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Anonymous asked: Have you ever been fat? I have reallyl ow self confidence. I gained a lot of weight after my depression. But I want to fight it.

I have never been fat. There have been times when my face has grown rounder and, you know, tiny things like that. I have never been skinny either. I have always had an athletic physique as I’m constantly focused on some type of physical activity or another. Right now, it is running. At other times it has been cycling and swimming, or something else.

Depression is hard, but I’m glad you have taken back control of your life. That’s the first step. You realize you have been depressed, and you don’t want to be depressed anymore. That’s like the most joyous epiphany or something. :) Just take up a physical activity. It could just be walking or jumping rope. Something small. You don’t necessarily have to join a gym or anything like that. Exercise also releases the happy hormones in your brain and gets you feeling better about yourself. Don’t worry about your weight. Focus on getting healthier. Being able to have more energy, more strength, more vibrancy, more enthusiasm and spirit- NOTHING like it. :D

7 hours ago

Anonymous asked: Why did it take you longer than 2 weeks to read Atlas Shrugged? You are really just a retard who thinks hes smart.

The sorta asks just make my day.

1. I’m a GIRL.

2. I’m might be smart, or a retard. I have never claimed to be either or neither.

3. I read a lot of books at the same time. Atlas Shrugged can get a little boring around the 500th page. It’s just long-winding once Dagny reaches the Gulch. So I got to around that part by the 3rd day, but after that, I couldn’t stand the book. It gets a little dumb. I mean, I can appreciate how vividly Rand imagined the details, but she really can’t seem to be able to write in the abstract as much as I would enjoy. I read quite a bit of philosophy, and after all that, I read such a detailed narrative, it gets bugging.

I can’t believe I took the time to explain myself to such a rude Anon.

8 hours ago

SO WHAT IF OBAMA DIDN’T KEEP UP HIS PROMISE ABOUT SHUTTING DOWN GUANTANAMO BAY, HE LET THAT 5-YEAR OLD TOUCH HIS HAIR.

“TOUCH IT, DUDE!”

THAT’S WHY YOU SHOULD BE VOTING FOR HIM.

Or not.

antigovernmentextremist:

loveandzombies:

leptiir:theneighbourhoodsuperhero:

[shown above] Ruhal Ahmed, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, in an interview in which he discusses Omar Khadr. Ahmed stammers,

“I think he was a strong kid.

I think, you know, being much older, much older than him, I did feel that, sometimes, I needed to look out for him and I think so did the other prisoners around him feel the same. But obviously, being in Guantanamo, you can’t really look out for one another.

Uh, it’s, it’s, it’s difficult you know, today I’m here, and I’m, I’m thinking of, thinking of him and he’s still in prison and he’s still, still a kid. I don’t know really what I would say to him. It doesn’t seem, it doesn’t seem fair that he’s still there and, and I’m here.”

Khadr, a Canadian, was taken into US custody at the age of fifteen, tortured and refused medical attention because he wouldn’t attest to being a member of Al Qaeda, even though he was shot three times in the chest and had shrapnel embedded in his eyes and right shoulder. As a result, Khadr’s left eye is now permanently blind, the vision in his right eye is deteriorating, he develops severe pain in his right shoulder when the temperature drops, and he suffers from extreme nightmares.

Ahmed, who was imprisoned in the cell next to him for some time, reported that Khadr would return from interrogations (where he would be tortured) crying and would huddle in a corner of his cell with his blanket over his head.

Shafiq Rasul, another former Guantanamo Bay detainee, stated that although Khadr was forced to mature due to his harsh treatment and torture, he still had the mentality of a child. Guantanamo Bay’s Muslim chaplain James Yee confirmed this by reporting that Khadr had been given a Mickey Mouse book in a surprising act of kindness by one of his interrogators, and that he slept with it clutched to his (injured) chest. Muneer Ahmad, one of Khadr’s first attorneys, reported that at their first meeting at Guantanamo, Khadr asked for nothing other than colouring books, car magazines and pictures of big animals and played with the attorney’s ink pens and digital watch.

Khadr has been incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, and is now 25 years old.

If you want to know more about Omar Khadr, please check this out. Omar has himself said: “… if the world doesn’t see all this, to what world am I being released to? A world of hate … and discrimination.” He’s right, it is a world full of hate & discrimination, a world full of hatred towards everyone who isn’t white, Christian & straight.

honestly, what the fuck.

Even if he were a member of Al Qaeda I don’t think he should be treated this way.

