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In the past few weeks, the tea party faction that has taken over the Republican party has booed an American soldier serving in Iraq simply because he was openly gay, cheered Rick Perry’s execution record, and shouted “let him die” about a hypothetical man who got sick without insurance. Similar hate-filled incidents go further back and are more than plentiful. Frankly, as a fellow human, I find this type of behavior repulsive and I am ashamed to share my planet with people who have such hate and disregard for others.
I know it's a joke, but lately it seems all too relevant.
It is time for reasonable Americans on both sides of the aisle to stand up to this small yet offensively loud minority of extreme right-wing nut-jobs and call them what they are: A 21st century hate group, akin to the early and mid 20th century’s KKK. So far they’ve preferred to use speech over violence to spread their message, but let’s face it, it’s just a matter of time before one of them snaps or a group of crazies split off to form a tea party militia.
Here’s the text for anyone who want to copy/paste this across the social networks, because, frankly, this needs to be spread around:
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for you.
But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that maurauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory…
Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea – God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
-Elizabeth Warren
You might not believe it, but this picture is a real photo, not photoshopped and not some sort of artist’s rendition. This is a photograph of Saturn and its rings with the Sun behind it and was taken by NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft in 2006.
This was featured as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day earlier this week, with the following interesting info about the scientific importance of the picture:
Saturn’s rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the image. Seen in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn’s E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, at the left, just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.
Click to see the full-size version (It would make a fantastic desktop wallpaper).
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