesus † Amen Microwaves
10. Bad Knees
11. Fashion of His Spatula
12. Left-Lane Lamb (Road 2 Constipation)
13. Heavy Lover
14. Electric Stomach Staple
15. Burger Queen
16. Yoür Order and I
17. The Edge of My Sweatpants
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97 years ago, in 1915 Turkey tortured 1.5 million Armenian woman, children and men. I could go in detail but it’s really disgusting just thinking about it.
My best friend’s great-grandpa lost his pregnant wife and never found her.
My friend’s great grandparents were buried alive. This isn’t a story made up.
It’s been 97 whole years and the genocide still hasn’t been recognized.
You’ve learned about the Holocaust and Hitler’s name comes up in disgust, why hasn’t this been recognized?
Obama promised 4 years ago that he’d recognize it and he turned his back.
We helped trend Kony, but can we help recognize the Armenian Genocide?
How would a black man feel if America had said that slavery wasn’t real?
I’m following back whoever reblogs this. Not joking.
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This Week in War. A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week. It’s a mix of news reports, policy briefs, blog posts and longform journalism.
- Pakistani journalist Murtaza Razvi, senior assistant editor and head of magazines at Dawn, was found dead in Karachi yesterday, his body bearing the marks of torture.
- In Afghanistan, Salahuddin Rabbani, the son of slain former leader Burhanuddin Rabbani, will head the High Peace Council.
- The Taliban engaged in an 18 hour attack on Kabul that was ended early Monday by Afghan forces on the ground and coalition air assaults.
- The LA Times published damning photographs of soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division posing with the bodies of suicide bombers. WARNING: The pictures in the link are quite graphic.
- Interesting stat to consider: the US spends $14,000 annually per Afghan soldier, but each Afghan soldier is paid $1872. Here’s an interesting look into the finances.
- At least 36 were killed on Thursday in blasts across Iraq from Ramadi and Kirkuk to Baghdad. Hundreds were injured.
- Following South Sudan’s occupation of a disputed oil field, Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir declared that he would teach his southern neighbour a “final lesson by force.”
- The Mexican police seized 250,000 US-made bullets that were being smuggled across the border.
- Ban Ki-Moon declares that Syria has not complied with the cease-fire. No one is surprised.
- A recent US-DPRK deal hailed as major progress has fallen through. North Korea is now saying it will not honor the deal to suspend uranium enrichment and long-range missile tests in exchange for food aid. A nuclear test seems inevitable.
- India successfully tested a long-range ballistic missile with nuclear capability, signifying a regional arms build-up.
- New polling data shows that Americans today report being more afraid of Iran than Americans in 1985 were afraid of the USSR. Interesting polling data, although I think we’re dealing with a different kind of fear.
- As Libya undergoes its critical transition, it cannot forget the victims of the war’s sexual violence.
- Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a Libyan commander who was abducted and flown to a Gaddhafi prison with the help of MI6, has begun legal proceedings against Jack Straw, the man who was at the time the British Foreign Secretary, for complicity in his torture during the rendition operation.
- Yesterday was Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. McClatchy brings us a terrible story about the plight of many aging survivors living uncared for and below the poverty line in Israel.
- Some 1200 Palestinian prisoners began an open-ended hunger strike this week, protesting the terrible conditions and humiliation inside their jails.
- Panetta announced a “special victims unit” to deal with sexual assault in the military.
- The Marines will open up their officer infantry school to women!
- The TIME Top 100 list included its usual fair share of odd choices, but also some on point ones relevant to this list. Former defense secretary Robert Gates wrote about our inimitable Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Admiral Mike Mullen wrote about Barbara Van Dahlen, who, through her program Give An Hour, mobilizes mental health professionals in support of veterans. Also notably on the list are cartoonist Ali Ferzat, Samira Ibrahim, Manal al-Sharif and Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.
Photo: At rest after setting up a camp that overlooks the Pakistan border. April 8. Javier Manzano/Polaris
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Tumblr is full of them it seems. I never said there was anything wrong with being non-white, or non-straight or anything else.
I was simply pointing out that I have every right be proud to be a white, Christian, heterosexual, “cis” male who believes…
Your racism is drawn at the part where you refer to white Christian males as being the “normal” people. It just rolls on from there.
What bothers me about Rick Santorum more than his bigotry towards gays is his constant rhetorical crusade against single parents.
I’m a product of a single mother, and I think I’m doing quite alright, thanks.
Yes, what single mothers can produce: a guy who got blowjobs and sexually molested and harassed women and some Kenyan who pretends to be a Christian and hates religion. Wow. How nice.
If we’re going to play that game, then allow me to tell you what other people single parents (namely single mothers) can produce as well (to name a few:)
I could also go in to the number of heartily “villainous” and despicable people raised by fully-functional pairs of parents just to prove as a counterpoint (an attack you most likely would use being in my situation,) but I’m choosing not to because unlike my Santorum-supporting counterpart, I find it a crime against many good people to generalize based on a specific person or group of people.
