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Reece's mother said "When we found out that we only had a few weeks with him we tried to do absolutely everything with him that we could. Him and Ellie had been 'special friends' for a couple of years but then they broke up. We said we'd have a pirate party, and Ellie came. She went to visit Reece a few times in hospital as well."

SADDEST.STORY.EVER.

this little boy was diagnosed with leukemia at age four, and his family was told at age eight that he only had a few weeks to live. they wanted to help him accomplish as many of his goals as possible. so he proposed to his little school girlfriend at a party and they got "married". they went out in the mayor's limo for a nice dinner with everyone, they had a fake marriage certificate made, and a ceremony and everything.

they said the little boy was always trying to walk for his family, since apparently a lot of kids with leukemia struggle with walking. the day after he and his girlfriend were "married", he walked to the couch. he died that day. THE DAY AFTER HE MARRIED HIS LITTLE GIRLFRIEND!!!! OMG!!!!

even more sad and awesome - his casket was carried in a horse-drawn hearse for the funeral, and his family and friends WALKED behind it. they said if he could walk for them, then surely they would walk for him.

yeah, read the story and try not to fucking cry. i dare you.

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Best Week Ever » Blog Archive » THEORY: Christian Bale’s Mother is a Part-Time Clown. No, Really

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Christian Bale’s mother… IS A F**KING CLOWN. And please, allow us to remind you: The Joker? Also a clown of sorts. So let me see if I get this straight: A method actor plays a superhero who battles a demented clown. This actor is also in the stages of mourning the death of said clown actor. And this same actor, exhausted from working constantly, now lashes out against his mother, who is also a clown, after she talks sh*t about his wife?

LOLZ.

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Hillary Clinton: An Outrageous Attempt by the Bush Administration to Undermine Women's Rights

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The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology before science and women's health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms of contraception like birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs by labeling them "abortion." These proposed regulations set to be released next week will allow healthcare providers to refuse to provide contraception to women who need it. We can't let them get away with this underhanded move to undermine women's health and that's why I am sounding the alarm.

i often disagree with hillary. she thinks video games are bad and make people kill. she's with tipper gore on the anti-music and anti-video game thing.

but hillary was on board with plan b. she speaks out on behalf of women's health, and contraceptives, and i love that. i like that someone is championing a right that i strongly subscribe to.

so the bush administration is currently seeking to put into legislation a law that will make birth control pills and IUD's be considered "abortion".

abortion: noun. 1: the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: as a: spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation — compare miscarriage b: induced expulsion of a human fetus c: expulsion of a fetus by a domestic animal often due to infection at any time before completion of pregnancy — compare contagious abortion.

yeah. i don't see anywhere in that definition, from merriam-webster, that says that abortion is taking a contraceptive to avoid and prevent getting pregnant.

i am just losing my shit with this administration's need to constantly interpret things their way to enforce their ideology on everyone. it's already difficult enough to get birth control with the rising cost of annual exams and the increasing lack of "free" or "low cost" clinics. what used to be "low cost" is now way too much. it isn't affordable and easy for us anymore. and i'm not just saying women, i'm saying men, too, because planned parenthood also treats men. i saw this dude walk in there during my visit yesterday, and he just came to get some condoms. he knows he has very little money, and he knows he's going to fuck, and he was being responsible. it was so great to see that.

if this sort of thing passes into legislation, guys like him won't be able to go to these helpful clinics, who are still trying to be as helpful as possible with the rising economy and the pressures from state and federal goverment, and pick up some condoms so he can go home and tap that sweet ass without knocking the bitch up and adding to the welfare/food stamp/WIC epidemic. without taking more money out of our pockets with the taxes that support these programs.

during my visit yesterday, which used to only cost 45 dollars and now costs twice that, or 60 bucks just to tell a doctor you like your pills, get your blood pressure and weight taken, and get more pills (which you have to pay for separately), i was pleasantly surprised that planned parenthood now has a new form of convenience: you can get a year's worth of whichever birth control method you use now (provided they have enough of your prescription in stock), and pay later. i got 13 packs of pills, and i don't have to start paying until september, at which point it comes out of my bank account every month on the 20th. way to fight back, planned parenthood! i'm proud!

but still. here we have this bullshit conservative bush administration trying to tell me that birth control is considered abortion, and make it virtually impossible to get. yes, that's what this country needs, more poor people making babies! more welfare! more food stamps! in a perpetual cycle of relying on the government!

i'm sick over this. if you go to the link above, mrs. clinton has provided a link at the bottom to sign a petition urging the government not to go through with this. PLEASE SIGN IT.  it takes two seconds, i swear.

