Sages, Fools, and Souls

"There is no space between the spiritual realms and reality. They are all one in the same."

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"Joyousness will always be weighed against the dynamics. Make your choices wisely..." -Me

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You have taken from me, everything; even the significance of life, and the meaning of death…

-Unknown

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I cannot help but feel, with the sharpest intensity, the life and death of each and every moment… Sometimes it is hard to breathe.

John Melton

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The woman said, “If you truly loved me you would sacrifice your pride for me.” The man said, “if in turn, you truly loved me; you would never have asked me to sacrifice my pride in the first place.”

me

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(cartoon by Rob Tornoe)

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To me, this is as much of a greed driven travesty as is privatizing prisons...

[dietandhealththings]

Photo

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Haha. Have been there before.

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Music, Singing, and Dance are celebrations to be alive... but when you have no measure of life worth living, all music seems to lose its purpose, its brilliance, or any measure of joy at all.

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"Life is rigged. And very rarely is it ever in your favor..."

-me

[h0odrich]

lemme knot

[vladtheunfollower]

this is my entire dating history with men

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turns out, women aren’t the only ones that go crazy when treated like shit.  guys dont do well with years of emotional abuse and stalking either.

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[thepersonalquotes]

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#mood

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(cartoon by Steve Sack)

[politico]

Swift repeal of Obama rules leaves former staffers steaming

"It’s devastating," says a former Interior Department employee who worked on one of dozens of regulations in Congress' crosshairs. By ALEX GUILLÉN and MARIANNE LEVINE

Joe Pizarchik spent more than seven years working on a regulation to protect streams from mountaintop removal coal mining.

It took Congress 25 hours to kill it.

The rule is just one of dozens enacted in the final months of the Obama administration that congressional Republicans have begun erasing under a once-obscure law — much to the dismay of agency staffers who hauled those regulations through the long process to implementation.

“My biggest disappointment is a majority in Congress ignored the will of the people,” said Pizarchik, who directed the Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement from 2009 through January. “They ignored the interests of the people in coal country, they ignored the law and they put corporate money ahead of all that.”

The arrival of a Republican president opened the door for GOP lawmakers to employ a rarely used legislative tool, the Congressional Review Act of 1996, to nullify executive branch regulations issued since mid-June. The act allows lawmakers to sandblast recently enacted rules with a simple majority vote — as they did last week to the stream regulation, which the Interior Department had completed in December.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign off on that repeal, along with others moving through the Capitol.

Read more here

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sure, lets destroy natural ecosystems for the sake of antiquated sources of energy so that the poorest can have their short-lived, black lung, mining jobs.

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A Very NICE … Chair © | WAV

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yes. that is a well wove chair for sure.

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nice jacket

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On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous ruling that upheld a lower federal court’s decision to temporarily block a Jan. 27 executive order on immigration.

The order suspends new-refugee admissions for 120 days, bans Syrian refugees indefinitely, and blocks travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries — Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia — for 90 days.

The order also capped the total number of refugees allowed into the country this year at 50,000, far lower than the 110,000 that the Obama administration had allotted, as we’ve reported.

In a tweet, President Trump signaled that his administration would appeal.

5 Key Points From The Appeals Court’s Travel Ban Ruling

Photo: David McNew/AFP/Getty Images