Oh Greece…
05/30/2012
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05/16/2012
Attachment politics CHRISTOPHER WEYANT ©2012 Cagle Cartoons
(Source: theweek.com, via political-cartoons)
05/14/2012
Daily chart: where are the world’s busiest airline routes? Jeju, on the South Korean island of the same name, is not one of the country’s 20 biggest cities. Yet its allure as a tourist destination resulted in 9.9m passengers flying between Seoul and Jeju in 2011.
05/11/2012
A tribute to mom fashion.
So much the best.
05/09/2012
“ ”@Seth__Rogen: Claiming that someone else’s marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you’re on a diet. „
@Seth__Rogen:
05/09/2012
These cops need life in prison.
All of the cops involved, not just two of them.
Our system is rigged for police to avoid any reprimand for disgusting behavior. It shouldn’t be this way.
And in the long run it leads to a public that doesn’t trust, is fearful of, and justifiably hates police.
I’ll save further outrage until the verdict is given.
But I’ll be highly surprised if appropriate justice is served.
On July 5th, 2011, Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man was beaten into a coma by Fullerton City Police. Five days after the beating, he was pronounced dead. This video of the atrocious scene was released just recently. I am beyond disgusted.
The city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a homeless mentally ill man to death last year was finally released today, laying to rest any argument that Kelly Thomas was a threat to officers.
The shocking video, which was combined with an audio recorder worn by one of the police officers on the night of July 5, 2011, was shown in court today, then later released to the media.
“Now you see my fists?” Fullerton police officer Manny Ramos asked Thomas while slipping on a pair of latex gloves.
“Yeah, what about them?” Thomas responded.
“They are getting ready to fuck you up,” said Ramos, a burly cop who appears to outweigh Thomas by 100 pounds.
“Well, start punching,” Thomas responds, never once displaying any physical aggression towards Ramos.
Moments later, as Thomas is standing while Ramos is ordering him to get on his “fucking knees,” Fullerton cop Joseph Wolfe, who is not charged in the case, walks up and starts beating his legs with a baton.
Then Ramos gets into the act and Thomas takes off running, moving out of the frame of the camera.
The cops keep telling him to put his hands behind his back and lay on his stomach, but they are both laying on top of him, making it impossible to even breathe, much less move.
The camera, operated by a dispatcher at the station, then moves toward the beating, showing Ramos and Fullerton cop Jay Cicinelli on top of Thomas as Thomas repeatedly apologizes and telling them he is unable to breathe.
As the video continues, one of the cops can be seen kneeing him.
“Please, I can’t breathe,” Thomas pleads as the officers keep telling him to put his hands behind his “fucking back.”
The cops keep telling him to “relax” to which he responds, “I can’t, dude.”
More cops eventually arrive and a little more than four minutes into the video, they start tasing him.
And a little after five minutes into the video, as three cops are piled on top of him, beating him, tasing him, one cop looks up at another cop who just arrived on the scene and says, “help us.”
At one point he yells out, “Dad, they are killing me.”
Even after seven minutes into the video, when six cops are on top of him and all Thomas is doing is crying for his father, they keep telling him to “relax.”
Last year, Ron Thomas, a retired Orange County Sheriff’s deputy, said the City of Fullerton offered him $900,000 to just go away, which would have allowed the two cops to remain on the force unpunished for killing his son.
Thomas was pronounced dead on July 10, five days after the beating that left him in a coma.
(Read more here x)
what. the. fuck.
(Source: alittlebitofeverythingglorious)
05/03/2012
- Woman: Can I have birth control?
- Government: No.
- Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
- Government: No.
- Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
- Government: No.
05/01/2012
will always reblog.
It’s like they sit around listening to my in-laws.
04/25/2012
I fucking ADORE Hillary Clinton.
45 totally legit reasons why Hillary Clinton should rule the Universe.
