July 8th
We are due for another hot day and the humidity is high. It already feels oppressive.
Dearest is going through the proofs of his book so didn’t have much of a holiday, thus we had a quiet weekend.
Today the kittens go to the vet for their yearly shots. This is always a disruptive since we try to do them all in one day - 3 appointments. Since Dearest is proofing the book, I told him all he had to do was help me gather the kittens into the crate and I would do the running back and forth. He said to me - quite straight faced - that he probably would have to go along during Sita & Kali’s visit because Kali would need to be cuddled. The grown up cats will be fine but his little darling needs cuddling. LOLROF! Can we all shout Soppy!
I had planned to block the Tidal Equinox shawl this past weekend but never got to it. I also realized I have one other project that also needs to be blocked. I’ll just put them list for this week.
I’d better get busy but I must confess that I am feeling lazy this morning. Have a great day!
Recommended Reading
North Carolina GOP will ban Sharia law by enacting it
http://americablog.com/2013/07/north-carolina-gop-sharia-law.html
Hot Dog Eating Contest: What Happens To Your Body When You Eat 68 Hot Dogs In 10 Minutes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/03/hot-dog-eating-contest-health_n_1647284.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Why we need engineers
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/597426_700b.jpg
Star Trek promotes bestiality because Kirk sleeps with alien chicks, religious right says - this is so stupid it's funny
http://americablog.com/2013/07/star-trek-promotes-bestiality-capt-kirk-sleeps-with-alien.html
A Pro-Choice Texan’s Dispatch From the National Right to Life Convention
http://my.firedoglake.com/rhrealitycheck/2013/07/02/a-pro-choice-texans-dispatch-from-the-national-right-to-life-convention/
The secret life of the Sun
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/21793377
Surfer knocked unconscious by whale at Bondi Beach
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23219228
Footage of giant panda birth in Taipei - loud little thing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23216104
Las Vegas Suburb Accused of Plotting to Seize 5,000 Homes with Eminent Domain to Flip Them for a Profit
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/las-vegas-suburb-accused-plotting-seize-5000-homes-eminent-domain-flip-them-profit?akid=10666.204376.WByj6G&rd=1&src=newsletter865077&t=21
The Right’s Made-up ‘Constitution’
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/07/06/the-rights-made-up-constitution/
In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%BAwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/
Act now! Proposed US Forest Service regulations are bad for paleontology
http://blogs.plos.org/paleo/2013/07/05/act-now-proposed-us-forest-service-regulations-are-bad-for-paleontology/
Global Outrage: More Than 1/3 of World's Women Suffer Physical or Sexual Violence
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/un-reports-more-one-third-all-women-affected-physical-or-sexual-violence?akid=10668.204376.mKHIXi&rd=1&src=newsletter865559&t=3
4 Shady Ways Police Bust People For Drugs
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/4-shady-ways-police-bust-people-drugs?akid=10668.204376.mKHIXi&rd=1&src=newsletter865559&t=5
The Pentagon Is Spending Your Tax Dollars to Keep You in the Dark About Its Sprawling Empire
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/pentagon-spending-your-tax-dollars-keep-you-dark-about-its-sprawling-empire?akid=10668.204376.mKHIXi&rd=1&src=newsletter865559&t=7
Will Texas Try to Pass "Erectile Dysfunction" Laws Next? It Would Be Only Fair
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/will-texas-try-pass-erectile-dysfunction-laws-next-it-would-be-only-fair?akid=10668.204376.mKHIXi&rd=1&src=newsletter865559&t=21
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Petitions that need your signature
The Mind Your Own Business Act
http://mindyourownbusinessact.com/?source=Jun13Email
America's top grocers are selling fake honey containing carcinogens, heavy metals, and banned antibiotics.
Get grocers to make sure they're selling us the real thing.
http://action.sumofus.org/a/honey-fake-walgreens/4/2/?akid=1806.65932.QE7P4I&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=3
Tell you Senators to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/monsanto_protection_act
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/default/files/LettertoSpeaker5-21-13.pdf
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
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, poverty, privacy, GMOs, fish, stupid people, fracking, food, animals, police, surfing, paleontology, women's rights
Change the world one loan at a time - visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
Dearest is going through the proofs of his book so didn’t have much of a holiday, thus we had a quiet weekend.
