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Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States – and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.
Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Mobile, the capitol, over a discussion that may have involved the rituals of the local football cult. In this region full of heavily-armed local warlords and radical Christian clerics, gun violence is part of the life of many.
Many of the militiamen here are ethnic Scots-Irish tribesmen, a famously indomitable mountain people who have killed civilized men – and each other – for centuries. It appears that the wars that started on the fields of Bannockburn and Sterling have come to America.
As the sun sets over the former Confederate States of America, one wonders – can peace ever come to this land?
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This is legit. x
And x
New Zealand finally gets the spotlight
But…but..
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as in
portraits of old presidents constantly talk to / advise / argue with the current one
and it’s a mess
a beautiful beautiful mess
LOL OMG AND JAMES BUCHANAN WOULD BE LIKE, “FUCK ALL YOU GUYS, WILLIAM AND I WERE FUCKING HAPPY.” And Abraham Lincoln would never, ever be in his Portrait because, fuck, he hates all these people, he was just trying to see a PLAY and no one will ever tell him how it ended. And Teddy Roosevelt would be like, “Show me that Night in the Museum movie again. Those bastards.”
Once a month, Garfield, McKinley, JFK, and Lincoln hold a special meeting for the Assassinated Club. It’s twice as popular as Clinton and Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Club because, who wants to hang out with those guys? (“I HAD A MOTHERFUCKING RIGHT TO FIRE HIM,” Johnson screams while Clinton nods seriously and rubs his shoulder gently. “WHO THOUGHT UP THIS TENURE OF OFFICE BULLSHIT?” Grant just smokes a cigar and laughs his ass off from his frame.)
Jak, your history buffness is showing. Should totally throw this at Sin at the nearest opportunity.
I was just talking about how Rutherford B Hayes would be the President with the stash of booze in his frame. “Lemonade Lucy ain’t around now, y’all.” And, like, all the stuffy old Federalists would throw their cares to the wind and be, like, doing the Funky Chicken in his frame all the time.
Millard Fillmore would be that girl from Mean Girls where he just wants everyone to get along and bake cakes and eventually, Jimmy Carter would be like, “HE DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE.” And they’d have a debate over whether he actually counts as a President if no one remembers him.
There would be dick measuring contests. Andrew Johnson would be like, “Alaska, bitches” and Lincoln would be like, “I was dead and even I know Seward was behind that.” And Jefferson would stop
flirtingyelling with Adams long enough to be like, “THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE, MOTHER FUCKERSSSSS.”Franklin Pierce sits in the corner and cries. Zachary Taylor tells him to stop being a baby. Franklin Pierce reminds Zachary Taylor that he was hated for most of his life and he’s not going to take any shit from a guy who was killed by milk and fucking cherries.
I know a kid from a tribal area that bikes several miles a day to go to school in Sana’a. His family have had drone aircraft hover over their homes. One day they could step in the capital city and come home to see their entire world shattered (literally) or worse a drone could strike their home while they’re inside. The only thing worse than instantly being killed is sustaining horrific injuries without any medical facilities nearby and succumbing to a slow, painful death. This is the sad reality that many Yemenis in the rural areas are forced to endure.
When we say we hate America, we don’t mean individual citizens. I wish Americans would step outside of their narcissism for a second to understand that the term ‘America’ is applied in a political sense here. We don’t wish harm on American people, because ultimately they’re not the ones responsible for what were forced to go through. We mean the imperialism, the militarism, the warfare that’s attached to America, the forced destabilization of our country, the dwindling economy, the rampant distrust of the West which therein festers into a vulnerability that’s turned most of these newer ‘militants’ onto the idea of terrorism. It’s a vicious cycle, you see. The more innocent people killed, the increase in extremist activity, which justifies even more drone strikes and it eventually will snowball into unforeseen chaos.
Of course the individual American isn’t responsible for this, but citizens of the U.S. need to understand that it’s their tax dollars that fund this weaponry. It’s their supposed protection that’s being protected at the cost of our lives, livelihoods, stability and economical comfort. Whether or not Americans like, they are inevitably a part of this killing machine and not directly lobbying, protesting and holding their government accountable is complicity. It’s the allowance of our deaths.
An excerpt from an email that my cousin Haseem sent me yesterday, upon hearing of Obama’s re-election.
