The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that local municipalities can legally ban medical marijuana dispensaries, dealing a massive blow to the burgeoning industry that’s exploded across the state since 2009. The ruling in City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patient’s Health and…
Chick-fil-A gives free chicken to California marriage equality supporters
Corey Braun, the owner of a Rancho Cucamonga Chick-fil-A, handed out coupons for free chicken to dozens of marriage equality supporters at a California rally this week, breaking with the company’s national profile as a corporate opponent of gay marriage.”There were a lot of things said over the past year,” Braun told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. “I wanted to show that Chick-fil-A doesn’t discriminate against anybody. We serve everyone. We’re happy to serve the community and this was an opportunity to have this group come in and show them our hospitality regardless of their beliefs, sexual orientation, or whatever. ” Adding: “Chick-fil-A has never been about hate.”The Rancho Cucamonga franchise may not be “about hate,” but many critics believe comments from Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy are blatantly anti-gay. During a 2012 radio interview, Cathy addressed the issue of marriage equality by saying: “We’re inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage. And I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude that thinks we have the audacity to redefine what marriage is all about.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Sperm Whales Adopt Deformed Dolphin: Report
A group of sperm whales in the eastern Atlantic Ocean appear to have temporarily adopted a dolphin with a spinal deformation. Scientists spotted the unlikely friends near the Azores Islands, an archipelago about 900 miles off the coast of Portugal.According to a recent report in Science Magazine, two behavioral ecologists from German marine research firm Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries watched the adult bottlenose dolphin with an S-shaped spine “while it nuzzled and rubbed” against a group of sperm whales that were traveling together. The magazine notes that the sperm whales even “reciprocated” the contact. Read More…
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