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Making videos usually gets tedious after a while. This time, however, I rejoiced in every moment.
for real, what if we treated every revolt like we treat Ferguson and Baltimore. :/
A Chain Chomp cat bed from catastrophicreations.com
Once again I don’t know what to do so I thought I’d ask people who have legal expertise. I receive a lot of messages from women and children of pastors who are abused by their pastor fathers/husbands. When these women and children are writing to me, it’s usually to tell me they feel something...
Abandoned Wizard of Oz theme park, January 2015
Well this is fucking terrifying.
Please reblog this, y’all.
Tweets sent out by a San Jose police officer the other day.
And, here’s a petition to fire his trash ass:
https://www.change.org/p/san-jose-police-department-fire-officer-white
"If anyone feels their lives matter…" wtf kinda bullshit is this
fuck cops
fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on you again for continuing to exploit my sense of trust. trust is not a weakness and should be respected, not taken advantage of.
i will reblog this a zillion times !!!!!!!!!!!!!
forreal. Smh
omg this
SMH THISSSSSSSSS
The truth
Wow this made my blood boil
Please preach
Is that so?
Women have been a leading force in sanitation strikes, calling for equal treatment and job security. This particular service industry has been the focus of multiple feminist manifestos and employment goals. Women fought long and hard to gain the right to work in sanitation, and they’re continuing that effort to open up the field more. This issue is so big that Parks and Rec even made an episode about it.
Female sewer workers have repeatedly sued the DEP for unfair treatment, seeking to open up the industry and gain equal status with their male peers. Sewer work is often targeted for its biased hiring practices. Hundreds of female candidates fight for limited available positions, but most are turned away, despite having the necessary experience and skills. Feminist workers recognize that these women are willing and able to do the work, but aren’t getting the opportunity to gain employment here.
Historically, coal mining is one of the most highly targeted careers for gender bias. Women have been petitioning for the opportunity to mine safely since the Industrial Revolution. This is actually one of the primary and best studied examples of women fighting to enter traditionally male fields. Lots of women, who both succeeded in the mines and didn’t, continue to petition for increased access to this field.
And yeah, women want white collar jobs too. Go figure - A diverse population of women, with different abilities, interests and levels of education, are all fighting for the right to seek diverse forms of employment. Fighting for equality in one sphere doesn’t mean that we’ve forgotten about the others.
Just because you aren’t paying attention to the feminist movement doesn’t mean that the feminist movement is nonexistent.
"But you never see [oppressed group] demand [x]"
No, YOU never see it. Because you’re not looking.
they made an entire movie about sexism in the coal mining industry even????
A couple of more points on the Ark Encounter
This is a continuation of my research regarding the Ark Encounter. Can the Ark Encounter discriminate with their hiring? [I AM NOT A LAWYER] There seems to be some debate online about whether a for-profit can be a "religious organization" under Title VII. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had this to say in an article entitled, Questions and Answers: Religious Discrimination in the Workplace.
Religious Organization Exception: Under Title VII, religious organizations are permitted to give employment preference to members of their own religion. The exception applies only to those institutions whose “purpose and character are primarily religious.” Factors to consider that would indicate whether an entity is religious include: whether its articles of incorporation state a religious purpose; whether its day-to-day operations are religious (e.g., are the services the entity performs, the product it produces, or the educational curriculum it provides directed toward propagation of the religion?); whether it is not-for-profit; and whether it affiliated with, or supported by, a church or other religious organization.
From what I can tell, one does not have to be a non-profit to be classified as a "religious organization", but it does help. Being a "religious organization" is not a a one trait thing, but a conglomeration of traits that add up to make one exempt.
whether its articles of incorporation state a religious purpose
whether its day-to-day operations are religious (e.g., are the services the entity performs, the product it produces, or the educational curriculum it provides directed toward propagation of the religion?)
whether it is not-for-profit
whether it affiliated with, or supported by, a church or other religious organization.
