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DailyGood: The Landlord Who Would Not Evict
Oct 14th
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. –Robert A. Heinlein
The Landlord Who Would Not Evict:
September 23rd marked 41 days that the 6-foot, 4-inch tall guy with the tattoo of Jesus on his left arm and the gray ponytail has worked at Walgreens pharmacy on Celanese Road. “The 2-to-10 shift. Proud to do it,” says Peirce. He is not your usual landlord. One of Pierce’s tenants worked in construction and has a wife and two little kids. A second man worked in utilities contracting and has a baby in the house. Both tenants got laid off several months ago. When they could no longer pay rent what did Pierce do? He refused to evict them — and instead went to work at Walgreens, “to help pay the bills on the properties.” [more]
Read whole Article at DailyGood: The Landlord Who Would Not Evict.
Sand Castle Celebrating Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Win Created In India (VIDEO)
Oct 13th
article & img: via Huffingtonpost: “Sand Castle Celebrating Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Win Created In India (VIDEO).
“An artist in India celebrated President Obama’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize by building a massive sand sculpture of Obama’s face next to a Nobel Prize medal, and then a mound in front of it with the words “let peace prevail.”"
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/12/sand-castle-celebrating-o_n_318011.html
Bill Maher: New Rule: Everyone Deserves Equal Rights
Oct 11th
image via huffingtonpost
Bill Maher in huffingtonpost:
“New Rule: Everyone deserves equal rights. That’s why they’re called “equal” and “rights.” Tomorrow night President Obama will speak before a gay rights group, and on Sunday there will be a massive gay rally in Washington, or as I call it, the Million Mo March. Which makes this weekend the perfect time for Obama to announce he’s repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. One, because it’s the right thing to do and two, because it will throw the conservative base into such a frenzied, pants-shitting panic that they’ll drop all that BS about death panels and socialism and let us all get some actual work done.”
Nasa moon LCROSS strike – live! | Science | guardian.co.uk
Oct 9th
Nasa’s LCROSS project to hunt for water on the moon will crash two spacecraft into a crater at 12.30pm today. The impact will kick up a cloud of debris that will be analysed for traces of water
FREEDOM EDEN: NASA Moon Bombing
Oct 9th
“It sounds like a plan to battle Dr. Evil, but NASA is behind it — bombing the Moon. (”Would you miss it?”)
The Moon bombing on Friday isn’t just NASA target practice. There’s a reason.”
Seeing which way the wind blows Woman wants to install turbine on her Federal Hill rowhouse roof
Aug 4th
baltimoresun.com / img by phault via flickr
Looking to offset rising electricity bills, Marsha Vitow has a modern solution: installing Baltimore’s first residential wind turbine on the roof of her Federal Hill rowhouse.
It’s a logical move in a city whose mayor has pushed extra tree plantings, recycling and other issues on a “cleaner, greener” agenda, but Vitow has run into some old-fashioned problems. Decades-old zoning laws don’t account for a wind turbine, and some of her neighbors say the eight-foot-tall contraption will hurt their rooftop views and their property values…read more…
Happy Birthday Mr. President
Aug 4th
article via huffingtonpost.com | img by EricaJoy
Today marks the 48th birthday of President Barack Obama. While you probably won’t see him do a birthday dance–like the one Michelle did on her birthday, which you can watch right here–he will likely have some sort of celebration, like lunch with Senate Democrats … read whole article
Much Ado About Snuffing (it)
Aug 3rd
Is swine flu really the threat we perceive it to be? Here’s what our featured writer Popider thinks, in a slightly satirical way…
A wolf, a tiger and a pig congregate around a campfire one bizarre evening. One thing leads to another, and they inevitably begin to boast. The wolf says “every time I howl, the whole forest is scared”. The tiger says “that’s nothing. Every time I roar, the whole jungle is terrified!” The pig snorts (derisively) and says “Well every time I sneeze, the whole world craps itself.”
A global pandemic. A threat to modern civilisation. A hundred billion lives in danger (?) What will be reported next on Swine flu? As far as my number crunching has led me to believe, 4 of 100,000 cases have resulted in death unaided by any other illness. That’s 1 in 25,000. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning than dying if you get it. … read whole post… Read the rest of this entry »
World Oil Supplies Are Running Out Fast
Aug 3rd
Independent | Steve Connor | img via azrainman
The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading energy economist has warned.
