words of love and despair
August 2011
“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
—John Muir (via just-breezy)
"Look, I don’t want to jump in and be too vitriolic here, but I think you guys lit the fire.
I mean, let’s be real about this. Bill Clinton had a budget surplus. George Bush gave us the deficit, gave us the recession, gave us the de-regulatory craziness that led us over the cliff. The Tea Party is the tail wagging the dog. It is the inmates running the asylum. It is people who don’t know history, economics, politics, sociology, science…it is insane!”
~ Eliot Spitzer
Budget of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Fiscal Year 2012 →
cpc.grijalva.house.gov
The People’s Budget eliminates the deficit in 10 years, puts Americans back to work and restores our economic competitiveness. The People’s Budget recognizes that in order to compete, our nation needs every American to be productive, and in order to be productive we need to raise our skills to meet modern needs.
July 2011
hard day of climbing @ malibu creek
I led my second 5.9, but didn’t onsight it. It was pumpy, diagonaly, slighty over hungish with a massive bulge below the 3rd bolt (of course right?)
I followed it first, then TR’ed it to clip in my PASS and lock off the rope on a grigri so I could take photos of others on two adjecent routes. First time I tried that and man it got uncomfortable quick. Not sure if it was how I clipped in or my harness or what but I hung for about 15-20 minutes. It wasn’t even my camera because I forgot to bring it.
I also worked another 5.9 and flailed on a 5.10c that was pretty wicked (completely overhanging and sequential) that I was able to finish. I threw for one hold and hurt my left elbow when I over shot it and pulled it. Then I slipped off.
Today I am sore, particularly my left arm.
Bachmann Defends Using Federal Loans She Denounced: ‘It’s Almost Impossible To Buy A Home’ Without Them →
thinkprogress.org
GOP presidential contender Michele Bachmann (R) has been in hot water in recent weeks for personally taking advantage of hundreds of thousands of dollars in government aid while denouncing the very programs she benefited from. Most recently, the Washington Post discovered that Bachmann and her husband signed for a $417,000 home loan backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac just weeks before she called for the two mortgage giants to be entirely dismantled.
Bachmann has been a consistently fierce critic of mortgage lending programs and has advocated abolishing the government sponsored mortgage enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yet she took out the maximum possible loan from those programs to finance her family’s move to a lavish 5,200-square-foot home on a golf course.
“If one party declared that the earth was flat, the headlines would read ‘Views Differ on Shape of Planet.’”
—Paul Krugman (via whiporwill)
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
—Goethe (via weknowsolittle)
