RyanAir has done it again. RyanAir will institute a new policy in January 2011. RyanAir has been looking for ways to cut back or charge more. Almost every airline is now charging for baggage and blankets and pillows. RyanAir is having real issues with weight. So they have made all of their planes lighter. With the public outrage that came with their plan to charge passengers to use the restrooms onboard, they have tried more legal approaches. Other airlines are heavily encouraging passengers to use the airport’s restrooms before boarding which they say can save over 500,000 gallons of fuel a month. RyanAir figured their charging for restrooms would help this also.
RyanAir will now start a new policy directed at those passengers who bring on extra weight. A few months ago they ran an idea past their legal team to charge passengers extra for every 20 kilograms over 100 kilograms that they weigh. While the legal team said this would just land them in hot water, they came up with a new idea. Charging pregnant women extra. RyanAir’s justification is that pregnant women add an on average 20 kilograms per person. They continue to tell in their press release, “If other airlines are allowed to charge for lap children, why can’t we charge for a fetus?”
RyanAir has been a pronounced anti-abortionist company and believe that life begins at conception. They feel that a fetus is as much a living being as a lap child, and so that’s another person on our flight. Now, with some disputes they had in 2004 about their anti-abortionist views they will not be charging women in their first trimester extra. However women in their second trimester will have to pay an extra five pounds. Women in their third trimester will have to pay an extra ten pounds.
Dr Laura Schlessinger, a nationally-syndicated US radio host, told a black woman with a white husband: “don’t marry out of your race” – and repeatedly used the word “nigger” on air even after her caller objected.
A women, named Jade, had called Schlessinger’s popular advice show to discuss the racism she endures from her husband’s friends. When Schlessinger, a well-known conservative commentator, dismissed the examples she offered, Jade said the friends used what the American media refers to as “the N-word”.
Schlessinger replied: “Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO and listen to a black comic, and all you hear is nigger, nigger, nigger. I don’t get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it’s a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it’s affectionate. It’s very confusing.”
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When Jade said she was appalled by Schlessinger’s language, the agony aunt’s responses got increasingly heated, telling Jade: “We’ve got a black man as president, and we have more complaining about racism than ever. I mean, I think that’s hilarious.”
Here’s an extract of what followed from the show’s transcript:
Jade: Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?
Schlessinger: It depends how it’s said. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it’s OK.
Jade: But you’re not black, they’re not black, my husband is white.
Schlessinger: Oh, I see, so a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can’t do much about that.
Jade: I can’t believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the N-word, and I hope everybody heard it.
Schlessinger: I didn’t spew out the N-word!
Jade: You said “nigger, nigger, nigger,” and I hope everybody heard it.
Schlessinger: Yes they did, and I’ll say it again: nigger, nigger, nigger is what you hear on HBO.
The talk show host – the author of Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives, and How Could You Do That? – concluded by telling the caller: “If you’re that hypersensitive about colour and don’t have a sense of humour, don’t marry out of your race.”
Schlessinger’s show is heard by an estimated nine million listeners each week, with her website claiming that she is “one of the most popular talk show hosts in radio history”.
After a wave of outrage in reaction to her comments on Tuesday’s show, Schlessinger apologised the following day, saying: “I was attempting to make a philosophical point, and I articulated the N-word all the way out, more than one time. And that was wrong. I’ll say it again, that was wrong.”
She also apologised to Jade, adding: “I hope Jade or somebody who knows her is listening, and hope she will call me back and I will try my best to be helpful, which is what she wanted from me in the first place – and what she did not get.”
So this summer Deetfin went to the Orange County Fair again. Basically our only priority was to try a whole bunch of fried foods. So we tried all the main new stuff and our classic favorites like the snickers, oreos, and krispey kreme chicken sandwich. The new stuff we tried were the Deep Fried Butter, Klondike Bar and the Zucchini Weenie. Watch the video to see what we thought!
History of the Deep Fried Twinkie
A deep-fried Twinkie involves freezing the cake, dipping it into batter, and deep frying it to create a variation on the traditional snack cake. It was described by a The New York Times story in this way: “Something magical occurs when the pastry hits the hot oil. The creamy white vegetable shortening filling liquefies, impregnating the sponge cake with its luscious vanilla flavor… The cake itself softens and warms, nearly melting, contrasting with the crisp, deep-fried crust in a buttery and suave way. The piece de resistance, however, is a ruby-hued berry sauce, adding a tart sophistication to all that airy sugary goodness”. The Texas State Fair had introduced the fried Twinkie to great popular acclaim, and the notion spread to other state fairs across the U.S., as well as some establishments that specialize in fried foods. Fried Twinkies are sold throughout the U.S. in fairs, as well as ball games.
hey everyone, so we think you should all join this group on Facebook and sign this petition as well!
Since the dawn of man, differences in race, religion, and sex have brought violent turbulence into societies and have started civil movements, and even barbaric wars. Throughout time, countless people have suffered due to the discrimination of certain groups, such as the Jews, African Americans, Native Americans, etc. Continuing into today, discrimination has us by our throats. The most prominent and most current group of people being discriminated against is the Gingers: people with red hair, pale skin and freckles. If we do not act now to end the violence that plagues our lives, civil society as we know it will undoubtedly crumble from beneath our feet.