One does not need all four to qualify. The Ark Encounter seems to have at least three out of four, but I am not a lawyer. A judge may rule that they do not meet the criteria.
Who are the jobs going to?
When the Ark Encounter first began, Ken Ham said:
The Ark Encounter is going to employ almost a thousand people, and the impact on the number of jobs associated with that is going to be in the thousands, and our particular research has shown it will be many thousands, and it will bring millions and millions of dollars into the community. In fact, the research that we did shows that the economic impact of the Ark Encounter project over 10 years will be something like $4 billion.
According to Answers in Genesis' (AiG) letter to the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet (TAHC), the Ark Encounter was originally owned by three entities and intended to not discriminate while hiring. However two of the three entities abandoned the project leaving Crosswater Canyon Inc, which is run by AiG, as the sole owner. With the other investors no longer in the picture, AiG decided that Ark Encounter was going to religiously discriminate with their hiring. AiG claims that they informed the TAHC about this change months ago. So far Ark Encounter has no employees, but it seems like the requirements will be similar to AiG.
Salvation testimony
Creation belief statement
Confirmation of your agreement with the AiG Statement of Faith
When Ham promised a thousand jobs to a city that has less than 4000 and the county has less than 25,000, Kentucky's governor was on board.
Kentucky’s Democratic governor supports the tax incentives. He says he wasn’t elected to debate religion, he was elected to create jobs, especially in hard-hit communities like Williamstown near where the ark park will be located and where a majority of the unemployed have been out of jobs for over two years.
Over the last few years, Ham has changed his mind, all of the jobs will only be available to Christians who can agree with among other things, the following statements.
The various original life forms (kinds), including mankind, were made by direct creative acts of God. The living descendants of any of the original kinds (apart from man) may represent more than one species today, reflecting the genetic potential within the original kind. Only limited biological changes (including mutational deterioration) have occurred naturally within each kind since creation.
Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation, spanning approximately 4,000 years from creation to Christ.
The view, commonly used to evade the implications or the authority of biblical teaching, that knowledge and/or truth may be divided into secular and religious, is rejected.
Forget hiring Atheists, these jobs will be limited to a minority of Christians. Catholics or even William Lane Craig need not apply to be lifeguards. Maybe Grant County is mostly biblical creationists. However if the county is not, this might not be as big of a boom to the county's economy.
Will the Ark be built entirely of wood?
AiG claims that the pre-flood civilization not only had iron seams, but they knew how to smelt iron. The Ark was not built by Bronze Age tools, but by Iron Age tools. Also, Tim Lovett seems to imply that the Ark might have been reinforced by iron.
Disney Animated Ladies Census
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Paradiiiise
and the feeling
was nice
AiG or the Ark Encounter versus Kentucky
Ark Encounter LLC is a for-profit corporation that is solely owned by the non-profit Crosswater Canyon Inc which is run by the non-profit Answers in Genesis (AiG). This is why AiG wrote a web release refering to AiG while the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet (TAHC) references to merely the Ark Encounter. The TAHC only references AiG when in connection with Ark Encounter's actions. AiG seems to see little distinction which is why they say things like:
By letter on Dec. 10, state officials told the theme park’s developer, Answers in Genesis (AiG), that the only way AiG could participate in the rebate program is if AiG would agree to two conditions: 1) waive its right to include a religious preference in hiring, and 2) affirm that it will tolerate no “proselytizing” at the theme park.
Here is what the TAHC actually wrote:
The first reason the Commonwealth can no longer grant incentives to this Project is the applicant’s changed position as it relates to the hiring of employees. In its original Tourism Development Agreement, Ark Encounter, LLC expressly agreed not to discriminate in hiring based on religion. However, it is now the applicant’s stated intention to discriminate in the hiring of employees for the Project based on religion…The Commonwealth’s position hasn’t changed. The applicant’s position has changed. The Commonwealth has not and does not provide incentives to any company that discriminates on the basis of religion and will not make an exception for Ark Encounter, LLC.
