May 2011
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The Greatest Books Ever. Or At Least For The Week.
Latest & greatest idea: write the great American Murder Mystery-except make the setting & job of main character diff. from hosp., law office, newsroom, etc. My story’ll be about operator of a bumper car attraction-good. Bad: evil bumper car who bumps people so hard they flip & splat on the floor or end up rolling down the bushes on the hill & into the bucket, which they ...
April 2011
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Earth Day deals 2011 | Yahoo! Green →
That free cup o’ Starbucks Joe is mine… :)
doomsday-trends-am: Personal Finance News from... →
Don’t know if I’d say “Doomsday,” but capitalism run amok can sure be a problem.
Critics' review unexpectedly supports scientific... →
“A team of UC Berkeley physicists and statisticians that set out to challenge the scientific consensus on global warming is finding that its data-crunching effort is producing results nearly identical to those underlying the prevailing view. The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was launched by physics professor Richard Muller, a longtime critic of government-led climate...
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March 2011
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No Need For Nostradamus
Forget all the prognostications about when the end of the world will come, 2012, etc. The only sign we’ll need for the beginning of the Apocalypse is the election of Michelle Bachmann to the office of President.
Anyone know of an Apocalypse-appropriate emergency preparedness kit in existence?
Borders asks that its executives get bonuses - LA... →
Huh??? You’ve got to be kidding me.
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Wisconsin union law published despite court order →
So first the awful Wisconsin union law is passed. Then it’s published despite a court order prohibiting it. Then the possibility arises that the law could go into effect anyway, despite the disregard for the court order.
What’s wrong with Wisconsin Republicans?
Oh, that’s right - everything.
“It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of...”
– In memory of Elizabeth Taylor (via gaywrites)
“I started with the perspective of someone who says that faith is separate from...”
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Tim Pawlenty (R): U.S. Should Not Be Governed By Religious Law — Unless It’s Christianity (via corruptpolitics)
“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion” That is the lead line of Article 11 in the Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously...
“I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group...”
– Barack Obama
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Health Reform: A Phone Call from the President |... →
This is the kind of guy our President is. :)
One year ago today, health care reform was signed into law, and a lot of people had a lot more hope. Hope for good care. Hope for being able to get individual insurance coverage despite having “preexisting conditions.” Hope that people will stop their judgment and agree that everyone has a right to good health care. Hope for the future.
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The Bug Whisperer
I just watched this show on how bugs and parasites can be used to determine the time of death in murder cases. Now, if that doesn’t beat all. Someone really should tell the insects of their importance in solving such cases. It would help them feel needed and have good self-esteem. Especially when they live such short lives. Kind of like a Bug Whisperer, you know? PS: That person will not...
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10 Ways To Help Japan|Ask Your Yenta|Jewish... →
Here is a great resource with which to help Japan. One is a person finder - to help find missing people! Can you imagine! It’s a great way for us to show the best of humanity. :)
Lady Gaga designed this bracelet to help raise funds.
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Miracles in Japan: Four-Month Old Baby, 70-Year... →
Amazing. :)
Japan abandons stricken nuke plant over radiation... →
:( Prayers!
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Tumblr Tuesday Recommend
Since I can’t figure out for the life of me how to formally recommend someone on here (I wish they hadn’t changed it - I’ve seen some “Recommend” buttons on some people’s pages and not on others), I’ll do it here since I’ve seen many others do the same.
MohandasGhandi has a passion for current issues - political and otherwise - that I wish we all...
Visa and Mastercard Scam
Sorry: this is a bit long and the format is a little funny, but this info is true. The title is pretty self-explanatory, and further explanation is below. I checked it out on www.snopes.com, which investigates rumors and urban legends, and it said it was true. Watch out for yourselves. These people have too few scruples and too much time on their hands. :(
VISA/MasterCard Fraud alert »>...
