Why the Manspeaker’s live in Topeka. CW moved to Topeka in 1857.
Mel was grandma Minnie’s boyfriend for over 23 years. He had a stroke months before she passed a way. The stroke left him with out the ability to move or speak. Minnie died a few months later. Mel wasn’t told until a couple weeks after she passed. He died a few days later. I believed he wanted to make sure she was taking care of. Like he had done for 23 years.
Dubai’s striking workers in their own words |
Labourers at construction giant Arabtec in the UAE complain of low pay, poor conditions and lack of annual leave.This is the story of constructions workers across the country. Even though UAE law forbids employers from withholding employees’ passports, companies (including big ones) do so easily. This tactic does not even allow the migrant workers (mostly South Asian with a small percentage of non-Gulf Arabs) to leave work and go back home. A lot of such workers end up committing suicide.
By the way Arabtec is the construction firm that is responsible for various famous projects in the country including the Louvre Museum and New York University campus in Abu Dhabi.
(via mohandasgandhi)
This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.
On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”
He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.
Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.
To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous.
This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.
This is what sick people in America are resorting to. But BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, right guys?
Relevant to some posts that were making the rounds today. Seriously disturbing.
Ugh!
"Facebook is the living dead: the most popular, least relevant social network where teenagers and adults alike gather out of fear of missing out on things that don’t even make them happy."
— Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They’re Not Logging Off [Slate] (via jbrotherlove)
(via morrowplanet)
"
The nights you fight best are
when all the weapons are pointed at you,
when all the voices hurl their insults
while the dream is being strangled.
The nights you fight best are
when reason gets kicked in the gut,
when the chariots of gloom encircle you.
The nights you fight best are
when the laughter of fools fills the air,
when the kiss of death is mistaken for love.
The nights you fight best are
when the game is fixed,
when the crowd screams for your blood.
The nights you fight best are
on a night like this
as you chase a thousand dark rats from your brain,
as you rise up against the impossible,
as you become a brother to the tender sister of joy
and move on
regardless.
"— Charles Bukowski (via cognitivedissonance)
