July 12th
We were out and about for a while last night doing errands. On my way into the house I decided to pick the five red cherry tomatoes - before that brazen little chippie got them - and threw them into the salad we were having for dinner. The are yummy little things just bursting with flavor.
Now that I have a barrier around the first raised bed things are growing again instead of being mowed every other night. :)
Knitting continues on the Levanto. Working on the first sleeve.
I found this lovely little moth right outside the backdoor perched on some of my scrap lumber.
Our Hose of Reps voted again to repeal the Affordable Health Care law that was just rule to be constitutional. You know, they have wasted more time on bills that don’t need to be introduced and voted on. Seems to me they ran on a platform of creating jobs, etc., etc., etc. Now I read that they are trying to go after contraception, again. Scumbags!
Have a wonderful day all!
Recommended Reading/Viewing - *
Romney booed by civil rights group on healthcare stance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18801601
Richard Dawkins on BBC Radio debating with creationists. - go Dawkins!
The Top Two Percent: What the Tax Debate Is All About
http://mikethemadbiologist.com/2012/07/11/the-top-two-percent-what-the-tax-debate-is-all-about/ - more-10536
What You Need to Know About New Attempts At Internet Censorship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiraTWOUL4U&feature=player_embedded
Charts on Climate Change Tell Dire Tale - go take a look
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1026756/charts_on_climate_change_tell_dire_tale/
The 'Monsanto Rider': Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law?
http://www.alternet.org/food/156195/The_%27Monsanto_Rider%27%3A_Are_Biotech_Companies_About_to_Gain_Immunity_from_Federal_Law%3F/
NSA Analysts Confirm AT&T Snoop Rooms
Group Continues Battle Against Warrantless Surveillance
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/EFF-NSA-Analysts-Confirm-ATT-Snoop-Rooms-120301?nocomment=1
Not Again! How Our Voting System Is Ripe For Theft and Meltdown in 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/156252/not_again%21_how_our_voting_system_is_ripe_for_theft_and_meltdown_in_2012?akid=9052.308485.tOG2pS&rd=1&t=2
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Hubble discovers new Pluto moon - cool.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18803212
Day in the life of a Turkish fishmonger
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18795323
Urban noise 'killing baby house sparrows'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18784607
Documentary finds answers after Rodriguez death
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18797211
Rolling stones celebrate 50 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18800198
The exotic animals impounded by the Metropolitan Police
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18354514
Corn flour mixture's strange properties explored
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18800017
US crackdown on illegal computer-operated robocalls - it’s about time!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18799732
Jeff Ragsdale: The man who gave the world his number
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18803128
The non-existent tags
weather, knitting, gardening, global warming, environment, politics, Repugs, scumbags, people, Hubble, Pluto, birds, music, The Stones, corn, technology, people
Petitions to sign
A Definite must sign petition
You could have to pay a big fine for simply clicking on the wrong link.
Right now, a group of 600 industry lobbyist "advisors" and un-elected government trade representatives are scheming behind closed doors1,2 to craft an international agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Why the secrecy? We know from leaked documents3 that the TPP includes what amounts to an Internet trap that would:
• Criminalize4 some of your everyday use of the Internet,
• Force service providers to collect and hand over your private data without privacy safeguards5, and
• Give media conglomerates more power to fine you for Internet use,6 remove online content-including entire websites-and even terminate7 your access to the Internet.
• The TPP would create a parallel legal system of international tribunals that will undermine national sovereignty and allow conglomerates to sue countries for laws that infringe on their profits.
•
The TPP's Internet trap is secretive, extreme, and it could criminalize your daily use of the Internet. You could be fined for simply clicking on the wrong link. We deserve to know what will be blocked, what we and our families will be fined for.
If enough of us speak out now, we can force participating governments to come clean. Your signature will send a message to each country's leaders.8 Please sign the petition and share it with everyone you know
http://stopthetrap.net/?tag=SOUblast1206
Do you really own your computer? - not if this legislation goes through. Go sign the petition.
