Livetweet The Revolution

Battleground (International Women’s Day Poem)

2. Absent dads are the problem. Sixty percent of low-income dads see at least one of their children daily. Another 16 percent see their children weekly.

3. Black dads are the problem. Among men who don’t live with their children, black fathers are more likely than white or Hispanic dads to have a daily presence in their kids’ lives.

4. Poor people are lazy. In 2004, there was at least one adult with a job in 60 percent of families on food stamps that had both kids and a nondisabled, working-age adult.

5. If you’re not officially poor, you’re doing okay. The federal poverty line for a family of two parents and two children in 2012 was $23,283. Basic needs cost at least twice that in 615 of America’s cities and regions.

6. Go to college, get out of poverty. In 2012, about 1.1 million people who made less than $25,000 a year, worked full time, and were heads of household had a bachelor’s degree.

7. We’re winning the war on poverty. The number of households with children living on less than $2 a day per person has grown 160 percent since 1996, to 1.65 million families in 2011.

8. The days of old ladies eating cat food are over. The share of elderly single women living in extreme poverty jumped 31 percent from 2011 to 2012.

9. The homeless are drunk street people. One in 45 kids in the United States experiences homelessness each year. In New York City alone, 22,000 children are homeless.

Irish Kitchen Witch New Blog Giveaway

To celebrate having finally started this blog after talking about it for so long I am giving away two of my witch/pagan books.

A Year of Ritual by Sandra Kynes is a brilliantly structured set of rituals for every Sabbat and Esbat. 

The Study of Witchcraft by Deborah Lipp takes a very academic approach to learning about witchcraft with looks of further reading recommendations for specialist areas. 

For a chance to win both those books you just have to:

1. Follow irishkitchenwitch

2. Reblog this post. 

Butternut Squash and Red Pepper Soup (with some French rustic bread)

Prepare a good vegetable stock (onions, potato, celery are all good)

Quarter one or two squashes with two to three sweet red peppers (cored) brush on some olive oil, dust with paprika and garlic and roast in a hot oven for a least 20 minutes though use your judgement. 

Chop them up, put into you stock with an onion, a potato and seasoning. Simmer for 20-30 mins.

Allow to cool then blend with a hand blender before reheating to eat. 

Marginalized sexual/romantic orientations represented as the real and very accurate mythical creatures they are.

This is based on a tumblr text post, but… I can’t find it anymore…