Posts by smashley23

No. Miller was appointed in 2010. He replaced a Bush appointee.

Original Post by theviewfromhere:

Original Post by smashley23:

87% is the risk over her lifetime. It's not the risk she is facing right now. As she gets older, her risk increases, so she got the surgery before her risk was going to rise any higher. She's almost 40, so her risk would have sharply gone up. 

Her procedure was an extremely personal decision. More and more women who are younger are making it. Most of them, however, are not and opt for increased screening instead. Until you are actually in this position, and you can actually assess your risk factor and family history with a geneticist or insert other professional you have no business judging people who get it verses people who don't. 

I just got tested for a BRCA mutation because it runs in my family, and I am awaiting the results. If it's positive, I'm not rushing for a double mastectomy. Why not? Currently, I'm young. My risk factor isn't elevated at this point, and by the time it is substantial, 15 years down the line, perhaps there will be better options available. This is why I would wait and see. 

except that the form of cancer we're talking about typically hits before the age of 40, which is why it's so lethal.

No it doesn't. 

The IRS is allegedly a non-partisian entity, but it has been used as a political weapon for decades. This is nothing new; they just got caught this time.

• NROL BT2 WB(1)
• RAMP
• kneeling woodchop 2x10x60lbsxside
• jump shrug 2x5x105lbs
• single leg rdl 3x10x50lbs
• dumbbell press 3x10x50lbs
• squat 3x10x180lbs
• 1 arm row 3x10x75lbsxside
• jump rope

NROLS BT2 A1

• pushup plank on stability ball 1x30s, 1x21s
• squat/dumbbell press 2x8x50lbs
• walking lunge 3x10x50lbsxside
• kneeling lat pulldown 3x10x130lbs
• hip thrust 3x10x200lbs
• bench press 4x105, 6x85lbs; 2x10x85lbs

How people dress matters. If you show up for a job interview in a tube top and booty shorts, you probably won't get hired. Both boys and girls need to learn how to dress appropriately for where they are and if they can't figure out how to dress appropriately for school and their parents can't figure out how to help them, then schools end up implementing their own rules.

Some of these cited rules were stupid, like you can't show curvature of your breasts in a dress. What are you supposed to with them-tape them down? Some of the policy reasons given are stupid. Boys get distracted. Please. Teenage boys will be distracted no matter what the girls wear and it's their job to focus on school, but at the end of the day, no one should show up to school with everything hanging out because it's a school. It's for learning, not for clubbing.

Finally finished BT1- been busy due to finals

• Decline planks 2x30s
• side plank/row 1x10x70xside; 1x5x70xside
• combo row/rdl 2x8x95
• rdl 2x15x160
• shoulder press 2x15x60
• lunge 2x15x50xside
• kneeling lat pulldown 2x15x120

481,025lbs

New total 453480

Welcome Back Deb

Solid work Kevin!

"was just thinking about what it must be like to grow up a muslim boy in post-9-11 north america. the assumptions, the biases, the twelve years of targeted warfare, the vocal christian right, the white privilege, the overwhelming media portrayal of people who look like you as evil...and you're supposed to accept and assimilate that? you're supposed to develop a healthy sense of belonging? you're supposed to become loyal citizens?"

You mean how black people have been treated in this country in 300 years, that they were property, then they weren't able to vote, go to school, make a living, live in certain neighborhoods, were commonly portrayed as monkeys in the entertainment industry, and are still considered inferior, more likely to be criminals, violent, drug addicts, welfare leeches and are still systematically discriminated against in the 21st Century.

Even if black people do, heaven forbid, go to college and make something of themselves, then they got there from affirmative action and they are stealing all of the jobs from the deserving white people. 

That being said, most people aren't going to become something bad just because stupid people tell them that they are bad. Most black people aren't criminals despite the stereotypes against them, and I expect that most Muslims aren't terrorists and won't become terrorists just because they are discriminated against. To think otherwise would mean that Muslims are inherently of a weak mind. How could they not become a terrorist if they are facing discrimination?

I don't know, maybe because they are for the most part good people and good people don't become terrorists. This kind of thinking is like the black rage arguments used in the 1990s- black people can't help acting violently towards white people because of all of the rage they feel from being discriminated against for so long. Black people aren't pit bulls who got beaten with a stick one too many times. We have self-control.

We have persevered through a lot, and we will continue to do so because we are stronger than our oppressors. I have every confidence that Muslims have the same strength. They won't succumb to evil just because of stupid people.

I am not arguing that discrimination is ok. It obviously isn't and it should obviously be combatted at every turn, but to suggest that people who are victims of discrimination can't be expected not to succumb to evil as a response is to do them a disservice. We can expect better from people because people, for the most part, are better than that.