2012-06-01, 06:13 | Link #21721 |
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
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Insight: From a ferry, a Chinese fast-attack boat
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84U1HG20120601
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2012-06-01, 07:43 | Link #21722 |
Underweight Food Hoarder
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A high school teacher in Alberta was suspended and risks being 'fired' for giving students zero (grade) for not submitting assignments. Teacher has already been warned before that he cannot give the zero grade, even if assignments are not handed in.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...895/story.html Wtf, when did the education system become so infantile? Maybe instead of using GPA or %, they should put stickers on student assignments as the grading instead. |
2012-06-01, 09:48 | Link #21723 |
Did someone call a doctor
Join Date: Apr 2007
Age: 40
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Dammit I want a gold star for my uni assessments from now on!
Also, lol @ not being able to give a zero for a non-submission... that pretty much defines a zero. What are they supposed to do, give a minimum pass? Heh, if the guy wanted to be an ass he could give a 'one' and tell em, there no zero!
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2012-06-01, 10:48 | Link #21726 |
Underweight Food Hoarder
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While I was reading the Toronto Sun, there was a random poll on the side:
Should Canada reinstate the death penalty? Yes - 10698 votes (80%) No - 2069 votes (16% Unsure - 499 votes (4%) Which was overwhelmingly imbalanced from what I'd imagine it would be. I thought Canadians would be a lot more idealistic with the 'no one should be killed)' with a 60% no, 40% yes. quite fascinating. Please don't discuss justification of death penalty here :P |
2012-06-01, 12:16 | Link #21730 | |
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2012-06-01, 18:29 | Link #21731 | |
Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 48
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Forget the US stockpile of nukes, its most dangerous weapon are its hundreds of thousands consultants.
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2012-06-01, 18:45 | Link #21734 |
formerly ogon bat
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Mexico
Age: 53
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In Amurrica, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins
http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/Ho...n-Origins.aspx Son, I am dissapoint. |
2012-06-01, 20:51 | Link #21735 |
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
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Being '' overpaid'' isn't the problem, it's what they ''do'' .
U.S. publishes satellite images of Syria http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...85101020120602
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2012-06-03, 01:24 | Link #21736 |
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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Animal Rights Legislation Would Make Eggs a Luxury Food !!!
One day soon, America could wake up to a dozen eggs costing $8 or more. And unless you are involved in some aspect of farming or agriculture, you would never know that egg prices are about to skyrocket or the reason why. With food prices already increasing due to high grain and fuel costs, extraneous so-called animal welfare regulations are being imposed on U.S. food producers, large and small, by the animal rights powerhouse known as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).
With HSUS' vegan animal rights platform as the motivations behind crafting a controversial egg bill, S. 3239 was introduced in the U.S. Senate on Friday, May 25, 2012, inching U.S. egg producers closer to a mandate which would require them to phase out conventional cages for egg-laying hens and transition to a system called "enriched colony cages" by 2029, at a cost to U.S. egg producers ranging between $4 billion to $10 billion. And while most Americans shrug their shoulders and live their lives, they are completely unaware of how this regulation will affect the cost of food and its availability in the future. The current egg shortage in the U.K. should be a jolting wake-up call for Americans, illustrating that the onerous animal welfare regulations which have phased out conventional cages there have caused egg prices to quadruple, while diminishing egg supply to a "crisis" level. This is a glimpse of what's coming to America if HSUS' egg bill becomes law .......... |
2012-06-03, 01:31 | Link #21737 |
Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 39
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It would be more hilarious than horrifying to see the law pass from an outsider perspective, because it sort of reflects how your government will listen to any fringe organization with a metric fuckton of money.
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2012-06-03, 01:39 | Link #21738 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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I can see someone has never seen "conventional cages" (which are like something out of Sinclair's The Jungle) ... and the Humane Society is far from some "fringe animal rights" group or a "powerhouse" in comparision to the corporate farm lobby (not a friend to family farms, btw). Do some research on how family farms were hijacked/enslaved by the large corporations who demand extraordinarily abusive treatment of the assets (the chickens) and the threats they use to force family farms into their systems.
This has all happened in the last 20 or 30 years so I suppose someone younger might not be aware of just how fucked up the "food" industry has become. Oh but wait, we have this thing called the Internet.... :P
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2012-06-03, 02:10 | Link #21740 |
Juanita/Kiteless
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 40
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You gotta stop linking to the American Thinker. That place is not a site that tries to be unbiased. It is like the step-child of Fox News. In fact, I just looked up more articles from that site tonight. It is even worse than Fox News.
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