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Classic Ric Flair…Wooooo!

Hay-Maker

Puppy had enough of your goddamn singing

Waka flocka thought the sign language interpreter was dancing and starts dancing with her 

This girl has good ground game!

60 Year Old Goals

Relationship Goals

When you don’t respect the recoil of a high calibre gun 

These mile high club members hid it so well

The Ol’ Switcharoo

RESPECT…Anderson da Rosa is not letting disabilities stop him from becoming a champion

Emma Watson getting ready to film

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ENGLAND: The typical breakfast includes eggs, sausage, bacon, beans, and mushrooms.

CHINA: Traditional breakfasts vary based on the region, but dim sum, small plates of food prepared in a variety of ways, is popular.

AUSTRALIA: The typical breakfast consists of cold cereal and toast with vegemite.

BRAZIL: Expect to find ham, cheeses, and bread, served with coffee and milk.

SWITZERLAND: The Swiss like to start their day with Birchermüesli: raw oats and grains topped with dried and / or fresh fruit and served in milk or yogurt.

PAKISTAN: Pakistanis enjoy heartier meaty breakfasts, like Nihari, a stew made with beef sirloin and / or shank pieces.

COLOMBIA: A traditional breakfast in Bogota is changua, a milk, scallion, and egg soup.

INDONESIA: Nasi goreng is commonly eaten in Indonesia for breakfast. The meals consists of a fried egg and fried rice, and sometimes meat or seafood as well.

GERMANY: A typical breakfast is made up of cold meats, including sausages, local cheeses, and fresh baked bread.

CUBA: The typical breakfast is cafe con leche — coffee with milk — served with a tostada, which is sliced bread that is buttered and grilled. The bread is used to dunk into the coffee.

THE PHILIPPINES: Pandesal — a bread roll made of flour, eggs, yeast, sugar, and salt — is a common breakfast food in the Philippines. The rolls are often dipped in coffee with milk.

POLAND: Similar to a German breakfast, a traditional breakfast in Poland consists of bread rolls served with an array of savory and sweet toppings such as meat, sausage, cheese, butter, jam, and chocolate spread.

INDIA: Idli wada is a traditional breakfast in the southern part of the country. Idli is a cake made with fermented black lentils and rice, and served with chutney and sambar.

ITALY: Many Italians begin their day with a cappuccino and hard roll or biscotti.

JAPAN: Traditional breakfast includes miso soup, steamed white rice, and Japanese pickles.

MOROCCO: Breakfast usually consists of breads with jam, and cheese or butter.

SCOTLAND: Simple but hearty, a good Scottish breakfast is often a bowl of porridge.

NIGERIA: With a variety of ethnic groups in the country, there are many traditional breakfast items. One of them is moi moi, a ground bean paste that is wrapped in leaves and steamed.

KOREA: Comparable to a rolled up omelette, Korean egg rolls can be made a variety of ways: sometimes with vegetables and sometimes with meat.

PORTUGAL: A standard breakfast includes stuffed croissants or bread with jam or cheese, eaten with coffee.

RUSSIA: Traditional breakfast is sirniki, or baked farmers cheese pancakes, and hot oatmeal. Rye bread is another staple.

MEXICO: Mexican comfort food at its finest, chilaquiles are totopos (similar to tortilla chips) submerged in a spicy sauce with a fried egg and various toppings such as avocado.

TURKEY: A traditional breakfast consists of bread, cheese, butter, olives, eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, jam, honey, and kaymak. It can also include sucuk, a spicy Turkish sausage, and Turkish tea.

UNITED STATES: Breakfast foods vary widely from place to place, but typical options include eggs, pancakes, bacon, or cereal.

GUYANA: A typical breakfast in Guyana is bake and saltfish. Saltfish is whitefish preserved in salt, and bake is bread dough, fried.

FRANCE: A French breakfast includestea, coffee, juice, or hot chocolate, with bread and butter or pastries.

ISRAEL: A popular Israeli breakfast dish is shakshuka: eggs cooked in a spicy tomato sauce served with pita on the side for dipping.

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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

Jim Rohn

One of the most pervasive myths in the American culture today is that we are entitled to a great life— that somehow, somewhere, someone (certainly not us) is responsible for filling our lives with continual happiness, exciting career options, nurturing family time, and blissful personal relationships simply because we exist.

But the real truth—and the one lesson this whole book is based on—is that there is only one person responsible for the quality of the life you live.

That person is you.

If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life. This includes the level of your achievements, the results you produce, the quality of your relationships, the state of your health and physical fitness, your income, your debts, your feelings—everything!

This is not easy.

In fact, most of us have been conditioned to blame something outside of ourselves for the parts of our life we don’t like. We blame our parents, our bosses, our friends, the media, our coworkers, our clients, our spouse, the weather, the economy, our astrological chart, our lack of money—anyone or anything we can pin the blame on. We never want to look at where the real problem is—ourselves.

There is a wonderful story told about a man who is out walking one night and comes upon another man down on his knees looking for something under a streetlamp. The passerby inquires as to what the other man is looking for. He answers that he is looking for his lost key. The passerby offers to help and gets down on his knees and helps him search for the key. After an hour of fruitless searching, he says, “We’ve looked everywhere for it and we haven’t found it. Are you sure that you lost it here?”

The other man replies, “No, I lost it in my house, but there is more light out here under the streetlamp.”

It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you haven’t created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of the life you lead and the results you produce. You—no one else! To achieve major success in life—to achieve those things that are most important to you—you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

– Jack Canfield, The Success Principles

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The homie sent over some new music from a band called thanks. The song is dope. Give it a listen.

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Here is a list of reasons as to why many people in the wrestling industry don’t have many good things to say about The Hulkster.

1985 – Would Hogan be willing to work a program with Rick Steamboat if Steamboat agreed to turn heel? No. Give him Big John Studd instead.

1986 – Hogan-Savage is tentatively planned for WM 2, after the two had feuded in house shows which Savage had won by DQ or countout. Hogan nixes the idea of facing the dynamic, atheltic Savage at ‘Mania, even though he would be booked to win. Hogan handpicks King Kong Bundy to embarass in a cage match. Savage wrestles George Steele far down the undercard.

1986 – Hogan agrees to work with Paul Orndorff, but won’t do the job to him. Hogan agrees only because he is guaranteed a win at a huge event. He defeats Orndorff in a cage match on SNME to end the feud.

1987 – Hogan again turns down the idea of feuding with Savage; but suggests turning him face, so Hogan can step aside for awhile, film a movie and get some needed rest. Savage turns face that summer.

1988 – Hogan agrees to “drop” the belt to Andre, but only under questionable circumstances to preserve his character. Hogan agrees to “give the rub” to Savage at WM IV. Hogan only agrees because he is promised he will get the title back at WM 5.

1988 – Six months later, as Savage is having a successful run, Hogan suggests putting them together as a team “Mega Powers” and they headline Summerslam. Hogan is no longer the champion – but still in the main event.

1989 – Hogan finally meets Savage at Wrestlemania V. Hogan beats him for the title. Rather than face Savage in the anticipated rematch at Summerslam, or a program with Rick Rude as creative suggests – Hogan decides to go a different route. Hogan suggests a tag team match, pitting himself and his close friend Brutus Beefcake, against Savage and an ACTOR, Tiny Lister who played Zeus in the Hogan film “No Holds Barred”. The film opened that summer to decent business, so Hogan uses a WWE PPV to promote the film, while “giving the rub” to his friend Beefcake.

1990 – Hogan agrees to drop the belt to Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania. Only with a guarantee of an extended break and the promise he would get the title back. A month after ‘Mania, Hogan is “attacked” by Earthquake and off TV for a few months. After teasing retirement on TV, Hogan returns at Summerslam as “Immortal” and vanquishes his good friend John Tenta (Earthquake).

