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[thefadedone]

A school in Ohio tried to ban Black peoples' hair:

OMG that girl is adorable. The school board is just jealous because they can't look as cute as she does with her afro puffs.

Looks like they corrected the problem. There's an apology letter there now.

Trying to save their asses.

 

[Spang]

 

[Amy SF]

It looks like most of those people are also butter aficionados.

 

[nigel1]

It looks like most of those people are also butter aficionados.

- wondering how many people here look like "butter aficionados".

 

[Blobbenstein]

*hand up* me for one......BMI of 6,000,000

 

[das_nut]

- wondering how many people here look like "butter aficionados".

*sigh* Really, do we have to devolve to the point of hating fat people?

 

[Blobbenstein]

has anyone got the recipe for vegan deep fried butter?

 

[Blobbenstein]

I just worked out, that at my weight, if I really did have a BMI of 6milion, then I would be 5mm talk...

 

[Calliegirl]

has anyone got the recipe for vegan deep fried butter?

No, but I recently came across a recipe for butter coffee.

 

[Amy SF]

They're baaaack!

Oh, good. Just in time for the peak of the summer fruit season. I can envision everyone rushing past the fruit displays to stock up on their favorite Hostess crap. Good. More summer fruit for me.

 

[SummerRain]

Following a Horizon TV program which featured an ex-Met undercover officer turned whistle-blower, I've seen more news stories on the Met undercover infiltration into protest groups...

The Guardian: The met's undercover police wreck the lives of many deceived women

I delightful blog in the Telegraph... " And all kinds of hairy and smelly activists whose only hope for sex lies in being targeted by undercover policemen trying to extract their secrets, will go to their grave frustrated."

 

[yally]

Not sure why those officers aren't being charged for rape...

 

[yally]

Also disturbed at Telegraph readers. WH Smith keep giving me free issues and it really is rubbish pretending to be not rubbish.

God most newspapers are such crap these days, no wonder they're dying out.

 

[Spang]

A company that sells dead, chopped up pigs for money released a statement after dropping Paula Deen:

"Smithfield is determined to be an ethical food industry leader and it is important that our values and those of our spokespeople are properly aligned."

 

[Amy SF]

http://www.columbiatribune.com/opin...age_333cc7de-dcf1-11e2-84a1-0019bb30f31a.html

I tried pasting the image itself but it didn't work.

 

[Amy SF]

Los Angeles City Council passes ban on single-use plastic bags

Victory for the environment!

Here in Santa Monica we've had a ban on such bags since September 2010. I've never heard any whining from anyone about it. Angelenos will adjust just fine.

And btw, what did people do before single use plastic bags came into use anyway? They managed. If you had garbage to throw out, you dumped it into a cardboard box and tied it up with string. You used paper bags.

My mother uses large paper bags for her kitchen trash. If the bag is still in decent condition, her housekeeper will dump the trash out of the bag into the trash container outside and continue to use the paper bag. If it's torn, wet, stained or stinky, she'll toss the bag and use a new one. That way she can continue to use the same paper bag for a while before she has to throw it out. It's a no-brainer. As I said, people will adjust.

I wish I could tell all the critics of the new ban that their arguments don't work and to STFU already.

It's official. http://venice.patch.com/groups/poli...cil-expected-to-pass-plastic-bag-ban_de62706b

The arguments put forth by the opponents are BS. Factories making single use plastic bags can easily switch to making reusable bags. And maybe reusable bags carry germs, but so do single use bags. But at least with reusable bags, owners of reusable bags have a bigger commitment to keeping their bags clean, so they're more likely to clean them out with Lysol or something.

 

[Amy SF]

Voting Rights Act Section 4 Struck Down by SCOTUS

I think Roberts and the other justices who voted for this are delusional. They think everything is hunky-dory now and that racism and disenfranchisement no longer exist in the South or anywhere else. What planet are they living on?

 

[das_nut]

My mother uses large paper bags for her kitchen trash. If the bag is still in decent condition, her housekeeper will dump the trash out of the bag into the trash container outside and continue to use the paper bag. If it's torn, wet, stained or stinky, she'll toss the bag and use a new one. That way she can continue to use the same paper bag for a while before she has to throw it out. It's a no-brainer. As I said, people will adjust.

I wonder if paper or plastic really has an effect in a landfill.

From what I hear, paper doesn't really break down in a landfill, so...

 

[Calliegirl]

You can watch the Texas filibuster live on youtube, I think it's only on for about another hour.

 

[Spang]

It should end at midnight. Sen. Wendy Davis was rocking for several hours.

Also, seen on Twitter: "You're so germane, you probably think this filibuster's about you."