The Boy Scouts finally did the right thing but didn’t quite get everything right. They forgot to change the policy that excludes gay adult leaders and that’s a message of sexual discrimination and not one that they should be giving the scouts. Come on BSA you’re almost there, get rid of the bigotry – you’ll be much better for it.
I made the quilt sandwich last night in preparation for quilting it. Of course the minute I left it alone there was a cat on top of it. :)
I also did a bit of work on the nupp thing. I can report that they are getting easier but I still think they are a PITA. And it didn’t help when I dropped stitches last night during a extremely loud thunder clap.
Just lately two of the kittens have taken it into their heads that they both need to lay on one particular spot on the bed. I crawl in last night, opened my book and a donnybrook erupted to my left. Hopefully this too shall pass.
I have to get moving so have a great day!
Petitions
This week, House Republicans are putting forward a bill called the "Northern Route Approval Act." This bill overrides the President's authority to make decisions on the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Whatever you think about the Keystone Pipeline, this bill is blatantly unconstitutional. The Constitution provides for a legislative branch, which creates legislation -- laws of general application. It also provides for an executive branch, which executes the laws. This is known as the separation of powers. The bill that the Republicans are putting forward is a clear violation of this principle.
The bill does one more thing: it bestows special favors on a foreign oil company, TransCanada. It lets the corporation build the Keystone XL pipeline without going through normal government approval processes, and even gives TransCanada a free right-of-way worth millions of dollars. House Republicans have said they want to get rid of Congressional earmarks. Yet here they are, bestowing an earmark anyway.
Read Grayson’s letter:
http://graysonforcongress.com/sites/def
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Jon Stewart Tells A Room Full Of Overachievers That Success In College Doesn't Mean Much
http://www.upworthy.com/jon-stewart-tel
Atheists Rejoice! Pope Francis Says You're O.K.
http://www.alternet.org/atheists-rejoic
Organic Food Industry Gains Clout On Capitol Hill, Causing Tensions Within Congress
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/1
Rise Up or Die
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/ris
Matt Taibbi: Public Unions Need to Stop Poisonous Koch Brothers From Buying Tribune Papers
http://www.alternet.org/economy/matt-ta
Feet to the Fire: Time to Hold the Big Energy Villains Who Kill the Earth While Making a Killing Accountable
http://www.alternet.org/feet-fire-t
'Operation Swill': 29 NJ Restaurants and Bars Including 13 TGI Friday's Accused of Selling Bottom-Shelf Booze in Premium Bottles
http://www.alternet.org/food/operat
Rachel Maddow Has A Lot of Questions for the Obama Administration Following Its Admission to Killing Four Americans with Drones
http://www.alternet.org/media/rachel-ma
Cockroaches lose their 'sweet tooth' to evade traps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
The uneven charm of Rome's cobblestones
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2263
Roll over Einstein: meet Weinstein
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/b
The Beauty of Bounded Gaps
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an
The 7 Nastiest Things Lurking In Your Supermarket
http://www.care2.com/causes/the-7-nasti
Immigration Bill Heads to the Full Senate, 200 Amendments Later
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/201
5 Most Horrifying Things About Monsanto -- Why You Should Join the Global Movement and Protest on Saturday
http://www.alternet.org/take-action/5-m
10 Most Absurd Sex Tips from the Christian Right
http://www.alternet.org/belief/10-m
Alberta Tar Sands Oil Is Already Flowing and Leaking Into the United States
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/comm
Resistance in Ohio, Fracking's Dumping Ground
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16547-re
Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201
Has Your Favorite Organic Brand Been Hijacked by Corporate Agribusiness
http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/05/who-o
They are at it again - 8 (male) members of Congress heard testimony on a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks with no exceptions for rape, incest or the health of the woman.
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
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Whatever you think about the Keystone Pipeline, this bill is blatantly unconstitutional. The Constitution provides for a legislative branch, which creates legislation -- laws of general application. It also provides for an executive branch, which executes the laws. This is known as the separation of powers. The bill that the Republicans are putting forward is a clear violation of this principle.
The bill does one more thing: it bestows special favors on a foreign oil company, TransCanada. It lets the corporation build the Keystone XL pipeline without going through normal government approval processes, and even gives TransCanada a free right-of-way worth millions of dollars. House Republicans have said they want to get rid of Congressional earmarks. Yet here they are, bestowing an earmark anyway.
Read Grayson’s letter:
http://graysonforcongress.com/sites/def
I got the quilt top done for the animal project last night. Since I was using a charm pack and everything was cut I was just able to sit down and sew. I did not have a solid in the stash that would go with the fabric so I picked out a tonal. It almost reads as a solid but not quite. I did some research on tea dying but decided that since this small quilt will be washed over and over the dyed effect would simply wash out eventually. I took a few quick pics of it last night but will have to take a few more this morning since the lighting was poor. This will have to wait until Dearest gets up. :)
Dearest made tandoori tofu last night and it was good. He is proud of himself but says it is not as good as tandoori cod.
I am having lunch with a friend today at out local Thai place. Hopefully, the rain will have stopped by that time.YUM!
So much for the sun of yesterday. It is raining again. At least it is in the 70s.
I have to get moving so have a wonderful day!
Petitions
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
A Pearl Buck Novel, New After 4 Decades
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/busin
The Climate-Change Wars Begin This Summer
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20
Congressman Who Gets Millions In Farm Subsidies Denounces Food Stamps As Stealing ‘Other People’s Money’
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/0
Feet home to more than 100 fungi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-226226
Scottish wildcat could be extinct 'within two years'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-h
Cantor’s Con Would Steal Workers’ Overtime Pay
http://www.nationalmemo.com/cantors-c
Tornado Victims Debate Shelters
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/0
Wolf Blitzer Learns a Lesson and Arizona Lawmaker Says "Don't Bow Your Heads"
http://www.alternet.org/atheists-ri
Whey Too Much: Greek Yogurt’s Dark Side
http://modernfarmer.com/2013/05/whey-to
Keystone Pipeline Nears Completion This Summer as Carbon-dioxide Reaches Record Levels
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/comm
The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/1
The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/1
Volcano project scours Iceland for early warning signals - love her knitted head band.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Cave paintings in Mexico: Carvings uncovered in Burgos
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a
Carole King receives Gershwin Prize from President Obama
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertain
In pictures: Masseurs of Mumbai
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-2
Parents quit Singapore probe into Shane Todd death
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22
Burning Texas railroad bridge collapses
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
Toxic rice causes concern in China
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-2263
The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks
http://www.alternet.org/secret-donors-b
How Our Massive Homeland Security Apparatus Does the Bidding of the Big Banks
http://www.alternet.org/how-our-mas
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
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The binding is all sewn down on the herringbone quilt and now I have to label it. I went to look for the label template that I made for it and couldn’t find it. ARGH! Where did the little bunny hop off too?
