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April 2012

A Changing Manifesto

My work is a set of questions concerning the systems that we all function within. 

Increasingly, I have been finding it a bit difficult to sit still, behave, and just put my head down. This is now a fight.

I ask the questions I do in order to understand the precisely “why”. 

I am always hungry for more knowledge, more understanding. 

My life, and the events, the tragedy, the imperfect, unkept promises within it have driven me to this. It is the only way to rebuild.

I am different now, but I will always remember. 

The work is a testament to that. The questions are a way of bringing understanding, and eventually a community.

I am always interested in changing the question, the answer is always changing as well.

My work becomes a manifesto of intent regarding my want to change the world.

What we have worked once, but there is a series of actions that have happened that have made it stop working. No one is fine anymore.

This entire thing is work that I can never see the end of.

Every time one question is answered, the answer just poses more questions. There is too much for me, alone.

Nothing in this world is definitive.

This statement is included because I think that this is an important point to make.

There is no use holding still, and trying to avoid the splash. Now it is raining.

I am interested in those points where things changed.

History is something that I am always skeptical of because it is always a lie. Only the winners write our history books.

The United States supported the Third Reich before they began their assault on the rest of Europe.

Things like this have been ignored by those that tell us “the facts”, because they are building taller walls.

Inevitably we will have the wool pulled over our eyes, or we will fight back. I choose the later.

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Apr 27, 201287 notes

christopher-isherwood:

I kind of want to start every conversation off by “hey guy”

I kind of do this all the time.

I’m a little ashamed.

Apr 25, 20124 notes
“The Vatican has issued a harsh statement claiming that American nuns do not follow their bishops’ thinking. That statement is profoundly true. Thank God, they don’t. Nuns have always had a different set of priorities from that of bishops. The bishops are interested in power. The nuns are interested in the powerless. Nuns have preserved Gospel values while bishops have been perverting them. The priests drive their own new cars, while nuns ride the bus (always in pairs). The priests specialize in arrogance, the nuns in humility.” —Garry Wills (via azspot)
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Robert Reich: Why Anyone Should Care that Bill O'Reilly Calls Me A Communist → robertreich.org

robertreich:

Bill O’Reilly, the tumescent personality of Fox News, said on his Friday show “Robert Reich is a communist who secretly adores Karl Marx.” (This came after Fox News’ Neil Cavoto called me a “sanctimonious twit” for suggesting the rich should pay more in taxes.)

O’Reilly’s accusation is odd, to…

Apr 23, 2012253 notes
Scanning the Heavens: When a Bishop goes too far...  → michaelgizzi.tumblr.com

michaelgizzi:

For the past week I have been reading how in his “homily” last week, Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky went on a tirade against President Obama, comparing him with Hitler and Stalin; describing him in terms of supporting “intrinsic evil.” Rather than describe what he said, I’ll quote it:

You know, it…

Apr 21, 201225 notes
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But, Is It Punk? → hyperallergic.com

This is an excellent article regarding what punk has become today (and within the arts community). None of this Blink 182 stuff, but there are some rainbows and sparkle(s).

Apr 20, 2012
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Santorum flier says he's 'frightened' by Romney as nominee

shortformblog:

  • the plot Last week, the final GOP candidate considered a serious threat to a Mitt Romney nomination, Rick Santorum, dropped his presidential bid. He did not, however, offer any endorsement to his supporters of his former political rival.
  • the twistMailers received by voters in Iowa today bearing Santorum’s name said: “It truly frightens me to think what’ll happen if Mitt Romney is the nominee.” He also declined to urge support for Romney in a conference call last night. source
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Tonight, Senate Republicans voted to block the Buffett Rule, choosing once again to protect tax breaks for the wealthiest few Americans at the expense of the middle class.

The Buffett Rule is common sense. At a time when we have significant deficits to close and serious investments to make to strengthen our economy, we simply cannot afford to keep spending money on tax cuts that the wealthiest Americans don’t need and didn’t ask for. But it’s also about basic fairness—it’s just plain wrong that millions of middle-class Americans pay a higher share of their income in taxes than some millionaires and billionaires.

One of the fundamental challenges of our time is building an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules. And I will continue to push Congress to take steps to not only restore economic security for the middle class and those trying to reach the middle class, but also to create an economy that’s built to last.

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—President Obama in a statement on today’s vote (via barackobama)
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