iTunes really love to freeze on me -_-.. isn’t it about time to have a separate Music Player and App Manager?
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The sharks knew exactly what they wanted (the blubber) and if they got a mouthful of muscle they often spat it out. This may provide some insight into why so many bites on humans (over 70% of white shark bites) are a bite and release only.
Alison Kock – Great White Sharks Photographed Eating 36-Foot Whale : Discovery News (via lurino)
America’s farms are presently far too dependent on immigrant labor to pick our fruits and vegetables. Now, the obvious answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and vegetables. And if you look at the recent obesity statistics, many Americans have already started.
After all, it was the ancient Israelites who built the first food pyramids. But this is America. I don’t want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan, and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.
My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That’s the rumor.
I’ll admit I started my work day with preconceived notions of migrant labor. But after working with these men and women … side by side in the unforgiving sun I have to say — and I do mean this sincerely — please don’t make me do this again. It is really, really hard.
This experience gave me some small understanding why so few Americans are clamoring to begin an exciting career as seasonal migrant field workers.
Stephen Colbert, testifying to Congress today about his experience with actually working on a farm as part of the Take Our Jobs campaign. (via chartier)
Stephen Colbert testifies in a US congressional hearing on immigrant farm workers
Oooooo finally!
Tumblr vs. Facebook
Someone I don’t know adds me on facebook:
Someone I don’t know follows me on tumblr:
Someone writes on my facebook wall:
Someone writes in my tumblr ask box:
Lose a friend on facebook:
Lose a follower on tumblr:
via (nightwing890:cheerupmurray)
Apparently school is only for virgins
This sickening news came from Jambi, a city in Sumatra, Indonesia. The logic of Bambang Bayu Suseno, a local legislator, is that:
The idea is simple. Parents are obviously afraid of their daughters being deflowered before the time comes, so before they continue their studies, they can undergo the virginity test and automatically protect their dignity,” said Jambi legislative councilor Bambang Bayu Suseno.
He is proposing that female students undergo virginity tests before they can be admitted into public schools and existing students may be forced out if they were found to be no longer virgins. According to him, non-virgin girls are not worthy of education simply because they gave in to peer pressure. Note that he did not say anything about non-virgin boys.
While the province’s secretary spokesman rejected the idea, it is still astounding that someone at the legislative level even has this idea cross his mind. Education is a basic human right and to refuse anyone, virgin or not, is a violation and the law does not discriminate based on a person’s moral judgment.
The country has been drawn into the morality debate. The Minister for Communication and Information wants to block pornography to protect children and the eastern values of society and prosecute those who seek porn. Advocates of freedom of expression are being labeled as pro porn despite debating the principles of censorship rather than the content. An Aceh district chief wants to enact a bylaw making it compulsory for women to dress in a certain way to avoid inciting impure thoughts by men which may lead to rape.
This is Indonesia now. A country anchored in morality issues.
Update: The proposal has been rejected.
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