May 17th
It was wonderfully warm yesterday:) It is windy the morning and unfortunately it won’t be getting into the 80s again.
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/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.
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-worst-human-being-of-retail-sleep-at-night-after-he-sees-this-he-wont?c=upw10
Mesmerizing Photographs Of Soldiers' Faces Before And After A War
http://www.upworthy.com/mesmerizing-photographs-of-soldiers-faces-before-and-after-a-war?c=upw10
Invasive ladybirds wage 'biological war' on natives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22554162
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 recipes.PDF
How Monsanto Is Using Cronies in Congress to Take Away States' Rights to Label Genetically Modified Foods
http://www.alternet.org/food/how-monsanto-using-cronies-congress-take-away-states-rights-label-genetically-modified-foods?akid=10447.204376.deoUVv&rd=1&src=newsletter841436&t=7
Pat Robertson's Latest Ridiculousness: Forgive Your Cheating Husband Because "Well, He's a Man" - moron!
http://www.alternet.org/media/pat-robertsons-latest-ridiculousness-forgive-your-cheating-husband-because-well-hes-man?akid=10447.204376.deoUVv&rd=1&src=newsletter841436&t=9
On What Planet? Conservative Group Targets AARP for Promoting "Homosexual Agenda"
http://www.alternet.org/what-planet-conservative-group-targets-aarp-promoting-homosexual-agenda?akid=10447.204376.deoUVv&rd=1&src=newsletter841436&t=17
Cops Should Get Warrants to Read Your E-Mail, Attorney General Says
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/holder-email-warrants
Coming Corporate Control of Medicine Will Throw Patients Under the Bus
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16399-coming-corporate-control-of-medicine-will-throw-patients-under-the-bus
Will the Catholic Bishops Decide How You Die or Whether You Live?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16391-will-the-catholic-bishops-decide-how-you-die-or-whether-you-live
Does Your Insect Repellent Repel Insects?
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/05/insect_repellents_epa_approval_evaluating_deet_picaridin_lemon_eucalyptus.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=sm&utm_campaign=button_toolbar
Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion
http://chronicle.com/article/Publisher-Threatens-to-Sue/139243/
Ex-IRS Director: Tea Party Groups Deserved Scrutiny, But IRS Bungled the Job
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/irs-director-marcus-owens-tea-party-scandal
Metal Shards and Much Worse In Your Food? What Happens When the Food Industry Regulates Itself
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/metal-shards-and-much-worse-your-food-what-happens-when-food-industry-regulates?akid=10448.204376.ro-Gy_&rd=1&src=newsletter841592&t=5
Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/military-quietly-grants-itself-power-police-streets-without-local-or-state-consent?akid=10448.204376.ro-Gy_&rd=1&src=newsletter841592&t=15
Ice Age sabretooth cat's deadly attacks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22537686
Florida homeowner describes finding alligator on porch - well dah! You live in FL
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22565314
Farne Islands 'puffin census' begins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22565254
Call centre menu options catalogued by frustrated man
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22567656
Murder in Mayfield
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19558804
Iggle Piggle the rejected piglet grows up with lambs on farm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-22570686
Cannes film festival suffers $1m jewellery theft
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22566533
Read Klingon on your computer screen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22552462
We choose the moon - cool!
http://wechoosethemoon.org/
A Side of Leukemia with Your GMO Corn?
http://gmoevidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/JHTD-1-104.pdf
Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out On The Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food
http://preventdisease.com/news/13/050613_Former-Pro-GMO-Scientist-Speaks-Out-On-The-Real-Dangers-of-Genetically-Engineered-Food.shtml
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, 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
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/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.
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-worst-human-being-of-retail-sleep-at-night-after-he-sees-this-he-wont?c=upw10
Mesmerizing Photographs Of Soldiers' Faces Before And After A War
http://www.upworthy.com/mesmerizing-photographs-of-soldiers-faces-before-and-after-a-war?c=upw10
Invasive ladybirds wage 'biological war' on natives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22554162
Cicada Tracker - do a bit of citizen science
http://project.wnyc.org/cicadas/
Attenborough on Cicadas
Click to viewAnd you can eat them too
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/pdf/cicada recipes.PDF
How Monsanto Is Using Cronies in Congress to Take Away States' Rights to Label Genetically Modified Foods
http://www.alternet.org/food/how-monsanto-using-cronies-congress-take-away-states-rights-label-genetically-modified-foods?akid=10447.204376.deoUVv&rd=1&src=newsletter841436&t=7
Pat Robertson's Latest Ridiculousness: Forgive Your Cheating Husband Because "Well, He's a Man" - moron!
http://www.alternet.org/media/pat-robertsons-latest-ridiculousness-forgive-your-cheating-husband-because-well-hes-man?akid=10447.204376.deoUVv&rd=1&src=newsletter841436&t=9
On What Planet? Conservative Group Targets AARP for Promoting "Homosexual Agenda"
http://www.alternet.org/what-planet-conservative-group-targets-aarp-promoting-homosexual-agenda?akid=10447.204376.deoUVv&rd=1&src=newsletter841436&t=17
Cops Should Get Warrants to Read Your E-Mail, Attorney General Says
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/holder-email-warrants
Coming Corporate Control of Medicine Will Throw Patients Under the Bus
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16399-coming-corporate-control-of-medicine-will-throw-patients-under-the-bus
Will the Catholic Bishops Decide How You Die or Whether You Live?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16391-will-the-catholic-bishops-decide-how-you-die-or-whether-you-live
Does Your Insect Repellent Repel Insects?
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/05/insect_repellents_epa_approval_evaluating_deet_picaridin_lemon_eucalyptus.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=sm&utm_campaign=button_toolbar
Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion
http://chronicle.com/article/Publisher-Threatens-to-Sue/139243/
Ex-IRS Director: Tea Party Groups Deserved Scrutiny, But IRS Bungled the Job
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/irs-director-marcus-owens-tea-party-scandal
Metal Shards and Much Worse In Your Food? What Happens When the Food Industry Regulates Itself
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/metal-shards-and-much-worse-your-food-what-happens-when-food-industry-regulates?akid=10448.204376.ro-Gy_&rd=1&src=newsletter841592&t=5
Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/military-quietly-grants-itself-power-police-streets-without-local-or-state-consent?akid=10448.204376.ro-Gy_&rd=1&src=newsletter841592&t=15
Ice Age sabretooth cat's deadly attacks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22537686
Florida homeowner describes finding alligator on porch - well dah! You live in FL
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22565314
Farne Islands 'puffin census' begins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22565254
Call centre menu options catalogued by frustrated man
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22567656
Murder in Mayfield
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19558804
Iggle Piggle the rejected piglet grows up with lambs on farm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-22570686
Cannes film festival suffers $1m jewellery theft
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22566533
Read Klingon on your computer screen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22552462
We choose the moon - cool!
http://wechoosethemoon.org/
A Side of Leukemia with Your GMO Corn?
http://gmoevidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/JHTD-1-104.pdf
Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out On The Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food
http://preventdisease.com/news/13/050613_Former-Pro-GMO-Scientist-Speaks-Out-On-The-Real-Dangers-of-Genetically-Engineered-Food.shtml
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, 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