No, Marg Helgenberger did not delete tweet hoping NRA members will get shot

http://twitter.com/#!/BreitTwit1/status/281460101007671298

Indeed, Twitchy makes sure that Twitter is forever.

But the reports on several news sites are false: Ex-“CSI” actress Marg Helgenberger has not deleted the tweet that appeared to call for violence against gun owners.

@joycecaroloates One can only hope, but sadly I don’t think anything would change.

— Marg Helgenberger (@MargHelgen) December 14, 2012

Helgenberger’s tweet, just hours after the horrific shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, was in response to author Joyce Carol Oates’ hope that there might be gun control “if sizable numbers of NRA members become gun-victims themselves.”

As of 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 20, neither tweet has been memory-holed.

Not only does the tweet still sit on Marg’s account, but she hasn’t even bothered with one of those pesky non-apology apologies. She tweeted twice yesterday, and neither tweet acknowledged her appalling “hope” for the shooting of NRA members.

@allaboutmarg Thanks!Back at cha!

— Marg Helgenberger (@MargHelgen) December 20, 2012

@sparkygalcsi68 @allaboutmarg @marghelgen All’s well here Jenn.Just been very busy.Happy Holidays to you!

— Marg Helgenberger (@MargHelgen) December 20, 2012

“All’s well.” She’s just too “busy” to respond to critics of her sick tweet. But, you know, “Happy Holidays!”

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/12/20/contrary-to-reports-marg-helgenberger-did-not-delete-tweet-hoping-nra-members-will-get-shot/

A Man Followed This Couple Down The Aisle. Then, He Pulled A Gun

It sounds like the plot of “Kill Bill,” but in Brazil, a would-be assassin truly did follow a couple down the aisle at their wedding and open fire on guests.

Reportedly, the gunman, Umberto Ferreira dos Santos, was seeking revenge for the death of his son. Since the main suspect in his son’s killing, Edmilson Bezerra da Silva, was serving as a groomsman at the wedding, he thought it would be the perfect time to catch him off guard.

After following the bride and groom down the aisle, dos Santos appeared to be taking a seat. But instead, he awkwardly pulled a gun from his waistband and fired six shots, injuring da Silva and two others. All three victims survived, but as of this writing, Santos is still on the run.

It’s a chaotic and disturbing scene — and something that you’d never expect to see at a wedding.

After the traumatic event, an anonymous witness told local news:

“We have no idea what is the motive of this attempted murder, nor why it was done precisely during the wedding, as the victims walked around the town freely and any time of the day or night.”

Read More: A Little Girl Was Just Eating Her Birthday Cake When She Was Shot On A Playground

We know we live in a sad world when a couple can’t even get married without the fear of getting shot. Share this story to help bring the deranged gunman to justice.

Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/wedding-assassin/

Why This Man And Woman Are In The Hospital Together Is The Most Insane, Brutal Thing Ever. OMG.

When people are faced with big choices and life changes, a lot of things can happen. But what shouldn’t happen? Attempting to light your girlfriend on fire by attaching a gas can to her back. A Chinese man kidnapped his pregnant 21 year-old girlfriend. He tied a gas can to her back. Then, he ignited it, hoping to murder her and the baby.

The boyfriend, Li Moulian, wanted to murder his girlfriend Xu Fan.

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He dragged her out of her bed and tried to set her on fire.

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While trying to brutally kill his girlfriend and their unborn child, he was injured as well.

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The couple ended up side-by-side in the hospital. Surgeons are fighting to save their lives.

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Miraculously, the baby is healthy and alive.

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Xu Fan became pregnant by mistake after a one night stand while cheating on her boyfriend, but the couple decided to stay together.

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(H/T Daily Mail) It’s miraculous that the couple survived. It’s even more miraculous that the baby is unharmed. It seems that the relationship and the situation was too much for the man, resulting in his attack on his own girlfriend. He attacked her while she was asleep, put her in a car and drove around the town before police were able to spot him. She was pulled from the car by the police and the flames were extinguished. So many crazy things happen in the world. Share this story of survival with others. The baby inside the girlfriend’s belly is a living miracle.

Read more: http://viralnova.com/man-woman-in-hospital/

22 Genius Tips To Help You Cook More On Weeknights

Save money, eat healthy, and organize your kitchen all at once!

