mostly because I can never do it unless it’s on YouTube. So! Promise me you’ll watch this video RIIIIGHHHTTTT NOWWWWWW. “Some things I found on the ground” by 50YearPlan. :)
Immediately upon watching, I decided it’s imperative that I file “The jackass is your mother maden name!” away for future insults. Ahahaha..
Tim Weaver has nicely posted contact information for Goldman Sachs along with the advice “Tell them how you feel.” GO!
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
85 Broad St.
New York, NY 10004
212.902.1000
I’m trying to.
Could be!
Who knows?
There’s something due any day
I will know right away
Soon as it shows.
It may come cannonballin’
Down through the sky
Gleam in its eye
Bright as a rose!
Who knows?
It’s only just out of reach,
Down the block, on a beach,
Under a tree
I got a feelin’ there’s a miracle due
Gonna come true
Comin’ to me!
Could it be? Yes, it could!
Something’s coming, something good
If I can wait
Something’s coming, I don’t know what it is
But it is
Gonna be great!
With a click, with a shock,
Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock
Open the latch!
Something’s coming, don’t know when
But it’s soon
Catch the moon
One-handed catch!
Around the corner,
Or whistling down the river,
Come on, deliver
To me!
Will it be? Yes, it will!
Maybe just by holdin’ still
It’ll be there
Come on, something, come on in
Don’t be shy
Meet a guy
Pull up a chair!
The air is hummin’,
And something great is comin’!
Who knows?
It’s only just out of reach
Down the block, on a beach
Maybe tonight…
These are emails that once passed back and forth between my ex and me. Yes, they’re legit. Unedited. Obviously, names removed.
(Background: I informed him that I was upset by his extremely misogynist comment about Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, as well as his sexist comment that one of his friends had gotten a job, an apartment, and a car, and all he needed now was a wife–the last possession to make his life complete, as well as his sexist comments about me, my friends, and women in general)
Ex: “i’m standing up for myself now,
its bs that you want me for who i am,
you may like somethings but its not enought of me to matter,
and i’m not going to speek to you one way because you want me to,
your going to have to want me becuace of the way i am, got it?”
Me: “lol. I’m standing up for MYself now. You don’t get to make decisions about Talia. You get to make decisions about [ex]. If you want to even be friends, you cannot say that again. If it does happen again, that is the end of any possibilities you could have ever had with me. There isn’t a way I want you to talk to me, except civilly, which so far you have failed at. If you can’t even refrain from making destructive comments that I have asked you I don’t know how many times not to say to me..because they hurt me..then close the door behind you on your way out. I believe I’m worth more than the way you treat me and the garbage you talk. If you don’t like that, fine. If you don’t agree, fine. If you think you haven’t been treating me like crap, fine. But I do, and I’m making the decisions and the rules about me, NOT you and not anyone else.”
Ex: “did you get what i said or no?
i’m going to talk to you the way i know how, if its destructive and if its not what you want then, maybe its how i talk, and its apart of me, yes i dont want to hurt you, but maybe you need someone else who can talk better then me, okay?”
Me: “Apparently you didn’t get what I said.
In case you didn’t, let me run it by you one more time.
What happens now is up to you. I made the decision that if you continue to be a hurtful person to me, the end of the friendship. Now it’s your turn to make a decision: you can either shape up or keep going. You can do whatever you want. Nobody’s trying to make you do anything or CHANGE FOR THEM, but you will have consequences no matter what choice or non-choice you make. You will always have consequences–stop trying to blame them on me.
I am not saying, “Stop hurting me.” I know better than that now, because it’s clear you couldn’t stop now even if you wanted to. I AM saying that you will either stop or you will not be a part of my life.”
Ex: “why dose there have to be consequences?”
…He wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Of course it had to happen!
“The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study. They already know far more than they are putting into practice. What they need are serving experiences in which they can exercise their spiritual muscles.” -Rick Warren
According to the silly website Slice of Laodicea, Warren is “propounding his Martha-style Christianity and works righteousness theology.” Their response? “At a time of unprecedented biblical illiteracy and rampant carnality among evangelicals, the last thing they need is to be told not to study the Bible. But if you aren’t working, you’re just a useless feeder in Rick’s world. And besides. If you actually do read your Bible, you’ll figure out pretty quickly just how off base Rick Warren’s social gospel really is.”
