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No More Smuggling: Many Cured Italian Meats Coming To America : NPR

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:47:49 -0400

No More Smuggling: Many Cured Italian Meats Coming To America : NPR:

howto-kissdistinctly-american:

mimesandpunishment:

Culatello. Capocollo. Sopressata. It will soon be legal to import a whole new world of Italian cured pork products, thanks to the USDA’s decision to end a decades-long ban. Every Italian region and province, and even many towns have their own distinctive salumi.

Dreams really do come true.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting…I’d like to know more about the rationale behind the ban personally.

Yay!

nevver: Interior Design 101

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:24:48 -0400

nevver:

Interior Design 101

iheartmyart: Santiago Solís Montes de Oca, Ciñe oh patria mis...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:58:06 -0400

iheartmyart:

Santiago Solís Montes de Oca, Ciñe oh patria mis sienes de oliva 1/3, 2010

love-england: Pillow of Illusion (by ceca67) I want to ride...

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:57:07 -0400

love-england:

Pillow of Illusion (by ceca67)

I want to ride this :)

laughingsquid: Photos of Famous Artists With Their Cats Nice!

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:19:25 -0400

laughingsquid:

Photos of Famous Artists With Their Cats

Nice!

laughingsquid: Tahoe Blue, Beautiful Time-Lapse Video of Lake...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:56:20 -0400

laughingsquid:

Tahoe Blue, Beautiful Time-Lapse Video of Lake Tahoe

Very nice. My home away from home :)

thepeoplesrecord: Tar Sands Blockade published new videos today...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:34:53 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

Tar Sands Blockade published new videos today (4/7) showing oil from the Arkansas pipeline rupture diverted from a residential neighborhood into a wetland area to keep it out sight and, most importantly, out of the media & public view.
April 7, 2013

While it’s not clear if the oil was intentionally moved into the wetland, the company says it is cleaning pavement with power washing devices, which could cause some of the oil to be pushed off neighborhood streets and into other areas.

Activists also interviewed a local resident who claimed the oil has continued “flowing” into Lake Conway since the spill happened.

“I don’t have allergies,” the man said. “But now my sinuses are bothering me. My throat’s bothering me. My eyes water constantly. But Exxon acts like nothing’s wrong. They don’t have to live here, we do. And we’re not moving just because of them.”

The activists noted that they were turned away from the area several times before by police and Exxon spill cleanup workers, but they returned on Saturday just before sundown and managed to sneak in to capture footage of the oiled wetlands. In two separate videos, nearby residents say they’ve been made sick by the spill, which has tremendously affected their air quality.

This footage has largely remained out of the media due to the lockdown that’s descended upon Mayflower nearly a week since the spill. Reporters touring the damage with Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel were allegedly turned away by Exxon workers. One journalist, Inside Climate News’s Susan White, was even threatened with arrest when she asked a question of Exxon’s “public affairs” desk inside the spill cleanup command center. The company has also secured a no-fly zone over the spill area.

Video of Lake Conway’s wetlands shows thousands of what Exxon called “absorbent pads” — which appear to be nothing more than paper towels — littering the blackened landscape as thick, soupy crude bubbles across the water’s surface. The company insists that air quality in the affected region is being measured by the Environmental Protection Agency, and that tests show “levels that are either non-detect or that are below any necessary action levels.” Exxon also says that the area’s drinking water remains unaffected.

A phone number given by Exxon to reach the company’s “downstream media relations” team did not appear to be correct, and a spokesperson was not available for comment.

Don’t let Exxon sweep this thing under the rug! Share this now, far & wide, with everybody you know! We cannot allow these corporate-committed environmental tragedies to continue to claim people, land & our future as victims in the wealth-owning, corporate elite’s illogical profit-making endeavors.

Source

Yet another reason to move away from fossil fuel…

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:09:40 -0400

my snowboard…

laughingsquid: Shepard Fairey Designs an International Space...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:29:43 -0400

laughingsquid:

Shepard Fairey Designs an International Space Station Mission Patch

Nice

kateoplis: Honey Bee

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:27:15 -0500

kateoplis:

Honey Bee

kateoplis: Today in Virginia

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:39:12 -0500

kateoplis:

Today in Virginia

kateoplis: The Magic Realism of Norwegian Nights, by the...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:52:41 -0500

kateoplis:

The Magic Realism of Norwegian Nights, by the ridiculously talented Simon Norfolk.

So beautiful…

soupisnotameal: motherjones: The House finally passed the...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:27:37 -0500

soupisnotameal:

motherjones:

The House finally passed the Violence Against Women Act on Thursday…after 18 months.

And not surprisingly, more Republicans voted Nay than Yea.

nevver: 29 Ways to Stay Creative Infographic

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:27:44 -0500

nevver:

29 Ways to Stay Creative Infographic

laughingsquid: Gary Numan Performs “Cars” With Nine Inch...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:05:00 -0500

laughingsquid:

Gary Numan Performs “Cars” With Nine Inch Nails

Wow Amazing!

bunnyfood: (via tastefullyoffensive:via) Almost like at my...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:58:08 -0500

bunnyfood:

(via tastefullyoffensive:via)

Almost like at my house ;)

kateoplis: Growler Bike Rad

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:22:33 -0500

kateoplis:

Growler Bike

Rad

Robertson: ‘Rebuke’ demons by praying over possessed secondhand clothes

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:21:31 -0500

Robertson: ‘Rebuke’ demons by praying over possessed secondhand clothes:

invisiblelad:

Televangelist Pat Robertson says that not every sweater at Goodwill is possessed by demons, but it’s a good idea to pray over secondhand clothes jusligit in case.

On Monday’s700 Club, Robertson responded to a viewer who wanted to know if she should bless purchases from Goodwill before bringing them home because her mother said that demons could “attach themselves to material items.”

Robertson recalled a story about a “witch who had prayed over a particular ring and asked for a spirit to come into it.” And then when a girl purchased the ring, “all hell broke loose.”

“Can demonic spirits attach themselves to inanimate objects? The answer is yes,” the TV preacher explained. “But I don’t think that every sweater you get from Goodwill has demons in it.”

He added that the viewer’s mother was being “super cautious” and “it isn’t going to hurt anything to rebuke any spirits that happen to have attached themselves to those clothes.”

Well, at least Robertson was rational enough not to make his …following paranoid about all second hand items… just the ones formerly owned by witches…

think4yourself: fishingboatproceeds: studyandlove: www.google....

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:31:27 -0500

think4yourself:

fishingboatproceeds:

studyandlove:

www.google.ca takes the time to commemorate the Canadian penny as it officially heads into retirement starting today.

There’s still about 6 million in circulation so there’s no way of knowing how long until they are phased out completely, but the government estimates scrapping the coin will save them about 11 million dollars a year.

Congratulations, Canada, for acting rationally.

You are not just America’s hat. In this way and many others, you are America’s wise and resource-rich uncle whom just as a reminder we could conquer at any time.

John Green commentary reblog

stopdropandvogue: “The Right Side” Vogue UK April 2011...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:30:09 -0500

stopdropandvogue:

“The Right Side” Vogue UK April 2011 photographed by Tim Walker