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Re: “Judge Wright issues injunction against abortion law”
J Raper and Salty, a product just for you at a sale price! Too bad you already possess one or several at the old price.
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http://bit.ly/16EukFr
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Mark Fiore also has a short animation that shows how the amazing god-o-matic can be put to use for profit:
http://bit.ly/9eJK2j
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It always puzzles me how JRaper-style holy-rollers can manufacture a religion cafeteria-style and then claim it is immutable, eternal, and all-encompassing. Meanwhile, they denounce all others as corruptions of the true word of the imaginary invisible psychotic misogynist in the sky.
Re: “Women's rights in court this morning”
Salty, your psychotic imaginary misogynist in the sky performs most abortions, without the consent of the woman. What really sticks in your craw is that you hate when women have any choice in the matter.
Re: “The hog manure open line”
One of the many problems with using manure from large-scale livestock factories is the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in the feedlots.
The FDA concludes that in 2009 alone, farmers used nearly 30 million pounds of antibiotics.
The widespread use of antibiotics poses dangers. Large-scale animal factories often give animals antibiotics to promote growth, or to compensate for illness resulting from crowded conditions. These antibiotics are entering the environment and the food chain, contributing to the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and making it harder to treat human diseases.
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"Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) operators add human antibiotics to the feed of animals to accelerate animal growth and prevent diseases common in overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions. According to the FDA, 80 percent of the antibiotics produced in this country are used in animal agriculture, the vast majority for these nontherapeutic purposes. This amount is estimated to be more than four times the amount of drugs used to treat human illness.
"Antibiotic resistance linked to food animal operations is on the rise. Studies suggest that hog farms are a source of a new strain (ST398) of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), a disease responsible for more deaths per year in the United States than AIDS."
http://bit.ly/102tjQ9
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"The FDA says without new laws its options are limited. The agency approved antibiotic use in animals in 1951, before concerns about drug resistance were recognized. The only way to withdraw that approval is through a drug-by-drug process that can take years of study, review and comment.
"In 1977 the agency proposed a ban on penicillin and tetracycline in animal feed, but it was defeated after criticism from interest groups."
http://nbcnews.to/182D8mB
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"The AMA is opposed to the use of antimicrobials at non-therapeutic levels in agriculture or as pesticides or growth promoters."
"Antibiotic-resistant bacteria generated on industrial feedlots spread out in a number of ways:
"... By air and water: Drug-resistant bacteria have been found in drinking water near hog facilities in three states and have been detected in the air downwind from industrial swine facilities."
http://bit.ly/O4Gsqe
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Re: “Film fest, witness protection, news you can use”
Regarding the energy efficiency programs - There's a whole raft of rebates, tax credits, and reduced costs available to households and businesses. For example, a several hundred dollar rebate for buying a high-efficiency water heater.
Rebates for buying energy-efficient appliances:
http://bit.ly/16AAZ3G
The EnergyStar program
http://www.energystar.gov/
Federal tax credits
http://1.usa.gov/sF5ge
Entergy isn't the only utility providing Arkansas energy savings programs:
http://1.usa.gov/13mChZp
For more details about programs in this state, you can contact the Arkansas Energy Office:
http://bit.ly/13y0Tls
Re: “University of Arkansas Board to discuss tuition increases for 2013-14”
As tuition (and all those miscellaneous fees) increases, student loan debt skyrockets.
It seems a good time to talk about 2 Student Loan Fairness bills, one in the U.S. House and one in the Senate.
In the House,
"Congresswoman Karen Bass (D – Calif.) introduced The Student Loan Fairness Act of 2013 to address the out of control debt being placed on the backs of over 37 million student loan borrowers across the country and end the need for Congress to continue enacting short-term deals to stop interest rates from doubling, which is set to take effect July 1.
"Student loan debt has surpassed the $1 trillion dollar mark – making it second only to mortgage debt. Americans owe more in student loan debt then credit card or automobile debt and it continues to grow. Over the past 10 years, the average student loan debt has increased by 511% with the majority of the debt being owed by those over the age of 30."
http://1.usa.gov/10EfFmv
In the Senate,
"Students taking out government loans to help pay for college should pay the same rock-bottom interest rate that the Federal Reserve charges big banks, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed Wednesday.
"With the interest rate on federal student loans set to double to 6.8% this summer, Warren said it's unfair that big banks can borrow money at 0.75% from the central bank's discount window."
http://lat.ms/18YUZcI
Not that it will sway our state's Congresscritters, you may want to contact them to urge their support for both of these measures.
Re: “Morning report: Prescription drug watch”
As one AT reader pointed out a few days ago, Wall Street deregulation is on a fast track to return to the bad old days of financial corruption. A MoJo May 8 article, "Bills That Would Gut Wall Street Reform Overwhelmingly Pass House Committee," discloses that only 6 of the 28 Democrats voted against three bills that would do serious damage to parts of Dodd-Frank that deal with derivatives.
http://bit.ly/YuCiMB
How did this happen so soon after the the clamor to "reform Wall Street?" The Nation article, "How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank," explains how banks out-lobbied and outspent consumer protection allies by huge margins.
http://bit.ly/16ltGfR
Before the 2010 bank reform act, Dodd-Frank, was passed, banks were already devising ways exploit loopholes in the law to carry on as before.
http://bit.ly/17NAbEg
It's like we never learn from our mistakes.
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Re: “Republicans hit Pryor on IRS union contribution”
Goes to show that traitors are despised by both the people they sold out and the people who bought them. Mark Pryor, do the Democrats a last favor and announce your retirement.