only-conservative-here:

militarymom:

Nobody else, EVER, has gotten so many passes as obama, WHY?!?!

Because his supporters think he’s a god. Obama could kill a puppy onstage, and the media would spin it, and many leftists would gobble it up.

the-forward-observer:

Just something to think about.

emilye:

Unborn children are notpart of their mother’s bodies, and they are not parasites.  Both claims are scientifically inaccurate.

From conception onward, pregnancy involves two (or more) separate bodies.   At no point in pregnancy is the developing embryo or fetus simply “a part of the mother’s body.”  Every cell of the unborn’s body is genetically distinct from every cell of the mother’s body.  

Although an unborn child does obtain food and shelter from its mother, this alone does not make it a parasite.  You can not make conclusions depending on comparing characteristics.  Most medical dictionaries define a parasite/parasitic infection as: “a pathologic invasion of one species by another that spends part of it’s life cycle in the host and obtains nourishment from the host.”  Any normally-occurring single or multicellular organism that naturally inhabit the host are not included (and the womb is the natural habitat of a new human being).  The difference between a fetus and parasites is that the fetus isn’t a foreign creature because it’s DNA is human DNA — it’s the same species - what we have is a human growing inside of a human (which got there because a man and woman joined their sperm and ova, which is a perfectly natural part of biology).  It is perfectly correct to say the zygote/embryo/fetus belongs in the womb.  Parasites, meanwhile, are not human and they were not created by a human male and female joining their sex cells together.  In addition, parasites replicate in the host to form new offspring, but this does not occur with a fetus. Also, once out of the uterus, a fetus does not crawl into another one like an infectious parasite.

militarymom:

Shame on YOU!

libertymaniacs:

The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics released a special report on gun violence in America from 1993-2011 by Michael Planty, Ph.D., and Jennifer L. Truman, Ph.D..

We made this infographic showing some of the more interesting findings.

castawaywaters:

I think everyone should reblog this. I have so much respect for this man.

the-forward-observer:

hislittleflower-throughconcrete:

curioustruths:

seekingmybeloved:

did-you-kno:

Source

WHAM!

“Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, from Cleveland, Ohio, was one of the first women, and very likely the first woman, to receive a Ph.D. degree in computer science in the United States. Keller entered the Sisters of Charity, a Catholic religious order, in 1932 and professed her vows in 1940. Later, she studied at DePaul University, where she received a B.S. degree in mathematics and an M.S. degree in mathematics and physics. In 1965, she received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. Her dissertation work involved constructing algorithms that performed analytic differentiation on algebraic expression, written in CDC FORTRAN 63.

“As a graduate student, Keller also studied at Dartmouth, Purdue, and the University of Michigan. At Dartmouth, the university broke the “men only” rule and allowed her to work in the computer center, where she participated in the development of BASIC.

“After receiving her Ph.D. degree, Keller accepted an offer of a faculty position at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa. Keller founded the Computer Science Department there and chaired it for 20 years. She also established a master’s degree program for computer applications in education.

“Keller felt that women should be involved in computer science and especially in the field of information specialist. In her words, ‘We’re having an information explosion, among others, and it’s certainly obvious that information is of no use unless it’s available.’ Keller’s vision extended eyond education and reached toward artificial intelligence. ‘For the first time, we can now mechanically simulate the cognitive process. We can make studies in artificial intelligence. Beyond that, this mechanism [the computer] can be used to assist humans in learning. As we are going to have more mature students in greater numbers as time goes on, this type of teaching will probably be increasingly important.’ Sister Mary Keller died at the age of 71 but has left a legacy of computers and education at Clarke College.”

• Quoted from: Gurer, Denise. “Pioneering Women in Computer Science.” ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 34, Issue 2. ACM Press, 2002.

http://www.women.cs.cmu.edu/ada/Resources/Women/

I do now thank you.

robert-cabot-lodge:

skatersaint:

The quotation on the right basically says that the rich should be able to do what they want. 

I thought the word “individual” doesn’t refer to anyone’s economic status.