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Dälek - Blessed Are They Who Bash Your Children's Heads Against a Rock

What Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Mohammed was in fact true, America’s chickens…are coming home to roost.

We took this country by terror, away from the Sioux, the Apache, the Arowak, the Comanche, the Arapahoe, the Navajo.

Terrorism.

We took Africans from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear.

Terrorism.

We bombed Granada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel.

We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers and killed unarmed teenagers and toddlers, pregnant mothers, and hardworking fathers.

We bombed Qaddafi’s home and killed his child.
Blessed are they who bash your children’s head against a rock.

We bombed Iraq.

We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living.

We bombed a plant in Sudan to payback for the attack on our embassy, killed hundreds of hardworking people, mothers and fathers who left home to go that day not knowing that they would never get back home.

We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.

Pastor Jeremiah Wright

Jul 17

» Navajo Code Talkers

“Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, Iwo Jima: the Navajo code talkers took part in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. They served in all six Marine divisions, Marine Raider battalions and Marine parachute units, transmitting messages by telephone and radio in their native language — a code that the Japanese never broke.”

Jul 14

C IS FOR COOKIE!

Jul 04

via Buttersafe

Jul 02

Lyssomanes viridis - Magnolia Green Jumper

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)

Subfamily Lyssomaninae

Genus Lyssomanes (Translucent Green Jumpers)

Species viridis (Magnolia Green Jumper)

Size

Female length: 7-8mm, male length: 5-6mm (1)

Identification

Legs and body pale translucent green. Red and white scales on top of head around eyes. Males have noticeably long jaws.

Range

North Carolina to Florida, west to Texas. (1). BugGuide also has several images from Virginia.

Habitat

In woodlands, on large leaves such as those of Magnolias.(2) Also found in low bushes. (1)

Jun 26

“The Frightful Musicians,” 1891. Holland Cotter writes:

The Belgian painter James Ensor, who has a survey of hilarious, gruesome beauty at the Museum of Modern Art, is a puzzle to fans and strangers alike, a classic insider-outsider.

Photo: Courtesy Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels, 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Sabam Brussels

via NYT

Jun 04

garfieldminusgarfield:

Original

May 03

» The Wordsmith

The Sun interview Alasdair Roberts? Surely not…‽

Apr 23

My latest knitted effort! Took a while to put the pictures up but here it is / was. Photos at my flickr.

Apr 22

So bilious and saturnine, all in the noontime early.

Alasdair Roberts - So Bored Was I (Dark Triad)

Enthralled was I, so enthralled was I
as I walked the woods and the mountains high.
As I walked the woods and the mountains high
all in the mornin’ early.

Then coming from an urn nearby
I heard the sound of a baby cry.
And I paused a while and I gazed inside
the cry was mine, the babe was I.

I was bilious I was saturnine
as I walked from shrine to wayside shrine.
So bilious and saturnine
all in the noontime early.

Then coming from an old mash tun
I heard the sound of a young man come.
And I paused a while and I gazed inside
The come was mine, the man was I.

So bored was I so bored was I
I stifled yawns, I swallowed sighs.
As I strode mid tombs and sarcophagi
all in the evening gloomy.

Then coming from a broken throne
I heard the sound of an old man moan.
I paused a while and I gazed upon
The man was me the groan my own.

Then they moaned and came and cried
and raised their voices in Dark Triad
Saying the music of our tethered sphere
is only silence failing.
It’s mere distraction, mere veneer
while we wait the great unveiling.
Oh yes the music of our tethered sphere
is only silence failing.
Mere distraction, mere veneer
while we wait the great unveiling.

Dark Triad, Dark Triad, Dark Triad.

SPOILS; out May 4th

Apr 13

» Matthias Rath - steal this chapter

Reblogged from Ben Goldacre’s blog Bad Science

“This is the “missing chapter” about vitamin pill salesman Matthias Rath. Sadly I was unable to write about him at the time that book was initially published, as he was suing my ass in the High Court. The chapter is now available in the new paperback edition, and I’ve posted it here for free so that nobody loses out.

Although the publishers make a slightly melodramatic fuss about this in the promo material, it is a very serious story about the dangers of pseudoscience, as I hope you’ll see, and it was also a pretty unpleasant episode, not just for me, but also for the many other people he’s tried to sue, including Medecins Sans Frontieres and more. If you’re ever looking for a warning sign that you’re on the wrong side of an argument, suing Medecins Sans Frontieres is probably a pretty good clue.

Anyway, here it is, please steal it, print it, repost it, whatever, it’s free under a Creative Commons license, details at the end. If you prefer it is available as a PDF here, or as a word document here. Happy Easter!”