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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Photo: Craft Beer Craze Continues With Day of the Dead Beer

If it is mass produced, how can you call it a “craft” beer? Under a million bottles a year and still craft beer?

Drinks Americas, the exclusive United States broker for leading premium authentic Mexican beers currently present in over 34 states, is excited to announce that California distributor, Classic Distributing & Beverage Group, Inc. has added the company’s increasingly popular authentic Mexican Day of the Dead Craft Beer to its offering.

via Photo: Craft Beer Craze Continues With Day of the Dead Beer.

Pimping for Coal and Air to Poison Us All – A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the regulation of emissions of carbon dioxide from new or existing power plants under certain circumstances. (S. 2414) – GovTrack.us

Super Mitch – the fool – McConnell – S. 2414: A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the regulation of emissions of carbon dioxide from new or existing power plants

via A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the regulation of emissions of carbon dioxide from new or existing power plants under certain circumstances. (S. 2414) – GovTrack.us.

Avian Flu Diary: CDC Updated Travel Advice For Umrah & Hajj

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak is ongoing in the Arabian Peninsula. CDC has issued a MERS travel alert with health recommendations to reduce your risk of infection.

The World Health Organization has made the following recommendations:

High-risk travelers (for example, people who have weakened immune systems or who have diabetes, chronic lung disease, or kidney failure) should review their risk with a doctor and consider whether the pilgrimage is advisable.

People who develop respiratory illness while they are at Hajj should isolate themselves or, if isolation is not possible, wear a surgical mask around people.

Travelers should avoid contact with camels, not visit farms, and not consume raw camel milk or urine or undercooked meat.

In addition, for the 2014 Pilgrimage, the Saudi Ministry of Health recommends that the following groups postpone travel:

People older than 65 years

Children younger than 12 years

Pregnant women

People with chronic diseases (such as heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, or respiratory disease)

People with weakened immune systems or who take drugs that suppress the immune system

People with cancer or terminal illness

via Avian Flu Diary: CDC Updated Travel Advice For Umrah & Hajj.

Photos: Cyclist Hit By Cab Driver In Hell’s Kitchen: Gothamist

Here is today’s disturbing reminder to always be very, very careful when riding your bike, driving your car, or walking your legs, particularly in Midtown. A cyclist was hit by the driver of a cab on 57th Street and 9th Avenue around 4 p.m. yesterday, sending him to the hospital.

According to FDNY, the victim was taken to New York Hospital in stable condition. Officials were unable to provide additional details on the events that led to the crash, but the cab’s smashed windshield suggests the cyclist was hit with enough force to have been flung onto the hood of the vehicle. The driver remained on the scene.

via Photos: Cyclist Hit By Cab Driver In Hell’s Kitchen: Gothamist.

John McCain Position Switch On Bergdahl Deal-Is He The Most Disingenuous Member Of Senate Or Simply Unfit To Serve?

While McCain notes that he objected to an earlier proposal that would have called for releasing the very same high value terrorists as an act of “confidence building” with the Taliban, he clearly states that he would support the release of these people if the prize were to be the American soldier being held by the Taliban. He later modifies his response to say that if the exchange were for one of these terrorists—whom he told us just this past Sunday were people responsible for the deaths of thousands—he would support the deal.

Does anyone out there believe that the critics would have been silenced if the exchange had only involved one terrorist…or two…or three? If you believe that our policy of not negotiating with terrorists is the correct policy, does negotiating for the release of one high ranking terrorist make it better? Yet, there is Mr. McCain voicing his support for a deal that , just three months later, he would go on TV to condemn.

I don’t think anything more need be said except that we should all be embarrassed and deeply concerned that this man continues to hold such an important position in our government.

via John McCain Position Switch On Bergdahl Deal-Is He The Most Disingenuous Member Of Senate Or Simply Unfit To Serve?.

12 Haters Running this Fall – Electoral Extremism | Southern Poverty Law Center

The typically baseless claims of these candidates range from demonizing propaganda about certain minority groups to the promotion of fantastic conspiracy theories about the federal government’s allegedly evil machinations. What follows are snapshots of a dozen such candidates, including Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, independents and others who are running for political office this fall or who ran earlier in the year.

via Electoral Extremism | Southern Poverty Law Center.

Growing Up To Be Like Yuri Kochiyama | Race Files

She may be best known in the public eye for the iconic picture that shows her cradling Malcolm X’s head in her lap after he was killed in a Manhattan auditorium, but Yuri Kochiyama’s life and legacy stood for much more, especially to Asian Americans. Many of us learned of Yuri Kochiyama’s recent death, not from mainstream news outlets, which have yet to do her legacy full justice, but from one another. And we have had very similar collective responses: tremendous gratitude for how she influenced us, coupled with a redoubling of our commitment to the principles she lived by.

via Growing Up To Be Like Yuri Kochiyama | Race Files.