Next up quilt for one of our animal friends. First I need to run through the stash for find a solid background material before starting.
I have to get moving so have a wonderful day!
Petitions
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Oklahoma Senator Demands Spending Cuts In Exchange For Disaster Relief - You know, if these were my Senators I voite them out of office.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/oklahoma-se
How America's National Security Apparatus -- in Partnership With Big Corporations -- Cracked Down on Dissent
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
Keith Richards faces £3,000 fine for overdue library books
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-n
Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB in lab tests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-226145
Cuba reopens sugar mills after price rise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a
Attenborough: We're destroying things
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Wildlife stocktake highlights UK's threatened species
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Cleveland symphony: Orchestra plays in bars to reach new audiences
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2261
Wildlife stocktake highlights UK's threatened species
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Energy Is Putting Power Back in the Hands of the People
http://www.alternet.org/environment/roo
Feds' Bogus Threat of Terrorism to Hunt Down Black Liberation Activist
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber
New Toilet Turns Human Waste Into Electricity and Fertilizer
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20
Dissent or Terror: New Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide
http://www.prwatch.org/node/12115
The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives
http://crooksandliars.com/dave-john
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
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Oklahoma got hit…hard
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/0
The Rhodies and columbine are in bloom. Looks like this year will be a heavy bloom for them. That columbine is one plant that decided it would put itself in one of the large pots near the entrance to the garden path.
In other garden news the tomatoes have grown at least 4” since being put into the raised beds so I am going to have to start thinking about staking them.
Last night I was able to get some of the binding sewn down on the herringbone quilt. I do enjoy doing the hand sewing. They only problem is the color of thread I am having to use melts into the fabric and I need bright light to see it.
I have put away the lined jeans again - fingers crossed.
I have to get moving so have a wonderful day!
Petitions
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Looking for a sunblock?
http://www.ewg.org/2013sunscreen/?inlis
Abercrombie Just Got Served: Ellen Is Like a Decency Ninja - good girl
http://www.upworthy.com/abercrombie-jus
The Secret Psychology That Shopping Malls Use To Trick You Into Spending Money
http://www.upworthy.com/the-secret-psyc
A Word from Our Sponsor - Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch. - read it.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2
12-Year-Old Girl Raped, Video Posted to Facebook by Alleged Attackers
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
GOPer Who Got Millions in Farm Subsidies Thinks the Poor Should Starve Rather Than Get Food Stamps
http://www.alternet.org/goper-who-got-m
Towns' Latino Community Totally Unsurprised That Police Beat Man to Death for No Reason and Tried to Cover it Up
http://www.alternet.org/towns-latino-co
Virginia GOP Nominee For Attorney General Would Force Women To Report Their Miscarriages To Police -- Or Face 1 Year in Jail - WTF is wrong with these people?
http://www.alternet.org/virginia-gop-no
Just How Many Journalists Is the Justice Department Spying On?
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
Scientists track giant whales by their earthshaking calls
http://seattletimes.com/html/localn
Pandemic Swine Flu Virus Found in Seals
http://news.discovery.com/animals/s
Your Epidural is Against the Law: What Alabama Women and Doctors Need to Know - WTF?
http://www.leftinalabama.com/diary/1056
Welcome to This Generation's Joseph McCarthy ...
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16489-we
They Do Protect and Serve, Just Not You
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/1
Multinational Corporations Have No Allegiance to Any Nation or Citizens, Only to Profit
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commenta
In a border town, a newspaper forced to be silent
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationw
Chelsea Flower Show at 100: How gardening has changed - bummer, they let the gnomes in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-225931
Justin Rowe book art opens British Academy Literature Week
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22
On patrol protecting the 'first crane egg in 400 years'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-226057
Puzzle of why penguin cannot fly 'solved'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk
- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:none at the moment
Remember that pattern swatch I am playing with. I got to the nupps yesterday. They are one of the reasons I have been playing with the pattern. It will give me the chance to get a grip on making nupps. So far, I still say they are a PITA but the last method I used was much easier than the others. What's a nupp?
As you can see I haven't quite got the hang of it yet.They are a bit messy looking.
By the time everything was said and done yesterday I was just too tired to do any hand stitching on the herringbone quilt. Ah well, there is always tonight. Now I have to start thinking of a label.
Have a wonderful day!
Petitions
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Sunshine vitamin 'may treat asthma'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-225708
Taxpayer Dollars Are Helping Monsanto Sell Seeds Abroad - well, this is offensive. Why?
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-phil
Full Bloom - Cunningham on fashion
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/0
First crane egg in 400 years laid at Slimbridge
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gl
Barefoot running coach takes tips from native tribe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2253
Sir Alan Parker: Appalled how films censored in China
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-a
Ashmolean museum in Oxford acquires Millais John Ruskin portrait
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ox
Rod Stewart returns to UK number one spot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertain
Chelsea Flower Show at 100: How gardening has changed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-225931
How do you move a garden to the Chelsea Flower Show? - if you listen to GQT and don’t know what Bunny Guinnesds looks like…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-134936
Benghazi Interview: Pickering Dissects Congressional Follies, Media Coverage, And ‘Cover-Up’ Charges
http://www.nationalmemo.com/benghazi-in
Soda Industry Cashes In on Govt. Food Assistance Programs to Tune of $4 Bilion a Year
http://www.alternet.org/food/soda-indus
Smashing the Absurd Myth That More Guns Make Us Safer
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber
Bill Moyers: 12 Ways You Can Avoid Toxic Chemicals
http://www.alternet.org/environment/bil
What is Paper Terrorism? Anti-Gov't Nuts File Tens of Thousands of False Docs as "Sovereign Citizens"
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-r
Traffic Ticket Camera Company Channels Kafka, Threatening Court Appearances, Even Though "No Such Court Exists"
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
Is Nestle Involved in Murder Of Columbian Union Leader?
http://www.alternet.org/world/nestle-in
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk but not for long
- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:None at the moment
We did our first yard saling of the year yesterday before it started to rain. We got out into the fresh air and walked. Yes, someone bought a book. :)
I played at knitting a sample of lace with some very thin cotton yesterday – about double the size of thread - yesterday and got half way through the repeat and dropped a stitch. I just said screw it and restarted the whole thing. I am glad I don’t have days like that very often. LOL!