On top of this, I would find it heinous for one to believe that just because couple is composed of two men or two women, it means they are incapable of properly raising children. I find absolutely no backing to this argument.
Would you propose that the parents aren’t in a strong enough relationship to provide for the children? Because I know of plenty of able, responsible homosexual couples (as does Mister Santorum, so he claims) who are perfectly capable of caring for a child, maintaining a stable household, and carrying out a life just as normal as a heterosexual couple. A homosexual person can be just like a heterosexual person in every way, shape, or form - all that solidly differs is who they love. (And is love really that bad for you?)
Would you propose that the parents would not have enough morality to properly teach the child the fundamentals of American society? I find that laughable. Morality is not decided about who you love, it’s decided about how you love. How you treat your fellow human beings, how you are able to understand the world, and most importantly, how you relay that to others through action, preaching, and teaching. If anything, I would find a homosexual couple more morally prepared to cater to a child’s emotional and mental growth as more often than not it would carry a message of social and self acceptance in today’s society.
Would you propose that the child would follow in the footsteps of the parent’s homosexuality? It may happen, it may not - all I see with having homosexual parents is that if the child turns out to be gay, they will not be shunned but instead understood and supported.
Mister Santorum’s policies are lined with bigotry and generalization that blinds him from being able to see every side of the square; and if you aspire to be President of the United States, the least you should be able to do is understand the world can’t be generalized by your own ideas.
On December 1st, 2011, the Gay-Straight Alliance (an club organized by students nation-wide of all sexual orientations to work towards creating safer schools and promoting tolerance of homosexuality) of Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, set up a Christmas tree decorated with condom packages in honor of World AIDS Day , which is a day dedicated to raising awareness against AIDS and HIV. Shortly after the tree was put up, the club was approached by the college’s Young Republican’s Club and was asked to take the tree down; the GSA standing by freedom of speech and the need to raise AIDS awareness, and the YRC arguing that it was a direct attack on Christianity, and that the tree itself would cause quite a commotion because of all the activity that goes on in the place it is located.
While I do agree that the club could have gone without christening the top of the tree with an open condom, it needs to be said that this action was both well-intended and is not an attack on Christianity in the slightest sense.
While the image of the Christmas tree is directed related with Christmas, it has no direct relation to the Christian aspect of Christmas. The way I see it, there are three parts to Christmas as a holiday - the commercial, the religious, and the philosophical (will be explained in greater detail at a later time.) Not once did Jesus ever walk up to a tree in the Gospel of Matthew and christen it as a symbol of the holiday - in fact, the idea Christmas tree was adopted from paganism, as is much of the holiday of Christmas. It symbolizes the commercial aspect of Christmas - buy the tree, buy stuff to decorate the tree with, buy stuff to put under the tree.
Because World AIDS Day takes place in December, the GSA decided as a creative way to promote safe sex they would put a spin on the “gifting tree” and line it with free condoms that anybody could walk up and take. This was in no way meant to disrespect the holiday by lining it with sex - instead, it was meant to promote halting the spread of AIDS, which I would consider positive to begin with.
But what shocked me the most about this article was not the actual content of it, but rather the comment section below, where a war was waged in many different lenses both for and against homosexuality.
The major argument I was taking away from the comments section against homosexuality was the belief that the gays were “all about sex.” This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
The largest misconception made about the gay community is that it is solely a sexual preference, when it actuality the scope of homosexuality goes far beyond that. A relationship between a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, is not held because they think the “sex is great,” but because they have legitimately fallen in love with one another. Just because we’ve been taught that boys are supposed to like girls and vice-versa means nothing; many gays will tell you right from the earliest point that they tried to make girlfriends or boyfriends in elementary school that they knew they weren’t meant to love the opposite sex; it just wasn’t there for them.
A staggering amount of all suicides worldwide are preformed by homosexuals due to the sheer intolerance to homosexuality, whether it be by picketers with signs that pronounce “God Hates Fags,” or isolation by their own family members. Many people call those who take their life because of their sexuality “irrational” because they believe that if you are being bullied for your sexuality, you should just go ahead and change to being straight. What they fail to grasp, however, is that this is nearly impossible for many homosexuals without losing all of their happiness in the process.
I have spoken with a few handfuls of homosexual people on the border of suicide because they were angry that they could not “fit in.” I remember distinctively one of my own friends telling me, “I just wish I could be normal like everybody else… it’s just so hard to change who you are when being straight doesn’t feel comfortable to you.”
It’s the kind of ignorance that is spread under the idea that gays are in it only for sex that has pushed the “pray the gay away” movement to the point where men and women of all ages commit suicide to free themselves from this intolerance. So, please; remember that at the end of the day, love is love, and you can’t change that no matter how hard you try.
If banned from speaking, the soul will die,
And each stifled voice starves the world of life
What choice is it – to be silent or lie?
If banned from speaking, the soul will die.
From the smallest domestic unuttered cry
To the greatest source of political strife.
If banned from speaking, the soul will die,
And each stifled voice starves the world of life.
