July 2011
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Pilots N Paws Program Matches Pilots With Animal... →
michaelwhays
Pilots N Paws is a non-profit organization that pairs those who rescue shelter or foster animals with pilot plane owners willing to assist with the transportation of animals. They help arrange or schedule rescue flights, overnight foster care or shelter care, and all other related activities.
According to Gimundo, volunteer pilots such as John Quimby, an IBM executive from...
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Bachmann's Migraines
I’m watching Keith and just have to say - migraines are not on a par with Cheney’s heart condition(s). Migraines are neurological, which is a very different monster.
Depending on what kind(s) you have, you can either just have headaches and nausea, or you can become effectively blind temporarily, or you can find yourself having to curl up in a dark, quiet room for days or weeks, OR...
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“I’ve found that when the downtrodden gain power, they’re just as bad...”
– Howard Stern to Lady Gaga, on her Little Monsters bullying and threatening him to not be mean to her.
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Conservation In Action: Harvesting Bat Guano →
“…team working with Bat Conservation International (BCI) on developing international standards for the sustainable harvest of bat guano. Bat guano has been harvested from caves for centuries and has been put to a variety of uses, including for gunpowder during the U.S. Civil War. Today bat guano is primarily used for fertilizer, both in commercial production in places like Texas...
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Withering Hope →
His was a candidacy of promise and hope — of change from one of the most anti-environment administrations in decades. But more than two and a half years into his term, President Obama’s record on conservation has left more than something to be desired. Defenders’ President Rodger Schlickeisen takes a look at the Obama administration’s record — and how it needs to...
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Oregon's Pioneering Vision for Wolves
“Oregon wolves got a tremendous boost last month as Governor John Kitzhaber helped shepherd the passage the most innovative wolf coexistence bill in the country. The historic legislation was passed unanimously in both houses of the state legislature.
The law — developed collaboratively by wolf conservationists and ranchers — includes compensation for wolf predations and funds...
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“Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Thursday making California the first state...”
– New state law requires textbooks to include gays’ achievements (via ryking)
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“The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts...”
– Mark Twain (via drinkthe-koolaid)
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Investigation Prompts First Ever Felony Cruelty...
Bulletin from the cause: End Animal Cosmetic Testing. [Facebook] Cause Posted By: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Dear Friend, I’d like to share some exciting and historic news about a victory for animals in laboratories!
In a landmark move and in the wake of PETA’s shocking undercover investigation of Professional Laboratory and Research Services (PLRS), a North...
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“NPR, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, all...”
– Sarah Palin on Fox News’ Hannity (via reallyfoxnews)
So Sarah? Where shall we cut the other $13.998 trillion from?
(via pixelcycle)
Sarah Palin complaining of frivolity?!? SHE’S a pure blob of frivolity encased in skin. It’s probably skin grown in a lab, while we’re on the...
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“A month after moving into the White House, Betty Ford was diagnosed with breast...”
– Former First Lady Betty Ford Dead at 93 - ABC News (via apsies)
Betty Ford would be eaten alive by today’s Republican Party — unless she kept her mouth shut — were she a First Lady in 2011. — Ryking
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Fridays are my busiest and longest workdays of the week - they’re hell. I hate it when people exclaim “but IT’S FRIDAY!!!”, and I often want to tell them to fuck off for telling me about their happiness, somehow expecting me to be happy for them.
And sometimes I stop and wonder if I’m being too harsh.
And then I realize what I really want to do is punch them in the...
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This week in Global Health →
caraobrien:
Blow for bevacizumab A US Food and Drug Administration advisory committee has voted unanimously to uphold a decision made last year to remove bevacizumab’s indication to treat metastatic breast cancer. The Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee concluded that the drug has a poor safety profile and makes no difference to the overall survival of breast cancer patients.
Famine warning A...
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New Hampshire Public Television on tumblr: PBS... →
nhpublictv:
Some Saudi Arabian women coordinated through social media to get behind the wheel Friday in protest of a religious ban on them driving legally. Judy Woodruff reports on the women who risked arrest to fight for new rights.
Watch it now - http://video.nhptv.org/video/2009312842/
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“Reports of al Qaeda preparing so-called “belly bombs” designed to be surgically...”
– Al Qaeda ‘Belly Bombs’ Entirely Possible, Doctor Says (via ryking)
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“This week, members [of the Senate] will consider a non-binding measure that...”
– Seeking ‘a more meaningful contribution’ from the rich (via ryking)
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“A federal appeals court Wednesday issued an order blocking the U.S. military...”
– Appeals court suspends enforcement of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy (via ryking)
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Obama’s Twitter Town Hall By the Numbers [STATS] →
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love this: 'Why I Won't Follow the Casey Anthony... →
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robot-heart-politics:
fuckyeahfeminists:
I admit I know virtually nothing* about the trial of Casey Anthony, who is accused of killing her almost three-year-old toddler, Caylee. I find the media and the public’s obsessive preoccupation with this murder trial to be morbid, just as it was with the 1996 Jon Benet Ramsey murder case.
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But, most of all, I just find it—put it...
“Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter, as the American...”
– Jon Stewart (via amazingatheist)
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Does Anyone Else Get Freaked Out By Their... →
mollymillions:
“The Belly Button Biodiversity project recently began taking DNA samples from people’s navels to find out what bacteria is living within. Of the roughly 1,400 bacterial strains discovered thus far, at least 662 of them are completely unknown.”
I didn’t until I read this. O_o
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“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
– Slavoj Žižek (via ratak-monodosico)
***URGENT*** ICE (Immigration) Checkpoint at Union...
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bambooyaa:
The fuck is this even legal? I have nothing to fear (except um I don’t know racial profiling) but goddammit I refuse unless you have a warrant or probably cause other than my brown hair.
I’m hearing it’s not ICE, but Homeland Security.
update: US Marshalls also deny their involvement. the authority involved has a k-9 unit. unclear if they are...
Musings of an Overactive Imagination: whyinthehell... →
mollymillions:
whyinthehell replied to your photo: And I love my followers. You guys are the best. So…
Wow, I think you’re in as good of a mood today as I am in a bad mood. 180 degrees. I kind of like your good-mood-self-expression, though, whereas I usually want to throw really hard things at most good-mooders. :-D
I wasn’t in the greatest of moods until I launched into my rant and a couple...
Court overturns Michigan affirmative action ban →
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Pretty sure I'm an existential nihilist.
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madmanwithabox:
Existential nihilism is the belief that life has no intrinsic meaning or value. With respect to the universe, existential nihilism posits that a single human or even the entire human species is insignificant, without purpose and unlikely to change in the totality of existence. {x}
Sounds about right.
same here
“Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean,...
