January 2012
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Been gone for so long...New Year Updates
I haven’t posted on tumblr in a long time… The only reason I found my way back here is because I saw a friend’s posts on Facebook.
It’s January 2nd and I’m just sitting here thinking about resolutions. The thing is, I usually make goals at the beginning of each school year, not the actual new year. But with college, a new semester really is a fresh start with all new...
September 2011
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I have these moments...
where I walk around campus with a backpack that weighs about 25 pounds (YAY ORGO) and think wow…I’m just so damn lucky to be here. :)
I also love walking into Perkins (the upperclassmen library on West campus). Lilly is nice too but it’s so COLD. Air conditioning on steroids. This library is the perfect temperature and has that perfect library smell.
Headed to class now...
August 2011
24 posts
Why Is It So Hard to Find a Suicide Bomber These... →
jayparkinsonmd:
Every day, according to the World Health Organization, approximately 150,000 people die around the world. The U.S. government’s National Counterterrorism Center calculates that Islamist terrorism claims fewer than 50 lives per day — fewer than 10 per day outside Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. By way of comparison, approximately 1,500 people die each day from civilian violence,...
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“You’ll hear a lot of folks, by the way, say that government is broken. Well,...”
– President Obama at a town-hall-style event in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, August 15, 2011 (via nefariousnewt)
Here, here, Mr. President.
Now, Rick Perry? Sit down and shut the fuck up.
(via wtfox-)
Tell ‘em Barack. This is why I voted for you..
(via davesmachine)
We've got ourselves a new plan
Buffett on CNBC a month ago “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.”
New GOP Strategy to Reelect Obama →
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“I have no problem with folks saying Obama cares. I do care. If the other side...”
– President Obama on “Obamacare.” (via kileyrae)
Co-opt that shit, Barry! (via apsies)
OBAMA. CARES.
(via inothernews)
LOL
Buffett Gets Real →
“SEVEN BLUNDERS OF THE WORLD:
1) wealth without work
2) pleasure without...”
– MAHATMA GANDHI (via those-3-words)
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Are Republicans at war with reality? →
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wilwheaton:
So here’s what I learned watching Thursday night’s Republican debate:
States’ rights should rule the day, unless you’re gay.
Small government is the rule unless a rapist impregnates his victim.
Loyalty oaths should be the new normal.
Ten-to-one spending cuts to tax increases is an ideologically unacceptable compromise.
And refusing to raise the debt ceiling is a...
So why hasn't anyone actually made a roller...
“The Dow lost 519 points today. It is the single biggest drop… since two days...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
Colbert was pretty good today.
What I don't understand about politics
There’s a lot. But one thing: why do people want to elect those who look like ‘the average Joe’? The average American doesn’t have a clue how to fix all these problems. Personally, I’d rather have an elitist or someone who looks a whole lot smarter than me running the country.
[this is in response to a Newsweek article “The Casual Friday Campaign.”
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BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.: The Tea Party forced the... →
inothernews:
The Tea Party forced the Republican Party’s hand during the recent debt negotiations, commanding them to be rigid and inflexible in their dealings with President Obama over the debt ceiling. It got to the point where conservative radio talk show host and Tea Party mouthpiece Mark Levin even called…
“These unelected elites get to wave their Wall Street wand and tank our economy?...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, on the rating agencies that threatened to lower the credit rating of the United States if it had gone into default, on The Colbert Report. (via inothernews)
This is poetic.
Coins? →
On a mission
Running errands, speedy style.
Stops:
Target
Chase Bank
Library
Best Buy
Mall
Goal: 3 hours.
I got this.
I'm a Numbers Girl
I’m a numbers girl and I intend to find out: who are the “wealthy people” constantly referenced when bloggers/news outlets say “the wealthy are paying the lowest taxes in ___ years” and are being “unfairly rewarded” when they really aren’t “job creators.”
What level of income qualifies?? I never see a number with the words.
“Republicans will surely be emboldened by the way Mr. Obama keeps folding in the...”
– Not sure what to think of this.
The New York Times’s Paul Krugman, “The President Surrenders.”
(via inothernews)
July 2011
13 posts
“I could solve the debt problems in 10 minutes - pass a law that if the budget...”
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“The American people may have voted for a divided government, but they didn’t...”
– President BARACK OBAMA (via inothernews)
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I need something...
Alright after one whole day of having nothing to do (besides waking up at 12 and writing thank you notes for 3 hours…) I’m already a little bored. India I had very little control of my time and I was OK with that - a complete mental vacation and family time - and I caught up with my reading, 12 novels. The past couple weeks I’ve been grad party prepping and organizing my photo...
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Don't Break the Chain →
Really old, but worth reblogging. Can’t break the chain on running.
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Back after an absence
I stopped posting on tumblr while I was in India and then didn’t have much time to post the past two weeks. Hard to believe how fast time has gone.
Rambling thoughts lie ahead:
Thinking about what I want to do in college. I feel like the interests will evolve out of connections and coursework more so than they did in high school.
I really don’t want to be one of those people who...
June 2011
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What's really out there anyways
I remember waking up a few times in middle school and thinking “is there really all that’s out there? is this life? what is out there? what if this is all there ever will be? what exactly is my life about? Not exactly an existential crisis, just questioning whether life had meaning beyond what I could see. My life seemed too simple, too insignificant.
I think as I’ve gotten...
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Senior, no longer?
Today’s the day that the juniors become Seniors. Where does that leave us? I definitely don’t identify as a college student yet, but I’m not a senior anymore? How can that be. I know I should feel enthusiastic and all excited today but really I just feel kind of empty. I should get more sleep.
Senior Breakfast was nice. It’s hard to believe that in a couple days I wont see...
May 2011
10 posts
Watchirisspeaks:
AMAZING Jon Stewart interview (5:23) on a pending breakthrough in neuroscience: enabling parapalegics to walk by channeling “brainstorms” in their minds. Duke professor Miguel Nicolelis describes the project as “the moonshot of the 21st century”. His book is Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines and How It Will Change Our Lives: see it at...