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In the matter of the murder of Trayvon Martin…

We’re talking about the Stand Your Ground Law; the new personal protection law that’s sweeping the nation.

Not to be confused with the Castle Doctrine…this law is the right to use lethal force to protect your personal space…Stand Your Ground, unlike the Castle Doctrine which provides the right to kill intruders in your domicile, residence or “castle”…goes with you where ever you go…like a right to personal protection bubble.

The law means any shooter is justified in killing, what would normally be called murdering, simply because  the shooter ”feels” threatened or endangered

–There is no need for any actual threat or endangerment–all that is necessary is the  shooter feel, or perceive that they are threatened!

The New Could’ve, Might’ve Law ….sanctions  killing anyone You don’t like in Your neighborhood.

All You have to do is feel afraid. (more…)

Nearly two years ago we told you how  the once venerated Goldman Sachs Group, a full-service global investment banking and securities firm, is comprised of a bunch of piggies…greedy, smack-talking piggies.  We even told you how their behavior reminds us of the Beatles’ tune, penned by the late George Harrison, about greedy little piggies.

Earlier this month, Greg Smith, in his role as New York Times Op-Ed contributor, very publicly announced to the world, and his employer, Goldman Sachs,  he is leaving and his reasons why. We took to the article, authored by a financial insider, as confirmation of what we knew to be true and published in 2010. (more…)

The staff of YouThinkWhat, and site administrator Henry T. Gandolph, gladly welcome a  new contributor  to the site. His name is California Will. Will is a self described  “outcast drunk, from California who likes going on long rants and who likes to throw things.”

We believe California Will to be a clever satirical writer, intoxicated by strong emotions, and beer, providing keen insight into current American affairs.

Ladies and gentlemen YouThinkWhat presents…California Will…and his

10 Easy Steps YOU Can Take (If You Wish) To…Destroy America, Undermine Your Family and Poison Your Soul!!!
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The creator of this piece, R.J. Matson, gave the title “The  Stand Your Ground Before He stands His Ground Defense…so our staff came up with sub-caption: “The Future of  ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws”.

The Future of "Stand Your Ground" Laws

A few words about the creator of this cartoon: (more…)

Readers who live in the Washington, D.C. Metro area are familiar with news anchor Jim Vance, the man in the following video.

Vance is also known on the Internet for appearing in a video with the late sports anchor George Michael where they laughed at a model who fell, not once but twice, on a fashion show runway.

This time you will find him somber as he expresses his point of view on the matter of Trayvon Martin.

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The following video is one African American intellectual’s take on the murder of seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin of Miami, Florida. Reports of his February 26, 2012 murder, while completely unarmed, is making headlines around the world. His confessed shooter has not been charged or arrested due to a technicality in the law called “stand your ground”. ( Read more about the so-called “stand your ground law” in a future post.)
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You may wondered , like many members of our staff at YouThinkWhat,  just what Sandra Fluke actually said to cause the popular fat windbag guy on the radio to call her out of her name. What in the world could she have said to cause the person who currently enjoys hosting the most listened to radio talk show in America, broadcast on over 600 radio stations nationwide, to say the hateful disrespectful things he has, and now attempt to apologize for saying them? Did he not arrive on this planet by way of a woman?

We present Part 2 of “What Sandra Fluke REALLY Said To The Democrats”, based on a report from Charlie Spiering of the Washington Examiner.com. This is the text of Sandra Fluke’s opening statement, given February 23, 2012, when she testified before a House Democratic panel in support of the HHS contraception mandate.

A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrome, and she has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown’s insurance because it’s not intended to prevent pregnancy.

Unfortunately, under many religious institutions and insurance plans, it wouldn’t be. There would be no exception for other medical needs. And under Sen. Blunt’s amendment, Sen. Rubio’s bill or Rep. Fortenberry’s bill there’s no requirement that such an exception be made for these medical needs.

When this exception does exist, these exceptions don’t accomplish their well-intended goals because when you let university administrators or other employers rather than women and their doctors dictate whose medical needs are legitimate and whose are not, women’s health takes a back seat to a bureaucracy focused on policing her body.

In 65% of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescription and whether they were lying about their symptoms.

For my friend and 20% of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription. Despite verifications of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy. She’s gay. So clearly polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy for her.
<blockquote>One woman told us doctors believe she has endometriosis, but that can’t be proven without surgery. So the insurance has not been willing to cover her medication – the contraception she needs to treat her endometriosis.

Recently, another woman told me that she also has polycystic ovarian syndrome and she’s struggling to pay for her medication and is terrified to not have access to it.

Due to the barriers erected by Georgetown’s policy, she hasn’t been reimbursed for her medications since last August.

I sincerely pray that we don’t have to wait until she loses an ovary or is diagnosed with cancer before her needs and the needs of all of these women are taken seriously.

Because this is the message that not requiring coverage of contraception sends: A woman’s reproductive health care isn’t a necessity, isn’t a priority.

