Game of Thrones Parody of the Day: Presenting the trailer for “an epic new series about the only land stranger than Game of Thrones: America.”
5/16: McArthur High School HazMat Situation
Students, Teachers Decontaminated After Breaking Out In Rash
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/mcarthur-high-school-contamination_n_1521764.html
5/19: No confirmation on chemical at Fort Lauderdale International Airport
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U.S. military developing miniature drones that resemble birds and insects
The U.S. military is developing these innocent-looking devices that are actually some of the most sophisticated drones on the planet. They resemble children’s toys that are left disgarded in closets around the world.
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“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.” (via Why Will And Jada Pinkett Smith Let Daughter Willow Cut Her Hair - The Frisky)
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Amazon investor Nick Hanauer gave a TED talk on income inequality and how the wealthy don’t create jobs. You’ll never see the video on TED.com. Why did TED deem Hanauer’s speech as too controversial?It is astounding how significantly one idea can shape a society and its policies. Consider this one.If taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down.This idea is an article of faith for republicans and seldom challenged by democrats and has shaped much of today’s economic landscape.But sometimes the ideas that we know to be true are dead wrong. For thousands of years people were sure that earth was at the center of the universe. It’s not, and an astronomer who still believed that it was, would do some lousy astronomy.In the same way, a policy maker who believed that the rich and businesses are “job creators” and therefore should not be taxed, would make equally bad policy.I have started or helped start, dozens of businesses and initially hired lots of people. But if no one could have afforded to buy what we had to sell, my businesses would all have failed and all those jobs would have evaporated.That’s why I can say with confidence that rich people don’t create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small. What does lead to more employment is a “circle of life” like feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring. In this sense, an ordinary middle-class consumer is far more of a job creator than a capitalist like me.Read the full speech that TED said was too controversial to show. View the presentation.What do you think? Is there a problem with income inequality? Do the wealthy create jobs? Should taxes increase for the wealthy? Submit your story, ideas, questions here.
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A Sex Video That Will Surprise You - Girls Going Wild in the Red Light District
Keep watching till the very end. It’s bloody brilliant, not to mention very moving.
