SIGN THIS PETITION!!!

Click on this link and sign the petition.  
https://www.change.org/petitions/mobile-county-alabama-prosecutor-bring-travis-hawkins-jr-to-justice

Here's the information from the petition site:

Mallory was an invited guest Thanksgiving Day to her gf fam dinner & brother, Travis Hawkins Jr, has been arrested, charged, and released on bail for ONLY 2nd degree assault! Mallory had experienced a brain bleed, reconstructive facial surgeries, (metal plates due to crushed cheek bones), and skull fractures! This at best was an attempted murder! Mallory deserves justice for the horrific attack & by the Grace of God her long road to recover! It is reported that the accused attackers family stood by, did not intervene, and have threatened the victim family!

Article:
http://www.queerty.com/alabama-woman-savagely-beaten-by-girlfriends-brother-over-thanksgiving-20121126/
Queerty is also where this image comes from:

How can someone do this to someone else?  Her life is completely changed now because Travis Hawkins Jr. decided he was better than her.  This is a hate crime and the family allowed it to happen.  Everyone present who did nothing to help her need to be charged.  By doing nothing, people allow this behavior to continue.  DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  Sign the petition, write to the government, stand up for someone else, etc.  He needs to be charged with attempted murder.

People who think this is okay because she is a lesbian: DECENT human beings would NEVER believe this type of behavior is okay, this hate is not okay.  Also, if you say you are religious and think this is okay because she is a lesbian: you need to re-evaluate yourself and your morals because this is most definitely not even close to a religious act because this is hate.  Our justice system needs to prove that it can find justice system for people.  Letting him go will say our government and the people are willing to allow people to judge others and to physically attack and assault others.  She is equal to everyone else, regardless of sexual orientation.  Equality.

EVERYONE IS EQUAL, so why can he beat her and almost kill her and not be charged with attempted murder?

Misleading maps?

http://www.upworthy.com/we-have-been-mislead-by-an-erroneous-map-of-the-world-for-500-years?c=bl3

Interesting video and point.  We do tend to equate size with equality and things really aren't portrayed accurately according to size via the Mercator map we use today.  Possibly the Peters map could be of use?  Also, the end made me laugh, turn someone's world upside down when you turn a map upside down, even though a sphere doesn't really have a top and bottom.... :)

Back to equality: we associate northern and southern hemispheres and West and East with Good or bad or superior and inferior.  It shouldn't be that way, but people do it. If everyone works to set it straight that we are all humans living on the same earth, all equal we can work to change that mentality.  Again, I leave with this quote: "There is only one race: the human race."

*Kristen

PS. Hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving or for those who don't celebrate it, hope you had a happy weekend.

Obamacare

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/21/john-boehner-obamacare_n_2170722.html

After reading this article, I was even more unhappy with Tea Party Republicans than before.  If Congress continues to try to get rid of this even after WE the people agreed it would benefit the majority they are not working for us.  They deserve to be overthrown and kicked out on their butts.  They are wasting our money with their efforts and they don't care.  If they did they would have realized after the passing of Obamacare and the failed repeal that it is dumb to continue to try.  But no, they keep trying, knowing it is wasting our money.  KICK THEM OUT.  That's the only way to improve our government and get things passed the people want passed.  A contemporary republican is synonymous with selfish and greed, among other things.

Also, republicans who are still complaining about the outcome of the election = SORE LOSERS.  GET OVER IT.  Obama is President.  He was the best choice.  He's president for the next four years.  Stop whining.  If you're threatening to move out of the country, then do it.  Republicans are all talk, no action.  That's the problem.  Romney was all talk, no action, so are the rest of the sheep that follow him and the other Republicans.  Obama = action (for the people).  So if you say you hate Obama as president and want to move.  DO IT.  DO IT NOW.  We'd be better off without you.  Patriotism = supporting the president and the election process.  Sure, we may not always like the outcome, but once it happens there are ways to still get your voice heard.  Send your congressmen messages about things - they are the representatives for the people.  They'll get your message to the president.  If you call the election process fraudulent, then you need to have evidence supporting your claim.  If you don't you're just a sore loser and you must not be very patriotic. 

Kristen

Equality for Women

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP4e4vGP6oc

Ellen talks about trying to order 1 and 2 pound weights and how they come in only two colors: pink and purple.  As well as pink and purple pens "Her" pens, because, as Ellen points out: we could only write with our tears or lipstick.  You know, because we always have those on hand.  There is also a car made just for women and it comes in two colors: pink and eyeliner brown.  It has a climate control system to improve skin quality and windshield to prevent wrinkles.  Floral kiss computer for women which comes in feminine pink or elegant white and has a latch opening for women with long fingernails, pre-installed with scrap booking app and daily horoscope checker.  Wow.  Really?!  Do people want to move forward with equality or backwards?  I am a woman and I don't scrapbook.  I am a woman and I don't check my horoscope.  I am a woman and I don't like the color pink.  Ugh.

Women need to boycott these products.  Uniting under a boycott of these products will let these companies know women want to be treated equally and we don't need pens just for women to write or a pink car to drive.  Want to know the color of my truck?  Black.

"I checked my horoscope and it said: Today, your progress as a woman will be set back 92 years."

*Kristen

Rape camps?

In a FOX news interview with Megyn Kelly, radio host Michael Graham stated this about Obama:

“He ran on the Republicans are Satan incarnate and if women vote for them, they’re going to be forced into rape camps, and when that’s your campaign, you can’t be surprised when the people you ran against don’t want to work with you and you don’t have an issue to rally people around.”