How absurd! Makes me laugh. I’m now going to quote someone even more radical and totally impractical than Rick Warren. Are you ready?
“These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit–but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock. But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards.”
I can’t believe Jesus had the nerve to propound such a works-based theology. Didn’t anyone ever tell him that being “saved” has nothing to do with doing at all?! And here he goes, misleading who knows how many people! Oh well, at least he didn’t try to push that horrible social gospel on anyone! Ewww!
["Murder has no religion" by Arsalan Iftikhar, international human rights lawyer, founder of TheMuslimGuy.com, contributing editor for Islamica magazine in Washington]
Washington (CNN) — Most of the world’s 1.57 billion Muslims know that the Holy Quran states quite clearly that, “Anyone who kills a human being…it shall be as though he has killed all of mankind….If anyone saves a life, it shall be as though he has saved the lives of all mankind.”
Accordingly, it should come as little surprise to any reasonable observer that when Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan recently committed his shocking acts of mass murder at Fort Hood, Texas, America’s Muslim community of over 7 million felt an added sense of horror and sadness at this senseless attack against the brave men and women of the US armed forces.
True to form, many conservative media pundits wasted little time in pointing to reports that Hasan had said “Allahu Akbar” (Arabic for “God is great”) at the start of his murderous rampage. News coverage continuously showed the looping convenience store black-and-white videotape footage of Hasan wearing traditional white Islamic garb.
First of all, someone simply saying “Allahu Akbar” while committing an act of mass murder no more makes their criminal act “Islamic” than a Christian uttering the “Hail Mary” while murdering an abortion medical provider, or someone chanting “Onward, Christian Soldiers” while bombing a gay nightclub, would make their act “Christian” in nature.
Simply put; murder is murder and has no religion whatsoever.
Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan once wrote that, “One most certainly does insult Muslims by tying their religion to movements such as terrorism or fascism. Muslims perceive a double standard in this regard: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols would never be called ‘Christian terrorists’ even though they were in close contact with the Christian Identity Movement. No one would speak of Christo-fascism or Judeo-fasicm as the Republican[s] … speak of Islamo-fascism….[Many people also] point out that [it was] persons of Christians of Christian heritage [who] invented fascism, not Muslims.”
According to Pentagon statistics, there were over 3,400 American Muslims serving in the active-duty military as of April 2008. The Wall Street Journal reported that many officials believe “the actual number of [American] Muslim soldiers may be at least 10,000 higher than the Pentagon statistics.”
Thus, with thousands of patriotic American Muslim women and men proudly serving in our United States Army in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, perhaps it would behoove our army leaders to consider sending a strong message of American unity by appointing an American Muslim to be a part of the prosecution team against Hasan.
This would help show that the mass murders allegedly committed by Hasan have nothing to do with the teachings of our religion.
The United States Army can send a resounding message to all Americans and the rest of the world that the social fabric of our country will never become unraveled by murderous (and irreligious) gun-wielding felons–whether it is a Muslim in Fort Hood, Texas, or a non-Muslim on a shooting rampage in an Orlando, Florida high-rise less than a day later.
By appointing a multicultural (and multireligious) legal prosecution team made up of military lawyers of all races and religions, we can set a good example to show the rest of the world that our American legal justice system is truly equal for all people, regardless of their race, religion or socioeconomic status.
The larger point is that Muslims in America completely disavow and wash our hands of any acts of murder (or terrorism) claimed to be performed in the name of our religion. Acts of mass murder, regardless of their time or place, are simply ungodly criminal acts that have no religion whatsoever.
Stay tuned, I’m working on compiling a master list of the ultimate Christmas mix cd collection. No, it will not include every Christmas song ever written and/or recorded, but it will include all the besties. :)
I’m also making myself a nice Halloween mix cd collection, and I’ll be posting my preferred Halloween playlist up shortly. Better late than never! And it’s good listening allllll the time! Savvy?
