#lincoln douglas

[lincolndouglas]

I hate tournaments that do topics months ahead. I get wanting prep for nat quals but how abt not picking a topic that will be released TWO DAYS before the tournament???

#all the LD topics for march/april suck anyway #LD #Lincoln Douglas #speech and debate #debate #forensics

[1134soup]

goddd I am so tired of reading libertarian philosophers i can’t wait for the Jan/Feb topic to be over if I ever hear the words “Starvin Marvin” one more time I’m going to go insane

#nsda #speech and debate #forensics #ld #lincoln douglas #ld debate

[theamberwizard]

me after fucking lying in the 2ar:

#lincoln douglas #ld #debate #nsda

[castielhoney]

if you've got a hateful opinion, please do not talk about it on my blog or by reposting. this INCLUDES:

anti-jared, misha, or jensen

anti-destiel

homophobia

transphobia

anti-jared, misha, or jensen stans

be nice to each other and be respectful or kindly show yourself out. thank you!

--an addendum specifically in regard to destiel/any other ship (aside from morally/ethically wrong ones); if it brings someone joy and does no harm, it isn't your business and you have no place to be hateful about it.

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was @/pickledpomegranate

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if you do lincoln douglas speech and debate please rant about it to me. i love hearing people talk about it

#many many many people adore the idea of destiel and it makes them happy #and if it does?? #butt out. no one has any Right opinion about spn! #and that's the beauty of it!! #it's a fictional show and ART and we all get to interpret it in our own way and that is so great! #tumblr is a place that most people go to have fun and smile at headcanons and drawings and whatnot #so if you've got a rude opinion or see one you disagree with #you can block people! you can filter tags! be gentle with one another. #nsda #speech and debate #lincoln douglas

[deadpresidents]

God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn you and goddam your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and god damnation god damn them and god damn your god damn friends to hell.

Letter from a citizen to President-elect Abraham Lincoln, November 25, 1860.

I can't prove it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this citizen didn't vote for Lincoln.

#History #Presidents #Abraham Lincoln #President Lincoln #1860 Election #Politics #Presidential History #Quotes About Presidents #Political History #Elections #Maybe the citizen just REALLY liked Stephen A. Douglas #Presidential Correspondence #POTUS #POTUS History #I can neither confirm or deny that this citizen plagiarized letters that I wrote to Donald Trump

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1966, The Doctor (Doctor 2) and his companions were stuck on Earth as the TARDIS (his time/space machine) was trapped in a cosmic web. To make things even more difficult, an android Yeti had been reactivated along with the return of the Great Intelligence. This was where the Doctor first met (then Colonel) Lethbridge-Stewart. (According to the novel, this is the inspiration for the creation of UNIT). ("The Web of Fear", Doctor Who vlm 1, TV)

#nerds yearbook #first appearance #sci fi tv #bbc #dw #doctor who #1966 #doctor 2 #2nd doctor #patrick troughton #jamie mccrimmon #douglas camfield #mervyn haisman #henry lincoln #brigadier lethbridge stewart #brigadier alistair gordon lethbridge stewart #nicholas courtney #frazer hines #deborah watling #victoria #jack watling #professor travers #yeti #great intelligence #cosmic web #tardis

[fictionadventurer]

With all this history reading, I have to be very careful not to let it spill over into interactions with ordinary people.

I had a slow moment at work the other day, during which I started thinking about various prominent 19th-century politicians who never became president (as you do). Then I went out by a coworker and I was so close to blurting out (to someone with whom I have never had the slightest personal conversation), "What do you think would have happened if by some miracle Stephen Douglas won the 1860 election?"

Thankfully, I caught myself just in time. But this just proves what a vital role you guys play in giving me an outlet for this stuff in a way that lets me preserve my veneer of sanity.

