Untitled

latimes: Landscaping plan for L.A. City Hall is slow going: ...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:13:02 -0500

Landscaping plan for L.A. City Hall is slow going: The lawn at the site of the Occupy L.A. encampment is gone, but the park-restoration process is moving at a bureaucratic pace. Some would prefer to watch grass grow.

Photo: Los Angeles City Hall has been surrounded by chain-link fencing since Occupy L.A. protesters were evicted in late November. Credit: Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times

Perilous: Contractor earns $46M to dispose of all that crazy junk airports have to seize from your travel bag

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:31:09 -0500

Perilous: Contractor earns $46M to dispose of all that crazy junk airports have to seize from your travel bag:

ageofperil:

Fireworks. Medical needles. Insect spray. Cooking fuel. Flammable gas torches. Ammunition. Yes, people forget they have cooking fuel in their travel bags. Or, amazingly, they thought it was acceptable in the first place to take cooking fuel onto an airplane.

So what happens to all that…

austinkleon: Louis CK’s PayPal screen, and what he’s going with...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:07:05 -0500

austinkleon:

Louis CK’s PayPal screen, and what he’s going with the money. To quote @mulegirl: “Attention social media strategists and marketers. This is what authenticity looks like. You can’t fake it.”

climateadaptation: 61-75% in Western Mass! Probability of a...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:03:32 -0500

climateadaptation:

61-75% in Western Mass!

Probability of a White Christmas

breakingnews: We see a lot of Internet hoaxes here at Breaking...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:45:02 -0500

breakingnews:

We see a lot of Internet hoaxes here at Breaking News, and a hoax about Jon Bon Jovi’s death has been making the rounds today. So much so, the rocker himself just posted this Facebook photo to prove he’s alive.

US Thwart Twitter Terror

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:09:56 -0500

This United States government, frightened at Somali militants’ utilization of Tweets to court followers in the West, supposedly is definitely taking into consideration methods for fighting your messages.

Actions under review incorporate proceeding as much as shutting down al-Shabaab’s Tweets accounts, the brand new York Periods described, citing unnamed American representatives who will be “looking closely” in the fright group’s articles.

Recent Twitter updates currently have qualified your Kenyan army, that’s stepped up it’s initiatives against the Qada-linked al-Shabaab. “Your unsophisticated guys flee coming from conflict & flinch when confronted with dying,In . al-Shabaab stated within a write-up famous from the Ny Times.

The majority of the information are usually in Language, hinting your planned target audience is within the West. The group has become recognized to recruit members from Somali-American communities in america, significantly with Minnesota.

It is Facebook bill, @HSMPress, had in excess of 4,800 supporters since Monday night time. “Harakat Al-Shabaab Ing Mujahideen is definitely an Islamic movements which governs Southerly & Cen. Somalia & part of the global struggle for the resurrection associated with Islamic Khilaafa,” this bill claims.

There’s increasing research in which al-Shabaab, is starting to become really the regional terrorist gambler, with all the potential to get world wide the way it objectives U.Utes. residents in addition to hobbies.

“We are actually receiving dangers coming from al-Shabaab in opposition to Us residents and also Westerners,In . Secretary connected with Condition Hillary Clinton said in the Television set meeting that slide while inquired on a decision in order to warn Us citizens in Kenya of your impending terrorist menace. “So it’s a just crazy, unsure circumstances. Therefore we wish to be sure that no matter what information we now have, many of us promptly give Us residents who live, do the job or may be going to with Kenya.In .

You.Ohydrates. authorities get consistently warned how the Qaeda internet marketer has been skilled at prospecting Western Europeans and People in the usa by enjoying away his or her allegiance for their native nation.

Nearly two dozen Us citizens of Somali descent have got disappeared into the al-Shabaab ideologies considering that The year 2007. Inside July, a pair of Oregon girls who stated we were holding enhancing the poor ended up convicted of delivering dollars to the terrorist party.

