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POPSDecomposting the Dead :eek: Walrus Magazine: Decomposting Bodies: What's the Greenest Way to Dispose of Human Remains? (Photo by hubb-a-dubbs via Flickr/Creative Commons)http://www.nhpr.org/node/25846
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POPSCalifornia's most conservative county sucks up the public assistance by the bucket
Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, chairwoman of a legislative budget conference committee, ordered up a report last winter ranking which of the state's counties send the most tax money per capita to the Capitol, and which ones consume the most in health and other services. It showed that conservative counties - like Modoc, with 49.9 percent Republican registration, the state's highest - generally consumed the most, and liberal counties sent in the most. Marin County was No. 1 in contributions, at $4,793 per person, and San Francisco was No. 3 at $3,578. Modoc was No. 2 in consumption at $2,216 per person, and conservative Tulare was No. 1, with $2,223. "I don't think voters in the conservative counties understand the connection between the service they are receiving and the votes their representatives are making," Evans said…In Modoc, the way it works is that if the cuts being proposed go through, near-catastrophe will reign.
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POPSCrop Circles Mystify Russian Farmers Ooooh! I love stuff like this. .:p From a Danish source , this can be added: Before the event, glowing balls were seen in the sky around 1:15 AM and animals had acted strangely. Dogs, cows and frogs all became silent in a 20-30 km radius of the site. Problems starting cars, using cellphones and digital cameras were also reported. Helicopters were filming and combing the area. A few days prior, eight crop circles had appeared near the Dinskij district. An area near the the town of Armanvir was reportedly "glowing". Crop circles have also appeared recently in, among other places, USA, Canada, Spain, Germany and Denmark and reseachers say, they are all connected to each other via parallel lines. Exciting, eh? .:p Clip Song
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POPSBulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia & Montenegro - Top Summer Destinations You can immerse yourself in the street cafe culture of the cities, sipping coffee all day long or drive just 20 minutes out of the city and be in a place that time forgot, where the fields are still ploughed by horses and vegetables picked by hand. Of course change will come and slowly these old ways of life will disapear...but they are here to experience now.
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POPSDon't RSVP ----- 'Weinies' Cut-Off 
Supreme Leader Decries 'Bullying' Over Election Wednesday, June 24, 2009 In one confrontation between protesters and Basij members, a middle-aged woman wearing a light-blue headscarf and a black coat angrily refused orders to leave. "I'm going to stay here and see how many people you kill today," she told the Basij. A plainclothes agent emerged from the crowd, swore at the woman and took out a pair of handcuffs to arrest her. Other people tried to stop the agent, but Basij members rushed them and beat them with clubs, the witness said. In an unusual exchange, he said, a child walked up to a regular police colonel and, gesturing toward truckloads of riot police, asked him, "Who are those guys?" The colonel replied with apparent disdain, "They're cows." In Twitter feeds, people who said they witnessed the crackdown described protesters with broken limbs and cracked heads, saying there was "blood everywhere" from the beatings. One said many people had been arrested. Another sa
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POPSOur tax dollars at work...lol Measuring Cow Burps in Fight Against Climate Change...... this almost as bad as those $500 a piece fountain pens we pay for. Whats next a study on how many times a sparrow farts
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POPSA Conspiracy of Ravens Kills Fourteen Calves more: “I ran out and shooed them away and luckily was able to save the calf.” Gunnegård suspects the explosive growth in the size of the raven conspiracy is likely related to the recovery of the area’s convocation of Golden Eagles. “There are a lot more wild animal carcasses in the nearby forests,” he said. “With more food, the ravens are breeding more and having more young.” Others theorize that the recent covering up of local garbage dumps has cut off one of the ravens’ primary food supplies, forcing them to prey on vulnerable livestock.
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POPSWhy Unfettered Capitalism Is Bad for Your Diet These are the companies that are trying to efficiently process tens of thousands of cows per day -- cows that have been lined up in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and fed grain (more efficient than using land to feed them their natural diet of grass), pumped with hormones and antibiotics to keep them from dying, which means a glut on the market of cheap (antibiotic-filled) beef. And these are the companies that are creating the seeds -- those seeds that the farmer can't even save for fear of litigation -- to grow the crops that require the use of their pesticides and which produce a proliferation of fast food. Yes, efficiency is the bottom line in our current agricultural system. Not safety, not health, nor least of all, taste. No, for a corporation that is beholden first to it's shareholders, its all about the quickest way to get to the bottom line.
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POPSPolitics Explained.... ;) Politics explaind in action...with simple examples...so simple you realise every political system is either crap either utopia....-explanations with black humour so whoever has strong political beliefs,do not get too itchy... :) -
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POPSOpposing views on abortion 'irreconcilable', says B. Obama Yes they are. "...open hearts, open minds, fair-minded words" applies to the Pro-Life movement only. It is interesting that the woman who started the whole thing, Norma McCorvey, opened her mind and saw that abortion kills babies. In this culture, I've concluded that if a person wants to have sex til the cows come home...fine. Deal with the emotional consequences and diseases; however, don't make babies. Sadly that will never happen because the *majority* of people having sex don't care about the next instant; only personal self-gratification of their own desires. And Notre Dame has besmirched it's reputation and undermined it's theology by bringing Obama to the graduation. While I'm no Catholic, I believe in adhering to your professed values.
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POPSAgriculture Fingered for E. coli contamination Wow. To be living so near a water source and find out the local livestock is the main reason the water of Lake Huron and its beaches are contaminated with E. coli. While the study shows how much contamination is contributed from cows, pigs, sheep, and even humans, it is surprising to see this. I guess one doesn't realize how much the fecal bacteria pollutes our water. And this is water that people swim and play in, drink, and use. Granted, most water goes through treatments, however, the thought that the water you're drinking or playing in has fecal matter in it, is pretty darn gross.
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POPSE.coli 0157:H7 This article shows how an E. coli outbreak can be the symptom of a larger problem: our food industry itself. In 2006 there was an outbreak of E. coli from tainted spinach. It's theorized that the E.coli came from flood waters that were a result of spilloff from beef feed lots. This particular strain of E. coli was not a problem until we started feeding our cows grain instead of grass, to make them ready for slaughter more quickly. The cows can no longer kill the E. coli in their digestive tract because of the grain feed, so it is excreted in their waste. The stored waste can flood, and contaminate nearby farm fields. The company responsible for the tainted spinach, EarthBound Farms, has implemented new safety measures, but experts say that another outbreak is inevitable because of our highly centralized food processing system. In order to battle these new bacteria, we need to look at the way we operate our food system in America.
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