May 15th
The raised beds are now planted. Now all we have to do is sit back and watch them grow. As the sun went down last night I headed to the back door to take in the plants, caught myself and started to laugh. Dearest said he did the same thing. :) I guess it is one of those things that’s put on autopilot in your brain and now it will have to re-adjust.
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/zNI6/3R2f
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/2013/05/13/next-page-in-pro-gun-playbook-at-ku-death-threats/
'Best estimate' for impact of melting ice on sea level rise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22527273
Brain scan study to understand workings of teenage mind
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22530573
The Real Scandal: Official Washington Goes Nuts Over IRS Doing Its Job
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/real-scandal-official-washington-goes-nuts-over-irs-doing-its-job?akid=10432.204376.FQrx6o&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=3
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-fbi-cia-and-secret-service-go-after-opponents-where-was-fox-and-gop-outrage?akid=10432.204376.FQrx6o&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=9
3 Groups Denied Break by I.R.S. Are Named
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/business/advocacy-groups-denied-tax-exempt-status-are-named.html?_r=1&
Student Shot by School Employee, As Conservatives Call for More Guns on Campus
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/student-shot-school-employee-conservatives-call-more-guns-campus?akid=10432.204376.FQrx6o&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=5
South Carolina Republican Wants to Draft All Males Over 17 in Large Militia - these people are nuts
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/south-carolina-republican-wants-draft-all-males-over-17-large-militia?akid=10432.204376.FQrx6o&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=17
Did America's First Drug Czar Secretly Supply Dope to Sen. Joe McCarthy?
http://www.alternet.org/did-americas-first-drug-czar-secretly-supply-dope-sen-joe-mccarthy?akid=10432.204376.FQrx6o&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=23
Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/under-sweeping-subpoenas-justice-department-obtained-ap-phone-records-in-leak-investigation/2013/05/13/11d1bb82-bc11-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html
So This Is How It Begins: Guy Refuses to Stop Drone-Spying on Seattle Woman
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/so-this-is-how-it-begins-guy-refuses-to-stop-drone-spying-on-seattle-woman/275769/
VA Whistleblower Ignites Firestorm Over Vets’ Illnesses
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/va-whistleblower-ignites-firestorm-over-vets-illnesses/
Tasty tunes from Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22529516
Charles Correa - India's greatest architect?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22463774
Mysterious Poop Foam Causes Explosions on Hog Farms
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/menace-manure-foam-still-haunting-huge-hog-farms
USDA Sticks It to Monsanto and Dow-at Least Temporarily
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/shocking-everyone-usda-sticks-it-monsanto-and-dow%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AE-least-temporarily
Outrage Grows Over Justice Department Seizure of Associated Press Phone Records
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/outrage-grows-over-justice-department-seizure-associated-press-phone-records?akid=10436.204376.qxH2Ld&rd=1&src=newsletter840307&t=7
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/what-will-it-take-us-recognize-way-we-live-could-be-destroying-life-we-know-it?akid=10436.204376.qxH2Ld&rd=1&src=newsletter840307&t=11
Look Out: Corporations Promote ‘Right to Farm’
http://www.alternet.org/food/look-out-corporations-promote-right-farm?akid=10436.204376.qxH2Ld&rd=1&src=newsletter840307&t=21
Above All Else: A David and Goliath Story
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16346-above-all-else-a-david-and-goliath-story
The IRS Tea Party Scandal, Explained
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/irs-tea-party-scandal-congress-nonprofit-obama
FaceBook Founder Gets an Earful After Promoting XL Pipeline
http://warisacrime.org/content/facebook-founder-gets-earful-after-promoting-xl-pipeline
Four colossal Sun flares in 48 hours
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22539160
DNA reveals origin of Greece's ancient Minoan culture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22527821
Sugar beet 'mystery' condition halts 50% of some crops
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22536822
Kanda Festival, Japan
http://www.bbc.com/travel/video/on-the-road/20130509-kanda-festival-japan
Mexico on alert as Popocatepetl volcano blows steam - Popocatepetl is waking up
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22535495
Youths swap career in crime for baking
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22222564
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-canada-22536208
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_mother_earth_loc/?bjeIjab&v=23911
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-nigella-sativa/11/2/?akid=1601.65932.w0DNPx&rd=1&sub=fwd3&t=4
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHts78c
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/standwithbernie
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/amazon-kindle-e-book-return-policy-stop-allowing-refunds-on-e-books-after-e-books-have-been-read
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/veto_cispa/?referring_akid=a8234599.655732.Af5Ve3&source=auto-taf
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/six_strikes_2013/?rd=1&t=1&referring_akid=undefined
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/action/public/?action_KEY=6937
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8644
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-lines-in-cities?mailing_id=7341&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=913515
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/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=9962
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/ten_strikes?akid=700.450896.5hVZPC&rd=1&t=1
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/protectip_docs
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, hummingbirds, Piglet, health, IRS, history, drone spying, whistleblowers, fun stuff, volcanoes, architecture, sun, archaeology, festivals, baking
Change the world one loan at a time - visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
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/zNI6/3R2f
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/2013/05/13/next-page-in-pro-gun-playbook-at-ku-death-threats/
'Best estimate' for impact of melting ice on sea level rise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22527273
Brain scan study to understand workings of teenage mind
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22530573
The Real Scandal: Official Washington Goes Nuts Over IRS Doing Its Job
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/real-scandal-official-washington-goes-nuts-over-irs-doing-its-job?akid=10432.204376.FQrx6o&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=3
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-fbi-cia-and-secret-service-go-after-opponents-where-was-fox-and-gop-outrage?akid=10432.204376.FQrx6o&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=9
3 Groups Denied Break by I.R.S. Are Named
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/business/advocacy-groups-denied-tax-exempt-status-are-named.html?_r=1&
Student Shot by School Employee, As Conservatives Call for More Guns on Campus
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/student-shot-school-employee-conservatives-call-more-guns-campus?akid=10432.204376.FQrx6o&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=5
South Carolina Republican Wants to Draft All Males Over 17 in Large Militia - these people are nuts
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/south-carolina-republican-wants-draft-all-males-over-17-large-militia?akid=10432.204376.FQrx6o&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=17
Did America's First Drug Czar Secretly Supply Dope to Sen. Joe McCarthy?
