1. 2 months ago 

    Since your support for the Kony campaign is slowly waning, how about you guys take a look at Syria, and other countries suffering? 

  2. Notes: 4 / 2 months ago  from owlsnack
    owlsnack: Kony 2012 is a grossly misleading film filled so to the brim with inaccuracies that I want to puke. Joseph Kony and his people have not been active in Uganda since at least 6 years, he hasn’t even been in the country. There’s even rumors that he is dead.  Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda since 1986, is responsible for the genocide of millions of people. There are video interviews of him advocating the use of child soldiers, saying that it’s part of the ‘culture’. Kony couldn’t kill that many people if he tried.  Kony2012 is a pro-profit movie created by three upper class white boys. They are each making $90,000 a yearfrom this so called ‘cause’. 30% of their income goes directly to sadistic president Museveni. Some charity huh? All their movie does is legitimize the activity of AFRICOM, a United States military operation that enforces institutional colonialism to this day. It is shown solely from the perspective of a white western mindset. What do Ugandans have to say about it? Recently there have been gargantuan amounts of oil discovered in Uganda. Note how seamlessly this coincides with when the movie obtained funding. Rosebell Kagumire, a Ugandan journalist specialising in peace and conflict reporting, said: “Kony2012 paints a picture of Uganda six or seven years ago, that is totally not how it is today. It’s highly irresponsible”  “Suggesting that the answer is more military action is just wrong,” said Javie Ssozi, a popular Ugandan blogger. “Have they thought of the consequences? Making Kony ‘famous’ could make him stronger. Arguing for more US troops could make him scared, and make him abduct more children, or go on the offensive.” Are you really going to buy this load of Kony2012 baloney and let America descend into another oil war? This is why terrorists keep blowing up the west and flying planes into buildings. It’s not because they are jealous or hateful of your freedom or your Christian values, it’s because they are replying to direct aggression and imperialist oppression by unnecessary presence of troops in their countries. Energy companies have recently found more than 700m barrels of commercially viable oil in the pristine Albertine Graben region (Uganda), representing the first major petroleum strike in east Africa. Tullow Oil, the FTSE 100 company leading the exploration, believes the exploitable deposits could exceed 1.5 BILLION barrels. How many puppet governments have to be built from the ground up by U.S. military personnel until people outside the countries themselves notice? This is called imperialism, and just because they’re not trading slaves doesn’t mean it’s over. Putin has been buying slaves from Kim Jong Il for his lumber camps (responsible for quite a bit of the wood you’d see in Ikea), but that is a whole different story. Don’t throw your money at these decrepit money grabbers. Invisible Children only sends 30% of all donations to Uganda. It goes straight past the poor suffering Ugandans and directly to the Ugandan military. Your donations are going to the Ugandan military run by murderous Yoweri Museveni under the illusory pretense of protecting against Kony, whose organization has been so inactive that he might or might not be dead already.  Use charitynavigator.org and deal with the raw data. I am not denying Kony is a terrible man, but he is just a has been wannabe warlord in a sea of grandiose genocidal maniacs. When compared to the U.S. sanctioned leaders of these African countries he seems like a goddamn infant taking his first steps. Also let me just reiterate, Kony and the LRA have not been active since 2006. Nobody has seen him or his group. Seems like calling them invisible children isn’t too far off. Please do your own research, lest you be deceived again.

    owlsnack:

    Kony 2012 is a grossly misleading film filled so to the brim with inaccuracies that I want to puke. Joseph Kony and his people have not been active in Uganda since at least 6 years, he hasn’t even been in the country. There’s even rumors that he is dead. 

    Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda since 1986, is responsible for the genocide of millions of people. There are video interviews of him advocating the use of child soldiers, saying that it’s part of the ‘culture’. Kony couldn’t kill that many people if he tried. 

    Kony2012 is a pro-profit movie created by three upper class white boys. They are each making $90,000 a yearfrom this so called ‘cause’. 30% of their income goes directly to sadistic president Museveni. Some charity huh? All their movie does is legitimize the activity of AFRICOM, a United States military operation that enforces institutional colonialism to this day. It is shown solely from the perspective of a white western mindset. What do Ugandans have to say about it?

    Recently there have been gargantuan amounts of oil discovered in Uganda. Note how seamlessly this coincides with when the movie obtained funding. Rosebell Kagumire, a Ugandan journalist specialising in peace and conflict reporting, said: “Kony2012 paints a picture of Uganda six or seven years ago, that is totally not how it is today. It’s highly irresponsible” 

    “Suggesting that the answer is more military action is just wrong,” said Javie Ssozi, a popular Ugandan blogger. “Have they thought of the consequences? Making Kony ‘famous’ could make him stronger. Arguing for more US troops could make him scared, and make him abduct more children, or go on the offensive.”

