Jesus Christ, Phil. 

/I can’t breathe.

cognitivedissonance:

cognitivedissonance:

This is no more rational than any other explanation…

Hello again, Meg from 2011. 

Just a reminder — in 2011, Rep. John Boehner said the GOP received 98% of what they wanted in the deal that hath wrought the sequester.

Don’t back down now, boys. Own it. This is even more accurate than when I posted it July 27, 2011. I got hate mail for this post. It’s nearly two years later, and screw y’all that sent “love” letters because I was right.

Hey, why fix shit and pass a compromise to revoke the sequester when you can filibuster said compromise and give press conferences in front of podiums labeled with the oh-so-clever “#Obamaquester”?

Why do any of that when you can watch the world burn, matches in hand, and try to blame it on the president? Operative word there is “try” — the Congressional GOP is comprised of little more than petty economic terrorists.

Sigh.

(via pandarican)

2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up (by bgjoker)

(Source: my-mad-world, via itsy-bitsy)

:-/ I mean it’s progress it it’s field, but when you think about all the other aspects of society that could use investment, it badly compares. What one company could do with $100 million in research or manufacturing of a SLIGHT improvement in a product (iPhone 3 to 4 to 5 to inevitable 6, 7, etc.), many other organizations could make HUGE advancements (perhaps going from one clean water well to four, quadrupling the amount of clean water acessibility in a community). The value of the latter is greater, but the resources it has to follow through are much more lacking. The problem is that providing clean water to a community generally doesn’t provide a direct and or short term cash flow to the investors, so they aren’t incentivized to make capitol investments. Such is a competitive, capitalistic market environment. 

Even businesses that do social good or have sustainability efforts, it’s almost a social pressure in the consumer world to include something like that on your packing or in your operations flow. I have a hunch that most companies don’t truly see the benefit of these programs, but feel too much pressure to include them because “everyone else is”. That if they don’t, consumers will backlash and cause drama on the internet creating bad press. Which I guess in the end isn’t the WORST thing in the world to keep pressuring these companies to take social responsibility, but I wish it just came innately to most CEOs and managers. 

I went to this open house for a clean energy nonprofit in Vegas last Monday and something the executive director said really stuck with me. She said she had this wild notion that despite everything she’d be taught, the economy and energy sustainability do not have to be at odds. They do not have to be competing forces. These can co-exist and co-function to create a better market economy for consumers and for citizens who don’t even have the luxury of consumption.

….Sorry this became so long.. Sheesh. Clearly I have a lot of ideas about the topic.

Jamie Beck is so goddamn beautiful. 

This is how it starts. This is how the Holocaust started. They need to quit this shit now. It seems “not that bad” to the Palestinians but incrementalism takes over and it all of a sudden people are living in entirely different communties segregated… (ghettos). And then to camps. This scares me a lot. 

Taken by me. I rather like this photo.

31/365. (by _beccap)

long hair, i do care. it’s getting a bit unmanageable and i am so close to chopping it all off but freddy really likes it so i am torn. :/ i kinda like it too but it’s too much to take care of.

I don’t know how on earth I managed to find this Facebook page (I think a link on a random reddit thread…) but if you’re in the mood to get pissed off for awhile, go ahead and take a look. Not only can most of the commentors not even string together a coherent sentence, most of it is racist, violence, passive aggressive Obama hate that has no factual sources or information. It makes me a bit ill to think that there are so many ill-informed, angry, racist people who are still around. Everyone has the right to their opinion, but this borders on libel.

Fun fact: elected officials do NOT take into account your individual Facebook status when making decisions in the legislature.