1990 – To preserve the Warrior character, creative decides he will drop the title to someone OTHER than Hogan. Despite the allure of a Hogan/Warrior rematch – Randy Savage is rumored to be the man Warrior will drop the belt to at Royal Rumble ’91. Hogan suggests Sgt Slaughter. Slaughter has just returned as an “Iraqi sympathizer” and Hogan pushes for Slaughter to beat Warrior, then he can beat Slaughter to regain the belt.

1991 – Hogan defeats Slaughter a few months after “Desert Storm” starts. He waves his flag and defeats the Iraqi villan at Wrestlemania. After headlining Wrestlemania for the past two years, Savage and Warrior are reduced to the undercard.

1991 – Hogan again decides against a rematch with Warrior at Summerslam, and suggests they team together against Slaughter & The Iron Shiek. Six months after he had beaten Slaughter for the belt, he feels the feud is not over and that fans will tune in to watch him team with Warrior against “the enemy”.

1991 – Hogan agrees to drop the title to Undertaker, but refuses to do a clean job to him. Ric Flair interferes in the match with a chair and ‘Taker gets the win.

1992 – McMahon decides that Flair will win the title at Royal Rumble, then drop the title to Hogan in a “dream match” at Wrestlemania VIII. Hogan decides he wants to take another extended break after ‘Mania. He suggests Flair drop the title to Savage instead and he can work with Sid Vicious and “give him the rub”. Despite the fact that Flair/Savage is the WWE Title match, it is placed in the middle of the show. Hogan and the lumbering Sid Vicious close the show. The first time the WWE Champion has not been in the main event of Wrestlemania.

1993 – Hogan agrees to return to team with Brutus Beefcake against Money Inc. at Wrestlemania and it appears to be the first time he will NOT be in the main event. When Hogan learns that WWE Champion Bret Hart is scheduled to drop the title to Yokozuna, he informs McMahon that this will be the first Wrestlemania that a face doesn’t win the main event and the “people aren’t gonna like it”. Hogan suggests “surprising” the audience by challenging Yoko immediately afterward and beating him to win the WWE Title. Vince McMahon agees. Hogan beats Yoko to regain the title.

1993 – McMahon and WWE creative suggests Hogan and Bret Hart engage in a face vs face match at Summerslam that will see Hogan “pass the torch” to Hart and drop the title. Hogan turned the idea down, and agreed to drop the title back to Yokozuna, who in turn would drop it to Hart at SS. Some critics believe, however, that Hogan simply didn’t want to drop the title to the new flagship of the company. Hogan drops the belt to Yoko at KOTR (but doesn’t drop it cleanly), while WWE goes with the failed Lex Luger “US Express” idea. Hogan leaves WWE two months later and does not appear at Summerslam.

1994 – Hogan signs with WCW after being courted by Ric Flair and Eric Bischoff. Hogan insisted on “complete creative control” over the Hulk Hogan character and a certain perrcentage of EACH PPV TOTAL REVENUE.

1994 – A three match series is planned with Hogan/Flair. Hogan would win the first, Flair would regain it and Hogan would win the finale. All parties agree. Hogan wins the WCW World Title from Ric Flair in his first match back in a year. When the time comes for Flair to regain the title, Hogan refuses, saying the fans “weren’t ready for him to drop it”.
Flair later admits in his book, that fans were already booing Hogan at shows, but that WCW was dubbing in a “cheering crowd soundtrack”. The subsequent PPVs featuring Flair/Hogan fail to sell.

1994 – Hogan negotiates for former WWE stars and Hogan allies Brutus Beefcake, Earthquake and Typhoon to join WCW. Creative suggests Hogan face Sting in a face vs face “dream match” at Starrcade. Hogan decides it makes better sense for him to face Beefcake as the heel, “The Butcher”. The PPV flops.

1995 – Hogan convinces Randy Savage to leave WWE and join WCW. Instead of starting a feud between the two former WWE Champions, Hogan insists on teaming with Savage against Kevin Sullivan and his 3 Faces of Fear.

1995 – Hogan agrees to work with Vader, but the program soon falls apart when both acuse the other of “not selling for the other”. Fans are steadily losing interest in WCW. The company begins to falter seriously, as executives point at the Hogan contract and “creative control” agreement as being a main culprit. Hogan takes extended time off – but remains the highest paid man on the roster.

1996 – With WCW desperate to compete with WWE, WCW signs Hall and Nash and plot the NWO angle. Hogan is booked to turn heel and he agrees. The angle is a smash. Within weeks, Hogan wins the World Title from The Giant. Instead of milking fresh matchups as a heel, Hogan decides that WCW should bring in Roddy Piper. Despite the possibility of a Starrcade matchup with Lex Luger or The Giant – Hogan faces Piper in a cage match in the main event. Hogan puts over Piper via the sleeperhold, in a NON-TITLE match.

1997 – Hogan feuds with Piper and Savage, while turning down suggestions he put over Luger or Diamind Dallas Page for the title. He appears weekly, but rarely wrestles on TV, while still remaining the highest paid star in WCW.

1997 – In his much hyped Starrcade match with Sting, it was decided that Hogan would beat Sting after an alleged “fast count” by referee Nick Patrick. WCW’s newly contracted Bret Hart would accuse Patrick and have the match restarted with Sting winning by submission. Hogan reportedly paid off referee Patrick, to count normally and make it look like Hogan had pinned Sting cleanly. When this DID happen, the planned finish played out – but fans booed because it was clearly botched and made Sting look bad.

1998 – Hogan agreed to put over Goldberg cleanly on Nitro, but with the condition that Karl Malone & DDP get involved to prompt a Hogan/Dennis Rodman team to debut on PPV at Bash At The Beach. Hogan promoted the match on “The Tonight Show” and later teamed with Bischoff against DDP and Jay Leno HIMSELF! The Hogan celebrity tag team matches stole all the attention while WCW Champion Goldberg was all but ignored.

1999 – After six months without the title, and still being the top guy, Hogan regained the title from Kevin Nash in the “Fingerpoke of Doom” incident. Openly flaunting his creative control clause. He would lose the title, but not cleanly to Ric Flair. When the NWO angle began to lose serious steam, Hogan turned face again. Randy Savage had recently turned heel and regained the WCW Title. Once again, this time conviently as a face, Hogan defeated Savage to regain the title. Despite having names like Hart, Luger and Sting to work with Savage – the title went baclk to Hogan. At his request.

2000 – Hogan begins feuding with WCW booker Vince Russo over how he’s being used. Russo wanted to push younger stars and to appease Russo only, Hogan worked with young Billy Kidman. When a WCW Title match with Jeff Jarrett was booked, Russo had Jarrett winning. Hogan refused, because his contract with WCW was almost up and he feared Russo wouldn’t use him on future PPV events. Meaning Hogan would lose out on serious cash.
Russo pulled a swerve on Hogan by having Jarrett lay down for him intentionally. Hogan did so, winning the belt – then was immeditaely stripped of it. Hogan was never seen in WCW again.

2002 – Hogan accepts an offer to return to WWE and reunite the original NWO, with the understanding he would be in a featured match with The Rock at Wrestlemania X8. Hogan scored a huge deal from WWE, and agreed to put over The Rock. He suggests they close the show as he felt “they had drawn the crowd” – but McMahon and specifically Triple H refuse to put the WWE Title match in a secondary role. Hogan is later booked to win the title from Triple H, but is dissapointed when it comes with the condition he drop it to Undertaker a month later. After being booked to lose to Kurt Angle at KOTR 2002, Hogan decided he needed time off again. Despite only having been back for all of four months. Hogan is convinced to stay long enough to get in a quick tag team championship win with Edge. He is then asked to put over Brock Lesnar, which he does. He is dissatisfied with his role, because he isn’t be portrayed the way “he thought he would”. He takes another “extended brea” after the Lesnar match.

2003 – He returns at the request of Vince McMahon and the promise of a big Wrestlemania payday. Their street fight is a featured match on the card. With the WWE Title now revolving around much younger wrestlers, Hogan is frustrated by Creatives decision to book him in a secondary role on Smackdown and he leaves WWE again.