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it's been a while, and this is past due anyway...

loathe:

• my boyfriend drank a half liter of whiskey by himself again last night. i woke up at 5 this morning having to pee really bad, and there he was, starting in on my vodka and kahlua and having a white russian. he had stopped drinking when i did around 8 last night. he made me some dinner. i thought he would come to bed around 11, at the latest. nope. he drank the whole bottle of whiskey and then started in on MY booze. i took the drink out of his hand, dumped it in the sink (thank god it was half empty and was in a small glass, or i'd feel guilty as shit), slapped his hat off his head, and went back to bed. i think i scared him because he slept on the couch after that.
• said boyfriend is not awake yet. i figure if he's not up by the time i go to lunch, i'm going to have to drive home and let the dog out of her kennel/bed to go do her business. no telling when he put her in bed, but her tiny bladder and digestive system should not have to suffer because he can't put the bottle down.
• said boyfriend drinking AFTER he's already accomplished drunkenness. this leads to wasted booze. thank god the half liter of whiskey he always gets is 8 bucks. but the fact that he drinks the entire bottle, and then starts drinkin MY booze? no, i don't think so. kahlua is not cheap, even for that smaller bottle i got. milk was 3-something for a half gallon. i want to scream at him right now. he wastes, so much. he can't be bothered to eat the serving size of anything. instead of one or two corn dogs from the box of frozen ones i get at the store, he'll eat 3 in one sitting, with chips or mac n' cheese. he's been known to put away a bag of chips in one day (usually tortilla chips, which pisses me off, because i like to get down on tortilla chips and salsa every now and then), although it doesn't happen often. but i'll get a bag of chips and some salsa, and you can bet your ass it's gone in 3 days or less, before i can even touch it.
  
• i hate that he's home right now, not working, and eating all the damn food..and sure, he cleans the house and does dishes and makes dinner the best way he knows how, but then i come home and want to vent about my day or whatever, and you can tell he's not interested. in fact, at times, he makes that known. and it's like, you know what? you don't fucking work, so if i want to come home and bitch about my fucking day, you better fucking pretend your interested because those half liters of whiskey you're drinking and those cigarettes your smoking? i paid for it. that laundry? i washed it. that food you eat? i bought it. spent more than i should have, every time, and for what? 2 weeks of food that should last almost a month? christ.
• i hate that i spent an hour making him a resume and i posted it on careerbuilder.com for him, and he applied for two jobs. both of which were out of his skill range.
• i hate that i told him yesterday that my dad just found out he can apply to jobs through my dad's company online, so it puts less work on my dad to find him a job, and my dad found out that there are TONS more positions open than he thought, which is awesome. did he get on and check it out? no.
• i hate that he spends like, 2 hours a day for the past couple of days studying for this online class thing for school because he fucked up his accuplacer, and because he does that, he feels like he gets a free pass to not do anything else all day. i know this mentality. i was jobless at one point. you pick one thing that you feel is exerting to do each day. one day you might clean. one day you might go out and apply for a job or two. you do maybe one hour of actual responsible activity, and then you think you're spent for the day and get an out. fuck that. unemployment is paying 600 bucks every two weeks. you know where that's going? in.my.fucking.wallet.
• i hate that i feel like a nazi for taking his unemployment debit card because he never did that to me when i wasn't working. then again, for the majority of time i was on unemployment, i was working, so i deserved to keep both paychecks. i just feel like he's going to resent me for it, even though he willingly handed it over. he's irresponsible with money, and i don't want him getting drunk and ordering shoes or hats online or whatever at 2 AM, which he's done a couple of times before. one time, i told him not to, and i hid his card. then he said he wouldn't, and i gave it back, and what did he do? ordered a jersey online that we couldn't afford, and he had to cancel the transaction and wait for the refund. 
• i hate that he bitches about going grocery shopping with me or going to the liquor store, but since he isn't working or doing much of anything, i feel like he kind of owes me that. i'm not going to go out and spend money on shit we need if he's not going to show some level of appreciation.
• i hate that i feel like i'm not appreciating what he IS doing. like cooking and keeping the house clean.
  
• i hate that he tells me i still have growing up to do before we get married, but i feel like the grown up in this relationship.
  