The blue herringbone quilt is almost finished. The binding is sewn on and all that is left is to hand stitch it down. This pic was right after I finished quilting it.
Have a wonderful day!
Petitions
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Groningen gas fields - the Dutch earthquake zone
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
Bill Moyers: Our Media Is Polluted by Toxic Lies About the Risks Posed by Lead
http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accou
Breaking: Interior Department Bows to Pressure from Oil and Gas Industry, Weakens Fracking Rules
http://ecowatch.com/2013/interior-depar
‘Environmental genocide’: Native Americans quit talks over Keystone XL pipeline
http://rt.com/usa/native-americans-keys
Congressmen Pocan and Ellison Introduce "Right to Vote" Constitutional Amendment
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/1645
Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/1
Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/1644
Tornadoes tear through US states
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
How do you round up a camel herd?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2252
Can jellyfish venom help humans?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2252
Propaganda exhibition: Art or political rhetoric?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertain
In pictures: Raw power of the Sun - just a reminder of what we haven’t seen in two days
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
How the US Turned Three Pacifists Into 'Multiple Felony Saboteurs'
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber
Outrageous Attacks on Supporters of Church-State Separation: Death Threats, Murdered Pets, and Vandalized Property
http://www.alternet.org/belief/outrageo
Keep the Arctic Cold: Why the Rush to Drill Alaska Must Be Stopped
http://www.alternet.org/environment/kee
How Walmart Paid $24 Million In Bribes To Build On Sacred Mayan Ruins (VIDEO)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/0
Record breaking demolition of viaduct in China
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
weather, knitting, gardening, global warming, environment, politics, Repugs, scumbags, quilting, petitions, CISPA, health, Exxon, oil spills, Monsanto, evil, people, tar sands, privacy, fish, Keystone pipeline, fracking, tornadoes, animals, art, sun, photography, Walmart
Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk but not for long
- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:rain
It looks a bit overcast out there this morning which may have an impact on the to do list for the weekend. We’ll see how the day progresses.
I would love to finish off the quilting of the blue herringbone quilt this weekend since last weekend was such a bust in that department.
My podcasts are piling up so I will try to get some of them listened to this weekend. This always happens this time of the year since I am pulled many ways during the weekends.
I am still sleepy but must get moving. Have a wonderful day!
Petitions
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
CANTOR PWNED BY WHITE HOUSE!!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/1
Wisconsin geologist found guilty – of chalking the sidewalk
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/1
A Liar by the name of Flake - go get’em Caren!
How Money Rules Washington - Bill Moyers
http://www.pogo.org/our-work/videos-a
It's Official: Those Bogus Email Leaks Came From Republicans
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2
Earth and Moon Got Water from Common Source
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic
Reagan and Argentina’s Dirty War
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/17/re
Dead marine animals wash up on picturesque Chilean coast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a
Is Japan's tea industry blossoming two years on from Fukushima?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22
US derailment: 'Extensive damage', says Gov Malloy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
Researcher decodes prairie dog language, discovers they've been talking about us (Video)
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-scien
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk but not for long
- Current Mood:calm but sleepy
- Current Music:BBC Podcast
I just looked up and there is a small female hummingbird hovering directly outside the window chirping at me. It must be time to change the nectar in the feeder. It does look really low. A few minutes later it is refilled and they are again out there dog fighting around the feeder. :)
I made a second batch of oat bran muffins a few days ago and they are no almost gone. Me thinks it is time to do some more baking. I had put apple in them and Dearest requests that I leave it out this time but, “leave in the cinnamon and nutmeg”. LOL!
I did not get the full list taken care of yesterday but I have added onto it. I have some weekend chores lingering in the mix too – like painting the bird bath.
Must get a move on. Have a wonderful day!
Petitions
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
How Does The Worst Human Being Of Retail Sleep At Night? After He Sees This, He Won't.
http://www.upworthy.com/how-does-the-wo
Mesmerizing Photographs Of Soldiers' Faces Before And After A War
http://www.upworthy.com/mesmerizing-pho
Invasive ladybirds wage 'biological war' on natives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Cicada Tracker - do a bit of citizen science
http://project.wnyc.org/cicadas/
Attenborough on Cicadas
And you can eat them too
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/pdf/cicada
How Monsanto Is Using Cronies in Congress to Take Away States' Rights to Label Genetically Modified Foods
http://www.alternet.org/food/how-monsan
Pat Robertson's Latest Ridiculousness: Forgive Your Cheating Husband Because "Well, He's a Man" - moron!
http://www.alternet.org/media/pat-rober
On What Planet? Conservative Group Targets AARP for Promoting "Homosexual Agenda"
http://www.alternet.org/what-planet-con
Cops Should Get Warrants to Read Your E-Mail, Attorney General Says
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/0
Coming Corporate Control of Medicine Will Throw Patients Under the Bus
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/1
Will the Catholic Bishops Decide How You Die or Whether You Live?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16391-wi
Does Your Insect Repellent Repel Insects?
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an
Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion
http://chronicle.com/article/Publis
Ex-IRS Director: Tea Party Groups Deserved Scrutiny, But IRS Bungled the Job
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/201
Metal Shards and Much Worse In Your Food? What Happens When the Food Industry Regulates Itself
http://www.alternet.org/personal-he
Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber
Ice Age sabretooth cat's deadly attacks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Florida homeowner describes finding alligator on porch - well dah! You live in FL
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
Farne Islands 'puffin census' begins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Call centre menu options catalogued by frustrated man
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22
Murder in Mayfield
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-1955
Iggle Piggle the rejected piglet grows up with lambs on farm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-m
Cannes film festival suffers $1m jewellery theft
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
Read Klingon on your computer screen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22
We choose the moon - cool!
http://wechoosethemoon.org/
A Side of Leukemia with Your GMO Corn?
http://gmoevidence.com/wp-content/uploa
Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out On The Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food
http://preventdisease.com/news/13/05061
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
weather, knitting, gardening, global warming, environment, politics, Repugs, scumbags, quilting, petitions, CISPA, health, Exxon, oil spills, Monsanto, evil, people, tar sands,privacy, fish, photography, insects, morons, medicine, health, puffins, animals, cool sites, GMOs
Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk
- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:none at the moment
One of the many things I must do soon is to repot the begonia that sits in my office all winter. It is going to split the pot before too long.