How proud I am to call this kid my family. He’s so eloquent and well written.
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- Rest of the World: Kilometers
- America: No
- Rest of the World: Celsius
- America: No
- Rest of the World: Daylight savings was last week
- America: NO
- Rest of the World: day month year
- America: No
Oh! Tariq these rascals never even thought that your dreams were as valuable as Malala’s. That you wanted to get education just like Malala. Yet these NICE people…No body is going to talk about this, because it suggests that Americans are causing misery. That White men are the bad people. No one will talk about this because it does not fit the narrative of those killed in American war as barbaric, uneducated, savages deserving of death.
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Here they are at last: the Turtle Island Girls! Oh, it was so hard to choose the girls (I have about ten more on the idea slate), but given the location, time period, and origin of the girls these were that made the first cut. God, I wish they were real.
Cahokia, 1254 (Choctaw): Issi, a shy but hopeful girl new to the great temple city
Nunavut, 1354 (Inuit): Tulugak, a mischievous girl who cares deeply about her family
Teotitlán del Valle, 1497 (Zapotec): Nisa, a responsible girl facing tumultuous changes
South Carolina, 1704 (Igbo): Somayina, a brave girl who is stolen from her home but finds her own destiny
Ontario, 1764 (Ojibwe): Memengwaa, a spunky young agokwe eager to prove herself in uncertain times
Nova Scotia, 1796 (African-American): Elizabeth, a curious girl full of hope for the future
Acapulco, 1813 (Filipina-Afromestiza): Magdalena, a fiesty girl who wants to see far-off places
Indian Territory, 1838 (Black Cherokee): Sarah, a studious girl who stays strong when life changes drastically
Texas, 1844 (Tejana): Ana, a quiet but big-hearted girl who does her best to help in times of war
Red River, 1874 (Métis): Catherine, a lively girl with an eye for trade on the Great Plains
Sonora, 1914 (Chinese-Mexican): Dolores, a clever girl torn between her family and friends during the Mexican Revolution
Vancouver, 1934 (Punjabi-Canadian): Amrita, an adventurous girl with dreams of being a star
California, 1942 (Japanese-American): Kazuko, a hardworking farm girl whose spirit keeps her family upbeat during World War II
Montreal, 1964 (Haitian-Canadian): Simone, a bright girl who has a way with words
South Dakota, 1973 (Lakota): Linda, a girl with a warrior’s heart who wants to help her people
Guatemala, 1982 (K’iche’ Maya): María, a girl who finds her strength during a long journey to a new home
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velocikrafter-of-the-water-tribe:
Because it is NOT the indigenous language of this country.
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America: where pizza is a vegetable and a woman is pregnant before she’s even pregnant
we tried
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A Tea Partier decided to pick a fight with a foreign president. It didn’t go so well.
Michael D. Higgins (who was elected president of Ireland last year) is fed up with over-the-top Tea Party rhetoric, and he isn’t afraid to show it. Listen to him call out radio host Michael Graham on everything from health care to foreign policy, and thoroughly and factually shut him down. And then call him a “wanker.” Do we really need to say more?
Update: Check out what the Irish Times has to say about our write-up of this impressive smackdown (which is currently going CRAZY viral), complete with full audio of the debate.
This is beautiful. Can we just give this man all of the awards?
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This never fails to make me smile.
I am just a blob of smiles and laughter.
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Today we happened upon an awesome map put together by Renee DiResta at her No Upside blog. What DiResta did is simple but revealing. In Google she typed in “Why is [fill in the blank state] so…” and let Google’s autocomplete function, which tracks the most common words typed after “so”, do the rest. She mapped the top four auto-completes for each state. … One of the top four autocomplete terms for Alabama, Missisippi, Georgia and South Carolina is “racist”. It’s the most common autocomplete in Alabama and South Carolina and number two in Mississippi and Georgia.
New Hampshire is awesome. Go, home state! (but Vermont is better)
I just realized that pantsless blogging is a lot sexier in Britain than in the US.
-knock knock.
—who’s there?
-freedom.
freedom would never knock
freedom rings
And if it takes longer than 30 minutes, your freedom is free.
If you experience freedom lasting four hours or more, contact your physician immediately.
Reblogging for “freedom doesn’t knock, it rings” OH GOD
