The Weile Woods
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If you aren’t seeing someone who reads you fairytales when your sick, you’re doing something wrong.
Having the flu sucks because all I’ve done all day is sleep and reflect on all the ways I’ve screwed up lately. And that’s a long list.
The How to Train Your Dragons sequel was better than I could have anticipated, definitely go see it if you haven’t already!
Does anyone know anything about the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS)?
I got invited to join them, and it sounds like there are some plausible benefits, but with a $95 membership fee and maybe some possible later commitments, I just was wondering if anyone had any insider advice.
External imageThis a petition to hold the SWAT team members involved in a drug raid where one of their members threw a flash-bang into the crib of a toddler legally accountable for their actions. The little boy had his face severely burned, and a hole was ripped into his side by the flash-bang, and all because they were looking for a person who wasn’t even in the home at the time of the raid. It will just take a second, yes you have to enter some information but this is really important, this is police brutality at its finest and an innocent child was severely injured. There is more info here as well
I would like to mention that even if a child had NOT been present, a flash grenade in this situation was still unnecessary force, based on what they claim they were looking for in the house.
In fact, a non-knock warrant was unnecessary based on their reports that they were looking for someone with a small amount of drugs based on an anonymous tip.
Therefore the judge who signed this warrant needs to answer why he allowed this warrant to be issued as well.
“An art degree is not what I need, I’ll just minor in art.”
“But look at all these really cool art classes you could take!”
i really want to draw but there are guests over and if i start drawing they’ll want to watch and start commenting and tell me what to draw and i’m very sick of dealing with that O^O;;
The first Transformers movie was ridiculously good. The following terrible sequels made me forget that and that’s a crying shame.
remember swine flu reblog if ur a tru 2009 kid
People were practically drinking hand sanitizer during that shit
I survived swine flu, come at me.
figureight replied to your post:
I think that’s why American Gods is so popular, a lot of people crave it.
but American Gods doesn’t do it right though.
I’m very fond of Neil Gaiman and I liked American Gods, but that is a novel written by a non-American, it’s so focused on the
Thank you for putting into words what didn’t feel right about “American Gods”, because I couldn’t!
Liberty never tasted so sugary sweet.
The Bloomberg big-soda ban is officially dead.
The state’s highest court on Thursday refused to reinstate New York City’s controversial limits on sales of jumbo sugary drinks, exhausting the city’s final appeal and handing a major victory to the American soft-drink industry, which bitterly opposed the plan.
In a 20-page opinion, Judge Eugene F. Pigott Jr. of the New York State Court of Appeals wrote that the city’s Board of Health “exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority” in enacting the proposal, which was championed by former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
Two lower courts had already ruled against the city, saying it overreached in attempting to prohibit the purchase of sugared drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces, about the size of a medium coffee cup. By a 4-to-2 vote, the justices Thursday upheld the earlier rulings.
WOOHOO!
*BIG ANGRY SIGH* at least we’re still advancing
Defense is earning their keep today, wow. The goalie, too.
Offense though, like wow. Where are you guys?
I miss my milk steamer more than anything else that’s packed right now. That’s pathetic.
the surrealistic adventure that will become your world
It’s not even 7am I want to give up on this day.
I don’t even care about soccer, but US what was that???
A writer for the new york times interviewed a series of people who had survived jumping off the golden gate bridge. Every person she interviewed admitted that about two thirds of the way down, they realized that every seemingly meaningless problem that caused them to jump was fixable.
Every single one.
THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
“But to me, the more significant fact is that 90 percent of them got past it. They were having an acute temporary crisis, they passed through it and, coming out the other side, they got on with their lives.”
In Seiden’s view, a crucial factor in this boils down to the issue of time. In the case of people who attempt suicide impulsively, cutting off or slowing down their means to act allows time for the impulse to pass — perhaps even blocks the impulse from being triggered to begin with. What is remarkable, though, is that it appears that the same holds true for the nonimpulsive, with people who may have been contemplating the act for days or weeks.
“At the risk of stating the obvious,” Seiden said, “people who attempt suicide aren’t thinking clearly. They might have a Plan A, but there’s no Plan B. They get fixated. They don’t say, ‘Well, I can’t jump, so now I’m going to go shoot myself.’ And that fixation extends to whatever method they’ve chosen. They decide they’re going to jump off a particular spot on a particular bridge, or maybe they decide that when they get there, but if they discover the bridge is closed for renovations or the railing is higher than they thought, most of them don’t look around for another place to do it. They just retreat.”
The Urge to End it All by Scott Anderson
I tried going into the Iraq tag to see what everyone here was saying and I want to vomit.
I guess I take what’s going on in Iraq very personally because my dad fought there. In the Battle of Ramadi my dad won his Silver Star, but also watched friends die. He survived an IED ambush attack, but also watched friends die. My dad did a lot in that country, feed starving kids, helped plan infrastructure, ate with tribal leaders and received gifts from them, felt the graciousness from the local people. We go back and forth in my family about whether or not the US should’ve gotten involved at all, but my dad feels that real good was done for the people there. My dad is not a spiritual man, but he said there were buildings and villages you could walk into in Iraq and feel the overwhelming presence of evil. When he left, the presence was diminished, the good people of Iraq were praising his work. They were thankful.
My dad sacrificed years of his life for that country, some of his friends sacrificed their entire lives. There are buildings on our military base named after some of those fallen soldiers. To think that in a few short months all that work, blood, sweat, and sacrifice is almost for nothing, is heartbreaking. Regardless of whether or not the US should have gotten involved, we did. And I feel we still owe an obligation to the people of Iraq to keep them safe from those who would persecute them because of their religion, from those who would control them and destroy them with terror. I believe we should stand with Iraq to help them stay safe from outside invaders. There are incredible and good people in Iraq, there are incredible Americans who sacrificed everything for the good people of Iraq. We owe all those people what we can give them to keep them safe and preserve their freedom.
I’VE BEEN WAITING TO SHARE THIS SONG FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS WHEN IT SUDDENLY BECAME RELEVANT BECAUSE
I
DID
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I ESCAPED FROM SAN CLEMENTE AHAHAHA
(i moved to Virginia now fyi)
if that new “Link” from the Zelda Wii U E3 trailer is actually a girl then frack it I feel like that anime chick that aggressively falls for the other chick secretly cross dressing only to be left awkwardly questioning my sexuality