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The following article, Harris/Walz Campaign: Unethical, Manipulative, Deceptive Lies, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. The Harris/Walz campaign is a train wreck, but because the mainstream media is energized to help them, only those who actually pay attention to such things will notice. The uninformed will go on their merry way being deceived into thinking the Harris/Walz campaign is all perfect and “joyful.” We’ve examined the Walz side before with … Continue reading Harris/Walz Campaign: Unethical, Manipulative, Deceptive Lies ...

Gordon Ramsay is not exactly known for being nice.Or patient.Or nurturing.On his competition show "Hell's Kitchen," he belittles cooks who can't keep up. If people come to him with their problems, he berates them. If someone is struggling to get something right in the kitchen, he curses them out.His whole TV persona is based on being the world's worst boss.Ramsay went on Reddit and allowed users to ask him any question they wanted.So when a fellow cook asked him a sincere, deeply personal question about what to do when you've hit a roadblock in your career, you could probably guess what was coming.Indeed, I thought the guy was making a terrible mistake pouring his heart out to a chef as notoriously tough as Ramsay:"My hopes and dreams are nowhere to be found as I scale and portion salmon after salmon, shelling pods after pods of broad beans....Sometimes I look out the tiny window and I can see people walking around the streets, enjoying the sunlight, while I'm here, questioning my dedication to this art as I rotate stock in the cool room, getting frost bitten, but the fear of the chef stops me from stepping outside to warm up....The closest thing to feeling any kind of joy I get is those rare moments when I walk through the dining room near the end of service to get some coffee for everyone, and there will be a few diners left, idly sampling those little petite fours that we've painstakingly ensured are all perfectly round, identical, and just plain delicious. Then, one of them will stop the conversation they're having with their company, look up from their food and say, 'Thank you, chef. This is delicious,' and making the previous 14-hours of sweat and tears kind of worthwhile.My question is, how did you deal with it? How the fuck did you deal with all the bullshit, Gordon?”But the way Ramsay responded? Totally amazing. And completely unexpected.Turns out, real-life Gordon Ramsay? He actually can be a really kind, big-hearted dude.He's sympathetic to the guy. Not just because he's a good person. But because he's been there.Working in restaurants is a tough, tough business. As of 2012, the average salary for cooks was less than $23,000/year. And those who are just starting out often have to work unglamorous, tedious jobs that no one else wants to do. Ramsay didn't have fancy culinary school training. He rose up through the ranks putting in long hours for low pay in kitchens all over the world. That's why he gets it.Which brings up another point.Diet Dieting GIF by Bobbi DeCarlo - Find & Share on GIPHYWhen we go out to eat, we, as a culture, tend to behave ... how should I put this?Let's go with "not like perfect angels."Of course, no one likes getting the wrong order. Or waiting a really long time for a meal. Or eating something that doesn't taste the way you expect it to.But it's important to remember that the people behind the food, like Ramsay's anonymous letter-writer, might be working 14-hour days. Or might be a recent immigrant who speaks limited English, trying to support a family thousands of miles away. And possibly making very little money. And sure, they screw up sometimes. But we all screw up at our jobs sometimes.Because they, like the rest of us, are human beings.Which is why saying..."Thank you, chef. This is delicious."Could mean everything to someone.This article originally appeared on 04.22.15

I first saw a psychiatrist for my anxiety and depression as a junior in high school.During her evaluation, she asked about my coursework. I told her that I had a 4.0 GPA and had filled my schedule with pre-AP and AP classes. A puzzled look crossed her face. She asked about my involvement in extracurricular activities. As I rattled off the long list of groups and organizations I was a part of, her frown creased further.Finally, she set down her pen and looked at me, saying something along the lines of "You seem to be pretty high-functioning, but your anxiety and depression seem pretty severe. Actually, it's teens like you who scare me a lot."Now I was confused. What was scary about my condition? From the outside, I was functioning like a perfectly "normal" teenager. In fact, I was somewhat of an overachiever.I was working through my mental illnesses and I was succeeding, so what was the problem?I left that appointment with a prescription for Lexapro and a question that I would continue to think about for years. The answer didn't hit me all at once.Instead, it came to me every time I heard a suicide story on the news saying, "By all accounts, they were living the perfect life."It came to me as I crumbled under pressure over and over again, doing the bare minimum I could to still meet my definition of success.It came to me as I began to share my story and my illness with others, and I was met with reactions of "I had no idea" and "I never would have known." It's easy to put depression into a box of symptoms.Even though we're often told that mental illness comes in all shapes and sizes, I think we're still stuck with certain "stock images" of mental health in our heads.When we see depression and anxiety in adolescents, we see teens struggling to get by in their day-to-day lives. We see grades dropping, and we see involvement replaced by isolation. But it doesn't always look like this.And when we limit our idea of mental illness, at-risk people slip through the cracks.We don't see the student with the 4.0 GPA or the student who's active in choir and theater or a member of the National Honor Society or the ambitious teen who takes on leadership roles in a religious youth group.No matter how many times we are reminded that mental illness doesn't discriminate, we revert back to a narrow idea of how it should manifest, and that is dangerous.Recognizing this danger is what helped me find the answer to my question.Watching person after person — myself included — slip under the radar of the "depression detector" made me realize where that fear comes from. My psychiatrist knew the list of symptoms, and she knew I didn't necessarily fit them. She understood it was the reason that, though my struggles with mental illness began at age 12, I didn't come to see her until I was 16.If we keep allowing our perception of what mental illness looks like to dictate how we go about recognizing and treating it, we will continue to overlook people who don't fit the mold.We cannot keep forgetting that there are people out there who, though they may not be able to check off every symptom on the list, are heavily and negatively affected by their mental illness. If we forget, we allow their struggle to continue unnoticed, and that is pretty scary.This article was written by Amanda Leventhal and originally appeared on 06.03.16

What do you think? via Reasons My Son is Crying/FacebookSCROLL DOWN FOR THE ANSWERGiven the narrow beauty standards in Hollywood, there are a lot of actors and actresses that look look amazingly similar.Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt look a lot alike…As do Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel…But has anyone ever said, "You know which 60-something actors look identical? Tom Hanks and Bill Murray." Because they don't look alike. Although, funnily enough, Bill Murray did famously turn down the leads in Hanks' hits "Forrest Gump" and "Philadelphia," but I'm guessing nobody has ever screamed, "Loved you in 'Ghostbusters'" at Hanks as he walked down the street.But for some reason, call it fate, call it luck, call it karma, the man making the "waaah" face in the orange raincoat above could easily be either man.Here's what people are saying on Facebook:The truth (should you choose to accept it):The photo above is of Bill Murray and Laura DiMichele-Ross holding her crying son, Alexander, at the Alfred Dunhill Links golf competition at St. Andrews in October 2012. DiMichele-Ross posted the photo to a popular Facebook blog "Reasons My Son Is Crying" in May 2013. The photo resurfaced in October 2016 on the Today Show website, reigniting the controversy all over again.Regardless of what the Internet is saying, DiMichele-Ross backs her original claim that it's Murray. "It's totally Bill," she reiterated in a comment on her post. "I can vouch cause I'm the one in the photo with the massive grin thinking 'Oh my god this is going to be an awesome photo!'"This article originally appeared on 10.26.16

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