Van Lathan is doing God’s work because I would have already put my hands on Kanye & proved his black-on-black comments correct.
Thank. You. Van. Lathan.
Growing up and being from the exact same neighborhood in Chicago as Kanye – this really gets to me.
Kanye never comes here. He never comes back home. Sure he may stop here for a concert or something. But he doesn’t see the parents and children marching against violence in the exact same streets he used to walk. He never gives back to the communities affected by violence so that maybe kids won’t have to continuously grow up either living in fear or turning to a life of violence out of desperation. It’s hard for the people to combat these things in their own neighborhoods. Can you imagine someone you grew up with or saw grow up turn to a life of violence and try and convince them otherwise? It’s hard because at the same time you can kind of relate. Growing up never having nor expecting much. Businesses don’t invest in the area. The school system is broken and poorly funded. Police are basically a gang of their own, just with badges.
For him to not even acknowledge the systematic issues that even contribute to these things…
In my most honest and humble opinion, he hasn’t been the same since his mom passed away. She was his anchor. He’s obviously not sought the right kind of help. I know he mentioned he’s his own therapy, but that’s just not good. It’s saddening to see someone you grew up admiring slowly turn mad and lose their way in the spotlight and be eclipsed by their own toxic narcissism. And that’s where I think his liking for Trump comes in. He’s like one of them “I made it out of the hood” stories you hear about.
We DO have Chance The Rapper, tho. He’s not afraid to match his words with his actions. He’s not afraid to speak out against our mayor and our state reps. He donates money to our poorly funded public school system (which is mostly comprised of POC students) all because our politicians can’t seem to agree on a budget, but they can agree on closing several schools around the city and renovating them into lofts for sale/rent. Or building a brand new multi-million dollar police academy. Chance holds free concerts. He gives out free school supplies to children who need them. He sometimes calls for no violence weekends (which actually work). He’s on the streets of the city he’s from. Always doing something to give back or help. And I understand Chance looks up to Kanye. Hell, most of us do here. But it’s become impossible to defend him.
Alright you guys, ‘tis the season again and I’ve already seen bullshit float about so here we go: what to do and what not to do when you happen to have a tick attached to yours truly.
WHAT NOT TO DO:
DON’T cover the tick in anything. Vaseline, nailpolish, whatever. Doesn’t matter. It’ll all suffocate the tick, making it panic vomit germs into your blood stream. That’s the opposite of what you want.
DON’T burn the tick. Same problem, plus the additional option of giving yourself a burn wound in the process.
DON’T squeeze the body of the tick when you try to remove it. Again this empties the tick’s digestive system into your body. Bad.
DON’T wait for the tick to detach itself. The longer it stays on you, the higher the chances it’ll transmit anything to you. Plus when ti detaches it may again vomit germs into you.
WHAT TO ACTUALLY DO
STAY CALM. A tick hanging on you is not a reason to panick. You’re not going to keel over just like that, and if you’re unsure what to do, there are many resources on the internet on how to safely remove a tick, like this one from the CDC (aka the professionals)
USE APPROPRIATE TOOLS. These can be suitable tweezers (the pointy kind, not blunt tipped ones), tick removers (there are cheap ones out there, those you can buy at the vets are totally fine for use on humans, too!). Ideally you can remove the entire tick in one go, however if that doesn’t work and the mouth part breaks off in your skin, that’s not a terribly big deal and you can totally remove it separately after you got the body remove. Again, don’t panic.
KILL THE REMOVED TICK. But not by squeezing it. Flush it down the toilet, submerse it in alcohol in a container etc. Ideally if the tick has bitten you and not your dog, keep the tick around in a sealed container in case you start having symptoms and someone needs to identify the tick species. Also IF you start getting symptoms like the tell tale Lyme disease rash, HIT A DOCTOR RIGHT AWAY AND TELL THEM ABOUT YOUR TICK BITE. Do not wait this out, ticks can transmit a whole host of diseases beside Lyme, so be mindful of that, too!
Some of those diseases you can actually get vaccinated again, such as tick born encephalitis. Check with the local authorities if you live in a risk area, and if so, get the shots to protect yourself.
Excellent post! I would like to add that ticks hide in tall grass and bushes mostly. They do not drop down from trees or jump to other people’s heads etc. Ticks aren’t designed to jump, they latch on somewhere on your leg and then crawl upwards in most cases.
So be careful with bare legs and tall grass!
I suggest tucking your pant leg into your socks while hiking or walking in fields. May not be super cute but I find it effective.
Drowning a tick does not work, they can swim! I usually wrap it in a bit of scotch tape and it’s fine (then all the guts are contained). A good rule of thumb after being out and about in any forest is to check your legs, socks, and shoes. They rarely make it higher than that (you can check anyway if you want).
Always remember to check your dogs, too!
– someone who’s lived in Tick City and has never once had lyme disease
– someone who’s lived in
tick city and has never
once had lyme disease
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Excellent decision, as usual: Put off doing something that you know is going to sickening-level hurt for at least half an hour afterwards, until right before you were planning to go to bed!
‘Fake It Till You Are So Ill You Can’t Get Out Of Bed’
‘Fake It Till You Have A Flare’
‘Fake It Till You Have A Flare, Continue To Fake It Till You’re Hospitalised‘
OR
‘Accept That You Have One Or More Chronic Illnesses, Adapt Accordingly And Look After Yourself’
This is really important. I grew up believing I had to just use mind over matter to power past my symptoms, and that eventually led to a complete mental and physical breakdown that left me unable to walk on my own for a month. We really need to get rid of the idea that people aren’t trying hard enough if they don’t push themselves to the breaking point. It can be really harmful to pretend you’re okay when you’re not, especially if you’re struggling with chronic illnesses. It’s okay to accept that you have limitations and set boundaries so you’re not hurting yourself trying to keep up with able-bodied people.
I am willing to say that mostly they are just being obstructionist… but those first two… for them this was personal.
They do have a reason they voted against the bill change. It’s not a good reason, to be clear, but it is a justification not rooted in approval of bestiality.
Here’s the thing: bestiality is already illegal in Louisiana.
This new bill definitely strengthens the law, elaborates on what is illegal conduct (such as the procuring of animals for sexual purposes), and…and here’s the kicker…
Separates out the bestiality-is-illegal section of the law from the sodomy-is-illegal section. They used to be in the same paragraph, now the sodomy-is-illegal paragraph stands alone and a whole new paragraph (with subparagraphs) is there for bestiality.
To be clear, the sodomy-is-illegal parts themselves are null and void and have been since 2003 (Lawrence v. Texas, US Supreme Court). But they’re still on the books.
These ten Republicans are concerned that separating out the bestiality parts from the sodomy parts will make it easier to clean up and eliminate the sodomy provision altogether, and they don’t want to do that. (Again, that would only matter if Lawrence was invalidated somehow. But, well, they could believe that’s possible, too.)
So, yeah. They don’t want to change the law to expand on the illegality of bestiality specifically because that would make it feasible for a future change in law to eliminate a nonfunctional, homophobic section.
That makes it worse, somehow.
I mean if they were actively into fucking animals I could sort of squint and understand their intentions, as disgusted as I’d be. Your hobby is terrible but at least you’re on record for.. horse fucking? Go you.
But this? It’s just being shitty to their constituents for no reason at all.
Also, good job handing the opposition “he voted in favor of horse fucking” for the next election. I seriously want to see some campaign ads featuring this vote.
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