2004 – Hogan is openly courted by TNA Wrestling, but the deal hits a snag when Hogan was reportedly told he would have to put over Jarrett at some point. Hogan begins to complain of “knee problems” as the deal falls apart.

2005 – Hogan is inducted into the Hall of Fame, and agrees to the idea of a Hogan/Shawn Michaels match at Summerslam. McMahon proposes two matches, with each winning one. Hogan agrees. After spending all of his comeback as a face, HBK agrees to turn heel to sell the match. Michaels carries a clearly laboring Hogan through a decent match at Summerslam, and HBK does the clean job to Hogan. The second match in the series is called off, when Hogan began to complain “his knee was acting up again”. Hence, the Hogan win over HBK stands as their one and only meeting.

2005 – Hogan proposes the”Dream Match” scenario of Hogan vs Steve Austin to WWE Creative for Wrestlemania. Austin says no – citing the HBK scenario at Summerslam. He refuses to put Hogan over.

2006 – Hogan is asked to appear at Summerslam and face Randy Orton. He agrees with the rumoured condition that WWE pushes his daughter Brooke’s debut CD. Instead of putting over “The Legend Killer”, Hogan flexes his “creative control”. Despite being 53 at the time, having wrestled one match in over a year, and bad knees, Hogan defeats the 26 year old former World Champion via clean pinfall.

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A patient sits in a restraint chair at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, England in 1869.

The Pilgram Psychiatric Center in Long Island, NY, USA could house as many as 14,000 patients at a time. This self-sufficient mental asylum adopted extremely aggressive methods of “curing the insane”. Lobotomies and electric shock therapy were the norm. The doctors at this asylum started using large doses of insulin and metrozol to drive patients into a violent coma, just to be rid of them.

A patient sits inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.

A patient at a mental hospital undergoes electroshock treatment in 1956.

Nurses hold down a patient receiving electroshock treatment at a facility in England on November 23, 1946.

Patients sit inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.

Pioneering and prolific lobotomist Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy with an instrument similar to an ice pick at Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Washington on July 11, 1949. The procedure turned most ‘problem’ patients into zombies.

One of Walter Freeman’s lobotomy patients ten days after the procedure. 1942.

Lobotomy tools.

A surgeon uses a brace and bit to drill into a patient’s skull before performing a lobotomy at a mental hospital in England, November 1946.

Serbian Psychiatric Hospital. Photo taken by George Georgiou who worked in Kosovo and Serbia between 1999 and 2002.

Female patients receiving Radium Therapy, early 20th century.

An insane asylum patient restrained by warders, Yorkshire, 1869, Henry Clarke.

A patient undergoing lateral cerebral diathermia treatment in the early 1920’s. Diathermia used a galvanized current to jolt psychosis sufferers. Doctors eventually deemed it unsafe and unreliable.

Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA insane asylum, 1870’s.

Reasons for Admission

Pilgrim State Hospital Brentwood NY, USA 1940s.

Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry. Man in restraints, B, violent ward. 1945.

Mechanical slapping massage device at BC sanitarium.

Cuenca, Spain, 1961 Insane asylum.

Sections of brain encased in wax. West Park Mental Hospital Mortuary.

Washington, D.C., circa 1921. “Foundling Hospital, playroom.” Tots at the Washington Asylum for ‘Foundlings’.

Self-harm in 1964.

Patients in steam cabinets in 1910.

An x-ray of needles driven into the flesh by a self-harming patient.

In the late 19th century it was a widely held belief that masturbation caused insanity and devices such as this were designed to prevent the wearer from touching or stimulating himself. They were often used in mental institutions.

An insanity mask from the 17th century.

Hydrotherapy first used in the early 1900s, Immersion in a tub of water to make a patient relax when agitated or relieve some ailment, lasted a few hours to overnight. 1936.

Patients sit inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.

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1.  My father-in-law’s ex-wife has been living with someone for 7 years. They wear rings on their wedding fingers. When the boyfriend was in the hospital, he listed her on the hospital records as his wife, they are each other’s  beneficiary in case of death, and the list goes on. “My father-in-law pays her $3000 per month – 50 percent of his income. In the divorce, she  received 100 percent of his retirement ($150,000), which she has spent, and is the sole beneficiary of his $1 million life insurance policy, even though he has remarried. After her  son turned 18 and the child support ended, she took him back to court and had the child support rolled into alimony. “She would not settle for a reduction of alimony, so based on F.S. 61. 14 [the new  cohabitation law], they went to court. My husband and his brother testified. We watch him  struggle while she goes on extravagant vacations (California, Vegas, and a 5-day cruise – all in 4 months). She had a brand-new home built and then remodeled. Her boyfriend’s Crown Victoria is paid for. She makes $11 per hour working 25-30 hours a week. The boyfriend makes $30,000. The ruling went to the ex-wife. So he is still paying $3000 a month and now he is responsible for her attorney’s fees, $10,000. This poor man is supporting not only his ex-wife but her boyfriend, and the courts are allowing it.”

2. I was divorced in 2008 and we split our retirement funds 50/50, yet I have to pay indefinite alimony. I just don’t get it. When I retire I will probably have $2000/month from Social Security and $2000/month from my retirement fund. My ex-wife will probably be in the same situation. So I give her $2050/month and she has $6050/month total and I have $1950. Where is the fairness in that?

My wife ran a successful software consultancy business for several years, but just before we divorced she re-trained as a teacher. Our earning capacities are similar, but I have to pay to “support her in the lifestyle to which she is accustomed”, even though her full time income is sufficient for her to live a comfortable lifestyle and she could easily earn significantly more that she is earning today.

Last year I lost my job, so I went back to the courts to get my alimony modified. I expected that it would be suspended until I got a new job; but instead the judge lowered the alimony slightly so that the sum of the alimony, child support, and life insurance required to cover the alimony was the same as my unemployment check. So she gets $4000 of her own income plus $1550 in alimony, while I get nothing. I am desperately looking for a new job before my cash runs out. My ex is also trying to get my new girlfriend to pay her the alimony too. What obligation should my new girlfriend have to pay my ex-wife? I guess in Oregon they consider “household income”. Ridiculous.

At a time when I am out of work and concerned how I am going to make my next mortgage payment, I am forced to continue to pay alimony. To add to the problem, my request for modification was both time consuming and costly, taking several months and, so far, over $17,000 in legal fees.

3. I have 5 children who, in 1982, were ages 5 through 12, all girls. The  oldest girl lost her sight between her 6th and 8th birthday. The children’s mother took off and essentially deserted them, seeking fame and notoriety in Washington D.C. “The court that granted me custody of my 5 children also ordered me to pay permanent  lifetime alimony. The children’s mother was not required to pay any child support despite  the fact that she had a good job in D.C. “I went back to court and asked for child support but it was turned down – and – to add  insult to injury, I was ordered to pay opposing lawyer’s fees. “Then the children’s mother petitioned for custody, alleging change in circumstances. The  children and I were tossed around by the court and lawyers. The final outcome was that the  petition was denied. The judge commented that the children were all well mannered, well dressed, did excellent in school and were in an excellent environment for their education. The judge also commented that the children spent many hours of quality time with their father. “The children’s mother chose not to honor the court ordered visitation schedule.“When the youngest reached 18, I was again hauled into court for more alimony on the  pretence that I no longer was responsible for the children, so more money would be  available as alimony. After 3 years of court hearings, the petition was turned down but I  was stuck with about $85,000 in attorney fees for both sides. “Now, 28 years later, the children all on their own, and I am still … forced to pay alimony … to a capable woman, a woman who in 1986 was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor for  the State of Florida. She told the people of Florida that she was capable and qualified to be  their governor but told the court that she could not take care of herself. The present system permits this.”

