klyprgirl

[klyprgirl]

I've been thinking lately it's a shame that the momentum around the BLM protests had been dying down in my city

This was not how I wanted them to be reignited. In my town, in a gas station near where I use to live, traffic being blocked on a main street I drive down often

Say his name #TreyfordPellerin

[klyprgirl]

[klyprgirl]

(via bvbillionaire)

[klyprgirl]

[klyprgirl]

harsh truths for the signs

Aries: stop trying to seem fun to everyone all the time. its okay to be boring and lazy sometimes, the people that love you will still love you

Leo: stop seeing the best in people and situations and stop and think how it might hurt you later. your generousity is easily taken advantage of

Sagittarius: stop assuming others can’t understand you, and it’s not the end of the world if someone doesn’t agree with your choices

Taurus: giving someone 110% doesn’t mean they will give that back. stop being there for people who don’t deserve it. you can’t make someone love you

Virgo: stop thinking so damn much and nitpicking your life and others, trying to change others can be destructive

Capricorn: showing emotion isn’t the end of the world. remember how you speak to the people in your life. their feelings matter

Gemini: calm down and listen

Libra: it doesn’t matter what everyone thinks about you. its what you think about yourself

Aquarius: just fucking talk about it before you explode. use your words and stop expecting people to read your mind

Cancer: stop letting the same people hurt you. stop expecting things to be different without changing

Scorpio: stop needing to know everything all the time, it makes you paranoid. losing control isn’t the end of the world

Pisces: wake up, get out of your head and just focus on the now. the world isn’t so scary

[klyprgirl]

[klyprgirl]

We visited @BluegrassTavernLex while we were in Lexington. It was definitely one of the best bars that we’ve been to, with over 700 Bourbon selections and awesome bartenders! The staff is very knowledgeable about their (massive) selection, and unbelievably quick as well. . Had some Stitzel Weller juice in the form of an old Weller 12 (the raised glass above the label is what indicates that it was distilled at Stitzel Weller). Unfortunately, it was one of the best pours I’ve ever had (I’d grade it a 97). I say unfortunate because there’s little of it left obviously, the distillery closed in 1992. Though all of Weller’s products are very good, the 12 is the best in my opinion (personally, I probably like it even more than William Larue Weller from the BTAC). And this particular pour was even smoother than the usual 12…had a great nose too. As more people have learned of its similarities to Pappy and the Van Winkle mash bill, all of Weller’s products have become difficult to find on the shelf. But if you’re ever in Lexington, we highly recommend checking out @bluegrasstavernlex. . #Follow @WhiskeyJourneys #WhiskeyJourneys #FollowMe . . 📷 @WhiskeyJourneys . . . . #BluegrassTavern #BourbonBar #Lexington #Kentucky #StitzelWeller #Distillery #KYBoubonTrail #Weller12 #Dusty #Bourbon #Whiskey #Pappy #PappyVanWinkle #VanWinkle #BuffaloTrace #WhiskeyBar #KentuckyBourbonTrail #Sign #KentuckyBourbon #Bar #Tavern #Cocktail #Alcohol #Liquor #Booze #Cocktails #Cheers . @WhiskeyJourneys @BluegrassTavernLex @BuffaloTrace @BuffaloTraceDistillery @EagleRareLife @SazeracRye @PappyAndCo @JVanWinkle7 @KentuckyBourbonTrail (at Bluegrass Tavern)

[klyprgirl]

[klyprgirl]

this whole thing is way too good to be giffed you need to expirience it 

[klyprgirl]

Republican’s are not giving food, they are taking away dietary choices, and they’re taking away fresh food. Plus, they are taking money out of the community and farmers markets and giving it to their crony private contractor friends. And what happens if families don’t get their food delivered on time? Do they just starve or what? We already have a free distribution system in place now. It’s called the grocery store. Do you know why no one ever suggested this before? Because it’s a dumb ass idea that will end up costing far more than it claims to save! But leave it to the Tea Party Republicans and Trump to come up with a stupid idea but designed to line their pockets.

Even if there were rampant instances of SNAP recipients purchasing expensive steaks and caviar with their benefit (which, of course, there are not), it wouldn’t cost taxpayers any more. Blowing your entire month’s grocery budget on luxury foods is really dumb, but it only hurts the purchaser, not taxpayers. $100 worth of beans and canned meat costs the same as $100 worth of steak.

In reality, it has nothing to do with cost or fraud. Conservatives think that poor people should suffer, so they should only eat dried beans, rice and ramen noodles. It is a personal affront to them if a poor person eats fresh food or non-organ meats.

In addition, I am suspect that many of the anecdotal complaints about “food stamp recipients” abusing their benefits to buy luxury foods comes from racists who assume all black people must be using food stamps. “A black person buying lobster? My tax money must be paying for it! 

