if i ever met a genie i wouldnt wish for a million dollars id wish that whenever i bought something i’d always have the right amount of money to pay for it in my pocket
you are one of the great thinkers of our time
Then you’d look at a house and be like “oh damn I wanna live there” and millions of dollars would be in your pockets, crushing and killing you instantly
credit card
have it appear in your bank account.
A credit card is only borrowing the money, you have to find a way to actually pay for it if you use a credit card because their whole purpose is to make money out of air (that you really owe someone)…
Except then people would start getting suspicious about where all this money is coming from. It becomes a problem when they start thinking you’re some kind of drug dealer because you have random amounts of cash suddenly appearing in your bank account.
I’d have the genie make it so that all of the money that people lose and will never ever find ends up in a jar in my room. Those coins that get lost in the ocean. Bills that fly away into the wind. Etc. Just those little bits of money that people lose every day.
Still a lot, so I’d probably have it be from whatever state or province I’m in at the time, or maybe make it so it doesn’t exceed the volume of the jar, or doesn’t go over a certain arbitrary amount within a specific time.
Basically I’d deathnote that wish until it’s extremely complicated.
It amuses me so much when I read fics and someone mentions about Ian wearing lime bodywash and I’m just like……. “Lol, I came up with that because it was the one I had in my shower at the time, you do know that’s not actually canon right???”
I’m sure he has used lime before. And coconut. And strawberries and cream. And vanilla. And whatever else that was the cheapest at the store at the time. And I’m assuming that all of the Gallaghers use the same soap, so they probably all smell the same all the time which is really interesting to think about.
The British government has secretly been stripping citizenship status from British nationals it suspects of terrorism, some of whom were later targeted and killed by drone attacks abroad.
According to an report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and published in the UK’s Independent on Thursday, the investigation “has established that since 2010, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has revoked the passports of 16 individuals, many of whom are alleged to have had links to militant or terrorist groups.”
Subsequently, at least two of these individuals were targeted and then killed in Somalia by missiles fired from US drones.
According to the investigation:
At least five of those deprived of their UK nationality by the Coalition were born in Britain, and one man had lived in the country for almost 50 years. Those affected have their passports cancelled, and lose their right to enter the UK – making it very difficult to appeal against the Home Secretary’s decision.
In the US, where controversy has surrounding the targeted killing of US citizens abroad, no attempt was made to strip those individuals of their citizenship prior to their assassination. But the program in the UK, by stripping legal standing prior to targeting, seems to be an attempt to avoid the contentious idea that the government would kill its own citizens without trial or due process.
In response to the revelations, Clive Stafford Smith, director of the UK-based human rights group Reprieve, tweeted:
What it means to be an ally: Theresa May strips nationality of UK citizens, US kills them with drones, independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
— Clive Stafford Smith (@CliveSSmith) February 28, 2013
And as the report describes:
In February last year, international agencies in Africa reported that “four foreign Islamist militants” had been killed in a drone strike south of Somalia’s capital, a day after the country’s Prime Minister called for foreign air strikes against the terror group al-Shabaab.
At the time a senior Western intelligence officer was quoted as saying that a “very senior Egyptian was killed” in the raid, along with three Kenyans and a Somali.
That was technically true – but in reality the Egyptian had not even been born in the country for which he held a passport. It would have been more accurate to describe him as a British terror suspect who once ran a car valeting business in London.
The Bureau has established that the victim of the February air strike was Mohamed Sakr, who was born and brought up in the UK before having his citizenship revoked in September 2010 by the Home Secretary, Theresa May.
Gareth Peirce, a leading immigration defense lawyer in Britain told the TBIJ that the situation “smacked of medieval exile, just as cruel and just as arbitrary”.
“British citizens are being banished from their own country,” she added, “being stripped of a core part of their identity yet without a single word of explanation of why they have been singled out and dubbed a risk.”
And Asim Qureshi, executive director of the human rights group CagePrisoners, responded to the the Bureau’s investigation by saying that the findings were especially troubling for Britons from an ethnic minority background.
