queennubian:

tvintheradio:

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I’m not going to go into details right now, but if you have, what are your thoughts on it?

sketchmedesire:

(NaturalNews) The Obama Administration has given its blessing to PepsiCo to continue utilizing the services of a company that produces flavor chemicals for the beverage giant using aborted human fetal tissue. LifeSiteNews.com reports that the Obama Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided that PepsiCo’s arrangement with San Diego, Cal.-based Senomyx, which produces flavor enhancing chemicals for Pepsi using human embryonic kidney tissue, simply constitutes “ordinary business operations.” 

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Yup, you read that right.

I feel like crying. Don’t ingest things if you don’t know 100% of the source. Just don’t. Buy local and organic foods, drink water, love on your body, and boycott demonic giants like this. Are you kidding me? I am so angry. God help us.

For clarity, the article says that the cells are not in the final product, but are used in testing to see how actual taste receptors respond to the product.  But that should be no less revolting.  That’s a part of a baby they’re using for their testing for a product we consume- for profit.  From a more factual point of view, as long as the mother gives consent to this use of the baby’s body, it really is legal according to the law as it stands today (in the same way that a cadaver may be plasticized for public spectacle- for profit).  The real issue here is that it is just one more step towards normalizing abortion as another cause of death.  Abortion isn’t simply a death by accident or natural causes.  It is the murder of a child whose right to life was taken away.  Testing with human body parts -though disgusting- is not what I’m against.  I’m against the testing using murdered children.  (Nazis, anyone?)

The whole thing is completely unnecessary and positively disgusting.  For pete’s sake, just do some normal market research.

blakebaggott:

My answer about masturbation. Made rebloggable by request!

Once it’s on the list, it absolutely must be done.

Reading list:

• The Two Towers
• The Return of the King
• The Screwtape Letters
• Mere Christianity
• The Great Gatsby
• Dolphin Diaries

To-Do:

• Mend/alter all clothes in the mending pile
• Sell stock of vintage clothing on ebay
• Sleep over at Bianca and Brigitte’s
• Write an article
• Start a blog like Carma’s
• Get a tablet

But now I’m back in C-Town.  I’m a wee bit homesick (it was worse when I had first gotten back), but I’m alive and well and I have so much to be thankful for.

Tomorrow begins something new.

Hmm, that would make a lively motto.  How’s that phrase to get the brain gears moving in ways you can pursue a stronger relationship with God?

It’s time to get organized.

Made some killer sour cream and onion dip from scratch.　

Just received a list of the names of the individuals going to Japan with me.  Suddenly it’s all so real.  In just over a month, I’ll be stepping off the plane in Tokyo, surrounded by a beautiful language spoken by people who have an entirely different upbringing from my own.

Wow.

mwali:

ambitiouslychasinggod:

measureofhealth:

beautyinaworldfullofchaos:

bevin:

Tonight I was hit with a hand full of eggs and huge rock on my back and called “Nigger” by a white guy in the backseat of a dark blue truck as I was riding my bike on Westheimer and Jeanetta. They drove too fast for me to get the license plate number. I had to get a cop to drive me home. This night makes me wonder how blacks did it back in the day, and why the community is looking the way it is now. I am trying not to cry, but I am in physical pain from the rock and not understanding why I deserved this.

uugh

wow its 2012 really?

the world we STILL live in

 Im sorry that had to happen I pray it never happens again. U surely didnt deserve it!

Racism still alive they just be concealing it. 

There are some messages that we simply CANNOT let fade away. Read her story.

quitecamille:

Within 2 months of our relationship, Victor and I knew that we were headed for marriage. Prior to our relationship, we had spent 4 months being each other’s prayer partners. We were dreamy eyed and prayerful—which is the worst kind of preparation for marriage. My parents begged me to reconsider and reminded me that it is our (first American generation Filipin@) cultural norm to be in a relationship for at least 5 years before marriage. I listened to my mom and decided to elongate our relationship before taking the step towards marriage.

 That continues to be the best and most godly decision I’ve ever made.

Marriage in the early to mid-twenties is this unspoken cultural norm that haunts us like monsters under our quarter-life-crisis bed. This norm comes from short lifespans and long wars. Our generation is living in a completely different world than our parents and grandparents: during that period where there was more than a decade of war in the Middle East, the media did everything it could to distract us from it (we didn’t grow up in the “buy war bond” culture of the 1940s); modern medicine has pushed back the grave; and singleness is the overarching motif in popular television and film (how often are we exposed to a healthy marriage á la I love Lucy?). Besides the pressure from the Church, there is very little pressure to marry early and I believe that it’s an important spiritual movement we should recognize.

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notyourgramma:

XKCD’s “Every Major’s Terrible”, based on Gilbert and Sullivan’s Modern Major General from The Pirates of Penzance.

I loathe Macs.

Well, I’m in good ol’ C-Town, living in my boss’s house.  She’s a wonderful lady with a ten-year-old son, and I swear this house feels like a fairytale cabin.  When I’m done with dinner, I’m hoping to go wander around a field that brings to mind only the word “moors.”  I’m making fried bell peppers and Jasmine rice- lovely, lovely.

I do not have internet here (yet?), but my boss has a mac that she lets me use.  Let me just say that I positively despise these things.  First world problems.

I am working an awful lot lately, but it’s good because I won’t get a chance to do so later on.  Two office workers have quite (including my boss), so there’s lots of work to be done to pick up the slack.

All that aside, I am getting pretty lonely up here.  The two friends that live here (Bianca and Brigitte- remember when I lived with them last year?) are very busy, and actually Brigitte is back in our hometown.  Ah well.  I’ll get together with Bianca soon enough.

Well, love ya’ll and hope you have a lovely evening!

The giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus), also known as the golden-capped fruit bat, is a rare megabat  and one of the largest bats in the world. The species is endangered and is currently facing the possibility of extinction because of poaching and forest destruction. It is endemic to forests in the Philippines.

WHOA