And Oregon local Shirwa Ahmed seemed to be the initial reported scenario of the U . s . committing suicide bomber when this individual blew themselves up as part of al-Shabaab operation inside Northern Somalia in late 2007.

marymatthewtanyamax: 14 Days Of Downton Abbey Day 2- Favourite...

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:13:46 -0500

marymatthewtanyamax:

14 Days Of Downton Abbey

Day 2- Favourite Season 1 episode- Episode 3 and 5!

Photo

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:40:50 -0500

madamelulu: UP, directed by Pete Doctor, Bob Peterson...

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:34:26 -0500

madamelulu:

UP, directed by Pete Doctor, Bob Peterson (2009)

Never has a film ever been able to move me to tears so soon into the beginning.

I don't understand why people need drugs when there's food.

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:02:00 -0500

givemesomefuckingwaffles:

Photo

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:53:20 -0500

binkloves: No disrespect but I will not be disrespected.

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:25:14 -0500

binkloves:

No disrespect but I will not be disrespected.

cartoonpolitics: American International Group (AIG), after...

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:12:30 -0500

cartoonpolitics:

American International Group (AIG), after being bailed out by US taxpayers to the tune of $170 Billion and posting a loss of $61.7 Billion in 2008 (the greatest for any American company ever) went on to pay its executives bonuses totalling $218 million. Presumably for their stunning business success. Party on doodz .. (background)

Photo

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:57:19 -0500

Photo

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:48:06 -0500

(via leilockheart)

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:37:27 -0500

(via leilockheart)

When Governments Get Desperate, Pension Funds are at Risk

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:18:23 -0500

When Governments Get Desperate, Pension Funds are at Risk:

bankerpigs:

by Sean Hyman December 7, 2011

What happened when Ireland and Hungary’s debts got to large? They raided pension funds…and since “they are the law”, there was nothing anyone could do about it. It was “legal theft”.

Think that was a “one off” event or that those types of things have stopped? Think again! Just this week, Portugal raided their countries pension funds to pay their bills. You can read more about it here.

Think that can never happen here in America? Don’t think it so strange now that we’ve had Hank Paulson allow Lehman to fail…with the government turning General Motors into Government Motors.

They also basically forced Bank of America to take Countrywide and Merrill Lynch too.

So if governments like the U.S. government can overstep their bounds there and get by with it…don’t think they won’t consider taking your pension/IRA one day and tell you that its patriotic to support the country in that way.

This is why you should have some money outside of the U.S. and some money outside of the U.S. dollar.

Governments don’t look after our well-being as much as they put on to do. They are greedy, over-spenders. And when they run out of cash, they’ll first come to you and demand more taxes but later on, even that won’t be enough. So they’ll go after your pensions/IRAs.

If you think the government here in America wouldn’t do that…you’re giving them too much credit and perceiving them to be more noble than they really are.

Photo

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:10:32 -0500

Are You Eating, Drinking and Breathing Monsanto's New Agent Orange?

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:59:28 -0500

Are You Eating, Drinking and Breathing Monsanto's New Agent Orange?:

therite4truth:

In a groundbreaking study published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry last month, researchers found that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide “Roundup,” is flowing freely into the groundwater in areas where it is being applied…

antinwo: COWLEY COUNTY, Kansas — Residents in Cowley County...

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:50:22 -0500

antinwo:

COWLEY COUNTY, Kansas — Residents in Cowley County are still talking about a mystery craft, seen being towed down US 77 Monday.

Sitting inside Lindly’s Appliance Store, Kammi Root is used to seeing large machinery towed down US 77. But what she saw Monday afternoon is something she won’t soon forget.

“There was this funny sphere that went through on this big trailer and my first thought was, ‘That looks like a UFO,’” said Root.

A huge 32 foot craft, wrapped in tarp, was as mysterious as the transport company who called Sheriff Don Read for help.

“They told us that it was an aircraft and that they had explored other ways to transport it but this was the best way for them to do it and they asked us not to say a whole lot about it,” said Read.

-KSN