#history is awesome #presidential talk #if you must know the train of thought leading up to this moment went #-thinking about the strange fact that i had an extended conversation with my brother about william seward on sunday #(not the brother i usually discuss history with which is what made this weird) #-thinking about how seward never became president despite how prominent a figure he was #-compiling a mental list of 'most prominent historical american politicians who never became president' #-which includes clay and webster and calhoun of course #-along with seward and william jennings bryan #-and i thought that stephen douglas could be a contender for that ilst because of all the kansas-nebraska stuff #-which led to a pondering of how the civil war might have gone if they didn't have lincoln's election as an excuse to kick it off #-ergo nearly embarrassing myself in front of a coworker

[wring-wraith]

This is your monthly reminder to vote for the hardest and most convoluted topic category that nsda has to offer in order to punish LD and Pufo kids for their sins

#speech and debate #nsda #topic voting #pufo #public forum #lincoln douglas debate #debate

[apushdril]

i regret to inform you, that by resorting to Swear language, you have forfeit this debate. Farewell my bitch

#apush #us history #history memes #dril #acw #lincoln-douglas debates

[antebellumite]

president of the united states abraham lincoln is a blorbo. henry clay is a babygirl that's occasionally woobie. jcc is poor little meow meow. daniel webster is a comfort character. stephen douglas is scrunkle scrimble spoingle skrungle scruble or something. so is william seward and anyone else under five-feet six inches. benjamin brown french is glup shitto. i'm sure that somewhere out there is a cinnamon roll smol bean in the antebellumn period but they definately aren't involved in politics. jefferson davis, james buchanan, martin van buren, and the weed man are all plinko. and andrew jackson is wife stinky bastard man kin beloved husbando waifu eeby deeby mipy and what did i just type out.

i hope this clears things up!

#the congressional incubator #hopes and prayers for anyone that has to read this #abraham lincoln #henry clay #john c calhoun #daniel webster #stephen douglas #william seward #benjamin brown french #jefferson davis #james buchanan #martin van buren #andrew jackson

[lumafiiks]

"SI eres Sabio"

William Arthur Word; Nos animará a NO pensar en «sobrevivir» y por eso perder nuestro temor de fracasar.

Si usted es sabio, olvídese de la grandeza. Olvide sus derechos, pero recuerde sus responsabilidades.

Olvide sus inconveniencias, pero recuerde sus bendiciones.

Olvide sus propios logros, pero recuerde su deuda con los demás.

Olvide sus privilegios, pero recuerde sus obligaciones.

Siga los ejemplos de Florence Nightingale, de Albert Schweitzer, de Abraham Lincoln, de Tom Dooley, y OLVÍDESE DE LA GRANDEZA

Si es sabio, se lanzará a la aventura. Recuerde las palabras del General Douglas MacArthur: «No hay seguridad en esta tierra. Solamente oportunidad».

Vacíe sus días en busca de seguridad; llénelos con una pasión por el servicio.

Vacíe sus horas de ambición de reconocimiento; llénelas con la aspiración de logros.

Vacíe sus momentos de necesidad de entretenimiento; llénelos con el anhelo de creatividad.

Si es sabio, se perderá en la inmortalidad. Pierda su cinismo. Pierda sus dudas. Pierda sus temores. Pierda su ansiedad. Pierda su incredulidad.

Recuerde estas verdades: Un hijo debe olvidarse pronto a sí mismo para ser recordado. Debe vaciarse a sí mismo para descubrir un yo más lleno.

Recuerda que el mejor ejemplo de un verdadero sabio está en la persona de Jesús, quien se olvidó de si mismo y se dió por nosotros y nos pide que nosotros nos neguemos a nosotros mismos para que poder llegar al punto correcto de nuestra vida.

Así, pues, cualquiera de vosotros que no renuncia a todo lo que posee, no puede ser mi discípulo. Lucas 14:33

Nada hagáis por egoísmo o por vanagloria, sino que con actitud humilde cada uno de vosotros considere al otro como más importante que a sí mismo, no buscando cada uno sus propios intereses, sino más bien los intereses de los demás. Filipenses 2:3-4

Gracias a RenuevoDePlenitud

#Albert Schweitzer #Florence Nightingale #Tom Dooley #Abraham Lincoln #Douglas MacArthur #inmortalidad #creatividad #dudas #temores #cinismo #amistad #incredulidad #verdades #olvidarse #Lucas 14:33 #Filipenses 2:3-4 #Jesus #cristianismo #iead248 #lumafiiks #evangelio #jesucristo #reflexiones #dios #palabra de dios #seguridad #oportunidades #renuevo de plenitud #Humildad #William Arthur Word

[uwlmvac]

Bill Gresens’ Archaeology Book Review for February 2024

Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (4/4)

Archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI agent Corrie Swanson face grave danger in the wilderness associated with Area 51, Roswell, New Mexico and alien abductions! Read the entire review at:   https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/book-reviews/?review=285037

#archaeology fiction #archeology fiction #Diablo Mesa #Douglas Preston #Lincoln Child #Nora Kelly #Corrie Swanson

[1134soup]

This LD topic is so lame I hate arguing right to housing it’s so overused I’ve heard it millions of times before ): the best topics were the 2021-2022 Nov/Dec and Sept/Oct topics genuinely they were so much fun to argue and last year’s was kinda boring it was just environmental, healthcare, and then borders (which was hell on earth to argue)

#speech and debate #nsda #Lincoln douglas debate #debate #LD debate

[papas-majadas]

Current reading material I carry with me.

