- 2.1 the magnitude of the explosion in West, Texas on the Richter scale. People living more than 30 miles away felt the “quake”—which was rooted in an explosion at a fertilizer plant. About half the town was evacuated—a level much higher than early reports suggested.
- 100 the number of people injured by the blast; 50-75 buildings were destroyed by the freak incident. source
What in the HELL!?!!?
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and lawmakers agreed on Monday to a broad package of changes to gun laws that would expand the state’s ban on assault weapons and would include new measures to keep guns away from the mentally ill.
The state Senate, controlled by a coalition of Republicans and a handful of Democrats, approved the legislative package around 11 p.m. by a vote of 43 to 18. The Assembly, controlled by Democrats, has been strongly supportive of gun control. It planned to vote on the measure on Tuesday.
Approval of the legislation would make New York the first state to act in response to the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last month.
Mr. Cuomo had pressed lawmakers to act quickly in response to Newtown, saying, “the people of this state are crying out for help.” And the Legislature acted with unusual haste: Monday was the first full day of this year’s legislative session.“We don’t need another tragedy to point out the problems in the system,” Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said at a news conference just before 9 p.m. “Enough people have lost their lives,” he added. “Let’s act.”
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The New York Times, “New York Has Gun Deal, With Focus on Mental Ills.”
Follow suit, America.
(via inothernews)
So how do they plan on keeping the guns away from domestic terrorists and sociopaths and racist people?
I’m just saying.
“I can’t think of a better advertisement for gun control than Alex Jones’ interview (Monday) night. It was startling, it was terrifying in parts, it was completely deluded. It was based on a premise of making Americans so fearful that they all rush out to buy even more guns … the kind of twisted way that he turned everything into this assault on the Second Amendment is exactly what the gun rights lobby people do.”
Here’s looking at you, NRA.
(via The Huffington Post)
This dude is nuttier than a pay day.
(Photos by Chris Nesius / Reuters [top] and Chris Angulo via the New York Daily News)
Megan Ganz Leaves Community, NBC Hopeful for 5th Season
While writer Megan Ganz leaves NBC’s Community for ABC’s Modern Family, NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt says he is “hopeful” for a fifth season.
SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE!!!!!!
The article is here: Big deal: You can be fat and fit, by Marilyn Wann.
And look, This is Thin Privilege gets a shoutout!
People are telling their stories of weight bias in medical care on websites like First, Do No Harm, This Is Thin Privilege and Obesity Surgery Gone Wrong. The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance has been speaking out on behalf of fat people’s civil rights since its founding in 1969.
The article is good, but please, for the love of whatever, don’t read the comments. It’s a troll field-day.
-artetolife
(made rebloggable by request)
#whitepeople
(Hashtag stolen from Spike of Templar, AZ fame)RACISM IS OVERR
Wow, this is some awful shit. And apparently these people also did a loving tribute to Al Jolson complete with “My Mammy”? What is their deal
This was during the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia on New Years Day.
I’m close enough to collect my folk. Tell me where they live and I’ll go he gather them up.
The folks from the Fox affiliate, Fox 29 in Philadelphia, casually reading their scripts, blissfully unaware of the racism unfolding before them.
Or maybe they just didn’t give a shit.
The New York Times explains how in the Hell you can buy a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle in Connecticut — the same gun used to kill 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
What would be the purpose of EVER needing this?!
This is an ad from Maxim magazine for the rifle used in the Newtown massacre.
Oh.
“Winter stars trail over the Xarez Cromlech, in Monsaraz, Portugal. The location is a part of a Dark Sky Reserve area covering 3000sq km in southern Portugal. The Alqueva Dark Sky reserve is the first area in the world to be internationally certified as a Starlight Tourism Destination by the Starlight Foundation, supported by UNESCO, the World Tourism Organization, and the IAC.” — Miguel Claro