There are a lot of items on the to do list today so I must get started. Have a good one!
Petitions
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
This Kid Was Bullied A LOT. He Could Have Told His Teacher Or His Principal. He Had Bigger Plans.
http://www.upworthy.com/this-kid-was-bu
Twitter Hate Speech Map Pinpoints Racist, Homophobic Hotspots Across U.S.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/1
Deep Canadian mine yields ancient water
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Embryonic stem cells: Advance in medical human cloning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-225403
Neutrinos from the cosmos hint at new era in astronomy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Rollercoaster destroyed in 'super storm' Sandy removed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
A Dam Too Far in Laos
http://www.internationalrivers.org/reso
Are Plastic Food Containers Too Toxic to Reuse?
http://sierraclub.typepad.com/green
**New App Helps Consumers Avoid Koch Industries and Monsanto Products and Trace Corporate Ownership of Everything in Their Shopping Cart
http://www.alternet.org/new-app-helps-c
Lenin's tomb reopens to public after renovation I always thought that this type of thing is kinda creepy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
IRS commissioner quits over conservative tax scrutiny - yep, there is always a wictum even if it didn’t happen on their watch – see highlighted article previously posted under the following link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
Rubio Demands Resignation of Nonexistent IRS Commissioner
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20
Lady's Slipper rare orchid to have Chelsea show security
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-225453
Ancient Mayan pyramid in Belize destroyed by road crew
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a
Hidden Beauty: Diseases become art under a microscope
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2247
Flawless diamond sells for record $26.7m at auction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
THE REAL I.R.S. SCANDAL
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/c
Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manh
Vermont May Be First State to Require Labeling of Genetically Modified Food
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commenta
If Frances Kelsey Could Protect America from the Pharmaceutical Industry in 1962, Congress Can Today
http://truth-out.org/news/item/1634
Nasa buys into 'quantum' computer - they are sharing it with Google? Bad idea.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
World's most distinct mammals and amphibians mapped
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
A late bloom for bluebells
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/2250859
Foldability origami exhibition opens in Glasgow
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-2
Swedish friction experts on why curling stones curl
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-h
How I Did Less and Ate Better, Thanks to Weeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xWaNp
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
weather, knitting, gardening, global warming, environment, politics, Repugs, scumbags, quilting, petitions, CISPA, health, Exxon, oil spills, Monsanto, evil, people, weeds, tar sands, privacy, fish, NASA, computing, technology, photography, fun stuff, GMOs, auctions, archaeology, plastic
Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk
- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:BBC program
We have quite a big population of hummingbirds this year. The feeder is almost constantly busy and the dogfights are really something. Here is a quick pic of a young lady at rest above the mayapples in the front garden.
I haven’t seen Piglet since the chase and I am starting to worry about him/her. Our squirrels and chipmunks are few and far between this year. I wonder if it has anything to do with the raptors nesting in the back acreage. I can tell you that the catbirds are back and the dawn and even chorus are quite something to listen too. Ha! I just saw Piglet in the front garden. Good.
We had sun when I got up and now it is overcast and chilly. I was hoping for full sun today. I am going back to my lined jeans!
I’m hungry this morning so will end up eating before lunchtime even though we had a nice big dinner last night. I treated myself to homemade blue cheese dressing for my salad. I would have it all the time but since it is off Dearest’s menu I don’t make it too often.
Have a good one!
Petitions
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Next Page in Pro-Gun Playbook at KU: Death Threats
http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/2
'Best estimate' for impact of melting ice on sea level rise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Brain scan study to understand workings of teenage mind
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-225305
The Real Scandal: Official Washington Goes Nuts Over IRS Doing Its Job
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
Bush Used the IRS, FBI, CIA and Secret Service to Go After Opponents -- Where Was the Fox and GOP Outrage?
http://www.alternet.org/bush-used-irs-f
3 Groups Denied Break by I.R.S. Are Named
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/busin
Student Shot by School Employee, As Conservatives Call for More Guns on Campus
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
South Carolina Republican Wants to Draft All Males Over 17 in Large Militia - these people are nuts
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
Did America's First Drug Czar Secretly Supply Dope to Sen. Joe McCarthy?
http://www.alternet.org/did-americas-fi
Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat
So This Is How It Begins: Guy Refuses to Stop Drone-Spying on Seattle Woman
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a
VA Whistleblower Ignites Firestorm Over Vets’ Illnesses
http://www.theamericanconservative.c
Tasty tunes from Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
Charles Correa - India's greatest architect?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2246
Mysterious Poop Foam Causes Explosions on Hog Farms
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-phil
USDA Sticks It to Monsanto and Dow—at Least Temporarily
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-phil
Outrage Grows Over Justice Department Seizure of Associated Press Phone Records
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
What Will It Take for Us to Recognize That the Way We Live Could Be Destroying Life as We Know It?
http://www.alternet.org/environment/wha
Look Out: Corporations Promote ‘Right to Farm’
http://www.alternet.org/food/look-out-c
Above All Else: A David and Goliath Story
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16346-ab
The IRS Tea Party Scandal, Explained
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201
FaceBook Founder Gets an Earful After Promoting XL Pipeline
http://warisacrime.org/content/face
Four colossal Sun flares in 48 hours
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
DNA reveals origin of Greece's ancient Minoan culture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Sugar beet 'mystery' condition halts 50% of some crops
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22
Kanda Festival, Japan
http://www.bbc.com/travel/video/on-t
Mexico on alert as Popocatepetl volcano blows steam - Popocatepetl is waking up
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a
Youths swap career in crime for baking
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a
One World Trade Center: The view from the spire - glad I don’t do that for a living. :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
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- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:none at the moment
While working at my desk yesterday my eye was drawn outside to Piglet running like a bat out of hell, being pursued by something that looked like another groundhog. I just hope it was not a fox. What ever it was I was astounded that Piglet could run that fast.
It got really cold last night and I actually turn on the electric blanket. Dearest, of course, is complaining about the down comforter still being on the bed. The cats differ. They were all piled up on my feet this morning when I awoke. We have sun and its breezy out there this morning.
I am going to try to get outside today and plant the vedge. One of the tomatoes has set its first bloom.
It is time I get myself into work mode. Have a good one!
Petitions
The Wounded Knee site has been held sacred by the Lakota Sioux since the horrific massacre that happened there in 1890. Now, it's in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, including someone who would build a horse slaughterhouse on the plot.
