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Saturday, April 07, 2012
Street Preacher
Uploaded by GrapplingIgnorance on Apr 6, 2012
Preacher, street preacher, there you stand
advertising torture for eternity.
Leather bound bible in your hand
desperate to blind the ones who see.
Fearlessly you shower words on the apathetic crowd.
This one-way form of communication makes you feel alive.
And when engaged by dissent you're doubly proud
Of the broken old rhetoric you contrive.
Preacher, street preacher, there you stand
Hiding in plain sight
Saturated by language you don't understand
prying at emotions with all your might.
Whenever your feet are held to the fire
To justify your holy book,
You claim those interpretations conspire
To give your god a grotesque look.
Preacher, street preacher, there you stand
Refusing to awaken.
Grasping at straws with a slippery hand
Tossing practiced lies to those who've forsaken.
Forsaken a god who was never there
A god who never spoke,
An all-present god who exists no-where
Street Preacher, you're a joke.
Preacher, street preacher there you stand
You know it's the end of your procession.
You're the modern world's trembling strand
of an obtuse obsolete profession.
Fight the change, but the truth prevails
You operate on the time you borrow.
Your book of vitriolic tales
Worshipped today, but dust tomorrow.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/GrapIgnorance
advertising torture for eternity.
Leather bound bible in your hand
desperate to blind the ones who see.
Fearlessly you shower words on the apathetic crowd.
This one-way form of communication makes you feel alive.
And when engaged by dissent you're doubly proud
Of the broken old rhetoric you contrive.
Preacher, street preacher, there you stand
Hiding in plain sight
Saturated by language you don't understand
prying at emotions with all your might.
Whenever your feet are held to the fire
To justify your holy book,
You claim those interpretations conspire
To give your god a grotesque look.
Preacher, street preacher, there you stand
Refusing to awaken.
Grasping at straws with a slippery hand
Tossing practiced lies to those who've forsaken.
Forsaken a god who was never there
A god who never spoke,
An all-present god who exists no-where
Street Preacher, you're a joke.
Preacher, street preacher there you stand
You know it's the end of your procession.
You're the modern world's trembling strand
of an obtuse obsolete profession.
Fight the change, but the truth prevails
You operate on the time you borrow.
Your book of vitriolic tales
Worshipped today, but dust tomorrow.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/GrapIgnorance
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Friday, April 06, 2012
Mirror: Stupid Systems
Uploaded by rriverstone1 on Apr 6, 2012
He's painfully unsubscribed! One of the best atheist commentators out here! Go sub. and learn something! http://www.youtube.com/user/jolulipa
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United States' penal system is being privatized. You have a lot of useless laws, and the rich profit from putting you in jail. As I see it, the prison populations are gonna get increasingly bigger.
The only industrialized, developed country in the world, with a privatized "public" health system. "Good health insurance is reserved for republican congressmen and the rich".
Wake up people. Your Legal system was made for vengeance not for rehabilitation. Your health system is made up for profit, not to improve public's health. CHANGE THAT!
References:
1 in 4 Americans Have Criminal Record http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeEyDXqBIa8
News clips from The Global Public Square from CNN's Fareed Zakaria, leading journalists at TIME and CNN.
The Report in PDF format: http://www.google.com.do/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=us%20population%20criminal%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Center for Economic and Policy Research, Bureau of Justice Statistics, International Center for Prison Studies (Kings College London), US census Bureau, The Sentencing Project, National Employment Law Center.
1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says, New york Times (2/28/2008) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
http://www.alternet.org/economy/148442/how_wall_street_profits_from_the_crimi...
Burke, M.E., 2004 Reference and Background Checking Survey Report: A Study by the Society for Human Resource Management, Alexandria, VA: Society for Human Resource Management, 2006.
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2003, Criminal Justice Information Policy Report, Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, February 2006 (NCJ 210297).
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime in the United States, 2007, Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, September 2008.
Holzer, H.J., S. Raphael, and M.A. Stoll, "Perceived Criminality, Criminal Background Checks, and the Racial Hiring Practices of Employers," Journal of Law and Economics 49 (2) (October 2006): 451-480.