    Are you really going to buy this load of Kony2012 baloney and let America descend into another oil war? This is why terrorists keep blowing up the west and flying planes into buildings. It’s not because they are jealous or hateful of your freedom or your Christian values, it’s because they are replying to direct aggression and imperialist oppression by unnecessary presence of troops in their countries.

    Energy companies have recently found more than 700m barrels of commercially viable oil in the pristine Albertine Graben region (Uganda), representing the first major petroleum strike in east Africa. Tullow Oil, the FTSE 100 company leading the exploration, believes the exploitable deposits could exceed 1.5 BILLION barrels.

    How many puppet governments have to be built from the ground up by U.S. military personnel until people outside the countries themselves notice? This is called imperialism, and just because they’re not trading slaves doesn’t mean it’s over. Putin has been buying slaves from Kim Jong Il for his lumber camps (responsible for quite a bit of the wood you’d see in Ikea), but that is a whole different story.

    Don’t throw your money at these decrepit money grabbers. Invisible Children only sends 30% of all donations to Uganda. It goes straight past the poor suffering Ugandans and directly to the Ugandan military. Your donations are going to the Ugandan military run by murderous Yoweri Museveni under the illusory pretense of protecting against Kony, whose organization has been so inactive that he might or might not be dead already. 

    Use charitynavigator.org and deal with the raw data. I am not denying Kony is a terrible man, but he is just a has been wannabe warlord in a sea of grandiose genocidal maniacs. When compared to the U.S. sanctioned leaders of these African countries he seems like a goddamn infant taking his first steps. Also let me just reiterate, Kony and the LRA have not been active since 2006. Nobody has seen him or his group. Seems like calling them invisible children isn’t too far off.

    Please do your own research, lest you be deceived again.

     
  3. Notes: 45 / 4 months ago  from expose-the-light
    expose-the-light: June 15, 1667: First Human Blood Transfusion Is Performed 1667: The first blood transfusion involving a human being is performed. Jean-Baptiste Denys, personal physician to France’s Louis XIV, is generally credited with performing the first human blood transfusion, although some sources award that distinction to Englishman Richard Lower. What is not in dispute is the year — 1667 — and the patient — a 15-year-old boy who had been bled so much by his doctor that he required an infusion of blood. The source is also not under dispute: Whoever the physician was, he used a sheep’s blood. And, somehow, the kid recovered. Subsequent transfusions using sheep’s blood were not as successful, however, and the practice was eventually banned. Science was unaware of the danger not only of interspecies transfusions but of the fact that human beings possessed different, generally incompatible, blood types. The four major blood groups were not identified until the first decade of the 20th century. Another discovery that advanced the science of blood transfusions occurred in 1901, when Viennese physician Karl Landsteiner demonstrated the presence of agglutinins and iso-agglutinins in the blood. Landsteiner’s work earned him a Nobel Prize. Source: Various Image: Valentina Petrova/AP This article first appeared on Wired.com June 15, 2007. I remember reading this in my Microbio book. Brings back memories :D

    expose-the-light:

    June 15, 1667: First Human Blood Transfusion Is Performed

    1667: The first blood transfusion involving a human being is performed.

    Jean-Baptiste Denys, personal physician to France’s Louis XIV, is generally credited with performing the first human blood transfusion, although some sources award that distinction to Englishman Richard Lower. What is not in dispute is the year — 1667 — and the patient — a 15-year-old boy who had been bled so much by his doctor that he required an infusion of blood.

    The source is also not under dispute: Whoever the physician was, he used a sheep’s blood. And, somehow, the kid recovered.

    Subsequent transfusions using sheep’s blood were not as successful, however, and the practice was eventually banned. Science was unaware of the danger not only of interspecies transfusions but of the fact that human beings possessed different, generally incompatible, blood types.

    The four major blood groups were not identified until the first decade of the 20th century.

    Another discovery that advanced the science of blood transfusions occurred in 1901, when Viennese physician Karl Landsteiner demonstrated the presence of agglutinins and iso-agglutinins in the blood. Landsteiner’s work earned him a Nobel Prize.

    Source: Various

    Image: Valentina Petrova/AP

    This article first appeared on Wired.com June 15, 2007.

