Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you’re unlike any other?
You’ll always be my thunder
Dashboard Confessional — Belle of the Boulevard
Down in a local bar
Out on the Boulevard
The sound of an old guitar
Is saving you from sinking
It’s a long way down, It’s a long way
Back like you never broke
You tell a dirty joke
He touches your leg
And thinks He’s getting close
For now you let him
Just this once
Just for now
And just like that
It’s over.
[Chorus]
Don’t turn away
Dry your eyes, dry your eyes
Don’t be afraid
But keep it all inside, all inside
When you fall apart
Dry your eyes, dry your eyes
Life is always hard
For the Belle of the Boulevard
In all your silver rings
In all your silken things
That song you softly sing
Is keeping you from breaking
It’s a long way down, it’s a long way
Back here you never lost
You shake the shivers off
You take a drink
To get your courage up
Can you believe it?
Just this once
Just for now
And just like that
It’s over
[Chorus]
Don’t turn away
Dry your eyes, dry your eyes
Don’t be afraid
But keep it all inside, all inside
When you fall apart
Dry your eyes, dry your eyes
Life is always hard
For the Belle of the Boulevard
Please hold on, it’s alright
Please hold on, it’s alright
Please hold on
Down in a local bar
Out on the boulevard
The sound of an old guitar
Is saving you
[Chorus]
Don’t turn away
Dry your eyes, dry you eyes
Don’t be afraid
Keep it all inside, all inside
When you fall apart
Dry your eyes, dry your eyes
Life is always hard
For the Belle of the Boulevard
:(
Don’t we just all love the Inquirer’s photo editors?
That is the weirdest wave I have ever seen. Also, GMA has that Voldemort vibe in this photo.
I got scared. :(
calling the art director, the proofreader and the publisher. seriously!
Life in Color: Yellow Photo, Eyelash Viper Wallpaper, Download, Photos — National Geographic
i need another c0lor than red
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are
– Malcolm Forbes (via simtan) (via quote-book) Via Quote Book:![There is Something Very Rotten in Denmark
Commentary by Captain Paul WatsonFounder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
What a piece of work is a man, how ignoble in reason, howfinite in faculties, in form and moving how crude andcontemptible, in action how like a destroying demon, in apprehension how likea cruel god! the scourge of the world, the most monstrous of all animals-and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Mankinds foul butchery delights not me, nor the living things of the Earth, nor woman neither, though by their cynical smiling, the Danes seem to say so.- Shakespeare revised for modern times.- Torn from Hamlet and butchered by the author to illustrate a point.
My mother was Danish and her father Otto Larsen was a famous Danish painter. His sister was the first woman judge in Denmark and our family on my mother’s side, were proud of their Danish heritage.
I however cannot be proud of Denmark. It is a nation that supports and encourages gross cruelty to whales and seals and it is a nation that is contributing greatly towards the extinction of many species of animals.
Denmark is “courageously” defending cartoons from fundamentalist Muslims but seems to be unconcerned about the wholesale slaughter of marine wildlife species.
The horrific annual slaughter of thousands of defenseless pilot whales every year in the Danish Faeroe Islands is just as cruel as the dolphin slaughter by the Japanese in Taiji. The children of the Faeroe Islands have a higher level of mercury in their bodies than even the children of Taiji, Japan.
I have fought Faeroese whalers and the Faeroese authorities for years. We have had dramatic confrontations in Faeroese waters in 1985 and 1986 and again in 2000 trying to stop the pilot whale drive where entire pods are driven into shore, knifed, speared, stoned and clubbed in a barbarous orgy of cruelty and waste.
I have seen the bays of the Faeroe Islands stained red with blood and I’ve heard the screams of mortally wounded whales pleading for their lives as insensitive brutes drunk on slaughter are showered in the hot blood of the whales, laughing and swearing as their vicious blades rape the whales repeatedly. It is a monstrous spectacle and it is an obscenity fully embraced by the Danish government and many of the Danish people.
The massive Danish industrialized fishing industry is scouring the North Sea clean of sand eels, the tiny fish that are the staple for the comical puffins. The sand eels are ground into cheap fish meal to feed factory farmed chickens in Denmark. If the puffin goes extinct then Denmark will bear the greatest burden of the blame for the tragedy of trading the beautiful and lively puffin for a few chicken McNuggets.
Denmark supports the killing of whales and seals in Greenland including endangered Fins and Bowheads. And now Denmark is openly attacking the European Union for defending the great whales from illegal Japanese, Icelandic and Norwegian whaling activities.
