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Billions and Billions

I see billions and billions no, not in dollars but stars

If I could I would spend trillions and trillions on all the people of the world

All I'm seeing is connections lately I look out on the block to see who they're arresting daily

I see a little boy with the big shirt barking like a dog getting beat raw in the name of the law

I see the impact craters that we leave in the lawn of a Pakistani farmer trying to find peace through Allah

P.S.

Sorry about your daughter Sorry about your son We'll call them unidentified militants if they're over 21

I am them we are one the blood only has one way to run

Up.

If I see billions and billions, it's not in dollars it's in stars

If I had trillions and trillions I'd spend it on all the people of the world

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If empathy knew no borders....

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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell: Re-Think Your Limit on Adjunct Faculty in Virginia

WHAT IS AN ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

Adjunct faculty are contingent professionals who teach on college and university campuses. “Contingent Professionals” refers to a whole class of high-skilled workers who are engaged for their expertise. We bear the workload of full-time faculty but do not have the full-time contract or salary of full-time professors. Adjuncts, however, are equally qualified for their work. Students typically are not aware of who among their teachers are adjunct vs. full-time faculty unless they ask.

VIRGINIA’S RULE

In the Governor’s Manpower Control Program, the decision was made to reduce the number of hours adjunct faculty are allowed to teach. This rule cuts our hours and has resulted in 25% of adjunct faculty in the VCCS System having their income capped to less than $20,000 a year. This has also made it impossible for adjunct professionals to qualify for healthcare coverage as mandated by Obama's Affordable Healthcare Act now that their hours are less than 30 hours a week. This rule cuts our hours and has resulted in faculty losing their current healthcare they’ve been paying for out-of-pocket, as well as losing their homes, childcare, etc. due to inability to afford it.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?  You can sign this petition. If you live in Virginia, you can write to your state representative and let them know that you stand for fair and just treatment for adjuncts. You can also remind them that the impact on students attending higher education in Virginia will be impacted by larger class sizes, limited class offerings and the absence of adjunct faculty that will no longer be able to afford working as as an adjunct professor.

Success in getting our voices heard and making change happen may set precedent for fairer and equitable treatment of adjunct faculty in Virginia.

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How's it feel when you're feeling sick and all the Doctor wants to talk about is the mother fucking bill How's it feel when you're feeling cold when the heat's cut off you start wearing extra clothes How's it feel  when you're feeling sad yeah, they shot your only son and they shot him in the back How's it feel  when you're feeling hurt It doesn't matter how you feel just Work! Work! Work! How's it feel when you're feeling old you're fucking twenty four you got a broken soul Because you feel what these others only talk about in theory They try to spit these numbers but they'll never illustrate me I swear this shit drives me fucking crazy Robots in the sky will one day want to replace me Hah! With a mother fucking jerk but one thing you can't replace is this single fucking word. Love.

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As the death machines fly over the beach I realize that the only thing beautiful left is inside me.

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Dissolve the nation-states in a bath tub of acid. I don't want to live in this world unless its classless.

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More than ever, Lenin struck me as a happy man. Walking home from the Kremlin, I tried to think of any other man of his calibre who had had a similar joyous temperament. I could think of none. This little, bald-headed, wrinkled man, who tilts his chair this way and that, laughing over one thing or another, ready any minute to give serious advice to any who interrupt him to ask for it, advice so well reasoned that it is to his followers far more compelling than any command, every one of his wrinkles is a wrinkle of laughter, not of worry. I think the reason must be that he is the first great leader who utterly discounts the value of his own personality. He is quite without personal ambition. More than that, he believes, as a Marxist, in the movement of the masses which, with or without him, would still move. His whole faith is in the elemental forces that move people, his faith in himself is merely his belief that he justly estimates the direction of those forces. He does not believe that any man could make or stop the revolution which he thinks inevitable. If the Russian revolution fails, according to him, it fails only temporarily, and because of forces beyond any man's control. He is consequently free with a freedom no other great man has ever had. It is not so much what he says that inspires confidence in him. It is this sensible freedom, this obvious detachment. With his philosophy he cannot for a moment believe that one man's mistake might ruin all. He is, for himself at any rate, the exponent, not the cause, of the events that will be for ever linked with his name. -

Arthur Ransome Russia in 1919 Notes Of Conversations With Lenin

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The wind blew through the trees, and it was as if the heavy set leaves were clapping for me; celebrating my arrival, breathlessly awaiting my baptism in the lake. Like Oedipus, I became one with the earth. Like a Vietnamese folk hero, I drowned myself out of shame. The Lennon they never knew. The Lenin they never knew.

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If life can be snatched from those who it was just handed to, why should I expect to live to get to the end of this sentence. 

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If I died and left a Bible in my wake, it would not be as sweet as to live a few more years with my love, even if I never wrote or did anything important at all.

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Unaffiliated with organized religion, but still believe in a Higher Power? Paint your picture of God by taking the Painting God Project Survey and help three George Mason University students on a research project. 

Thanks to all who have participated in the project so far. We are less than 30 surveys away from our goal of 100! Help us reach 100 surveys by spreading the word! 

Access survey here:

http://tinyurl.com/a732jku

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Unaffiliated with organized religion, but still believe in a Higher Power? Paint your picture of God by taking the Painting God Project Survey and help three George Mason University students on a research project. 

Thanks to all who have participated in the project so far. We are less than 30 surveys away from our goal of 100! Help us reach 100 surveys by spreading the word! 

Access survey here:

http://tinyurl.com/a732jku

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Unaffiliated with organized religion, but still believe in a Higher Power? Paint your picture of God by taking the Painting God Project Survey and help three George Mason University students on a research project. Access survey here: http://tinyurl.com/a732jku

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Unaffiliated with organized religion, but still believe in a Higher Power? Paint your picture of God by taking the Painting God Project Survey and help three George Mason University students with a research project. Thanks! Access survey here: http://tinyurl.com/a732jku

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‎"For since men are made happy by the acquisition of happiness, but happiness is itself a divinity, it is obvious that they are made happy by the acquisition of divinity. But as by the acquisition of justice they become just, or by the acquisition of wisdom, wise, so by the same argument they must, when they have acquired divinity, become gods. Therefore, every happy man is a god, though by nature God is one only: but nothing prevents there being as many as you like by participation... it must be confessed that happiness is itself God." -Boethius (ca. 480– 525 AD) Unaffiliated with organized religion, but still believe in a Higher Power? Take the Painting God Project Survey and help three George Mason University students collect data on an exciting new global trend. Access Survey here: http://tinyurl.com/a732jku

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‎"The image of God is found essentially and personally in all mankind. Each possesses it whole, entire and undivided, and all together not more than one alone." -Ruysbroeck  Unaffiliated with organized religion, but still believe in a Higher Power? Take the Painting God Project survey and help 3 George Mason University students collect data on an exciting development in the world of religion and spirituality! Feel free to spread the survey to as many people as possible. We are aiming for 100 responses! Access survey here: http://tinyurl.com/a732jku