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http://youtu.be/m8b07uqK3Ag
Uploaded by jolulipa on Mar 29, 2012
United States' penal system is being privatized. You have a lot of useless laws, and the rich profit from putting you in jail. As I see it, the prison populations are gonna get increasingly bigger.
The only industrialized, developed country in the world, with a privatized "public" health system. "Good health insurance is reserved for republican congressmen and the rich".
Wake up people. Your Legal system was made for vengeance not for rehabilitation. Your health system is made up for profit, not to improve public's health. CHANGE THAT!
References:
1 in 4 Americans Have Criminal Record http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeEyDXqBIa8
News clips from The Global Public Square from CNN's Fareed Zakaria, leading journalists at TIME and CNN.
The Report in PDF format: http://www.google.com.do/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=us%20population%20criminal%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Center for Economic and Policy Research, Bureau of Justice Statistics, International Center for Prison Studies (Kings College London), US census Bureau, The Sentencing Project, National Employment Law Center.
1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says, New york Times (2/28/2008) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
http://www.alternet.org/economy/148442/how_wall_street_profits_from_the_crimi...
Burke, M.E., 2004 Reference and Background Checking Survey Report: A Study by the Society for Human Resource Management, Alexandria, VA: Society for Human Resource Management, 2006.
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2003, Criminal Justice Information Policy Report, Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, February 2006 (NCJ 210297).
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime in the United States, 2007, Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, September 2008.
Holzer, H.J., S. Raphael, and M.A. Stoll, "Perceived Criminality, Criminal Background Checks, and the Racial Hiring Practices of Employers," Journal of Law and Economics 49 (2) (October 2006): 451-480.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012
"For the Youth" - ROSEANNE BARR FOR PRESIDENT
you have GOT to be kidding! Her big announcement is about how wonderful she is??? And she's clumsy at it? Hell, at least Obama was slick! And pretended to be humble! It's a narcissist festival this year! Fuck it! I'm voting for Shirley Chisolm again. Who cares if she's dead? At least she was articulate, informed, integrated and socially conscious! This is EMBARRASSING!a few seconds ago ·
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Art? Obamba burns Constitution
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He's right about the destruction of the destruction of the Constitution, but it's CORPORATE socialism. "We, the people" are just commodities and consumers now. I got suckered in to voting for Obama. Big mistake. ti was just "Democratic" party BRANDING. When he had that Queer-bashing preacher pray at his inauguration, I knew I'd been had. I'm voting Green this year -- and NOT for Roseanne Barr, either. So ironic that, under an African American President, standing on the shoulders of giants like Parks, King, X, et al, we have lost more civil rights in 4 years than we gained in the last fifty. A pox on BOTH your houses!
The Hideous Anti-Obama Artwork Selling for $300k (VIDEO)
Monday, February 06, 2012
USA tent 'cities' on rise as US economy crumbles (23Dec11)
Uploaded by liarpoliticians on Dec 24, 2011
Tent "cities" are springing up and enlarging across the USA as more are forced out of homes by the crooked bankers, as they receive corporate welfare from the government to carry on defrauding taxpayers. Meanwhile politicians like President Obama look on as he gives bankers money.
Recorded from Sky News, 23 December 2011.
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French Roast
Uploaded by MOHMMD on Dec 9, 2009
French Roast:
The oscar nomination for:
The Best Short Film (Animated) 2010
Visit the creators' website: http://www.frenchroast.fr/
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Letter From Freed Slave to Former Master
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Letter from freed slave to master creates buzz: A letter from a freed former slave to his onetime master was reportedly written in August 1865, but it has people talking this week because of its remarkable balance of civility, cynicism and smarts.
BET bans Nikki Minaj video: Nicki Minaj has used shock value to stay in the spotlight and to stand out from other hip-hop acts. But it looks like her latest video for BET went a little too far.
Susan G. Komen pulls money from Planned Parenthood: Yesterday a Komen spokesperson told the Associated Press that the foundation, which has raised more than $1 billion for breast-cancer research, education and prevention, had simply changed its funding policies to exclude any organization under investigation by local, state or federal authorities. But in a widely circulated statement, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards cried foul.
