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</description><title>The Seattle Silencer</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @seattlesilencer)</generator><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Seattle, WA</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm5mjuxkCK1qagrfyo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seattle, WA&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/6102168595</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/6102168595</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:35:54 -0700</pubDate><category>Seattle</category><category>Space Needle</category></item><item><title>libertarians:

 
Interviewer: Black history month you...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li2p63tlDa1qgb9e0o1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://libertarians.tumblr.com/post/3866012145" target="_blank"&gt;libertarians&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: Black history month you find…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morgan Freeman&lt;/strong&gt;: Ridiculous.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: Why?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morgan Freeman&lt;/strong&gt;: You’re going to relegate my history to a month?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, come on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morgan Freeman&lt;/strong&gt;: What do you do with yours? Which month is white history month?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: (pause) Well, I’m Jewish.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morgan Freeman&lt;/strong&gt;: Okay. Which month is Jewish history month?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: There isn’t one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morgan Freeman&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, oh. Why not? Do you want one?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: No.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morgan Freeman&lt;/strong&gt;: Right. I don’t either. I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: How are we going to get rid of racism?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morgan Freeman&lt;/strong&gt;: Stop talking about it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/6102088313</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/6102088313</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:30:02 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>"If you’re going to cheat on anything: CHEAT on your fears, BREAK UP with your doubts, and..."</title><description>“If you’re going to cheat on anything: CHEAT on your fears, BREAK UP with your doubts, and MARRY your dreams.”</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/6081572151</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/6081572151</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:42:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Change of direction...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;So my mind is in complete &lt;strong&gt;ASDKJFLFL mode&lt;/strong&gt;. There are many causes I want to take the time out to lift and uphold but I find that to be very challenging to close to impossible for there are other things in the life that must take first priority. I&amp;#8217;m not going to bite off more than I can chew nor am I going to be writing to an audience I feel has the hardest time changing and dealing with change&amp;#8230; Yeah i&amp;#8217;m talking to you 30 + people out there! So cheers to a new direction.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The Seattle Silencer &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/6081331894</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/6081331894</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:35:26 -0700</pubDate><category>Change</category><category>Direction</category><category>Seattle Silencer</category></item><item><title>"I Don’t Care If You’re Black, White, Straight, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Short, Tall, Fat, Skinny,..."</title><description>“I Don’t Care If You’re Black, White, Straight, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Short, Tall, Fat, Skinny, Rich Or Poor. If You’re Nice To Me, I’ll Be Nice To You. Simple As That.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eminem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://killingmesoftlyyy.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;killingmesoftlyyy&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5993046237</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5993046237</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 23:06:25 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>thanks for the follow! &lt;3</title><description>&lt;p&gt;No thanks for following me! Your blog is pretty cool. Great pictures! ttyl!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5949630825</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5949630825</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 18:46:27 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Say WHAAAAT!?! </title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Lep&amp;#8217;s Jewish,” he said of his agent&lt;/em&gt;, Mark Lepselter, “&lt;em&gt;and it was like a reverse Anne Frank thing.&lt;/em&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;-Tiki Barber &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; [Explaining the media scrutiny he&amp;#8217;s received since he left his pregnant wife to be with his 23-year-old girlfriend.]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Umm yeah&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5943370265</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5943370265</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 15:04:34 -0700</pubDate><category>Say what</category></item><item><title>Native American Drum Group Southern Express formerly known as...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="323" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YcIOBPA4X-4?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Native American Drum Group Southern Express formerly known as White Hawk @ NW Folklife Festival 2010 &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are at Folk Life this year, check them out!!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5936059714</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5936059714</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 10:53:00 -0700</pubDate><category>Deyo Esquivel</category><category>Drum group</category><category>Folk Life Festival</category><category>Lyle Dorman</category><category>Native American</category><category>Seattle</category><category>Singers</category><category>Folk Life</category></item><item><title>You may have a favorite, but don’t be scared to step out...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llw8np7jtg1qagrfyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may have a favorite, but don’t be scared to step out of your comfort zone. Don’t just take someone’s word for it. Find out for yourself, you just might like it. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diversity &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah… Drink responsibly! :]&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What’s most important is often too easily forgotten&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Seattle Silencer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5923430034</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5923430034</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 23:57:25 -0700</pubDate><category>Diversity</category></item><item><title>"If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything"</title><description>“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Malcolm X&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5923110395</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5923110395</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 23:36:55 -0700</pubDate><category>Liberate</category><category>Your</category><category>Minds</category></item><item><title>May you rest in peace Gil Scott-Heron</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="349" width="351" src="http://weirdorecords.com/zen/images/6_8538.jpg" align="middle"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5922727209</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5922727209</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 23:14:05 -0700</pubDate><category>Rest in peace</category><category>R.I.P.</category><category>Gil Scott-Heron</category><category>Godfather</category><category>Poet</category><category>Musician</category><category>Rap</category></item><item><title>Say WHAAAAT!?! </title><description>&lt;p&gt;Very much fictional, but funny nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="450" width="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nM8SqOeX91U/TWCcevgxyJI/AAAAAAAAAFg/SmV7koy2fi0/s1600/1169819712749.jpg" align="bottom"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5914448925</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5914448925</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 18:06:55 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Say WHAAAAT!?! </title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;So many of the people in the arenas here were under-privileged anyway. This is working very well for them.