1. Menu planning can be as simple as making your fridge into a shopping list and menu planner.

Just add a little chalk paint. See how to do it here. That way no one will need to ask ‘What’s for dinner?”

2. You can also make a cute and simple DIY message-board to keep track of your weekly plan.

See how to make this one here.

3. Use recipe cards to display your upcoming menu for easy access.

 

Then you can pull the cards right out and take them with you to the grocery store as a pre-made list.

Get this menu board here.

4. To see how to make a more complex master meal planning board, and even download tons of kid-friendly recipes, check out this master database by RobbyGirl.

5. Adding sides to your menu ahead of time will help you make even more balanced meals.

 

Meagan at The Homes I Have Made uses these clever code letters to add sides to her magnetic menu board. See how she did it, and more menu planning tips, here.

6. There are lots of streamlined online planning tools to help you organize your meal planning.

Apps like Evernote (free), MealBoard ($3.99) and PepperPlate (free) let you organize all your meal planning right inside their interface, and even import recipes you love from other sites.

7. Try setting up nightly themes to help you come up with ideas.

Taya K of Simply Frugal uses these theme nights when she’s stumped on new ideas.

Some easy theme ideas include:

-Mexican Night
-Pasta Night
-Sandwich Night
-Soup Night
-Beef Night
-Chicken Night
-Casserole Night
-Stir Fry Night
-Breakfast for Dinner
-Scrounge Night (more tips on how to do a scrounge night below!)

8. Create a master list of everyone’s favorite meals.

That way you can mix and match weekly so everyone is happy.

Get this vinyl organizer from Controlling My Chaos here.

9. If you want to get even more organized, color code the meals by difficulty or number of ingredients.

That way you can make easier meals on busier nights of the week.

See how to make this Ultimate DIY Menu Board here.

10. Master the ‘scrounge’ night for when you don’t have time to make a whole meal.

This can come in many forms, including ‘leftover night,’ ‘feed yourself night,’ etc. It’s especially useful towards the end of the week right before you go grocery shopping.

Pro tip: Label all your leftovers so it’s easier for everyone to pick what they want. Get these printable labels here.

11. A great resource for making the most out of whatever is left in your fridge is Recipe Puppy.

Just type in the ingredients you have on hand and it will come up with several recipes! Check it out here.

12. Make extra servings of the most versatile meals to use on leftover night.

To avoid the ‘leftover night glumness,’ learn how to re-invent the meals instead of just reheating.

Some great way to do that are:
Pizza-fying
– Putting leftovers in a wrap
– Adding leftovers to a salad
– Turning savory leftovers into a delicious breakfast

13. Spend time adding new meals to your repertoire.

Planning meals in advance can start to feel tedious when you’re using the same meals every week. Take time to browse websites or cookbooks for new ideas that will bring excitement back into the planning.

Here are some of our favorite recipe sites:

Food Gawker (for general food and recipe porn)
Simple Bites (for kid-friendly recipes)
Little Leopard Book (for creative takes on old recipes)
Dinner: A Love Story (for frugal and family-friendly recipes)
BuzzFeed Food, of course!

14. Use weekly sales to help you pick which meals to make.

If chicken is $1 per pound one week, that’s a great reason to make your favorite chicken dishes! Check your local supermarket circulars for upcoming sales. There are also great apps that help you match your local sales with recipes, like this one on iTunes from Food.com.

15. Pre-cook parts of the meals in advance.

Save time during the week by cooking anything that can be cooked early on one night. Roast chicken, brown ground beef, stew tomato sauce, blanche vegetables and then mix-and-match them in several meals throughout the week.

Learn how to master the art of vegetable blanching here.

16. Once a month, have a “freezer day.”

Many things can be pre-prepped and frozen to use weeks later. Soups, herbs, breadcrumbs, beans, shredded cheese, sauces, and many other ingredients can be frozen to save time.

See a list of what you can freeze here.

17. Make whole meals ahead of time and use them on weeknights when you have less tine.

The Pioneer Woman is the master of the tasty freezer meal. Check out some of her recipes for things that can be made ahead and savored later here.

18. You can even make lots of freezer-ready breakfasts…

 

Pre-make things like pancakes, sandwiches, breakfast burritos, and muffins.