4. I was ordered to pay $1190 in child support (3 children), $100 in periodic payment alimony, and my ex-wife is entitled to 37.5 percent of my Marine Corps Retirement. I defended my county for 20 years in Beirut, Bosnia, the first Gulf War and throughout the world. “The judge ordered that when each child turns 18, their portion of the child support converts to alimony, which 20 or so attorneys I consulted had never heard of. Also, after  she gets the 37.5 percent of my retirement check, the remaining 62.5 percent gets thrown back into the ‘Pot of Money’ the judge used to determine the child support and alimony, so that she will be getting more than the 37.5 percent that our lawmakers allow her to get under the Uniform Services Former Spouse Protection Act. “My ex-wife had work history in the insurance industry, an Associates Degree, and she  chooses to continue to work for a paltry $7.50 an hour.

5. The amount I am transferring to my ex wife is over 40% of my income.  This is in addition to the several thousands of dollars that I paid her at the time of my divorce, money that I had to borrow and still owe. Once alimony, taxes, and insurance are deducted from my paychecks, my net income leaves me with barely enough to cover my modest mortgage and living expenses.  Our original alimony agreement was created in order to ensure financial equity between our households.  I agreed to the exorbitant amount to benefit my children who spend 50% of their time with their mother.  I’ve worked very hard to further my career and made much advancement over the last four years.  My x-wife has taken advantage of my hard work and has chosen to work at a job well below her qualifications, with the dual degrees she holds.   Because of our “equity” agreement, the less she chooses to earn, the more I have to pay. 
When my income decreased during 2010, I approached my x-wife, in good faith, to work with me to seek a modification that would keep our households equitable.  Her response to my request for mediation has been to string me along for months with promises of an attempt to seek equality, while she was instead retaining a lawyer and has now threatened to sue me for an additional 60,000.  
I have fallen in love with a woman and want to marry but – because of the amount of money I have to pay can’t afford to buy a home, or even refinance the current small home I have.  Because we live in Oregon, we can’t live together or marry without putting her at risk of having my x-wife seek to take her income as she does mine.  I have NO disposable income to extend beyond my basic living expenses, so while my x-wife is taking frequent trips, working at an “easy” job, and saving for her retirement, I have no retirement, my sons have no college fund, and I am living pay check to pay check.

6. I have given my ex approx. a quarter of a million dollars in the last 2 and 1/2 years, and still I pay alimony, monthly, for life.

I gave her already half my IRA, she will get 1/2 my retirement when I retire, and I bought her a house which she has sold and made 160,000 dollars on.

In the last 2 years she has been living with her boyfriend working under-employed as a part time secretary at a hospital so as to only get minimum wage and health care benefits.  Prior to divorce she had worked for approx. 20 years a full time medical transcriptionist making almost as much as me.

7. My ex-wife had an affair. While the court would not recognize it despite the testified evidence of numerous late night phone calls to his place of work, the suspicious “picnic lunches” at a location hours away from town, etc, an affair took place for almost a year. Without knowing all of this at the time, she asked me for a divorce and then wanted full custody of our children, despite the devotion and involvement I was and am in their lives. That being said, my ex-wife hired an unethical attorney, who believed in a scorched earth policy to ensure his client was awarded the bulk of the estate and the hours he billed were astronomical. At trial, I was portrayed as a horrible husband and person, which is the farthest from the truth. The “spin” the attorney put on day-to-day aspects of life in order to make one out to be “the bad guy” was mind boggling and eye-opening to how the family court system is truly flawed. The unethical tactics and manipulation my ex-wife allowed her attorney to do in court was unconscionable, all to achieve money. The judge in my trial clearly did not understand the concept of pre-tax and after-tax assets and awarded my ex-wife approximately 85+% of the assets acquired during the marriage, in addition to enormous amounts of alimony and child support for 16 years although I was not married that long. Given this huge amount of money she was receiving, I was still ordered to pay for everything for the children (private schools, clothes, sports/extra cirricular, trips, supplies, etc….everything!). I was also ordered to secure a life insurance policy for millions and name her as beneficiary. This “alimony sentence” I was given through my early 60’s, has prohibited me to save for retirement and continue to live the life I would like with my new wife, yet the judge ordered me to keep her in the life to which SHE was “accustomed”. Despite the fact she is an educated woman capable of working and supporting herself in the lifestyle she desires.
Even worse, is that the ex-wife has been living with another man for 5+ years. Despite the emotional toll and unsettling environment my ex’s living arrangement has taken on the children, she continues to fight for alimony even though the divorce decree states it ends when living with a man that is not her husband. Yet the flawed CT cohabitation law is written that the domestic partner must also provide financial support to her household. Why would the live-in provide financial support when the ex-wife has substantial amounts of money? Therefore, the alimony now becomes support of BOTH of them! 

8. I was scammed by a woman who married me with the intent to divorce later – at 15 years.  It was her second marriage and she knew the legal system all too well. Over the years, she  was careful to make herself appear like she contributed to the marriage. But the reality is that she contributed very little. She made sure that she never had a job. Although I worked sometimes 60 hours per week, I spent more time raising my son than the EX, and performed most of the homemaker duties. Just for good measure, near the end of the marriage, the EX tricked me into getting deep into debt by insisting on purchasing various properties. She went so far as to convince me that by adopting a baby girl would fill a void in our marriage. I thought it was for love, but found out too late that is was simply a 
calculated legal move. After only a couple of weeks after the adoption, the EX told me that the girl was my problem.

“So I worked full time, took care of my 10-year old son, and now a baby girl. The EX started openly bar hopping and staying out almost all night. The EX had me just where she wanted me and now she was just biding her time until the marriage clock hit 15 years.”

“The EX wants me to move out, but because of the debts, I could not afford to. In order to get me out of the house, the EX falsely claims that I sexually molested our adopted daughter, who was only 4 at the time. The EX said with a big smiling grin ‘I have got you now!”

“Child Protective Services subsequently investigated this and found her claims to be completely baseless. The CPS representative even told me how to file a complaint against the EX for the false accusation. However, my lawyer advised me that the courts do not like such “sticky situations” and therefore advised me not to file a complaint. Through this investigation my boss, work associates, and customers were all aware of the allegations against me. Although I was exonerated, there would always be a stigma of doubt with them. I finally realized the level of evil that I was dealing with and that the EX will stop at nothing. She starts trying to get my son to turn against me. I come home from work one day and the sheriff deputies are waiting for me outside my front door. I am informed that the EX will claim domestic violence unless I leave. So I did with only the clothes on my back. I spent the next 4 days and nights living in the Wal-Mart parking lot. I had to bath and clean in their restroom. I was nearly arrested…. 

“In an attempt to avoid the attorneys from ruining us financially, I offered the Ex a deal. She can have the marital residence paid for, she can have $150,000 in cash, and I will pay child support. The EX tells me to ‘Go to Hell,’ and walks out on mediation.

“We go to court in the summer of 2007 and the EX spends the first 4 hours character assassinating me. I tell my lawyer that she is constantly lying, but he responds that Florida is a ‘no fault’ state and her testimony is irrelevant. So she gets away with depicting me as a monster and herself as a tireless-hardworking-loving-saint…. Our rookie Judge X, who was seeing his first divorce case, bought into her lies and handed down an extraordinary unfair ruling. She would keep the house while I paid 75% of the first and second mortgages for the next 16 years, she gets half of my the 401K ($250,000), I am denied all of my pre-marital assets totaling $150,000, she also gets half of my $45,000 inheritance, she keeps our daughter’s state stipend as hers although this is expressly meant for the child. She even gets a car allowance, child support, and $3,005 per month permanent life time alimony. The judge gave her $5 extra so she would not be burdened with the state fee of 5 bucks.

“I get to pay her attorney’s fees. I get to pay half of her extraordinarily high credit card debts. My equitable distribution of $50,000 is put on hold for 12 years with no interest accumulating, so inflation will reduce it to next to nothing. All of this nearly bankrupted me. I am stripped of everything and humiliated. I made less than $1,300 per week and it was taking $3,200 per week pay the court-ordered payments. I had nothing to eat except one peanut butter sandwich for supper each night, and I lost over 50 pounds in just a few 
weeks…. I was forced to default on all credit cards…. I had to deal with 2 additional lawsuits 
filed against me by banks. I worked 2nd and 3rd jobs that did not pay much. 

