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Month: April 2012
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Stop Feral Cats. Spay/Neuter!
Please SPAY/NEUTER all your pets! Our Deedee was attacked in our backyard by a feral orange tomcat. She is covered in deep scratches from shoulders to hips and has serious bite wounds on her chest. Our other cat Vinny, saved her by charging into the fray and knocking off the attacker before I could even react. The Vet said this is the worst cat-on-cat attack she's ever seen. The City would not give me a trap tonight due to freezing weather, but hopefully next week it will be warm enough to try to trap the attacker.
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Save the Interweb from US Spies
TAKE ACTION: Save the Internet from US spies!The US is poised to pass a new law that would permit US agents to spy on almost everything we do online.
Microsoft, IBM & Facebook are key supporters of this bill.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa_corporate_global/?twi
(Sidenote: Have you noticed lately that often calls to action are now writing to corporations rather than elected officials? Take notice of who is really running your government legislation, hrmn?)
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Dear Facebook Capitalists
Dear Facebook Capitalists,
$1billion for Instagram, a filtering system that makes photos look crappy?
Really?
As you see, I can can get the same grainy looks using a cell phone camera in bad lighting.
(Or if you are sadly too rich to have a access to a crappy camera, you can go to all kinds of free sites on the web for the same effects like http://pixlr.com/o-matic/.)
How long is the grainy, grunge, sepia, colour filters fad going to last anyways?
Seriously, my aethestic senses are in pain already, I really don't need that filter system integrated into Facebook.
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Another Item Gone
My birthfather's civic hybrid sold this morning. One more piece of him is gone. I feel mixed about it- happy that I'm that much closer to being done with the 5 dead people estate mess from hell in Montana. But that bumper sticker was such a great example of him- proud of supporting his science, minimalist, loud and self-righteous. Despite his over-the-top crazy, I am reminded that I'm still a little sad he's gone. -
2005 Honda Civic Hybrid
Selling my dad's 2005 Civic Hybrid. Its in excellent condition and low miles.
http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-cars-trucks-2005-Honda-Civic-Hybrid-Sedan-W0QQAdIdZ370953869 -
Hair Chop
Before After Many of my high school friends on Facebook have been lamenting their 40th birthday recently. My husband is 7 years younger than me and he's starting to have a grey hair here and there. I haven't started greying yet, but I realized the clock is ticking if I wanted to donate this hair while its still blonde!Sure feels strange. The last time my hair was this short, I was in fifth grade!
If you are in Canada, the Canadian Cancer Society has directions on preparing your hair to donate and a list of places that take hair.
The American Cancer Society recommends these two organizations for hair donation:
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Take Action on US Healthcare
With Obamacare in question at the Supreme Court level, I see that United Statesians are re-examining Medicare for all. I was shocked to find out Medicare only has a 3% admin cost (vs. 30-40% admin cost for private insurers.)
Clarence Thomas' wife Virgina will earn millions if he helps kill Obamacare
TAKE ACTION: Ask Clarence Thomas to Recuse himselfCongress is budgeting. Tell them you want your money spent on Healthcare, not warfare.
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Eat Sh!t, I mean Chicken
WTF?! USDA is planning to let chicken and turkey plants inspect themselves.
They already tried this in the 90s and the Daily Kos reports "The average error rate for this category in the chicken slaughter facilities was 64 percent and 87 percent in turkey slaughter facilities." Gross! Stop their pilot program or you'll be eating poop.TAKE ACTION:
- Leave a comment for the USDA at http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FSIS-2011-0012-0001
- Sign the Daily Kos Petition to stop the pilot program at http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=109
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