Must Amuse Me (or make me think)

3 Dec 2009
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inothernews:

AT EASE; AT THE READY Cadets listened Tuesday evening as President Barack Obama, speaking in West Point, N.Y., told the nation his plan to send at least 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. He said a troop withdrawal would start by July 2011. (Photo: Jim Watson - AFP-Getty via the Wall St. Journal)

AT EASE; AT THE READY Cadets listened Tuesday evening as President Barack Obama, speaking in West Point, N.Y., told the nation his plan to send at least 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. He said a troop withdrawal would start by July 2011. (Photo: Jim Watson - AFP-Getty via the Wall St. Journal)

Snuggie.

rosasparks:

I am jonesing for a Snuggle in the worst way. Our house is freezing and we don’t really turn the heat up because we can’t afford it anyway. All of us wear sweaters, fleece jackets, robes, sweatpants, warm socks, slippers, etc…

Anyway, yesterday I mentioned to the now SEVEN year old minisparks that I REALLY want a Snuggie.

You know what she says to me?

‘Mama, just wear your bathrobe backwards.’

My child owned my ass.

I love your daughter! That is what I have been telling everyone!

2 Dec 2009
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lickystickypickyme:

B 52’s - Love shack

I sang this at Kareoke on the cruise I went on. I had no voice from having a sinus infection. I sounded horrible. But I always sound horrible when I sing, this time I had an excuse!

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2 Dec 2009
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mizzchelle:

“On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.”

Image: Diagram of the Bus Showing Where Rosa Parks Was Seated | The National Archives

Lesson: Small acts of courage can become turning points in history.

NOTHING taught my students with behavior disorders about doing the right thing better than the Rosa Park story.

1 Dec 2009
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inothernews:

LOSS Victoria Chant wept as the coffin of her father, soldier Darren Chant, was carried from a chapel after his funeral in London Tuesday. Mr. Chant was killed in Afghanistan Nov. 3. (Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)

This made me bawl. It broke my heart.

A Recovering American Soldier c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center 6900 Georgia Avenue NW; Washington, D.C. 20307.

soupsoup:

kaytee:

When doing your Christmas cards, take one and send it to this address

Pass this on… think of how many cards these special people will get!

(via myownmelt)

I'm a sucker for second chances

alancassinelli:

and thirds, and fourths…

and most of the time the people don’t deserve them

I do the same thing. People say I’m too nice. I’d rather be too nice than too mean.

1 Dec 2009
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

30 Nov 2009
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“If you’re looking for a job right now, your prospects are terrible. There are six times as many Americans seeking work as there are job openings, and the average duration of unemployment — the time the average job-seeker has spent looking for work — is more than six months, the highest level since the 1930s. You might think, then, that doing something about the employment situation would be a top policy priority. But now that total financial collapse has been averted, all the urgency seems to have vanished from policy discussion, replaced by a strange passivity. There’s a pervasive sense in Washington that nothing more can or should be done, that we should just wait for the economic recovery to trickle down to workers. This is wrong and unacceptable.”

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Paul Krugman (via azspot) (via shorterexcerpts)

The urgency to bailout “too big to fail” banks and the lack of urgency to bailout people who WANT to work is criminal.

(via soupsoup)

Krugman continues to be one of the sharpest writers and critics out there.

(via newsweek)

The months I was unemployed this year were the scariest of my life.