How Newt lost Florida: Slate says it wasn't just the bad debate performances and the moon base. Rather, his disorganized campaign got outflanked and outclassed.
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Letter from freed slave to master creates buzz: A letter from a freed former slave to his onetime master was reportedly written in August 1865, but it has people talking this week because of its remarkable balance of civility, cynicism and smarts.
BET bans Nikki Minaj video: Nicki Minaj has used shock value to stay in the spotlight and to stand out from other hip-hop acts. But it looks like her latest video for BET went a little too far.
Susan G. Komen pulls money from Planned Parenthood: Yesterday a Komen spokesperson told the Associated Press that the foundation, which has raised more than $1 billion for breast-cancer research, education and prevention, had simply changed its funding policies to exclude any organization under investigation by local, state or federal authorities. But in a widely circulated statement, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards cried foul.
How Newt lost Florida: Slate says it wasn't just the bad debate performances and the moon base. Rather, his disorganized campaign got outflanked and outclassed.
Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Vlog: Assault, Death Threat from Ray
Uploaded by rriverstone1 on Feb 1, 2012
If you don't get replies to comments or private messages from me for more than a week, please call the police. I'll let you know when I am safe.
Article without masthead: East Mountains KOB TV http://eastmountains.kob.com/news/health?page=2
Previous video I edited of TV news stories about Raymond Karbel: "Meet My Neighbor" http://youtu.be/zqw5Dm6mNVM
This is my next door neighbor. They had to wear hasmat suits to enter the house, the ammonia was so strong. All those buildings, sheds and vehicles on his old property were crammed with junk. I was there to help him one day; I saw it.
He has stolen each of my dogs and kept them for many hours, without telling me. He vandalized my gasoline-power bicycle. He drove a fence post through the parachute that covers my trailer. He threatened to beat and kill me. When he agreed to help me get my goats, he stranded me seven miles from town and I had to hitch hike home.
He is the landlord's "friend," so complaining, I've been warned, will get me evicted. The landlord is an ex-cop (and self-described "bible thumper.") He has the local police convinced I'm just being petty and "paranoid" for expressing concerns.
He has 2 of those little "pug" dogs and a large white dog. They are neurotic, frightened, anxious, aggressive and hostile. They bark, shriek, fight and scream under my bed window for hours at all times of day or night. He used to have a very deranged, sick-smelling, black dog that would climb the flimsy, chicken wire "fence" he erected ON my parachute, garden hose and DSL line; come in my yard and try to kill my cats. I don't know what happened to that dog. I guess it finally escaped; I haven't seen her in months. He's only had the pugs and the white dog a few months. They arrived here normal and healthy. Now, they're really disturbed.
Ray tries to take my dogs any time they get out of my yard. The landlord says he's "helping" me...by keeping my dog for 12 hours, without telling me, and reporting to a neighbor that he did it because I "don't take care" of my dogs? right.
He's really scary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6128XSirio http://youtu.be/jUzQZ1W5oEM
Monday, January 30, 2012
Vlog: I'm MOVING OUT! :)
Uploaded by rriverstone1 on Jan 30, 2012
"During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for 800 years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry."
-Mark Twain, Bible Teaching and Religious Practice essay, "Europe and Elsewhere", 1923
Music by Kevin MacLeod
Monday, January 23, 2012
"Occupy Congress - Live Performance In The Belly Of The Beast" - M.O.C. ...
Uploaded by LeeCamp2 on Jan 23, 2012
I performed live in our nation's capital just last week, on the four-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Immediately following this performance the thousands who were there stormed the steps of the Supreme Court and the White House.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Vlog: Plz. Help; I Need 2 Move
Uploaded by rriverstone1 on Jan 18, 2012
I need support, ideas, networking, problem solving to move from this location. I am not safe here and neither are my animals, nor my property. This is an acute priority. I need to leave as soon as I can, but not to something worse, out of desperation.