Here is a portion on proselytizing:
Certainly, Ark Encounter has every right to change the nature of the project from a tourism attraction to a ministry. However, state tourism tax incentives cannot be used to fund religious indoctrination or otherwise be used to advance religion. The use of state incentives in this way violates the Separation of Church and State provisions of the Constitution and is therefore impermissible.
You can read the letter for yourself. Nowhere does the TAHC extend an ultimatum to AiG, but AiG does not seem to see it that way:
AiG has countered that the state’s new conditions are unlawful because it is well-established under both federal law (Title VII) and state law (KRS § 344.090) that religious organizations and entities like AiG are specifically permitted to utilize a religious preference in their hiring. Moreover, the government cannot show hostility toward religion or discriminate against persons or organizations who express religious viewpoints.
However that is not what AiG actually countered (pg 4):
Your legal counsel should readily acknowledge that it has long been established in federal law and state law that religious entities are permitted to give employment preference to members of their own religion. The federal law that prohibits discrimination in hiring practices, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, specifically carves out an exception for churches and religious organizations, which are permitted to give employment preference to adherents of their own religion. As noted above, Ark Encounter, LLC is clearly a Christian company with plainly religious attributes and ownership. It thus meets the legal standard for the Title VII exemption on religious preferences.
AiG did not counter about Title VII in reference to AiG. They countered with Title VII in reference to the Ark Encounter, because this is the only argument would make rational sense. When AiG is talking with the government, they maintain a distinction, but when they are talking to their own followers they maintain no distinction. At best, one could argue that AiG is trying to dumb things down for their audience. Clearly it is on the surface factually incorrect to say:
...state officials told the theme park’s developer, Answers in Genesis (AiG), that the only way AiG could participate in the rebate program is if AiG would agree to two conditions...
or
...AiG has countered that the state’s new conditions are unlawful because it is well-established under both federal law (Title VII) and state law (KRS § 344.090)...
In both AiG's letter and TAHC's letter the main conversation was about the Ark Encounter. At best AiG could argue that technically the Ark Encounter has no employees and AiG runs Crosswater Canyon, so anyone dealing with Ark Encounter is actually dealing with AiG. Until Ark Encounter has a person to answer the phones, they could be reduced to functionally the same company. This is the best interpretation. After all, they did provide both letters on their own website. Then there is the worst interpretation: AiG is intentionally trying to confuse their readers into thinking that TAHC wants AiG to start hiring Catholics and to stop proselytizing. AiG obviously could try and educate their readers about the Title VII and for-profit companies, but for some reason they chose to confuse the issue.
Gardasil and 1 out of 912
This has already been well debunked over at Internet Myths, Lies and Misinformation. I am going to add my own two cents, but I want to give credit to one of the first things I read on this. I used to write and link more about Gardasil when Bachmann was running for President. 9/15/11 HPV Vaccine does not cause retardation
9/17/11 12 year old girls might mistake a HPV vaccine for a HIV vaccine 10/19/11 Flashback to Gardasil
11/15/11 Bachmann: "Ravages of this Vaccine"
1/13/12 Many Teen Girls Mistakenly Think HPV Vaccines Cut Risk for All STDs
Today, I came across this meme from Cancer Truth.
The source cited is a blog written by Dave Hodges, September 17, 2013. Hodges wrote.
Merck and the CDC have determined that 1 out of every 912 who received Gardasil in a large study, (see page 8) died. Yet, the cervical cancer death rate is only 1 out of every 40,000 women per year. In other words, girls are better off not taking the shot because the Gardasil shot kills the girls in greater numbers than does the disease it purports to treat.
The study linked is a great study. They analyzed seven clinical trials which used placebos as a control.
29,323 received injections.
15,706 received Gardasil
13,023 received a placebo
With both the Gardasil and the placebo only 0.1% died: 21 in the Gardasil group and 19 in the placebo group. (In case you were wondering 1 out of 912 is 0.1%.) Honestly if Gardasil was increasing mortality rates, you would expect to see more people dying with vaccines than injecting someone with a placebo. However that is not what the data shows. The meme could just as easily read:
Still you might say that 0.1% is still pretty bad right? Who cares about the 99.9% if you are the 0.1% right? Well, lets look at the causes (plural) of death.
