Friday, June 7, 2013
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
The Immoral Minority: Tonight "Though the Wormhole" with Morgan Freeman ...
The Immoral Minority: Tonight "Though the Wormhole" with Morgan Freeman ...: "Or did humanity invent God." Well you know what I think. I LOVE shows like this ! Shows that make you think. Programs t...
The Immoral Minority: Judge makes gun lobbyist give up weapons after bei...
The Immoral Minority: Judge makes gun lobbyist give up weapons after bei...: Courtesy of Salt Lake Tribune : Clark Aposhian — a political force who helps guide gun policy on Utah’s Capitol Hill — was ordered by ...
The Immoral Minority: Sarah Palin accuses the government of instituting ...
The Immoral Minority: Sarah Palin accuses the government of instituting ...: So this was posted on the Wasilla Wendigo's Facebook page as about nineteen hours ago: The government will bend the rules left an...
Child With Weeks To Live Denied Lung Transplant Due To Controversial Organ Donation Policy
Child With Weeks To Live Denied Lung Transplant Due To Controversial Organ Donation Policy: pTen-year-old Philadelphia resident Sarah Murnaghan only has a couple weeks to live unless she receives a lung transplant soon. Sarah, who has end-stage cystic fibrosis, has waited for over a year to receive a lung from a child donor, even though she is at the top of the pediatric organ list. Because there are no [...]/p
Doctors, Hospitals, And Advocates For The Poor Protest California Governor’s Planned Medicaid Cuts
Doctors, Hospitals, And Advocates For The Poor Protest California Governor’s Planned Medicaid Cuts: pOn Tuesday, thousands of California doctors, nurses, hospital representatives, patient advocates, and Medicaid beneficiaries stormed the state Capitol to protest Gov. Jerry Brown’s (D) proposed cuts to the health entitlement program for the poor. Brown included cuts of up to 10 percent for Medi-Cal providers’ reimbursement rates in his most recent budget. Providers sued to [...]/p
Don’t Let Utilities Get Away With Mercury Pollution
Don’t Let Utilities Get Away With Mercury Pollution: pby Dominique Browning Back in 2011, we launched Moms Clean Air Force with an urgent campaign: get mercury and other poisonous emissions from coal-fired power plants out of our air. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin, extremely dangerous for fetuses, infants and toddlers; it affects their developing brains, lungs and hearts. After 21 years—and a fierce [...]/p
Think Again: Blame The News For The Public’s Ignorance About The Climate
Think Again: Blame The News For The Public’s Ignorance About The Climate: pIn a blog post titled, “Scientists agree on climate change. So why doesn’t everyone else?,” The Washington Post’s Brad Plumer covers a new survey by John Cook and Dana Nuccitelli of Skeptical Science. According to the survey, “Among abstracts [of published scientific papers] expressing a position on AGW [anthropogenic global warming], 97.1% endorsed the consensus [...]/p
UK Climate Minister Slams Media And ‘Blinkered’ Deniers: ‘It’s The Science, Stupid’
UK Climate Minister Slams Media And ‘Blinkered’ Deniers: ‘It’s The Science, Stupid’: pEdward Davey is the UK’s Secretary of State for Energy & Climate. On Monday he gave a blistering speech at a Met Office Climate Services event held at London’s Institute of Physics. He slammed the climate science deniers and those in the media who enable them: Of course there will always be uncertainties within climate [...]/p
June 5 News: China Noncommittal On Carbon Cap
June 5 News: China Noncommittal On Carbon Cap: pChina, contrary to previous reports, will not announce a plan to adopt an absolute cap on carbon emissions at the UN talks in Germany. [Bloomberg] China’s Chief Climate Negotiator Su Wei reaffirmed his nation’s commitment to lower emissions relative to economic output while dismissing reports that it will adopt an absolute cap on greenhouse gases. [...]/p
Wall Street Journal Slams ‘Totalitarians’ Behind ‘Dreadful’ Bike-Share Program That Has ‘Begrimed’ NY City
