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gotta love the mics

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Nearly 14,000 mail ballots in Nevada have signature issues

Officials urge residents to use online tool to check if ballot was accepted

The total number of ballots — 13,906 — needing curing include 6,383 from registered nonpartisan or other voters, 4,026 from Democrats and 3,497 from Republicans.

The deadline for voters to cure their ballots is 5 p.m. Nov. 12, officials said. Ballots can be cured here.

The main issue they're having with young voters is that Nevada allows for voter registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the "signatures" are digital (the licensee types it into a form), so their hand-written signatures on their ballots don't match the KEYSTROKES that serve as signatures on their license.

It would be hilarious if it weren't so fucking infuriating.

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"fuck it we ball" is for stress about the future "it is what it is" is for stress about the past and "this too shall pass" is for stress about the present thank you for coming to my TED talk

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he's very excited about his first night as a jack o lantern

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"Growing Around Grief"

Lois Tonkin, 1996

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I sent a letter today - something I haven’t done for years

It’s full of plastic bread clips

It’s for Science

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Bothering the beast

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I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

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have you guys who arent into sports heard about the new baseball uniforms controversy. its bad

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Can’t really argue with this…

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For those of you who may have a Hart or other player here's jersey - This person is offering, if you have one of these jerseys, to strip the name and numbers for free if you donate $35 or more to a charity that helps SA victims.

Contact LBJerseys on Twitter or their site for more details.

If you can, please reblog this for exposure! Thanks!

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reblog to cast level 5 spell: everyone who reads this gets a full night sleep

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ACK ACK.

How I feel about this character

Ack Ack is just so amazing.  I love him to death.  From the stories I’ve read about him to the portrayal of him on the show: amazing.  

Sometimes I can’t articulate my feelings for Andy.  Now feels like one of those times.

I just have so much respect for him.

Sharing time.  I was doing some research on him and I cam across an article that had an interview with Andy’s nephew.  His nephew was born seven years (give or take) after Andy’s death.  In school his [Nephew’s] teacher asked his class if they had any family members that could be remembered from the war and when he said, “My uncle, Captain Andrew Haldane,” the teacher burst into tears and had to leave the room.

When she returned she apologized and explained that in high school she had once gone on a date with Andy.

That’s the kind of impression he had on people.  He was so well loved that even a girl who had gone on only one date with him still started crying at the mention of his name.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Eddie.  Do I really need to explain?  From the way (in the show) they look and smile at each other, how he gives Eddie the helmet and Eddie just looks at him uh. 

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Still Eddie. 

My unpopular opinion about this character

No. 

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

That Peleliu never happened and that he and everyone else who lost their lives there survived. 

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Haldane was known for never raising his voice to an enlisted man, but he left no doubt that he was seriously peeved. “I’d like to see you get home alive, son,” he said, “but if you have to die, I’d rather you do it right here with K Company and not the Navy. In the future, just stay away from PT boats, okay?” Miller nodded and stared at the ground. “And by the way, when’s the last time you wrote your mother?” Miller frowned. “I’m, uh, not sure, sir. Maybe three, four weeks ago.”“Well, you make certain you write her at least once a week from now on. And no excuses, Sergeant. understood?” Miller never went on another Navy raid. He never forgot the promise he made that day, either. His mother was pleasantly surprised at how many more letters she received from that point on.

- Bill Sloan - Brotherhood of Heroes

Captain Andrew Allison Haldane (August 22, 1917 - October 12, 1944), being awarded the Silver Star. He would have been 97 years old today. Happy birthday, Ack-Ack!

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Capt. Andy Haldane wasn’t an idol. He was human.

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i am sorry about this

read on your own risk

AndyEddie Four Weddings and One Funereal Au: Andy and Eddie reunite at Leckie’s wedding; they remember how much sense it made for them to be together; they return to each other’s lives

At John’s wedding, they fight jealousy; after all, you shouldn’t feel this way at the sight of your best friend dancing with another woman. In the end, they realize they were idiots.

At Sledge’s wedding, they laugh, they dance, they are happy. They decide to move in, they decide to finally stop caring what the rest of the world thinks.

And then Eddie arrives at the funereal. The funereal of the man he was best friends with; the man who was his soulmate and his other half. The man whose laugh was still echoing in Eddie’s ears seconds before he was lying motionless on the pavement, stuck under drunk driver’s car.

The fourth wedding wasn’t an official one. Eddie married the idea of the man. After all, they were engaged and Eddie knew how much Andy wanted to elope. Eddie did, too. So on the fourth wedding Eddie ever went to, he pressed Andy’s dog tags and with tears in his eyes, muttered “I Do”.

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I’ve totally fallen down the rabbit hole researching this man. I was intrigued about the character of Captain Andrew ‘Ack Ack’ Haldane when I saw HBO’s ‘The Pacific’. Then I read Eugene Sledge’s memoirs and I cried over him. Even though he died back in ‘44. 

I have dug up as much as I can about him, even looking up photos from the online archive at his alma mater. I mean seriously, I am in deep. It’s stupid how you can get so emotionally attached to a figure that died decades before you were born. He was in his late twenties when he was killed, barely starting out. His loss breaks my heart and I was nowhere near ever knowing him.