This needs reblogging:

This is something I saw at The Daily What that needed to be passed forward:

Sweet Support of the Day: The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators just received an encouraging nod from two of their highest profile supporters to date: Ben & Jerry.

“We, the Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors, compelled by our personal convictions and our Company’s mission and values, wish to express our deepest admiration to all of you who have initiated the non-violent Occupy Wall Street Movement and to those around the country who have joined in solidarity,” said the Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors in a statement just posted to the company’s official site.

In addition to their kind words, the ice cream brand’s board also submitted a list of issues raised by the movement that they feel “are of fundamental importance to all of us”:

• The inequity that exists between classes in our country is simply immoral.

• We are in an unemployment crisis. Almost 14 million people are unemployed. Nearly 20% of African American men are unemployed. Over 25% of our nation’s youth are unemployed.

• Many workers who have jobs have to work 2 or 3 of them just to scrape by.

• Higher education is almost impossible to obtain without going deeply in debt.

• Corporations are permitted to spend unlimited resources to influence elections while stockpiling a trillion dollars rather than hiring people.

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Heinrich Heine sings the hits

““In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.” 
― Heinrich Heine

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It’s like the bible, you don’t have to understand it, just accept it.

Bar chart shows deaths in the last 10 years to cancer (5.61 million) vs Terrorist Attacks (2,977). Funding to National Cancer Institute: $50 billion. Funding to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: $1.26 trillion.”

Via Clusterflock

 

Serene landscape

I’m busily catching up on work and really really wanting to enjoy this beautiful day.

Here’s a serene landscape from the Fog for your viewing pleasure.