Such a cool idea :D
This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.
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| — | Gary Provost (via helloheather) |
They call themselves ‘fiscal conservatives’, and they’re spending a trillion dollars a year managing an empire. You’re not going to solve our problems that way. You can’t tinker around with cutting food stamps for the poor and think you’re going to solve this problem. We have to change our attitude about the role of government. We can’t be the policemen of the world, we shouldn’t be policing personal lifestyles, and we certainly shouldn’t be running the economy. We have to have those attitudes changed or there’s no hope of us solving our problems.
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Ron Paul (via laliberty) I seriously love this man. |
Bisher al-Rawi, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, is brought to tears as he discusses how helpless he feels in regards to the current situation of the detainees he spent time with in Guantanamo Bay (who are still incarcerated there), most of them wrongly accused and held without any specific charges or evidence to prove any threat they may pose.
“Working on things related to Guantanamo is so painful that you do it for a day, you do it for two days, you do it for a while, and then you just want to run away from everything. I seem to be doing that. I work a bit then it consumes me so much that I just can’t bear it anymore and that’s just when I stay away from things for a while and then go back. And I wish I could work harder, I wish I could do something…. I wish I could, I wish I could help more, but I just want to say I’m sorry, I really don’t know what to do. I’m very sorry.”
Torture and humiliation methods include (but are not limited to) physical abuse, forced nudity, sexual humiliation, sexual assault, forced injections, sleep deprivation, long and short shackling for hours on end, environmental manipulation, violent dogs, use of phobias as torture, extreme cold, cultural humiliation, religious humiliation, hours of interrogations, sensory bombardment, stress positions, sensory deprivation, isolation, and music torture.
(s/o to @a-restless-being for linking the video on his tumblr)
This is high up on the list of things that matter, a lot, where Obama and Romney will probably be exactly the same.
