Is access to clean water a basic human right? | csmonitor.com:
"The United States – along with Canada, China, and several other nations – has so far refused to recognize the human right to water."
Alright Obie, it's time to step up the plate and do what's right.
But on the other hand do we really need a government "giving" us the right to water, or air, or food? Fuck what the government says. You and I know what basic rights are and we don't need big brother telling us what they are.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Obama Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty a 'National Security' Secret | Threat Level from Wired.com
Obama Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty a 'National Security' Secret | Threat Level from Wired.com: "Obama Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty a 'National Security' Secret"
I hate to tell you I told you so... but I did. There is no real difference between the "parties", everyone that is part of the real PARTY gets the cake and punch. The rest of us get to clean up the mess.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Rajinder's Remarkable Rasoi :: Lessons from My Mother's Village Kitchen
Rajinder's Remarkable Rasoi :: Lessons from My Mother's Village Kitchen:
Danny Heitman says it well:
"Not since the launch of Sputnik has U.S. education seemed so ripe for reform." Ripeness of reform for the rasa of teaching and learning, living and eating is here. The time has come to regenerate the classical concept of "school" rooted in the Latin schole, or leisure. The tragedy of the loss of leisure from schooling because of industrial fast food (and more) can finally be put aside, the cruel, sickening, hard lessons of the twentieth century having been learned.
It is the most realizable dream of the twenty-first century: the dream of Slow Food education. Instead of McDonald's or Burger King announcing the nine-billionth burger sold, we are building a world where schools and colleges announce the 250 millionth American savoring the nourishing Slow Food grown by local CSA farmers."
Danny Heitman says it well:
"Not since the launch of Sputnik has U.S. education seemed so ripe for reform." Ripeness of reform for the rasa of teaching and learning, living and eating is here. The time has come to regenerate the classical concept of "school" rooted in the Latin schole, or leisure. The tragedy of the loss of leisure from schooling because of industrial fast food (and more) can finally be put aside, the cruel, sickening, hard lessons of the twentieth century having been learned.
It is the most realizable dream of the twenty-first century: the dream of Slow Food education. Instead of McDonald's or Burger King announcing the nine-billionth burger sold, we are building a world where schools and colleges announce the 250 millionth American savoring the nourishing Slow Food grown by local CSA farmers."
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Andy Sernovitz: Where Are the Credit Unions?
Andy Sernovitz: Where Are the Credit Unions?: "Did you know this?
1. Voluntary Membership Credit unions are voluntary, cooperative organizations, offering services to people willing to accept the responsibilities and benefits of membership, without gender, social, racial, political or religious discrimination.
2. Democratic Member Control
Cooperatives are democratic organizations owned and controlled by their members, one member one vote, with equal opportunity for participation in setting policies and making decisions.
3. Members' Economic Participation
Members are the owners. As such they contribute to, and democratically control, the capital of the cooperative. This benefits members in proportion to the transactions with the cooperative rather than on the capital invested.
4. Autonomy and Independence
Cooperatives are autonomous, self-help organizations controlled by their members. If the cooperative enters into agreements with other organizations or raises capital from external sources, it is done so based on terms that ensure democratic control by the member and maintains the cooperative autonomy."
1. Voluntary Membership Credit unions are voluntary, cooperative organizations, offering services to people willing to accept the responsibilities and benefits of membership, without gender, social, racial, political or religious discrimination.
2. Democratic Member Control
Cooperatives are democratic organizations owned and controlled by their members, one member one vote, with equal opportunity for participation in setting policies and making decisions.
3. Members' Economic Participation
Members are the owners. As such they contribute to, and democratically control, the capital of the cooperative. This benefits members in proportion to the transactions with the cooperative rather than on the capital invested.
4. Autonomy and Independence
Cooperatives are autonomous, self-help organizations controlled by their members. If the cooperative enters into agreements with other organizations or raises capital from external sources, it is done so based on terms that ensure democratic control by the member and maintains the cooperative autonomy."
Professor Smartass: If teachers got merit pay like Wall Street...
Professor Smartass: If teachers got merit pay like Wall Street...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
If teachers got merit pay like Wall Street...
if the same standard were used for giving out ''merit pay'' to teachers as Washington just did for Wall Street, then the teachers would have to make a third of their class stupider, kill a third, and not be able to account for the whereabouts of the last third. And they'd get millions of dollars in "merit pay" for doing it.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
If teachers got merit pay like Wall Street...
if the same standard were used for giving out ''merit pay'' to teachers as Washington just did for Wall Street, then the teachers would have to make a third of their class stupider, kill a third, and not be able to account for the whereabouts of the last third. And they'd get millions of dollars in "merit pay" for doing it.
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