Last week (June 5th) the European Union agreed on a common position to support the continuation of the global moratorium on commercial whaling. The European Union will present a united front at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in two weeks.
Denmark however has decided to be the sole European Union member to exclude itself from this united front.
“With this decision the European Union can now take a strong role at the International Whaling Commission and use all its political, moral and economic weight to ensure a more effective protection of whales worldwide,” said Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas.
Denmark responded to this statement with hostility calling the move “cultural imperialism.”
Denmark does not openly support commercial whaling, although it supports whaling in the Faeroe Islands and Greenland - which, while part of the Danish Kingdom are not part of the European Union.
“For 20 years, Denmark has held the same position in support of these other parts of the kingdom,” said Ole Samsing, a Danish diplomat to the European Union who is also the country’s IWC commissioner.
“It is cultural imperialism trying to decide on behalf of these people who are not in the European Community,” he said.
When did concern for the environment and the protection of species become “cultural imperialism?” This is a ridiculous accusation from a country whose only claim to fame lately has been to publish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. Such is the cultural ignorance of the cartoonists that they did not know that Arabs do not wear turbans. Yet Denmark has defended the cartoons and Danes have expressed their belief that Denmark is defending Christian values in the face of Muslim extremism. This smacks more of cultural imperialism than the legitimate concern of European nations to stop the illegal killing of whales.
Defending the rights of cartoonists as champions of Christian values while endorsing the illegal slaughter of whales and dolphins displays a warped sense of moral values.
Last month, the European Commission asked EU environment ministers to speak up for the whales in response to the resumption of illegal Icelandic whaling. At the time, the commission called on Iceland, which remains outside the EU, to prove that it is not engaged in commercial whaling.
Since 2006, when Iceland resumed its illegal whaling activities, it has claimed the killing is only for scientific purposes. The European Commission is dismisses this as a legitimate whaling activity with only Denmark supporting the Icelandic position.
Copenhagen announced in mid-May that it would invoke a rarely used measure, ‘Declaration 25’ an annex to the Maastricht Treaty. The declaration refers to member states that have territories outside the EU - as is the case with the Faeroe Islands and Greenland - and will allow Denmark not to be bound by the common position.
Mr. Samsing pointed out that the common position actually masks what is more of a mosaic of positions amongst EU member states. Viewing the animals, as with great apes, elephants and dolphins, to be more intelligent and socially complex than other mammals, “there are those member states that do not want any whales to be killed ever - no matter what,” said the Danish diplomat.
“But then there are other member states who want to protect whale species from extinction, but once they are not endangered, the would have no problem with a resumption of the whale hunt,” he added, “so long as it was done under strict conditions.”
As a result, he said, the common position is agreed only for the purposes of this one IWC meeting, and no further.
“But of course, the commission will come up with something similar next year, and then we have to go through the whole rigmarole again.”
What Mr. Samsing is saying here is that Denmark does not support the protection of the whales for any reason including if they are endangered.
For its part, the commission dismissed suggestions of imposing its will on anyone: “The common position was made by the highest body [in the EU], and was supported by most member states,” said the commission’s environment spokesperson, Barbara Helfferich.
Denmark is a major contributor to the destructive exploitation of the world’s oceans. Danish fishing fleets are amongst the most rapacious in the world and their plundering of the seas has not been dampened by the realization that there are serious ecological concerns about the ability of the oceans to survive this ceaseless plundering.
Flaunting their moral superiority with their defense of silly cartoons does not remove the stench of ecological moral decay that is emanating from Copenhagen.
The rot in Denmark from the corpses of fish, factory farms and starving puffins, whales screaming in agony, and now their opposition to the defense of the great whales from illegal whaling is a foul odor indeed and one that bodes ill for our oceans and our future.](http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktozrfDICe1qzgy2oo1_500.jpg)
There is Something Very Rotten in Denmark
Commentary by Captain Paul Watson
Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
What a piece of work is a man, how ignoble in reason, how
finite in faculties, in form and moving how crude and
contemptible, in action how like a destroying demon, in apprehension how like
a cruel god! the scourge of the world, the most monstrous
of all animals-and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Mankinds foul butchery delights not me, nor the living things of the Earth,
nor woman neither, though by their cynical smiling, the Danes seem to say so.
- Shakespeare revised for modern times.
- Torn from Hamlet and butchered by the author to illustrate a point.
