stfuconservatives:

Beatriz, the 22-year-old El Salvadoran woman who needs an emergency abortion in order to survive, will now be allowed to end her pregnancy with a Caesarean section. On Thursday, El Salvador’s health minister approved the C-section procedure for the dying woman, whose health has increasingly worsened throughout her pregnancy. “The medical team at the Maternity […]

They’re allowing her to have a c-section to end the pregnancy, which is toooootally different from an abortion, apparently.

“They’re allowing her to have a c-section…” “…allowing her to have…” “…allowing her…” Anyone else?

That’s just.. wow. Reblog

Right Wing Austerity Economics Based on Spreadsheet Error? (by LiberalViewer)

Signal boost!

fuckyeahfeminists:

An improvement on the NYC Teen Mom ads.

Too important to not re-blog.

littlegraytiger:

First off, apologies on the size and format. The panels are taken from my sketchbook where I didn’t really measure anything off in a standard size, so I opted for one of those long-scrolling vertical images.

Recent research is beginning to show sharks for the highly complex and even intelligent animals they really are. Many people are bitten by sharks every year, but very few if any are pulled under the waves as a food source. Sharks can inspect their environment by sight, smell, pressure on their bodies, electrical senses, and touch. Touch for an animal without hands however is problematic. Think of all the things you’ve seen in your own life that deceived your eyes, but your hands could tell you more. Whether or not a window was open. If an egg was thin-shelled or thick shelled. Whether a texture was hard or soft, such as between astro-turf or a chenille blanket. Sharks bite objects to inspect them, much as a human toddler puts objects in their mouths. They may be rewarded with food, but spit things out that are inedible or simply not what the shark is looking for. 

Shark populations of all species have declined by as much as 90% of their historic levels. With seven billion humans on earth, many of them vacationing or living in the sharks’ backyards, it’s understandable that once in awhile a mistake is made. Be knowledgeable that they are honest mistakes and most sharks simply do not see people as a food source.

I love this so much! Informative AND cute!

Elizabeth Warren Rips Foreclosure Regulators (by TheYoungTurks)

A great example of a true politician, support Representatives and Senators like this, who actually represent you.

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John Fugelsang:

Next month the great Willie Nelson turns 80, so I sure hope somebody warns him that marijuana is the gateway to heroin before it’s too late. Some people say Willie has a marijuana problem; I prefer to say he has a marijuana practice. But it was three years ago…

Who should read this? Why Everyone of course!

mohandasgandhi:

saveplanetearth:

“These weather events are not simply an example of what climate change could bring. They are caused by climate change.” ––James Hansen, NASA Climate Scientist

This quote is from Hansen’s must-read op-ed piece in the Washington Post: “Climate change is here — and worse than we thought”:

When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988, I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet. I painted a grim picture of the consequences of steadily increasing temperatures, driven by mankind’s use of fossil fuels.

But I have a confession to make: I was too optimistic.

My projections about increasing global temperature have been proved true. But I failed to fully explore how quickly that average rise would drive an increase in extreme weather.

In a new analysis of the past six decades of global temperatures, which will be published Monday, my colleagues and I have revealed a stunning increase in the frequency of extremely hot summers, with deeply troubling ramifications for not only our future but also for our present.

This is not a climate model or a prediction but actual observations of weather events and temperatures that have happened. Our analysis shows that it is no longer enough to say that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather and to repeat the caveat that no individual weather event can be directly linked to climate change. To the contrary, our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.

The deadly European heat wave of 2003, the fiery Russian heat wave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year can each be attributed to climate change. And once the data are gathered in a few weeks’ time, it’s likely that the same will be true for the extremely hot summer the United States is suffering through right now.

These weather events are not simply an example of what climate change could bring. They are caused by climate change. The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small. To count on those odds would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills.

Twenty-four years ago, I introduced the concept of “climate dice” to help distinguish the long-term trend of climate change from the natural variability of day-to-day weather. Some summers are hot, some cool. Some winters brutal, some mild. That’s natural variability.

But as the climate warms, natural variability is altered, too. In a normal climate without global warming, two sides of the die would represent cooler-than-normal weather, two sides would be normal weather, and two sides would be warmer-than-normal weather. Rolling the die again and again, or season after season, you would get an equal variation of weather over time.

