December 2009
65 posts
i just got home from seeing up in the air
ohwowthatslovely:
it was so good.
i love when you can relate to fictional characters (CASSIE) and i really identified with the main character’s appreciation of solitude. it’s a “life choice” and sometimes being alone is the perfect combination of ease, freedom, and independence. nothing weighing you down, nothing but yourself to be concerned about.
we don’t need other people. we just want...
Bill Moyers interviews Howard Zinn 2
BILL MOYERS: You have said elsewhere that if President Obama were listening to Martin Luther King, Jr. he’d be making some different decisions. What do you mean by that? HOWARD ZINN: Well, first of all, he’d be taking our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and he’d be saying we are no longer going to be a war-making country. We’re not going to be a military country....
"There is a American kid in Afghanistan who is... →
unburyingthelead:
(via claytoncubitt)
Also good:
Brooks is a perfect example of the kind of spineless Beltway geek we always see beating the war drum at times like these. It’s because nebbishly little dorks like Brooks and Paul Wolfowitz and David Frum got their books dumped in high school that we end up dropping daisy cutters on Afghan sheep herds and shipping working class American kids...
Bill Moyers interviews Howard Zinn
newleft:
unburyingthelead:
BILL MOYERS: What do you think these characters from the past that we will see on the screen, what do they have to say to us today?
HOWARD ZINN: Well, I think what they have to say to us today is think for yourself. Don’t believe what the people up there tell you. Live your own life. Think your own ideas. And don’t depend on saviors. Don’t depend on the Founding...
if my sister curses at me or calls me a fucking...
(via ohwowthatslovely)
she will never recieve a marshmallow dream bar from doylestown starbucks again when she comes in with her throngs of ballerina friends.
"Fading Hope"
Written 9/28/09 for the Court Street Press.
Op-Ed “Fading Hope” by Max Greenberg “Look, I think it’s easier to be cynical and just say, “You know what, it can’t be done because Washington’s designed to resist change.” But in fact there have been periods of time in our history where a president inspired the American people to do better, and I think we’re in one...
Chavez's Speech to Copehnagen
December 18, 2009
“Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don’t have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.”
Video of Hugo Chavez’s speech at the Copenhagen climate conference is now available on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. The following translation was prepared by Kiraz Janicke for Venezuelanalysis.com. En...
Obama's Response to Senate Vote
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/12/24/another-tremendous-step-forward
Good morning, everybody. In a historic vote that took place this morning members of the Senate joined their colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass a landmark health insurance reform package — legislation that brings us toward the end of a nearly century-long struggle to reform America’s health care...
MGMT
Indie Rokkers. Current song obsession.
I like the line between your belly and your thighs The smell of your hair The sparkle in your eyes The smoke in your breath The breathing hard and heavy The back of your neck The shine on your Chevy The moon was so big when I drove it to the levy, girl I found blood and I saw stars All in the backseat of your car And I told you it was love But you...
balls
columbia has them. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/21/AR2009122103221_pf.html
Colombia to Chavez: Maybe ‘spy plane’ was Santa
The Associated Press Monday, December 21, 2009; 9:01 PM
BOGOTA — Colombia’s defense chief joked Monday that Venezuelan troops might have mistaken Santa’s sleigh for a spy plane, dismissing accusations by...
"Fala"
Campaign Dinner Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, September 23, 1944. Washington, DC International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. The ‘Fala’ Address.
WELL, here we are together again - after four years - and what years they have been! You know, I am actually four years older, which is a fact that seems to annoy some people. In...
First Inaugural
Inaugural Speech of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Given in Washington, D.C. March 4th, 1933 Inaugural Address.
President Hoover, Mr. Chief Justice, my friends: This is a day of national consecration, and I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our nation impels.
This is...
Cute girls
they’re everywhere.
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fuck everything i so need a week and a half long break.
People to believe in
definitely not Woodrow Wilson or Theodore Roosevelt or Barack Obama…
See
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKwJI9axblQ&feature=player_embedded
2. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/12/21/terrorism/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+salon%2Fgreenwald+(Glenn+Greenwald)
people to believe in
1. Senator Al Franken
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Cruise missile attacks in Yemen →
unburyingthelead:
Given what a prominent role “Terrorism” plays in our political discourse, it’s striking how little attention is paid to American actions which have the most significant impact on that problem. In addition to our occupation of Iraq, war escalation in Afghanistan, and secret bombings in Pakistan, President Obama late last week ordered cruise missile attacks on two locations in...
COLLEGES are suck
-eric
Europe is a cultural conception
Like race.
My AP European History textbook is fucking great.
We belong to the Human sub-group Homo Sapiens Sapiens denoting our superior cognative abilities (to Homo Neanderthalis and Homo Erectus) and further our aesthetic and artistic interests and advanced uses of tools.
History is 5 thousand 500 years old. I am 17. I have been alive for 0.003% of ALL of human history. History is so short.
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Famous movie quotes as if written by a proper...
thefrogman:
“We must acquire a larger vessel.” - Jaws
“I’m growing impatient with these malevolent slithering reptiles on this bloody aircraft.” - Snakes on a Plane
“Toodeloo you ghastly miscreant.” - Die Hard 1,2,3,4
“Please remove your simian appendages from my person, you unwashed gorilla man-thing.” - Planet of the Apes “There is a herptile in my western footwear!” - Toy Story
“I shall...
ohwowthatslovely:
i want to walk in the snow
and not leave a footprint
i want to walk in the snow
and not soil its purity
Two Cathedrals
BARTLET She bought her first new car and you hit her with a drunk driver. What, was that supposed to be funny? "You can't conceive, nor can I, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God," says Graham Greene. I don't know who's ass he was kissing there 'cause I think you're just vindictive. What was Josh Lyman? A warning shot? That was my son. What did I ever do to yours but praise his glory and...
Game On
RITCHIE ...and the partisan bickering. Now, I want people to work together in this great country. And that's what I did in Florida -- I brought people together -- and that's what I'll do as your President. End the logjam, end the gridlock, and bring Republicans together with Democrats, 'cause Americans are tired of partisan politics. MODERATOR Mr. President? BARTLET Actually, what you've done in...
Game On
RITCHIE [on TV] Let the states decide. Let the communities decide on health care, on education, on lower taxes, not higher taxes. Now, he's going to throw a big word at you-- "unfunded mandate." If Washington lets the states do it, it's an unfunded mandate. But what he doesn't like is the federal government losing power. But I call it the ingenuity of the American people. MODERATOR [on TV]...
“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via shawnb) (via fletter) (via unburyingthelead) 