Outrage - trailer (2009) (HD) (HQ) teaser
http://outragethemovie.com/
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Kirby Dick
Screenwriter: Kirby Dick
Starring: Kirby Dick, Barney Frank, Larry Kramer, Michelangelo Signorile, Tammy Baldwin
Genre: Documentary
Land O'Lakes Purina Feed initiated the limited voluntary recall of a single lot of Country Acres poultry feed after a small number of consumer complaints of poultry mortality were reported to the company. The recall is attributed to the potential for higher than acceptable levels of salt, which can cause serious health issues or mortality in poultry.
The lot being recalled is Formula No. 6514, Item No. 0013357, "Country Acres Layer 16 Crumbles," Lot No. (MAR19STJ3. It was manufactured at a St. Joseph, Mo., feed plant and distributed to dealers in a four-state region, including northeastern Oklahoma, eastern and central Kansas, western Arkansas and western Missouri.
Dealers have been asked to pull the product, and purchased feed, available in 50-pound bags only, should be returned to the dealer and not used, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A full refund will be available. Customers can call Land O'Lakes Purina Feed customer service at 1-800-227-8941 for more information.
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Judy Shepard lost her son Matthew to an anti-gay hate crime more than 10 years ago. Since then tens of thousands more Americans have been the victims of hate violence. Tell Congress it's time to act.
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The House Republican chosen to lead the charge against including women, people with disabilities, and gays in America's already-existing hate crimes law - existing law already counts violent crime based on the race, religion or national origin of the victim as a "hate crime" - just referred on the US House floor to Matthew Shepard's murder as "a hoax." Her name is Virginia Foxx, and she's from, of course, North Carolina. At what point will Republicans stop letting their party be lead by bigots and extremists?
Welcome Aboard Senator Specter! With Senator-Elect Al Franken the Democratic Party will have 60 seats in the Senate.
Iraqi leaders are being accused of turning a blind eye to a spate of murders of homosexuals after 25 young men and boys were killed in recent weeks.
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Good thing Texas is still a state, eh Rick?
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today in a precautionary measure requested the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provide 37,430 courses of antiviral medications from the Strategic National Stockpile to Texas to prevent the spread of swine flu. Currently, three cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Texas.
“As a precautionary measure, I have requested that medication be on hand in Texas to help curb the spread of swine flu by helping those with both confirmed and suspected cases of this swine flu virus, as well as healthcare providers who may have come in contact with these patients,” said Gov. Rick Perry. “We will continue to work with our local, state and federal health officials to ensure public safety is protected.”
"It won't surprise you that I don't consider him (former Vice-President Dick Cheney) a
particularly reliable source,"
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
The House of
Representatives foreign affairs committee
April 22, 2009
Attorney general not happy with natural gas bill
April 20, 2009 11:35 EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee attorney general says natural gas companies' proposed overhaul of the rate regulatory process is a bad deal despite legislative changes.
Attorney General Bob Cooper wrote in a letter to Tennessee Regulatory Chairman Eddie Roberson that the gas companies' proposed annual rate review "continues to pose a serious threat to consumers' pocketbooks."
The bill creates a process whereby natural gas companies can seek up to a 4 percent rate increase annually...
Measure to relax rules on selenium pushed by coal industry
By Tom Humphrey
Monday, April 20, 2009
NASHVILLE - Politics, pollution, science and a lawsuit are all entangled in a complex and increasingly heated legislative debate over how much of a naturally occurring mineral can be freed to flow into Tennessee streams.
Proponents such as the sponsor, House Conservation and Environment Committee Chairman Joe McCord, say the bill simply applies the latest in scientific research to state water quality standards.
Critics such as Rep. Mike McDonald, who has been mentioned as a potential appointee to the TVA Board of Directors, say the move is an unprecedented attempt to let the coal industry, through the Legislature, dictate to the Department of Environment and Conservation professionals how much pollution it can produce.
The mineral, selenium, is essential to human health in small amounts. Chuck Laine, lobbyist for the Tennessee Mining Association, says he takes it as a supplement and that "it makes me feel better."
But it is toxic to humans in high amounts and can kill aquatic life in smaller amounts that would be harmless to people.
The bill - SB1331 - is pushed by the coal industry and staunchly opposed by environmentalists. It would relax state standards for release of selenium - typically through coal-mining operations - into Tennessee waters.
Selenium also is found in the coal ash released into the Emory River at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant in December, though those involved in the legislative debate say the bill would have no direct impact on that situation.
The Sierra Club, Save Our Cumberland Mountains and the Tennessee Clean Water Network filed a U.S. District Court lawsuit last October against Knoxville-based National Coal Corp. contending the company has been releasing selenium into streams around its Zeb Mountain operations in Campbell and Scott counties in amounts that exceed the current state standard.
Mary Mastin, Sierra Club attorney, said passage of the bill would "muddy the waters" in the lawsuit, though not directly impact the legal action because it is based on releases that have already occurred. Laine said the bill is "irrelevant" to the lawsuit.
The bill would adopt as Tennessee's selenium standard the levels proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2004.
The current state standard dates to 1987, a time when Laine says states were not even measuring selenium when checking for pollution...
F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases
Law enforcement officials are vastly expanding their collection of DNA to include millions more people who have been arrested or detained but not yet convicted. The move, intended to help solve more crimes, is raising concerns about the privacy of petty offenders and people who are presumed innocent.
Until now, the federal government genetically tracked only convicts. But starting this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will join 15 states that collect DNA samples from those awaiting trial and will collect DNA from detained immigrants — the vanguard of a growing class of genetic registrants.
The F.B.I., with a DNA database of 6.7 million profiles, expects to accelerate its growth rate from 80,000 new entries a year to 1.2 million by 2012 — a 17-fold increase. F.B.I. officials say they expect DNA processing backlogs — which now stand at more than 500,000 cases — to increase...
By SOLOMON MOORE
Published: April 18, 2009