My mother was Danish and her father Otto Larsen was a famous Danish painter. His sister was the first woman judge in Denmark and our family on my mother’s side, were proud of their Danish heritage.
I however cannot be proud of Denmark. It is a nation that supports and encourages gross cruelty to whales and seals and it is a nation that is contributing greatly towards the extinction of many species of animals.
Denmark is “courageously” defending cartoons from fundamentalist Muslims but seems to be unconcerned about the wholesale slaughter of marine wildlife species.
The horrific annual slaughter of thousands of defenseless pilot whales every year in the Danish Faeroe Islands is just as cruel as the dolphin slaughter by the Japanese in Taiji. The children of the Faeroe Islands have a higher level of mercury in their bodies than even the children of Taiji, Japan.
I have fought Faeroese whalers and the Faeroese authorities for years. We have had dramatic confrontations in Faeroese waters in 1985 and 1986 and again in 2000 trying to stop the pilot whale drive where entire pods are driven into shore, knifed, speared, stoned and clubbed in a barbarous orgy of cruelty and waste.
I have seen the bays of the Faeroe Islands stained red with blood and I’ve heard the screams of mortally wounded whales pleading for their lives as insensitive brutes drunk on slaughter are showered in the hot blood of the whales, laughing and swearing as their vicious blades rape the whales repeatedly. It is a monstrous spectacle and it is an obscenity fully embraced by the Danish government and many of the Danish people.
The massive Danish industrialized fishing industry is scouring the North Sea clean of sand eels, the tiny fish that are the staple for the comical puffins. The sand eels are ground into cheap fish meal to feed factory farmed chickens in Denmark. If the puffin goes extinct then Denmark will bear the greatest burden of the blame for the tragedy of trading the beautiful and lively puffin for a few chicken McNuggets.
Denmark supports the killing of whales and seals in Greenland including endangered Fins and Bowheads. And now Denmark is openly attacking the European Union for defending the great whales from illegal Japanese, Icelandic and Norwegian whaling activities.
Last week (June 5th) the European Union agreed on a common position to support the continuation of the global moratorium on commercial whaling. The European Union will present a united front at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in two weeks.
Denmark however has decided to be the sole European Union member to exclude itself from this united front.
“With this decision the European Union can now take a strong role at the International Whaling Commission and use all its political, moral and economic weight to ensure a more effective protection of whales worldwide,” said Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas.
Denmark responded to this statement with hostility calling the move “cultural imperialism.”
Denmark does not openly support commercial whaling, although it supports whaling in the Faeroe Islands and Greenland - which, while part of the Danish Kingdom are not part of the European Union.
“For 20 years, Denmark has held the same position in support of these other parts of the kingdom,” said Ole Samsing, a Danish diplomat to the European Union who is also the country’s IWC commissioner.
“It is cultural imperialism trying to decide on behalf of these people who are not in the European Community,” he said.
When did concern for the environment and the protection of species become “cultural imperialism?” This is a ridiculous accusation from a country whose only claim to fame lately has been to publish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. Such is the cultural ignorance of the cartoonists that they did not know that Arabs do not wear turbans. Yet Denmark has defended the cartoons and Danes have expressed their belief that Denmark is defending Christian values in the face of Muslim extremism. This smacks more of cultural imperialism than the legitimate concern of European nations to stop the illegal killing of whales.
Defending the rights of cartoonists as champions of Christian values while endorsing the illegal slaughter of whales and dolphins displays a warped sense of moral values.
Last month, the European Commission asked EU environment ministers to speak up for the whales in response to the resumption of illegal Icelandic whaling. At the time, the commission called on Iceland, which remains outside the EU, to prove that it is not engaged in commercial whaling.
Since 2006, when Iceland resumed its illegal whaling activities, it has claimed the killing is only for scientific purposes. The European Commission is dismisses this as a legitimate whaling activity with only Denmark supporting the Icelandic position.
Copenhagen announced in mid-May that it would invoke a rarely used measure, ‘Declaration 25’ an annex to the Maastricht Treaty. The declaration refers to member states that have territories outside the EU - as is the case with the Faeroe Islands and Greenland - and will allow Denmark not to be bound by the common position.
Mr. Samsing pointed out that the common position actually masks what is more of a mosaic of positions amongst EU member states. Viewing the animals, as with great apes, elephants and dolphins, to be more intelligent and socially complex than other mammals, “there are those member states that do not want any whales to be killed ever - no matter what,” said the Danish diplomat.
