Soon I will cut the lady's head open, brain salad surgery.

 This thing is getting heavy, thats a lot of clay.  Last night I put hair on her.  Next week I have 3 hours to finish the hair, add pupils and eyebrows and smooth it.  Then I cut cut it off at about the eye brows, straight through, lift off the top, hollow it out to about 1 inch thick and set it back on, blend the line so the cut line is gone, and done.  Then it dries a week or two and into the kiln.  Click on picture for a bigger view.    This was not modeled on anyone or photo, but a practice on various features, and exact proportions.  I think now I can make a recognizable bust from a photo or model.

teachers, KU, guns and wind, up against it part 9

1am Monday morning, the Kansas legislature adjourned, finished screwing teachers, we now have a fired on the spot law no review no appeal, and giving tax deductions for corporations giving money to private schools (as in where the CEO's kids go to school), and taking more money from the University of Kansas, KU, the GOP hate that university and have hammered it for years.
 They spent days crafting a law that ALEC will soon take to your state.  It destroys all city county township gun laws of any and every kind, and it will be against the law for same to lobby for a change in gun laws.  The GOP wants local control when you say "Feds", but will not allow locals any control, kind of like dictators do it.  Now we can carry guns anywhere except the state capital building and (I think) county courhouses, schools have about a year to either allow guns or hire guards and metal detectors.  Also now you can buy a full blown machine gun here, cause we all need one, cause freedom.  You can also stand your ground drunk and not face charges, get drunk, kill your sister, she was grabbing your bottle, maybe she wasn't going to drink it but hit you with it, so bam, fuck'n dead.  Police that confiscate weapons cannot destroy them, they must be auctioned off so other scum bags can recycle them into crime or accidents.  It is said to be the most wide reaching gun law in the nation, and it's headed your way.

OK, my main thing, protecting wind energy, you might remember we defeated the bill the 3rd time 10 days ago, but the GOP said they would bury it in another bill and get it passed this weekend, didn't happen, adjourned till April 30.  They will try it in that week or so they return to finish the session.  The Kochs don't give up easy.

leave tar sands carbon and toxins in the ground where Thor put it, to keep us safe

This is the tar sands north of Edmonton Canada. It started out as forests populated with deer, moose, reindeer, wolf, beaver, wolverine, bear, lynx, rabbit, flying squirrel, martin, weasel, chipmonk, birds, fishing lakes and clear rivers. The forest and meadows are stripped clean, animals killed by hired hunters, the land tortured by machinery so badly the scar is visible from space.  The bitumen (not oil) so toxic refining it takes great amounts of energy and produces the most toxic byproducts of any form of petroleum. Cancer rates of the work crews and people living near and downstream of this atrocity are climbing.  One doctor that publicized this was threatened and chased from the area. Valero, one of the refiners at the south end of the proposed pipe is going to refine it, and ship it out of country.  It will not increase our oil supply or our national security any more than me taking a shit does every day.  We get all the risk, the 1% get the wealth.  The environment there, here and where ever this crap gets sent will all get worse.  The pipe has already been bought, from India, not the USA.  There will be 1500 to 2000 jobs for 6 months to a year, after that the pipe runs remotely, a hundred max may be full time.  Not really a jobs program, more like a ticket to air pollution and eventually a series of spills in the US.

must see this, "years of living dangerously"

Documentary, today (Monday) it is free to watch on line

http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/where-to-watch/

one hour, not a wasted hour, this is excellent

High Court gives nation to white billionaires, brave Thomas heads into text book fame

Yesterday the right wing court trashed more of the few campaign finance laws.  The "aggregate" limit.  Last time they said give all you want to PACS and lobbyist and action committees and run your own adds if you want.  But there was still an individual limit of $3,400 (?I think that's right) given to a Congressman or Senator, with an aggregate limit of about $34,000 (?I think).  So maybe not exact but it means you could only give to about 10.  But, that wasn't fair to billionaires, or the lowly millionaire who wants to play in the big times.  Nope, not fair at all.
Now, no limit.  You can give that $3,400 or whatever the exact number is, to every race in the nation for senate and congress.  Justice Sotomayor ran the numbers, a person (and corporations are people too) now can weigh in with almost $3.4 million every 2 years.
Who does this benefit?  The Republicans, and a couple thousand old white guys who will spend hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, every 2 years.  This will work, we may be headed for a Mexico type system, one party running the nation for a hundred years.

Clearance Thomas wrote his own opinion, shocking since he hasn't written but a few opinions, ever.  In it he said if he could, he would strike down all campaign spending limits, clearly an invitation.  His concern for the richest among above us will surely be recorded in Texas school books of the future as more courageous than the beaten and killed civil rights workers ever were.  Brave brave Thomas.

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All energy potential

In TeraWatts.  Pay attention here!  The four balloons on the right, natural gas to coal, those are the potential for energy of the TOTAL AMOUNTS KNOWN.  The other balloons, are the potential for ONE YEAR, Every Year. Wind and solar, free fuel, investment up front, then free energy and a little for maintenance.

WTF, are we going to have to give rights for wind and sunlight to the Koch's in order to have clean energy?