Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Movies Return To The Drive-In

The June 26 show will be the first of nine movies that will be shown there this summer. Community nonprofit groups are sponsoring each show, and a portion of the proceeds from a show will benefit the group sponsoring it.


Yeah, it's a local story...but one that many towns should be jealous to mimic.

Yay!!

Dolphins try swimming through the oil

Ugh...

Monday, June 28, 2010

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Six months ago, Food and Drug Administration inspectors say, they found live roaches and dead roach carcasses "too numerous to count" inside the Denver facility of the world's largest airline caterer, LSG Sky Chefs.

They also reported finding ants, flies and debris, and employees handling food with bare hands. Samples from a kitchen floor tested positive for Listeria, a bacteria that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. It's also dangerous to pregnant women.

LSG Sky Chefs, which annually provides 405 million meals worldwide for more than 300 airlines, says conditions at the Denver plant didn't meet company standards. It took immediate measures to remedy the problems, says spokeswoman Beth Van Duyne.


I could have saved them money on the study and just told them airline food sucks...

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Whooping cough now an epidemic in California

Jenny McCarthy and the recently-disgraced Andrew Wakefield are also vocally spreading false information about vaccines. The result is that they are aggressively giving diseases like pertussis, measles, rubella, and even polio a chance to come back.

Vaccines work. They are one of the greatest medical inventions of all time. They have saved hundreds of millions of lives. They are inexpensive, easy to get, and may save not just your life and the lives of your children, but also those of children you’ve never even met.

This is America, this is the 21st century, and people are still dying of pertussis. It’s shameful, it’s unnecessary, and it’s completely preventable.


Ya know, this anti-vaccination crap has hit a new low, beyond making a few class action scum sucking lawyers rich.

Kids are dying.

From preventable diseases.

Because of idiots and the gullible ones who follow them...

Friday, June 25, 2010

Officers taser 86-year-old disabled woman in her bed: lawsuit

When Lonnie Tinsley of El Reno, Oklahoma, called 911 to ask for medical assistance for his disabled, bed-ridden grandmother, he couldn't have dreamed it would end with police tasering the 86-year-old woman twice, stepping on her oxygen hose until she couldn't breathe, and sending her to a psychiatric hospital for six days.


Jesus...It is time to end the "taser" experiment...

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Netflix Backs U.S. Postal Service Saturday Delivery Cut

Netflix Inc., which says it’s the largest-growing first-class U.S. Postal Service customer, gave its support to ending Saturday mail delivery.

The approval of Netflix, which has more than 14 million subscribers, follows that of Time Warner Inc., publisher of more than 20 U.S. magazines including Sports Illustrated and People. The Postal Service, which says eliminating Saturday delivery would save $3 billion a year, wants to reduce the service to five days a week. The proposal is among a suite of possible changes to plug its deficit.


Wow! I am shocked!

Whoever would have expected this from the company who continually tries everything in their power to NOT send their product to their customers???

Short, Tense Deliberation, Then a General Is Gone

Interesting insight into the behind the scenes.

Still, I think the guy should have been court-martial-ed.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Apple collecting iPhone/iPad users real-time location

The L.A. Times reports that Apple is now collecting the “precise,” “real-time geographic location” of its users’ iPhones, iPads and computers.

The new data Apple is collecting is disclosed in an updated version of its privacy policy where it added a paragraph noting that once users agree, Apple and unspecified “partners and licensees” may collect and store user location data.


What the fuck is with these companies violating everyone's privacy??

It's becoming so ubiquitous, I'm not even sure a massive boycott could work. I think this shit needs to be settled in the courts.

Of course, therein lies another problem: the courts are all stacked with corporatists. Any guess whose side they'll come down on???

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Heads on a Plane


A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said.

"It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. "They called the local authorities."


Where's Samuel L. Jackson when you need him?

GOP congressman apologizes to BP for ‘$20 billion shakedown’

"I'm speaking totally for myself and I'm not speaking for the Republican Party and I'm not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself, but I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday," Barton bega


I'll try to remember this the next time I call Obama a corporatist.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Estimates of Oil Flow Jump Higher

That is roughly 2.5 million gallons of oil a day, and it means an amount equal to the Exxon Valdez spill could be gushing from the well about every four days.


A global game changer...a global catastrophe...

Climate bill architects Kerry, Lieberman vote against repealing oil industry tax breaks

Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) cast their votes against the amendment introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to H.R. 4213, the "American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act." It failed 35-61.


I'm not surprised with LIEberman...but Kerry? WTF???

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Gulf Loop Current ferrying spilled oil towards Florida Keys

Goodbye Atalantic Coast...

Monday, June 14, 2010

This Doesn't look Good

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza, as two aid ships and a military escort prepare to set sail.


Ruh Roh...

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Cat Meets Coin Bank Cat

File under ain't it cute?

In apparent lie, BP continues to deny existence of huge oil plumes

"We're hearing scientists say there are huge plumes below the surface. Are you denying that still?" Vargas asked.

"Well, what I can tell you is, no one yet has found any concentrations that measured below the parts -- or higher than parts per million. So I think it may be depending on how you're defining this. But what I can tell you -- and I looked at this data -- is that we have not found any significant concentration of oil below the surface," replied Suttles.


I just knew there was still work for Baghdad Bob...

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Saturday, June 05, 2010

Arizona artists told to repaint mural to be less ethnic

What the fuck is going on down there???

Wednesday, June 02, 2010