“But then there are other member states who want to protect whale species from extinction, but once they are not endangered, the would have no problem with a resumption of the whale hunt,” he added, “so long as it was done under strict conditions.”
As a result, he said, the common position is agreed only for the purposes of this one IWC meeting, and no further.
“But of course, the commission will come up with something similar next year, and then we have to go through the whole rigmarole again.”
What Mr. Samsing is saying here is that Denmark does not support the protection of the whales for any reason including if they are endangered.
For its part, the commission dismissed suggestions of imposing its will on anyone: “The common position was made by the highest body [in the EU], and was supported by most member states,” said the commission’s environment spokesperson, Barbara Helfferich.
Denmark is a major contributor to the destructive exploitation of the world’s oceans. Danish fishing fleets are amongst the most rapacious in the world and their plundering of the seas has not been dampened by the realization that there are serious ecological concerns about the ability of the oceans to survive this ceaseless plundering.
Flaunting their moral superiority with their defense of silly cartoons does not remove the stench of ecological moral decay that is emanating from Copenhagen.
The rot in Denmark from the corpses of fish, factory farms and starving puffins, whales screaming in agony, and now their opposition to the defense of the great whales from illegal whaling is a foul odor indeed and one that bodes ill for our oceans and our future.
You know what I think hurts the most? the feeling of being replaced. It’s like no matter what I did, it wasn’t enough.
–Unknown (via kidlovesdoodles) (via somethingbeautifull)
=(
Via NazTown.
“Never in the history of journalism have the news media suffered such a heavy loss of life in one day.”
- an international media group said in a statement concerning the Maguindanao massacre that happened on Monday.
(45 bodies of people that include politicians and journalists were abducted in a pre-election related incident.)
SO THIS IS WHAT OUR JOURNALISTS GET FOR DOING THEIR JOB? SCARY.
This is due to politics. Every job has its risk. It’s being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Usapang USAP
ok so aalis na nga ako sa usap. sabi nila GJ gawan ko daw sila ng tribute article..bakit naman? hahaha. at pano yun?
pero naisip ko gusto ko silang idescribe lahat at sabihin kung ano napala ko sa 6 months and a half na nakasama ko sila. :) parang testi lang sa friendster. harhar.
kaya eto..cheesy na kung cheesy pero oo, mamimiss ko nga ang mga naging friends ko at lumampas sa officemate status; sabi nga ni Alfred, mga naging “pare”
So, here goes:
Jerjer — ang QA ko mula nung nagsimula ako sa USAP at na-reshuffle na nga kasama ko pa din. Sobrang mapang-asar. di ko na yata mabilang ilang beses ako nito pinaiyak, pag kasi about sa work nakakainis na talaga. hindi nya napapansin na kung personal o pisikal naman hinahayaan ko lang pang-aasar nya nakakainis lang pag may kinalaman na sa work. pero ok syang mang-entertain at pag nasa boyband mood sya pati mga ka-jologs-an nya (aminado ka naman diba?) ayun, pag seryoso sya ayus din, rare yun pero mas matino syang kausap pag ganun.
PB — kung may kapatid akong bunsong lalake, sya yun (buti na lang wala) childish minsan pero masayang kasama at kausap, nasososbrahan lang sa kulit. galante yan at madaling kausap. :) swerte nya kay Ariel. hahaha. napagtyatyagaan sya. joke lang.
GJ — Ang host ng “Usapang Angel” negosyante, parang feeling ko ang daming inalok na produkto nito saken. haha. master ng lights category. :) lagi akong iniitriga sa kung ano-anong bagay. syempre kasama sya sa 3 bros sa team, galit daw sya kasi magreresign ako at wala daw kapatawaran!sus!promise?
Irene — First friend ko sa USAP. nakakatawa to nung first day ko e. nakangiti sya saken, yung nakaka-weird, kasi nakatingin saken tapos naka-smile. hahaha . friendly pala talaga. happy naman at ganun sya, inampon nya ko at pinakilala kila ate ems. at ngayon nga i have her as one of my closest friends. :)
Ate Ems — tanungan ko ng kung ano2x sa ofc. Nung una kong umiyak sa office sya ang kasama ko. (hindi sya ang nagpaiyak saken.) Sobrang understanding, sexy pa! hahaha:) isa sya sa inspiration ko sa pagda-diet hindi ko lang kaya ang diet plan nya. :P
Kuya Marky — Ang nagbigay ng madaming pointers about notes writing. ang Alamat ng USAP. tunay na maaasahan sa lahat ng bagay.