“At the Kennedy Space Center, I was the lead propellants engineer supporting the space shuttle and now I was nearly homeless. The judge in his arrogance even wrote in the final judgment that he impoverished me. All of this was affecting me at work. The EX and her  agents harassed me at work and sent me inappropriate emails in an attempt to get me fired. They even resort to harassing me at my home. I was reaching a breaking point. I am eventually demoted and removed from my position as lead engineer, which I had held for 16 years and nearly 100 Space Shuttle launches….”

9. Dave Foley’s Divorce 

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Our Last Year Together: What My Camera Captured As My Parents Died Of Cancer – NPR

Perla Montemayor Is The Latest Hot Weather Girl That Has Folks Talking – Mandatory

Every Episode Of ‘Game Of Thrones,’ Ranked – The Ringer

I just read a great book on accomplishing more by doing less — here are my 5 best takeaways – Business Insider

50 Ways To Live On Your Own Terms – Medium

Hot Instagram Pictures Of Jem Wolfie – Lurk And Perv

A damn fine collection of bewbs, awesomeness and everything in between – Leenks

A leading happiness researcher says we’re giving our kids bad advice about how to succeed in life – Quartz

Apple’s Third Co-Founder Has Never Used an iPhone and Has No Regrets – Motherboard

After 7 Days of Legal Pot Sales, Nevada Declares Emergency – Newser

Donald Trump Jr. releases ‘entire email chain’ regarding Russian meeting – Fox News

Kim Kardashian Swears The Powdered White Lines In Her Snaps Are ‘Candy’ – Food Beast

Inside the Surreal Saudi Suburbia Built by an Oil Giant – Wired

Elizabeth Hurley Just Demonstrated How a One-Piece Can Be Even Sexier Than a Bikini – Maxim

12 Bizarre Cult Recruitment Methods Throughout History  – Ranker

Halsey, Mila Kunis and Other Random Ladies – G-Celeb

Olivia Munn Celebrates Her 37th Birthday in a Bikini and Dancing to Mariah Carey – Radass

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Damnnnn!!!

This is why they call it a Soul Stealing Knockout

One of the most amazing takedowns in MMA history and an amazing recovery to submission. Kevin Randleman (RIP) vs Fedor Emelianenko in Pride.

Jose Uzcategui knocks out Andre Dirrell after the bell and then Dirrell’s uncle smashes Uzcategui in the face bareknuckle.

Richard Grant was sucker punched by James Butler after a fight 

One Of The Craziest Brawls In Japanese MMA History

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If everything is too good, you’re probably stuck not being awesome.

Don’t join an “easy” crowd. You won’t grow.

Many people are so comfortable they’re miserable.

Breaking a habit, trying something new, taking a risk, making new connections, or putting yourself in a totally new situation won’t be easy, but it’s worth it. It’s exhausting but rewarding.

Calvin Coolidge says “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”

Comfort can lead to self-absorption, boredom, and discontent.

You can either be comfortable and stagnate or stretch yourself — become uncomfortable — and grow. Choose the latter.

Go where the demands are high. Go where the pressure is to perform.

Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo, Psychologist and author of “Better Than Perfect, says people who regularly seek out fresh experiences tend to be more creative and emotionally resilient than those who remain stuck in routine.

“Breaking your own mold can only make you stronger and more confident to reach higher levels in your professional and personal life,” she says.

To grow, you have to embrace the discomfort. The transition will be uncomfortable and scary, but that’s the nature of the beast.

Stretch yourself. You might just like what’s possible.

Peter McWilliams once said “Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.”

Discomfort is a catalyst for growth. It makes you yearn for something more. It forces you to change, stretch, and adapt.

The secret to success lies in the very thing you’re avoiding. Those things that seem to break you down and humble your spirit.

Seek out discomfort. Be deliberate about doing things that push your limits magnificently. Difficulty helps you to grow.

If you want long-term success, stop avoiding what’s hard.

If you’re truly pushing yourself to improve — in any capacity whatsoever — you are uncomfortable.

When you are challenged, you are asked to become more than you were. That means creating new perspectives, acquiring new skills and pushing boundaries.

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What’s it like to have Schizophrenia?

Let me run you through a day in the life of my personal brand of schizophrenia:

7:00 am: Wake up and lay in bed for awhile. Although I live alone, I hear footsteps throughout my apartment. I start wondering whether someone broke in during the night, so I get up to check the lock. Not only is the dead bolt still latched, but the chain is also still in tact; however, the footsteps are still in the kitchen, and I have to check the door and whole apartment at least three more times be sure I’m alone.

7:30 am: I’m taking a nice hot bath, but, as the water is running, I hear a conversation happening just outside the door. I know no one is there because I’ve checked the door, but I can’t help but hear a few people debating about the use of leather vs. cloth seats in cars. I dip my head under the water and try to ignore what’s not there.

8:00 am: Is there something crawling on my leg? When I look down to inspect, there’s nothing. This will happen at least once every half hour throughout the day, so I won’t continue mentioning it.

9:00 am: I’m eating breakfast, and I taste metal when I’m eating my toast, so much so that I can’t finish my food.

10:00 am: I’m walking to campus, and the way gravity is pulling me goes from under my feet to slightly off-kilter to the right. I feel like I’m going to fall over because something is pulling me that way, so I need to sit down and wait out my equilibrium resetting itself with my head in my hands to keep myself from puking from the dizziness.

10:30 am: The voice in my head named Nero starts telling me, as a response to girls walking slowly in a group in front of me on the sidewalk, that I should disembowel one, choke the second with her intestines, and curb stomp the third while she cries from watching her friends die. I try my hardest to ignore him, but the voice gets louder and more demanding, even after I have already passed the girls.

11:15 am: As I sit on the toilet, the tiles of the floor start to get larger and smaller, which almost makes me sick.

12:00 pm: I’m talking to my friend who flaked on me a few weeks ago, and Nero is trying to tell me what they deserve for being a shietty friend, which just so happens to be running their face over until it is as flat as a pancake.

1:15 pm: As I’m sitting in class, the teacher’s words begin to not sound like English, and the jibberish I’m hearing makes it impossible to concentrate on the lesson and what I’m supposed to be learning.

2:00 pm: I finally have my appetite back after the metallic tasting toast, but I cannot help but think that the people behind the counter put something I’m allergic to into my food because of how insistent I am that they exclude it. After inspecting my food and taking it apart bit by bit, I’m ready to eat my mound of slop, which is getting cold.

3:00 pm: I see more of my friends, but the voice in my head just keeps screaming the worst insults at them. I can no longer concentrate on what they are saying to me, which means I cannot hold up my end of conversation, so I awkwardly excuse myself and hear the conversation roar up again once I leave. The voice in my head continues to tell me that I’m worthless and even my friends pretend to like me.

4:30 pm: I’m home once again, but I hear a tapping on my window, as if someone is trying to get my attention. Although I live on the second floor, I still need to check for other life at least four times.

6:00 pm: My foot feels like it’s on fire, which distracts me from doing the reading assignmentdue tomorrow.

7:30 pm: When I try to read again, all the words on the page float away and melt together into a black jumbled mess, so I still can’t focus on my homework.

8:00 pm: Something smells like it’s burning in the kitchen, but I have only started thinking about cooking food.

9:00 pm: I’m starting to get tired, but, because I haven’t been able to focus on my homework, I can’t sleep quite yet. The voice in my head continues to berate me and tell me how worthless I am to the human race. Suicide is brought up. Once he knows I have heard this thought, he starts detailing all the ways I could kill myself, all of which I have access to.

10:30 pm: I’ve managed to complete my homework, but it’s not my best work. I try to wind down for the night, but I feel someone standing over my bed and watching me browse the Internet. When I turn around, no one is there, and I need to check the door again to make sure it is locked.