#a.r.lopez #chicago #art #bar #bob inn #books #literature #abraham lincoln vampire hunter #blood meridian #childhood’s end #Doctor who and The krikkitmen #Stephen king’s different seasons #cormac mccarthy #seth grahame smith #arthur c clarke #douglas adams #stephen king

[e-b-reads]

I want to know about books 11, 22, 33, 44 and 55 💫

Thanks for asking! Lol, typically for me, every one of these is a mystery, but they're all pretty different!

11. Light Thickens, Ngaio Marsh - The final Roderick Alleyn mystery (not that they need to be read in order). This does actually have some characters return from a mystery set (and written) several years before this one; they have aged, but Alleyn apparently has not. It's a good stand-alone mystery set in a play house (one of Marsh's favorite things to write about), with various references to Macbeth.

22. The Redeemers, Ace Atkins - This is book 5 in the Quinn Colson mystery series, I spent a lot of the beginning of last year tearing through them (11 total), slowed down only by waiting for library holds to come in. The sort of arc of the series (which does take place over 10 or so years, each book set ~when it was published) is that former Army Ranger Quinn Colson comes back to his hometown in Mississippi and then runs for sheriff so as to get rid of the old corrupt sheriff - and then takes down a crime lord, and has to quit being sheriff, and gets voted back in, and another crime lord takes over... Anyway, they're grittier/more violent than a lot of the mysteries I read, but I was hooked. All the characters felt very well-rounded - all the good guys have significant flaws, but I love them anyway, and (almost) all the bad guys have moments where they're sympathetic, if not redeemable.

33. The Night She Died, Dorothy Simpson - OK, so I can't think of anything particularly wrong with this book, but I forgot I read it until looking #33 up for this list. The first in yet another mystery series (published 1980, set in England), and it was...fine? I didn't read any others in the series, but I did finish the book, so it was gripping enough for that!

44. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Agatha Christie - A Poirot book; Poirot goes to the dentist, and then later in the day, the dentist is found murdered! If you've read any Poirot stuff, then you have an idea where things go from there. This was a reread, I like the more domestic Christie books (as opposed to international intrigue).

55. Relic, Douglas Preston with Lincoln Child - This is also first in a series, called the Pendergast series. I actually remember why I read this - I saw several books from the series in the library, and was intrigued, so when I got home I found the first one on Libby. Honestly not sure that "mystery" is the best description - maybe a combo of horror and thriller and some supernatural elements. I did like this first one - it's gripping, and Pendergast is a charismatic character. There's some funky pseudoscience in this one (think Jurassic Park) to explain some pretty fantastic things, but it's made to sound reasonable; I read two more in the series, but when it looked like Pendergast was actually starting to time travel with the power of his mind in the third one, I decided not to read the other 19(!).

(Send me a number 1 - 206 and I'll tell you about a book I read in 2023!)

#books of 2023 #I promise I read other genres - but probabilistically this makes sense #gonna tag the books now #light thickens #ngaio marsh #quinn colson #ace atkins #the night she died #dorothy simpson #one two buckle my shoe #agatha christie #relic #douglas preston #lincoln child

[thequietabsolute]

‘She realised that she belonged among the weak, in the camp of the weak, in the country of the weak, and that she had to be faithful to them precisely because they were weak and gasped for breath in the middle of sentences.’

-- Milan Kundera, from The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

#what a year for literature #1984 #was: #‘Money’ & ‘White Noise’ by #martin amis #don delillo #was published the same year #also: #the wasp factory #iain banks #so long and thanks for all the fish #douglas adams #lincoln #gore vidal #anyway #milan kundera #the unbearable lightness of being #oh! and the Gabler addition of Ulysses #a blessèd yeah 🍰