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littlemissmartypants's JournalNot to mention that there's a correlation between
Domestic violence, guns and mass murders.
1) The men behind the US's deadliest mass shootings have domestic violence — not mental illness — in common
http://www.businessinsider.com/deadliest-mass-shootings-almost-all-have-domestic-violence-connection-2017-11
2) The Surprising Link Between Mass Shootings and Domestic Violence and what you can do about it
https://www.joinonelove.org/learn/the-surprising-link-between-mass-shootings-and-domestic-violence-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
3) Mass Shootings in the United States: 2009-2017 PDF Download
https://everytownresearch.org/reports/mass-shootings-analysis/
4) A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women
By Julie Bosman, Kate Taylor and Tim Arango
Aug. 10, 2019
The man who shot nine people to death last weekend in Dayton, Ohio, seethed at female classmates and threatened them with violence.
The man who massacred 49 people in an Orlando nightclub in 2016 beat his wife while she was pregnant, she told authorities.
The man who killed 26 people in a church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., in 2017 had been convicted of domestic violence. His ex-wife said he once told her that he could bury her body where no one would ever find it.
The motivations of men who commit mass shootings are often muddled, complex or unknown. But one common thread that connects many of them — other than access to powerful firearms — is a history of hating women, assaulting wives, girlfriends and female family members, or sharing misogynistic views online, researchers say.
More at the link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/us/mass-shootings-misogyny-dayton.html
5) Armed and Misogynist: How Toxic Masculinity Fuels Mass Shootings
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/06/domestic-violence-misogyny-incels-mass-shootings/
6) Domestic violence plays a role in many mass shootings, but receives less attention: Experts
https://abcnews.go.com/US/domestic-violence-plays-role-mass-shootings-receives-attention/story?id=59418186
7) In Texas And Beyond, Mass Shootings Have Roots In Domestic Violence
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/07/562387350/in-texas-and-beyond-mass-shootings-have-roots-in-domestic-violence
8) 5 Statistics That Explain the Link Between Domestic Violence and Mass Shootings
https://fortune.com/2017/11/07/domestic-violence-shootings-statistics/
9) The connection between mass shooters and domestic violence
PERSPECTIVE | ‘Do you want to die?’
https://www.thelily.com/the-connection-between-mass-shooters-and-domestic-violence/
10) The domestic violence-mass shooting link cannot be ignored
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-domestic-violence-mass-shooting-link-cannot-be-ignored/2018/07/02/41b7baa4-7bbf-11e8-ac4e-421ef7165923_story.html
Regardless of the original research date, the data is clear. Shall I send a link to this to the above poster in a private message, onecaliberal?
Thanks for standing up for what's right.
Hershey's Chocolate Syrup Cake
https://www.thekitchenismyplayground.com/2013/04/hersheys-chocolate-syrup-cake.html
Gary Clark, Jr., This Land
I AM NOT ALWAYS VERY ATTACHED TO BEING ALIVE
Content warning: this essay contains vivid language about suicide and suicidal thoughts.
https://theoutline.com/post/7267/living-with-passive-suicidal-ideation
I AM NOT ALWAYS VERY ATTACHED TO BEING ALIVE
Chronic, passive suicidal ideation is like living in the ocean. Let’s start talking about how to tread water.
By Anna Borges APR—02—2019 09:07AM EST
I wish there was a nicer way to say this, but I don’t always want to be alive. Right now, I don’t actively want to kill myself — I don’t have a plan, I don’t check the majority of the boxes on lists of warning signs of suicide, I have a life I enjoy and I’m curious about the future — but the fact remains, I don’t always feel strongly about being alive and sometimes, on particularly bad days, I truly want to die.
It’s been a long time since that statement felt anything but mundane. In middle school and high school, there were the morbid poems, the self-harm, the overwhelming emotions that everyone dutifully labeled teen angst. In college, there were nights when I drank too much and the protective barriers keeping my depression at bay faded to nothing and the thought came to me unbidden, as seductive as it was scary. I want to die. Eventually, I finally stumbled my way into treatment. After that, I celebrated each birthday with surprise because each age I hit was one I assumed I wouldn’t reach.
At 27, I’ve settled into a comfortable coexistence with my suicidality. We’ve made peace, or at least a temporary accord negotiated by therapy and medication. It’s still hard sometimes, but not as hard as you might think. What makes it harder is being unable to talk about it freely: the weightiness of the confession, the impossibility of explaining that it both is and isn’t as serious as it sounds. I don’t always want to be alive. Yes, I mean it. No, you shouldn’t be afraid for me. No, I’m not in danger of killing myself right now. Yes, I really mean it.
How do you explain that?
In the United States, nearly 45,000 people die by suicide every year, making it the tenth leading cause of death in the country. On average, there are 123 suicides a day. That’s not counting those who survive attempts — estimated to be about 1.4 million in 2017.
