Oklahoma!

Bob Davis, one half of Minnesota radio duo Davis & Emmer In The Morning, finally said what many gun nuts have probably been thinking for months when he told his audience that “I have something I want to say to the victims of Newtown, or any other shooting,” namely that the gun reforms they’ve been lobbying for “force me to lose my liberty, which is a greater tragedy than your loss.”

He went on to say that he was “sick and tired of seeing these victims trotted out,” and that “I would stand in front of them and tell them, ‘go to hell.’”

“Just because a bad thing happened to you doesn’t mean that you get to put a king in charge of my life,” Davis said. “I’m sorry that you suffered a tragedy, but you know what? Deal with it, and don’t force me to lose my liberty, which is a greater tragedy than your loss.”

Tom Emmer, Davis’ broadcast partner and a former Republican state representative, was slightly more restrained, opining, of the Newtown families, that “they’re being used,” and that “It’s probably one of the worst, ah, political stunts you could do is to use the victims of the tragedy.”

Except, apparently, as punching bags:

WestJet eases restrictions on pets in the cabin with “furry family” program

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The Easter Bunny is HORRIFYING

These photos will hop into your nightmares…

You must click through and look at these pics. I never reblog something and tell you to click through, so this is worth it.TRUST ME. (said the creepy Easter Bunny)

I’ve always been a firm believer that doing the Santa Claus pic, but with the Easter Bunny, was a horrible idea whoever came up with it. Is the Easter Bunny every represented as human-sized? No! It’s not natural! There’s no way to make a non-creepy looking human-sized Easter Bunny costume!

This will haunt me in my dreams for the rest of my days…

sad bunnies. very very sad bunnies.

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Here are some interesting facts about him, though:

He basically saved public television. In 1969 the government wanted to cut public television funds. Mister Rogers then went to Washington where he gave an amazing merely six minute speech. By the end of the speech not only did he charm the hostile Senators, he got them to double the budget they would have initially cut down. The whole thing can be found on youtube, a video called “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate.”

“Certain fundamentalist preachers hated him because, apparently not getting the “kindest man who ever lived” memo, they would ask him to denounce homosexuals. Mr. Rogers’s response? He’d pat the target on the shoulder and say, “God loves you just as you are.” Rogers even belonged to a “More Light” congregation in Pittsburgh, a part of the Presbyterian Church dedicated to welcoming LGBT persons to full participation in the church.”

According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”

Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec’s house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver’s home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life—the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night. Further, like with the reporters, Rogers sent him notes and kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.

I really didnt need more reasons to love Mr Rodgers but now I have them.

BA Mr. Rogers

These are all amazing facts about an amazing person, but mostly I’m reblogging it for the gif of him doing the dual bird flip.

The world desperately needs another Fred Rogers.

(Source: junglelauren)

↵ Originally from junglelauren

↵ Reblogged from kipperny

Test Tube Meat: TIME Explains

Meat grown in labs without the use of animals or factory farming could become a reality in the future. TIME writer Bryan Walsh explains

…I grow an appreciation for vegetarians with each passing day. :\

The Chemistry of Kibble

The billion-dollar, cutting-edge science of convincing dogs and cats to eat what’s in front of them.

By Mary Roach

Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that’s what humans like, and we assume pets like what we like. We’re wrong.

“Despite the cryptic name and anonymous office-park architecture, the nature of the enterprise located at AFB International is clear the moment you sit down for a meeting. The conference room smells like kibble. One wall, entirely glass, looks onto a small-scale kibble-extrusion plant where men and women in lab coats and blue sanitary shoe covers tootle here and there pushing metal carts. AFB makes flavor coatings for dry pet foods. To test the coatings, the company needs to make small batches of plain kibble to put them on. The coated kibbles are then served to consumers: Spanky, Thomas, Skipper, Porkchop, Mohammid, Elvis, Sandi, Bela, Yankee, Fergie, Murphy, Limburger, and some 300 other dogs and cats that reside at the company’s Palatability Assessment Resource Center (PARC), about an hour’s drive from its St. Louis–area headquarters.

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Oklahoma!

Pro-Gun Radio Host Tells Newtown Victims’ Families ‘Go To Hell!’

WestJet eases restrictions on pets in the cabin with “furry family” program

Test Tube Meat: TIME Explains

The Chemistry of Kibble