The events reported were consistent with events expected in healthy adolescent and adult populations. The most common cause of death was motor vehicle accident (5 individuals who received GARDASIL and 4 individuals who received AAHS control), followed by drug overdose/suicide (2 individuals who received GARDASIL and 6 individuals who received AAHS control), gunshot wound (1 individual who received GARDASIL and 3 individuals who received AAHS control)
That's right the most common causes of death break down like this:
Hodges is such a honest guy *cough* that he is including 5 traffic accidents, 2 suicides, and for good measure, a gunshot, in his statistic, because in his own words "the Gardasil shot kills the girls"...with traffic accidents and causing girls to get shot. He is literally arguing that "the Gardasil shot" gets you shot. Again going back to the placebo, our control group, one could just as easily say that the "[placebo] shot kills the girls". By injecting people with essentially nothing, they managed to get three times as many suicides and three times as many gunshot victims. If Gardasil was really killing people, we would expect to see greater rates of death among Gardasil than placebo. So what about these 13 and 6 deaths that are left? Well, both Gardasil and Placebo had a death attributed to pulmonary embolus/deep vein thrombosis. So that brings us to 12 and 5 deaths.
In addition, there were 2 cases of sepsis, 1 case of pancreatic cancer, 1 case of arrhythmia, 1 case of pulmonary tuberculosis, 1 case of hyperthyroidism, 1 case of post-operative pulmonary embolism and acute renal failure, 1 case of traumatic brain injury/cardiac arrest, 1 case of systemic lupus erythematosus, 1 case of cerebrovascular accident, 1 case of breast cancer, and 1 case of nasopharyngeal cancer in the group that received GARDASIL; 1 case of asphyxia, 1 case of acute lymphocytic leukemia, 1 case of chemical poisoning, and 1 case of myocardial ischemia in the AAHS control group; and 1 case of medulloblastoma in the saline placebo group.
Dying after taking a vaccine or a placebo does not demonstrate cause and effect. In order for cause and effect to be demonstrated cause of death must occur more often in the vaccinated community than in the non-vaccinated community. One or two cases is not enough to demonstrate that. Remember what the paper blamed?
The events reported were consistent with events expected in healthy adolescent and adult populations.
Now it would be one thing if Hodges was arguing honestly. However:
He excludes the placebo group which had the same mortality rate
He includes traffic accidents, suicides, and gunshots in his statistic
He rewords the paper to argue Gardasil kills when the paper actually attributes the causes to "events expected in healthy adolescent and adult populations."
Remember, this is Hodges' source. He even gave the page number. At best his "1 out of every 912" is actually 1 out of 1208 without any real evidence to imply cause and effect. In case you were wondering, the death rate in the US is actually 807.3 out of 100,000 or about 1 out of every 125 (yes, I know there are reasons not to reduce it that much). In the mean time cervical cancer killed 4,092 in 2011.
For further reading I found these on NPR.
HPV Vaccine Doesn't Raise Risk Of Blood Clots, Study Finds
Parents And Teens Aren't Up To Speed On HPV Risks, Doctors Say
Cervical Cancer Vaccine Also Helps Prevent Genital Warts
Girls Vaccinated For HPV Not More Likely To Be Sexually Active
this is why i have trust issues
No sickness worse than fancying thyself perfect can inflect thy soul. O arrogant misguided one! Shed many tears of blood from eyes and heart, [so] that this self-satisfaction may be driven out. The fault of Iblis lay in saying, “I am better than he,” and this same weakness lurks in the soul of all creatures. - Rumi
horrible histories did not mess around
X-Men: Days of Future Past Bloopers
These could have been actual lines of dialogue in the movie, and it wouldn’t have interfered with the story whatsoever.