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Legislature OKs $800K for abortion alternatives in new budget

detroitnews.com

The Michigan Legislature has shown little interest in fixing roads, preventing unplanned pregnancy, or solving infant mortality. But it has approved hundreds of thousands of dollars to ‘promote childbirth,’ alternatives to abortion and abstinence.

Michigan decides to end “Plan First” which actually helps women by providing free and low-cost birth control and medical care, and instead gives $800,000 to a useless anti-aboriton 'non-profit’ who no one, not even Christian 'crisis pregnancy’ centers, wants to work with.

msnbc:

Rachel Maddow explains that Michigan Republicans passed a minimum wage increase in order to avoid a popular movement to put a larger increase on the ballot, which was likely to pass and draw Democratic voters to the polls in 2014.

Please, if you’re a Michigan voter, do not let this deter you! We still need you to show up and vote in November! This is a very important election year for Michigan. Do yourselves a favor and vote to get rid of these cowards.

10 signs you were born and raised in Michigan

matadornetwork.com

You know what euchre is. And how to pronounce it.

Below is my commentary on the article.

1. Euchre (pron You-cur) is a card game played with partners and I suck at it. :p

2. Pasties are delicious. I can’t believe this article failed to mention paczkis. They are a religion around here on Fat Tuesday. People just call it Paczki Day.

3. It’s true. I don’t know why. Also, if you’re not from Michigan, you probably don’t know what Meijer’s and Kroger’s are. Meijer is like Wal-Mart, but a whole lot better. Kroger is a somewhat fancy grocery store in which you can find, I’m not kidding, twenty different varieties of everything.

4. This actually makes more sense to me. If you’re wanting to go on a trip somewhere, what you really need to know is how long it will take to get there. Millage doesn’t mean much when there are different speed limits on different roads.

5. This isn’t something I personally did, but I can attest that many, many people do. Also, your position in the state defines your idea of where ‘up north’ actually is.

6. The article forgot 'snow birds’ which I guess are much like 'fudgies’ but they stay longer.

7. See, I always feel like I don’t have an accent, b/c, to me, most of the people on tv sound like me. Maybe I should do another 'reading voices’ post and you all can tell me if I have an accent and/or if I sound like I’m from Chicago.

8. We have one of these in our town. It is necessitated by having a median in the road. If you’re turning out of a place where there isn’t a break in the median, you have to drive down to where the break is and turn around. It actually isn’t that difficult to understand, and I don’t even drive.

9. Vernors. Better Made Chips. Faygo for all your non-ginger ale needs. Nothing tastes like a Faygo Rock&Rye. Nothing. Oh, and on the subject of foreign vs domestic cars, my BIL is a member of a electricians’ union which requires him to drive a domestic car. Seriously, he is not allowed to show up at a work site in a foreign car.

10. While I do not call shopping carts 'buggys’, I do say 'kiddy corner’.

millenniumfalconteahouse:

timelady-of-221b:
joeeatspeople:
yesidolikecoatsbigtime:
Types of people who romanticize small town life:
People who didn’t grow up in small towns
#THE LOCALS AREN’T QUIRKY#THEY’RE RACIST
#THERE’S NOTHING TO DO
#EVERYONE’S ON DRUGS
#WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE GANGSTERS YOU ARE WHITE AND THERE ARE COWS OUTSIDE

#EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE. IT’S LIKE THE WHOLE DAMN TOWN IS IN HIGH SCHOOL.

Send me a stereotype about my state and I will tell you if it applies to me.

mrs-cheese:

For the rebloggers: Make sure to put your state’s name in the tags UvU

typicalmichiganders:

Someone buy me one

https://www.etsy.com/listing/154059436/michigan-upper-and-lower-peninsula-twist?ref=listing-shop-header-4

Okay, I don’t like Michigan THAT much…

This reminds me of a customer I had once actually. He had a line drawing tattoo of the state of Michigan on his wrist. I asked him why he got it. Did he really like the state that much? He shrugged and said, “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”

sundxwn:

Milky Way over Tahquamenon Falls Upper Michigan by John McCormick

I get so excited when I see Michigan on Tumblr.

edwardspoonhands:

effyeahnerdfighters:
thehpalliance:
Spring is in the air (in some parts of the world…), and that can only mean one thing: It’s time for Accio Books!

Over the years, our annual book drive has built libraries in Rwanda, the Mississippi Delta, and New York City. Members like you have collectively donated over 100,000 books.

This year, we are thrilled to announce that our primary donation recipient will be the Brightmoor Community Center in Detroit, Michigan. All of the books collected during the drive will be catalogued by our University of Michigan chapter, The Whomping Wolverines, and in September they will be given away for free to members of the Brightmoor community during an appearance of our Apparating Library at Brightmoor’s annual Back To School Rally.

You also have the option to donate locally or join up with your local chapter to see where they’re donating this year.

No matter how or where you donate books, be sure to log them for points in our annual House Cup.
Will Ravenclaw win again? Will we beat our record of 30,000 book donations from last year? Will Tom Hiddleston hear about our campaign and personally donate one thousand books?

THE GAME, DEAR WIZARDS, IS ON!
Hey nerds! Have some books lying around that could use a better home? Want to get together with other nerdfighters and make a positive impact on your community? Wanna be real cool?
If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, why not collect books to donate either locally or to the HPA’s Apparating Library in Detroit?
More info will be coming shortly on how nerdfighters can join magical forces with the HPA for good during this drive, but for now, get talking in your local nerdfighter groups and brainstorm up some ways that you can work together to collect books to donate, either as a collective, or as part of an HPA chapter, if there’s one near you.
Hooray!
You know you’ve got a bunch of books that you’re not going to read again…books that someone else would REALLY ENJOY reading…maybe someone who otherwise couldn’t get their hands on books. SO! As the infographic says…PUT YOUR JUNK IN THAT BOX!!!