January 2010
20 posts
WatchTHE GREAT YEAR - Ancient Civilizations
(via Google Video)
The SCOTUS Decision →
vruz:
by Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish / The Atlantic
I know readers are befuddled by my relative silence on this. It strikes me as an extreme interpretation of the First Amendment, as extreme as this court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment. And I think it will tilt the political balance toward a fusion of government and corporatism - even more than we have already. I’ll leave the...
“I want you to say that day that I tried to be right on the war question. I want...”
– Martin Luther King (via azspot)
vruz: amen, Dr King.
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“But we must see that the struggle today is much more difficult. It’s more...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via:thecurvature)
sez abbyjean: […] genuine equality is genuine equality for everyone, not just for oneself. and everyone means everyone.
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“Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via azspot:robot-heart-politics:squashed) (via vruz)
Pun-itive Sentences
rootee:
1. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. 2. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I’ll show you A-flat minor. 3. To write with a broken pencil is pointless. 4. A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it is two-tired. 5. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end. 6. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. 7. A chicken...
“But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens...”
– George Carlin (via marco:anarchaia) (via vruz)
“But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens...”
– George Carlin (via marco:anarchaia) (via vruz)
DW Lofts in Toronto by Taylor Smyth Architects
rev:
“This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in...”
– BBC Documentary ‘The Power of Nightmares’ | Video Cafe
You can watch the entire 3 hours here. For some reason, no American network is willing to air it.
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Reblogging for tomorrow; gonna call it research.
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If, for some bizarre reason, you haven’t...
Fairy tales can be reality with God guiding you...
warinmyblood:
Knights Code of Chivalry was a moral system which went beyond rules of combat and introduced the concept of Chivalrous conduct - qualities idealized by knighthood, such as bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallantry toward women. My favorites from The Art of Courtly Love He who is not jealous cannot love. It is well known that love is always increasing or decreasing. It is not proper...
Library of Congress Puts Thousands of Historic... →
vruz:
america.gov / via archive.org h/t Groklaw
Nearly 60,000 books prized by historians, writers and genealogists, many too old and fragile to be safely handled, have been digitally scanned as part of the first-ever mass book-digitization project of the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC), the world’s largest library. Anyone who wants to learn about the early history of the United States, or track...
“Above all else, guard your heart, for out of it spring the issues of life.”
– Proverbs 4:23 (via warinmyblood)