11:30 pm: I am falling asleep, and, at the final moment before I am actually unconscious, I hear a knock at my door. When I get up to check to see if anyone is there, not even the motion detection light is on in the hallway, which makes me anxious.

12: 45 am: As I really am falling asleep this time, the voice in my head chimes in to make sure my final thoughts are ones that set me apart from everyone who actually does love me. My last thought before going to sleep is him telling me I either need to kill or be killed to be truly happy.

Because I’m schizophrenic, this is my reality; this happens every day. Just as you see your hand in front of your face, the voice in my head as well as the auditory and visual hallucinations occupy the space of my world.

What would a war between The United States and North Korea look like?

So much talk in the news has been speculation about a pre-emptive first strike on North Korea and what not. What people don’t realize, however, is that no military action against North Korea is going to be light or easy – and it certainly isn’t going to be taken that way by the military.

For one, it’s not just the US and South Korea that have been preparing for a renewal of conflict these past 64 years – North Korea has been too!

The North is well known to have built lots of fortifications, defense lines, and even miles-long infiltration tunnels to sneak massive amounts of troops under the DMZ. The defector claimed they dug over 20 of them – so far, South Korea has only found 3 (or 4, if my memory serves right)!

There are so many unknowns about North Korea’s ability or willingness to fight. What we DO know, however, is that North Korea’s government indoctrinates from a young age that it was North Korea who was invaded, and that they are the ‘true resistors’ against the Americans and their puppets in the South.

As thus, any attack by the US and/or South Korea would only validate and legitimize the North Korean government. If you weren’t sure whether they’d be willing to fight, you don’t want to help them decide to.

In addition, while the threat of artillery bombardment of Seoul is largely overblown by hearsay these days (look up the range of artillery and how far Seoul actually is), one cannot discount the chaos of any such opening episode of a war if North Korea strikes first or strikes back.

No amount of civil defense exercises in Seoul can replicate actual fire coming in and landing on the horizon. The chaos in the city alone would clog and slow down the mobilization of forces in South Korea, keeping in mind that millions of South Korean men are in the reserves there and need to reach mobilization points.

In addition, the Korean peninsula is NOT conducive to the kinds of warfare Western nations have taken advantage of. For one, Korea is very mountainous: it is poor terrain for tanks and armor, advantages the US and South Korea have. Instead, it will rely heavily on helicopters and infantry, which means the forces are a lot more balanced – and thus, warfare is bloodier.

There is no doubt the US and South Korea would gain air superiority quickly – but again, North Korea has ways to mitigate this. Underground fortifications and hidden artillery points all mitigate air forces. And air forces can’t take and hold ground – which again, necessitates infantry forces.

Think of the US island hopping campaign in WW2 and each island getting harder to take and bloodier as the Japanese dug in and reduced our technological superiority. That’s far more likely what any fighting will devolve into, assuming North Koreans stay motivated.

Korea also has extremely hot and humid summers with bitter cold winters. This will challenge and tax any military. The wide open deserts of Iraq, in contrast, were a mechanized military’s dream.

Remember, we DID fight in Korea for 3 bitter years. So this isn’t mere conjecture – it’s what happened.

All in all, any war in Korea would make any conflict since Vietnam look like child’s play. In fact, really, since Korea itself: more people died overall in Korea in 3 years than in Vietnam in a decade.

The stakes are very high, and anyone who thinks any conflict is taken lightly needs only consider that:

• The US has ~28,500 troops stationed in South Korea
• The US has another ~50,000 or so stationed between Japan and Okinawa including the US 7th Fleet
• The US has another 10,000+ in Guam to directly support fighting forces in Korea

Long story short, nobody that would actually be involved in fighting in Korea takes it lightly, even if the outcome (US and South Korean victory) is all but assured.

The Aftermath

Here is also where uncertainty lies, and here is where the regional/global stage gets involved.

First, we must address the elephant in the room: China. What will China do?

Will they help in the reconstruction of the North? Will they advance in from the North, as some believe, and set up their own occupation zone/DMZ to keep US troops stiff-armed from China’s border?

While it’s unlikely China would aid North Korea in a war now, they’ve never officially made it known one way or another, so that uncertainty is ALWAYS a question because getting it wrong (and bringing China into the war) far outweighs any benefits of eliminating the stain on humanity that the Kim regime is.

Even the most optimistic analyses of a defeated North Korea is going to be unprecedented and have reverberations around the world.

For one, South Korea is tied to the global economy. There’s a good chance you’re using a Korean device or reading this from a Korean-designed screen (Samsung and LG come to mind). Any war would immediately disrupt all this, and ripple out from there.

Second, the aftermath of the war – even if most of South Korea largely remains unharmed – still leaves North Korea, an impoverished nation of 25 million that has diverged considerably from South Korean culture and ways.

Imagine trying to integrate people where the concept of a taxi is foreign into a society where cell phones and car ownership is ubiquitous.

Actually, you don’t need to imagine that – North Korean defectors go through a year-long course learning how to simply function in modern society, and many struggle with the adjustment – some even return to North Korea because of their frustrations.

In addition, Korean society is very Confucianist and a lot of emphasis is placed on social status. North Koreans are universally considered to be at the bottom: uncouth, uneducated, etc.

So you’d immediately add 25 million to a nation of 50 million that largely looks down on those 25 million, creating a huge underclass.

And that’s not even the toughest part: try changing people. That’s nigh on impossible and people estimate it will take 3 generations to fully change things. Even today, people notice differences between West Germans and East Germans. You will DEFINITELY notice differences between people from Mainland China and people from Taiwan/Singapore/Hong Kong.

(Which actually reminds me – one of the biggest reasons you hear so much about how ‘untrustworthy’ working with Mainland Chinese people are is that they don’t honor verbal agreements. Part of this, as explained to me, is that those who survived through the Cultural Revolution and what not learned that the only way to survive was to be willing to trust no one, even your own family – that breakdown in civil society has repercussions to the mindset of people to this day)

That being said, even with all these downsides, there ARE glimmers of hope to be found in all of this. For one, you don’t simply eliminate thousands of years of common heritage and culture just like that. Even Mao Zedong’s attempts in China were quickly cast aside after his death and there has been a revival of Chinese culture, in the interest of Chinese nationalism, there (previously atheist communist officials suddenly ‘remembered’ national religions like Confucianism, Taoism, etc. and now even encourage celebration of traditional Chinese holidays), so that’s something to consider with Korea.

Deft diplomatic moves could ease a lot of this too. Ensuring that only South Korean troops occupy the North, and that the US would never station troops north of the DMZ, would do a lot to assuage China and skeptical North Korean citizens.

The reintegration of the North would have to take time, and may even require restrictions on travel from the North to the South to prevent a mass exodus. On the other hand, South Korea has tried joint ventures with North Korea by creating factories in the North employing North Koreans – this could be replicated en masse and be used to reintegrate the societies.

A unified Korea would be a serious change to the balance of power in Asia. At over 75 million people, it would be the 20th most populous nation in the world. South Korea already has a global economy, and their potential would be huge.

Being on the doorstep with China, with historical antagonisms with both China and Japan, would mean a reunified Korea would be a major player in the looming question around China’s rise and what role they play in world affairs.

Whereas China has little issue bullying the weaker/smaller nations around the South China Sea (sans maybe Vietnam), it doesn’t have the same luxury with Japan and won’t if the Koreas are reunited successfully.

That may mean more conflict in the future, or it may mean a balance of power keeps people in check. But honestly, that’s so far off in the distance, and reunification itself would be an unprecedented challenge in human history, that those implications are too far off in the future to be certain of anything.

What is so bad about Obamacare that it needs to be completely dismantled instead of ‘fixed’?

There are two main conservative objections to Obamacare:

The first is that it’s a very strong government intervention into a market. Conservatives believe in an unregulated and free market. Because of regulations in Obamacare, people are forced to buy insurance even if they don’t want it. And the insurance they buy is required to cover a lot of things that they might not want or may never need (for example, men are required to purchase insurance policies that would cover maternity care).

