Lost Another Progressive Radio Station!! This week!
Submitted by dellerwin on 4. April 2011 - 16:49We in Charlottesville, VA cannot believe WVAX has replaced progressive radio with ESPN. It was the ONLY liberal voice in this largely Progressive/Democratic area. There is no balance on our local airwaves.
Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,"
About the Fairness In Voting Act, and Touch Screen Machines.
At the first thought of electronically taking and tallying the vote, as the Fairness In Voting Act had passed, I thought about how that would be done.
Not that I care much for the idea of voting machines at all. If Canada can take its vote with hand marked and tallied paper ballots, so can we, says me.
If we are to have machines, It never occurred to me that a private corporation, never mind one with a partisan tilt, would present machines whole and unexamined, with proprietary code, to be bought and used, without question.Japan dumps radioactive water into sea
Japan has started dumping more than 10,000 tonnes of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific.
The government insists the water is contaminated with only low levels of radiation and is not harmful to humans.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) started dumping the water yesterday, saying a total of 11,500 tonnes would be released into the Pacific.
The company insists the radiation poses no threat to marine life and says it would still be safe to eat seafood caught in the area.
SNAFU -- Situational Norm At Fukushima: Unravelling
Submitted by LeMoyne on 4. April 2011 - 12:56There are so many basic and important subjects within the scope of the Fukushima disaster that are either missing or misrepresented in the media. SNAFUs [Situations Normal - All Fouled Up] abound in nuclear power and they have been activated or exposed by the Fukushima Dai-Ichi disaster.
LIVING AND LOVING NYC
Submitted by tommietommie on 4. April 2011 - 11:56LIVING AND LOVING NYC
big fan of Thom Hartmann !!!
intelligent and thought provoking
Dungeness Crab will be irradiated to extinction
Here on the northern California coast I have eaten the last dungeness crab that I can trust to not be irradiated. This delicacy of our northwest coast is treasured by so many. Now the nucleur plants of Japan have put all northern pacific sea life in danger. But the beautiful dungeness crab will not be safe to eat from this day forward. And, that makes a grown man cry........
‘…THE HEART HAS GOT TO OPEN IN A FUNDAMENTAL WAY…’
Submitted by joeeddy on 4. April 2011 - 6:38by SisterLee | - WWH – Tomorrow will be April 3rd–and since I took so long to revise this, it’s now 12:50AM on April 3– the date in 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. did not feel well and shared his human frailty, combining it with his eloquent spiritual vision.
can a felon use a legal persons gun to kill an intruder or dog in nc
Submitted by jbsoriginality on 4. April 2011 - 6:02In North Carolina If there is a threatening dog or intruder invading your home or property and a convicted felon lives with you,is it legal for them to use the non-felons firearm to disable and/or kill the dangerous dog or intruder? If they would not be able to use a firearm what about a machete or knife?
VOTE AND YOU'RE A SOLDIER IN OUR DEMOCRATIC FIGHT
It is through voting our country stays free.
The right to vote retains our freedom and liberty.
Since 1776 many have died to defend this right.
Vote and you're a soldier in our democratic fight.