• i hate feeling like i'm in a police state at work now. every time someone walks by, i have to minimize the internet window, if i have it open. even if i'm eating breakfast and reading the news, which is what i do every morning around 8 or 8:30 to take a little break for 5 minutes. it's ridiculous.
• i hate that i just poured my guts out and said all the things i should say to my boyfriend, and now i look like an asshole to you guys.
• bob, the boss that i think ratted me out about internet usage. when he's at his desk (the cubicle next to mine and liz's), he's loud. he gets on the phone and talks really loud, he slams shit around....right now he's rearranging his area and fucking with the desk. the desk that is attached to the cubicle partitions. right. and i'm trying to answer phones and hear customers, and it's very rude.
  

• the seasonal s'mores ice cream from HEB. it's their generic brand, but they have the best ice cream besides ben and jerry's, i swear. i think i need to buy like, 30 cartons of this stuff. they only have it in quarts (yes, quarts! for 2.50! and all of their flavors are creamy and yummy and taste more expensive!), and it won't be around much longer since it is seasonal.
  
• new season of project runway, although it is their last on bravo. suck. they've been bought out by lifetime, and the new production company is bunim-murray, the same assholes that gave us the real world on mtv. puke. i don't know if i'll watch it when it goes to lifetime, but i love it right now. i'm going for the chick that does all the plaid stuff. she did the neat dress with the vacuum cleaner bags and dye in the grocery store challenge last week. i, however, do not like the "girlicious" guy with the orange leather bag tan. everything is something "icious" to him. and he's so creepy looking!
• that my boyfriend is cooking, and cleaning, and doing dishes. it's role reversal, definitely, and i can't say i hate it. i just wish he was working.
  
• wii fit, even though i haven't been using it as often as i should. i always feel guilty when i turn it on and the wii board dude on the tv is like, "we haven't seen you in a while, you should use me every day to be healthy!" but then my trainer makes everything better because she's really nice and encouraging.
  
• amanda palmer's new single, "leeds united". i listen to it on repeat on the way home every day. lovelovelove.
• my boyfriend, even when he's pissing me off.
  

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i can haz analogy at 40 second mark.

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Programs Target Shaken-Baby Syndrome - AOL News

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The father told investigators Winter had stopped breathing and he shook her to revive her, says Chris DeMartino, the district attorney in San Antonio who prosecuted the case. The father was convicted in 2000 of felony child neglect, fined $10,000 and sentenced to five years' probation.

so this guy in florida shakes his baby because he's frustrated since the baby won't stop crying. he's the baby's stepfather. he shakes the baby, the baby stops crying and goes to sleep. some time later, the baby's lips turn blue, he rushes it to the emergency room, but the baby dies the next day. no word on sentencing yet. and here's this lawyer saying, "he did something not only out of frustration, but out of irrational thinking". and this gives him an excuse? are you kidding me? don't EVEN try to excuse that behavior. unless the parent was psychotic as all fuck and had no knowledge of what they were doing, then i'd say, "well, they were not self aware, so you can't blame them, really."

what pisses me off? if you continue reading the article (and i posted this bit in the link above in case you were too lazy to navigate), there's this story about a guy that shook his 9 month old baby. his excuse was that she stopped breathing and he shook her to revive her (which is false). she is now 10 years old. she is blind, she can't feed herself, and she can't speak. you know what this guy's punishment was? 5 years probation and a $10,000 fine. wtf? i guess you could argue that his punishment is taking care of his disabled daughter and having that daily reminder for the rest of his life, which is pretty good punishment...

i guess it pisses me off that people go to jail for years for crimes that aren't nearly as horrible, and it costs millions in taxes to lock up these "criminals" (some of which are innocent and shouldn't be there at all), and yet this guy does something pretty fucking brutal to his own child, a baby, and he gets off with 5 years of probation. do people honestly sympathize with baby-shakers? it's good to know my tax dollars are being put to good use, yeah?

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okay, so i'm going to make this quick before i go to lunch.

yesterday, mean boss barbara calls me in her office after bob leaves it, and says that she's been getting a lot of complaints that i've been on the internet too much. i shrugged and said i had no idea what that was all about, but i'd work on it. what else do you say to your boss? i'd rather pick my battles, and arguing over the internet and possibly inciting a full out investigation into my internet usage doesn't seem worth it. but good luck, boss lady, cos i have firefox set to erase everything everytime i close out! suckas!

anyway, it just pissed me off. liz and i sat here trying to figure out who would've told barbara, and the only reasonable person we could think of was bob. i think he's mad at me because he was wrong about something the other day, and i was right, and he didn't like it. he was an asshole all day yesterday, but then this morning, he was nice again. it's ridiculous. whatever. and what? he's walked by and seen me checking my e-mail or reading news once or twice, and based on that snap judgement, he tattles? wtfever.

