Happy Things

Once you reduce the amount of time spent with people who bring you down and start only hanging with those who raise you up, you realize how lovely the world can be.

Rape Culture

“That’s how sex is presented to boys - it’s not intimacy; it’s not the loving, egalitarian [part] that we get something out of, it’s something we do to the other. We raise women to survive in a rape culture, because we raise women to know these things. We do nothing to talk to men about not raping. But we do talk to women about how to protect themselves, which is further why we place the blame on women when something happens. ‘Well didn’t you know not to do that? Didn’t you know not to wear that dress? Or didn’t you know not to walk down that street at that hour of the night?’”

—	feminist Don McPherson, on rape culture and educating boys to not rape

Ya get whatcha get

And that sums up the Republican feel about Mitt Romney. He is the best they have available, but is somewhat unappealing to the more conservative elements of the GOP. Because he isn't batshit crazy. However, his business background could just be a liability in the current climate, especially if the anti corporate greed sentiment of the Occupy movement extends into next year.

For people who love animals so much, ya'll some bitches

So, not too long ago some of my coworkers found a kitten out by the loading docks at work. I work with a number of animal lovers and so, one of the girls who just moved to a new apartment took the kitten in. This was a month or so ago.
This morning they were standing around, gleefully laughing about this kitten's struggles with being newly declawed. And all I could think of was-Ya'll some bitches.
Ok, so my vegan/animal loving sister would NEVER let me get away with not knowing how cruel it is to declaw a cat. But, I don't think that this knowledge is that rare. Many shelters REFUSE to give you a cat unless you sign an agreement acknowledging that declawing is cruel and that you will not subject your pet to it. Even the HUMANE SOCIETY (Yea, the one that puts cats to sleep cause there are too many of them) has a portion of their website devoted to explaining the cruelty and consequences of this procedure:

What is declawing?

Too often, people think that declawing is a simple surgery that removes a cat's nails—the equivalent of having your fingernails trimmed. Sadly, this is far from the truth.
Declawing traditionally involves the amputation of the last bone of each toe. If performed on a human being, it would be like cutting off each finger at the last knuckle.

After effects

Medical drawbacks to declawing include pain, infection and tissue necrosis (tissue death), lameness, and back pain. Removing claws changes the way a cat's foot meets the ground and can cause pain similar to wearing an uncomfortable pair of shoes. There can also be a regrowth of improperly removed claws, nerve damage, and bone spurs.
For several days after surgery, shredded newspaper is typically used in the litter box to prevent litter from irritating declawed feet. This unfamiliar litter substitute, accompanied by pain when scratching in the box, may lead cats to stop using the litter box. Some cats may become biters because they no longer have their claws for defense.

I was disappointed that so many purported animal lovers (even some shelter volunteers), would laugh and thereby tacitly supporting this cruel surgery.
 
How about when you get a pet, acknowledging that they are going to fuck some shit up? Cats aren't dogs, you can't beat them into submission. The more you harass a cat, the more likely it will be to piss on everything you own. Declaw it? Fixed your furniture, but now it will bite you. And be mad.

 This is a declawed cat.

Just wanted you guys to know this!

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This should make everyone mad

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Scott Olsen, 24, a Marine veteran who did two tours in Iraq, was hit by a police projectile during the brutal police crackdown on Occupy Oakland on 10/26. He is in serious but stable condition at an Oakland hospital with traumatic head injury. Scott is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Also: Video footage distributed on the Internet shows a protester, identified as Olsen, being carried away by others with a head wound. The cause was unclear. While he lay wounded, the footage appears to show an officer tossing something - perhaps a tear gas canister - toward people trying to help him.

Update: From my Bay area friend Susie-Donate to the Cause:
https://civ.moveon.org/donatec4/policecrackdown.html?id=32341-19970936-Rv1S5Sx&t=2

South Bend.....shady.......?

Here is what I found about South Bend on Tumblr:

*Sidenote: It was my first time in South Bend, and as beautiful at Notre Dame’s campus is, I don’t think I’ll be going back… very shady city.

Some people are so lame. Aw, did South Bendy scare you? Pussy.