For Earth Day 2015, which is Saturday, it's encouraging to know
that solar panels are popping up on all kinds of buildings.
Here are some excerpts from the May edition of
Harper's Index:
• Minimum number of times in 2014 that Rikers Island correction officers broke the bones of an inmate: 98
• Percentage of last meals requested by male death-row prisoners that include salad or vegetables: 11
• Of those requested by female death-row prisoners: 62
• Percentage of deaths in the developing world caused by chronic diseases: 64
• Percentage of all medical development aid allocated to fighting chronic diseases: 1
• Percentage of U.S. death certificates in which the stated cause of death is overly general or medically impossible: 22
• Average household savings of Americans aged 65 to 69 living with a spouse: $111,600
• Living alone: $12,500
• Estimated portion of ivory sold in Los Angeles that is illegal under California law: 9/10
• Minimum number of animals that USDA Wildlife Services has killed by mistake since 2000: 61,381
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2008—Taking Action on Torture:
ABC broke ground last week with its reports on how the top offiicals in Bush's cabinet choreographed torture, and Bush's direct involvement in approving those acts of torture. The rest of the traditional media reacted as you'd expect, they essentially ignored the story.
That's where the bloggers come in. Crooks & Liars, dday and others are mobilizing us to contact ABC and ask them to reinforce their important story by asking Charlie Gibson to bring it up in tonight's debate. This puts the issue front and center before America and the traditional media, where it can't be ignored.
You can contact them here and demand that they follow up their reporting on torture by pushing it into the Presidential race. Contacting World News Tonight with moderator Charlie Gibson and ABC News Programming Specials would probably be the most helpful. |
It's critical that this story get more public attention, and the traditional media be shamed into talking about it. But it's also just as important that Congress hears from us, too. The ACLU and Crooks & Liars have teamed up in an action alert to demand an independent prosecutor to investigate possible violations by the Bush administration of laws including the War Crimes Act, the federal Anti-Torture Act, and federal assault laws.
Tweet of the Day
How can you get pulled over in this country for a broken taillight, but if you wreck the world’s economy you are untouchable? #EconForAll
— @GovernorOMalley
On
today's "classic" Kagro in the Morning show, it's the 4/16/14 show. Turns out, it's an early peek at the emergence of a variety of conservative nullification theories! First, the Bundy madness.
Joan McCarter, a Westerner herself, reminds us Bundy's likely got few allies among his rancher neighbors. She rounds up ACA news, the judicial nominations crisis, Mitt's trip to the Post Office, and nullification theory number two: the Kochs' weird intervention to a local Memphis bus line.
Armando weighs in from the road on continued Chait fallout. Finally, nullification number three: a student catches school bullies on tape, and ends up arrested for wiretapping! (Think videotaping the cops.)
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