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babagoogoosh: cameralens: Rahmat Gul/AP Photo Afghan newly...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:28:53 -0500

cameralens:

Rahmat Gul/AP Photo

Afghan newly graduated police officers attend their graduation ceremony at a National Police training center in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Over 177 National police officers graduated after receiving 4 months of training in Jalalabad.

what a beautiful man

@fishrel would love this guy

mightyflynn: Yankee Stadium December 29, 2012 Photo by...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 13:49:28 -0500

mightyflynn:

Yankee Stadium

December 29, 2012

Photo by @MoveTheSticks via @daynperry

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Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:33:02 -0500

screengoddess: Marilyn Monroe 1953

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:32:37 -0500

screengoddess:

Marilyn Monroe 1953

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Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:54:47 -0400

collegehumor: Garfield and Snoopy Party No, like szriously,...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:53:20 -0400

collegehumor:

Garfield and Snoopy Party

No, like szriously, letzz go on lasgnya run.

arpeggia: Happy birthday Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 -...

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:01:28 -0400

arpeggia:

Happy birthday Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994)

Charles Bukowski, c.1981, photo by Mark Hanauer

foundingfatherfest: The Constitution mural by Barry Faulkner

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:01:13 -0400

foundingfatherfest:

The Constitution mural by Barry Faulkner

rollingstone: Rick Ross graces the cover of the new Rolling...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:15:45 -0400

rollingstone:

Rick Ross graces the cover of the new Rolling Stone, on stands Friday. Head to RollingStone.com to read excerpts from the cover story and see a behind-the-scenes video from his home town of Miami. While you are there, check out our gallery of people who got naked on the cover of the mag.

When I die I know how I’m coming back n**** reincarnated big fat black n****

Old timers

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:00:22 -0400

Old timers

wordslessspoken: Moon Bridge in Dahu Park, Taipei

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:13:05 -0400

wordslessspoken:

Moon Bridge in Dahu Park, Taipei

siphotos: Six-year-old Tiger Woods sizes up a putt at Los...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:12:57 -0400

siphotos:

Six-year-old Tiger Woods sizes up a putt at Los Alamitos Country Club in Sept. 1982. Woods is hoping to capture his 15th major championship this weekend at the PGA Championship in Kiawah Island, S.C. (AP)

LIVE BLOG: Follow all the action at the PGA Championship
MORFIT: Tiger needs to prove No. 1 goal is still possible
GALLERY: Tiger Woods - The College Years

The Story of Grant Wood's American Gothic, and How It Ruined His Life

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:09:40 -0400

mentalflossr:

While American Gothic is as recognizable as the Mona Lisa, few people know the story of Grant Wood and how the piece unraveled his life.

Cool story, bro

poeticislam: Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him)...

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:26:28 -0400

poeticislam:

Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said, “Our Lord descends to the heaven on the last third of every night, and He says: Who is calling upon Me that I may answer him? Who is asking from Me that I may give him? Who is seeking My forgiveness that I may forgive him?”

(Sunan At-Tirmidhi, Book of Supplications, Number 3498, Sahih)

عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ يَنْزِلُ رَبُّنَا كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا حِينَ يَبْقَى ثُلُثُ اللَّيْلِ الْآخِرُ فَيَقُولُ مَنْ يَدْعُونِي فَأَسْتَجِيبَ لَهُ وَمَنْ يَسْأَلُنِي فَأُعْطِيَهُ وَمَنْ يَسْتَغْفِرُنِي فَأَغْفِرَ لَهُ

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ

سنن الترمذي كتاب الدعوات باب ما جاء في عقد التسبيح باليد

Id really like to learn some Islam after and make a voyage to mecca someday. There is something very beautiful and powerul about people knelt and bowing for something invisible. The language is supposed to be beautiful too

cosmicsan: Marlon Brando and feline Brando is cool

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:18:42 -0400

cosmicsan:

Marlon Brando and feline

Brando is cool

dadseyeview: Currently. Listening to Mama play and sing. Not a...

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:48:00 -0400

dadseyeview:

Currently. Listening to Mama play and sing. Not a bad way to kick off a Saturday at all. (Taken with Instagram)

really can’t wait to be a dad, this next “make yourself successful” phase of life is probably gonna suck. should be worth it tho

jtotheizzoe: Those Who Live In Glass Houses . ....

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:50:18 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Those Who Live In Glass Houses . . .

