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New York Times "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people, and people of color," Kaepernick said in a press conference after first sitting out during the anthem, Indepenent.co.uk recorded. "To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street, and people getting paid leave, and getting away with murder." Kapernicks stand wasn't well noticed at first. He had been taking a knee during the National Anthem for 13 months before anyone took real notice said Independent news. The influx of viral videos depicting the police shooting of unarmed black men spurred more and more of Kapernicks fellow athlete to follow him in bending the knee. Independent said President Trump became a main catalyst for the protest when Friday he expressed the idea that NFL players would be fired for kneeling during the national anthem. “Wouldn't you love

Kissimmee community flooded after Irma © 2017 Cox Media Group. Strangely enough, hurricane Irma got me thinking about homeless people. These people don't own basements to take shelter in, or cars to make a swift get away, or in most cases a frantic family member anxious to whisk them out of harms way or open their home. What happens to homeless people in the case of hurricanes? I don't have an answer to that question, perhaps the government and homeless care organizations comb the streets for them.  But I do know of  another case of people that are also 'homeless' and without a family to care for them, but in a different way. I'm talking about foster children.  Sure the governments got their backs, but sudden evacuation of massive amounts of children can leave some wondering, where do they go? Times of tragedy are also times when we get to see just how roomy some peoples hearts...or, er, in this case, houses can be.  When a hurricane shelter in Boca Raton,

"Yeah, she's a rescue" has been a common brag of new pet owners within recent years. People who acquire their family pets from shelters and rescues are often looked at with admiration, and approval with a big thumbs up. And rightly so, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says "each year, approximately 1.5 million shelter animals are euthanized (670,000 dogs and 860,000 cats)."  Rescuing these animals from death and giving them a good home is a commendable thing. But soon it may become the bragging right of every new pet owner in California...and then it won't really be much of a bragging right at all, just an average right.  The Assembly Bill 485, the Pet Rescue and Adoption Act, has been approved by the Senate and sent to Governor Jerry Brown to be vetoed or signed by October 15, said the Orange County Register . The bill would make it illegal for pet stores to sell any dogs, cats, or rabbits that are not from shelte

http://ninjajournalist.com/science/plastic-and-save-the-environment/ Did you know plastic is digestible? No, not to humans of course, unless you were thinking of Britain's algae water bottles and Indonesia's yucca root plastic bags, those are very edible. Science, or rather scientist Frederica Bertocchini a biomedical researcher, discovered a wax worm that can digest plastic. AJ+ global news team interviewed Bertoccini in the following video and got to hear the tail of how she discovered waxworms divine power on a whim. Waxworms act as a parasite in beehives, eating the honeycomb or rather raw wax material beehives, and laying waste. When Bertocchini found these worms in her home beehives she of course cleaned them out and set them aside in some plastic bags to dispose of later. Only to learn later that the waxworms were a bunch of escape artists and had eaten there way out of the plastic bags. Bertocchini and her colleagues began to study the worms and found tha

yahoo.com Stranded Pets Rescued Amid Hurricane Harvey Flooding Right now in this moment, thanks to media, it would be hard not to feel our heart strings pull with concern for our fellow Americans in Houston, Texas and the next targets of Hurricane Irma.  I f you want to help the people displaced, left hungry, and in need of medical care by Hurricane Harvey, NPR put together a list of organizations you can donate to. For example “ Send Relief and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief says its teams began responding before Harvey made landfall and continues on-the-ground relief work,” NPR said. While the “ American Kidney Fund has set up a disaster relief fund to help dialysis patients affected by the storm,” and so on. Even Airbnb has taken part in setting up an urgent accommodations site "where people can open their homes to evacuees from the storm or find shelter themselves. Service fees are waived through Sept. 25," NPR said. However, for most of these organiz

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/3xvgav/pelican_yawn/ Yawning is baffling. Although there are theories, we don’t understand why we do it and most people wonder why the heck they are so contagious. One thing we have already learned about yawning is that the contagiousness of the act is linked with our ability to emphasize.  For example, as Dr. Jennifer Goldbeck revealed in her article "Why Psychopaths Are Immune to Contagious Yawning"  with Psychology Today, research has found that Psychopaths are immune to yawning because they lack empathy.  Empathy is the ability to see things from another persons point of view or to be able to share and experience another persons feelings. "Researchers at Baylor University had 135 subjects take the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised (PPI-R) and then exposed them to a contagious yawn experiment." Goldbeck said. "The Coldheartedness part of the psychopathy scale was strongly tied to whether the p

History is often told from the side of the winners and we always hope that the winners were on the side of good. In the case of the American Civil War we know that good triumphed. Slavery is wrong, believing other ethnicities and races are beneath yours is wrong, segregation is wrong, and the confederates who fought for those things were wrong.   Recently neo-Nazi’s, white supremacists and the K.K.K found inspiration to band together and fight for these things during the protest of the removal General Robert E. Lee’s statue from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia.  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/baltimore-confederate-statues.html Lisa Richardson, a Los Angeles Times writer, recently gave a unique perspective on the removal of the confederate monuments from public spaces in her piece titled “I'm a black daughter of the Confederacy, and this is how we should deal with all those General Lees.” Richardson enters the narrative with her own family history. She is the