The current owner has offered to sell the site to its rightful owners, the nearby Oglala tribe, for the cool price of $3.9 million. But The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To build a horse slaughterhouse on their sacred site after everything the tribe has already suffered would be unthinkable.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AhnMh/z
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/0
Cambridge scientist Joe Farman who helped find ozone 'hole' dies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ca
Rubio Demands Resignation of Nonexistent IRS Commissioner
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20
Police Beat Man to Death With Batons, Confiscate Witness Video
http://www.alternet.org/police-beat-m
Pat Robertson, Who Prophesied 'Romney Will Win,' Urges Viewers to Beware False Prophets
http://www.alternet.org/pat-robertson-w
Nuclear Weapons Will be Used -- If We Don't Do Something to Get Rid of the Damn Things
http://www.alternet.org/nuclear-wea
Will Predator Banksters at JPMorgan Chase Finally Pay for Their Misdeeds?
http://www.alternet.org/economy/will-pr
The Hidden World Under Our Feet
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opini
Glow Worm Cave - cool!
https://twitter.com/SciencePorn/sta
The Riddle of the Bee Deaths: Solved at Last? - probably not.
http://science.time.com/2010/10/07/t
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
http://phys.org/news184310039.html
Motherhood
http://susiemadrak.com/2013/05/12/mothe
Frack Corporate Personhood
http://inthesetimes.com/article/14961/f
The Earth-Shatteringly Amazing Speech That’ll Change The Way You Think About Adulthood
http://www.upworthy.com/the-earth-shatt
Senator Uses Logic To Suggest That Maybe We Shouldn't Let Banks Rob Your Kids. Awesome Bill Ensues.
http://www.upworthy.com/senator-uses-lo
The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/13/th
Flexible Armor: Mysterious Seahorse Astounds Scientists
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/flexib
Associated Press condemns US telephone record seizure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
Jen Lewin: Artist dazzles with light-and-sound installations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2248
Dr. Joyce Brothers, On-Air Psychologist Who Made TV House Calls, Dies at 85
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/a
The Vicious New Bank Shakedown That Could Seriously Ruin Your Life
http://www.alternet.org/economy/vic
Big Ag Wins This Round: Supreme Court Backs Monsanto in Ruling
http://www.alternet.org/food/big-ag-win
Superbugs Invade American Supermarkets
http://www.ewg.org/meateatersguide/supe
Monster radiation burst from Sun
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Mayan pyramid bulldozed by Belize construction crew - this is outrageous
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a
'Weight loss gut bacterium' found
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-224584
ISS Commander and 'star' Chris Hadfield back on Earth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Actress Gina Lollobrigida to auction jewellery for charity
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
'Screaming' traffic cones unveiled in Birmingham
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-225273
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
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- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:BBC program
Ms. Trouble is being a bit of a silly kitty this morning. She started this morning by standing on the top of the stairs and howling and then racing through the house. She is, at the moment, at rest next to me on the desk. No doubt this won’t last long and she will be off once again getting into mischief.
It’s cinnamon toast for me and then I have to start my day.
Have a great day!
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
'Dramatic decline' warning for plants and animals
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
WHO says new coronavirus may be passed person to person
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
Explosion fails to demolish disused building in Brisbane - oops!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pa
Creeping wall of ice destroys homes in Canada
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
Virgin's Sir Richard Branson turns stewardess after losing bet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-2249982
Stirling teacher's book collection could fetch £230,000 at auction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-t
Pope Francis creates 800 Italian saints - I’d say this is a bit of overkill
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
Space Oddity - courtesy of Cmdr. Chris Hadfield. An early welcome home Hadfield!
Astronaut Chris Hadfield explains his space pictures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Instagram 'food porn' photo leads IRS to identity thieves
sun-sentinel.com/news/local/crime/fl-ide
Is Climate Change Fueling a Deadly Disease in California and Other Parched States?
http://www.alternet.org/environment/cli
How a Legal Loophole Allows Untested Pesticides in Everything From Cosmetics to Clothing
http://www.alternet.org/environment/h
We Just Passed the Climate's "Grim Milestone"
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-mar
How does the oldest grand piano sound?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-225074
Bat Orphans
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
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- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:BBC program
Gov Christie says fat jokes are "the only still-acceptable form of discrimination in our country." He vetoed marriage equality last year. - @andrewadastra
The center of the herringbone quilt is quilted and now I have to work on the borders. I haven’t decided what I want to do with them. I ran out of chalk so picked up some more this afternoon during the errand run.
We have had a beautiful sunny day with a constant breeze - a bit cold.
It’s late so I best get this posted. Have a great day!
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Miyoko Shida's performance for the Spanish TV program "Tú Sí Que Vales" - Caulderesque
http://www.flixxy.com/the-incredible-po
Boehner Accidentally Explains Why His Deficit Position Is Phony
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-0
The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change
http://www.nationaljournal.com/maga
Sexual Assaults and Nuclear Missiles: What's the Matter With the Military?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/1
Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_h
Lost Argentine town re-emerges from lake
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a
Dining with the Dead: Georgian families' graveyard feasts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2248
Maine legislature votes to overturn Citizens United
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/0
Diary of a depressed cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKffm2uI
Ronald Reagan: Accessory to Genocide
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/11/ro
5 Ways The Republican Party Has Sabotaged Our Economic Recovery
http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-ways-t
A Petition That Just Might Save the Post Office
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174269/pe
Arkansas Residents Sick From Exxon Oil Spill Are on Their Own
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130
Guess What’s Polluting 27 Billion Gallons of Water Each Year?
http://www.takepart.com/article/201
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
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- Current Mood: calm
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Want to watch the ISS crew fix the ammonia leak? It is live.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
I wonder if Piglet will make his way down to the drive today. Yesterday morning at this time he was out along the edge of the drive munching away on all kinds of things.
Right before sundown last night I heard the raccoons chattering away somewhere close to the house in the back. It sounded like there were some young ones taking part in the conversation.
I must get moving, apply the accu-suck to the carpets and various other household chores. Have a great day!