19. …and lunches…

These will thaw out throughout the day before lunch so kids won’t even need to use the microwave. Plus, the frozen sandwich can work as an ice pack for other lunch items.

Get the recipe for these here.

20. …and even desserts!

 

Nothing beats having Nutella Cake or Reese’s Cookies on hand at all times.

21. Keep your pantry stocked.

Nothing’s worse than having everything for your menu except that one crucial item. Having a stocked pantry means you’ll always have something to replace anything that you forgot at the store, and it will make weekly shopping trips that much easier. Check our this post from Life in Grace on what you need in the perfect pantry.

22. Organize your fridge to create ‘food zones.’

Having an organized fridge wil help you save time when you’re cooking, and save you money when things don’t get hidden in the back and go bad. Create food zones like the ‘sandwich zone’ and the ‘leftover zone’ to help keep things easy-to-find.

See how to get a deep clean over at TidyMom.

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‘Blinded by your ideology’: Man used as Wendy Davis’ prop should rethink support

http://twitter.com/#!/bradleybowen/status/521689799384920064

As Twitchy reported, Wendy Davis’s campaign recently turned a disabled man into blatant human prop-aganda:

Cringeworthy http://t.co/8I8mwFVHcj

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) October 13, 2014

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But that man, Lamar White Jr., is insisting that Wendy Davis’ motivations were only the purest:

I am a human being. Not a campaign prop. I volunteered to speak because @WendyDavisTexas is right.

— Lamar White, Jr (@CenLamar) October 13, 2014

You are a human being, Mr. White. And you deserve better than what Wendy Davis has given you.

.@GregAbbott_TX, I'm not a prop. You owe an apology and must denounce this slur and your campaign's retweets.

— Lamar White, Jr (@CenLamar) October 13, 2014

.@AndrewStilesUSA I am the disabled person you ridiculed on your website. I asked them to help me slide over b/c I'm not good on my feet.

— Lamar White, Jr (@CenLamar) October 13, 2014

Except Stiles didn’t ridicule White at all.

@CenLamar Ridiculed? Pointing out things as they actually occur which people can see isn't ridicule. Perhaps be specific. @AndrewStilesUSA

— elana (@elana13) October 13, 2014

From The Washington Free Beacon:

On Monday, Davis’s campaign organized a press conference in an effort to prove that some of her best friends are confined to wheelchairs. “Greg Abbott got his justice. Why doesn’t he believe that a rape survivor or a person with a disability or a victim paralyzed forever…should get justice too?” Davis said. “What makes Greg Abbott think it’s okay to deny them, his fellow Texans, the justice that he rightly went to court to receive?”

Stiles merely pointed out that Davis is trying to do major damage control after her horrible attack ad against Greg Davis — and that her latest efforts are only making her look even worse.

FYI, this is the gentleman who was literally dragged around the stage like a prop: pic.twitter.com/wQdUkOb6sT

— Cuffé (@CuffyMeh) October 13, 2014

With all due respect to Mr. White, Wendy Davis is not a scrupulous woman. Her intentions are purely selfish. And she’s proven that she has no qualms about trampling on humanity if it gets her ahead.

@CenLamar You're so blinded by your ideology that you either can't tell, or worse, willingly being used. @bradleybowen @WendyDavisTexas

— dcosta77 (@thedcosta77) October 13, 2014

@CenLamar So sorry you agreed to be used by @WendyDavisTexas. You deserve better.

— Scott Gaspar (@SWGaspar) October 13, 2014

@bradleybowen @WendyDavisTexas @CenLamar @GregAbbott_TX Wendy Davis' ship is sinking faster than the Titanic, she is shameless and classless

— #sickofDumbocrats (@Webbadman) October 13, 2014

Her ship is sinking, all right. But if White ever finds himself looking for Davis to throw him a life preserver, he’s barking up the wrong tree.

Surprising to see a disabled person sticking up for an Abortion supporter. Abortion is the number 1 threat to disability culture.

— Mav #Trigger (@TheMaverick21) October 13, 2014

Remember that, Mr. White.

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Related:

Twitchy coverage of Wendy Davis

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/10/13/blinded-by-your-ideology-man-used-as-wendy-davis-prop-should-rethink-his-support/