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gwydion* A Horrible thing Happened in London:
The men were wounded by police and in custody. It sounds like they are searching a house in Lincolnshire in connection. People have already started attacking mosques, unfortunately.
* There have been 4 days of riots in Stockholm in response to police shooting a 69 year old man wielding a machete.
* Revised Oklahoma figures: 24 dead, 10 of them children. 353 injured. There is some confusion as to whether a 25th person has died.
Want to help the survivors?
Red Cross only really wants money or blood. Money lets them buy what people specifically need. Red Cross Oklahoma: http://www.redcross.org/charitable-donations
Americares is providing medical help: https://secure.americares.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1520&1520.donation=form1
* "Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust:" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/us/high-plains-aquifer-dwindles-hurting-farmers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
* "Alaskan villages try “climigration” in the face of climate change:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/05/alaskan-villages-try-climigration-in-the-face-of-climate-change/
* Today Democrats threw LGBTQ folk under the bus to pass immigration reform. Instead of treating same sex marriages the same as opposite sex marriages, they have decided it is in the governments best interest to continue to discriminate against same sex couples, by breaking them up by denying husbands and wives the same residency rights as straight couples. Because reasons.
* "Anti-Sandy-relief GOP Oklahoma Senator: Aid for my state is “totally different” than Sandy:" http://americablog.com/2013/05/inhofe-sandy-relief-tornado-different.html
* So there was a triple murder a couple years ago of some friends of the older Boston Bomber. One of his friends, an MMA fighter, attacked FBI investigators questioning him about the murder and they shot him dead. One officer went to the hospital with related injuries.
* A girl in Florida was dating a younger girl at the same High School. She turned 18 so they arrested her and want to charge her as a pedophile complete with sex offender registry. After all, just because dating was legal a day previously should not be taken into consideration the way it generally is with a heterosexual couples. (Most statutory rape laws have a "romeo and Juliet clause" to prevent these sorts of prosecutions where the couple is close in age and the sex is consensual. In states that don't there is usually a warning and maybe a class. If the older girl had been a boy, she would have had a warning, not felony charges):
* "Formation of reptilian head scales:" http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/05/formation-of-reptilian-head-scales.html
* "New Efforts to Overhaul Psychiatric Diagnoses Spurred by DSM Turmoil:" http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/dsm-psychiatry/
* "6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130519-women-scientists-overlooked-dna-history-science/
* "Happy Birthday Harvey Milk!" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-birthday-harvey-milk.html
* "Discrimination and Marriage Inequality:" http://jimhines.livejournal.com/681116.html
* "Preach, Rev. Tweed!" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/05/preach-rev-tweed.html
* Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists insist that a secret Bond Villain style government weather machine is more plausible than climate change as an explanation for increasingly more violent tornado like the one in Oklahoma:
* Stephen Colbert on the IRS Tea Party Scandal:
* il_volpe is confirmed for approximately a week in late June! I am so taking him to the anemone petting zoo!
* Hector was particularly assholish today, so I got very little sleep. I did go to the library and putter in the garden. I also did a pile of bills and bureaucracy. I need to go on another document scavanger hunt. *Sigh* I made rose angel food cake for tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get around to making whipped cream before people come. (This meant locking Hector in his room to keep him from stealing it during the cooling phase.)
* "Red Sprite Lightning with Aurora:" http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130522.html
The men were wounded by police and in custody. It sounds like they are searching a house in Lincolnshire in connection. People have already started attacking mosques, unfortunately.
* There have been 4 days of riots in Stockholm in response to police shooting a 69 year old man wielding a machete.
* Revised Oklahoma figures: 24 dead, 10 of them children. 353 injured. There is some confusion as to whether a 25th person has died.
Want to help the survivors?
Red Cross only really wants money or blood. Money lets them buy what people specifically need. Red Cross Oklahoma: http://www.redcross.org/charitable-donations
Americares is providing medical help: https://secure.americares.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1520&1520.donation=form1
* "Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust:" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/us/high-plains-aquifer-dwindles-hurting-farmers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
* "Alaskan villages try “climigration” in the face of climate change:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/05/alaskan-villages-try-climigration-in-the-face-of-climate-change/
* Today Democrats threw LGBTQ folk under the bus to pass immigration reform. Instead of treating same sex marriages the same as opposite sex marriages, they have decided it is in the governments best interest to continue to discriminate against same sex couples, by breaking them up by denying husbands and wives the same residency rights as straight couples. Because reasons.
* "Anti-Sandy-relief GOP Oklahoma Senator: Aid for my state is “totally different” than Sandy:" http://americablog.com/2013/05/inhofe-sandy-relief-tornado-different.html
* So there was a triple murder a couple years ago of some friends of the older Boston Bomber. One of his friends, an MMA fighter, attacked FBI investigators questioning him about the murder and they shot him dead. One officer went to the hospital with related injuries.
* A girl in Florida was dating a younger girl at the same High School. She turned 18 so they arrested her and want to charge her as a pedophile complete with sex offender registry. After all, just because dating was legal a day previously should not be taken into consideration the way it generally is with a heterosexual couples. (Most statutory rape laws have a "romeo and Juliet clause" to prevent these sorts of prosecutions where the couple is close in age and the sex is consensual. In states that don't there is usually a warning and maybe a class. If the older girl had been a boy, she would have had a warning, not felony charges):
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* "Formation of reptilian head scales:" http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/05/formation-of-reptilian-head-scales.html
* "New Efforts to Overhaul Psychiatric Diagnoses Spurred by DSM Turmoil:" http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/dsm-psychiatry/
* "6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130519-women-scientists-overlooked-dna-history-science/
* "Happy Birthday Harvey Milk!" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-birthday-harvey-milk.html
* "Discrimination and Marriage Inequality:" http://jimhines.livejournal.com/681116.html
* "Preach, Rev. Tweed!" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/05/preach-rev-tweed.html
* Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists insist that a secret Bond Villain style government weather machine is more plausible than climate change as an explanation for increasingly more violent tornado like the one in Oklahoma:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Stephen Colbert on the IRS Tea Party Scandal:
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* il_volpe is confirmed for approximately a week in late June! I am so taking him to the anemone petting zoo!
* Hector was particularly assholish today, so I got very little sleep. I did go to the library and putter in the garden. I also did a pile of bills and bureaucracy. I need to go on another document scavanger hunt. *Sigh* I made rose angel food cake for tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get around to making whipped cream before people come. (This meant locking Hector in his room to keep him from stealing it during the cooling phase.)
* "Red Sprite Lightning with Aurora:" http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130522.html