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If you have yet to be called an incorrigible, defiant woman, don’t worry, there is still time.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say,
God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words
get it all wrong. We say bread and it means according
to which nation. French has no word for home,
and we have no word for strict pleasure. A people
in northern India is dying out because their ancient
tongue has no words for endearment. I dream of lost
vocabularies that might express some of what
we no longer can. Maybe the Etruscan texts would
finally explain why the couples on their tombs
are smiling. And maybe not. When the thousands
of mysterious Sumerian tablets were translated,
they seemed to be business records. But what if they
are poems or psalms? My joy is the same as twelve
Ethiopian goats standing silent in the morning light.
O Lord, thou art slabs of salt and ingots of copper,
as grand as ripe barley lithe under the wind’s labor.
Her breasts are six white oxen loaded with bolts
of long-fibered Egyptian cotton. My love is a hundred
pitchers of honey. Shiploads of thuya are what
my body wants to say to your body. Giraffes are this
desire in the dark. Perhaps the spiral Minoan script
is not language but a map. What we feel most has
no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses, and birds.Jack Gilbert -
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US drone strike kills 14-35 in eastern Afghanistan on Monday
January 23, 2013According to provincial officials in the eastern Afghan province in Nuristan, US drones fired multiple missiles against the Kamdish District late Monday, causing “around 35” casualties, with others reporting at least 14 deaths in the strike. Local officials termed all the slain suspects.
Oddly, NATO officials insisted they had no information about any operations ongoing in the region, and they declined to speculate whether there was a strike at all, though not all drone strikes are necessarily coordinated through NATO.
The Kamdish District borders Chitral, Pakistan, which is part of Malakand. The region is near Pakistani militant positions, but is not specifically associated with any militant groups nor US drone strikes against them.
Nuristan Province has been contested repeatedly by the Taliban, with the Taliban setting up its own government and being the de facto rulers off and on for years. The US has redeployed troops since the 2009 withdrawal from the region, but the Taliban maintains a significant presence.
SourceThe U.S. really knows how to celebrate a presidential inauguration don’t they?
What No one seems to understand is that the U.S. has not been striking on common people. The drone strikes have been on militants, such as the Taliban. I don’t think many of you understand that the only people who are dyeing are terrorists; people who kill to stop girls from getting an education and to prevent the U.N. from delivering polio vaccines to people who need it. I am not making this stuff up. Look it up.
Yes
Only terrorists
PAKISTAN
Name | Age | Gender
- Noor Aziz | 8 | male
- Abdul Wasit | 17 | male
- Noor Syed | 8 | male
- Wajid Noor | 9 | male
- Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male
- Ayeesha | 3 | female
- Qari Alamzeb | 14| male
- Shoaib | 8 | male
- Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male
- Tariq Aziz | 16 | male
- Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male
- Maezol Khan | 8 | female
- Nasir Khan | male
- Naeem Khan | male
- Naeemullah | male
- Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male
- Azizul Wahab | 15 | male
- Fazal Wahab | 16 | male
- Ziauddin | 16 | male
- Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male
- Fazal Hakim | 19 | male
- Ilyas | 13 | male
- Sohail | 7 | male
- Asadullah | 9 | male
- khalilullah | 9 | male
- Noor Mohammad | 8 | male
- Khalid | 12 | male
- Saifullah | 9 | male
- Mashooq Jan | 15 | male
- Nawab | 17 | male
- Sultanat Khan | 16 | male
- Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male
- Noor Mohammad | 15 | male
- Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male
- Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male
- Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male
- Abdullah | 18 | male
- Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male
- Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male
- Shahbuddin | 15 | male
- Yahya Khan | 16 |male
- Rahatullah |17 | male
- Mohammad Salim | 11 | male
- Shahjehan | 15 | male
- Gul Sher Khan | 15 | male
- Bakht Muneer | 14 | male
- Numair | 14 | male
- Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
- Ihsanullah | 16 | male
- Luqman | 12 | male
- Jannatullah | 13 | male
- Ismail | 12 | male
- Taseel Khan | 18 | male
- Zaheeruddin | 16 | male
- Qari Ishaq | 19 | male
- Jamshed Khan | 14 | male
- Alam Nabi | 11 | male
- Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male
- Rahmatullah | 14 | male
- Abdus Samad | 17 | male
- Siraj | 16 | male
- Saeedullah | 17 | male
- Abdul Waris | 16 | male
- Darvesh | 13 | male
- Ameer Said | 15 | male
- Shaukat | 14 | male
- Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
- Salman | 12 | male
- Fazal Wahab | 18 | male
- Baacha Rahman | 13 | male
- Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male
- Iftikhar | 17 | male
- Inayatullah | 15 | male
- Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
- Ihsanullah | 16 | male
- Luqman | 12 | male
- Jannatullah | 13 | male
- Ismail | 12 | male
- Abdul Waris | 16 | male
- Darvesh | 13 | male
- Ameer Said | 15 | male
- Shaukat | 14 | male
- Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
- Adnan | 16 | male
- Najibullah | 13 | male
- Naeemullah | 17 | male
- Hizbullah | 10 | male
- Kitab Gul | 12 | male
- Wilayat Khan | 11 | male
- Zabihullah | 16 | male
- Shehzad Gul | 11 | male
- Shabir | 15 | male
- Qari Sharifullah | 17 | male
- Shafiullah | 16 | male
- Nimatullah | 14 | male
- Shakirullah | 16 | male
- Talha | 8 | male
YEMEN
- Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female
- Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female
- Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 | female
- Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female
- Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male
- Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male
- Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | female
- Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3 | female
- Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female
- Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female
- Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | male
- Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female
- Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female
- Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad | 1 | female
- Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 | female
- Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male
- Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female
- Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 4 | female
- Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 | male
- Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male
- Daolah Nasser 10 years | 10 | female
- AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 | male
- Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male
- Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki | 17 | male
- Nasser Salim | 19
I guess they’re all terrorist right? Usually when you make such a bold and ignorant claim, it’s your responsibility to “look it up” and provide the facts, especially when it is so, incredibly far from the truth.
[List taken from a post by Xeb695 which was provided by Droneswatch]
The absorbation of propaganda is frightening.
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**please do not remove artist’s comments or repost this comic!!!**
okay so i finally finished this comic for my design class! i might eventually print it in small booklets or make multiple episodes/issues if enough interest is expressed. if you reblog this and you would be interested in purchasing/reading issues of this or comics like this, please say so so that i can gauge whether or not this is something i should pursue! <3
the final image is what the back cover will look like if i print it!
EDIT: the phrase “sorry my friendship is a crappy consolation prize” is adapted from a post by tumblr user pampampam!
EDIT 2: i added the page in between 2 and 3 to make the friendzoner’s reaction make more sense and to better communicate the point i was trying to make with this comic!
I ADORE this comic.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Khalil Gibran -
“The Sciences Sing a Lullaby” by Albert Goldbarth
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes
nonstop from mitosis to now.
Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance
inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.
Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch
by inch America is giving itself
to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness
lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch.
You aren’t alone. All of the continents used to be
one body. You aren’t alone. Go to sleep.
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
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History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down. -
To live content with small means;
to seek elegance rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich;
to study hard, to think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;
to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open heart:
to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the
common.
This is to be my symphony.William Henry Channing
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the next generation ladies and gentlemen. Faith in humanity is restored.
This truly touches me
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