Free markets can do amazing things when left alone. They do not need the guiding hand of the government in order to efficiently find a fair price that suits everyone. Government moves too slowly to address the changes that happen in the healthcare field.

The second conservative objection to Obamacare is that it strengthens the social safety net which ever since the New Deal has created a dependency among the American public. Social Security was once seen as a supplement for the elderly who are supposed to also use life savings and other financial vehicles to maintain themselves in retirement. Now Social Security is the main (or sometimes only) source of income for a huge swath of elderly Americans, and it has grown into an enormous juggernaut that threatens to bankrupt the government. And yet nothing can be done about it because so many Americans are dependent on it. Social Security is famously called the “third rail of American politics.”

The fear is that the same thing will happen to healthcare and insurance under Obamacare. It will eventually become impossible to dislodge even as Americans become dependent on it (instead of learning how to take care of themselves) and its spiraling costs could overwhelm the government’s finances.

Republican politicians will often talk in terms of premium price hikes or medical care rationing, but I think these are red herrings. There are a few Republicans who are honest enough to say that they object to Obamacare not because of the way it’s structured but because they do not believe government has any business interfering in a private market at all. Therefore there is no way to fix Obamacare because it is completely antithetical to their values and belief system.

– Ernest Thanh-Tam Le

What It’s Like To Be Cheated On By Someone You Love

Have you ever balled up your fists so tight for so long that your knuckles got all white, your nails started digging into your palms, and you were afraid you might be drawing blood? When letting your hands slowly open up feels almost unnatural after having them so tightly wound for so long? It kind of feels like that. It’s a pain which is at once deeply frustrating and oddly self-sustaining. You feed into the anger because it comforts you, in a strange way. Because to stop being angry, to stop clenching your fists, to loosen up for a minute and let go, would mean you have to feel the actual undercurrent of your anger: your pain.

Finding out, of course, is most accurately described as an unexpected punch to the stomach. There are some people who have been taken aside and told with composure and elegance that they have been betrayed in the most profound way they could be. “I made a mistake,” the culprit might say, or, “I found someone else.” Depending on the intensity of the illicit relationship, the confession could range from the deeply apologetic to the coldly indifferent. But for those who find out because they stumbled across the evidence, or found it after frantic hours of terrified searching, the punch is strong enough to force the air entirely out of the lungs.

The searching is perhaps the worst part, the breathless moments before the floor falls out from underneath you. That precarious dangling in the purgatory where you at once want to find something — anything — to justify your gnawing suspicions, and you want to be relieved with a realization that it was all in your head. In many ways, though, once that frantic searching has begun, there is no way to be satisfied that you imagined it all. If you have been driven to the point of checking through messages or looking in pockets or asking potential witnesses, if you have allowed yourself to come to the ugly, unflattering point of invading the privacy of the person you love to prove yourself right, you have already lost.

And you know it. You know you have become what you had always condescendingly looked down upon, the couple who is as untrusting and dysfunctional as they are unable to admit it. But somehow, finding that shred of evidence or hearing the confirmation which proves you right in the worst way possible is almost a triumphant moment of victory. You have won, and you have lost everything. But for at least those few precious milliseconds of “a-ha!” you have gotten exactly what you wanted. And then comes the fall, the bottomless descent into every ugly moment of self-doubt and self-loathing in an attempt to find a justification or explanation which could never exist.

What did you do wrong? What does the other person do better? Do they smell better? Taste better? Have more interesting things to say at parties which don’t involve sarcastic, ill-timed jokes? Suddenly, everything you are is wrong, every aspect of yourself is something you want to peel off and throw on the floor behind you. And the ignorant person you were before, the one blissfully unaware of all that was happening behind a turned back, is suddenly both laughable and enviable. You cringe imagining all of the things that were happening when you weren’t looking, but wish that you could return to a moment where not knowing was a possibility. But that person — the ignorant-yet-blissful person who was only so happy to be unwittingly cheated on — was ultimately not good enough to keep your love.

And that is the real pain, the idea that there was something that was yours to keep which you were unable to hold a tight enough grip on. You delude yourself into believing that there was anything you could have done to prevent it, and yet never stop to understand that it was entirely your partner’s choice. If anyone could have stopped anything, it was your partner. Somehow, placing the blame where it truly belongs when cheated on is about as futile as feeling positively towards the “other.” At the end of the day, there is always something to find fault in within yourself, something which can be identified as the true culprit in the infidelity, instead of the beloved cheater. “If only I were thinner” somehow makes more sense than “if only he wasn’t a cheater.”

As you unclench that fist, let go of all of every minor pain you’ve kept close to your chest so as to not have to see it in its full splendor, you finally exhale. You distance yourself from the betrayal and start to believe — the way a baby bird might open its wings for the first time — that not everyone must be monitored with the distrusting cunning of a fox. You accept that you may not have been able to stop it, or that you certainly didn’t deserve it. And while there will always be a part of you which longs to look twice at the inbox of a cellphone, who can’t believe that someone can be honest for uninterrupted years at a time, it is up to all of us to push those thoughts away. “If they are going to do it,” we must say, “Ruining myself in worry and doubt will not stop them.” 

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Couple carries baby without brain to term, in order to donate organs

In December, my wife Keri and I went in for the standard 19-week anatomy scan of our second child. As a parent, you think that appointment is all about finding out boy or girl, but it’s about a whole lot more. In our case, our daughter was diagnosed with a rare birth defect called anencephaly. Some three in 10,000 pregnancies rare. Congratulations to us. The phrase our doctor used in explaining it was “incompatible with life,” which looks as terrible in words as it sounds. The child fails to develop the frontal lobe of the brain, or the top of their skull. The chance of survival is literal zero percent. If you’re Googling it now — first of all, don’t click images — and see a story about a baby that has lived a lengthy time with anencephaly, either the baby doesn’t actually have anencephaly, or it’s being kept alive with every life support function possible. So we sat in a doctor’s office, five months before our daughter was set to be born, knowing she would die.

The options weren’t great. There was a) inducing early, which in effect was terminating the pregnancy or b) continuing the pregnancy to full-term. Maybe you heard our story already, but within a minute or so of finding out, Keri asked if we could donate the baby’s organs if we went to full-term. It was on her heart and mind, but we left the doctor and still spent the next 48 hours deciding what we were going to do. It was excruciating. We considered terminating. We had to. Were we capable of taking on the weight of the 20 weeks ahead? In our minds, we were intentionally taking on the loss of a child, rather than the loss of a pregnancy. And yes, there is a difference.

We decided to continue, and chose the name Eva for our girl, which means “giver of life.” The mission was simple: Get Eva to full-term, welcome her into this world to die, and let her give the gift of life to some other hurting family.

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This woman stabbed her entire family not even 48 hours ago…killing all of them except a 9 year old girl who survived her stab wounds (article)

The day he brought her home the first time and the day he carried her coffin out after 18 monthes. Father of a toddler who was killed as a result of shelling in Azerbaijan. (article)

How Doctors Tell Patients They’re Dying

A 31-year-old San Antonio man, Anthony Garay, was arrested Wednesday after a relative was allegedly caught at school searching for pornography so that she could learn about what he was doing to her at night

The abuse came to light on May 16, when a teacher at Elm Creek Elementary caught one of the victims searching for pornography on a school-issued iPad, according to documents.

When the teacher asked the girl why she was searching for pornography, the child told her that she was searching for what was being done to her at night. She said Garay sexually assaults her “all the time at night” and never lets her sleep.

