October 2009
1 post
September 2009
10 posts
“We make choices everyday and our choices make us.”
I'm just sayin...
So ACORN, yes the scandal riddle company that President Obama used to work for, and one that the federal government throws tons of our tax payer dollars at, was just exposed (again) by a couple of aspiring journalists.
The problem? Yeah these journalists went in to ask the “tax advisers” how they could set up a prostitution ring with children and avoid tax penalties. ACORN actually...
“Critics are particularly upset about lesson plans the administration created to...”
– The Associated Press: Obama speech to students draws conservative ire
Much of the uproar is over-the-top, but still … it would have been completely inappropriate for Obama to commandeer the attention of a truly captive young audience for the purpose of telling them to write letters to themselves...
“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe:...”
– William Arthur Ward (via justbesplendid) (via onherway)
Get ready to pay more for your food
So the government has essentially shut down many farms in northern California. Why? To save a little fish that doesn’t need saving…in the middle of a drought. Yes, there is a fish that environmentalists are afraid “needs more water” yet other groups claim it is not endangered at all. So the result? Let’s totally redirect irrigation away from the farms creating a...
August 2009
2 posts
June 2009
40 posts
How do you know when caffeine deprivation has set...
You start yelling at automated phone services when they can’t recognize the words you are saying.
” I said customer service!” CUSTOMER SERVICE!”…
You will rue the day automated phone lady, RUE. THE. DAY!
“Worry looks around, sorry looks back, and faith looks up.”
– Unknown (via littlemiss)
“A friend will know by the sound of your voice, by the look on your face, by the...”
– Unknown (via littlemiss)
monologamist:
Angels & Kings, a New York City bar owned by Pete Wentz, has been temporarily shut down for allegedly serving alcohol to minors. But you know, boys tend to look a lot older with eyeliner.
“When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to...”
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies (via kristyn) (via robot-heart) (via gottfried) (via thresca)
“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold sick...”
– Jennifer Donnelly (A Northern Light) (via thresca)
Where I am right now…
“Seven deadly sins: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, science...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via littlemiss)
What am I going to do with my life?
D: But everything's cool. I got a five year plan.
R: Five years? Wow, cool. I got about the next two and a half hours planned, and then it's just darkness ... possibly some dragons.
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...”
– W.H. Auden (via littlemiss)
“He who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how.”
– Frederich Nietzche
“I’m known as a solver of problems, but one question that continues to baffle me...”
– Albert Einstein. (via einsteinsayswhat)
Reality check from Dad
My Dad was in town this evening so I had dinner with him. I was complaining to him how frustrating and stressful it can be to manage people…he looked at me and said, “well that’s management…now try going to school for year, being drafted into the army, being put in charge of 30 men and leading them into a war…try that”.
Yeah so that topic was pretty much...
monologamist:
NASA is predicting a possibly devastating geomagnetic storm in 2013 that could cause $2 trillion in damages to the world’s high-tech system. Which could be totally awful…or totally made up.
monologamist:
The National Archives is offering a $50,000 cash reward for the return of a missing hard drive containing sensitive data from the Clinton administration. Which seems like a lot for a bunch of internet porn.
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
– The Shadow of the Wind (via dearimaginaryfriend)
Amazing book. (via somethingofadreamer)
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
– John W. Gardner (via littlemiss)
“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see...”
– Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven) (via thresca)
An English professor wrote the words:
littlemiss:
“A woman without her man is nothing” on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly. All the males in the class wrote: “A woman, without her man, is nothing.” All the females in the class wrote: “A woman: without her, man is nothing.” Punctuation is powerful!
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money...”
– Maya Angelou (via juhhhnet) (via ohtricia) (via onherway)