February 2012
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LASEK.
Hello, Internet people.
Should have probably mentioned this earlier, but I just made it official on Thursday. I’m getting LASEK surgery today. I’ve had glasses since I was 11 or 12 and I’ve been wearing contacts the past 5 years or so. The thing about surgery here in Korea is that it’s so cheap and common! Seriously, I went for my initial consultation appointment on...
WatchWatched this too help pass the time while I was sick…it’s fantastic! Check it out!
fuckyeahpermaculture:
DIRT! The movie (full version).
DIRT! The Movie takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility—from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. The real change lies in our notion of...
“At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...”
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via impulsivefarmer)
Food poisoning sucks.
Sorry I haven’t posted anything—I’m behind on the Tao’s again, too. I got some food poisoning on Friday night and have been out for the count all weekend. I threw up for the first time in like 5 years. Ugh. I’ll be back soon. See ya.
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It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s... →
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afternoonsnoozebutton:
Gingrich: “This is the administration where if you’re America’s enemy, you’re safe.”
I think Republicans have a quota of stupid things they have to say every day, or they get kicked out of the party.
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#53 - Imbalance
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Sleepless nights.
Diet, mind, conditions
Hold the possibility of correction.
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DMD:
Whenever you feel out of sorts, or cannot sleep, or find it hard to work and think, you are separated from Tao. If you want to get back in touch with it, ask yourself three questions: Am I eating right? Is my mind tamed? Is my world safe?
It is not facetious to look at...
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Corporations Don’t Need a Tax Cut, So Why Is Obama...
kateoplis:
“The Obama administration is proposing to lower corporate taxes from the current 35 percent to 28 percent for most companies and to 25 percent for manufacturers.
The move is supposed to be “revenue neutral” – meaning the Administration is also proposing to close assorted corporate tax loopholes to offset the lost revenues. One such loophole allows corporations to park their...
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“I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident. I extend to you and...”
– President Obama • Apologizing to Afghan president Hamid Karzai about the Koran-burning incident earlier this week, which has sparked widespread demonstration in the country and led to the deaths of at least eight people — the most recent of which happened when a man, wearing an Afghan Army uniform,...
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#52 - Nonconformity
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The world is dazzling,
I alone am dull.
Others strive for achievement,
I follow a lonely path.
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DMD:
Followers of Tao are nonconformists. The conventional label our behavior erratic, antisocial, irresponsible, inexplicable, outrageous, and sometimes scandalous. We hear other voices, respond to inner urgings. We have no interest in the social norm;...
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Northeast sees massive bee losses →
impulsivefarmer:
MORRISONVILLE — Beekeepers across the Northeast have experienced massive losses of bees this winter.
Champlain Valley Beekeepers Association President Dick Crawford said the beekeepers he has spoken with are reporting deaths of 90 percent to 100 percent of their hives.
“I have some friends in Pennsylvania who lost 100 percent of 2,000 hives.”
Crawford personally lost 90...
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“I said that we’re going to cut taxes on everyone across the country by 20...”
– Mitt Romney admits his tax plan will give the 1 percent a HUGE tax break, after saying not 12 hours ago he’d make sure the 1 percent keeps paying the same rate or more. (via think-progress
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#51 - Beauty
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Lavender roses.
Incarnate fragrance,
Priestly hue of dawn,
Spirit unfolding.
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DMD:
Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile. They are fragile, ephemeral, uncompromising. No one can alter their nature. True, you can easily destroy them, but you will not gain anything; you cannot force them to submit to your will.
Flowers arouse in us an...
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“Five wealthy people, led by Dallas industrialist Harold Simmons and Las Vegas...”
– Five people. FIVE PEOPLE are controlling 25% of the national conversation.
We need campaign finance reform, and we need it now.
25% of super PAC money coming from just 5 rich donors
(via world-shaker)
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Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate by 7% -... →
socialismartnature:
Surprise, surprise. Obama and the GOP stand shoulder-to-shoulder when it comes to putting the interests of Corporate America and the super-rich first. The effect of such a tax cut, if Obama gets his way, would essentially mean that the largest corporations in America would suddenly become billions of dollars wealthier. The same can’t be said for the 99% of us that don’t own...
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“Historically, financial speculators accounted for about 30 percent of oil...”
– Blame Oil Speculators, Not Obama, For Rising Oil Prices
(via anticapitalist)
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#50 - Interaction
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We make life real
By the thoughts we project.
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DMD:
The panorama of the objective world is meaningless until we interact with it. For example, if there is a rock that we pass day after day but we do not notice, then that rock has no significance for us. If we decide to make that rock a votive object and pray to it for decades, then that rock becomes...
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“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the...”
– Saint Augustine (via sunsari)
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19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested...
ethiopienne:
lost-and-searching-in-america:
19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.
#3 Another student...
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