One woman told us that she knew birth control wasn’t covered on the insurance and she assumed that that’s how Georgetown’s insurance handle all of women’s reproductive and sexual health care. So when she was raped, she didn’t go to the doctor, even to be examined or tested for sexually transmitted infections, because she thought insurance wasn’t going to cover something like that – something that was related to a woman’s reproductive health.

As one other student put it: ‘This policy communicates to female students that our school doesn’t understand our needs.’

These are not feelings that male fellow student experience and they’re not burdens that male students must shoulder.

In the media lately, some conservative Catholic organizations have been asking what did we expect when we enroll in a Catholic school?

We can only answer that we expected women to be treated equally, to not have our school create untenable burdens that impede our academic success.

We expected that our schools would live up to the Jesuit creed of ‘cura personalis‘ – to care for the whole person – by meeting all of our medical needs.

We expected that when we told our universities of the problem this policy created for us as students, they would help us.

We expected that when 94% of students oppose the policy the university would respect our choices regarding insurance students pay for – completely unsubsidized by the university.

We did not expect that women would be told in the national media that we should have gone to school elsewhere.

And even if that meant going to a less prestigious university, we refuse to pick between a quality education and our health. And we resent that in the 21st century, anyone think it’s acceptable to ask us to make this choice simply because we are women.

Many of the women whose stories I’ve shared today are Catholic women. So ours is not a war against the church. It is a struggle for the access to the health care we need.

The President of the Association of Jesuit Colleges has shared that Jesuit colleges and the universities appreciate the modifications to the rule announced recently. Religious concerns are addressed and women get the health care they need. And I sincerely hope that that is something we can all agree upon.

Thank you very much.

Psychological health drains your energy , hope, ambition and drive , sometimes making it difficult to do even the typical day-to-day duties . While overcoming depression might not be quick or easy , it certainly is not impossible. Feeling completely better might take time, but you might get there if you make the right choices for yourself each day and rely on the support of your dear ones.

Recovering from depression needs immediate treatment but taking action whilst you’re depressed is difficult. A few simple things you need to do in the course of mental health treatment process are physical exercise, eating right food and rating on a regular basis, sleeping at least for six hours, taking walks outside, communicating with loved ones, avoiding being alone , refusing to think negatively etc. You might already know that such things might assist you overcome depression but following these regulations are not easy when you are depressed. This is the Catch-22 situation of depression recovery. The symptoms of depression like weakness, sadness, confused thinking, and low self-esteem make it hard to take the required steps to get well. A realistic recovery plan hence involves taking responsibility for the choices and changes you do have control over and eliminating the things you cannot control.

Mental health treatment is required to resolve the above quoted psychological sickness symptoms. The mental health therapy could include listening to problems of the patient attentively, suggesting them on how to cope up the current mental health issues . Those who suffer from such issues might be asked to be taken out for a walk, trips as well as some educational or religious event. Mental health therapy could include practising Yoga which is the mixture of body and mind exercises. During mental health therapy an individual will be involved in some kind of activity similar to candle making, newspaper reading, art and craft etc. If the patient is not able to focus on these activities they are made to be involved in singing or dancing classes and so on.

Mental health disorders encompass some mental health problems. What is mental mistreatment? I’m pretty sure we’ve all heard that old adage; sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you. If that were the case then what is mental abuse? Mental abuse is exactly what is sounds like, nonetheless, there are non-verbal forms of mental abuse… that can be just as detrimental as bodily abuse. Once you hear negative comments like you’re “dumb”, “over -weight” “unattractive” or “worthless» chances are you suffer from mental abuse.

The finest solution for treatment of mental illness is to discuss the issue with a renowned therapist. You are able to find a therapist near you by searching on top search engines for the psycho therapists in your area , in addition you may even find a therapist online in which your identity will remain a secret and you can take the whole depression treatment online.

Fine Line Productions-East, a Washington, D.C. video production house, founder, Ron Minor, was fortunate to find a kidney to replace the one that had gone bad. (more…)

This article was authored by attorney Sheryl L. Axelrod, of  The Axelrod Firm, PC.
The Axelrod Firm, PC  is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania law firm established for the purpose of assisting individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations with  commercial, real estate and employment issues.  Sheryl L. Axelrod  is the owner of the three attorney, state-certified, woman owned law firm.  As few as 5% of lawyers per jurisdiction are recognized by their fellow lawyers as Super Lawyers,  Sheryl L. Axelrod has been recognized as a Super Lawyer for the third year in a row.  Attorney Axelrod is the President of the Temple Law Alumni Association (TLAA), its 4th female President in its over 95 year history.

It frequently happens. A business owner purchases an insurance policy to protect the business. You pay your premiums in a timely manner, year after year. Then one day, your business is at the wrong end of a lawsuit. You quickly submit the claim to your insurance carrier and expecting they’ll cover it. They’ll hire a lawyer at their cost (after you pay any deductible), and the lawyer will defend your company. After all, that’s why you’ve been paying all those premiums, to get that coverage. However, a few weeks later,  you receive a letter s in the mail. Your carrier is rejecting the claim and now you’re the one who must foot the bill to pay for, defend and fight the lawsuit. This is what you should do to effectively fight back. (more…)