Office by Alex Penny

freckles make me strong.

I live in Seattle. These are things that catch my attention, pique my interest and/or make me want to pass notes in class like a 7th grader

December 17, 2011 10:00 am
"Conservatives don’t want to fix poverty, because poverty isn’t the problem. The problem is poor people and their immoral ways."

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Conservatives Don’t Want To Fix Poverty (via azspot)

I wish this didn’t see true.

(via azspot)

November 21, 2011 11:17 am
“All we say to America is, “Be true to what you said on paper.” If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn’t committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“All we say to America is, “Be true to what you said on paper.” If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn’t committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

August 8, 2011 11:44 am
Obama bars U.S. entry for international LGBT rights violators

via gaywrites:

President Obama released a proclamation this week barring people who engage in acts violating human rights from entering the United States.

This includes, but is not limited to, citizens in Uganda attempting to pass legislation legalizing the execution of LGBT people. The secretary of state will have the power to decide who cannot enter the United States. From the Washington Blade:

“The United States’ enduring commitment to respect for human rights and humanitarian law requires that its Government be able to ensure that the United States does not become a safe haven for serious violators of human rights and humanitarian law and those who engage in other related abuses,” Obama states.

Specific language in the proclamation explicitly states that those who persecute people based on their “sexual orientation and gender identity” are among the categories of those who won’t be able to enter the United States.

Mr. President, how I appreciate thee. I do hope something comes of this. 

May 12, 2011 12:45 pm
azspot: John Sherffius

azspot:

John Sherffius

May 9, 2011 11:55 am
timetruthhumor: An awesome letter to the editor: from the Memphis newspaper “The Commercial Appeal” Quite a few Republicans this week have tried to claim that the death of Osama bin Laden is due to the efforts of George W. Bush, not Barack Obama. The same Bush who spent eight years chasing wild geese from one end of Iraq to another? Bush chased bin Laden with angry words and empty threats; Obama chased him with Navy SEALs. These same Republicans will say that the recession is Obama’s fault, even though the economy began its fall in early 2007, two years before Obama became president. Now they would have us believe Bush is somehow responsible for bin Laden, even though that took place two years after Bush left office. The only way this illogic makes sense is if they believe America had two presidents at the same time for the past four years, Obama in charge of domestic policy and Bush in charge of foreign policy. That way Obama can be blamed for all the failures of the last four years and Bush can receive credit for all the successes. Barack Obama, the guy Republicans claim is an illegal Kenyan, a secret Muslim, an unelected president, a conspirator to bring a Shariah dictatorship to America, the guy who wants to take away all our rights and guns and make big government control our lives — he’s the guy who took down America’s greatest enemy. He got the job done when your hero Bush could not or would not. Richard Wilkinson Amory, Miss.

timetruthhumor:

An awesome letter to the editor: from the Memphis newspaper “The Commercial Appeal”

Quite a few Republicans this week have tried to claim that the death of Osama bin Laden is due to the efforts of George W. Bush, not Barack Obama. The same Bush who spent eight years chasing wild geese from one end of Iraq to another? Bush chased bin Laden with angry words and empty threats; Obama chased him with Navy SEALs.

These same Republicans will say that the recession is Obama’s fault, even though the economy began its fall in early 2007, two years before Obama became president. Now they would have us believe Bush is somehow responsible for bin Laden, even though that took place two years after Bush left office. The only way this illogic makes sense is if they believe America had two presidents at the same time for the past four years, Obama in charge of domestic policy and Bush in charge of foreign policy. That way Obama can be blamed for all the failures of the last four years and Bush can receive credit for all the successes.

Barack Obama, the guy Republicans claim is an illegal Kenyan, a secret Muslim, an unelected president, a conspirator to bring a Shariah dictatorship to America, the guy who wants to take away all our rights and guns and make big government control our lives — he’s the guy who took down America’s greatest enemy. He got the job done when your hero Bush could not or would not.

Richard Wilkinson

Amory, Miss.

(via think4yourself)

May 4, 2011 3:12 pm
"The risks of release outweigh the benefits…Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway, and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East…Imagine how the American people would react if Al Qaeda killed one of our troops or military leaders, and put photos of the body on the internet…Osama bin Laden is not a trophy—he is dead and let’s now focus on continuing the fight until Al Qaeda has been eliminated."

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President Obama, in a “60 Minutes” interview, set to air this Sunday. (via thesmithian)

(Source: thesmithian, via apsies)

May 2, 2011 11:55 am
"It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different."

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Oscar Arias Sanchez

Osama Bin Laden has been killed and his body layed to rest, but the struggle against extremism continues. The fight justice for all of Al-queda’s victims the world over persists. Let us be measured in our efforts, never becoming avengers blinded by our anger and our fear and let us never become callous about taking a life.

April 27, 2011 5:41 pm

colorlines:

”[…] I began to cry. I thought of my ancestors, both direct and collective, who had fought and died so that I might be treated as an American. I then thought of this fetid, smug, hate-filled, wealthy white man taking credit for the release and yet still not being satisfied. It does not matter how long we’ve been in these United States. We will never be American.

So, tears in my eyes, pain in my heart and rage in my soul, I composed this video message. More than written text, it comes close to expressing my full pain at witnessing a white man who was handed everything call the President of the United States (and me) a nigger.”

  • Baratunde Thurston, With President Obama’s Birth Certificate, Klansman Trump Reminds Blacks They Will Never Be American

 Thank you, Mr. Thurston.

(via robot-heart-politics)

10:11 am
"We are not going to be able to solve our problems by focusing on sideshows and carnival barkers. We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We have better things to do."

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President Barack Obama on the birther movement. See the long form birth certificate relaeased by the White House here.

Well said, Mr. President.

April 16, 2011 12:00 pm
"If you build a plane like the F-22, and it costs $350 million dollars, and then you have three wars and you still don’t use it, you have to admit that the defense budget is really a jobs program. Did we buy this plane as a favor to someone in the office? Is it a supersonic Girl Scout cookie? Iraq, Afhghanistan, Libya…who are we saving it to fight, the Transformers?"

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Bill Maher (via thebronzemedal)

Right again, Mr. Maher.