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Is this really that much of a surprise?

But they’re a non-violent party… Gandhi-esque, really…

Because people on the left mock them?! “Ever since Sarah Palin realized their impossible dream of having things said on the public stage (and getting the rapt attention of the media) which previously were heard only around the dinette table or on the steps of the trailer home…” 

shortformblog:

Trust us. We know what we’re talking about. (ht stefanjbecket)

creative-education:

Humans are impatient. We have so little time to make our mark on the world that we need immediate gratification for our efforts. Not so with classroom teachers! Classroom teachers see the world, and their impact on it, in terms of generations. Teachers do hope to see their efforts produce small…

HOW DID I NOT KNOW HE WAS A NEO-CON?!?!

#heart #broken…

Guess he was a Texas Ranger, so… makes sense, *sniff *sniff…

I’ll always remember the good ole days when he ate that rat to get out of the gunny sack they’d tied to him back in the ‘Nam… #MissingInAction… 

climateadaptation:

“Employment in the EU’s renewable energy sector has broken through the one million mark for the first time, after the number of people working in the industry increased 25 per cent in 2010.

The latest figures from the European Commission reveal over 1.14 million people were working in green energy in 2010, an increase of a quarter on 2009. Meanwhile, revenue for the sector soared by 15 per cent year-on-year to €127bn.

With separate reports suggesting the sector continued to grow during 2011, the industry is likely to be considerably larger by now.

According to the report, the solid biomass power sector was the largest employer, accounting for 273,000 jobs, followed by solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power, which supported 268,110 and 253,145 jobs respectively.

The UK had the ninth biggest renewable energy sector in terms of employment in 2010, boasting 31,700 jobs. Wind accounted for 9,200 of these, followed by biogas at 6,000, biofuels at 5,300, solar PV at 5,000, and biomass with 2,000 employees.

However, the figures are likely to be already out of date with trade associations reporting that over 10,000 people now work in the wind energy industry, while the surge in demand for solar panels last year is thought to have supported between 20,000 and 30,000 jobs. In addition, further employment growth is predicted across the renewables sector over the next five years after a host of wind turbine firms recently announced plans to locate new factories in the UK.

Germany topped the employment league table with 361,360 jobs, based on strong growth in the PV sector. France came in second place with 174,735 jobs, with Italy, Spain and Sweden making up the top five.

The Germans also ruled the roost in terms of turnover, recording €36bn of revenue across the renewable energy sector in 2010.”

Read the rest at Business Green

With all the uproar over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA)—both of which prompted widespread online protests—it was easy to forget that the Senate had another cybersecurity bill in the works. But on Tuesday, a group of Senate committee leaders started rushing passage of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012(S.2105). Although this cybersecurity bill doesn’t include the SOPA/PIPA executive “kill switch“—it still threatens to undermine whistleblowers, FOIA, and open government efforts. 

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politicalprof:

There is an interesting and it seems to me entirely appropriate debate going on on Tumblr right now about how the #Politics tag works, the kinds of posts that get marked with it, and in particular whether the vile and hate-filled bloviations of one of the Tumblr #Politics…

Without dipping our toes in too deep, both politicalprof and Mark Coatney have some solid thoughts on the Politics tag worth heeding. There have been some misconceptions about how it works of late, and Mark does a good job dispelling them.

nedsecondline:

Free speech? 
If you can keep it! Big Agriculture has stolen it from you in a number of states already… Thirteen* states have passed food libel laws to criminalize any behavior which may endanger the profits of a food company (this includes defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures).

Robby Kenner, director of the documentary film Food Inc., says the food industry has little interest in letting us know where our food comes from and what’s in it. His biggest shock came during a congressional hearing on whether cloned meat should be labeled. When the industry rep said, “I don’t think it is in the interest of the consumers to be given this kind of information … it would just be too confusing,” the lack of transparency in our food system became all too clear.

Was this why Kenner made Food, Inc.? Yes. He was curious to know where our food comes from and how we can feed the world in a more sustainable way. “Eating food that is produced in an industrial manner just doesn’t taste as good as it used to,” he says.

*Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. Twelve of these states’ statutes are civil; defaming a food company is considered a criminal act in Colorado. 

“Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. You can lend as little as $25 to a borrower that you choose.”

“Internal documents acquired by ThinkProgress Green reveal that the Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank funded by the Koch brothers, Microsoft, and other top corporations, is planning to develop a ‘global warming curriculum’ for elementary schoolchildren that presents climate science as ‘a major scientific controversy.’ This effort, at a cost of $100,000 a year, will be developed by Dr. David E. Wojick, a coal-industry consultant.”

