Engaging in bear wrestling is considered to be an act of bear exploitation and is classified as a Class B Felony in Alabama.
It’s illegal to carry ice cream in…
It’s illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket while walking in Alabama. In the past, people would do this to attract horses to themselves so they couldn’t be accused of stealing them.
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It’s illegal to carry ice cream in…
It’s illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket while walking in Alabama. In the past, people would do this to attract horses to themselves so they couldn’t be accused of stealing them.
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Slavery: Convict leasing and Peonage
In 1898, some 73% of Alabama’s entire annual state revenue came from convict leasing. There were two types of slavery in the post-Civil War USA south: 1) Convict leasing, where the States generated much revenue and where business owners got very cheap labor (even cheaper than having slaves) 2) Peonage, which meant being in debt […]
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The constitution of Alabama is the…
The constitution of Alabama is the longest and the most amended constitution in the world. It has more than 900 amendments and consists of about 310,000 words. The constitution of India, the second longest one in the world, is about 145,000 words.
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Yoga and other forms of meditation…
Yoga and other forms of meditation have been banned in Alabama public schools since 1993.
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More Than 90,000 People Sign Petition to Shut down Haunted House, Claiming It’s Really a Torture Chamber
This place does sound a bit…intense.
McKamey Manor is an extreme haunted house with two locations, one in Tennessee and one in Alabama, and, as of today, over 94,000 people have signed a petition trying to get the haunted house closed down. Why?
Petitioners are claiming that the houses are actually tortures chambers in disguise. Critics argue that visitors are forced to eat things, are forced underwater, and are even waterboarded.
Mckamey Manor
MCKAMEY MANOR has been featured on Travels Channel's Making monster and…
Posted by Mckamey Manor on Saturday, July 11, 2015
The change.org petition to shut down McKamey Manor reads, in part:
“Advertised as “an extreme haunt” when in fact it is NOT a haunted house. It’s a torture chamber under disguise. Reportedly, they do screenings to find the weakest, most easily manipulated people to do the ‘haunt.’ It’s reported that if Russ [the owner] doesnt think you’re easily manipulated, you arent allowed to go.”
The person who put up the petition also said, “It’s literally just a kidnapping & torture house. Some people have had to seek professional psychiatric help and medical care for extensive injuries. I propose that all locations where this is happening be shut down immediately.”
Posted by Mckamey Manor on Friday, July 10, 2015
Russ McKamey, the owner of the haunted houses, defended his businesses, saying, “I’m a very straight-laced conservative guy, but here I run this crazy haunted house that people think is this torture factory, fetish factory. All of these things that it’s not.”
People who want to experience this extreme haunted house need to be 21 years of age and have a doctor’s note that says they are mentally and physically capable of handling the situations they will be exposed to in the facilities.
The “haunted house” that makes you sign a waiver and claims to give you $20K if you can complete it, this is just a part of the waiver they make you sign – continued pic.twitter.com/cOczvA35eZ
— MJ (@mellbelleex) October 26, 2019
Russ McKamey claims that his haunted houses are so terrifying that no one has ever been able to complete them. Terrifying…or hazardous.
What do you think – would you be willing to take a stab at McKamey Manor?
Stay tuned for developments on this story.
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These Tweets About Abortion Bans Will Make You Justifiably Furious
This isn’t about politics. This isn’t a debate. This is about human rights.
If you take away a woman’s right to govern her own healthcare, you take away her ability to make decisions for her life.
These 20 women get it, and they’re tweeting about it unapologetically.
1. Yeah… WTF America?!
how did abortions get banned faster than assault rifles
— Tay
(@taywildin) May 15, 2019
2. So infuriating…
Women: can we have access to affordable birth control?
Men: NO
Women: can we have access to safe abortions?
Men: absolutely NOT
Women: okay can you wear a condom?
Men: … it doesn’t feel as good :/
— Maggie Gardner (@margaretg_15) May 16, 2019
3. The questions we never ask…
“what if the baby you abort grows up and cures cancer?” what if the 16 year old girl you denying abortion grows up and cures cancer? But now she can’t afford to go to get an education. Instead she has to take care of a baby?? What about her??? An actual living human???????
— Zara Larsson (@zaralarsson) May 13, 2019
4. I can’t even begin to imagine…
there’s not a single thing in this world a male could experience that would even come close to the indignity of being legally forced to carry your rapist’s baby to term
— Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32) May 15, 2019
5. Absolutely heartbreaking
With all these “heartbeat bills” in the U.S., I keep thinking of this memorial to Savita Halappanavar in Ireland, who died of sepsis after being denied an abortion on the grounds that the fetus she was miscarrying still had a detectable heartbeat. “She had a heartbeat too.” pic.twitter.com/tMdG50FnXE
— Lauren Kelley (@lauren_kelley) May 15, 2019
6. Not a bad idea…
Mandatory vasectomies until you want to have children.
