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This is one of just a few onscreen graphics that Fox “News” actually put on the air.

I remember some asshole on here going on about how I was declaring “class warfare” because I thought things like universal healthcare were good things, things that would benefit our fellow men and women who — numbering in the tens of millions — go without such things.

So what the fuck is this, exactly?  What is Fox “News” trying to prove here?  That poor people aren’t actually “poor” because they have something in their homes that prevents essential foodstuffs like milk and eggs from spoiling?

That having things like a TV or a cellphone makes them, in words ACTUALLY USED ON FOX “NEWS” TO DEFINE POOR PEOPLE, “the takers,” “parasites” and “the moocher class”?

That a family of four making less than $23,000 a year is somehow getting away with something by literally being too poor to be taxed by the federal government?

Go fuck yourselves.

No seriously.  Go fuck yourselves right now.

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You know, I’m gonna reblog this again tonight because when I did earlier, I really didn’t know what to say, but now that I saw that Fox took it upon themselves to title it “Poor” Households, I have some fucking words I’d like to say.

First of all, how dare Fox think that just because a family has a refrigerator that they aren’t poor. Sorry that poor households aren’t living out on the streets, Fox. Sorry that they aren’t having to beg for food. Sorry that have a basic household appliance that keeps what food they have from going stale. I mean, jesus fuck, WHAT DO YOU WANT? Do you want poor people to have an even harder time by taking away their welfare BECAUSE THEY HAVE A REFRIGERATOR? I don’t know if you knew this, but poor by today’s standards is not poor by the standards of the last century, or the centuries before that. So what if a family with low income has a refrigerator, or a microwave, or a television set. That doesn’t mean they don’t need welfare, or some sort of charity. Just because they aren’t sleeping on the streets doesn’t mean they aren’t poor. This whole station just needs to shut the fuck up and stop spreading their hate for people who are less fortunate than billionaires, who Fox News seems to think are some sort of deities who need to be treated like gods by our gov’t and nation. I mean fuck.

I was actually tearing up watching the Daily Show segment on this, because my family is one of those that, according to Fox News, doesn’t deserve a refrigerator or microwave. I grew up on welfare. My mother worked multiple jobs (despite a disability, I might add) and still could not make ends meet, so she turned to the government for help keeping me and my two siblings housed and fed properly. I will forever be grateful that that help was available.

Reblogging for the commentary.  I also want to add that I just looked over craigslist in my area and I found a trove of microwaves for $25 and a few refrigerators in the free section.  Not to mention that in my experience, many rental units, low-income or otherwise, are already furnished with these appliances.  I agree with the earlier sentiment: fuck you too, Fox News.

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anarchyandscotch:

There is a story making the rounds on social media about a 7th-grade girl who is alleging she was harassed, assaulted and raped twice on school grounds, and then expelled when she reported the incidents. The story I’ve seen most often is from Alternet, and is written in their standard non-objective style. The newspaper that broke the story writes it in a more traditional journalistic tone, and it’s been covered by other sources as well. I’d encourage you to read at least one of them.

When stories of this nature come across the wires, I usually track down the actual court filings (which are often linked in the stories themselves) because I find that reading them gives me a better understanding of the story. So I read the original complaint and the school’s written response, in which it denies all allegations.

Responses in cases like this are typically pretty boring, as they tend to be just line-by-line denials of each claim in the complaint. This one is no different. But it ends with their affirmative defenses and I was particularly struck by the final three paragraphs, which I screen-capped and posted above. Paragraph 18, especially.

Keep in mind that “Plaintiff” refers to a preteen girl. A preteen girl who twice reported to her school that she had been raped on school grounds.

“Failed and neglected to use reasonable means to protect herself from loss.”

That’s the school’s response. To a preteen girl. Who told them she’d been raped. Twice. At school.

She failed and neglected to protect herself.

At school.

At school.

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slushy:

RIP NANCY WAKE (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011)

Ms Wake, who has died in London just before her 99th birthday, was a New Zealander brought up in Australia. She became a nurse, a journalist who interviewed Adolf Hitler, a wealthy French socialite, a British agent and a French resistance leader. She led 7,000 guerrilla fighters in battles against the Nazis in the northern Auvergne, just before the D-Day landings in 1944. On one occasion, she strangled an SS sentry with her bare hands. On another, she cycled 500 miles to replace lost codes. In June 1944, she led her fighters in an attack on the Gestapo headquarters at Montlucon in central France.

Work began earlier this month on a feature film about Nancy Wake’s life. Ms Wake, one of the models for Sebastian Faulks’ fictional heroine, Charlotte Gray, had mixed feelings about previous cinematic efforts to portray her wartime exploits, including a TV mini-series made in 1987.

“It was well-acted but in parts it was extremely stupid,” she said. “At one stage they had me cooking eggs and bacon to feed the men. For goodness’ sake, did the Allies parachute me into France to fry eggs and bacon for the men? There wasn’t an egg to be had for love nor money. Even if there had been why would I be frying it? I had men to do that sort of thing.”

Ms Wake was also furious the TV series suggested she had had a love affair with one of her fellow fighters. She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said.

Even before she escaped to Britain, through Spain, in 1943 to train as a guerrilla leader, Nancy had been top of the Gestapo’s French “wanted” list. With her husband, she ran a resistance network which helped to smuggle Jews and allied airmen out of the country.

Nancy recalled later in life that her parachute had snagged in a tree. The French resistance fighter who freed her said he wished all trees bore “such beautiful fruit”. Nancy retorted: “Don’t give me that French shit.”

<3 what a bad ass <3

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