But loading the die with a warming climate changes the odds. You end up with only one side cooler than normal, one side average, and four sides warmer than normal. Even with climate change, you will occasionally see cooler-than-normal summers or a typically cold winter. Don’t let that fool you.

Our new peer-reviewed study, published by the National Academy of Sciences, makes clear that while average global temperature has been steadily rising due to a warming climate (up about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the past century), the extremes are actually becoming much more frequent and more intense worldwide.

When we plotted the world’s changing temperatures on a bell curve, the extremes of unusually cool and, even more, the extremes of unusually hot are being altered so they are becoming both more common and more severe.

The change is so dramatic that one face of the die must now represent extreme weather to illustrate the greater frequency of extremely hot weather events.

Such events used to be exceedingly rare. Extremely hot temperatures covered about 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent of the globe in the base period of our study, from 1951 to 1980. In the last three decades, while the average temperature has slowly risen, the extremes have soared and now cover about 10 percent of the globe.

This is the world we have changed, and now we have to live in it — the world that caused the 2003 heat wave in Europe that killed more than 50,000 people and the 2011 drought in Texas that caused more than $5 billion in damage. Such events, our data show, will become even more frequent and more severe.

There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time. We can solve the challenge of climate change with a gradually rising fee on carbon collected from fossil-fuel companies, with 100 percent of the money rebated to all legal residents on a per capita basis. This would stimulate innovations and create a robust clean-energy economy with millions of new jobs. It is a simple, honest and effective solution.

The future is now. And it is hot.

You can read Hansen’s study “Perception of climate change” from the National Academy of Sciences by clicking here. Hansen and his co-authors argue that seasonal-mean temperature anomalies have shifted dramatically to a higher, that is, a hotter, norm caused by anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. Furthermore, related to what we’re seeing today, warmer seasons start sooner, end later, and are hotter than “normal.” This increases the frequency of weather-related natural disasters and their intensity, meaning, we’ll have a lot more natural disasters like tornadoes, droughts, hurricanes, etc., and they’ll be more powerful. The authors add:

It is not uncommon for meteorologists to reject global warming
as a cause of these extreme events, offering instead a meteorological
explanation. For example, it is said that the Moscow heat
wave was caused by an extreme atmospheric “blocking” situation,
or the Texas heat wave was caused by La Niña ocean temperature
patterns. Certainly the locations of extreme anomalies in any
given case depend on specific weather patterns. However, blocking
patterns and La Niñas have always been common, yet the
large areas of extreme warming have come into existence only
with large global warming. Today’s extreme anomalies occur as a result of simultaneous contributions of specific weather patterns
and global warming.

We need to get this out there for sure. Any and all reasonable action must be taken to, if not reverse, then halt the damage. We’re strong enough to save ourselves, if we only accept that something’s wrong.

The current terror filling our laws, that which takes our rights and stunts our growth as people. This is not the fault of a gender. It is the position of power used by one who is unfit to posses any power. These ‘people’ in power, these politicians, they merely happen to be using gender and gender roles to further themselves. It is our duty to put men and women in power who are true people; honest, caring, intelligent people. Money in politics and sociopaths in office. This is the formula for tyranny. Yes, they span many cultures, but we can correct it. Listen to us while we listen to you. We are not seperate, nor are we the same. This is why the illusion is so strong. The plan from the beginning was for us to bicker, all while they walk to the bank. Power spans generations as well. But so does dignity, honesty, humanity! We are a brilliant species! So intelligent, so grand. Yet so eager to kill one another.

So my question. May we stop this and venture out into the stars not as male or female, but as people?

Well, as many may or may not know, there is a game being made right now. Legends of Equestria needs writers to be a part of their staff, and I plan on joining their ranks! I’ve been anticipating this moment for about a month now, ever since they released that they would be needing some ponies to help out and now the time has come.

Determination is one part of the formula for success, but one of the most important ones is the inspiration to get something done! If anypony would like to send words of encouragement, this humble pony would be honored to read them. Horn-magic prepped for a long typing session, and a heart full of hope, I know that we can all work together to make the game as awesome as it can become! And with enough assistance, we can go even farther!

If anypony else would like to send in their own writings, send them here: “http://www.legendsofequestria.com/content/legends-equestria-writers-and-voice-actors-needed”. They are also looking for voice-actors, so if you’re confident in your vocal skills, please send in a clip!

As a disclaimer, I’m making sure to tell everypony that I do not in any way own the rights to LoE. Thank you!