Obama Pushes Congress to Action
The president urges congress to act responsibly and pass the jobs bill.
Congress and responsibly that’s a freakin oxymoron.
Source: ryking
FBI Lables Occupy Movement a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”
Cases where the FBI entraps activists with undercover informants have become a common tactic to smear Occupy’s intent & to put occupiers behind bars for serious offenses. Cases include the Cleveland 5 (accused of attempting to blow up a bridge) & the NATO 3 (accused of having Molotov cocktail materials; attorneys say the evidence was planted by an informant).
By the way, Russia Today is a great news source that gives an international perspective on news happening in the United States. Throw it in your Google Reader!
Not even surprised! Frankly, I thought they would have done this much sooner. I hate the coruption of our country!
What in the fuck.
As we become what we feared. Farkin great.
Source: thepeoplesrecord
The most fun I’ve had on Twitter in some time.
Word.
Source: twitter.com
The Mechanics and Meaning of That Ol’ Dial-Up Modem Sound
Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It’s the sound of a modem connecting with another modem across the repurposed telephone infrastructure. It was the noise of being part of the beginning of the Internet.
I heard that sound again this week on Brendan Chillcut’s simple and wondrous site: The Museum of Endangered Sounds. It takes technological objects and lets you relive the noises they made: Tetris, the Windows 95 startup chime, that Nokia ringtone, television static. The site archives not just the intentional sounds — ringtones, etc — but the incidental ones, like the mechanical noise a VHS tape made when it entered the VCR or the way a portable CD player sounded when it skipped. If you grew up at a certain time, these sounds are like technoaural nostalgia whippets. One minute, you’re browsing the Internet in 2012, the next you’re on a bus headed up I-5 to an 8th grade football game against Castle Rock in 1995.
The noises our technologies make, as much as any music, are the soundtrack to an era.Soundscapes are not static; completely new sets of frequencies arrive, old things go. […]
When I think of 2012, I will think of the overworked fan of my laptop and the ding of getting a text message on my iPhone. I will think of the beep of the FastTrak in my car as it debits my credit card so I can pass through a toll onto the Golden Gate Bridge. I will think of Siri’s uncanny valley voice.
But to me, all of those sounds — as symbols of the era in which I’ve come up — remain secondary to the hissing and crackling of the modem handshake.
Source: The Atlantic
Marler: "Mother Nature" sickened 146 with at least 36 Dead from Listeria Cantaloupe - Bullshit!
Unbelievable. This guy’s cantaloupes killed three dozen people, FDA documented all kinds of basic, remedial failures in their facilities, and he has the gall to say that it was “something Mother Nature did. We didn’t have anything to do with it.” Just dumb luck I guess…
Yeah, buddy, you know what? Mother Nature made me too, and she made my fists, and she made your teeth, and if we ever meet, you’re gonna be picking up those teeth off of dear Mother Earth with broken fucking fingers. Asshole!
I bet if you look him in the eye you would have known he was growing cantaloupe tainted by Mother Nature. JWS 6/1/2012
Source: badbatz
Robert Reich: The Job Stall
The White House must be telling itself there are still five months between now and Election Day, so the jobs picture could brighten. After all, we went through a similar mid-year slump in 2011 but came out fine.
But however you look at today’s jobs report, it’s a stunning reminder of how anemic…
Source: robertreich
Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate drops by 36.9 per cent
Better access to contraception, higher quality sex education and shifting social norms have contributed to a 36.9 per cent decline in Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate between 1996 and 2006, according to a report released today by the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada.
America’s emphasis on abstinence-only sex ed “tends to result in a higher percentage of teens becoming pregnant,” as does the country’s lack of universal health care. Poverty is another factor.
Among the four countries compared for 2006, Canada boasted the lowest teen birth and abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 (27.9), followed by Sweden (31.4), England/Wales (60.3), and the United States (61.2).
THIRTY-SEVEN PERCENT DECREASE? Goddamn. How much more proof will people need before they realize how ineffective Abstinence-Only sex education is?
It doesn’t matter how much evidence we have. Zealots will cling to their beliefs.
This reminds me of the LA high school where they cut teen pregnancies by two-thirds after putting a Planned Parenthood on campus. Sex ed works, abstinence doesn’t.
More proof that abstinence based sex education sucks. This costs taxpayers money for the added costs to public health programs.
(via tinfoilandtea)
Source: The Globe and Mail
North Carolina Bill Would Have State Ignore Faster Rising Seas
The bill has not yet been introduced, but the language in the version being circulated would make the Division of Coastal Management the only state agency allowed to produce sea-level rise rates, and only at the request of the Coastal Resources Commission, and then only under the following conditions:
“These rates shall only be determined using historical data, and these data shall be limited to the time period following the year 1900. Rates of sea-level rise may be extrapolated linearly to estimate future rates of rise but shall not include scenarios of accelerated rates of sea-level rise.”
In other words, instead of taking into account global warming to predict higher seas, as expected by most scientists, the bill would have the state rely only on the historical record.
What could possibly go wrong?
The stupid! It burns!
Source: ryking
Why do people still bring up Obama's birth certificate.
A nice write up on the stupidity.
Insufferably Organic!
Interesting study. Organic food making jerks out of people? I’m just providing the link!!
Cottage Food Industry Guidance Document
Personally, I don’t purchase food items that are made in someones house. If you do check out this article and the linked guidance document.
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