#rabitisland Having A Ride On The Coast And Getting Some Beach Time In. #nofilter #oahu (at Makapu'u

When I worked at UPS in college, I supervised the purple belt. We answered our phone hundres of times a night with just our color, basically shouting over all the noise “PURPLE!!!!” Since I worked nights I often woke from a nape and shouted “PURPLE!!” into my house phone. One Christmas I had to do a seoncd shift with Liz at a temporary belt with no phones, so we had to shout at each other about every three minutes. One night, after hours of yelling “Liz” every minute or two, I got home. I was lucky, my wife was on the mood. Until while in the act I said, “Oh Liz..” I was on the couch for a month.

I worked with toddlers and pre schoolers for three years. Sometimes I accidentally slip and tell a friend to say bye to an inanimate object (“say bye bus!”) & occasionally they unthinkingly just do it.

Wedding toasts in the #centralvalley #ca #delicatofamilyvineyards #mantecaca 98 Degrees!!

This place is great! #honolulu #waikikibeach nice patio seating, lots of good tequilas and a big patio. La Cucaracha is 1 block from the beach. (at La Cucaracha Mexican Bar and Grill)

My nephew did this. She was punishing he son by locking him in his room in their new house. He had to go to the bathroom, so she grabs the skeleton key and it dies not work. She tells him to go pee in the closet. He says he has to poo so she says, go in the closet. Eventually cons the Gardner into going up the ladder to break the window open and take the hinges off the door. Kid was 3 years old.

WHEN THE HELL DID I USE THIS TAG

Lovely stop for some lush greenery #Ho'omahaluhiaBotanicalGarden #oahu

Severe weather hit the #CA #centralvalley causing severe damage to flower petals and puddles as deep a 1mm. #calilife #209 #springshowers

When I was a kid I played soccer without my hearing aids. I really did't have a clue until my third year and my coach got so frustrated during a game that he started yelling and swearing at me. I finally got good, probably because I could hear what he was saying. I cannot imagine playing at this level and this well. I very much admire them.

As a person who relies on lip-reading more often than not, I think this is so important. Every person, hearing or deaf, should experience and appreciate the beauty and power of human connection, whether you see it, feel it, or hear it. 

Wow!

listened to Bohemian Rhapsody today… i’m so very sorry

Nooooo....

From our Twitter feed:

BREAKING: House Passes The #GOP Watered-Down Violence Against Women Act. http://ow.ly/aZNLM #VAWA #HR4790 #violence #latina

US averaged more than 18 gun deaths every day since Newtown January 3, 2013

There have been more than 400 guns deaths since the Newtown massacre on December 14, according to a new interactive project between Slate.com and the anonymous twitter user @gundeaths.

The two launched the project because, as Slate writes, there are few real-time chronicles of daily gun deaths in the United States, despite the daily mention of firearms and gun politics in the media since the shooting. In fact, the onslaught of reporting on guns has been so intense, The Huffington Post published an article this morning with the headline “So You’re Bored of the Newtown Massacre?”

Gun deaths have been a daily reality since the Newtown massacre less than three weeks ago, with an average of 18 people dying each day as a result of a fatal shooting, according to the data compiled by @gundeaths. Six of those deaths have been children under the age of 13, and another 21 were youths under the age of 17.

The vast majority of people who have died as a result of gun violence since Newtown were men. Out of the 406 fatal shootings in @gundeaths compilation, only 49 of the victims were women. For teenagers, the gender gap is even starker: 19 boys and only 2 girls have died of gun-related violence since Newtown.

The anonymous twitter user @gundeaths began reporting every instance of a fatal shooting he could find after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting on July 20. His data set is incomplete, meaning that the number of gun deaths since Newtown likely exceeds 406.

The Huffington Post recently undertook a similar project, chronicling the first 100 gun deaths since the Sandy Hook massacre. According to their count, the United States surpassed 100 gun deaths on December 21, exactly one week after Newtown.

Other nations have experienced similar mass shootings in their histories. But nearly all have passed considerable gun safety legislation in the wake of their tragedies, which has dramatically reduced the number of future gun-related deaths.

The United States leads the world in having the most number of guns per person.

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These stats are presented as incomplete; they don’t include gun violence deaths at the hands of police officers, which are a vital part of the discussion about guns.