Meet My Neighbor
http://youtu.be/zqw5Dm6mNVM
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
I've Got You By Mélange Lavonne
I stumbled on her one day, completely by accident. That's a park, in Los Angeles, where I spent a LOT of time as a young, baby "butch." She tickles me: strong and sweet. I'm not sending any hidden messages here. I just love this video and wanted you to see it. She so makes me smile!
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Country caravans as tiny, Bohemian shelters in rural France
Uploaded by kirstendirksen on Jan 16, 2012
Country caravans, or according to those at Roulotte de Campagne, "Bohemian-style caravans" are back in style. "There's a fresh craze for these quaint mobile homes," declare the designers.
Roulotte de Campagne has redesigned the circus caravan, country caravan or so-called gypsy caravan as a high-comfort way for city-dwellers to get away from it all and tap into their Bohemian spirit. "'Roulotte' gypsy caravans," they say, "epitomize freedom and the great outdoors".
They can be rented in 80 locations across France for about 70 to 95 euros per night or bought for 33,900 euros (this includes help marketing them as a B&B).
Caroline of Hôtel Chai de la Paleine added one to the grounds of her home/chateau/hotel in the medieval village of Puy-Notre-Dame (in the Loire-Anjou-Touraine regional park). She rents it by the night alongside her 3 Carré d'étoile cube shelters made by the same designers (who also created the tiny pod dwellings, Le Pod).
Original story here: http://www.faircompanies.com/videos/view/country-caravans-as-tiny-bohemian-sh...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The Story with Dick Gordon in Haiti
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When Haitians look at their island, they see what the earthquake took from them, but they also see a space to re-create; a country with better housing, more jobs. This is on the mind of Jemps Civil, a young entrepreneur. Every day as he waits for his bus, he stands next to an empty lot where his media business used to be. Computers, microphones were all crushed in the collapsing building and two years later, he has been saving money to buy the equipment again. “Life is risk, “he says, “and taking those risks brings grace.”
Dick Gordon the host of The Story spent a week in Haiti and takes listeners into cafes, courtyards and homes to hear the stories of Haitians as they re-invent their country.
Listen on the radio: http://thestory.org/Stations
Listen to the podcast: http://thestory.org/podcasts
When Haitians look at their island, they see what the earthquake took from them, but they also see a space to re-create; a country with better housing, more jobs. This is on the mind of Jemps Civil, a young entrepreneur. Every day as he waits for his bus, he stands next to an empty lot where his media business used to be. Computers, microphones were all crushed in the collapsing building and two years later, he has been saving money to buy the equipment again. “Life is risk, “he says, “and taking those risks brings grace.”
Dick Gordon the host of The Story spent a week in Haiti and takes listeners into cafes, courtyards and homes to hear the stories of Haitians as they re-invent their country.
Listen on the radio: http://thestory.org/Stations
Listen to the podcast: http://thestory.org/podcasts
Friday, January 06, 2012
Homeless man had little, gave much
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I don't know how to break this to your readers, but a lot of us who live on less than a grand a month spend at least ten percent of it on others, particularly kids. He's just an ordinary guy, doing what we poor folk do: taking care of each other, because the people who could actually afford to change things can't be bothered to put down the remote. The poor have always helped the poor. Everybody else pretty much just exploits us.
I don't know how to break this to your readers, but a lot of us who live on less than a grand a month spend at least ten percent of it on others, particularly kids. He's just an ordinary guy, doing what we poor folk do: taking care of each other, because the people who could actually afford to change things can't be bothered to put down the remote. The poor have always helped the poor. Everybody else pretty much just exploits us.
Homeless man had little, gave much
Fitzgerald, the fifth homeless pedestrian killed by a vehicle this year in Santa Rosa, carried a secret that stunned most people who'd known the gentle, soft spoken man who suffered from mental illness all his adult life.Surviving lately on about $600 a month in disability payments, Fitzgerald sent $56 a month to an international charity to support two 9-year-old children in the west African nation of Senegal."For a lot of people that's a drop in the bucket," said his older sister, Kathleen Fitzgerald-Orr of Santa Rosa. "It's like giving up a latte a day."But for a man on the edge like Kevin Fitzgerald, donating nearly 10 percent of his income sometimes meant he had to "do without," his sister said.
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