Created by Georgia Right To Life

This billboard dehumanizes both black women and children, by asserting that black children are an “endangered species,” which animalizes them, and by asserting that black women have no control over their own bodies. You can check out the entire article here. And, please note this enlightened billboard’s generous sponsor…CBS (see the top of the billboard).

Today I found out how to drastically increase the life of your shaver razor blades, such as Gillette or Schick Brand razors.  This trick is incredibly simple and just as incredibly affective.  It will also save you a nice chunk of change over time.

For instance, Gillette Fusion Brand razor cartridge sets typically will run you about $27 per set of 12, which will typically only last you a few months and less if you actually go by their expiration “strip” in determining when the cartridge needs replaced.  With the below method, I have now gone about eight months using the exact same cartridge and the blades on the cartridge are as sharp as when I first popped the cartridge on.

Materials Needed:

• Pair of Jeans (old or new, it doesn’t matter; just needs to have one of the pant legs in tact)
• Shaver like Gillette or Schick Brand razors or other disposable razors.

Before or after you shave (I prefer before so that the blades are dry), place your jeans on a hard flat surface; then run the razor up the pant legs about 10-15 times quickly; then repeat running it down the pant legs 10-15 times quickly.  No need to press that hard, but a little pressure is necessary.  In both instances, don’t “shave” the pants; point the razor the other way, so that the blades glide over the surface of the jeans and don’t try to cut them.

The threads on the jeans then will very effectively both fix any tiny bends in the blades that inevitably happen and will also sharpen the blades on your shaver cartidge.  For an already dull blade, you can sharpen it up pretty effectively by doing 50-100 swipes both ways to get it back up to “like new” condition, but only 10-15 times swiped both ways should be necessary to maintain sharpness.

Pro-tip:  rather than always having to grab a pair of jeans to do this with, I just cut the pant leg off some old jeans I was throwing away and put it in the same drawer as my Gillette shaver.  The same pant leg has so far sharpened the blades on my shaver cartidge quite well for going on eight months now.
todayifoundout.com

‘Thanks for the grow! You want them back? Call for the price … we’ll talk’

A marijuana grower thought his small crop was being held for ransom after a suspicious note was left in place of his plants, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said.

“Thanks for the grow! You want them back? Call for the price … we’ll talk,” read the note left in place of the stash that was growing on a lot near his apartment.

Unfortunately for Steven Alan Locasio, 48, the ransom note was written by detectives, who arrested Locasio when he showed up with $200 in exchange for the safe return of the pot plants.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, a resident called to report that the plants were growing in a wooded lot off of Coco Plum Drive in Marathon. Police found six plants, took them for evidence and left behind the note. Locasio called the number to arrange the exchange.

He handed detectives the cash and they arrested him, the Sheriff’s Office said. A search of his apartment turned up 20 more marijuana plants, several Oxycontin pills and $1,380 in cash.

Locasio and his wife, Christine Locasio, 50, were both charged with cultivation of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and sale of marijuana.
sun-sentinel.com