Hatred for Gingers has always begun as early as preschool with name calling, like carrot top or freckle face, and has continued through adulthood. After the popular T.V. show South Park aired its episode entitled “Ginger Kids,” Gingers are now believed to be infected by the disease known as Gingervitis: “The horrible disease that infects every single red haired person. Symptoms include: Red hair, freckles, the lack of one’s soul, and the feeling that you just don’t belong in society” (urbandictionary.com). Since the airing of this episode, groups on Facebook have started the “National Kick a Ginger Day.” This has resulted in a group of adolescent children bringing shame to their families and their community by getting themselves kicked out of their intermediate school for beating up a few kids infected by Gingervitis. This being only one example of the aftermath that discrimination causes, we cannot wait any longer to take action. Like the Romans did with the Lepers, we must now do with the Gingers and cast them out of society.
The first step to my plan is finding canyons or deep caves in which all the Gingers of the world can be displaced and never be seen again. Creating man-made canyons or shelters for the Gingers would be much too expensive and labor costly, which would then result in even greater contempt for Gingers. After the Gingers are placed into the caves and/or canyons, they will be left on their own, to never hear from industrialized society again, or to be bothered again. They will live in peace amongst themselves and through time create their own societies, as long as they do not interact with our above ground societies, of course. Assuming that my plan being put into action is executed with unanimous and peaceful cooperation, the outcome of such a plan as this can be nothing short of Nobel Prize worthy.
The most logical course of action for eliminating any future violence and suffering created by discrimination is to remove the groups being discriminated against from society. By removing groups which the majority has deemed inferior, we do away with any incentive for people to cause uprisings or even physical harm to those being discriminated against. Mankind has had, since the beginning of time, the instinct to dislike anything that is “different”. But if we take away those “different” factors, we can bring peace and love to the world. Gingers and other inferior groups should be grateful for being removed from any society that seeks to harm them. Perhaps one day as well, we shall all forget about those groups that were cast out and begin living a pure and peaceful life. As the bible says, “ignorance is bliss.”
Life is not worth continuing if polluted by the violence of discrimination. Any who feel this solution may be too extreme or may even act as fuel to the fire this issue raises should remember that back during WWII there was not a single attack on U.S. soil after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This was possible due to the U.S. government’s action of placing all Japanese Americans in internment camps, away from society. This proves great potential for my plan. In all fairness, I find it necessary to inform you, the reader, that I myself am suffering from Gingervitis. Why then, you may ask, am I writing this essay which proposes that Gingers, like me, be cast out from society, never to be seen or heard from again? Well, if you have been paying any attention to what you have just read, the answer is simple: I have no soul. Therefore, I do not feel sympathy for the Gingers. What do I care what happens to my people? That is up to you, the people with souls, to decide.
Alright, so the Library of Congress has now decided that it will be archiving all of the tweets. They worked out a deal with Twitter. Basically any tweet that is sent, will be archived into the Library of Congress’ files. It will all be digital, and it will only be public tweets.
The tweets will be archived after 6 months the tweet will be stored digitally. They have not released the details of the agreement yet, but from what we have understood is that it is “just” going to be for high class researchers, and they will need special permission. But we know that stuff that is supposed to stay private in government does not always.
This means that someone fifty years from now can pull up a tweet you sent when you were stupid and 16. This can be bad for public figures who do not associate themselves with their younger self. We all do stupid things, and usually we don’t want a record of that. Plenty of people tweet what they did last night, and we don’t want our future generations to know the gory details.
The amendment I propose, that Twitter does not save personal information. They can save public people’s names like Ashton Kutcher or Barack Obama. For research purposes a certain level of information will need to be saved. I propose that they are allowed to save age, sex, and location. The basics needs for research. If you agree with these basic privacy restrictions, sign this petition.
We have all already made millions of tweets that we didn’t think were going to be stored, and we all hope to continue to do that.
Spread the word to your friends about this petition!
Here’s the Library of Congress’ post on their website
Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress.
That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions.
We thought it fitting to give the initial heads-up to the Twitter community itself via our own feed @librarycongress. (By the way, out of sheer coincidence, the announcement comes on the same day our own number of feed-followers has surpassed 50,000. I love serendipity!)
We will also be putting out a press release later with even more details and quotes. Expect to see an emphasis on the scholarly and research implications of the acquisition. I’m no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data. And I’m certain we’ll learn things that none of us now can even possibly conceive.
Just a few examples of important tweets in the past few years include the first-ever tweet from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (http://twitter.com/jack/status/20), President Obama’s tweet about winning the 2008 election (http://twitter.com/barackobama/status/992176676), and a set of two tweets from a photojournalist who was arrested in Egypt and then freed because of a series of events set into motion by his use of Twitter (http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/status/786571964) and (http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/status/787167620).
Twitter plans to make its own announcement today on its blog from “Chirp,” the Official Twitter Developer Conference, in San Francisco. (UPDATE: Here’s their post.)
So if you think the Library of Congress is “just books,” think of this: The Library has been collecting materials from the web since it began harvesting congressional and presidential campaign websites in 2000. Today we hold more than 167 terabytes of web-based information, including legal blogs, websites of candidates for national office, and websites of Members of Congress.
We also operate the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program www.digitalpreservation.gov, which is pursuing a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations.
In other words, if you’re looking for a place where important historical and other information in digital form should be preserved for the long haul, we’re it!
News | Nerpy September 9, 2010 | 
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