Kuya Noel — Si Jamir na laging biglang nawawala ang tyan, together with kuya marky sila ay alamat. Pag ginive-up na ni kuya marky ang title sya ang tyak na heir. malupet sa notes writing at mga tamang banat!
Kai — Hindi agad naman kami naging close pero nung nangyari yun, ayun na! sobrang loyal na friend at handang makipag-giyera kung kinakailangan ang kuwela pa, who needs SM if you have Kai diba? She got it all for you. yung ganun. at sister ko sya sa pagsskirt, enough said. :P
Shid — Sa twitter ko sya unang naging friend kasi anti-social sya. hindi ko nga to makita sa office e, after on na lang tipong ika-4th month ko na.pero sobrang nagkakasundo kami for some strange reason. siguro dahil strange kami pareho no?
Alfred — Nung nasa Body and Brakes pa lang ako napapansin ko na to kaso feeling ko suplado e, pero nabibilang ko talaga kung ilang beses nag-ccr at kumukuha ng tubig. naglalakbay talaga ng malayo para lang gawin yung mga yun e meron naman dun sa inner part ng office. hahaha. pero hindi naman pala suplado kunyari lang, pa-epek nya lang pala. :p
Bogart — Parang boss talaga to e, lalo na pag suot nya yung pang-prom nyang polo. hahaha. Maraming educational materials na ikinakalat nya sa email at naka-save sa PC nya, cheesy din tapos hi-tech ang mga gadgets tulad ng Blueberry fone nya at 5110. :P
Otep — Ang seryoso lagi ng aura, e dapat pinapakita ang killer smile nya para mas gwapo sya kesa kay Ninoy. tahimik pero may wild side yata ayon sa naganap sa Mindanawans, ang patunay na ang taong tahimik nasa loob ang…:)
Ninoy — Mowdel. Pinaka-gwapo sa USAP, matigas ang braso nung minsang ipahawak nya saken. hahaha. makwela din. mahilig sa toys. yung laruan na totoo. hahaha. Hindi naniniwala sa mga sinasabi ko, hindi ko alam kung bakit.
Art — Hindi ko alam kung pano nga kami naging friends, iniisip ko pa din hanggang ngayon mula nung naitanong nung “ask a friend’ application yun. Pero sabi nga nya it was one of the best things that happened in my boring life. Sya yata ang kahit anong pang-aasar saken hindi ko alam bakit natatawa pa rin ako. Nice kasama at kausap lalo na sa music ni Lady Gaga, nakakagaga.
Niki — Magaling mag-click ng mga links kaya madaming nalalaman, effective na QA dahil dun. magaling magresearch e. :) meron pa din akong gustong matuklasan sa kanya na hanggang ngayon pinagkakatago-tago pa din!
PJ — Partner-in-crime ni Jer sa pangaasar saken lalo na sa pantry, mahilig sya sa meatloaf at corned beef. hahaha. konyotik na bata. kinikilig sa new moon. hahaha. joke lang. hindi ko na mabilang kung ilang beses ko narinig ang salitang bull**** sa kanya. Ang nagpauso ng Enggel na nickname ko.
Vince — Ang manifestation na nakakapayat ang boxing, gusto ko na ngang itry dahil ang laki talaga ng pinayat nya mula nung pumasok ako sa USAP. multi-talented, galing mag-gitara.
Ate Maidz — Fashionista, di ko makalimutan yung time na nagka-parehas halos kami ng damit, miniskirt at gray long sleeves. friendly at kasabwat namin ni kuya noel sa pangaasar kay kuya marky dati pag nalalate sya.
Ices — panalo sya sa mga banat; Chiks daw ako..ang dami ko diba? Namamaga daw ang ngipin nya na malamang gawa sa Calcium at kung ano2x pang compounds na imposibleng mamaga. pero ayos to kung gusto mo maeentertain. sulit na sulit din sa kanya ang health card na provided ng USAP parang kulang pa yun 100K sa napaka-healthy na taong to. :P
Julz — Kapanalig ko pag sobrang nagugutom ako, hindi ko alam kung saan parte ng katawan nya nilalagay lahat ng kinakain nya. pinakamalupit na QA. ang nagpprove na wala sa height yan nasa 2 serving ng rice! hahaha :)
May nakalimutan pa ba ko? kung meron pa to follow…hahaha..and i want more pics!!! hahaha yun lang. :P
