A Senate vote on the Keystone XL pipeline failed by 1 vote this afternoon. It needed 60 votes to get past a Senate filibuster; the final result was 59-41. This doesn’t end the Keystone XL debate, though. It’ll probably have enough Senate votes to pass next year. But it’ll still fac[...]
Archive for November, 2014
November 18th, 2014 - 2:06 pm § in Misc.
Indonesia Imposes Virginity Tests On Female Cop Applicants
To be a female cop in Indonesia, you have to let them stick their fingers in you to feel your hymen when you apply for the job, to make sure you’re a virgin. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/indonesia-urged-to-stop-physical-virginity-tests-for-female-police-applicants/ I dunno, maybe it’s jus[...]
November 18th, 2014 - 1:45 pm § in Misc.
Catholic Indian School Charity Lures Donors With Fictional Mailers
CNN blew the whistle today on a Catholic-run Indian boarding school in South Dakota for soliciting donations with fictional stories. St. Joseph’s Indian School in Chamberlain, South Dakota, sends out 30 million mailers a year that raise about $50 million a year for the 200-student school. The [...]
Lingerie and a Foetus … Victoria’s Gruesome Secret
Foetus found in teenage girl’s bag after New York shop security search A Victoria’s Secret security guard discovered a foetus in the bag of a teenage girl after stopping two 17-year-old girls The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/18/foetus-found-teenage-girl-bag-[...]
November 18th, 2014 - 10:15 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS
Pope says children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother[...]
November 18th, 2014 - 9:53 am § in Israel/Palestine, Religion
Eyewitness Accounts of Massacre in Jerusalem Synagogue
Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four rabbis in a Jerusalem synagogue before being shot dead by police. Israeli police said on Tuesday that three of the people killed by Palestinian attackers in a Jerusalem synagogue were dual U.S.-Israeli nationals and the fourth man he[...]
November 18th, 2014 - 3:05 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Harvard and UNC Sued For Racial Prejudice in Admissions
Can any sane person believe that when the President’s daughters matriculate at Harvard, Stanford or even the lowly University of Chicago, these privileged girls will be addressing a need those schools have for greater diversity? The Project on Fair Representation*, an Alexandria, Virgi[...]
November 17th, 2014 - 2:29 pm § in Misc.
Missouri National Guard Called Up
“Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard in advance of a grand jury decision about whether a white police officer will be charged in the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.” — CBS News Maybe [...]
November 17th, 2014 - 12:19 pm § in America
Facebook on Saul Alinsky
How to create a social state by Saul Alinsky (according to a right wing FB nut) There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important. 1) Healthcare- Control healthcare and you control the people …̷[...]
FACEBOOK: Is Philosphy Obsolete?
Zvi Zaks When it comes to cosmology (and some other fields), philosophy has been rendered largely irrelevant by science. To try to discuss questions like the origin of the cosmos without having at least a basic understanding of the observable evidence and the ideas that derive from that evidence is [...]