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Much more at the link.
Buttigieg: AFFORDABLE MEDICINE FOR ALL A Plan to Slash Drug Prices and Boost Medical Innovation
AFFORDABLE MEDICINE FOR ALL
A Plan to Slash Drug Prices and Boost Medical Innovation
We are living in a golden age of medical innovation. Medicines have vastly extended life expectancy for people with Hodgkin's lymphoma and cystic fibrosis, protected us from many viruses and certain cancers, and put us within reach of ending the AIDS epidemic for good.
Yet, far too many of us are denied access to the benefits of these breakthrough treatments and potentially life-saving medicines.1 Drugs in the United States are more expensive than drugs anywhere else in the world.2 Americans pay an average of $600 a year more for prescription drugs than residents of most other developed countries.3 While millions of Americans struggle to pay for medicine, pharmaceutical companies are enjoying record profits and remain the most profitable companies in the entire health industry.
https://peteforamerica.com/policies/affordable-medicine/
ETA link and narrative.
I support this premise. Additionally, it is an addiction to stress that causes many
To "go for more" eventually losing the ability to forego the physiological addiction. The body becomes familiar with this stress often requiring more, to the point of actually craving the stressor. The form of the stimulus of viewed stress can be via television or even radio. Thus creating the vicious cycle that eventually disintegrates the ability to reject the stress and seek other more logical and less damaging sources of stimulation. Television can easily be a barrier to truthful interactions in the real world. TV, mobile devices and computers have all been reported as harbingers of stress while we often treat them as benign.
Some reading here: https://www.talkspace.com/blog/can-you-be-addicted-to-stress/
50 Foods You Should Never Eat, According to Health Experts
Doctors and dietitians share the foods they refuse to eat due to pesticides, GMOs, and carcinogenic ingredients.
By The Editors Of Prevention
May 21, 2019
What's the one food you refuse to eat? Whatever it is, it's probably because you don't like the way it tastes—not because it contains ingredients that can be damaging to your health. Yet, there are still a lot of foods that fit this description on store shelves, and food industry insiders, who know what goes on behind the scenes, refuse to eat them.
We polled some of those insiders—people who know the business and work daily to evict pesticides, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), animal cruelty, social injustice, and unhealthy foods from the food supply—to find out what they know about the dark side of "convenience" foods and what they will eat instead. Take note so you, too, can avoid the worst of what grocery stores have to offer.
Whole-wheat bread
The problem: Modern wheat is nothing like the grain your mother or grandmother consumed. Today, wheat barely resembles its original form, thanks to extensive genetic manipulations during the 1960s and 1970s to increase the grain's yields. "You cannot change the basic characteristics of a plant without changing its genetics, its biochemistry, and its effects on humans who consume it," says William Davis, MD, creator of Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox.
Davis makes the case that modern-day wheat is triggering all sorts of health problems, everything from digestive diseases like celiac and inflammatory bowel disease to acid reflux, obesity, asthma, and skin disorders.
The solution: Try eliminating wheat altogether from your diet for a few weeks to see if you note health improvements. But be prepared for the wheat withdrawal syndrome of nausea, headache, fatigue, depression, and a host of other strange side effects.
More at the link.
https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/g20498199/50-foods-you-should-never-eat/
Choose the winner of the Tammy Baldwin Breakthrough Award!
Please give her some DU love. Thank you.https://secure.everyaction.com/DNjNDiiKf0uQCPNmDuYSaA2?ms=DebButler
The Tammy Baldwin Breakthrough Award is given annually to an up-and-coming state or local LGBTQ elected official whose promising political career will move equality forward. This year's nominees are:
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North Carolina state Representative Deb Butler
As the Democratic Whip of the North Carolina House, Deb Butler is a warrior for North Carolina's LGBTQ community. Under the rallying cry of “I Will Not Yield,” Butler recently derided Republicans' underhanded voting tactics, even resisting arrest to pursue justice. During her time in the House, she has fought for causes ranging from fair districts to common sense gun reform.
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This year's recipient will receive the award at the 2019 International LGBTQ Leaders Conference on November 13-16, 2019 in Washington, DC! Grab your ticket here.
Voting closes Monday, October 7th at 11:59pm EST. Make sure you vote before Monday night!
Emphasis mine.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Butler
I would definitely try AARP. Their supplemental policies are very good but you have to join AARP.
There are other benefits of joining but you may be looking for different coverage. I just know that they have worked for me. There are other benefits that you may not want or need but I would definitely check them out.
Here's a link that may be helpful:
Top 10 Medicare Supplement Companies in 2019
https://boomerbenefits.com/top-10-medicare-supplement-companies/
Good luck. ❤
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