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This. Is why I love America.

I don’t mean like loving that way or anything!

from Zerochan

(Or rather soon-to-be ex-classmates…)

So, why are you excited to spend your vacations on the U.S.?

Classmates: I can’t wait for the theme parks! Oh, and this Water Park, and Walt Disney World, and the rollercoasters and buy this and that clothing and arrgh! It’ll be awesome! 8D

Me: My family there lives conveniently in access to several bookstores, and there are several museums I want to visit or re-visit! History! Also, there’s this book I want to get and this animation film that isn’t being sold ATM in my place, and those videogames at a decent price… I also can’t wait to be able to wear coats and the like on a bit cool weather :’D

…really. I was looking through the list of unvisited museums from last year that I missed and I just got ecstatic. Ffff. I can’t wait to be a Gru in Halloween, either.

…I’m not saying it’s “bad” what my classmates aspire to (I would personally love to go to Walt Disney World someday, I’m just not overexcited yet ^^; ) but oh boy… well, I guess that the clothing factor detracts me a bit, so yay?

If anybody of you lives in Virginia or Columbia or Maryland or the like, please tell me so I can give in an attempt to bug you :3 hah!

/Random

this is insane!

(Or rather soon-to-be ex-classmates…)

So, why are you excited to spend your vacations on the U.S.?

Classmates: I can’t wait for the theme parks! Oh, and this Water Park, and Walt Disney World, and the rollercoasters and buy this and that clothing and arrgh! It’ll be awesome! 8D

Me: My family there lives conveniently in access to several bookstores, and there are several museums I want to visit or re-visit! History! Also, there’s this book I want to get and this animation film that isn’t being sold ATM in my place, and those videogames at a decent price… I also can’t wait to be able to wear coats and the like on a bit cool weather :’D

…really. I was looking through the list of unvisited museums from last year that I missed and I just got ecstatic. Ffff. I can’t wait to be a Gru in Halloween, either.

…I’m not saying it’s “bad” what my classmates aspire to (I would personally love to go to Walt Disney World someday, I’m just not overexcited yet ^^; ) but oh boy… well, I guess that the clothing factor detracts me a bit, so yay?

If anybody of you lives in Virginia or Columbia or Maryland or the like, please tell me so I can give in an attempt to bug you :3 hah!

/Random

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates artificially inseminated an unknowing woman in 2028. With a combination of each other’s sperm. Yes, you read that right. That child eventually became President and the blood line continues to run America in my time. By the way we aren’t the “United States of America” anymore. We are now, “United International 1”. Get used to that.

this is insane!

not a tourist, but i had to :)

not a tourist, but i had to :)

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Viva! by i ea? s?ars on Flickr.

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These are the states I’ve been to. Hell, this is EVERYWHERE I’ve been to.

This is even more accurate regarding my minimal travels.

Note that St. Martin Parish in Louisiana is split up in two because of a surveying error made in the 1860s. I have not been to the isolated southern part of it, just the northern portion that Interstate 10 runs through.

In total, I have been to 183 counties, parishes, independent cities in 13 states, comprising 5.8% of all the counties in the country, and I have been to the District of Columbia.

Overall, it’s proof that I really need to travel more. I still haven’t even been south of St. Petersburg in my home state, but at least I’ve made it to New York City, Washington, D.C., and erm … Houston.

You can make one of these maps here, by the way.

CIA Assassination, Regime Change, Mass Murder and Saddam

Another very good example of a CIA-organized “regime change” was a coup in 1963 that employed political assassination, mass imprisonment, torture and murder.  This was the military coup that first brought Saddam Hussein’s beloved Ba’ath Party to power in Iraq. At the time, Richard Helms was Director for Plans at the CIA. That is the top CIA position responsible for covert actions, like organizing coups.  Helms served in that capacity until 1966, when he was made Director. In the quotations collected below, the name of the leader who was assassinated is spelled variously as Qasim, Qassim and Kassem.  But, however you spell his name, when he took power in a popularly-backed coup in 1958, he certainly got recognized in Washington.  He carried out such anti-American and anti-corporatist policies as starting the process of nationalizing foreign oil companies in Iraq, withdrawing Iraq from the US-initiated right-wing Baghdad Pact (which included another military-run, US-puppet state, i.e., Pakistan) and decriminalizing the Iraqi Communist Party. Despite these actions, and more likely because of them, he was Iraq’s most popular leader.  He had to go! In 1959, there was a failed assassination attempt on Qasim. The failed assassin was none other than a young Saddam Hussein. In 1963, a CIA-organized coup did successfully assassinate Qasim and Saddam’s Ba’ath Party came to power for the first time.  Saddam returned from exile in Egypt and took up the key post as head of Iraq’s secret service. The CIA then provided the new pliant, Iraqi regime with the names of thousands of communists, and other leftist activists and organizers. Thousands of these supporters of Qasim and his policies were soon dead in a rampage of mass murder carried out by the CIA’s close friends in Iraq. Iraq is once again a target of US “regime change.” Despite that, precious little is being said by the corporate media about how the CIA aided and abetted political assassination, regime change and mass murder, all in the name of putting Saddam’s Ba’ath power into power for the first time in Iraq. One thing is for sure, the US will find it much harder to remove the Ba’ath Party from power in Iraq than they did putting them in power back in 1963.  If more people knew about this diabolical history, they just might not be so inclined to trust the US in its current efforts to execute “regime change” in Iraq. - Richard Sanders

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An American Eagle for NIKE Soccer (by tsevis)

Happy Flag Day everyone!

On Top of Trains by Thomas Hawk on Flickr.

Tinawag na ngang West Philippiine Sea ang South China Sea. Good start, yes. Mejo tumatapang na Pilipinas. Kaso nung sinabi na pano kung gyerahin na tayo ng China, anung sagot ng mga nasa pwesto? “ANJAN NAMAN ANG AMERIKA.”

EPIC FAIL.

Sorry, pero walang pakealam satin ang Amerika ngayon. Mashado pa silang madaming problema at to tell you honestly, wala pa silang pakinabang sa Pilipinas sa mga panahon na to. So kung wala parin tayong backbone, e pano mo nga ipaglalaban yang walong isla na yan?

White House (by Tom Lohdan)

“Sleepless in Seattle” (by WorldofArun)

Seattle skyline (by WordRidden)

Oliver the Great Dane by gr8dnes on Flickr.

Time-lapse map of every nuclear detonation from 1945 to 1998.

It’s like a scary worldwide game of Simon.

An American Eagle for NIKE Soccer (by tsevis)

A mosaic eagle for Nike and the U.S.Soccer Women National Team in Germany 2011 FIFA World Cup.

Go USWNT!
Go Girls!

Best viewed large.
Attention: Big file. (8192 x 8192 pixels = 27.3” x 27.3” @ 300 ppi)

Alternately you can zoom in to the high res (127 megapixels) file with Microsoft ZoomIt.

This is a vector illustration made with custom developed scripts, hacks and lots of love, using my Mac, Studio Artist, the Adobe Creative Suite and good music.

Many thanks to Amy Meservier and all Nike Portland team.

You can buy the t-shirt here or here and many other online shops. It will be available in more colors soon.

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