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Monthly Archives: June 2016
CANNABIS: “Being Stoned May Save You From Alzheimer’s?” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartman☮
For people dealing facing serious memory loss – people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease – marijuana may be just what the doctor ordered.
CATHOLIC BIGOTRY: “Catholic League President Compares Gay Marriage to Orlando Terrorist” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
Catholic League President Bill Donohue, who has been a crusader against LGBT rights, insisted on Tuesday that Pope Francis’ call for Christians to apologize to gay people did not apply to him.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — June 30, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
SCIENCE – ASTRONOMY: “NASA Spacecraft to Start Orbiting Jupiter, and Collecting Information” / RT America / Manuel Rapal ☮
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with the solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter. After five years of travelling in deep space, the craft will soon orbit the planet. RT America’s Manuel Rapalo breaks down some of the most fascinating science at play in the mission.
SOCIALISM: “Seventy-Five Ways Socialism has Improved America” ☮
Socialism is one of the most controversial word used in United States’ politics today. Inspired by the blog post by Daily Kos user, the TheNewDeal00, here are 75 ways socialism has improved America.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: “California City Council Will No Longer Consider Giving $2.5 Million Grant to Catholic High School” / Friendly Atheist / Hemant Mehta☮
If that sounds like a complete violation of church/state separation, you’d be correct. Mater Dei High School can pay for its own renovations; the taxpayers shouldn’t be funding them.
And that’s what the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Legal Fellow Ryan Jayne said in a letter to the Council a couple of weeks ago.
We are writing to object to the proposed grant to Mater Dei because distributing public money to a private religious school violates both the Federal Constitution and the California state constitution.
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from supporting religious activities with public funds… The city of Santa Ana violates this principle when it funds the expansion of a private parochial school.
The letter worked. The City Council informed Jayne recently that the agenda item to give the money to the Catholic school has been removed from consideration.
FFRF is elated at the city’s about-face.
“We were dismayed that Santa Ana was possibly going to channel millions of taxpayer dollars to a sectarian religious entity,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “We’re glad that it saw the light.”
That’s $2.5 million that the city can now use for public institutions, just as it should be.
h/t: Friendly Atheist
BRITISH POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Don’t Despair After Brexit – Time to Fight for Hope” / Owen Jones ☮
Britain has voted to leave the European Union by a narrow majority. Sadly, many of the things I warned about in my last video have already happened: David Cameron has resigned, the rightwing of the Tory party is poised to take over, there’s a coup attempt against Jeremy Corbyn underway, the SNP look likely to trigger a second referendum on Scottish independence, , the pound has tanked and the economy has slumped and there’s been a spike in racist incidents. We have to respect the democratic process and accept the result but we must fight against the most severe consequences of the Brexit result. Now is not the time to mourn, now is the time to organise.
DEEP-SEATED CATHOLIC BIGOTRY: “Bill Donohue Refuses to Apologize to LGBT People” ☮
CANNABIS: “California Approves Recreational Marijuana Ballot Measure” ☮
Californians are set to decide whether to make recreational marijuana use legal, as other Western states have done, after the California Secretary of State’s office said on Tuesday the issue could be put to voters in the November ballot.
The proposed so-called “Adult Use of Marijuana Act,” which is supported by Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom among others, would allow people aged 21 and older to possess as much as an ounce of marijuana for private recreational use and permit personal cultivation of as many as six marijuana plants.
“Today marks a fresh start for California, as we prepare to replace the costly, harmful and ineffective system of prohibition with a safe, legal and responsible adult-use marijuana system that gets it right and completely pays for itself,” initiative spokesman Jason Kinney said in a statement.
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