Trump and his rich friends begrudge any help given to the working poor. Corporate Welfare is the only entitlement program they believe in, and their greedy and envious eyes are therefore on all of the social safety net programs that now exist. Fortunately for Mr. Trump and his “Christian” cronies, supermarkets and other food companies already give tons of food to churches every week –which are still good, but too close to their sell-by date. It will be easy to collect such free food and redistribute them in their newly formed fake company, set up specifically to get such a Government contract.

Trump is a sadistic monster. His stomach replete with cholesterol and animal protein, he wants folks weaned off their stamps for food, he wants monies saved and govt. spending shaved except for those fat cats like he he wants wads to be delivered by trucks so they can hide the loot and watch it grow, as the poor wallow in hunger and woe, that be the Christian reality of the Prayer of Serenity, to the have nots the advice from the rich is “sage”, “Accept what you cannot change!“The agents of change, they accrue and amplify their properties, as they put out their begging bowls for more grease. that too is democracy, as invented by the aristocracy/kakisocracy.

Usha Nellore

The Trump Administration Wants to Make a Decades-Old Right-Wing Fantasy a Reality

https://www.alternet.org/node/1088780

The Trump White House’s newly proposed budget is (like all White House budget proposals) more of a political document than anything else. It has no actual bearing on how the government will spend its money, and Congress will almost certainly ignore it. But that’s not to say it is entirely devoid of value – the White House uses the annual budget proposal to act out its fantasies and give us a little glimpse at the ideologies motivating the administration’s policy preferences.

One of those ideologies, as conveyed by the White House’s vision for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, expresses insane and horrifying contempt for low-income Americans. And while the policy the administration has proposed is extreme, it fits in squarely with longstanding conservative efforts to stigmatize and shame recipients of government assistance.

One of the administration’s supposed cost-saving measures is “a bold new approach to administering SNAP.” The way the program currently works, SNAP-eligible households are provided a monthly benefit based on income level in the form of a debit card, which can be used to purchase grocery items. Some restrictions apply (no alcohol, tobacco, or pet food, for example), but SNAP recipients have wide latitude in what foods they can purchase and where they can shop.

The Trump administration wants to change all of this by forcing most SNAP recipients to receive half their monthly benefit in the form of “a USDA Foods package, which would include items such as shelf-stable milk, ready to eat cereals, pasta, peanut butter, beans and canned fruit, vegetables, and meat, poultry or fish.” The Republican White House wants to choose which foods SNAP recipients eat, and it wants to control how they receive their food each month – so much for “small government” conservatism abolishing the “nanny state.” Through means left utterly unexplained, the Trump administration argues that this new system (which will require massive bureaucratic build-up alongside the establishment of food-delivery infrastructure) will somehow be cheaper and more efficient than simply transferring money to a debit card. White House budget director Mick Mulvaney laughably spunthis proposal to send low-income Americans a monthly box of canned goods and peanut butter as “a Blue Apron-type program where you actually receive the food instead of receive the cash.”

This idea is so absurd, impractical, and wildly paternalistic that people can’t really believe that the White House is actually proposing it. Politico reports this morning that “the idea that USDA would provide millions of low-income people packages of food on a national scale has not been floated by conservative think tanks, promoted by industry, or sought by previous administrations.” It was “so out of left field,” Politico notes, “that some anti-hunger advocates initially thought it was a joke.”

The proposal didn’t come out of nowhere, though. It’s an escalation of existing right-wing efforts to use SNAP as a means to control the behavior of its recipients. These efforts are rooted in a mythology – eagerly promoted and disseminated by conservative media – that SNAP is rife with fraud and that SNAP beneficiaries, by virtue of their status as welfare recipients, lack the moral character to make good decisions on their own.

Right-wing demonization of welfare recipients stretches back decades, from Newt Gingrich’s high-profile efforts in the 1990s to shame low-income teen mothers to Ronald Reagan popularizing the “welfare queen” slur back in 1976. The running theme of these attacks on the poor is that there exists an epidemic of undeserving welfare recipients who abuse their benefits. That’s a myth, but it carries a potent political message that blends racial and economic resentment with small-government agitation.

When it comes to SNAP, the most common complaint made by conservatives is that recipients are using their benefit to purchase inappropriate foods: “luxury” comestibles like seafood and steak, or junk food like candy bars and energy drinks. This line of attack got a huge boost in 2013 when Fox News put together a special news report called “The Great Food Stamp Binge.” The program – hosted by Special Report anchor Bret Baier – spotlighted an unemployed surfer in California who proudly used his SNAP benefit to buy sushi and lobster. Baier dubbed him “the new face of food stamps,” and the program pointedly asked why there isn’t “at least some stigma” attached to SNAP recipients, who used to be called “losers.”

