Philosophical Standards and Peculiar Bitterness

darksilenceinsuburbia: Jimmie Durham. Ghost in the Machine,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:11:48 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Jimmie Durham. Ghost in the Machine, 2005.

In Wikipedia

and here

I’ve found a new way to enjoy Game of Thrones on the...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:22:25 -0400

I’ve found a new way to enjoy Game of Thrones on the Kindle. #stretching #yoga #yah

Rain and tea goes oh, so well with a friend.

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:59:05 -0400

Rain and tea goes oh, so well with a friend.

"Of the 41 percent of Republicans who consider Benghazi to be the worst political scandal in American..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:10:37 -0400

“Of the 41 percent of Republicans who consider Benghazi to be the worst political scandal in American history, 39 percent are unaware that Benghazi is located in Libya. 10 percent said it’s in Egypt, 9 percent in Iran, 6 percent in Cuba, 5 percent in Syria, 4 percent in Iraq, and 1 percent each in North Korea and Liberia, with 4 percent unwilling to venture a guess.”

- Depressing hilarity from the latest Public Policy Polling update. (via rosseus)

freedomorfascismm: What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:09:32 -0400

freedomorfascismm:

What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi

Ron Paul
Infowars.com
May 13, 2013

Congressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations, and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September took center stage in Washington and elsewhere last week. However, the whole discussion is again more of a sideshow. Each side seeks to score political points instead of asking the real questions about the attack on the US facility, which resulted in the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Republicans smell a political opportunity over evidence that the Administration heavily edited initial intelligence community talking points about the attack to remove or soften anything that might reflect badly on the president or the State Department.

Are we are supposed to be shocked by such behavior? Are we supposed to forget that this kind of whitewashing of facts is standard operating procedure when it comes to the US government?

Democrats in Congress have offered the even less convincing explanation for Benghazi, that somehow the attack occurred due to Republican sponsored cuts in the security budget at facilities overseas. With a one trillion dollar military budget, it is hard to take this seriously.

It appears that the Administration scrubbed initial intelligence reports of references to extremist Islamist involvement in the attacks, preferring to craft a lie that the demonstrations were a spontaneous response to an anti-Islamic video that developed into a full-out attack on the US outpost.

Who can blame the administration for wanting to shift the focus? The Islamic radicals who attacked Benghazi were the same people let loose by the US-led attack on Libya. They were the rebels on whose behalf the US overthrew the Libyan government. Ambassador Stevens was slain by the same Islamic radicals he personally assisted just over one year earlier.

But the Republicans in Congress also want to shift the blame. They supported the Obama Administration’s policy of bombing Libya and overthrowing its government. They also repeated the same manufactured claims that Gaddafi was “killing his own people” and was about to commit mass genocide if he were not stopped. Republicans want to draw attention to the President’s editing talking points in hopes no one will notice that if the attack on Libya they supported had not taken place, Ambassador Stevens would be alive today.

Neither side wants to talk about the real lesson of Benghazi: interventionism always carries with it unintended consequences. The US attack on Libya led to the unleashing of Islamist radicals in Libya. These radicals have destroyed the country, murdered thousands, and killed the US ambassador. Some of these then turned their attention to Mali which required another intervention by the US and France.

Previously secure weapons in Libya flooded the region after the US attack, with many of them going to Islamist radicals who make up the majority of those fighting to overthrow the government in Syria. The US government has intervened in the Syrian conflict on behalf of the same rebels it assisted in the Libya conflict, likely helping with the weapons transfers. With word out that these rebels are mostly affiliated with al Qaeda, the US is now intervening to persuade some factions of the Syrian rebels to kill other factions before completing the task of ousting the Syrian government. It is the dizzying cycle of interventionism.

The real lesson of Benghazi will not be learned because neither Republicans nor Democrats want to hear it. But it is our interventionist foreign policy and its unintended consequences that have created these problems, including the attack and murder of Ambassador Stevens. The disputed talking points and White House whitewashing are just a sideshow.

Former Congressman Ron Paul’s article first appeared at the-free-foundation.org, the temporary home for his weekly column until his personal web page is up and running.

Oh, come the HELL ON Time Magazine. When I look at this cover I...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:02:09 -0400

Oh, come the HELL ON Time Magazine.

When I look at this cover I don’t see a hero. I see a celebrity God with the time and tons of money to be able to afford the testing, surgery, and reconstruction.

Good for her for being able to do what the hell she wants. Why not just make that your cover story? “Angelina Jolie does whatever the hell she wants.”

Guess what? Cancer scares the shit out of me and chances are my check-ups and healthy lifestyle are all I am going to have in the future just like I do now to prevent such a horrible event from destroying my life. I, like many other “normal” women are NEVER going to get this attention but hey - she adopts kids and she’s with Brad Pitt. I forgot. That means I need to keep my mouth shut.

What’s that? She did what any “normal” woman in her position would do? Fine. Still, “normal woman” having a double mastectomy is not what’s on your cover. I see a furgin’ celebrity with replacement boobs that is going to get more attention than Benghazi and the cobra kings within the IRS.

My best friend was there to support me as I walked across the...

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:13:00 -0400

My best friend was there to support me as I walked across the stage today for a B.A. in English with minor in Writing. English. Which means the probability is high that I may be making TONS of money, like, immediately. No hand outs here buddy we English majors be makin’ dolla dolla bills ya’ll. All over the place.

Not really.

I know that…

Starting the Masters program in just a few months.

Yes, I am going to teach.

Woot.

tinycartridge: The Legend of Zelda, starring Princess...

