Monday, May 13, 2013

FIPID - 05/13/13


Fun Interesting Pertinent Information Dissemination


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Too Big to Jail?




Jon Stewart's 11 Most Epic CNN Rants

Perfect Moment | The Scott Adams the Dilbert creator
I also remember what it took to get to this place. I think of all the days in my youth when I worked on my uncle's dairy farm doing back-breaking labor under the boiling sun. I think of all the mornings I got up before dawn so I could shovel snow or mow lawns to earn money for college. I think of the four jobs I held during college. I think of the three years I worked my day job while going to school at night to get my MBA. I think of the six years I worked full-time at Pacific Bell while creating Dilbert morning, nights, and weekends. I think of the ten years I worked without taking a day off.

Pew Study: Many Muslims Believe In Mixing Mosque And State (Too many facts to post.  Just read it.)

Want to know how to get all ripped and muscular?  This guy gives you lots of details of his plan.  (Use at your own risk.  Check with your doctor before trying this routine.)
20 week Competition Style Cut

The Furtive Tax 
At $70,000 total income, the worker pays almost $20,000 in federal taxes, roughly half in payroll tax and half in income tax. The investor with $70,000 in capital gains pays less than a fifth of that. This is not just an abstract discussion; it means that the 25-year-old trust funder is paying less in tax than his counterpart who fixes computers for a living.

Why it’s time to rein in CEO pay
The United States has become one of the most unequal countries in the world. Just 1 percent of Americans own about 40 percent of our wealth, gaining all of the nation’s income growth from 2009-2011. The income of the average middle class family is lower today, in real dollars, than it was 17 years ago. And 46 million people live in poverty, including about one in five children by some estimates.

Steven Pinker: The surprising decline in violence (video)
Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

Obama and Bush, distinct men with policy overlaps

'Taggants' In Gunpowder Might Have Helped Identify Bombers

You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

Fear of Terror Makes People Stupid
As I’ve repeatedly noted, FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, and the Washington Post have all said that U.S. government officials “were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power”.


BP should take BP's advice

Politics and Business
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The Texas fertilizer plant explosion cannot be forgotten
The plant had 1,350 times the legally allowed amount of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, yet hadn’t informed the Department of Homeland Security of the danger. Likewise, the fertilizer plant did not have sprinklers, shut-off valves, fire alarms or legally required blast walls, all of which could have prevented the catastrophic damage done. And there was little chance that regulators would learn about the problems without the company reporting them: Not only had the Occupational Safety and Health Administration not inspected the plant since 1985 but also, because of underfunding, OSHA can inspect plants like the one in West on average only once every 129 years.

Pentagon requesting $395.9 million to buy Israel more Iron Dome batteries
If the funding is approved, it will add to the $486 million the United States has already provided for Iron Dome missile defense systems protecting Israel.
In the abstract, most Americans want a smaller and less intrusive government. In reality, what Americans really want is a government that spends less money on other people.



I am a Republican. For those who know me that is not a surprise. I live in a red state. I have never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. I can field strip, clean and reassemble a Remington 12-gauge pump blindfolded. And on top of it, I think we should talk about having a single payer national health care plan.

A new report by IPS and Campaign for America's Future shows that America’s top CEOs are pocketing massive taxpayer subsidies at the same time they’re pushing austerity cutbacks in government programs that benefit ordinary citizens.


Science and Technology
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What Boston Showed about Human Nature
It is in these reactions that I see beauty.  In the initial movements of the helpers—the first responders, the blood donators, the countless men and women who rushed in to do anything and everything they could to fix the gaping hole left by those Monday afternoon explosions—I see an extreme example of the human capacity for selflessness.  I see evidence that people tend to intuitively, instinctively, and perhaps automatically reach out to others in times of need.  I see that extreme situations can cause people to transcend us-vs-them thinking, uniting diverse peoples into the “us” of humankind.

NFL draft is less art, more science: A how-to guide

Stunning Video: 3 Years Of The Sun In 3 Minutes

The Myth About Homework
Both books cite studies, surveys, statistics, along with some hair-raising anecdotes, on how a rising tide of dull, useless assignments is oppressing families and making kids hate learning.

World's smallest stop-motion film made with individual atoms (video)


Fun, Interesting, Disturbing and Offbeat
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Mother Teresa Humanitarian Image A 'Myth,' New Study Says
A new study by Canadian academics says Mother Teresa was a product of hype who housed the poor and sick in shoddy conditions, despite her access to a fortune.

From BBQ ribs to pulled pork, which grill to buy?
Meathead has some advice for you.

Michael Pollan wants you to cook
As cooking shows become more popular, we're paradoxically seeing a decrease in home cooking.
Since 1977, it's fallen by half...
"All the money in the food industry is in processing," he says. "It's very hard to make money selling simple ingredients."

Controversy Brews Over Church's Hallucinogenic Tea Ritual
Some reach for fruit and Altoids to kill the bitter taste. A few head to the bathroom to vomit. They settle into their chairs, position pillows and blankets to get comfortable, and then the four-hour ceremony of the Church of the Union of Plants commences with all the excitement of watching a roomful of people fall asleep in front of a TV.

Scholars Find Cannibalism at Jamestown Settlement

Two masked men wearing hoodies and wielding handguns burst into the Pine Eagle Charter School in this tiny rural community on Friday. Students were at home for an in-service day, so the gunmen headed into a meeting room full of teachers and opened fire. Someone figured out in a few seconds that the bullets were not drawing blood because they were blanks and the exercise was a drill, designed to test Pine Eagle's preparation for an assault by "active shooters" who were, in reality, members of the school staff.

Judge Doubles Down On Double Entendres In Strip Club Case

5-year-old Kentucky boy fatally shoots 2-year-old sister with the rifle he got for his birthday

Humans Are Animals: 8-Year-Old vs. Misinformed Substitute Teacher
My friend’s 8-year-old son had an interesting day at school recently. During science class, the teacher—who, it should be noted, was a substitute—asked the third graders to name the habitat of an animal of their choice: the sea for sharks, trees for squirrels, etc. My friend’s son picked a house because, as he explained to the teacher, human beings are animals too. The teacher corrected him. Humans, she said, are not animals. “Yeah, they are,” the boy replied. “No, they’re not,” she told him, as he recalled later in an interview.

Phoenix Mom Who Said She Killed Her Baby Because She "Had Too Many Kids" Belongs to "Church" That's Not Big on Birth Control


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7 year old steals car to escape church


Almost Died


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