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Facebook plots Japan quake map →
“Facebook has plotted how status updates about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami spread across the world in the hours following the disaster, creating the first map of its kind…On the new animated “infographic”, black blobs moving across a world map show the prevalence of the words “Japan”, “earthquake” and “tsunami” in status...
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Japan's earthquake shifted balance of the planet →
“Last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan has actually moved the island closer to the United States and shifted the planet’s axis.
The quake caused a rift 15 miles below the sea floor that stretched 186 miles long and 93 miles wide, according to the AP. The areas closest to the epicenter of the quake jumped a full 13 feet closer to the United States,...
I'd Rather Have The Year's Supply of Tomato Soup
“Garner Settlement Fund,” reads the sender information on the envelope. “Oh…I remember this. Class action suit. Hmmm….let’s see how much the check amount is for…maybe it can help me!” Open it up. It’s for $1.42. I’m a rich woman.
Positively Persistent Teach: SAG member Tony... →
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Screen Actors Guild member Tony Shalhoub (Monk, How Do You Know) will travel to Madison, Wisconsin to rally with other union members at the state capitol in support of Wisconsin workers on Saturday afternoon, March 12. Shalhoub, a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, is a Screen…
“Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.”
– Ronald Reagan (via liberal-lad)
5 Health Reasons To Not Quit Coffee →
Coffee drinkers everywhere, feel vindicated.
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Why women really are better at almost everything:... →
This was questioned?
Five Things Unions Have Done For Americans →
Think Progress has a report on some of the things unions, in both the public and private sector, have done for middle class Americans.
1. Unions Gave Us The Weekend: Even the ultra-conservative Mises Institute notes that the relatively labor-free 1870, the average workweek for most Americans was 61 hours — at the relatively labor-free 1870, the average workweek for most Americans was 61 hours...
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Federal researchers declare eastern cougar extinct →
So researchers say the Eastern Cougar is no more.
But hunters (how did I know?) say that that’s not true. They’ve seen them, you see. But the researchers, who searched high and low for them, somehow missed them. But the hunters have seen them, and the number is great enough for them to breed. They’re sure of it. Nevermind that when they saw their cougars they knew right away...
Kung Fu Kitty
There once was a cat named Kerplooey/Whom they tried to teach Kung Fu-ey/But the kicks were all wrong/They should have known all along/Now healing goop makes K.’s owner’s foot all gooey.
“Republican State Rep. Debbie Riddle — the same one who claimed in August 2010...”
– TX immigration bill sanitizes issue for homeowners with exemptions for hiring undocumented domestic workers
I’m having a hard time with the conclusion that the bill “seems to say as long as undocumented workers are servants, they can work in Texas without fear of home raids.” Unless I’m missing...
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February 2011
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Badgley Mischka Shoes on Sale at Zappos →
Along with the Badgley Mischka shoes, tons of other pumps, boots and other shoes on sale, too!
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Deflated By The Chest
I love to look at beautiful houses. Beauty. Houses. Little grottos…Lovely little gazebos…stately entries…Back to grottos. I’d probably have a little cave with mine. Like the Venetian Pool in Coral Gables. And in that cave, I would have a little surprise. Maybe a little treasure chest. And in that chest would be a little note, like a fortune cookie one - saying,...
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'Two and a Half Men' dropped by CBS →
Does this mean no more bad Charlie?
Unions aren't to blame for Wisconsin's budget →
wilwheaton:
Let’s be clear: Whatever fiscal problems Wisconsin is — or is not — facing at the moment, they’re not caused by labor unions. That’s also true for New Jersey, for Ohio and for the other states. There was no sharp rise in collective bargaining in 2006 and 2007, no major reforms of the country’s labor laws, no dramatic change in how unions organize. And yet, state budgets collapsed....
Catholic Bishops Back Wisconsin Union Protesters →
“‘The debates over worker representation and collective bargaining are not simply matters of ideology or power,’” said Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, Calif., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ committee on domestic justice, “‘but involve principles of justice, participation and how workers can have a voice in the workplace and economy.’”
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