– Heinrich Heine. A Jew. Some months before the Nazis implemented their “final solution”.Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
Be the change that you want to see.
Mahatma Ghandi (via mattviolet)Read more »Be the change that you want to see.
Occupy Needs YOU!
If you live near an Occupy camp, or feel any kind of horror at the fact that the brutal arm of injustice is currently destroying books… Occupy Needs You!
To turn up.
Bring books, sleeping bags, tarps, food… Anything you can spare. Everything you can carry.
Bring them to the rally points and bring a message with you.
Occupy now needs to keep a watch on the police, to be aware of raids. People in the camps need to be
Read more »Planned Obsolescence is Crippling Me
Every girl loves shoes, right?
We’re stereotypically obsessed by them. All girls allegedly want to be Imelda Marcoss when we grow up.
Not me.
I’m apparently one of those rare women who want shoes that work and last. Looking pretty is icing on the cake. I’m going to spend all day in these suckers and I do not want pinched toes or sharp decorative bits or heels that make my trick ankles go off - resulting
Read more »Why I'm concerned about OWS
Hubby says the protests are only about the American economy. He says I shouldn’t fret so hard about the economy or the protestors or the whole movement.
I know I worry about things too much. I overthink and over stress. And I see patterns in time.
I see rich people gaining power through their wealth and making laws that solely benefit themselves. I see isolated wealthy in ivory towers not understanding why the “peasant class” are so upset.
Read more »Tax Receipt Not Going Far Enough
I’ve been seeing a lot of retweets endorsing the idea of a “tax receipt”, a document telling you, the taxpayer, where your tax dollars are going.
I say it’s a good first step.
A better move would be a Tax Vote. You fill out the form declaring whatever and indicate exactly where you want your dollars to go. And list them in order of importance.
THAT would be a government of true democracy.
Just think about
Read more »Help Out a Pegasister?
We interrupt my quasi-regular wall-street themed rant to bring you: ponies.
Or rather, the supreme lack thereof.
Here in Queensland there seems to be an amazing dearth of toys based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I was under the mistaken assumption that Hasbro wanted to make money out of this.
And yet…
There are absolutely
positively
NO
moulded-hair show-accurate figurine sets anywhere in my area.
And since my daughter loves Rainbow Dash [She’s pretty heavily ASD and
Read more »Illustrating things
You can try this at home.
You need: 2 100-piece packets of paperclips [est cost $1.10 ea]
1 lot of free time
One packet represents percentages of the population [PKT 1] and the other represents percentages of wealth [PKT 2].
Find a way to distinguish PKT 1 from PKT 2. You can do this by obtaining different colours/sizes of paperclips or spritzing them with paint. Anything you like. I just kept it straight in my head.
Pick one paperclip from
Read more »We Need to Take Action NOW
Experts warn we have five years before climate change is irreversible.
It took us ten years to make certain Y2K didn’t happen. We’re already five years behind and you can bet corporate greed is not on our side. Spread the message. We need to fix the environment YESTERDAY.
Read more »Why Iceland isn't in our news much. READ THIS - a country has a REVOLUTION, rewrites its constitution using REGULAR citizens & gets rid of...
Everyone needs to see this. Occupy your own freedom.
Read more »Final installment! For now, anyway. Last steps of prepping the planters is to place a the cloth over the stones to prevent soil escaping the...
Final installment! For now, anyway.
Last steps of prepping the planters is to place a the cloth over the stones to prevent soil escaping the planter. You can also use any old rag that comes to hand, or dryer fluff if it doesn’t.
I put the lid back on to stop the local wildlife from stealing the cloth.
Why not just put cloth in the bottom, you may ask. Well, stones aid drainage and give water a path to escape.
Read more »Welcome back, frugal freedom fighters. This post is showing you the basic preparations for a planter box, or set thereof. The tools for...
Welcome back, frugal freedom fighters. This post is showing you the basic preparations for a planter box, or set thereof.
The tools for today are some cheap plastic gutter mesh [the stuff you put in gutters to keep the leaves out] a pair of decent scissors [if you bought wire mesh, use side-cutters!] and the paperclip staples I showed you how to make last time.
Step 1: Measure the mesh to fit, but make sure it fits up the sides of the
Read more »studio630: The Story of Broke Annie Leonard gives another powerful, thought-provoking video as a continuation of the "Story of Stuff". The...
I’ve learned some things about tumblr, now, so this is a two-parter. Should I make you wait for part 2? We’ll see. I initially...
I’ve learned some things about tumblr, now, so this is a two-parter. Should I make you wait for part 2? We’ll see.
I initially wanted the boxes and setup closer to the washing line [it made sense to me] but hubby put the whole box and dice on some bare-ish earth at the other corner of the house. As you can see from the tool set, it’s going to get weird.
If you don’t
Read more »My Continuing Adventures in Frugal Freedom Finding
Keep in mind that I’m rounding out prices and, for everyone’s protection, I am obscuring the shops’ names. Clever readers will be able to figure it out in no time at all, I am certain.
As I write this, I have recently returned from a mat-hunt. Anyone who’s played WoW and does not want to spend a fortune at the Auction House knows what that’s about. You go out grinding for materials, or
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