Today the kittens go to the vet for their yearly shots. This is always a disruptive since we try to do them all in one day - 3 appointments. Since Dearest is proofing the book, I told him all he had to do was help me gather the kittens into the crate and I would do the running back and forth. He said to me - quite straight faced - that he probably would have to go along during Sita & Kali’s visit because Kali would need to be cuddled. The grown up cats will be fine but his little darling needs cuddling. LOLROF! Can we all shout Soppy!
I had planned to block the Tidal Equinox shawl this past weekend but never got to it. I also realized I have one other project that also needs to be blocked. I’ll just put them list for this week.
I’d better get busy but I must confess that I am feeling lazy this morning. Have a great day!
Recommended Reading
North Carolina GOP will ban Sharia law by enacting it
http://americablog.com/2013/07/north-carolina-gop-sharia-law.html
Hot Dog Eating Contest: What Happens To Your Body When You Eat 68 Hot Dogs In 10 Minutes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/03/hot-dog-eating-contest-health_n_1647284.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Why we need engineers
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/597426_700b.jpg
Star Trek promotes bestiality because Kirk sleeps with alien chicks, religious right says - this is so stupid it's funny
http://americablog.com/2013/07/star-trek-promotes-bestiality-capt-kirk-sleeps-with-alien.html
A Pro-Choice Texan’s Dispatch From the National Right to Life Convention
http://my.firedoglake.com/rhrealitycheck/2013/07/02/a-pro-choice-texans-dispatch-from-the-national-right-to-life-convention/
The secret life of the Sun
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/21793377
Surfer knocked unconscious by whale at Bondi Beach
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23219228
Footage of giant panda birth in Taipei - loud little thing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23216104
Las Vegas Suburb Accused of Plotting to Seize 5,000 Homes with Eminent Domain to Flip Them for a Profit
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/las-vegas-suburb-accused-plotting-seize-5000-homes-eminent-domain-flip-them-profit?akid=10666.204376.WByj6G&rd=1&src=newsletter865077&t=21
The Right’s Made-up ‘Constitution’
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/07/06/the-rights-made-up-constitution/
In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%BAwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/
Act now! Proposed US Forest Service regulations are bad for paleontology
http://blogs.plos.org/paleo/2013/07/05/act-now-proposed-us-forest-service-regulations-are-bad-for-paleontology/
Global Outrage: More Than 1/3 of World's Women Suffer Physical or Sexual Violence
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/un-reports-more-one-third-all-women-affected-physical-or-sexual-violence?akid=10668.204376.mKHIXi&rd=1&src=newsletter865559&t=3
4 Shady Ways Police Bust People For Drugs
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/4-shady-ways-police-bust-people-drugs?akid=10668.204376.mKHIXi&rd=1&src=newsletter865559&t=5
The Pentagon Is Spending Your Tax Dollars to Keep You in the Dark About Its Sprawling Empire
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/pentagon-spending-your-tax-dollars-keep-you-dark-about-its-sprawling-empire?akid=10668.204376.mKHIXi&rd=1&src=newsletter865559&t=7
Will Texas Try to Pass "Erectile Dysfunction" Laws Next? It Would Be Only Fair
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/will-texas-try-pass-erectile-dysfunction-laws-next-it-would-be-only-fair?akid=10668.204376.mKHIXi&rd=1&src=newsletter865559&t=21
***How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health - Canada has a problem. It’s lengthy but worth the watch.
Petitions that need your signature
The Mind Your Own Business Act
http://mindyourownbusinessact.com/?source=Jun13Email
America's top grocers are selling fake honey containing carcinogens, heavy metals, and banned antibiotics.
Get grocers to make sure they're selling us the real thing.
http://action.sumofus.org/a/honey-fake-walgreens/4/2/?akid=1806.65932.QE7P4I&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=3
Tell you Senators to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/monsanto_protection_act
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/default/files/LettertoSpeaker5-21-13.pdf
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
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, poverty, privacy, GMOs, fish, stupid people, fracking, food, animals, police, surfing, paleontology, women's rights
Change the world one loan at a time - visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how