&amp;#8221; -&lt;em&gt;Barbara Bush on Hurricane Katrina Victims&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5913502517</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5913502517</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 17:36:00 -0700</pubDate><category>Say What</category><category>Quotes</category><category>Silly</category><category>Funny</category><category>Outrageous</category><category>Dumb</category><category>Seattle Silencer</category></item><item><title>"Many say there is beauty in the breakdown and they are right. It shows you exactly what you are made..."</title><description>“Many say there is beauty in the breakdown and they are right. It shows you exactly what you are made of. -The Silencer”</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5893057365</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5893057365</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 01:52:00 -0700</pubDate><category>Quotes</category><category>Seattle Silencer</category><category>Beauty</category><category>Breakdown</category></item><item><title>A word a day keeps the shallow mind at bay: Convenience </title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Convenience: The quality of being suitable to one&amp;#8217;s comfort, purposes, or needs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;In other words: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;anything that is intended to save resources (time, energy, or frustration).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Individuals like to do what is most convenient for them. Why? It&amp;#8217;s makes living that much easier. For example, an hour on a bus can be cut down to fifteen minutes in a car. Places like &amp;#8216;Convenient stores&amp;#8217;, fast food restaurants, pet grooming shops (for the pet lovers out there), and the prepared foods at your local grocery stores are just minutes away. Convenience is everywhere. It&amp;#8217;s your television set, the desks at school, the treadmill at home, the coffee stand down the road, even your subscription to Cosmo, Billions of dollars have been spent in advertising, inventing, and improving convenience, so it must be good. Right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Convenient foods &lt;span&gt;are attractive for they are designed to be inexpensive, delicious and non-perishable. Unfortunately the ingredients chosen for products such as these are typically empty, high in sugars and fats. The list goes on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Television is the ultimate entertainment. It is also how many receive local and national news. News coverage components range from Breaking news to Entertainment to Health &amp;amp; lifestyle. Do they cover everything on any given day? Impossible. They cover significant events and topics. Sometimes those events and topics aren&amp;#8217;t very newsworthy. Let me explain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;On Twitter you obtain followers because you appeal to them. Competition between networks is similar. In order to attract and sustain viewers, you must, of course, serve your purpose well, but you also in some degree have to give the people what they want. You must look at &lt;em&gt;what&amp;#8217;s trending&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt; in society&lt;/em&gt;. Unfortunately &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;what&amp;#8217;s trending isn&amp;#8217;t always important, and what&amp;#8217;s important isn&amp;#8217;t always recognized.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Living life earns you the right to keeping it as simple as possible. Convenience is the key and a trend among millions but convenience isn&amp;#8217;t always healthy, trustworthy, or ethical.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;To me, convenience isn&amp;#8217;t always convenient at all. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;That’s the word of the day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What’s most important is often too easily forgotten&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Seattle Silencer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5892818390</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5892818390</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 01:30:51 -0700</pubDate><category>Word of the day</category><category>Convenience</category><category>Seattle Silencer</category></item><item><title>This is not my formal introduction but an...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llu71hCy0o1qagrfyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not my formal introduction but an introduction nonetheless. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5889024575</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5889024575</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 21:27:00 -0700</pubDate><category>Seattle Silencer</category><category>Introduction</category><category>Mission Statement</category><category>Purpose</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lloqkmxygk1qb6ukwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5871970478</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5871970478</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 12:20:00 -0700</pubDate><category>Seattle</category><category>Washington</category><category>Space needle</category><category>Beautiful</category><category>Horizon</category></item><item><title>"At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. -Italian Proverb"</title><description>“At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. -Italian Proverb”</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5848753516</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5848753516</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:10:50 -0700</pubDate><category>Quote</category><category>Proverb</category><category>Equality</category></item><item><title>On Twitter? Join Me!</title><description>&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/SeattleSilencer"&gt;On Twitter? Join Me!&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5828721539</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5828721539</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 02:02:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>A word a day keeps the shallow mind at bay: Tolerance.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tolerance: a fair, objective, permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, differ from one&amp;#8217;s own&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;At the age of five, Rugrats was a fairly new cartoon. It featured the&lt;span&gt; brave leader, Tommy Pickles. The tentative toddler, Chuckie Finster. The venturesome twin-infants, Phil and Lil DeVille. The vile and manipulative Angelica Pickles, and Angelica&amp;#8217;s kind counterpart, Susie Carmichael.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;At the age of five, a harsh reality was realized as I began to start paying close attention to my surroundings. What I saw was- for every Tommy, Chucky, Susie, Phil, and Lil, were two Angelicas; t&lt;/span&gt;he world wasn&amp;#8217;t as harmonious and pleasant as could be seen in the world of children cartoons. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the age of five, I begin to see that not everyone always practiced the art of being kind, open, and patient&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And at the age of five, I really didn&amp;#8217;t care. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Things have since changed. I am no longer five. I believe that things ranging from the less extreme: not wanting your daughter to date a guy with blue hair to the extreme: war, stem from the inability to understand and demonstrate, &lt;em&gt;tolerance&lt;/em&gt;. Teaching and displaying it can open many doors to a future brighter than the one we see right now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tolerance is kindness, open-mindedness, and patience. Its a great trait and characteristic to have.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#8217;s the word of the day.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What&amp;#8217;s most important is often too easily forgotten&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Seattle Silencer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5827916730</link><guid>http://seattlesilencer.tumblr.com/post/5827916730</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 00:56:00 -0700</pubDate><category>Word of the day</category><category>Tolerance</category><category>Positivity</category><category>Seattle Silencer</category></item></channel></rss>
