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Thu, 23 May 2013 17:14:48 -0400

thefoxxypoet:

odinsblog:

A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO,’” the New York Post reports.

The company, Real Bronx Tours, has taken largely white foreign tourists around the Bronx. The tour guide was caught mocking the Bronx by Post reporter Candice Giove.

Three times a week, Real Bronx Tours takes riders — mainly white Europeans and Australians — on a trip that includes stops at food-pantry lines and a “pickpocket” park.

“Last week, on the first stop of the $45 tour, guide Lynn Battaglia, from Pittsburgh, pointed out a housing project. She then mocked the Grand Concourse, modeled after a Parisian boulevard,” reports Giove.“‘Do you feel like we’re on the Champs-Elysées?’ she teased a couple from Paris.”

The tour also included a drive near a food pantry at a church. Battaglia wondered out loud, “I don’t know what that line’s about, but every Wednesday we see it. We see them go in with empty carts, and we see them come out with carts full.

The tour guide warned of the dangers of going to a park in the Bronx and also gave inaccurate information about the origin of the word “pig” to describe a police officer. While Battaglia claimed the word came from the Bronx, in reality it originated in London.

The Bronx borough president harshly criticized the guide and the tour.

The guide is “the biggest fool on the planet,” said Ruben Diaz, the borough president. “To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that and to view them as they are some sort of entertainment is pretty disgusting.” [emphasis mine]

This is a total diss to my hometown. Ugh the Bronx is many things, but there is beauty there…and I’m happy I spent a good chunk of my childhood there.

It’s irritating to see these dumb ass tourists come to my city and mock it for their enjoyment and someone is getting paid to be a racist/classist asshole.

They’re taking a tour of the projects like it’s a zoo. Like it’s a fucking exhibit. SMH.

This kind of “tour” has a precedent in NYC history…from about one hundred thirty years ago, when rich English tourists took tours through Five Points, the Bowery, and the Lower East Side. I hope the Bronx Borough president turns his indignation into action, shuts down this repugnant grifter, and sends her packing back to Pittsburgh.

You are the voice in my head.: What happened in Woolwich makes me feel physically sick. The fact...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:43:02 -0400

You are the voice in my head.: What happened in Woolwich makes me feel physically sick. The fact...:...

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Thu, 23 May 2013 16:27:02 -0400

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Thu, 23 May 2013 16:25:23 -0400

U.S. Gun Deaths Since Massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:20:47 -0400

U.S. Gun Deaths Since Massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School

conservativerevolution: oinonio: conservativerevolution: oinon...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:07:26 -0400

conservativerevolution:

oinonio:

conservativerevolution:

oinonio:

U.S. Gun Deaths Since Massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary

And guns are STILL not even one of the top 10 killers of Americans.

Would you like to know what the top 10 are?
Check out the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report. Hint: doctors and cars are WAY higher on the list than firearms.

Nice snapple-fact. Has zero bearing on the fact that 4316 people were killed by guns since December 14, 2012.

Ah, I see. So, it’s only ok to save American lives if you aren’t saving that many?

I mean…. I guess that makes sense. Who wouldn’t rather save a couple thousand lives than tens of thousands of lives by working towards bi-partisan legislation that everyone supports?

I see your point. Hey, you over there doing cancer research. Yeah, you. Cut that shit out! It’s more important that we throw money at this much smaller problem.

Snapple fact #2: If you checked out the FBI UCR, you’d know that gun homicides have decreased ever year since at least 2007. In fact, at the current rate of progress, there will be zero homicides in the USA by 2035.
Source: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

But you’re right. HUGE problem ;).

Your “arguments” lack sound logic…comparing automobile or cancer deaths has zero bearing on gun deaths. And while you’re correct, homicides are going down, that too seems not to fit your argument logically, if you were trying to equate decreased homicide to gun ownership. The percentage of Americans that own guns is in a four decade decline:

“I suspect the increase in gun sales has been limited mostly to current gun owners. The most reputable surveys show a decline over time in the share of households with guns.” -Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research

So, basically, homicides dropping, but gun fetishists are buying more guns, as per the marketing plan of the NRA. I think I see where your logic problems come from.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 15:43:51 -0400

ipostfun: on the upswing

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:42:21 -0400

ipostfun:

on the upswing

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Thu, 23 May 2013 15:30:19 -0400

Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, study shows.

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:56:55 -0400

Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, study shows.

Empathy plays a key role in moral judgments

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:49:47 -0400

Empathy plays a key role in moral judgments: mentalmentalhealth: Is it permissible to harm one to...

Brain can be trained in compassion, study shows

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:45:59 -0400

Brain can be trained in compassion, study shows: mentalmentalhealth: Until now, little was...

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Thu, 23 May 2013 14:41:55 -0400

conservativerevolution: oinonio: U.S. Gun Deaths Since...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:35:40 -0400

conservativerevolution:

oinonio:

U.S. Gun Deaths Since Massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary

And guns are STILL not even one of the top 10 killers of Americans.

Would you like to know what the top 10 are?
Check out the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report. Hint: doctors and cars are WAY higher on the list than firearms.

Nice snapple-fact. Has zero bearing on the fact that 4316 people were killed by guns since December 14, 2012.

3inches: Kukje Gallery / SO-IL

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:33:50 -0400

3inches:

Kukje Gallery / SO-IL

conservativerevolution: 1. It is WAY harder to hit a duck with...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:31:14 -0400

conservativerevolution:

1. It is WAY harder to hit a duck with a fully automatic weapon.
2. Automatic weapons are “area” weapons, that is to say, you use them primarily in a suppressive capacity. You have no idea what that means, but it’s true.
3. There is no such thing as a 240-round magazine.
4. If there was, it would weigh more than the rifle that fired it, making it horridly impractical.

5. (and this one is my favorite) YOU DON’T HUNT DUCK WITH A RIFLE, YOU HUNTE THEM WITH A SHOTGUN!!!!!!!

Those are just the first five problems with this horridly incorrect gif.

1. Reblogging for the gun fetishist’s painful misunderstanding of the cartoon and apparent ignorance of sarcasm.

2. It’s a jpeg, not a gif.

odinsblog: politi-gal: Barack Obama 1979 prom pics published...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:24:45 -0400

odinsblog:

politi-gal:

Barack Obama 1979 prom pics published in TIME magazine.

From left to right: Greg Orme, Kelli Allman, Barack Obama and Megan Hughes at Allman’s parents’ house in Honolulu.

(why do I get the feeling that 1. this will piss off Republicans and 2. poor Greg Orme just might have gone home dateless that night)

nevver: The Last Days of Disco

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:23:11 -0400

nevver:

The Last Days of Disco

dailyportalz: ダムを必要としない新しい文明の人類が中筋川ダムを見つけたら、おそらく偉大な支配者の墓だと思い込むだろ...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:36:59 -0400

dailyportalz:

ダムを必要としない新しい文明の人類が中筋川ダムを見つけたら、おそらく偉大な支配者の墓だと思い込むだろう。 (via @nifty：デイリーポータルZ：四国ご当地ダム詣で)

Julia Fae by matt fry | www.frybros.com on Flickr.

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:40:38 -0400

Julia Fae by matt fry | www.frybros.com on Flickr.