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Rick Steves in Italy: Tagalog Birthday Greeting; Encounter with Hillary

KKK v Westboro Baptists

Well this is pathetic .. at Arlington National Cemetery, no less

PBS Hacked

retribution for Wikileaks show

The hack was made public around 1130pm ET, Sunday, May 29, and included cracking the PBS server, posting a bogus news story and some defacements, and publishing what appear to be thousands of passwords.

PBS hacked in retribution for Frontline Wikileaks episode - Boing Boing

Police Brutality at DC Flashmob

Old Navy Launches Gay Pride T Shirts

Gay pride gone corporate - still, better than advocating for the right wing

Old Navy Launches Gay Pride T-Shirts

Old Navy will also be donating 10% of the proceedsfrom the sale of the t-shirts (priced between $7.50 and $14.50) to It Gets Better. 

Old Navy Debuts Gay Pride T-Shirts For It Gets Better - 4 designs, for men, for women

Iran Proposing to Create Own Separate Internet

Iran Plans to Unplug Internet, Create Its Own - Tehran aims to put all citizens on internal network

Looking to limit the cyber-infiltration of Western ideas, Iran's telecommunications chief claimed that, in two years time, all Iranians would be forced to use a state-censored, fully-internal Internet. About 60% of the nation's homes and businesses are expected to be on it much sooner than that, he added.   (photo from the Guardian UK)

Tea Party Favorite in Congress - We Can't Leave Afghanistan Because American Are Dying There

the logic ..

Rep. Allen West suggests U.S. can't leave Afghanistan because Americans are dying there | Video Cafe

GOP Rep from CA Suggests Clearcutting Rain Forest to Solve Climate Change Problem

Republican's Climate Solution: Clearcut the Rain Forest - NYTimes.com

Said Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said:

“Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rain forests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?  Or would people be supportive of cutting down older trees in order to plant younger trees as a means to prevent this disaster from happening?”

Responses:

Forestry experts were dumbfounded by Mr. Rohrabacher’s line of questioning, noting that the world’s forests currently absorb far more carbon dioxide than they emit — capturing roughly one-third of all man-made emissions and helping mitigate climate change.

“He’s seriously confused,” said Oliver Phillips, a professor of geography at the University of Leeds in Britain and an expert on terrestrial carbon storage. “He’s just got half of the equation. Natural things decay, of course, but they also grow.”

The idea that cutting down forests would result in a net reduction of emissions is “crazy,” Dr Phillips added. “The need is to reduce deforestation.”

Beverly Law, a professor of forest science at Oregon State University, found another hole in Mr. Rohrabacher’s logic. Roughly 75 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions from the natural world come not from above-ground biomass, but from the soil, she said. “You don’t even want to give this guy another wacky idea, but he forgot about soil,” Dr. Law said.

As Reagan said, "If you've seen one tree, you've seen 'em all."

Wingnuts at Fox Shocked at Possible Obama Gum Chewing During Funeral

VIRAL: Cat Hugs Kitten

I must have been sent this 10x and probably watched 2-3x for each send.  Even cat haters like it.  It's the best animal video since that one where the lions are released in Africa and meet up with their old owners again.  It's better than the dog running through the snow one.

How a Pit Bull Healed an Air Force Veteran – and Others Like Them : StubbyDog - (thanks Sara)

Animals are helping with PTSD.