to volunteer as a clinic escort for the first time.
and I can’t go to sleep. I don’t want to be a grumpy clinic escort!
Beyonce: What if we made the “Single Ladies” video but it was in color instead of in black and white.
Music Video Director: Now you are talking!
Beyonce: Do you know anyone who is terrible at Photoshop?
Music Video Director: I do!
Beyonce: So we make the “Single Ladies” video but in color, and we put in a really awful, just dreadful Photoshopped landscape in the background.
Music Video Director: Keep going! You’re on ideas fire!Beyonce: At about 37 seconds into the video, I want a tiny CGI horse to run across the background.
Music Video Director: Great!
Beyonce: But barely perceptible.
Music Video Director: OK.
Beyonce: BARELY PERCEPTIBLE, THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME THAT YOU BASICALLY NOT EVEN SEE THE CGI HORSE.
Music Video Director: Got it.
Beyonce: A whisper of a CGI horse. A dream.
Music Video Director: Yes, Beyonce.
Beyonce: Later in the video I want to wear a gold outfit that looks like it is from the future today, but will look dated and embarrassing in less than three years.
Music Video Director: We can do that.
Beyonce: How long do you think it will take to make this video, and how much do you think it will cost?
Music Video Director: I need 45 minutes and 17 dollars.
Beyonce: You can have 30 minutes and 12 dollars.
Music Video Director: Deal.
I LOVE YOU GABE (do you think I can get Gabe from Videogum to read my tumblr if I mention him/creep him out enough? I have gotten other people from the internet to read it by talking about them/their blogs!)
Segregation, racial inequality, and racist social policies are not phenomena relegated to the Deep South, nor are they relics of a distant past. Discrimination is embedded in lending practices, ingrained in residential choices, entrenched in the criminal justice system, and woven into the very fabric of our labor markets. The incident in Philadelphia sheds light on an everyday struggle for communities of color—a struggle that most certainly did not end on November 5, 2008.
Although the legislation is likely to affect most American women in some way, a decision to prohibit federally funded plans from covering abortion will undoubtedly be most detrimental to poor and working-class women. And that kind of discrimination is nothing new.
It’s awful that we have to discount and stigmatize such individual experiences. When I counsel, I really do get to talk with so-called “welfare moms” who glow with pride about their five kids, who put their heads in their hands as they tell me about how hard it is to feed their families, and who hesitantly confess that they have the audacity to consider going back to school. The body language is shame. When they hear talk about how women get pregnant so carelessly and have abortions so guiltlessly, they learn shame. In the 20 or so minutes I have with them, I can only try fruitlessly to let them know how much I respect them and their choices, not in spite of their choices.At times, it could seem as if Rian Thal were two different people.A murder victim - and a mystery | Philadelphia Inquirer | 07/09/2009
because god forbid a girl go to Hebrew school as a child (likely because her parents made her - I can’t think of a single kid in my Hebrew school classes who really WANTED to be there) and then later works at a strip club. HOW CAN THIS BE THE SAME PERSON???
the reporting of this story has been ridiculous.
![Vélo Vogue: [Treehugger] Be Green and Clean (i.e. Not Sweaty) When Biking to Work
this is a solar-powered bike storage unit with bike lockers, changing rooms, showers, a “self-cleaning device” (whatever that means?), and uses recycled water.
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Vélo Vogue: [Treehugger] Be Green and Clean (i.e. Not Sweaty) When Biking to Work
this is a solar-powered bike storage unit with bike lockers, changing rooms, showers, a “self-cleaning device” (whatever that means?), and uses recycled water.
I WANT
Twenty-five. That’s the percent of women who say they would’ve obtained a Medicaid-funded abortion if they had the option, but instead carried their pregnancies to term. According to a new Guttmacher report released yesterday, many of these women are forced to forgo an abortion because they lack personal funds to pay for the procedure.
Only 17 states use their own money to pay for all or most medically necessary abortions. That means that only 17 states will help a woman obtain an abortion when her health is in danger. So, that 25 percent includes women with cancer, diabetes, heart conditions, or whose pregnancies otherwise threaten their health who are nonetheless forced to carry their pregnancies to term because they are not deemed likely enough to die from their pregnancies for the government to pay for an abortion.
Guttmacher’s new report, “Restrictions on Medicaid Funding for Abortions: A Literature Review,” also found that Medicaid funding restrictions delay some women’s abortions by two to three weeks, as the women scrounge up the funds necessary for the procedure. Delaying an abortion can both increase the cost of the procedure and the risks. Moreover, when Medicaid will not pay for a low-income woman’s abortion, she is often forced to divert money that would otherwise be used to pay for regular expenses, like rent, utility bills, food, and clothing for herself and her children.
The bottom line is that the government uses abortion funding restrictions to coerce poor women into carrying their pregnancies to term.
SEE WHAT I MEAN.