Do you really own the smartphone 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.
http://act.demandprogress.org/act/first_sale/?referring_akid=a6457446.655732.o9Lw_Q&source=auto-e
If we don't speak out now, we won’t be able to sell almost anything we own -- and if we do, we'll face charges for violating intellectual property law!
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 been made in a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
If we want to sell products that were made abroad, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks -- even our homes -- we'll have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
This is bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to make things and move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale.
http://act.demandprogress.org/act/first_sale/?referring_akid=a6457446.655732.o9Lw_Q&source=auto-e
NAVY ADMITS WHALES AND DOLPHINS IN HARM'S WAY
http://news.discovery.com/earth/online-protests-against-navy-sonar-plans-120706.html
Navy to deafen 15,900 whales and dolphins and kill 1,800 more
Our Navy is required to include comments on their Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) re: the use of high frequency underwater sound for testing in Hawaii, the California and Atlantic Coasts, and the Gulf of Mexico. According to their estimates it will deafen more than 15,900 whales and dolphins and kill 1,800 more over the next 5 years. Whales and dolphins depend on sound to navigate and live. Your signature and comment will have to be included in the EIS and could stop this Naval program, potentially saving the lives of these ocean creatures. The comments must be in by July 10, 2012.
That's why I signed a petition to U.S. Navy EIS Comments.
Will you sign this petition? Click here:
http://signon.org/sign/navy-under-water-sound?source=s.em.cp&r_by=
And while I am at here is another one to sign.
Today, a full 80 percent of all antibiotics are used on livestock, and this massive overprescription is breeding new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and reducing the overall effectiveness of antibiotics.
Even the FDA admits the problem. So it was all the more disappointing when the FDA issued new rules in April that allow factory farms to continue overusing antibiotics, making compliance totally voluntary.
The FDA is accepting comments on the new rule until Thursday. Please join me in urging the FDA to pass a stronger, mandatory standard that keeps antibiotics out of our food:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/fda_comments/?r_by=43054-953854-L0whTRx&rc=confemail
Change the world one loan at a time - visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
Now that I have a barrier around the first raised bed things are growing again instead of being mowed every other night. :)
Knitting continues on the Levanto. Working on the first sleeve.
I found this lovely little moth right outside the backdoor perched on some of my scrap lumber.
Our Hose of Reps voted again to repeal the Affordable Health Care law that was just rule to be constitutional. You know, they have wasted more time on bills that don’t need to be introduced and voted on. Seems to me they ran on a platform of creating jobs, etc., etc., etc. Now I read that they are trying to go after contraception, again. Scumbags!
Have a wonderful day all!
Recommended Reading/Viewing - *
Romney booed by civil rights group on healthcare stance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18801601
Richard Dawkins on BBC Radio debating with creationists. - go Dawkins!
Click to viewThe Top Two Percent: What the Tax Debate Is All About
http://mikethemadbiologist.com/2012/07/11/the-top-two-percent-what-the-tax-debate-is-all-about/ - more-10536
What You Need to Know About New Attempts At Internet Censorship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiraTWOUL4U&feature=player_embedded
Charts on Climate Change Tell Dire Tale - go take a look
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1026756/charts_on_climate_change_tell_dire_tale/
The 'Monsanto Rider': Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law?
