Today's Internets - "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..."

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

FML: I saw my older sister…: 

"Today, I saw my older sister for the first time in three years. We hadn't spoke since I found out that she was the woman my college boyfriend left me for. Unfortunately, our reunion was fueled by her two-year-old son's desire to meet his dad. My husband. FML"

Texts From Last Night: 

"(714): I am an advanced cybernetic robot sent back in time to 2013 to fuck my wife senseless for hours on end. Have you seen this wife? 

(1-714): Eddy, if you don't want to roll play then say so. This is just obnoxious"

Texts From Last Night: 

"(410): Trimming my pubes at 1 AM, drunk, listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn. What has become of me.

 (443): Jesus christ stop updating me about every aspect of your life."

Texts From Last Night: 

"(217): List 10 things your GF won't do for you, and we can work through that list."

Courts Can't Agree on Whether Cops Can Track Your Cell Without a Warrant | Threat Level | Wired.com: 

"Federal law enforcement agents have been using warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of criminal suspects in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling 18 months ago that they need probable-cause warrants from judges to affix covert GPS devices to vehicles. But the law on cell-site locational tracking is all over the books, with judges offering mixed rulings on whether warrants are needed. While dozens of lower courts have ruled on the issue, only two appellate courts have. All of which means some suspects are being convicted based on locational data of what towers their cell phones are pinging, and others are not, because some courts are requiring warrants."

 

North Carolina GOP Is Using An Anti-Sharia Bill To Sneak Through Extreme Abortion Restrictions | ThinkProgress: 

"The new amendments would prevent insurance plans on Obamacare’s health marketplaces from covering abortion services, ban “sex-selective” abortions, impose unnecessary restrictions on doctors administering the abortion pill to women, and require the state’s abortion clinics to adhere to complicated new regulations that would likely force most of them to close. A similar package of abortion restrictions has inspired weeks of protest in Texas, where thousands of reproductive rights activists have been rallying at the state capitol."

The 'Proof of Heaven' Author Has Now Been Thoroughly Debunked by Science - Esther Zuckerman - The Atlantic Wire: 

"In Proof of Heaven, Alexander writes that he spent seven days in "a coma caused by a rare case of E. coli bacterial meningitis." There is no indication in the book that it was Laura Potter, and not bacterial meningitis, that induced his coma, or that the physicians in the ICU maintained his coma in the days that followed through the use of anesthetics. Alexander also writes that during his week in the ICU he was present "in body alone," that the bacterial assault had left him with an "all-but-destroyed brain." He notes that by conventional scientific understanding, "if you don't have a working brain, you can't be conscious," and a key point of his argument for the reality of the realms he claims to have visited is that his memories could not have been hallucinations, since he didn't possess a brain capable of creating even a hallucinatory conscious experience. I ask Potter whether the manic, agitated state that Alexander exhibited whenever they weaned him off his anesthetics during his first days of coma would meet her definition of conscious. "Yes," she says. "Conscious but delirious.""

Dr. Eben Alexander Proof of Heaven Investigation - Proof of Heaven Factual Omissions - Esquire:

"One of the book's most dramatic scenes takes place just before she sends him from the ER to the ICU:

In the final moments before leaving the emergency room, and after two straight hours of guttural animal wails and groaning, I became quiet. Then, out of nowhere, I shouted three words. They were crystal clear, and heard by all the doctors and nurses present, as well as by Holley, who stood a few paces away, just on the other side of the curtain.

"God, help me!"

Everyone rushed over to the stretcher. By the time they got to me, I was completely unresponsive.

Potter has no recollection of this incident, or of that shouted plea. What she does remember is that she had intubated Alexander more than an hour prior to his departure from the emergency room, snaking a plastic tube down his throat, through his vocal cords, and into his trachea. Could she imagine her intubated patient being able to speak at all, let alone in a crystal-clear way?

"No," she says."

Hawaiian libertarian: Who's this "We?": 

"The first step in countering the divide and conquer by appealing to collectivist thinking is to stop using WE arguments during any discussion or debate. "Well, WE did enslave black Africans by taking them from their homes and forcing them to work in the cotton fields!" "After all, WE did take the land away from the Native Americans!" "WE saved the French from the Germans in World War 2!" "WE won the Superbowl!!!!!" "WE get the leaders WE deserve since WE vote!" 

WE did no such things. 

Just because you have been indoctrinated to identify yourself along lines of Nationality, Gender, Ethnicity or any other means of differentiation, doesn't mean your responsible for the actions of those who may share those same similarities. But by making you accept collective responsibility, THEY make WE much more easily divided and conquered, because we become concerned with the US versus THEM amongst the various collectives within the serf strata of the pyramid...all the while carrying on in oblivion to the machinations of the upper tier."

No Bullsh*t: Four Habits of Weak People: 

"Everyone has excuses and, much like male nipples, they’re all useless. Strength is earned through choice and not everyone is willing to admit that. It is far easier to say, “I can’t afford to train at that gym or with that trainer…it’s too far for me to travel…I don’t have the time…I don’t have the genetics” or my all-time favorite, “They must be on steroids.” Great achievements will only come about through some form of sacrifice and not everyone is willing to make the sacrifices required."