Absolutely loveddddddd this!
He may be a jackass but dayummm he is good.
You may say I'm a dreamer..
But I'm not the only one.
Had to watch this in my culture and identities class, sooo funny!
Whip it Polly
Kudos to my roomate for finding this jem.
“I’m gonna grape you right in the mouth!” - new catchphrase of the house.
Because it worked out so well for American crime rates, right?
Steven Colbert was part of the United Farm Workers (UFW) campaign “Take Our Jobs” calling on unemployed Americans to take jobs in the agriculture sector. He decided to address Congress on the issue. When asked why, he said, “I like talking about people who don’t have any power, and they seem to be one of the least powerful people in the United States… the migrant workers who come and do our work but don’t have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here and at the same time, ask them to leave. It’s an interesting contradiction to me.”
Best lines from the speech:
“But this is America, I don’t want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.”
“I started my workday with preconceived notions about migrant labor. But after working with these men and women, picking beans, packing corn for hours on end, side-by-side, in the unforgiving sun, I have to say - and I do mean this sincerely - please don’t make me do this again.”
“Maybe the easier answer is just to have scientists develop vegetables that pick themselves. The genetic engineers over at Fruit and Loom have made great strides in human fruit hybrids. The point is, we have to do something because I am not going back out there. At this point I break into a cold sweat inside of a salad bar.”
Canadian penitentiaries "warehousing" the mentally ill
And yet people are still confused as to why recidivism rates are so high?
Prison Farms
This is from the states but seeing as Canada’s last prison farm was shut down just earlier this year it’s still relevant. Harper claims those who participated weren’t entering the agricultural sector after release, and that the farms served too few of the inmate population. What Harper should have been looking at was the rate of employment overall after release, not specifically which sector they entered. http://www.saveourfarms.ca/ makes some great arguments that of course mean very little to a Conservative government.
So happy someone finally made this video haha
Amazing cover
Christianity
Something I came across on Perez one day. Not really that familiar with the woman, but her quote says it all. Perfectly lays out some of the main reasons I’ve avoided becoming immersed in religion.
“For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being “Christian” or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten …years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else. As I said below, I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of …Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.”
For the whole article: Anne Rice Quits Christianity! | PerezHilton.com http://perezhilton.com/2010-07-29-anne-rice-quits-christianity#ixzz13zHe2zYK