http://www.alternet.org/did-americas-first-drug-czar-secretly-supply-dope-sen-joe-mccarthy?akid=10432.204376.FQrx6o&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=23
Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/under-sweeping-subpoenas-justice-department-obtained-ap-phone-records-in-leak-investigation/2013/05/13/11d1bb82-bc11-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html
So This Is How It Begins: Guy Refuses to Stop Drone-Spying on Seattle Woman
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/so-this-is-how-it-begins-guy-refuses-to-stop-drone-spying-on-seattle-woman/275769/
VA Whistleblower Ignites Firestorm Over Vets’ Illnesses
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/va-whistleblower-ignites-firestorm-over-vets-illnesses/
Tasty tunes from Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22529516
Charles Correa - India's greatest architect?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22463774
Mysterious Poop Foam Causes Explosions on Hog Farms
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/menace-manure-foam-still-haunting-huge-hog-farms
USDA Sticks It to Monsanto and Dow-at Least Temporarily
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/shocking-everyone-usda-sticks-it-monsanto-and-dow%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AE-least-temporarily
Outrage Grows Over Justice Department Seizure of Associated Press Phone Records
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/outrage-grows-over-justice-department-seizure-associated-press-phone-records?akid=10436.204376.qxH2Ld&rd=1&src=newsletter840307&t=7
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/what-will-it-take-us-recognize-way-we-live-could-be-destroying-life-we-know-it?akid=10436.204376.qxH2Ld&rd=1&src=newsletter840307&t=11
Look Out: Corporations Promote ‘Right to Farm’
http://www.alternet.org/food/look-out-corporations-promote-right-farm?akid=10436.204376.qxH2Ld&rd=1&src=newsletter840307&t=21
Above All Else: A David and Goliath Story
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16346-above-all-else-a-david-and-goliath-story
The IRS Tea Party Scandal, Explained
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/irs-tea-party-scandal-congress-nonprofit-obama
FaceBook Founder Gets an Earful After Promoting XL Pipeline
http://warisacrime.org/content/facebook-founder-gets-earful-after-promoting-xl-pipeline
Four colossal Sun flares in 48 hours
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22539160
DNA reveals origin of Greece's ancient Minoan culture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22527821
Sugar beet 'mystery' condition halts 50% of some crops
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22536822
Kanda Festival, Japan
http://www.bbc.com/travel/video/on-the-road/20130509-kanda-festival-japan
Mexico on alert as Popocatepetl volcano blows steam - Popocatepetl is waking up
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22535495
Youths swap career in crime for baking
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22222564
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-canada-22536208
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_mother_earth_loc/?bjeIjab&v=23911
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-nigella-sativa/11/2/?akid=1601.65932.w0DNPx&rd=1&sub=fwd3&t=4
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHts78c
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/standwithbernie
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/amazon-kindle-e-book-return-policy-stop-allowing-refunds-on-e-books-after-e-books-have-been-read
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/veto_cispa/?referring_akid=a8234599.655732.Af5Ve3&source=auto-taf
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/six_strikes_2013/?rd=1&t=1&referring_akid=undefined
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/action/public/?action_KEY=6937
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8644
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-lines-in-cities?mailing_id=7341&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=913515
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/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=9962
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/ten_strikes?akid=700.450896.5hVZPC&rd=1&t=1
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/protectip_docs
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, hummingbirds, Piglet, health, IRS, history, drone spying, whistleblowers, fun stuff, volcanoes, architecture, sun, archaeology, festivals, baking
Change the world one loan at a time - visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how