They can be reversed, so.
Come on guys, Lets save lives! Whats that? A hard no? Why? Cause its your body and we dont get to make that choice for you? Ooooooohhhhhh!!!— #EvanRachelWould (@evanrachelwood) May 10, 2019
7. Stop making sense!
Birth control?
BAN IT!!Abortion?
BAN IT!!What about guns?
Look, banning things never works. People will find ways to get them#AlabamaAbortionBan— Debbie Redd (@DREDD_48) May 15, 2019
8. Again, I can’t even imagine what this would feel like. So tragic.
Stop calling yourself pro-life when you’re prepared to have a child risk her life to give birth to a rapist’s baby. You’re all fucking insane. https://t.co/BEyTHd4sGg
— Greg Hogben (@MyDaughtersArmy) May 14, 2019
9. Oh, you know somebody. For sure.
1 in 4 women have had an abortion. Many people think they don’t know someone who has, but #youknowme. So let’s do this: if you are also the 1 in 4, let’s share it and start to end the shame. Use #youknowme and share your truth.
— Busy Philipps (@BusyPhilipps) May 15, 2019
10. Speak up people!
I know there are a lot of men out there who have partners who’ve had abortions. It’s time for you to speak up and be allies. Women don’t get pregnant alone.
— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) May 15, 2019
11. #truth
MESSAGE pic.twitter.com/OWVYj1RB3O
— Amra Olević Reyes (@amrezy) May 15, 2019
12. The hypocrisy never stops…
Banning abortion is sexism at it’s finest. A man can have sex and opt out of being a father. No ties, no obligations. A woman has sex, and then is forced to keep a child she didn’t want? Do it alone, when the man got a free pass? Ok.
—
BigBrainyGothMom
13. YES!
all men who have benefited from an abortion in their lives should be speaking up more, no?
— janice (@rejaniced) May 15, 2019
14. Ya know… that could work…
Maybe if we start calling our body parts gun-sounding names like “revulva” or “shooterus” the GOP will stop trying to regulate them.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 16, 2019
15. Pathetic
The 22 Alabama senators who voted against including an exception for rape or incest in the abortion law.
I feel like they have something in common….but I just can’t put my finger on it. pic.twitter.com/uangIf2mfA
— Dan Lavoie (@djlavoie) May 15, 2019
16. This!
I think Christian moms who abort their 14-year-old LGBT kids from their homes should go to prison for 99 years.
— Ally Maynard (@missmayn) May 16, 2019
17. Walking back…
man doing United States
moonwalk abortion policy
moving backwards with
shocking ease— Julie Greiner (@JulieAbridged) May 15, 2019
18. They know. They just don’t care.
Do any of these knuckleheads realize that Roe V. Wade was enacted because so many women were dying from illegal abortions that it was a public health crisis?
— Katie Walsh (@katiewalshstx) May 15, 2019
19. Insanity
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” – Madeleine Albright #AlabamaAbortionBan #YouKnowMe https://t.co/zwvekAxaXj
— Maureen Shaw (@MaureenShaw) May 15, 2019
20. Yep.
Every woman sobbing on election night knew what was coming.
— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) May 15, 2019
Share far and wide! And add your voice to it!
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This Mom is Changing the Game by Shooting Portraits of Girls in Sparkly Dresses and Sports Gear
From a young age, girls are sent the message that they have to either be girly-girls or tomboys. There’s no in between and there’s no overlapping.
Well, not anymore.
Heather Mitchell runs HMP Couture Imagery in Alabama, and she shoots portraits of young girls who want to do what they want to do. Her series is called “Because you can do it all”, and it has gone viral in a big way.
Dress by Dollcake
Posted by HMP Couture Imagery on Friday, April 12, 2019
Mitchell said, “My youngest daughter is 8 and she is trying softball this year for the first time. We were at practice a few weeks ago and I was talking with the other moms. I was saying that I hoped Paislee learned to love the game because she was athletic. One of the moms told me that she was not athletic, that she was a girly-girl.”
She added, “I couldn’t sleep that night. All I could think was, ‘Why does she have to choose?’ I played every sport my school offered and wore lipstick to every game. So the next day we went to the studio and created her shot.”
Posted by AnthonyAshley Kelsoe on Thursday, April 18, 2019
After posting shots of her daughter Paislee on Facebook, the requests from other moms came flooding in.
Take a look at these young ladies.
Dress by Dollcake
Posted by HMP Couture Imagery on Friday, April 12, 2019
Posted by HMP Couture Imagery on Friday, April 12, 2019
Mitchell added a final comment. “My parent taught me that I could be anything I wanted growing up. I didn’t realize till I was much older that everyone is not that blessed.”
Great stuff! Remember girls – you can do it all!
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