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Chris Hadfield: ISS ammonia leak 'a very steady stream'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Psychedelic Images From Inside Your Body
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2
What Do Hidden Cameras Reveal About Humanity? Something Amazing. - Bravo & well done to these Russians citizens!
http://www.upworthy.com//what-do-hi
GOP Star Witnesses Debunk Right-Wing Benghazi Conspiracy Theories
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2
Elizabeth Warren Introduces First Bill: Students Should Get Educational Loans at Same Low Rate as Big Banks, 0.75 Percent
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/comm
Indigenous Resistance Grows Strong in Keystone XL Battle
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/1629
Why the TransPacific Partnership Is a Scary Big (Trade) Deal
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/1
The Michael Moore of the Grade-School Lunchroom - go get’em kiddo!
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2
Tax Authorities Move on Leaked Offshore Documents
http://www.icij.org/offshore/tax-author
Cops Beat Woman For Filming Another Beating
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber
Republican Hypocrisy on Benghazi
http://consortiumnews.com/
Thermal invisibility cloak in first demonstration
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Dunwich underwater images show 'Britain's Atlantis'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-su
Film Review - this week's releases
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertain
We are governed by outright morons
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/0
Hidden in immigration reform, vast biometrics plan
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/10/hidden_
Update to Email Privacy Law Must Go Further
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/u
A Cleaning Conundrum
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/0
The Dark Side of Food Colors
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-da
Turkey Factory Abused Disabled Workers for 20 Years - WTF?
http://www.care2.com/causes/disabled-wo
Who Is Profiting From Charters? The Big Bucks Behind Charter School Secrecy, Financial Scandal and Corruption
http://www.alternet.org/education/who-p
Hidden Power Grab Stops Communities From Deciding Their Own Futures
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
Princess Diana: Althorp House exhibition to close
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
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- Current Music:NASA live feed
Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma
John Barrasso, Wyoming
Jeff Sessions, Alabama
Mike Crapo, Idaho
John Boozman, Arkansas
Deb Fischer, Nebraska
We have sun this morning but are told that it will rain again later tonight. And what is wonderful is that we will actually get into the high 70s today. :)
The main flock of our hummers have arrived. The feeder is a busy place this morning. :) In blooming news the white lilacs have bloomed and the mock orange has got its buds.
I went upstairs to feed the kittens and I managed to spill water from the water bowl that had just been filled. What a mess!
I must get moving. Have a great day!
Petitions
Here is a very bad trade agreement. Public comment is now open on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership."
The "Partnership" actually is a partnership between multinational corporations and their sellout tools in government. It features "investor-state" dispute resolution, which permits huge corporations to file lawsuits to prevent government actions that they just don't like, such as health and safety regulations.
This is not just a theoretical possibility. "These provisions elevate corporations to the level of nation states and allow them to sue governments over nearly any law or policy which reduces their future profits," the Sierra Club warns. The government of Canada has been sued under a similar clause in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for refusing to export Canada's water. Canada also has been sued for keeping a pollutant out of its gasoline supply, and for taxing windfall profits by oil companies.
Who needs these "free trade" sell-outs, anyway? Since NAFTA went into effect in 1994, the United States has lost almost four million manufacturing jobs. Moreover, huge U.S. subsidies for corn have made it impossible for millions of Mexican families to survive on the farm. NAFTA accomplished something that hardly seems possible - impoverishing both American workers and Mexican ones. Can't we learn from our mistakes? And why are our leaders treating us like sheep being led to the slaughter?
The First Amendment gives us the right to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances." So go sign the petition now since comment is only open until Friday –not a very long time period given to comment is it? Does that tell you something?
http://tradetreachery.com/
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Chris Hadfield: ISS ammonia leak 'a very steady stream'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
ALEC Asserting Immunity From Freedom of Information Laws
http://www.prwatch.org/node/12098
WI Bill Would Treat Organic Milk, Sharp Cheddar, Brown Eggs as "Junk Food" - WTF?
http://www.prwatch.org/node/12095
Did Make-Up Give My Wife Breast Cancer? The Ugly Truth Hidden by the Cosmetics Industry
http://www.alternet.org/personal-he
Top General's Unbelievably Idiotic Comment About Rape in the Middle of Military Rape Epidemic
http://www.alternet.org/gender/top-gene
11 Most Heartless GOP Ideas for Immigrants
http://www.alternet.org/11-most-heartle
Watch These Straight People Answer A Question Gay People Have Been Asked For Years
http://www.upworthy.com/watch-these-str
An Awful Corporation Does Something So Cartoonishly Creepy That We Have To Make A Dr. Evil Reference
http://www.upworthy.com/an-awful-corpor
I Just Learned How To Use A Paper Towel Properly For The First Time In My Life
http://www.upworthy.com/i-just-lear
George Takei PSA Teaches How To Treat Anti-Gay Hypocrites
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/0
Food investigations: Welch's fruit juice cocktails contain more corn than fruit: 80% water and high fructose corn syrup
http://www.naturalnews.com/040151_Welch
Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16137-fr
Climate Collision Course: CO2 Levels About to Hit 400 PPM
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/20
Prince Charles hits out at climate change sceptics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-224634
Downloads for 3D-printed Liberator gun reach 100,000 - not good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22
Vatican declares Mexican Death Saint blasphemous
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a
Baby orangutan born at Paignton Zoo 'is a girl'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-de
'Dirty' stars hint at Sun's future
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Flu in pregnancy 'may raise bipolar risk for baby'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-224471
Fears of forest elephant slaughter in Central Africa
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Zoo seeks mate for last surviving 'gorgeously ugly' fish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
The man who makes his living whittling wooden spoons
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2246
How foetuses learn language
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
Amalfi’s Legacy of Lemons
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/0
The FBI Doesn't Think It Needs a Warrant to Read Your Email
http://www.alternet.org/fbi-doesnt-thin
America is one bad winter away from a food disaster, thanks to dying bees
http://qz.com/81558/america-is-one-b
Why is Corporate America fanning the flames of violence in Chicago?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/0
New York's Zoning Ban Movement Fracks Big Gas
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16252-ne
HOUSE APPROVES BILL TO CHANGE OVERTIME PAY LAW
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie
Homeland Insecurity: Seven Years, Untold Dollars to Silence One Man
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16283-ho
Norway, Canada, the United States, and the Tar Sands
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/maili
At Least 71 Kids Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201
Fungus network 'plays role in plant communication'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Better origami using nature and maths
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2013051
Crowds watch 'gorgeous' solar eclipse in Australia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22
Autistic teenager tipped for Nobel Prize
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-224779
US government orders removal of Defcad 3D-gun designs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22
WWll veteran reunited with dog tag after nearly 70 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana
Deadly mushrooms: What you need to know
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-224779
Webscape: A heaven for TV fans
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-a
The real spy 'who inspired Bond girl'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertain
Petitions that need your signature
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
weather, knitting, gardening, global warming, environment, politics, Repugs, scumbags, quilting, petitions, CISPA, health, Exxon, oil spills, Monsanto, evil, people, tar sands, poverty, privacy, ISS, fish, health, ALEC, WTF?, military, immigration, food, fracking, religion, animals, craft, bees, plant, eclipse, technology
Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk
- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:none at the moment
The "Partnership" actually is a partnership between multinational corporations and their sellout tools in government. It features "investor-state" dispute resolution, which permits huge corporations to file lawsuits to prevent government actions that they just don't like, such as health and safety regulations.