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My belief is that 60 year olds should never send 18 year olds to be killed … It’s never for a good cause and for every single war you can always trace it back to who is making the most money. Back to the Civil War (the North wanted its share of the Southern cotton tariffs) and even back to the Revolutionary War (the myth of ‘taxation without representation’ and now, 240 years later, I am taxed Federal, State, City, Sales, Luxury, Property, and god knows how many other places.) … The real heroes are forgotten. The real histories are made up mythologies. The ‘good’ reasons always hide the real reasons.

James Altucher. (via libertarians)

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Ooooh, this perfect. You need a fast-speaking person armed with facts to mow down those stupid ‘pro-life’ people.

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#Remember that one time #where a crossdressing gay alien couple was featured in a Disney movie #And no one noticed?

Ha, I approve! :D Is this from Lilo and Stitch?

(Source: owlmylove, via c-merk)

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This man asks the right questions! How is government control different from government ownership? In a free economy, individuals mind and run their own businesses. When there is significant amount of government influence, interference, or control in the running or the establishment of the business, it is a free economy no more. Not even close.

17 hours ago

J’adore!

ohyeahcomics:

Via Ben Fiquet

*click through the link for the full short story

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rightklik76:

Two years ago today, May 26, 2010, President Obama traveled to Fremont, California to showcase a “brighter and more prosperous future” promised by the green-energy company Solyndra.

The solar panel maker went bankrupt last year, taking with it $535 million in taxpayer-funded loan guarantees. More than 1,000 people lost their jobs. The Obama administration had cut corners to rush money to Solyndra, with some of the beneficiaries being top Obama fundraisers. Even as Solyndra failed, the administration considered giving it another $469 million.

I would like Obama’s supporters refute this. Good intentions can NEVER justify terrible ends. Obama has disrespected the taxpayer’s time and wealth, and if he believes that sacrificing the people’s energies and money is good work, then he is an evil man. This is a classic case of Emperor’s new clothes.

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The Story of The Mafia and The Businessman

Irwin Schiff is the father of Peter Schiff. Just, btw.

baseballlibertarian:

And this is why Irwin Schiff is a national hero and should be known as one.

His story needs to be more well known. We need to band together more as a community and demand his release.

There once was a grizzled old man named Irwin who owned an insurance brokerage business. Irwin was a good businessman that people trusted to insure their possessions. Because Irwin was so good at serving his customers, he ended up making a lot of money.

As Irwin set about growing his business and reinvesting his profits, the mafia began to take note of Irwin’s business dealings. Irwin happened to be living in an area where the mafia had established a “protection” racket. The “protection” racket operated something like this: a business owner would pay the mafia a percentage of his profits, and in return for this, the mafia would “protect” that business from other thieves and mafia families. Of course, if a business owner refused to pay for protection, he would end up being kidnapped and thrown into a dungeon surrounded by violent men for many years. Once the businessman had been kidnapped, the mafia would then take all of his possessions for themselves as “restitution” for being inconvenienced.

Most businessmen who lived under the control of the mafia readily agreed to this. In fact, many even appreciated the mafia’s protection since they knew that no other thieves would dare mess with them. To keep up appearances, the mafia dons made a point of helping out the communities they controlled. After all, the more businesses earned, the more the mafia was able to skim from them. So the mafia dons would do nice things, like buy food for some of the poorer families in their neighborhoods, provide low interest loans to businessmen, and even fix a few pot holes in the streets outside of the businesses they “protected.”

The mafia knew they couldn’t take too much from the businessmen or they would put them out of business, but the mafia had other ways of making money for themselves besides robbing businessmen and profiting from the black market. One of the main sources of revenue for the mafia was counterfeit money. The mafia managed to acquire some very expensive Simultan printing presses, which they used to create the counterfeit money. The mafia would then loan out the printed money through their foreign operations to keep the flow of money hidden from the public eye.

Irwin didn’t like this one bit. Irwin knew that the mafia was eventually going to destroy his savings from the inflation that resulted from their money printing. Irwin also knew that the “good” the mafia was doing was simply to keep up public appearances. Since the public greatly outnumbered the mafia, the mafia only did just enough “good” to keep the public from revolting against them, while keeping the balance of money for themselves. Irwin figured that if the public was allowed to keep their own money, they could do more good than the mafia ever could.

Being the crotchety old man that he was, Irwin decided he wasn’t going to pay the protection money the mafia was demanding from him. Irwin sent the mafia letters telling them that what they were doing was wrong and he wasn’t going to take it any more.

Today, Irwin Schiff is sitting in a Federal Prison for tax evasion.

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