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:32:47 -0400

tinycartridge:

The Legend of Zelda, starring Princess Zelda

Shin Zelda Densetsu is an old homebrew project, released back in 2004 by Aesirraven and Lord Steak, but the ROM hack suffered a game-breaking bug in one of its dungeons. Chris Miller has just released a patch that should finally fix the issue and allow people to complete the game now!

It’s a complete overhaul of the original Zelda game, and from what I hear it’s quite good. Miller summarizes the changes:

“In a novel twist, the player must guide Princess Zelda on a quest to rescue Link from the forces of evil. The overworld is completely revamped, with few if any recognizable landmarks or routes from the original game. It is superbly designed, and won’t bore the player. The same goes for the dungeons. Instead of numbered levels, the dungeons are identified by symbols of the zodiac.”

I love that the list of classic games hacked to offer playable female protagonists is growing.
PREORDER The Legend of Zelda: LTTP2, upcoming releases

blue-voids: On the set of Twin Peaks

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:31:04 -0400

blue-voids:

On the set of Twin Peaks

fabulousorganization: Shopping with a client at Target this...

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:19:23 -0400

fabulousorganization:

Shopping with a client at Target this morning. Excuse me, sir. You left your empty carts EVERYWHERE.

Harryhausen and the Expressively Imperfect World

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:17:02 -0400

newyorker:

In today’s Daily Comment, Adam Gopnik looks back on the work of Ray Harryhausen, a legendary filmmaker and titan of special effects, who died earlier this week: http://nyr.kr/132Dvc2

Haha. Just. Awesome.

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:46:10 -0400

Haha.

Just. Awesome.

mangopancakes: Case Work - Horizon Glow

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:41:12 -0400

mangopancakes:

Case Work - Horizon Glow

The Spirit of Anthropos: “By attribute I understand what the intellect perceives of substance as constituting its essence” (1D4)

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:39:57 -0400

The Spirit of Anthropos: “By attribute I understand what the intellect perceives of substance as constituting its essence” (1D4):

anthropologeist:

I’m currently reading the subjectivist v. objectivist debate about adequate ideas and the intellect as knowing substance. In one camp, the subjectivists who argue that the attributes are what the finite mind perceives of substance as if constituting its essence—in other words, that the attributes…

Audio

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:23:22 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia: Matthew Stone . Unconditional Commitment...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:12:56 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Matthew Stone . Unconditional Commitment to Sacred Love.

Indigo Myths, 2012.

You Don’t Have to Bend the Whole World, 2012.

Energetic Level, 2012.

Ordinary Mistic State, 2012.

Via

"No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach I.Q. parity with whites, but the prediction that new..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:11:14 -0400

“No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach I.Q. parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-I.Q. children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against. From the perspective of Americans alive today, the low average I.Q. of Hispanics is effectively permanent.”

- Jason Richwine, who joined the Heritage Foundation in 2012 as a senior policy analyst after receiving his doctorate in public policy from Harvard University in 2009, focused his dissertation, “I.Q. and Immigration Policy,” on his view that the lower intelligence of immigrants should be considered when drafting immigration policy. (via le-kif-kif)

The scientific racism that oozes from his dissertation is so bad, even the consistently racist Heritage Foundation publicly disassociated itself from the work but apparently advocating for eugenics isn’t quite bad enough to cut a vicious bigot loose from the organization.
(via mohandasgandhi)

newyorker: Watch Dirty Martini, the queen of “new burlesque,”...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:10:18 -0400

newyorker:

Watch Dirty Martini, the queen of “new burlesque,” in a super 8 film by Pari Dukovic: http://nyr.kr/13i9TLv

"18) As you cross the street with your bag of new books, remember the first time your mother took you..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:09:44 -0400

“18) As you cross the street with your bag of new books, remember the first time your mother took you to a bookstore and told you to pick something out. To keep, not borrow. You were overwhelmed by choice and wonder. Remember how you pulled things off the shelf at random because every book was equally unknown and fresh and promising.”

- Rebecca Makkai, How to Shop at a Bookstore: An Easy 20-Step Guide for Authors | Ploughshares (via housingworksbookstore)

vogue: Vogue’s army of punk rockers.Photographed by Jeff...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:08:37 -0400

vogue:

Vogue’s army of punk rockers.

Photographed by Jeff Henrikson

Philosophical Standards and Peculiar Bitterness

darksilenceinsuburbia: Jimmie Durham. Ghost in the Machine,...

I’ve found a new way to enjoy Game of Thrones on the...

Rain and tea goes oh, so well with a friend.

"Of the 41 percent of Republicans who consider Benghazi to be the worst political scandal in American..."

freedomorfascismm: What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi...

What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi

Oh, come the HELL ON Time Magazine. When I look at this cover I...

My best friend was there to support me as I walked across the...

tinycartridge: The Legend of Zelda, starring Princess...

The Legend of Zelda, starring Princess Zelda

blue-voids: On the set of Twin Peaks

fabulousorganization: Shopping with a client at Target this...

Harryhausen and the Expressively Imperfect World

Haha. Just. Awesome.

mangopancakes: Case Work - Horizon Glow

The Spirit of Anthropos: “By attribute I understand what the intellect perceives of substance as constituting its essence” (1D4)

Audio

darksilenceinsuburbia: Matthew Stone . Unconditional Commitment...

"No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach I.Q. parity with whites, but the prediction that new..."

newyorker: Watch Dirty Martini, the queen of “new burlesque,”...

"18) As you cross the street with your bag of new books, remember the first time your mother took you..."

vogue: Vogue’s army of punk rockers.Photographed by Jeff...