Wall Street Journal Slams ‘Totalitarians’ Behind ‘Dreadful’ Bike-Share Program That Has ‘Begrimed’ NY City: pYou probably think that bike-sharing programs are a modest, environmentally friendly way to give people another option to the fossil-fuel-based car culture that dominates our major cities. For the Wall Street Journal, though, it is a program designed by “totalitarians,” which has “absolutely begrimed” New York’s “best neighborhoods,” all “so that New Yorkers can feel [...]/p
‘Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding And Why Television Makes Pregnancy And Childbirth So Violent
‘Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding And Why Television Makes Pregnancy And Childbirth So Violent: pThe June 2 episode of Game of Thrones has already become broadly notorious for an event that in the George R.R. Martin novels becomes known as the Red Wedding. At a celebration of the wedding of Edmure Tully, a minor lord, to the daughter of Walder Frey, a notoriously unpleasant major lord who controls a [...]/p
Virginia Congressman Feigns LGBT Support To Justify Not Endorsing Extreme Republican Candidate
Virginia Congressman Feigns LGBT Support To Justify Not Endorsing Extreme Republican Candidate: pRep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) will not publicly endorse his party’s Lieutenant Governor nominee, Bishop E.W. Jackson, due to his extreme anti-gay views — but will still vote for him this November. Rigell told the Virginian Pilot on Monday that he could not campaign for Jackson because “his views with respect to the gay and lesbian [...]/p
Virginia Congressman Feigns LGBT Support To Justify Not Endorsing Extreme Republican Candidate
Virginia Congressman Feigns LGBT Support To Justify Not Endorsing Extreme Republican Candidate: pRep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) will not publicly endorse his party’s Lieutenant Governor nominee, Bishop E.W. Jackson, due to his extreme anti-gay views — but will still vote for him this November. Rigell told the Virginian Pilot on Monday that he could not campaign for Jackson because “his views with respect to the gay and lesbian [...]/p
Monday, June 3, 2013
Black Women With Breast Cancer Suffer From Higher Rates Of Genetic Mutations
Black Women With Breast Cancer Suffer From Higher Rates Of Genetic Mutations: pThe gene flaw that prompted Angelina Jolie to undergo a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer has been detected in a surprisingly large number of black women with breast cancer. The first comprehensive study of black women with breast cancer has found that 20 percent of these women have genetic mutations that [...]/p
POLL: Most Americans Support Physician-Assisted Suicide When It’s Not Described As ‘Suicide’
POLL: Most Americans Support Physician-Assisted Suicide When It’s Not Described As ‘Suicide’: pA new poll from Gallup shows that Americans’ support for physician-assisted suicide changes radically depending on whether or not “suicide” is used in the question’s wording. When asked if the doctor of a patient with an incurable disease should be allowed “to assist the patient to commit suicide” at the patient’s request, 51 percent of [...]/p
The Immoral Minority: "Five people in this town take Darrell Issa seriou...
The Immoral Minority: "Five people in this town take Darrell Issa seriou...: 'No I can't prove anything yet, but I have faith that someday I will." Courtesy of Politico : The chairman of the House...
The Immoral Minority: Parenting in Wal-Mart.
The Immoral Minority: Parenting in Wal-Mart.: Whenever I hear one of those pro-Life assholes talking about how every child should be born I think about this kind of thing. There are pe...
The Immoral Minority: New report says younger voters see Republican part...
The Immoral Minority: New report says younger voters see Republican part...: Courtesy of Politico : The 95-page study, which looked at the party’s views on social and economic issues, as well as its messaging an...
The Immoral Minority: Picture of the day.
The Immoral Minority: Picture of the day.: I missed this earlier but apparently THIS is the picture that Palin has prominently displayed on her Facebook page to commemorate her com...
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