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Feb. 1st, 2014 03:42 pm* TW: Torture. A leader of the Ukrainian protests was kidnapped and... they are saying held prisoner and beaten, but the severity of the wounds and the whole keeping him in darkness thing looks like torture to me. He has been released alive, but several others have disappeared and the bodies looked to have been tortured to death.
* Congress voted to cut 8.7 billion dollars of food assistance to children, veterans, seniors, and the working poor as feeding people is "stealing, but disclosing how much money Congress people are personally getting in farm insurance corporate welfare to big agro-business and insurance, as taking food out of the mouths of poor people to give to millionaires and billionaires somehow is not stealing since only the rich and the corporations are people. Remember, Congress People deserve a guaranteed income for their outside businesses, but school children don't deserve a guaranteed enough to eat or enough heat in their homes in winter. Amy Clobishar claims taking $90.00 a month out of the pockets of people making less than subsistence thanks to the low minimum wage "doesn't effect most of the people in this country." After all these are 850 thousand of the poorest people in this country, not corporate people or rich people, who are deserving of our charity, being already rich and therefore not needing the charity we are giving them. as making people chose between heating and food does not harm rich people or corporate people. Yet more proof that people who work for a living aren't considered human by Republicans. Remember, they insist that this cruelty is necessary because it is what Jesus would do.
* Yet more on various rich people claiming that being asked to pay a fair share of tax is exactly like the Holocaust.
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* On the Racial Implications of the Atlanta metro area snow response. "Atlantageddon: Snow response brings blowback:"
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* "The FBI Just Busted the King of Revenge Porn:" http://gawker.com/revenge-porn-kingpin-hunter-moore-arrested-by-fbi-1507555135?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
* "Eating nuts caused tooth decay in hunter-gatherers:" http://phys.org/news/2014-01-nuts-tooth-hunter-gatherers.html
* "Unique Neolithic child cemetery found in Egypt:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2014/unique-neolithic-child-cemetery-found-in-egypt
* "Neolithic mural may depict ancient eruption:" http://phys.org/news/2014-01-neolithic-mural-depict-ancient-eruption.html
* "Royal tomb from Second Intermediate Period discovered in Upper Egypt:" http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/91062/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Royal-tomb-from-Second-Intermediate-Period-discove.aspx
* "Discovery of ancient Egyptian tomb of Khonsuemheb:" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140108170515.htm
* "Ancient Greeks Used Portable Grills at Their Picnics:" http://www.livescience.com/42414-ancient-cooking-mycenaeans-portable-grills.html
* Above Average Plausible, but absent a body we are unlikely to ever know. Another Alexander the Great Poisoning Theory: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11184474
* "War elephant myths debunked by DNA:" http://phys.org/news/2014-01-war-elephant-myths-debunked-dna.html
* "Uncannily Lifelike Roman Masks Recreated in Wax:" http://www.livescience.com/42334-lifelike-roman-wax-masks-recreated.html
* rysmiel@lj made a comment pertinent to the conversation about the slaughter of peasants and food storage in A Song of Ice and Fire vs. RL Medieval warfare in a comment thread, which I'm putting here with permission so more people have a chance to see it and my response.
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* Today is more box and furniture tetris, with extra laundry and floor cleaning as the white cats were having some sort of competition to see who could vomit in the most places.
* "The Few, The Fervent: Fans Of 'Supernatural' Redefine TV Success:" http://www.npr.org/2014/01/15/262092791/the-few-the-fervent-fans-of-supernatural-redefine-tv-success
* Congress voted to cut 8.7 billion dollars of food assistance to children, veterans, seniors, and the working poor as feeding people is "stealing, but disclosing how much money Congress people are personally getting in farm insurance corporate welfare to big agro-business and insurance, as taking food out of the mouths of poor people to give to millionaires and billionaires somehow is not stealing since only the rich and the corporations are people. Remember, Congress People deserve a guaranteed income for their outside businesses, but school children don't deserve a guaranteed enough to eat or enough heat in their homes in winter. Amy Clobishar claims taking $90.00 a month out of the pockets of people making less than subsistence thanks to the low minimum wage "doesn't effect most of the people in this country." After all these are 850 thousand of the poorest people in this country, not corporate people or rich people, who are deserving of our charity, being already rich and therefore not needing the charity we are giving them. as making people chose between heating and food does not harm rich people or corporate people. Yet more proof that people who work for a living aren't considered human by Republicans. Remember, they insist that this cruelty is necessary because it is what Jesus would do.
* Yet more on various rich people claiming that being asked to pay a fair share of tax is exactly like the Holocaust.
( Embed: )
* On the Racial Implications of the Atlanta metro area snow response. "Atlantageddon: Snow response brings blowback:"
( Embed: )
* "The FBI Just Busted the King of Revenge Porn:" http://gawker.com/revenge-porn-kingpin-hunter-moore-arrested-by-fbi-1507555135?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
* "Eating nuts caused tooth decay in hunter-gatherers:" http://phys.org/news/2014-01-nuts-tooth-hunter-gatherers.html
* "Unique Neolithic child cemetery found in Egypt:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2014/unique-neolithic-child-cemetery-found-in-egypt
* "Neolithic mural may depict ancient eruption:" http://phys.org/news/2014-01-neolithic-mural-depict-ancient-eruption.html
* "Royal tomb from Second Intermediate Period discovered in Upper Egypt:" http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/91062/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Royal-tomb-from-Second-Intermediate-Period-discove.aspx
* "Discovery of ancient Egyptian tomb of Khonsuemheb:" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140108170515.htm
* "Ancient Greeks Used Portable Grills at Their Picnics:" http://www.livescience.com/42414-ancient-cooking-mycenaeans-portable-grills.html
* Above Average Plausible, but absent a body we are unlikely to ever know. Another Alexander the Great Poisoning Theory: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11184474
* "War elephant myths debunked by DNA:" http://phys.org/news/2014-01-war-elephant-myths-debunked-dna.html
* "Uncannily Lifelike Roman Masks Recreated in Wax:" http://www.livescience.com/42334-lifelike-roman-wax-masks-recreated.html
* rysmiel@lj made a comment pertinent to the conversation about the slaughter of peasants and food storage in A Song of Ice and Fire vs. RL Medieval warfare in a comment thread, which I'm putting here with permission so more people have a chance to see it and my response.
( Cut for length: )
* Today is more box and furniture tetris, with extra laundry and floor cleaning as the white cats were having some sort of competition to see who could vomit in the most places.
* "The Few, The Fervent: Fans Of 'Supernatural' Redefine TV Success:" http://www.npr.org/2014/01/15/262092791/the-few-the-fervent-fans-of-supernatural-redefine-tv-success