Custom-crafted glass shells give biologists an unprecedented view of hermit crab housing behaviors. The sharing and swapping of shells between hermit crabs creates elaborate social networks, a blend of cooperation and competition that you’ve got to read to believe.

(ᔥ Carin Bondar)

I just like the picture. But I bet the articles cool too

oldtimefamilybaseball: stadium-love-: Beantown by Patrick...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:02:16 -0400

oldtimefamilybaseball:

stadium-love-:

Beantown by Patrick Giguère

Fenway Park: Home of the Boston Red Sox

I can never pass on a good photo of Fenway.

me neither.. most beautiful place on earth

youmightfindyourself: Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:16:38 -0400

youmightfindyourself:

Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’

Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale.

In his 1995 memoir “Dreams from My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke “in a white classmate’s sparkling new van,” he would smoke “in the dorm room of some brother” and he would smoke “on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.”

He would smoke it here and there. He would smoke it anywhere.

Now a soon-to-be published biography by David Maraniss entitled “Barack Obama: The Story” gives more detail on Obama’s pot-smoking days, complete with testimonials from young Barry Obama’s high school buddies, a group that went by the name “the Choom Gang.” Choom was slang for smoking marijuana.

Maraniss portrays the teenage Obama as not just a pot smoker, but a pot-smoking innovator.

“As a member of the Choom Gang,” Maraniss writes, “Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends.”

The first Obama-inspired trend: “Total Absorption” or “TA”.

“TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton’s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled,” explains Maraniss. Here’s how it worked: If you exhaled prematurely when you were with the Choom Gang, “you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around.”

As one of Obama’s old high school buddies tells Maraniss: “Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated.”

Another Obama innovation: “Roof Hits.”

“When they were chooming in a car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.”

Maraniss also says Obama was known for his “Interceptions”: “When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!,’ and took an extra hit.”

Although Obama himself wrote that he and his pot smoking buddies were a “club of disaffection,” Maraniss says that’s not really true.

“In fact, most members of the Choom Gang were decent students and athletes who went on to successful and productive lawyers, writers and businessmen,” Maraniss writes. One notable exception was Ray, the group’s pot dealer who, known for his ability “to score quality bud,” would years later be killed by a scorned gay lover armed with a ball-peen hammer.

Obama himself managed to be a pretty good student despite all the pot smoking and unconventional study habits.

“He told his Choom Gang mates that the trick was if you put the textbook under your pillow the night before you would perform better on an exam,” Maraniss writes. No way, dude!

Back to the pot smoking.

Hawaii of the early 1970s was something of a pot-smoking Mecca.

“It was sold and smoked right there in front of your nose; Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud, Kona Gold, and other local variations of pakalolo were readily available,” writes Maraniss.

Obama’s pal Mark Bendix had a Volkswagen microbus known as “the Choomwagon.” They would often drive up Honolulu’s Mount Tantalus where they parked “turned up their stereos playing Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult and Stevie Wonder, lit up some ‘sweet-sticky Hawaiian buds’ and washed it down with ‘green bottled beer’ (the Choom Gang preferred Heineken, Becks, and St. Pauli Girl). No shouting, no violence, no fights; they even cleaned up their beer bottles.”

Of course, smoking, drinking and driving on mountain roads could also be a little dangerous. Especially the night they tried drag racing.

The race to the top of Mount Tantalus pitted the “Choomwagon” against another friend’s Toyota. Obama was in the Toyota. The Choomwagon made it to the top first. When the other car didn’t show up, those in the Choomwagon drove back down to find them. Here’s how Maraniss describes what happened next:

“On the way down, they saw a figure who appeared to be staggering up the road. It was Barry Obama. What was going on? As they drew closer, they noticed that he was laughing so hard he could barely stand up.”

His friend had rolled the car. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. And, amazingly, they avoided trouble by leaving the driver alone to deal with the police by claiming it was just an unfortunate “mishap.”

Maraniss concludes his chapter on Obama’s high school years by looking at a note Obama had written in his high school yearbook in a section reserved for students to give a line or two giving thanks to those who helped along the way.

Obama had written this: “Thanks Tut [his grandmother], Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times.”

Maraniss notes: “Ray was the older guy who hung around the Choom Gang, selling them pot. A hippie drug dealer made his acknowledgements; his mother did not.”

The White House told ABC News that it has no comment.

(Editor’s note: Al Gore invented the Internet. Barack Obama invented hotboxing. The More You Know™)

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todaysdocument:

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