Owls confirmed to be the creepiest birds ever. LOOK AT THE FUCKING THINGS. If you fail to notice the one on the left fucking SWALLOWING a rat, then you have the dude singing some satanic chant or something next to him, and then you have those two other fucking psychos synchronized to make you feel creeped the fuck out with their soulless dance of FUCKING DOOM.
I really am tempted to reblog this every time it’s on my dash. That description is one of the best things on the internet.
rebloggling for the exact same reasons
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Police officers are trained to de-escalate highly charged encounters with aggressive people, using deadly force as a last resort. Citizens, on the other hand, may act from emotion and perceived threats. But “stand your ground” gives citizens the right to use force in public if they feel threatened. As the law emphatically states, a citizen has “no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground.”
During one debate, one of the law’s proponents suggested that if a citizen felt threatened in a public space, he should not have to retreat and should be able to meet force with force. I pointed out that citizens feel threatened all the time, whether it’s from the approach of an aggressive panhandler or squeegee pest or even just walking down a poorly lighted street at night. In tightly congested urban areas, public encounters can be threatening; a look, a physical bump, a leer, someone you think may be following you. This is part of urban life. You learn to navigate threatening settings without resorting to force. Retreating is always the best option.
An excerpt from a former Miami police chief’s NYT op-ed, calling for the repeal of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law.
(via think-progress)
You know, if this law empowered women to carry guns and shoot any guy who harassed us on the street because we felt threatened - WHICH IS THE POINT OF STREET HARASSMENT - I suspect the entire right wing, including the NRA, would be calling these laws a threat to public safety, etc.
(via drst)
This annoys me. Because in white people language “snob” is actually code for “uppity nigger”.
He thinks Obama is an uppity nigger because he thinks everybody, as in people beyond rich privileged white men, should have a chance to compete in this country.
Santorum went on to say that some people…
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Many Americans growing up in all-white or nearly all-white communities assume the local racial makeup “just happened.” Black persons just never made it there or didn’t find it attractive, preferring instead to live in the crowded, impoverished county next door.
What we don’t realize, Dr. Loewen argues, is that Census data show that after the Civil War, blacks moved just about everywhere in the country. “There were Republican towns in the North that actually recruited former slaves to live there,” he says.
Consequently, we can track black Americans’ subsequent exile out of many areas. Under Reconstruction, racial equality improved vastly after the Civil War, but when the backlash set in, it was nationwide, and it was harsh. Dr. Loewen dubs this the Great Retreat, as rural blacks were forced to cluster for safety in some two dozen Northern ghettos where many remain.
There is certainly evidence for the retreat, says Nicholas Lehmann, Columbia University’s dean of journalism and author of The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. When black Americans left Mississippi for Chicago, they didn’t move to Chicago. They moved to specific communities in the area, he says, the few that would let them live there.
This was another surprise for Dr. Loewen. Sundown towns are actually rare in the traditional South (this doesn’t include Texas or Arkansas because those states were highly contested between Union and Confederate). In the belt from Louisiana through the Carolinas, whites saw no reason to drive away their cheap labor. So contrary to the popular notion of Northern enlightenment, Dr. Loewen says, most sundown towns are actually in the Midwest and North – and in “disputed” areas like Texas. According to Census data, the most segregated city in the country today is Milwaukee.
To illustrate the prevalence of such communities, Sundown Towns recounts how in the mid-20th century, published guidebooks, such as Travelguide: Vacation and Recreation Without Humiliation, helped black motorists pick their way past them. Some sundown towns even had sirens to blow a daily warning.
“I couldn’t believe that when I heard about it,” Dr. Loewen says. “But it wasn’t just a single place.”
In other words, all of this was not caused by a small number of wild-eyed racists. When these towns were set up, most white residents “either approved of the policy of exclusion or said nothing to stop its enforcement.”
It is hard to see how anything this common wouldn’t be better known. But Dr. Loewen points to the Tulsa riot in 1921, when many of the town’s whites tried to destroy an entire black community. It didn’t become widely known until the early ’90s, when it first received media attention. And in 1923, there was similar mob violence in Rosewood, Fla., the subject of the 1997 film, Rosewood. Sundown Towns cites dozens of other towns where black residents were attacked by bombings and burnings: Slocum, Texas; Okemah, Okla.; Sheridan, Ark.; Decatur, Ind.
And Dallas. In 1950-51, during a severe housing shortage, a dozen bombings in South Dallas were aimed at terrorizing blacks moving into what was then a white neighborhood. Two half brothers were arrested but not convicted. Yet no single history, Dr. Loewen says, has been written about all of these events.
But haven’t race relations in this country gotten better? A special report from the 2000 U. S. Census did find that residential segregation in metropolitan areas declined between 1980 and 2000.
“We had slavery once, and now we don’t,” says Dr. Loewen. And discrimination in home sales, public housing, hiring and education is unconstitutional.
But this popular notion of America’s march of progress, he says, ignores the complete lack of progress we made in desegregating housing until the 1960s. For decades, it was federal policy to exclude blacks from the loans that let whites afford suburban homes. In effect, whites benefited from a vastly larger federal housing program than any inner-city project.(source: Dallas Morning News)
Behold. My haiku of not giving a f*ck today.
Lanning what the f*ck
you really should be working
but hell no not you.
Lilies of the field
they pale in comparison
get the f*ck to work.
Writing Sherlock fic
is toiling not nor spinning
which gets your arse fired.
Have I mentioned fired?
And damned too oh yes you’ll fall
mind the gap Crowley.
No vague sauntering
the St. Bart’s express for you
oh you lazy cow.
Puritan work ethic
that means your dead grandmother
is watching you SIN.
Old Nick likes your work
but that won’t help you no ma’am
hope you like brimstone.
*sigh* Apologies to every poet on the planet.
[oh yeah well screw you
I believe in Sherlock Holmes
so see you in hell.]
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.[ key // gallifreyan dictionary ] ~~ please don’t edit out
angry protective john is my favorite john
me too me too me too!
Johns face when he’s about to punch him… it’s like…ok can’t describe it
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