Wow.  Really?  I'm fairly certain I never heard Obama once say anything about rape camps....though, since the Tea Party Republicans seem to not like independent women they may like the idea of rape camps.  Ugh.  This is getting even more ridiculous.

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/fox_news_guest_pushes_obama_rape_camp_conspiracy_20121109/

Another ridiculous thought for people: Use a word other than the "N" word, seriously?  Tracy Watson, learn how to use spell check and stop spreading hate.  Also, people who use welfare or receive "handouts" from the government aren't necessarily lazy.  Walk a mile in someone else's shoes, learn to have a little empathy for others and try to understand another person's situation.  Just because someone needs a little extra help to get by doesn't mean they are lazy or bad people.  It is people like Tracy Watson and the other racists/people who believe they are superior to others that we have people starving in our country.  It is because of hateful people that we have so many murders that occur in our country.  The Tea Party Republicans can be compared to the KKK. 

http://www.classwarfareexists.com/its-official-i-hate-this-n-gger-loving-muslim-country-just-saying/#axzz2Bu0htsvc

Hate is the problem.

http://www.kwch.com/news/wpix-map-shows-distribution-of-racist-tweets-after-obamas-reelection-20121109,0,6492014.story

This is a link that shows a map showing locations of racist tweets after Obama was elected, Mississippi and Alabama have the most with Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Dakota, Utah, and Missouri.  All I have to say is REALLY?!  We are still facing ignorant people who say things like this??????   Ugh, get some compassion and education people!  This article talks about a woman from California (Denise Helms, 22) who is under investigation by the Secret Service from her post: "Another 4 years of this (N-word), maybe he will get assassinated this term."  Then her response to this to a news crew: "The assassination part is kind of harsh. I'm not saying like I would go do that or anything like that, by any means, but if it was to happen, I don't think I'd care one bit."  People like this are the problem.  People who have so much hate in their hearts that murder or cruelty is the answer.  Wake up people!!!!  This hate hurts everyone, tears apart nations.  Our country has to be better than this, have we learned nothing from our history?  Have we learned nothing from others' histories?  We had a civil war here (though not alone, other countries have had civil wars) where we fought each other, brothers killed brothers...or did we learn nothing from WWII and the Holocaust?  People make mistakes, yes, but we are in 2012, we can't change history, but we can LEARN from those mistakes.  Yes, Barack Obama is black.  Is this really the most important characteristic about him people can bring up?  Ugh. 

"There is only one race: the human race."

*Kristen

Obama is President.

Obama is President for the next four years.  I am super happy about this because it will give him the opportunity to show us what he really wanted to accomplish as President of the United States.  Of course, presidents also need some help from Congress to be able to get some things done.  Hopefully, they will be able to work together better than what they have been and be willing to compromise.  Also, I'd like to tell people who are unhappy with the outcome of the election to get over it.  Nothing they can do, we are still the United States of America.  We should be standing together.  UNITED States of America.  People need to look up the definition of that word.

Also, a congrats to the states that legalized same-sex marriage.  Thanks for realizing that more people getting married isn't going to ruin the sanctity of marriage nor will it cause every "normal" couple that is married to divorce nor will homosexuality spread like wildfire and "infect" everyone in the U.S.  People who believe this......well, they should really evaluate themselves with a more critical eye.

Another issue I wanted to talk about: what makes rich people better than everyone else?  Serious question.  They can pay the same amount of taxes as everyone else; people are supposed to be considered equal.  Many rich people believe they are superior to everyone else and should not have to pay more money.  They must like having poor people around to walk all over.  Everyone should pay the same amount to contribute to this country.  End of story.  Debate is over, I have the answer.

*Kristen

VOTE.

If you haven't voted yet, get a move on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Abortion.

Republicans/conservatives tend to be "pro-life," and Democrats/liberals tend to be "pro-choice."  Just an observation.  Pro-choice is NOT the same thing as pro-abortion.  People who think this are dumb, plain and simple.  Pro-choice is merely saying that one supports the right for a woman to choose to give birth to a baby or to receive an abortion.  Many pro-choice people (me being one of those people) would actually never choose abortion themselves, unless something huge influenced them, such as rape (of course, only legitimate rape is considered here *insert thick sarcasm here* - ugh) or medical problem that would either put the mother's life in danger or be something that the child could be in pain for his/her entire life.  I must mention at this point that if the mother's life were in danger and needed extra care or the child did have health problems that would create problems or pain for the rest of their life, many conservatives would say that offering them any help to pay for their medical bills would be handouts and would consider them lazy.  They want to take care of unborn babies but taking care of people after they are born is unacceptable.

I do not believe people should use abortion as a form of contraception by any means, but sometimes people have to make the difficult decision to have an abortion.  If they aren't ready just yet (people DO make mistakes - part of being human or they just aren't in the right situation for it at that moment of their life) or health reasons or rape or some other reason.  It doesn't matter, women have a right to say what happens to their body.  It affects their life.  Men shouldn't be concerned with what women do with their bodies.  These government committees comprised only of men attempting to make decisions about women and their bodies and their futures makes me angry to think that they believe they can actually make competent decisions.  They have no right to think this or do this, and women NEED to stand up and fight them.

Speak up for your rights and for other people's rights.  Don't allow your rights to be taken away, don't allow other people's rights to be taken away.  We can be unified as a country under the principle that we are all deserving of the right to be happy and to make our own decisions to create the life we want to live in our pursuit of happiness (which, I might add, is stated in the Declaration of Independence).  We can be unified in knowing that we are all humans and we should see each other as equal because WE ARE ALL EQUAL.