Oh as I shit I sit and wonder why
My floor’s so cold and my back’s broke and tired
Life is good even though it won’t be long
With the candle comes emotions
Dancing the shadows on my walls
What were your thoughts
As they were flying through your mind
Compared to what you feel
From the bars you’re now behind
If they could speak, what do you think they’d say to you?
I do believe you’d be better off if you just told the truth
I never had a problem till I stood face-to-face with me
And I wish there was a way for me to go inside
So I could see
All the faces of the people who have torn a piece off me
As I grew from a seed, oh to a tree
Can you feel the power of the eyes
It’s hidden away five feet from where we lie
What do you taste when you take a drink with me?
Is it too much for me to ask if I was to ask you to leave?
Oh please just leave
‘Cause I want to be alone
Oh, there’s a fine line between love and my feelings for you
High time we washed it all away
Unkind, you watch your future burn before you
Denied the chance of any love in your life
I never had a problem till I stood face-to-face with me
And I wish there was a way for me to go inside
So I could see
All the faces of the people who have torn a piece Torn a piece off me
As I grew from a seed to a tree.
NASA got JUpiter bussin it open for the cam like never before and we just not gonna talk about it?
The people of Oaxaca are reporting that a police curfew has been put in place and that internet/cellphone signal and power are going to be cut off so no word gets out as to what is happening.
>Bills violating due process are proposed
>Multiple groups, including the ACLU, protest them as unconstitutional
>Bills are rejected as being unconstitutional
>“Those Damn NRA Lobbyists™ are at it again!”
Things I like to see
To everyone who likes to throw the “nobody with a gun ever stopped a mass shooting” argument in our faces: This is why.
Because when someone with a gun stops it, it never gets to the point of *becoming* a mass shooting.
Person A: “That fire extinguisher won’t stop your house from burning down!”
Person B: *uses it to put out a smoldering cigarette that dropped into their trash can*
Wow no one has ever asked me who “would build the roads?” before. Half the services you listed aren’t necessary for a prosperous ans peaceful society. The other half people can pay for on their own.
Things like benefits for retirees and vets were taken care of by Mutual aid Societies, so like you get out of the military, and you’d find your local mutual aid society and see what services they offer.
Science and Medical Research can all be done by private organizations.
Government should never ever have been involved in retirement planning, that is better left up to the individual and private organizations.
There are organizations that have taken up the mantle of Emergency services, often times far more efficiently than government run emergency services.
government is one of the most inefficient organizations that exists to control or be responsible for these ‘services’. And these services are far outside the scope of what the Government should be responsible for.
Always reblog ‘who will build the roads’
Most of the things listed aren’t powers of the federal government and would be handled by states and localities. The rest were handled before there were income taxes.
“Science and Medical Research can all be done by private organizations.”
I love it when you can tell people are obviously avoiding the word ‘corporation’ lol like you’re not fooling anyone…if you honestly believe corporations and the ‘free market’ are honest and good then you deserve to die.
“you deserve to die”
I could have just ignored this post, but this is ignorant and malicious and this type of thinking legitimately needs to be shut down before it can infect others.
There are a litany of organizations — private organizations — that aren’t necessarily ‘corporate’ in nature that contribute to the research and publication of studies for the better understanding of a variety of industries and fields. In fact, most R&D expenditures in the United States come from the private sector, and have increasingly been so since the early 80s.
While the Federal government still carries a bulk of “basic research,” most of this money is spent on the military and not on the types of social research we envision when we talk about research and development. In addition, that same source shows that since the early 2000s, non-profit research and development is on the rise (though it is still a small share overall).
Please reconsider your outlook in this matter before you perpetuate this kind of negativity that people “deserve to die” for believing entities other than the State can more efficiently handle R&D funds.
Breaking news: the government wants to impede on your ability to do what you want with your own private property.
More on this story at eleven.
But remember, it’s the corporations that control government for their own greedy ends, not the government engaging in protectionism of its loyalist corporate/union/public-sector puppets.
1. According to FBI statistics, 80% of homicides are from gang-related activities.
2. Firearm homicide rates have decreased while gun ownership has increased. Over the past 20 years, gun sales have absolutely exploded, but homicides with firearms are down 39 percent during that time and “other crimes with firearms” are down 69 percent.
3. Generally, there is an inverse correlation between gun ownership and crime. A study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy discovered that nations that have more guns tend to have less crime.
4. Mass shootings mostly occur in areas with strict gun control laws. Almost every mass shooting that has occurred in the United States since 1950 has taken place in a state with strict gun control laws. Despite strict gun regulations, Europe has had three of the worst six school shootings.
5. There isn’t a strong correlation between gun ownership and homicides. The United States is #1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people. Australia, after banning guns, has indeed had a decrease in homicides, but so has the USA without banning guns.
6. Despite rising gun ownership, the violent crime rate is actually falling. The violent crime rate in the United States fell from 757.7 per 100,000 in 1992 to 386.3 per 100,000 in 2011. During that same time period, the murder rate fell from 9.3 per 100,000 to 4.7 per 100,000.
7. Despite what the media shows, guns do save people. Approximately 200,000 women in the United States use guns to protect themselves against sexual crime every single year. Compare that to the 32,000 deaths by firearms. People also frequently stop robberies because of gun ownership. You just don’t hear about it because mass and social media don’t report it for some reason.
8. Many people want to ban guns while frequently misidentifying them. It puzzles me when people say to ban assault rifles, when semiautomatic pistols are the firearms utilized in most mass shootings.
9. Usage of guns to protect outweighs usage of guns for crime. Guns are used 2.5 million times annually or 6,860 times a day. This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than they are to take lives.
10. You are more likely to die from playing high school football than a gun.
I don’t believe the USA has a gun problem. I believe it has a mismanagement problem coupled with a sensationalism and culture problem. That said, I’m open to a civil discussion, as long as I don’t see any “heartless conservative” rhetoric thrown at me. Make no mistake; I do not believe the USA is perfect and I believe the USA can do better.