This is not just a theoretical possibility. "These provisions elevate corporations to the level of nation states and allow them to sue governments over nearly any law or policy which reduces their future profits," the Sierra Club warns. The government of Canada has been sued under a similar clause in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for refusing to export Canada's water. Canada also has been sued for keeping a pollutant out of its gasoline supply, and for taxing windfall profits by oil companies.
Who needs these "free trade" sell-outs, anyway? Since NAFTA went into effect in 1994, the United States has lost almost four million manufacturing jobs. Moreover, huge U.S. subsidies for corn have made it impossible for millions of Mexican families to survive on the farm. NAFTA accomplished something that hardly seems possible - impoverishing both American workers and Mexican ones. Can't we learn from our mistakes? And why are our leaders treating us like sheep being led to the slaughter?
The First Amendment gives us the right to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances." So go sign the petition now since comment is only open until Friday –not a very long time period given to comment is it? Does that tell you something?
http://tradetreachery.com/
- Current Location:desk
- Current Mood:
annoyed - Current Music:none at the moment
Well, the web designers of the BBC News pages are trying to justify their salaries again. They have started to make to changes. Quite frankly, there was no reason for them to be made.
Apparently, Prince Harry is going to be back in the US soon. Hopefully he will stay clothed this time.
I have another busy day ahead so I must get to my list. Have a great day!
Petitions
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Swedish salmon sales 'breached EU ban' over dioxins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
Prince Philip marks Battle of the Atlantic anniversary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-224572
A bit of Weirdness - fun stuff
Expanded Surveillance State Likely to Increase Internet Wiretapping Capabilities, Stifling Web Freedom, Advocacy and Anonymity
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commenta
In the Wake of West, Texas: 1,000 Toxic Chemical Accidents You Have Not Heard Of
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/1625
One Hospital Charges $8,000 ... Another Charges $38,000?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/1
Austerity Has Cost The U.S. Economy 2.2 Million Jobs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/0
Indispensable Guide: Where to Shop to Avoid Buying from Businesses that Endanger Workers
http://www.alternet.org/indispensable-g
NRA Convention Sells "Ex-Girlfriend" Target That Bleeds When You Shoot It - sick
http://www.alternet.org/nra-convent
Large meteor spotted in night sky in England and Wales
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-224606
The great dinosaur stampede that never was?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2238
Stepford Wives film director Bryan Forbes dies aged 86
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertain
Smell 'made aeroplane pilots landing at Heathrow dizzy'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lo
Slow motion video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-a
China in spotlight over mislabelled meat and poor hygiene
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-ch
Punk fashion from chaos to couture at New York's Met
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertain
A fundamental problem
http://rationalist.org.uk/articles/4
Petitions that need your signature
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk
- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:none at the moment
It’s raining, dark, thundering and on the chilly side this morning. The weather forecast is also telling us that we will have at least three more days of rain. Eew!
I got a bit more knitting done last night. After dinner we watched a program about the restoration of Jefferson’s bible that turned out to be fascinating. If you are interested you can view it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9RzKe7Q
Not much will get done outside today and quite frankly I am ready to go back to bed. Yes, it is the old rainy day syndrome accompanied by a sinus headache. :)
I walked out the back door last night and heard a noise off to my right. It didn’t take me long to spot Piglet creeping around under the porch heading to the garden. They has such bad eyesight that he sat and looked at me for a few minutes before I finally started talking to him. At that point he just sat and listened then turned tail and ran.
Have a great day!
Petitions
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Google Street View discovers new cat species!
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.c
A TED Talk That Might Turn Every Man Who Watches It Into A Feminist? It's Pretty Fantastic.
http://www.upworthy.com/a-ted-talk-t
Maybe When This Gun Control Opponent Watches The Footage, He'll Realize How Bad His Arguments Were
http://www.upworthy.com/maybe-when-t
Sir Robert Walpole's treasures return to Houghton Hall
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no
Vets give music therapy to relax animals
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr
Stilton cheese cannot be made in Cambridgeshire village of same name
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-2
7 Dodgy Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine Here
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-phil
Diabetic High School Girl Beaten by Police Officer and Arrested -- For Falling Asleep in Class - WTF?
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
Jon Stewart Slams NRA Fearmongering at Gun-apalooza - watch it
http://www.alternet.org/jon-stewart-sla
More Babies Die in America on Their First Day Than Anywhere Else in Industrialized World
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
ALEC Ignores First Amendment, Assembles a "Most Wanted" List
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16216-al
If the Oceans Die - We Die
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/1
Ray Harryhausen, Whose Creatures Battled Jason and Sinbad, Dies at 92
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/movie
Cold War bunkers offer bats refuge from killer disease
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Lack of sleep blights pupils' education
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-2220
Ancient bone-headed dinosaur found
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
Greater wax moth 'can sense' highest recorded frequency
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g
Sun's blood pressure benefits 'may outdo cancer risks'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-e
Houghton Hall exhibition: Old masters return after 234 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no
Subconscious cinema - film endings changed by your mood
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22
'Curse' scam targets Asian women in New Zealand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-2244228
Tesla electric cars exceed sales forecasts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/22449099
Elizabeth I painting 'exquisitely beautiful'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertain
British family charged £54 for four ice creams in Rome
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-224405
10 Reasons Austerity Is a Crock
http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-reas
99 One-Liners That Rebut Climate Change Denier Talking Points
http://www.alternet.org/environment/9
Petitions that need your signature
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk
- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:none at the moment
It is a beautiful sunny morning and 60 degrees. :) It would be good to get outside and do a few things but I have another list for today and I need to get moving.
More knitting accomplished on Dearest’s pullover last night as we watched a dreadful movie. I know that Dearest needs to watch these things for work purposes but…ARGH!
