hopelessly hopeful: Archive

George Bush is sat in the oval office one morning, reviewing the Iraq situation with his generals. The door opens, an aide walks in.

“Bad news I’m afraid, Mr President, we have just had word that 3 Brazilian soldiers have been killed in Iraq.”

President Bush drops to his knees and puts his face in his hands and starts sobbing with grief, absolutely inconsolable. The President seems to have taken the news incredibly badly. All the assembled generals can hear from the president is a mumbled “Oh my god… oh my god…”

Eventually, Bush looks up to Dick Cheney through teary eyes from where he is kneeling and asks, “Exactly how many is a brazillion, Dick?”

(via bjornstar)

Jan 27, 200910 notes

“To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy is lying, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. The only relation of consciousness to happiness is gratitude: here lies its incomparable dignity.” —Theodor Adorno (via Eric Gamalinda)

Jan 24, 2009

Jan 23, 2009192 notes

Can I pretend that the South didn't have slaves, would that be cool?

And then we could pretend that the Civil War was fought solely over the issue of states rights versus federalism.

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Jan 21, 20094 notes

“With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.” —President Barack Hussein Obama

Jan 20, 2009

“Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.” —Thomas Paine

Jan 20, 2009

“Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.” —President Barack Hussein Obama

Jan 20, 2009

“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted - for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things - some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.” —President Barack Hussein Obama

Jan 20, 2009

“America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.” —President Barack Hussein Obama

Jan 20, 2009

“I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.” —Martin Luther King Jr, upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 (via binding wor(l)ds together)

Jan 20, 2009

“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles—right and wrong—throughout the world. They are two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle, in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says: ‘You work, and toil, and earn bread, and I’ll eat it.’ No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.” —Abraham Lincoln

Jan 19, 20091 note

“Never in my most un-lucid moments had I imagined it.” —Cloris Leachman, on being selected as grand marshal of today’s Rose Parade, from the Los Angeles Times

Jan 1, 2009

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