“For years, the area has… bred a deep strain of religious conservatism. At churches like First Baptist Church of Anoka, parishioners believe that homosexuality is a form of mental illness caused by family dysfunction, childhood trauma and exposure to pornography – a perversion curable through intensive therapy. It’s a point of view shared by their congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who has called homosexuality a form of ‘sexual dysfunction’ that amounts to ‘personal enslavement…’”

“Justin’s suicide has left Tammy on a mission, transforming her into an LGBT activist and a den mother for gay teens, intent upon turning her own tragedy into others’ salvation. She knows too well the price of indifference, or hostility, or denial. Because there’s one group of kids who can’t afford to live in denial, a group for whom the usual raw teenage struggles over identity, peer acceptance and controlling one’s own impulsivity are matters of extreme urgency – quite possibly matters of life or death.”

shortformblog:

Reuters’ Felix Salmon discusses the changing nature of Web journalism, where the SEO-friendly days of yore are starting to get a bit more social, which is good for high-quality but much-more-expensive reporting. Salmon’s point? The commodity approach, which has the side effect of diluting quality brands, is still easier, though it’s far more me-too in nature. (ht Matt)

nuff said

“Consider that current momentum-builder Rick Santorum has a ‘family values’ history that includes behaviors even many conservatives might find macabre. An ABC News blog post from early January quotes liberal Fox News contributor Alan Colmes (ahem, I will take that label with a grain of salt) as saying, ‘Get a load of some of the crazy things he’s said and done, like taking his two-hour-old baby when it died right after child birth home and played with it so that his other children would know that the child was real.’”

“Fox News (I will continue to use the example as long as it helps my case) has also addressed the old yarn about Mitt Romney driving to Canada in the early 1980s with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car. It is true that Romney was only 36 years-old at the time, but really, isn’t that mature enough to know better? A piece by columnist Lanny Davis is precisely titled, ‘Why Romney’s ‘dog on car roof’ story makes him unfit to be president.’”

Oh… good thing it’s EVERYWHERE in our food supply…

“Effects were mostly concentrated in kidney and liver function, the two major diet detoxification organs, but in detail differed with each GM type. In addition, some effects on heart, adrenal, spleen and blood cells were also frequently noted. As there normally exists sex differences in liver and kidney metabolism, the highly statistically significant disturbances in the function of these organs, seen between male and female rats, cannot be dismissed as biologically insignificant as has been proposed by others. We therefore conclude that our data strongly suggests that these GM maize varieties induce a state of hepatorenal toxicity….These substances have never before been an integral part of the human or animal diet and therefore their health consequences for those who consume them, especially over long time periods are currently unknown.”

nerdygoddess:

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dorito-falls:

I think I just died laughing.

Oh my God what is this.

Some choice excerpts:

“Tumblr is full of gay porn and is one of the main distributors of homoerotic messages to youth.”

“[T]he head honchos seem to really like cats. You can’t have a moral website with cats, that’s an inherent contradiction. However, cats are extremely persuasive and have turned many people to the dark side.”

“Your child doesn’t deserve the devil within Tumblr infiltrating their mind.”

Lmfao

 DYINGGG. please tell me this isn’t real ommmmmmmmg

“The Glee Actors are my friends in my mind” 

“Young women find themselves drawn to images of men engaging in premarital kissing through tumblr and many end up transsexual, desperately wanting to be one of the men engaging in oral sodomy”

“Many immoral liberals use cats to their advantage because they have hypnotic eyes and are small in frame. This is what captures so many youth.”

“Many teenage boys are now engaging in sin docking. Many teenage ladies are having their cankerblossom massaged by other misguided youth”

This. is. incredible.

this is so funny

The most accurate article I’ve read in the past month.

;djla;lkjJKSLDJF;LSFK

“…homoerotic sex is one of the most popular subjects on the site”

IDK GUYS, SEEMS PRETTY ACCURATE TO ME.

I can’t breathe.

“Members of Congress regularly receive sensitive information about the state of the economy and get advance notice on the actions of corporations, but they don’t have to adhere to the laws that prohibit buying or selling stock based on that information— laws that everyone else in America must abide by.” via Credomobile

During the fight over the federal budget, Republican Senator Jon Kyl stated that over 90% of the services performed by Planned Parenthood were abortions.

via IS THIS SOCIALIST SUPPORTER THE IOWA H.S. TEACHER WHO HANDED OUT A PRO-COMMUNISM CARTOON?

“The school has yet to directly respond to phone calls or emails from The Blaze.” Hmmm… maybe that’s because you’re completely insane and no one wants to participate in your ridiculous witch hunt. Apparently public high schools are not places where constitutional rights like freedom of speech exist?