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Jeff Flake’s plan to politicize the National Science Foundation
Tue May 15, 2012
- So by putting a politician between the money and the researchers how exactly is the funding process going to get less political??
Waking a sleepwalker is totally safe -- for them
Tue May 15, 2012
- I think I ransacked my car once trying to find god knows what. I thought someone had broken in the next day, but all the doors were locked, nothing was missing, and there was no forced entry. My keys were on my night stand. That was weird.
GOP kills civil unions in Colorado special session
Mon May 14, 2012
- It seems religion is the central issue at play for those opposed to homosexual marriages. The argument that allowing homosexual marriages would mean that religions are being forced to accept something against their beliefs is bullshit. Unmitigated bullshit.
GOP kills civil unions in Colorado special session
Mon May 14, 2012
- "The born that way lie has been exposed for what it is; a political position and not a scientific one."
GOP kills civil unions in Colorado special session
Mon May 14, 2012
- "The courts are the ones to decide if a vote could be held on a given subject; they cannot come in after the fact and declare said vote null and void because the vote did not go the way they expected it to.
GOP kills civil unions in Colorado special session
Mon May 14, 2012
- This debate has been going on for years and even a cursory glance at the comments here provides the evidence to split people into several groups: 1. People who understand what equality means and how it should rightfully be applied.
Jeff Flake’s plan to politicize the National Science Foundation
Tue May 15, 2012
- It's going to be quite a scene in a few years when thousands of unemployed scientists march on Washington and the GOP gestapo labels them as traitors or terrorists for speaking the truth.
The Nastiest Critters Lurking Outside Your Tent
Tue May 8, 2012
- I was camping in the Blue Ridge Mts near the TN border last summer and it rained hard one night. In the morning there was a curious shadow on the roof of the tent above the door. It was a hand sized funnel web spider that decided to make a foot wide home above the tent door, under the rain tarp.
Republican Husband tries to block Dem. Wife from leaving to vote in Walker recall...is hit by car
Thu May 10, 2012
- Someone keeps me from voting, it's war. This guy is the typical face of RWNJs in America today. They are the last gasp of a dying breed who are intent on recreating their male dominated utopia, where everyone was white, christian and spit on hippies.
Wisconsin Hero Injured Jumping In Front Of SUV Of ‘Crazy Liberal Nut’ Voting Against Scott Walker
Wed May 9, 2012
- The political discourse is becoming less about right and left and is apparently becoming more about hate and freedom.

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Koch Bros. launch $6.1 million attack ad against Obama, Obama campaign responds with the phrase 'BS'
Source: Daily Kos
The Koch Brothers group Americans for Prosperity has launched a $6.1 million ad attacking President Obama. You can tell they are prosperous when they spend over $6 million on one ad. In fact, this is now the second time Americans for Prosperity has spent around $6 million on an …
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It's Here! Solar, Renewable Grid Parity, or Better, in California's Latest Renewable Power Auction
Source: CleanTechnica - By Andrew
Yes, that's right: grid parity is here, well here being California in this instance. The weighted average highest cost of solar and other renewable power contracts accepted by California utilities in the state's Renewable Auction Market (RAM) auction amounted to 8.9 cents per k …
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The Bully Backlash: How the Christian Right Is Attacking Efforts to Help Kids - Even as states and schools try to put in place anti-bullying policies, the Christian right is mobilizing to undo them.
Source: AlterNet.org
In the recently released film Bully, filmmaker Lee Hirsch reminds us just how much cruelty young people are capable of displaying toward one another. The documentary records the grief and the determination of the parents of Ty, a boy who committed suicide at the age of 11, as t …
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Bull@!$%# fear mongering from the far right on Newsvine and the Brietbart sewers
Sometimes it's hard to understand how any person could be as dishonest or as dumb as Joel Pollak is, and there's really nothing better anyone can say about Newsvine users who post his garbage and support it, other than that. A relatively benign remark by President Obama to curre …
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THIS is why we invest in science. This. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Source: discovermagazine.com
Every day — every single day, it seems — I see a note on Twitter, or get email, or hear someone on TV asking why we bother spending so much money on NASA. Billions of dollars! We should be spending that money right here on Earth! This argument is wrong in every conce …
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