It was a farcical piece of propaganda that actively shunned any sort of data or reporting in order to create a caricature of SNAP recipients as lazy, undeserving parasites on the public. SNAP actually has extremely low rates of fraud and abuse, and “the overwhelming majority of SNAP recipients who can work do so,” according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

The news program was wildly popular with Republicans. Fox News distributed tapesof the “The Great Food Stamp Binge” on Capitol Hill, and the SNAP-abusing unemployed surfer became the mascot for the congressional GOP’s efforts to gut funding for nutritional assistance programs. Since then, various state governments have taken up measures intended to restrict which foods SNAP recipients can purchase.

In 2015, Wisconsin Republicans passed a bill banning SNAP recipients from purchasing crab, lobster, shrimp, or any other shellfish, citing “anecdotal and perceived abuses.” A Republican state senator from New York proposed legislationto cut off SNAP users from “luxury food items” like lobster and steak, while the Missouri GOP sought to ban “cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood or steak.” The reality that all of these proposals ignore is that SNAP recipients are not blowing their benefits on “luxury” foods.

The Trump administration’s proposal derives from the same idea that SNAP recipients can’t be trusted and will necessarily misuse their benefit. Rather than banning certain foods, the White House is proposing to force SNAP beneficiaries to eat an approved list of low-cost foods while simultaneously limiting the amount of benefit they have to spend. It’s gross paternalism lightly disguised with absurd promises about efficiency and cost-savings. And it fits right in with the broader right-wing argument that receipt of government assistance is morally suspect and recipients should be penalized through stigma and controlled through loss of choice.

Simon Maloy is a senior writer at Media Matters. Formerly a political writer for Salon.com, his writing on politics and media has also appeared in The Week, Rolling Stone, and The American Prospect.

[klyprgirl]

Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

[klyprgirl]

7.5 Billion people in the world and you let the opinion of 1 stop your good energy? You’re better than that.

Eric Thomas

(via kushandwizdom)

[klyprgirl]

[klyprgirl]

Ode To Norma Jean

I was always told that she was a hollowed beauty Wrapped in a white dress Red lipstick stains on her extra long cigarette Her lace panties hugging her coke bottle waist Like the children who never called her mother

These simplistic posters were plastered on best friends walls Something pretty to look at before they went to sleep To dream of romantic evenings in smoky clubs Smiling at slick haired men dressed in sly smiles and pork pie hats

These photos of Marilyn Monroe Made them feel like they had someone to look up to Finally an icon who looked more appealing Than the people in their textbooks

As she lay naked on Hugh Hefner’s dirty sheets Died blond hair Powdered cheeks That alliteration of a name imprinted on business-men’s pleats

It’s so easy to agree with the idea of such a woman But why do we waste our idealistic adjectives And raving tongues As names like Bella Abzug and Billy Jean King slip through our palms

Ignoring the stories of women who never stripped for success Whose faces aren’t printed on the clothing in middle school hallways Whose wearers believe that the person they idolize will boost their amateur sex appeal

Revolutions are not made between supple breasts They grow in the voices of  women who test the limits of their allowances Instead of allowing society to limit them of their voice

Women whose rough skin and crooked smiles were still photographed because their actions deserved to be recorded regardless of their hunched poise Beautiful for their working hands Their raised fists

And while Marilyn drowns in the photos of herself Society rejects her wrong doings and rewrites the story of a country bumpkin who took Rosie’s seat A woman who made the men hard and the women harder

And when she left We held onto her outlived name like parched dogs licking our empty water bowls Begging for just one more ounce of consideration

A person’s life can never be copyrighted As soon as that tombstone acts as their headboard We rewrite the truth to create idols for our children Simply erase the troubles the problems the defects And write a new chapter of beautiful white toothy smiles

Convince ourselves that she made us stronger and name her a revolutionary That she lived a broken life and name her innocent That she scratched sweet nothings onto paper and name her a poet And forget the name her mother gave her

Norma Jean Baker you are NOT forgotten for your offenses We look back to the fifties and beam at these sugary pin-ups Yet we stare at the women on today’s playboys and label them trash But if they swallowed their lives maybe we’d label them heroes And shun the men who call to them like meat

Who are these hollowed beauties of whom we so fondly speak? Every man’s dream but their own worst nightmare Disregarding the pop portrait she was so pleased to pose for

The flash of the camera did not break her She broke herself And while they bow down to this face of naked photos They dream to be hollowed beauties

But when they awake from this fantasy of sexy Sunday nights She will only be something pretty to look at before they go to sleep.

[klyprgirl]

i hate when i go up north and go to restaurants and the waiter comes to take my order and im like “do yall have sweet tea??” and theyre like “no sweetheart but we have unsweetened iced tea and we can give you some sugar packets!!!” llike no you fucking yankee because now the tea is already cold so the sugar wont dissolve in it and itll all just sink the bottom and be nasty learn basic fucking solubility this is 9th grade chemistry thats why sweet tea exists in the first place you fucking heat the tea up to make it and then while its still hot you add the sugar and then you chill it and its sweet fucking tea i bet you pronounce pecan like peecan too you four seasons-having piece of shit

[klyprgirl]

[klyprgirl]