The teacher contacted Child Protective Services, and an investigator was sent to the school to interview the child. The girl told the investigator that Garay had sexually abused her from at least the age of 8, and that the abuse occurred in her home

Tribute from members of London Fire Brigade’s ‘Red Watch’ to victims of the Grenfell Tower fire 

A woman dying of cancer wrote her own obituary

My obituary

My name is Sonia Todd and I died of cancer at the age of 38. I decided to write my own obituary because they are usually written in a couple of different ways that I just don’t care for. Either family or friends gather together, and list every minor accomplishment from cradle to grave in a timeline format, or they try to create one poetic last stanza about someone’s life that is so glowing one would think the deceased had been the living embodiment of a deity.

I don’t like the timeline format because, let’s face it, I never really accomplished anything of note. Other than giving birth to my two wonderful, lovable, witty and amazing sons (James and Jason), marrying my gracious, understanding and precious husband (Brian), and accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal savior – I have done very little. None of that requires obit space that I have to shell out money for.

I also didn’t want a bunch of my friends sitting around writing a glowing report of me that we all know would be filled with fish tales, half-truths, impossible scenarios, and outright honest-to-goodness lies. I just don’t like to put people in that kind of situation.

The truth, or my version of it, is this: I just tried to do the best I could. Sometimes I succeeded, most of the time I failed, but I tried. For all of my crazy comments, jokes, and complaints, I really did love people. The only thing that separates me from anyone else is the type of sin each of us participated in. I didn’t always do the right thing or say the right thing and when you come to the end of your life those are the things you really regret, the small simple things that hurt other people.

My life was not perfect and I encountered many, many bumps in the road. I would totally scrap the years of my life from age 16 to 20 … OK, maybe 14 to 22. I think that would eradicate most of my fashion disasters and hair missteps from the ’80s. But mostly, I enjoyed life. Some parts of it were harder than others but I learned something from every bad situation and I couldn’t do any more than that.

Besides there are some benefits to dying youngish. For example, I still owe on my student loans and the joke’s on them cuz I’m not paying them. Plus, I am no longer afraid of serial killers, telemarketers, or the IRS. I don’t have to worry about wrinkles or the ozone layer and/or hide from the news during election season.

Some folks told me that writing my own obituary was morbid, but I think it is great because I get a chance to say “thank you” to all the people who helped me along the way. Those that loved me, assisted me, cared for me, laughed with me, and taught me things so that I could have a wonderful, happy life. I was blessed beyond measure by knowing all of you. That is what made my life worthwhile.

If you think of me, and would like to do something in honor of my memory, do this:

Volunteer at a school, church, or library.

Write a letter to someone and tell them how they have had a positive impact on your life.

If you smoke – quit.

If you drink and drive – stop.

Turn off the electronics and take a kid out for ice cream and talk to them about their hopes and dreams.

Forgive someone who doesn’t deserve it.

Stop at all lemonade stands run by kids and brag about their product.

Make someone smile today if it is in your power to do so.

Many families ‘selling’ off girls in Yemen to avoid starvation

8 years after soldier took his life 

Female suicide bomber cradling baby moments before she blows them both up (article)

Kamikaze pilots (age 17-19) pose with a puppy a day before their suicide missions

Photo shows Corporal Yukio Araki (age 17 years old) holding a puppy with four other young men (age 18 and 19 years old) of the 72nd Shinbu Corps. An Asahi Shimbun cameraman took this photo on the day before the departure of the 72nd Shinbu Corps from Bansei Air Base for their kamikaze mission in Okinawa.

Yukio Araki became the youngest kamikaze pilot during the Second World War when, at the age of seventeen, he took off from the Bansei Airfield, Kagoshima in a Tachikawa Ki-54 twin-engine training aircraft on 27 May 1945. It has been speculated that his plane was one of two that struck the destroyer USS Braine (DD-630), killing 66 of its crew; however, the ship did not sink. Araki had been home in April 1945, and left letters for his family, to be opened upon the news of his death. The letter to his parents noted: “Please find pleasure in your desire for my loyalty to the Emperor and devotion to parents. I have no regrets. I just go forward on my path”.

Ceremonies were carried out before kamikaze pilots departed on their final mission. The Kamikaze shared ceremonial cups of sake or water known as “mizu no sakazuki”. Many Army officer Kamikaze took their swords with them, while the Navy pilots (as a general rule) did not carry swords in their planes. The kamikaze, like all Japanese aviators flying over unfriendly territory, were issued (or purchased, if they were officers) a Nambu pistol with which to end their lives if they risked being captured. Like all Army and Navy servicemen, the Kamikaze would wear their senninbari, a “belt of a thousand stitches” given to them by their mothers. They also composed and read a death poem, a tradition stemming from the samurai, who did it before committing seppuku. Pilots carried prayers from their families and were given military decorations. The Kamikaze were escorted by other pilots whose function was to protect the Kamikaze to their destination and report on the results.

A widow leans on her husband’s headstone on the day before their wedding anniversary on 16th October, 2013.

Nurses after a patient suffers a miscarriage

ER Doctor after losing a 19-year old patient

A Facebook suicide note of a transgender woman to her friends and the world with her friend’s responses.

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This schizophrenic girl is an irrefutable reason why we shouldn’t be so quick to judge or label

Ford GT Inspection: Should we buy or not?

Meanwhile At Chick-Fil-A: Animal Rights Activist Protest During A Children’s Birthday Party

Becoming Warren Buffett (2017) – This candid portrait of the philanthropic billionaire chronicles his evolution from an ambitious, numbers-obsessed boy from Nebraska into one of the richest, most respected men in the world

If you having trouble sleeping, this might help….Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep | Adult Swim

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There Are No Tricks to Losing 125 Pounds – Tonic

Watch Demi Lovato Tease Her New Track With a Barrage of Insanely Sexy Pics – Maxim

Lexie Elston Made Tennis Interesting By Pouring Water All Over Herself – Mandatory

Two reporters were killed on live TV while their colleagues and viewers watched helplessly – Ranker

Samantha Sepulveda Is The Hottest Cop You’ll See All Day – Yes Bitch

Tarantino’s Next Movie May Be His Most Controversial – Newser

The graphic photos from Chris Cornell’s suicide scene made some speculate there was foul play involved – Rare

Five ways to improve your Wi-Fi performance – ZD Net

What First-Time Buyers Should Know About Fixer Uppers – Apartment Therapy

How Did Johnny Depp Find Himself in a Financial Crisis? – Vanity Fair

Famous quotes that have a completely different meaning when said by a different person – Sad And Useless

It’s Another Happy Hump Day! (45 Photos) – Radass

Don’t Ever Give Up — The Advice That Will Inspire You Forever – The Mission

The cognitive trick that elite athletes use to achieve seemingly impossible goals – Quartz

Here’s How That $299 A Month Alfa Romeo Giulia Lease Deal Really Works – Jalopnik

Katy Perry Has Been Enjoying Her Summer Vacation – G-Celeb

Reporter Is Sexually Harassed While She’s Reporting On Sexual Harassment – Leenks

Alexis Ren’s Perfect Bikini Bod – Hollywood Tuna

Tyler, the Creator Is Either Gay or Providing More Shock Lyrics – The Blemish

Samurai Sword Fishing: Heavy Metal Edition – Trending Views

The Ten Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time – Gunaxin

43 Things White People Like More Than Cultural Appropriation – Runt Of The Web

Here’s How Much Uber Drivers Really Make – Time

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Instagram

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Being Single vs Being In A Relationship

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When I’m on vacation in Guatemala and and my girlfriend says “I think I saw something moving in the trees”

When you nut but she keeps suckin

When I make a flat earth joke to a new friend and they begin to “explain” that the earth IS flat and that it’s NOT a joke, but a serious conspiracy and people can’t remember the Earth is flat even if they reach the ice wall guarded by NASA because of a magnetic force that wipes your memory

When my entire newsfeed is composed of Trump stories

When the girl is hideous but she is giving amazing head 

When I drop my date off and can finally fart in peace 

When the girl of my dreams says “I’m so lucky to have a friend like you.”

When we’ve been at the mall for 3 hours and my girlfriend asks if I like the dress on the right or left 

When I jerk off to morally questionable porno on the internt

When I am at the gym and see a obsese person going hard

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