    I remember reading this in my Microbio book. Brings back memories :D

     
  4. Notes: 17 / 4 months ago  from thrueyesofarunner
    thrueyesofarunner: The interaction between these two is both baffling and perfect. And I love it. It may annoy some, but I actually love that I have no clue where this show is going. Each episode is a new story, it seems. A new battle; a new fight. And these two keep coming out on top. This is a show of a select few that I keep up with that actually aide my escapist desires…if even for just 42 minutes. So thankful the first three seasons are on Netflix. And also thankful that the bro kept his streaming capabilities with his account.(Breaking Bad, Season 2 Episode 10 “Over”) Ohhh boy, I wonder how this fan is gonna react when he sees season 4 :D.

    thrueyesofarunner:

    The interaction between these two is both baffling and perfect. And I love it. It may annoy some, but I actually love that I have no clue where this show is going. Each episode is a new story, it seems. A new battle; a new fight. And these two keep coming out on top.

    This is a show of a select few that I keep up with that actually aide my escapist desires…if even for just 42 minutes. So thankful the first three seasons are on Netflix. And also thankful that the bro kept his streaming capabilities with his account.

    (Breaking Bad, Season 2 Episode 10 “Over”)

    Ohhh boy, I wonder how this fan is gonna react when he sees season 4 :D.

     
  5. Notes: 56 / 4 months ago  from localmaximum
    localmaximum: Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, AMC! YEAH SCIENCE!

    localmaximum:

    Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, AMC! YEAH SCIENCE!

     
  6. Notes: 14357 / 4 months ago  from random-ronnyd

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  7. Notes: 2 / 4 months ago 

    I’m Starting to Understand the World Around me

    “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”

    -William Feather 

    Broadening your mind about the world is a beautiful thing. I’m starting to understand this idea bit more. I’m a third year in undergrad college and I feel as if I don’t know anything about this world. I excoriate myself for this since I never really cared. One thing did set my mind though, was a desire to learn. I feel that now is the time to read up on controversial issues in our society instead of just playing Skyrim or Modern Warfare 3 on my xbox. 

    So on Friday I was eating out with my fellow college friends and we were talking about politics (Not a very galvanic subject for me). They were talking about Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul and the Occupy Wall Street movement. I felt so out of place and so different because these are my friends whom I’ve known for so long, yet knew so little of what they were talking about. I was so quiet throughout the conversation until a mentioned a funny anecdote.

    When i got back home, i whipped out my iPad and started looking at the ebooks I had. All 12 of them, unopened. I wanted to give myself another shot. I wanted to know more about the world around me, instead of liking a shitty status or a facetious photo on facebook.

    I started to read The New Yorker, and my god, I really needed to hone my vocabulary skills. I read articles about how Newt Gingrich won the debate on South Carolina, and how much of an idiot he really is.

    As i’m reading more and more, I feel like I’m growing up into a more knowledgeable person. I’m glad this is happening to me, and I hope this is a permanent turning point in my life. 

  8. Notes: 2 / 4 months ago 

    Time-Killer, Do your magic.

    I bring you guys good tidings:

    I’m using this blog once again, but i’ll probably be on another hiatus. I feel like tumblr is the place where i just reblog things, but if I just reblog pictures and other stuff, whats the point of even keeping this blog at all? So from now on i’ll try to stop limit the reblogging and blog about things every week if I have time.

    Winter break is already over and i’m going back to hell school again. It’s not a bad feeling i suppose, I’ll see some friends and some douchebags.

    Today was an amusing day. I chilled with a good old friend from high school (most of them are dead to me anyway) and we shared a couple of laughs. We ate at chillis and i must say,the food was insipid. The waiter was a flamboyant person who seemed very enthusiastic about his job. A very odd fellow who had a lisp, but tried his best to hide this conspicuous feature. I couldn’t help but laugh at the tip we gave because unfotunately, the enthusiastic waiter gave us the drinks, appetizers, and entree all at once. 

    As we finished our distasteful meal and gave the asinine tip, we began to walk home. We were reminiscing about the good old days, the days where we had no worries about our futures and careers. As we were walking up we saw a car that caught our attention. I took a picture of it and it really looked as if The Incredible Hulk smashed the fuck out of the car. 

    It was a great night, A perfect way to start the first day of school to kill time and relax. 

  9. Notes: 32 / 1 year ago  from nerdtacular
    cutethatlame: A collection of “future cars” from the past.

    cute

    thatlame    :

    A collection of “future cars” from the past.

    (Source: nerdtacular)

     
  10. Notes: 34 / 1 year ago  from eyelovecars
    eyelovecars: Zonda Pagani My baby

    eyelovecars:

    Zonda Pagani

    My baby

     
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