I mean, here are a group of people who are admittedly racist, who are overtly political, who tried as best they can to harm President Obama in every way they can…They are the Taliban wing of American politics. We all ought to be a little worried about them.
— Julian Bond
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View Larger We’re starting to see the effects of the federal sequester here in California. No, it’s not airline travelers whining about delayed flights because the feds furloughed 13,000 air traffic controllers.Their whines were heard and the Federal Aviation Administration, ahem, “found,” some money elsewhere in their budget to bring the controllers back.
Now, as we talk about in our story Friday which you can read here, the sequester is hitting the poorest Californians hard. And Congress is less likely to listen to a constituency who they don’t think votes as often as air travelers. And one that certainly doesn’t write campaign checks.
In a couple of weeks, 40 young children — between 4 months to 5 years-old — will be cut from the Head Start program in four rural California counties. The E Center, a private nonprofit that administers Head Start programs to low-income children in nine counties, had to do something to cope with $900,000 in funding cuts.
English is the second language for most of these kids. So not only will they lose valuable early education time, but their parents will lose their daycare. Center CEO Tom Wagner.
So, said E-Center CEO Tom Wagner “many of the farmworkers will just take them into the fields with them.”
And in case you’re wondering, children are eligible to enroll in Head Start regardless of their immigration status or citizenship.
MAY 19, 2013
Come see, the San Francisco version of Tea Baggers trying to legislate Vagina’s.
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- Let’s try and get 100k notes
A review by one of the folks sums it up perfectly:
“What worries me about Yahoo! buying Tumblr is how it would choose to incorporate the website into its email and homepage features. One of the reasons why Tumblr is so unique is because it’s a niche market. By adding more users who don’t fit into this niche, it would make it more difficult for communities to develop within Tumblr, and Tumblr would have to change to accommodate these new users. Tumblr as a website is not the kind that you can sign up for in a day and be on your way. It is a website crafted so that you can immediately post but must spend several weeks, sometimes even months, to build a community. With new users who would not be willing to spend time growing a community, Tumblr would have to be changed, which would alienate its current users. Those users have spent time and effort to make Tumblr what it is today, and they are the ones who spend time on the website daily. A user who is checking onto Tumblr because it’s attached to their homepage is not going to be as strong of a user nor as dedicated. By changing the website to suit this new user, you would lose the strong users while building an undedicated usership.
To any website that would think of buying Tumblr, they must understand that it is a website that cannot be changed to make it more user friendly to a casual blogger. I think that many Tumblr users would be less worried about a buy-out if they were promised that their communities and ways of using Tumblr would not be changed. No one is going to mind Yahoo! buying the website and gaining a few extra million dollars per year from the minimal advertising; what we will be upset with is if a company like Yahoo! then changes the website to increase casual users and decrease dedicated users. Yahoo! would gain nothing by losing this “cool” group of bloggers in an age group they so desperately want to reach, so they must cater to these individuals by leaving the website exactly as is.” - houseoftombombadil
As much as is does sound like a load of bullshit for someone to buy Tumblr, it’s a possibility. I Personally think it should stay independent and I hope David Karp keeps a hold of it like his own child. Or we make enough noise to where such major changes (if bought) will not happen. I would hate to see Tumblr turned into an advertising dump.We’re not a ‘hip fad group’ to be marketed to. I hate the fact that’s all we look like to businesses in the end.reblogging again for this ^
How many of you WILL DROP YOUR TUMBLR BLOG, if it happens?
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FIGHT to keep it out of the hands of Yahoo.
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The Tea Party is a “Stalinist Religion
— Julian Bond, Former NAACP Chairman
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