“We all feel just as British as everybody else, and yet just because our parents came from another country, we can be subjected to an arbitrary process where we are no longer members of this country any more,” he said.
“I think that’s extremely dangerous because it will speak to people’s fears about how they’re viewed by their own government, especially when they come from certain areas of the world.”
And after all these years, the trans community is still at the back of the bus. I despise that. I’m hurt and get depressed a lot about it. But I will not give up because I won’t give the mainstream gay organizations the satisfaction of keeping us down. If we give up, they win. And we can’t allow them to win. The reason we, right now, as a trans community, don’t have the rights they have is that we allowed them to speak for us for so many damn years, and we bought everything they said to us: “Oh, let us pass our bill, then we’ll come for you.”
Yeah, come for me. Thirty-two years later and they’re still coming for me. And what have we got? Here, where it all started, trans people have got nothing. We can no longer let people like the Empire State Pride Agenda, the HRC in Washington, speak for us. And it really hurts me that some gay people don’t even know what we gave for their movement.
| — | Sylvia Rivera in Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Binary (via queeraztlan) |
Kanye West getting deep on twitter
SOLID.
this is why I love this man.
Okay, if you don’t love Kanye, I question you and will forever until you learn.
I’ve never had a man ask me straight up if it was okay to use the word “bitch” even endearingly.
Not once.is this real
yes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/kanye-west-introspective-word-bitch_n_1853966.html
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BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE IN LONDON (partic visibly muslim people South London/Woolwich area)
Please stay safe. If you live in Woolwich, please avoid going out if you can. The English Defence League are calling their members in all parts of the country to take to the streets and they are throwing missiles at police around the Woolwich area.
Please keep updated via Twitter or the EDL facebook feed.
Stay safe everyone. xx
young leo is so fucking hot
Dem eyes thoughmmmm
that hair flip
CURRENT LEO IS HOT TOO
Woah
I don’t know what y’all are talking about because I can’t see anything but that tongue.
#1: You frequently find yourself advocating that the United States send troops, drones, weapons, Special Forces, or combat air patrols to some country that you have never visited, whose language(s) you don’t speak, and that you never paid much attention to until bad things started happening there.
#3: You think globally and speak, um, globally. You are quick to condemn human rights violations by other governments, but American abuses (e.g., torture, rendition, targeted assassinations, Guantánamo, etc.) and those of America’s allies get a pass. You worry privately (and correctly) that aiming your critique homeward might get in the way of a future job.
#4: You are a strong proponent of international law, except when it gets in the way of Doing the Right Thing. Then you emphasize its limitations and explain why the United States doesn’t need to be bound by it in this case.
#6. Even if you don’t know very much about military history, logistics, or modern military operations, you are still convinced that military power can achieve complex political objectives at relatively low cost.
#7: To your credit, you have powerful sympathies for anyone opposing a tyrant. Unfortunately, you tend not to ask whether rebels, exiles, and other anti-regime forces are trying to enlist your support by telling you what they think you want to hear. (Two words: Ahmed Chalabi.)
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(a few of the) Top 10 Signs of ‘Liberal Imperialism’ by Stephen M. Walt (via globalwarmist) |
High-Res versions of Clary and Jace character posters from Yahoo! Movies
Clary looks AWESOME. Also a bit like Bella Swan or Elena Gilbert from TVD.
Isn’t she supposed to be a ginger? I remember her having extremely red hair.
(ALso I don’t watch TVD is it əleinə or əlinə? ie “ay” like “lay” or “ee” like “lee”. I’ve always wondered. Because I always want to say əleinə but dəlinə for the ship.)
Name (online only): Jacyn Anamosa Corbin
Freshman at Rice University, Martel
Cis female, pansexual, very queer, very sex-positive
I love Glee, Skins, and Doctor Who ... and Harry Potter and Teen Wolf and Sherlock and Misfits and Bones and Torchwood and the Marvel Cinematic Universe ... etc.Background: Excavation by Willem de Kooning.
