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luckyshirt:

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

This photo needed a simultaneous link to the music which will be in my next post.

15 August 2010 reblog: luckyshirt mozart freedom


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I was just talking about this clip with some folks, then it came up in my RSS feed somehow. What a convenient reminder to post it here!

14 August 2010


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Fill up premium please?

Mantis at the Shell station tonight.

13 August 2010


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12 August 2010


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Not a bad way to spend an evening… got to shake hands with the president after a nice speech and campaign stop for Mayor Callahan’s run for Congress. Highly recommended to those who haven’t had the experience!

10 August 2010 John Callahan President Bill Clinton


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9 August 2010


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And then there’s what Mayor Bloomberg has to say about it:

langer:

Mayor Bloomberg joined ten religious leaders this afternoon at Governor’s Island to support the construction of the Córdoba House, the Islamic community center being built in southern Manhattan. The Córdoba House received it’s final go-ahead today when the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to deny landmark status to the building currently on the site, a vote which was attended by shouts of “shame!” from a few unhinged protestors in the audience (pictured above).

Bloomberg then proceeded to hit it out of the fucking park during the speech he delivered after the vote:

We’ve come here to Governors Island to stand where the earliest settlers first set foot in New Amsterdam, and where the seeds of religious tolerance were first planted. We come here to see the inspiring symbol of liberty that more than 250 years later would greet millions of immigrants in this harbor. And we come here to state as strongly as ever, this is the freest city in the world. That’s what makes New York special and different and strong.

Our doors are open to everyone. Everyone with a dream and a willingness to work hard and play by the rules. New York City was built by immigrants, and it’s sustained by immigrants — by people from more than 100 different countries speaking more than 200 different languages and professing every faith. And whether your parents were born here or you came here yesterday, you are a New Yorker.

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That’s life. And it’s part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

On that day, 3,000 people were killed because some murderous fanatics didn’t want us to enjoy the freedoms to profess our own faiths, to speak our own minds, to follow our own dreams, and to live our own lives. Of all our precious freedoms, the most important may be the freedom to worship as we wish. And it is a freedom that even here — in a city that is rooted in Dutch tolerance — was hard-won over many years. …

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, ‘What God do you pray to? What beliefs do you hold?’

3 August 2010 reblog: langer


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Pat Condell on Ground Zero mosque: “Is it possible to be astonished, but not surprised?” - Jihad Watch

As one of the hurdles to building the Mosque at Ground Zero was eliminated today, I again remembered this video which I first saw a few weeks ago. At first I was all for the mosque… as much as I’d be ‘all for’ building any religious building anyway. I must say, though, that this video gives me a bit more to think about. I’m particularly interested in what a certain coworker of mine (you know who you are) thinks about it…

3 August 2010 ground zero mosque controversy


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3 August 2010 wine century club


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3 August 2010


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…oh my.

2 August 2010


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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

— Henry David Thoreau

1 August 2010


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john:

sirmitchell:

Ironically, Rep. Weiner is a FUCKING BADASS. I urge everyone to reblog and RT this. #seriously

                   John Stewart’s old roommate is the real deal. 

I’ll join the reblog party. This is what we need in Congress… call those a-holes out for their delays and stall tactics. If you believe in something, vote yes. If you don’t believe in it, vote no.

30 July 2010 reblog: sirmitchell


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I could never find the right time to use the font from Star Trek: TNG but it seems NTB has…

30 July 2010


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Great way to start the day off. I’ll have to find a new shop to get an alignment done from now on.

FOX Noise on at the Hyundai dealership now this here. Is it only Tea Partiers that get maintenance done??

30 July 2010


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