Updated 06/02/09:
The Raleigh NAIS listening session will be held at the McKimmon Center on the corner of Western Blvd. Registration starts at 8:00-9:00am and the session will end at 4:00pm.
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For those of you who have concerns regarding the proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS). You have a chance to voice your opinion at a upcoming listening session to [...]
Archive for May, 2009
28 May
USDA’s Listening Tour regarding the NAIS in Raleigh, NC
28 May
Veterans against the NAIS
A reader writes in response to Legal Defense fund moves to stop the Animal ID Program :
Thankfully, this lawsuit is being brought. However, Congress needs to keep hearing from us until they realize that they cannot continue to fund a program that will collapse due to noncompliance by an informed citizenry. Please help post / email [...]
27 May
Tri-Valley Cares: FOIA documents expose illegal experiments at Lawrence Livermore Lab
Tri-Valley Cares (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment), recently obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that provides conclusive evidence that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was preforming illegal, federally restricted experiments involving select agents. In March of 08, the group filed a complaint in Federal court under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to stop operations at the bio-warfare agent research [...]
26 May
Whoops! RNC Accidentally Releases Sotomayor Talking Points
The RNC just keeps on giving, even if they don’t mean to. The Hill is reporting that the RNC, “apparently inadvertently released its list of talking points on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court”.
But wait it gets better, Kiddies! Included in the list were the names of “a few hundred influential Republicans who [...]
26 May
Veggie Garden Diaries – Part 2 – It’s time to get dirty
Hopefully by now you have decided on what type of garden will best suit your needs if not for this year, maybe for the next. In my opinion, the next step to a healthy raised bed veggie garden is proper drainage and the choice of soil material. You have to admit being able to choose your soil [...]
26 May
NC’s Well water testing proposal moves forward
A bill requiring the testing of all new wells for select carcinogens or volatile organic compounds, “won endorsement” this past Thursday (5/21) ”from a House committee, but it requires another committee vote before going to the Senate floor”, according to the Asheville Citizens-Times , a newspaper covering issues affecting Western North Carolina.
The bill HR 141 - Limit Well Water Testing for VOC’s would mandate:
Within 30 [...]
25 May
Speaker Pelosi as Pussy Galore
Who is behind these ads at the RNC? Ann Coulter perhaps. Whoever it is the RNC isn’t saying. I wouldn’t either, out of embarrassment.
The wisdom of equating the first woman speaker of the House with a character whose first name also happens to be among the most vulgar terms for a part of the [...]
24 May
Videos: Mancow and Christopher Hitchens On the Waterboard
Mancow is only one of the latest celebs to under go waterboarding. In May of 08 the outspoken, Vanity Fair writer Christopher Hitchens underwent the same torture and in his article Believe Me, It’s Torture he talked about his experience “deep in the hill country of western, North Carolina”.
Here is the most chilling way I can find of [...]
21 May
Dying star caught resurrecting itself by eating its neighbor
Break out the nice Chianti, the Hannibal Lecter of pulsars has been observed, gobbling his neighbor of course.
Source: Wired
A dying star has been caught in the act of resurrecting itself by eating its neighbor.
Together, the stars represent a previously unseen stage in the lifecycle of millisecond pulsars, the fastest-spinning objects in the universe.
“It’s really a missing [...]
20 May
Critical Thinking, Jesse Ventura discusses waterboarding and 9/11
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura made the rounds yesterday on the mainstream media circuit. If you missed it, here’s your second chance (clips below) to witness Ventura at his “I’ve been water-boarded” best.
A few noteworthy quotes of the blitz:
“I would prosecute the people who did it; I would prosecute the people who ordered it, and they would all go [...]
