yesterday's child

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Romney vs. Reality

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Rev. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ (via touchoftea)

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booletsandblossoms:

This little one’s name is Karson. He’s six months old and was born with a heart defect. He’s already gone through open heart surgery, and will likely need more surgeries, procedures, and tests as he gets older.

To help with the medical bills, his grandma is making and selling homemade caramels. They’re not very pricey- six bucks for plain and seven bucks for pecan, sea salt, or cayenne, and you get a half pound of candy.

Get a bag, get some nummy candy, and help a sick little kid in the process.

(I don’t know these people personally- I just think it’s a nice way to do good for someone in need. And yes, I bought some myself- one bag of sea salt caramels are heading to my mouth house as we speak. :3 )

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Homemade-Caramels-Karson-Help-Pay-Medical-Bills-Open-Heart-Surgery-/120898618030?_trksid=m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8418608771467092533

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I may have to buy myself some candy. :)

The state of health care in America: people are making and selling candy to pay medical bills to keep a newborn alive. This shouldn’t be happening. I hope in the near future Karson’s able to have full health insurance coverage.

That said, since this is reality right now, please consider buying some candy to help him.

-Jess

This is not a one time occurrence or even the exception, people.

At the hospital I volunteer at, I see kids wearing t-shirts from fundraiser’s their parents had to hold to pay for their kid’s medical bills. Some of them have multiple t-shirts describing different fundraisers. Most of these kids have insurance, too. It’s not just uninsured kids. It’s families that have insurance but can’t cover the cost of what the insurance companies don’t pay for.

One had a fundraiser at a local pizza place, another hosted a walk/race to raise money. Another had an “up all night” fundraiser.

Please help this child out.

This is the state of our health care system. We have to hold fundraisers to pay medical bills and yet republicans want you to believe there is nothing wrong and that Obamacare (and any future health care reform) should be repealed.

Love,

Rabble

- Where are the doctors?  (via iamdrtiller)

It’s appalling to me that politicians believe they know how a patient should be treated for this ONE medical procedure. You don’t have a politician telling cardiologists that before a doctor does open heart surgery they have to do X, Y, and Z. Politicians do not have the best interests of the patient at heart. They only want their political agenda to be served. Physicians should not allow something as sacred as healthcare become a political battlefield and I agree that physicians should just stop doing what’s asked.

At the same time, though, a physician could lose their license for not serving a political agenda to their patients and then where will we be? We’ll have even less doctors available to perform these important procedures.

All of this legislation that interferes with medical practices surrounding abortion puts doctors in a very difficult place and none of this should have been allowed to happen in the first place. Politicians are not entitled to interfere with medical decisions that physicians make in the best interests of their patient and it’s appalling that politicians have done so.

Love,

Rabble

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Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents - The Washington Post

I don’t know whether this is true, but the incident was corroborated by five other students.  We’ve all encountered people like the Romney in this story, and we’ve all hoped they wouldn’t grow up to be President.

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We shouldn’t read too deeply into a string of incidents fifty-years ago.

With that out of the way, the whole article about Romney’s high school days mirrors the way I feel about Romney more generally. I knew guys like Romney. It’s not just that I don’t want them to be President. It’s that I want to see everything they stand for repudiated. I wanted McCain to lose the general election. I’d like to see Romney crushed.

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dancnqn5:

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afterelton:

In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage.  Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home.  Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.

In this situation, it was the other way around.  I guess we can be glad that Malia and Sasha aren’t younger, or perhaps today’s press conference might have been about appointing Dora the Explorer as Attorney General because of her success in stopping Swiper the Fox.

Sometimes dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking.  In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.

What a sanctimonious little brat.

No, seriously? Child, you are that dumb?

I usually try to keep my tumblr politics free. Unless you find Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Quidditch, Community, Musical Theatre, food porn, and other general nerdiness and artistic, pretty things political. But this pisses me off to no extent. Clearly, you stupid little girl, your traditional family taught you so many amazing values. How did that work out for you??

DEAR GOD. 

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lipstick-feminists:

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gifhound:

In his interview that aired this morning on Meet The Press, Vice President Joe Biden told David Gregory he’s “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex marriage. Regarding the cultural changes spurred by the same-sex marriage debate, Biden added: “I think Will And Grace probably did more to educate the American public than probably anything anybody’s ever done so far.”

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