Month: July 2012

fyeahmythologicalcreatures:

This picture shows the Weighing of the Heart. In ancient Egypt, people believed that the heart of a deceased person was weighed against a feather of the goddess Maat. If the scales balanced, this meant the deceased had led a good life. Anubis would take them to Osiris and they would find their place in the afterlife. If the heart was out of balance with the feather then Ammit, the Devourer, stood ready to eat it and put the dead person’s afterlife to an early and unpleasant end.

(Picture source: Das alte Ägypten by Christian Heinrich)

Four Point Six | Mother Jones

Four Point Six | Mother Jones

tinfoilandtea:

It’s about Obama’s proposal that the marginal tax rate on income over $400,000 should rise from 35% to 39.6%. That’s your aggrievement. That’s your entitlement. That’s your socialism. That’s your class warfare. An increase in the top marginal tax rate of 4.6 percentage points. Four. Point. Six. This is what America’s most prosperous citizens are up in arms about. This is why Barack Obama is an enemy of capitalism. These are the spiteful shackles he proposes to use to subjugate America’s engines of job creation. It’s the reason America’s wealthiest citizens are so frightened about the future of their country. 4.6 percentage points. Just let that sink in.

This is a god indication of who is actually fighting a class war. The Rich.

moroluvssttboys:

Happy Friday.

Freyja flew over the earth, sprinkling morning dew and summer sunlight behind her. She shook spring

flowers from her golden hair and wept tears which turned to gold or to amber at sea.