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foreignergrl

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Foreignergrl is a woman from Brazil, USA

    Completely useless information about me that no one needs to know or care about:

    * I'm really into music. I mean REALLY.
    * I'm a huge fan of Leonard Cohen, Dylan, Nick Cave, French, and Alternative music.
    * I am a rotary dial phone collector, a Linux user, and an IR student.
    * I love animals, especially dogs.
    * My dog was bilingual. He understood Portuguese and English.

    And yes, I am also an Atheist. But only on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I am an Agnostic, and on weekends, while slightly intoxicated, I'm totally convinced that Leonard Cohen is God.



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    "The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
    -Leonard Cohen

    "It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
    -Oscar Wilde

    "Yeah... well, there are no dirty words... ever"
    -Leonard Cohen


  • http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksfio3uHZq1qzbqvao1_500.jpg

    Rated Nov 01 • 1 review • photography, ecards, black and white • tumblr.com






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    I was...




    PS.: I have a connection.

    Yay!

    This is my first post using Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala.

  • Created Nov 01 •






    Listening to (and missing)...
    Elliott Smith




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    Touble
    Angeles
    The Biggest Lie




  • Huxley talking about "Brave New World" and "1984"

    Rated Nov 01 • 3 reviews • literature, huxley, video, orwell • youtube.com




    Aldous Huxely on Brave New World and 1984


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    "...the message of Brave New World, which is possible to make people contented with their own servitude. I think this can be done, I think it has been done in the past, and I think it can be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

    (...)

    The Totalitarian regimes of the future will not be based upon terror because they will have other means (...) brain washing and propaganda, which will be much more efficient and much more economical than the use of force."


    Watch Huxley




  • Carlos Barbarito: Bestiarium of love

    Rated Nov 01 • 1 review • poetry, carlos barbarito • d-sites.net






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    "...She said:
    If you cling to me you will cling to life,
    you will travel and you will not meet
    the rhinoceros or the tiger;
    you will go without arms and without a shield
    into the midst of the combantants.
    The rhinoceros will have nowhere to put its horn,
    nor the tiger its claws, nor the blade its edge.
    Death will find no place."

    -Carlos Barbarito
    Excerpt from Tao of the Beloved Woman




  • African Lion

    Rated Nov 01 • 1 review • animals, university, photography • si.edu






    Lion Luke


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    Luke in 2007 taking a break from his lunch to curiously watch the snowfall

  • Dylan Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Rated Nov 01 • 3 reviews • literature, poetry, dylan thomas, poets • wikipedia.org






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    "...Though they go mad they shall be sane,
    Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again
    Though lovers be lost love shall not;
    And death shall have no dominion."

    -Dylan Thomas
    Excerpt from And Death Shall Have No Dominion

  • Nancy Pelosi unveils House health care bill, Boehner and...

    Rated Nov 01 • 1 review • politics, news, health care • examiner.com






    Just Follow the Money, as Usual






    "Why would Senator Lieberman not support a public option? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that he has received over $2.5 million in campaign contributions from the insurance/health care/pharmaceutical industries. Or, it could have something to do with his wife, Hadassah. She works in the pharmaceutical division of a public relations firm that represents health care giant Glaxo."


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    As a friend of mine always says, the key piece to every puzzle is found when you follow the money. Just that, pure and simple. Works every time.

    I find it entertaining how it takes Americans so long to understand they are being played, and worse: used and thrown against themselves in a game against all to protect corporate profits. How can anybody seriously believe that pharmaceutical companies are working to cure diseases, when their profit comes exactly from more and more people being sick?

    It is only when profits come from a healthy society that we will see serious efforts being done to keep you healthy. Pure and simple economics: companies will act in their own best interest (and obviously as we can see here, so will politicians); so, if their big bucks come from you buying medicine... duh... guess? They wont try to find a cure for you. What they will try to do is to treat you and control whatever it is that you have, so you depend on that medicine and keep coming back for more to feed their research and development shareholders' pockets.


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    I just seriously hope that by now you are all at least demanding answers and flooding Mr. Lieberman's office with emails, letters, and phone calls.

  • Nouvelle Vague (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Rated Nov 01 • 1 review • music, wikipedia, nouvelle vague • wikipedia.org






    Nouvelle Vague


    "...So in a manner of speaking
    I just want to say
    That just like you I should find a way
    To tell you everything
    By saying nothing..."




    In a Manner of Speaking

  • Halloween - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Rated Oct 31 • 13 reviews • halloween, happy halloween su, wikipedia, happy halloween • wikipedia.org














    Happy Halloween, SU!


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    My favorite holiday ever is here again.
    Have lots of fun trick-or-treating**, Stumblers!




    **Remember to go easy on the candy -whatever kinda "candy" y'all go trick-and-treating for later. Too much of a good thing can make you really really really high. Not that I would know... just saying.


    :)

  • Healthcare Reform - Salon.com

    Rated Oct 27 • 2 reviews • politics, health care • salon.com





    Not Even 24 Hours to Celebrate




    Apparently, Senator Joe Lieberman (Independent from Connecticut), will vote with Senate Republicans to filibuster the legislation.


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    Well, I just have one number to throw at Mr. Lieberman: 47 million.

    That alone should be enough to end the debate, but what we dont hear often is about the underinsured, and who knows how many millions they are. I can tell for sure that they're just about everybody I know.

    Also often absent from these "debates" are those in dead end jobs but cant adventure to find another, where they can fully exercise their potential because, lo and behold, they have insurance; and that is so precious right now, anybody would do anything to keep it.

    This is immoral. Even the *debate* is immoral. Politics in this country is filthy and sickens me half to death. It matters zero to me if the country has excellent care to offer, but it is not accessible to me and the ones I love.

    Get this, for the love of everything you hold sacred: life is a human right. A sick person looking for treatment does not equal a consumer in a shopping mall, by any stretch of the imagination. Whomever thought of that analogy should benefit from being admitted in a mental institution, and I would contribute my taxes gladly so that he or she stays there forever.

    The Declaration of Independence of this country reads that:



    "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."



    It does NOT say you have the right to life if you can afford it. It does NOT say you have the right to life if your genes are good and you dont have any pre existing conditions. It does NOT say you have the right to life if you are employed, young, or strong. It says you have the right to life *period*.



    "To say my fate is not tied to yours is like saying:
    "Your end of the boat is sinking."
    -Hugh Downs