http://www.alternet.org/food/156195/The_%27Monsanto_Rider%27%3A_Are_Biotech_Companies_About_to_Gain_Immunity_from_Federal_Law%3F/
NSA Analysts Confirm AT&T Snoop Rooms
Group Continues Battle Against Warrantless Surveillance
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/EFF-NSA-Analysts-Confirm-ATT-Snoop-Rooms-120301?nocomment=1
Not Again! How Our Voting System Is Ripe For Theft and Meltdown in 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/156252/not_again%21_how_our_voting_system_is_ripe_for_theft_and_meltdown_in_2012?akid=9052.308485.tOG2pS&rd=1&t=2
*
Hubble discovers new Pluto moon - cool.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18803212
Day in the life of a Turkish fishmonger
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18795323
Urban noise 'killing baby house sparrows'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18784607
Documentary finds answers after Rodriguez death
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18797211
Rolling stones celebrate 50 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18800198
The exotic animals impounded by the Metropolitan Police
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18354514
Corn flour mixture's strange properties explored
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18800017
US crackdown on illegal computer-operated robocalls - it’s about time!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18799732
Jeff Ragsdale: The man who gave the world his number
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18803128
The non-existent tags
weather, knitting, gardening, global warming, environment, politics, Repugs, scumbags, people, Hubble, Pluto, birds, music, The Stones, corn, technology, people
Petitions to sign
A Definite must sign petition
You could have to pay a big fine for simply clicking on the wrong link.
Right now, a group of 600 industry lobbyist "advisors" and un-elected government trade representatives are scheming behind closed doors1,2 to craft an international agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Why the secrecy? We know from leaked documents3 that the TPP includes what amounts to an Internet trap that would:
• Criminalize4 some of your everyday use of the Internet,
• Force service providers to collect and hand over your private data without privacy safeguards5, and
• Give media conglomerates more power to fine you for Internet use,6 remove online content-including entire websites-and even terminate7 your access to the Internet.
• The TPP would create a parallel legal system of international tribunals that will undermine national sovereignty and allow conglomerates to sue countries for laws that infringe on their profits.
•
The TPP's Internet trap is secretive, extreme, and it could criminalize your daily use of the Internet. You could be fined for simply clicking on the wrong link. We deserve to know what will be blocked, what we and our families will be fined for.
If enough of us speak out now, we can force participating governments to come clean. Your signature will send a message to each country's leaders.8 Please sign the petition and share it with everyone you know
http://stopthetrap.net/?tag=SOUblast1206
Do you really own your computer? - not if this legislation goes through. Go sign the petition.
Do you really own the smartphone 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.
http://act.demandprogress.org/act/first_sale/?referring_akid=a6457446.655732.o9Lw_Q&source=auto-e
If we don't speak out now, we won’t be able to sell almost anything we own -- and if we do, we'll face charges for violating intellectual property law!
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 been made in a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
If we want to sell products that were made abroad, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks -- even our homes -- we'll have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
This is bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to make things and move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale.
http://act.demandprogress.org/act/first_sale/?referring_akid=a6457446.655732.o9Lw_Q&source=auto-e
NAVY ADMITS WHALES AND DOLPHINS IN HARM'S WAY
http://news.discovery.com/earth/online-protests-against-navy-sonar-plans-120706.html
Navy to deafen 15,900 whales and dolphins and kill 1,800 more
Our Navy is required to include comments on their Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) re: the use of high frequency underwater sound for testing in Hawaii, the California and Atlantic Coasts, and the Gulf of Mexico. According to their estimates it will deafen more than 15,900 whales and dolphins and kill 1,800 more over the next 5 years. Whales and dolphins depend on sound to navigate and live. Your signature and comment will have to be included in the EIS and could stop this Naval program, potentially saving the lives of these ocean creatures. The comments must be in by July 10, 2012.
That's why I signed a petition to U.S. Navy EIS Comments.
Will you sign this petition? Click here:
http://signon.org/sign/navy-under-water-sound?source=s.em.cp&r_by=
And while I am at here is another one to sign.
Today, a full 80 percent of all antibiotics are used on livestock, and this massive overprescription is breeding new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and reducing the overall effectiveness of antibiotics.
Even the FDA admits the problem. So it was all the more disappointing when the FDA issued new rules in April that allow factory farms to continue overusing antibiotics, making compliance totally voluntary.
The FDA is accepting comments on the new rule until Thursday. Please join me in urging the FDA to pass a stronger, mandatory standard that keeps antibiotics out of our food:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/fda_comments/?r_by=43054-953854-L0whTRx&rc=confemail
Change the world one loan at a time - visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how