December 2011
elgaberino replied to your post: i don’t understand how i am friends with people…
You do live in a niche, politically - one of those niches that thinks itself the only opinion an intelligent person should have. Many smart people have lives which presume the need for a Perry. But the system is producing no good candidates, anymore.
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i don’t understand how i am friends with people that followed rick perry to iowa to take photos with him then posted perry for president under the photo. there are people that seriously support his candidacy for president? like, what? MIND. FUCK.
“Libertarians are completely wrong, private property is bullshit and Socialism is...”
– Buddha, The Dalai Lama, and Jesus at the same time
my favorite thing about xmas
is that my family doesn’t do gifts. like my grandma sometimes hands out money and my brother usually gets me and my sister a quirky item but that’s the extent of it. i don’t mean to be a grinch or try to tell others how they should celebrate but i love how we do xmas. we haven’t done gifts since i was in elementary school. it’s just about taking a break and spending...
“All art is nostalgia for God.”
– Alexei Jawlensky (via chary)
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AL-ARABIYA NEWS: Egypt’s military ‘regrets... →
While I appreciate the sentiment, I call bullshit. The military council has repeatedly apologized for its abuses and violence towards protestors but no action has ever been taken. I was in Egypt during the Maspero attacks and the amount of propaganda the government television spewed that day and after was ridiculous. Zero blame is ever placed on the military. The government/military council has...
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“”A mob of black protestors, led by the ‘Rev.’ Al Sharpton,...”
– -Ron Paul Newsletter 1990
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“Protesters ‘Deserve to Be Thrown Into Hitler’s Ovens,’ Egyptian Military Adviser...”
– Holy shit. The title on the NYTimes Lede Blog. (via evanfleischer)
In comments published by the Egyptian newspaper Al Shorouk on Monday, the adviser, Gen. Abdel Moneim Kato, said that the protesters who came under attack by soldiers were delinquents “who deserve to be thrown into Hitler’s...
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“With this withdrawal, the Americans are leaving behind a destroyed country....”
– Mariam Khazim, a Shiite whose father was killed when a mortar shell struck his home in Sadr City.
US formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare
(via arabstateofmind)
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accidentally bought a maternity sweater for myself at the thrift store today. it’s so big and warm. i should buy more maternity clothes.
“My wife and I are thinking of adopting and shockingly found in Texas, the cost...”
– The price of babies, by color | Chris Blattman (via abbyjean)
BUT OMG RACISM DOESN’T EXIST!
(via nessfraserloves)
That is seriously disturbing.
(via ladyatheist)
“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving...”
– Dorothy Day (via classyliving)
Dorothy Day is one of my super-mega-ultra-heroes.
(via undercovernun)
watching planet earth is a spiritual experience.
Watchdarling80m:
“We are all Khaled Said” - Berlin Wall
The famous German photo realist and graffiti artist Andreas von Chrzanowski aka Case painted two original pieces of the Berlin Wall. Zahraa Kassem wrote on the wall: “Khaled’s rights are Egypt’s rights”. The designer Mohamed Gaber created a “We are all Khaled Said” calligraphy which was painted under the portrait by Case. The rap song heard in...
my favorite meal to eat with my dad is canned sardines, canned tuna, with raw garlic and tons of lime, and a side of raw onions. he says he ate this meal multiple times while serving in the egyptian army in egypt as well as in syria in the 70s. it’s weird how much history/significance is associated with a meal.
“Christianity is not an intellectual system, a collection of dogmas, or a...”
– Benedict XVI (via sandjr)
I’m so sick and tired of my cat just laying around and sleeping all day. That thing needs to get a job or go to school or something. Contribute something to society dammit.
