I'm Erin. I'm from Port St. Lucie, FL, and went to school @ UF in Gainesville, FL. Now I live in Austin, TX.
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It turns out that one can finagle first class upgrades thorugh timespace portals.
(via tien)
how? how?
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According to recent estimates, the country is spending $3 million per mile to build a fence along its border with Mexico designed to keep out illegal immigrants seeking opportunities they cannot find at home. But for every mile of that fence, 2,500 young Latin Americans could receive monthly $100 grants to cover the costs of staying in school so they can get good jobs. For every mile of that fence, 15,000 children could receive Internet-capable laptop computers from MIT’s Media Lab, enabling them to join the globalized world rather than falling behind.
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Óscar Arias Sánchez, president of Costa Rica
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I’m not ashamed to say that a lot of what I know about current events, I learn from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Here Colbert explains the basics of the oil situation.
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Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century.
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George W. Bush
ummmm…
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In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it.
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Awesome. God, do we need John Lennon today…
something fierce.
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i <3 colbert
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Back of the hand, small of the back. Perhaps the finest decision of his presidency.
— Jon Stewart (again) on George Bush’s reaction to US Olympic Volleyball player Misty May-Treanor’s invitation for (presumably) a pat on the ass.