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Sixth mass extinction is here

The world is embarking on its sixth mass extinction with animals disappearing about 100 times faster than they used to, scientists warned, and humans could be among the first victims
The world is embarking on its sixth mass extinction with animals disappearing about 100 times faster than they used to, scientists warned, and humans could be among the first victimsThe world is embarking on its sixth mass extinction with animals disappearing about 100 times faster than they used to, scientists warned Friday, and humans could be among the first victims.
Not since the age of the dinosaurs ended 66 million years ago has the planet been losing species at this rapid a rate, said a study led by experts at Stanford University, Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley.
The study "shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event," said co-author Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University professor of biology.
And humans are likely to be among the species lost, said the study -- which its authors described as "conservative" -- published in the journal Science Advances.
"If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on," said lead author Gerardo Ceballos of the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico.
The analysis is based on documented extinctions of vertebrates, or animals with internal skeletons such as frogs, reptiles and tigers, from fossil records and other historical data.
The modern rate of species loss was compared to the "natural rates of species disappearance before human activity dominated."
It can be difficult to estimate this rate, also known as the background rate, since humans don't know exactly what happened throughout the course of Earth's 4.5 billion year history.
For the study, researchers used a past extinction rate that was twice as high as widely used estimates.
If the past rate was two mammal extinctions per 10,000 species per 100 years, then the "average rate of vertebrate species loss over the last century is up to 114 times higher than it would be without human activity, even when relying on the most conservative estimates of species extinction," said the study.
"We emphasize that our calculations very likely underestimate the severity of the extinction crisis because our aim was to place a realistic lower bound on humanity's impact on biodiversity."
The causes of species loss range from climate change to pollution to deforestation and more.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, about 41 percent of all amphibian species and 26 percent of all mammals are threatened with extinction.
"There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead," Ehrlich said.
The study called for "rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species, and to alleviate pressures on their populations -- notably habitat loss, over-exploitation for economic gain and climate change."

With Lawsuit Looming, North Carolina Scrambles To Loosen Voter ID Rules


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Move Over Moderate Democrats, Liberals Are Taking Over

Move Over Moderate Democrats, Liberals Are Taking Over (IMAGE)
This is such great news!
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Democrats Are The Real ‘Family Values’ Candidates, Not Republicans

Democrats Are The Real ‘Family Values’ Candidates, Not Republicans
Compare the outcome of the children of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to the children of Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, and Rand Paul.

Teabaggers Made A Video Implying Hillary Clinton Had ‘Oral Sex’ With A Panda

Tea Party Made A Video Implying Hillary Clinton Had ‘Oral S*x’ With A Panda (VIDEO)This wingnut SuperPAC’s leaders thought it would be funny to create a video of Hillary Clinton receiving oral stimulation from a Panda. And, that’s not the worst part.
The two interns used in the video were minors at the time.

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Gun Owner Stephen King Just Weighed In On Gun Control And The Nation Needs To Listen

Gun Owner Stephen King Just Weighed In On Gun Control And The Nation Needs To Listen“Until responsible gun owners support responsible gun control laws, innocent blood will continue to flow.”
 

NRA official: I was speaking as a ‘private citizen’ when I blamed Clementa Pinckney for his own death

“It was a discussion we were having about so called gun-free zones,” Charles Cotton said. “It’s my opinion that there should not be any gun-free zones in schools or churches or anywhere else."
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*That may be so, but you're still an idiot and an asshole

Rick Perry: Charleston massacre was an ‘accident’ caused by drugs — not guns

Rick Perry, the former Texas governor and current Republican pretender candidate, described the mass shootings of nine black worshipers by an apparent white supremacist as an “accident.”

Why Winguts Can Only Talk About ‘Religious Liberty’ In Charleston

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Kansas Republicans could expel Democrat from legislature for calling anti-immigrant bill racist

Kansas Republicans could expel Democrat from legislature for calling anti-immigrant bill racist
Telling the truth is now a crime and not only in Kansas.
It has always been a crime in Republican-Land but now the disease has begun to spread beyond the bubble's borders.

Rand Paul’s Books Chock-Full Of Make-Believe Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Rand Paul’s Books Seem To Be Chock-Full Of Make-Believe Thomas Jefferson QuotesRand Paul is the ultimate scam artist, and literally makes shit up to fit his agenda.

Judge Deals Another Blow To Glenn Beck In Defamation Lawsuit Against Him

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Glenn Beck now stands to lose millions of dollars after the judge overseeing the defamation case against him allowed the man he slandered to tack a new charge to the lawsuit.

Ted Cruz Wants You To Know That He Still Hates Gay People More Than His Rivals

Ted Cruz Wants You To Know That He Still Hates Gay People More Than His Rivals (VIDEO)This guy is literally running on being a douchebag…

Rick Snyder breaks promise, signs anti-gay 'religious freedom' bill on adoption

On second thought... just kidding about that statement a couple months ago.
Two months ago, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced that he wouldn't sign a "religious freedom" bill. Today, he did just that. Snyder signed three bills into law that will allow publicly-funded adoption agencies to decline services to same-sex couples based on religious grounds.
It's a far cry from this statement, which Snyder made in April:
"Given all the events that are happening in Indiana, I thought it would be good to clarify my position," he said. "I would veto RFRA legislation in Michigan if it is a standalone piece of legislation."
Maybe he didn't consider them "standalone," since these three anti-gay bills were bundled together.
Snyder, who prides himself on being a business focused pro-jobs governor (his twitter account is "@onetoughnerd") has now proven himself to be a guy who simply bends to the political winds. A couple months ago, the RFRA didn't look so good based on Indiana's blow-back. But this month, meh, why not?
If Snyder thinks this will attract jobs to Michigan, he is dead wrong. If he has any future political aspirations, this broken promise will hound him. And if he ever had a conscience, he seems to have lost it. After all, he's not Gov. Mike Pence—who's an actual true believer. Instead, Snyder's simply a sell out to political expediency now. Hard to know which is worse.
An estimated 3,000 kids in Michigan right now await placement in a home. Another 3,460 kids are currently being raised by lesbian, gay and bisexual parents in the Great Lakes State. But that doesn't matter to places like Catholic Charities of Shiawassee & Genesee Counties and it clearly doesn't matter to Snyder.
Though Snyder's statement said he was focused on "ensuring that as many children are adopted to as many loving families as possible," the Williams Institute found the three bills would instead ensure that some of those 3,460 adopted kids "would have remained in foster care for a longer period of time."

Michigan Republican: Don’t tell kids it’s ‘OK to be gay’ — they’ll get AIDS and die 20 years early

Gary Glenn (R-Midland) says school officials who normalize homosexuality in the classroom should be held liable for STDs any of their students happen to contract.