Putting the lie to just about every conservative economic argument of late. It isn’t even partisan, it’s just reality.
Daily Archives: February 2, 2011
Great, Controversial Guacamole in 303 Easy Steps « Being Latino Online Magazine
A guacamole recipe for ya.
Well, kind of.
U.S. Late To The Party On School Lunch Makeovers : NPR

I am not sure where people get off hating Michelle Obama. I mean other than hating her race or her political party, I really don’t see it.
She’s trying to get our kids to eat better. That’s it.
As you can see in this article, our schools have a long way to go to feed our kids as well as other nations. I mean, our stuff doesn’t even look as good.
NOVA | The Stuff of Smartphones
Want to know what makes up that phone of your’s? Check this out.
Republican Majorities Pushing Photo ID Voter Requirements Across Country | TPMMuckraker
From everything I have seen or read growing up, the more racist your party is, the more it hates the idea of one man, one vote.
First it was the Democrats in the South with poll taxes and literacy tests. Once those racists went over to the GOP in the 1960s, it has been nonstop ever since.
Now the GOP is at it again. Apparently there were like sixty-odd cases of suspected voter fraud in the last presidential election. You know, out of 100 + million votes. No ACORN fraud ever proven. No “New Black Panther ” goon squads. They lied. They made shit up.
And still too many minorities, women, and elderly vote for their comfort. So they are trying to make it even harder for folks to vote.
Here is more on the odious plans here in Minnesota.
As Republicans like to tell you: this nation is not a democracy. And they are doing everything they can to prove it.
Beer Bottles that Keep on Giving: The Green Life
I once saw some wine bottles converted to drinking glasses at a coffee shop in Portland. Still kind of kick myself for not getting some of those.
Here, however, is the same concept made by recycling beer bottles. Cool idea.
Training teachers to take on the creationism/evolution battle
If you want to know what is wrong with this nation, start looking at this little fact. only 28% of our nations biology teachers think they should teach provable fact in their classroom. The rest either want to not offend religious zealots or are basically lying to their students because they can’t separate faith from fact.
It is a damn shame that we need it, but here is a guide to teaching science for science teachers.
booturtle’s show and tell: Ham Solo in CandyBaronite
Wow. Check this out. It is bacon, chocolate and Star Wars. Win!
South Dakota Lawmakers Propose Individual Mandate To Require Gun Ownership
Some jackasses in South Dakota want everyone to own a gun.
Okay, maybe they don’t want everyone to own a gun but there point is that it is the same as making everyone buy health care. They’d have a point, if they weren’t idiots.
One, the price of a gun won’t go down if everyone buys one. In fact, the reverse might happen. But if everyone is getting covered by health insurance, our collective rates will probably decrease since we won’t be paying for those who aren’t covered and do health care through the ER, which affects the rates of those of us who DO pay.
But that’s too difficult for most folks.
How’s this? If a bunch of white, racist jagoffs have guns, they speak about the Second Amendment and being (non-military service) patriots. But what if we followed their lead? Not to be all Tom Paine here, but what if we DID do as they propose in South Dakota. Lets make a deal with our paymasters the Chinese and buy about 100 million Kalashnikovs and send them to the inner city. Or the South. Let’s form a hundred thousand “well-regulated militias” worth of brown and black and Asian men and women.
Let’s see them drill and prepare to combat those against our liberties. Against those who take rights from gay Americans, who don’t let women control their bodies. Against those who take away the right to vote from the elderly and anyone who served their sentence for a felony. Who want to take citizenship away from children who are born to immigrants.
Let’s get behind this one. I mean it. George Soros can pay for a battalion of armed inner city youth. The only thing propping up the GOP is rich businessmen and racist politicians pushing the fear of brown people and gays. If the gays and minorities are armed to the teeth, the numerical advantage alone is going to shut the mouths of those blowhards.
Then what?
Truth be told though, this idiocy they propose is actually already law. George Washington himself made it so. He wanted a fledgling American experience armed against all enemies and mandated home gun ownership back in the day.
Be careful what you wish for….