so there's that.

favre got his unemployment debit card, which will be in my posession, period. i wear the pants in the family, lolz.

favre's dad called me WHILE I WAS AT WORK. his phone was breaking up really bad, and i told him that, but he kept trying to talk anyway. basically, we were planning on going to DFW august 29th-31st, and we'd still have sept. 1st off for labor day, so it wouldn't take away from our weekend. well, his dad will be in DFW on september 3rd and was planning to come down to houston on the 5th for a few days or a week or whatever. well, now he thinks it'd be a good idea for us to go up there on the 5th of september, the next friday, and we'd all drive back to houston together. he says he'd pay for a hotel room for us for the weekend. it sounds awesome, and totally makes the plan concrete, since we weren't sure if we could afford it....but i don't want him dictating my weekend. the whole point of going up there is to spend my birthday with friends. and i was thinking about this before we even knew he was coming. his reasoning for this? it's cheaper for him and easier and fits with his schedule.

blahhhhhh blah blah.

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Joker 1

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'Unfathomable' End for Pregnant Victim - AOL News

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PITTSBURGH (July 21) -- Authorities say a slain pregnant woman may have been alive and was possibly drugged when a baby was ripped from her womb, allegedly by a woman who tried to pass the infant off as her own.

this woman met an 18 year old girl at a prison. they were both visiting different inmates. she invited the pregnant girl to her home, and 2 weeks later, she cut open the girl's uterus and took her baby. then she takes off to the hospital, umbilical cord still attached to child, and tries to tell them she paid $1,000.00 for the baby. wtf?

this isn't the first time this crazy woman has done something like this. she stabbed a pregnant woman in an attempt to steal the baby from her womb. in that same week, she snatched a baby from a hospital after the baby's 16 year old mother had left for the evening. she was sentenced to 3-10 years in jail.

so now, she's released, and what does she do? she kills an 18 year old pregnant girl and takes her baby. and for what? she doesn't get to keep it. in what reality does this woman actually think she could take a fetus from another woman's uterus, killing the woman in the process (i don't think there's ever been an account of a woman living through a situation like this, outside of a hospital with drugs and a doctor), keep the baby, and actually get away with it? what reality, i ask you?????

oh wait, this woman is OBVIOUSLY fucking insane. and she was let out of prison. good to know my tax money is being put to good use! who knows if this woman was ever given a psychiatric evaluation? i believe that if you do some whacked out shit like baby snatching, or attempting to baby snatch, you belong some place with padded walls, high security, and leather restraints on your bed. what idiot decided to send her off to jail instead?

there are oh so many things wrong with this.

1. she should've been evaluated by a psychiatric professional and placed in a mental institution.
2. she should've been evaluated before she was released.
3. if these things were done, then i'd like to know what kind of fucking idiot let her go free. psychiatrists are well known for overlooking serious warning signs in patients' behavior and letting them go. why do they have degrees, then? i'm not fucking sure.
4. i don't think prison is a good place to stick crazy people. prison is filled with criminals. lots of them are violent and aggressive. is it a good idea to stick someone with serious mental problems in a giant fortress filled with aggressive assholes? no.
5. why do all the criminals get thrown into the same prison? this seems pretty counter productive. i know not ALL criminals are thrown in the same prison. i mean, someone serving for unpaid tickets would go to county. but all the criminals in prison shouldn't be in the same place. what lesson does someone learn when locked up with people like that? most of them learn to do worse things.
6. once again, people who have mental issues should not be in prison. period. they need to be locked up in an institution. they aren't going to learn anything in prison and they won't get help for their issues. they'll just get out, probably crazier than before, and do the same shit.

regardless, it's a pretty sad story. someone had to lose their life because of our flawed system, and a person with serious mental problems that never received treatment. that woman probably needed to be locked away in a mental facility for most of her life. that poor baby lost a mother, too.  

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i love zachary quinto. i love sylar on heroes. bad guy that cuts your head open and takes your powers from your brains and what not? i love braaaains. yeah, he's hot. i never was a big star trek fan. i watched the next generation and some deep space nine when i was little. i think my dad watched the movies when they came on tv, and i'd get suckered into it. the main reason i watched was because i was up late, all my favorite shows came on in the day (except fraggle rock), and we had limited channels.

but you know who i love, besides zachary quinto? i love j.j. abrams. lovelovelove. less than three, even. and the idea of him making star trek all awesome and shit? i'm down, home slice. especially when you make zachary quinto into spock!

Spockyum

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