Piglet was out and about in the garden yesterday but I only caught a fleeting glimpse of him running back to his home. I haven’t seen our chipmunks yet and am getting a bit worried about them. I wonder if the raptors nesting up on the ridge have decreased the population.
Have a great day!
Petitions
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Red-faced robber foiled by chilli sauce
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pa
'Queen' Helen Mirren scolds London street drummersway to go Helen!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lo
Mountains measured: Surveyors reclassify UK hills
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
4 Big Pushers of War in Iraq Now Gunning for Intervention in Syria -- Consequences be Damned!
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
Florida 13-Year-Old Finds Family Gun, Shoots 6-Year-Old Sister
http://www.alternet.org/florida-13-y
Armed Children? 5 Craziest Things About This Weekend's NRA Convention
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
How the Processed Food Industry Undermines Healthy Food Culture
http://www.alternet.org/michael-pol
Police Bar LGBT Protestors from Attending Mass in New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
Protein Complex Found in Human Breast Milk Can Help Reverse Antibiotic Resistance in Superbugs
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20
Study: Healthy fish populations rely on algae
http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=275
Sea-Ice Brinicles As Spires of Life
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oce
Gulf oil spill is sickening fish vital to seafood industry
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sci
Do Whales Have Culture? Humpbacks Pass on Behavior
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n
Aggressive Fish Beat Bigger Fish In Fights, Says ‘Napoleon Complex’ Study
http://www.inquisitr.com/636782/aggress
Why Shark Embryos Eat Each Other Up in Utero
http://news.discovery.com/animals/shark
The dance craze coming out of Rio's favelas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2239
Breeding scheme for endangered Asian Gharial crocodiles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22
Mercury exposure linked to dramatic decline in Arctic foxes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
In Pursuit of an Underwater Menagerie
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/scien
Graphic Artist Dad Decorates Kids’ Lunches (Gallery)
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/graphi
The Beavers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl
Your Retirement for a Bottle of Champagne: How Wall Street Fraudsters Ripped You Off, Again
http://www.alternet.org/economy/your-re
Chief of the U.S. Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Charged with... Sexual Battery
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi
Philippine volcano Mount Mayon in deadly eruption
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22
Petitions that need your signature
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
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Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk
- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:BBC program
The sun is just starting to light up the skies and it is chilly outside. We are supposed to have another sunny day but I haven't seen it yet since it is cloudy.
Ms. Trouble is was awake and patrolling the desktop early.
I did some knitting last night so progress has been made on Dearest’s River Shirt.
There are many things to attend to so I am off to get started. Have a great day!
Petitions
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mot
Recommended Reading
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis
Arctic Ocean 'acidifying rapidly'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir
World's first 3D-printed gun fired in US
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22
H7N9 bird flu is a 'serious threat' - researchers warn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-223646
Insects source of protein instead of meat some of it looks like a Klingon entrée.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
Bollywood eyes visual effects future
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/22423835
Which 20 Lipsticks Contain the Most Lead?
http://www.motherjones.com/environm
5 Ways That Raw, Unregulated Capitalism Is Acting Like a Cancer on American Society
http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-w
Petitions that need your signature
Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure
In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to “discover” what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”.
But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlé’s permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications -- which are currently pending -- around the world.
Sing the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nige
It's impossible to fight climate change while simultaneously investing in one of the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fossil fuels on the planet.
I took advantage of the final public comment period to speak out against the toxic Keystone XL tar sands project. It's really easy and only takes a few seconds and we need our voices to add up!
http://action.sierraclub.org/LastBestCh
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHt
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/sta
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/ama
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ve
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/s
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/actio
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/d
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-l
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advoc
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/te
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/prot
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
weather, knitting, gardening, global warming, environment, politics, Repugs, scumbags, quilting, petitions, CISPA, health, Exxon, oil spills, Monsanto, evil, people, privacy, fish, oceans, printing, health, insects, film, cosmetics
Change the world one loan at a time – visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
- Current Location:desk
- Current Mood: calm
- Current Music:none at the moment
BOOKS READ 2013
1) Voices by Ursula K. LeGuin
2) The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka
3) The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer (audio book)
4) Skeleton Man by Tony Hillerman (audiobook)
5) Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austin
6) Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer
7) Demon of the Air - An Aztec Mystery by Simon Levack
8) Shadow of the Lords - An Aztec Mystery by Simon Levack
9) Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew
10) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
NOW READING
Well, I can't decide what is next...
COMPANIES & STATES
THAT I BOYCOTT
Hobby Lobby
Cargill
Kellogg’s
J.M. Smucker
Coca-Cola
Pepsico
Nestle
Rich Products
Bimbo Bakeries
Hormel
Conagra Foods
Rich Products Corporation
Grocery Manufacturers Association
Salvation Army
Lindt – child slavery
Ferrero Rocher – child slavery
American Crystal Sugar
Salvation Army
Whole Foods
Stonyfield Farms
Organic Valley
Comcast
Esterline Industries
TARGET stores
Dr. Pepper
7 Up
Hawaiian Punch
Sunkist
A&W
Canada Dry
Crush
Snapple
Mott’s
Schweppes
Squirt
Sundrop
Welch’s
Yoohoo
DejaBlue
Vernors
IBC Root Beer
Country Time
Clamato
Nantucket Nectars
Real Lemon/Real Lime
Stewart’s Root Beer
Diet Rite
Orangina
Hires
Rose’s Lime Juice
Penafiel
Margaritaville
Mr. and Mrs. T
RC Cola
Mott's Apple Sauce
Mott’s Fruitsations
Mott’s Garden Cocktail
Holland House
BP
Transocean & Halliburton (their contractors)
ARIZONIA - for racial profiling
Best Buy for obnoxious ads on LJ
General Mills
Crystal sugar
Dreyer's (rBGH products)
Edy's (rBGH products)
Haagen-Dazs (rBGH products)
Klondike (rBGH products)
Good Humor (rBGH products)
Breyer's (rBGH products)
Elanco (rBGH dist)
Eli Lilly (rBGH maker)
Quiltmaker (mag)
Verizon
JoAnn's Fabric & Craft Stores
Boca Java Coffee
Home Depot
JC Penny
MONSANTO
TYSON
Dow
McDonald's
Coca-Cola/Coke
Hess
Exxon
Chevron
Kellogg's
Starbucks
Hershey's
Morningstar Farms
Kraft
M&M/Mars
Nestle's
Kimberly-Clark
Walmart
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