Declared Less Offensive Than Redskins.
The Latest From The Clinton Camp
“Blame Barack” begins: The Benghazi Deception
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Genetic Literacy Project: How your food would look if not genetically modified
Not One Of Us
Want To See Something Really Scary?
No, that’s just mildly entertaining. This is really scary.
Reader Tips
Now that the World Cup is in full swing it might be a good time for a little Philosopher Football.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Strange Happenings in the U.S. Presbyterian Church
The leaders of the Presbyterian Church in America had an interesting vote yesterday:
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Friday became the most prominent religious group in the United States to endorse divestment as a protest against Israeli policies toward Palestinians, voting to sell church stock in three companies whose products Israel uses in the occupied territories.
The General Assembly voted by a razor-thin margin — 310-303 — to sell stock in Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions. Two years ago, the General Assembly rejected a similar divestment proposal by two votes.
Is it too far fetched to think that a future vote will have them divesting themselves of everything Canadian, blaming the oil sands as the reason?!
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Via Planet Gore;
A sophisticated network of metal thieves has targeted some 20 French wind turbines in a new looting trend, scaling the near 40-metre-high structures and stealing up to one tonne of metal from a single engine, Le Figaro reported Wednesday.
Citing an anonymous police source, the daily newspaper said the ring stole metal from wind farms in sparsely populated areas, where they had less chance of being caught.
Eh. Aren’t they all?
It’s Probably Nothing
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest ever seen and the virus is raging ”totally out of control,” an official with Doctors Without Borders said Friday. The virus, which causes a particularly nasty form of hemorrhagic fever, has killed 337 people out of 528 infected, the World Health Organization says — making it by far the biggest and deadliest outbreak of Ebola since it was first identified in 1976.
”The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a second wave,” Bart Janssens, operations director for Doctors Without Borders in Brussels, told the AP. ”And, for me, it is totally out of control.”
h/t north of 60
God Bless Ukraine
Just returned from the Kiev.
Walked on the streets where many of you walked, maybe we had fun and ate ice crème at that time.
Today without tears you can’t walk there, and may be think of new perfume, or nice vocations.
In some places near basically every tree, there are pictures of killed, usually young people.
They knew, that they may not return. And many of them didn’t return. New history of Ukraine in painful.
Today we learned about new heroes. Our soldiers in there tank were surrounded by rebels. They decided to explode themselves, and did it, not to give equipment and there life’s in the hands of aggressors. Young boys gave their life for the freedom, and that I can kiss my kids before they go to bad. Unbelievable.
Divorcé with Russia cost us a lot.
If you still have strength to pray for our country, please pray, and ask others.
God bless Ukraine.
Andrei.
What We Really Need Is Democracy
Egypt: “He isn’t Hitler, but he does look a bit like Mussolini.”
There’s Never A Fault Line Around When You Need It
“Toronto’s city planning staff are hoping council will approve bylaws that make pet amenities in new condos mandatory. This could include doggy baths and activity rooms.”
Exposing Foreign Lobbying
Reader Tips
Every inch a suspense, a heart throbbing human drama of high voltage, with lots and lots of slapping: Here’s the trailer for Guru Aur Chela.
Slap your Reader Tips forcefully into the comments.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Yo.
The app allows users to send a message saying “yo” to friends – and nothing else. It has been branded “pointless”, but has nonetheless raised $1m (£600,000) in investment.
h/t Antelope
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Operation Empty Chair
Way past the expiry date: Syria Is Going to Miss the Deadline for Destroying Its Chemical-Weapons Stockpile
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
BWWAAAHAAAAA!
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Ryan to IRS Commissioner: ‘I don’t believe you’ (Video)
“You are the Internal Revenue Service,” he said. “You can reach into the lives of hard-working taxpayers and with a phone call, an e-mail or a letter you can turn their lives upside down. You ask taxpayers to hand onto seven years of their personal tax information in case they are ever audited and you can’t keep six months worth of employee e-mails? And now that we are seeing this investigation, you don’t have the e-mails, hard drives crashed. You learned about this months ago. You just told us, and we had to ask you on Monday.”
This is not being forthcoming, he said.
“This is being misleading again,” Ryan said. “This is a pattern of abuse, a pattern of behavior that is not giving us any confidence that this agency is being impartial. I don’t believe you. This is incredible.”
Koskinen retorted he’d had a “long career” and never been told no one believed him.
“I don’t believe you,” Ryan said again.
Watch live: IRS Targeting Investigation on C-Span. And then tell me that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen isn’t a space alien.