Einstein: "The intellect has little to do on the way to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why."

More Trees Less Assholes added a new photo.

Ariel Sharon Was a War Criminal; The World Is Better Off Now That He’s Gone. iacknowledge.net

Ariel Sharon Was a War Criminal; The World Is Better Off Now That He’s Gone

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I’m not going to do a happy dance about Ariel Sharon’s death; I think that would be in poor taste. I don’t revel in the death of a person; seeing people die is a sad thing. But Ariel Sharon wasn’t just any guy; he was a war criminal and mass murderer. Nearly every President or […]

Forget Your Own Health: Stop Drinking Diet Soda for the Good of the Planet. takepart.com

An Inconvenient Truth

Add this to the list of reasons to give up chemical-filled soft drinks!

Forget Your Own Health: Stop Drinking Diet Soda for the Good of the Planet

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Artificial sweeteners from soft drinks are polluting our largest freshwater resource.

Overwhelming: After two decades, two former circus elephants, Jenny and Shirley, are reunited at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. The reunion is a bittersweet moment for everyone involved. Watch to see the emotional encounter and response of the two friends.

Nina McGhie Cooper

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Elephants reunited after 20 years.

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After two decades, two former circus elephants, Jenny and Shirley, are reunited at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. The reunion is a bittersweet moment for everyone involved. Watch to see the emotional encounter and response of the two friends.

Losing Big Carnivores May Be as Big a Threat as Climate Change | Mammals | ReWild | KCET kcet.org

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Losing Big Carnivores May Be as Big a Threat as Climate Change | Mammals | ReWild | KCET

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An epochal study published Friday in the journal Science paints a truly frightening picture of a world without large carnivores, and the implications for

The Cold Snap Wasn't Actually That Extreme, Global Warming Has Just Made us Wimpy ... Smithsonian

The Cold Snap Wasn't Actually That Extreme, Global Warming Has Just Made ...

Smithsonian

Nazi Israel, Police State: British student deported from Israel because his social media posts 'posed a security threat'

http://www.jpost.com/National-News/British-student-deported-from-Israel-because-his-social-media-posts-posed-a-security-threat-337805

Rural Hospitals Close As GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion. addictinginfo.org

Rural Hospitals Close As GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion

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21 GOP governors have refused Medicaid expansion, causing rural hospitals to close. This is costing people their lives, and citizens are now fighting back.

About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in America. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/medicaid-

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About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in America. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/medicaid-expansion_n_4520263.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

5 Million People To Miss Out On Health Insurance Because Of Their Governors

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in

pic. "Secretary Gates much preferred President Bush, who '... had no second thoughts about Iraq, including our decions to invade."

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Only 1 of 9,136 Recent Peer-Reviewed Authors Rejects Global Warming. DeSmogBlog: http://bit.ly/KOYHRG

I Heart Climate Scientists

Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility:

Only 1 of 9,136 Recent Peer-Reviewed Authors Rejects Global Warming

DeSmogBlog: http://bit.ly/KOYHRG

Rapid loss of top predators 'a major environmental threat.' The Guardian

Rapid loss of top predators 'a major environmental threat'

The Guardian

Teachers Now Being Offered Bank Loans To Help Pay For School Supplies - Liberal Planet. liberalplanet.com

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Teachers Now Being Offered Bank Loans To Help Pay For School Supplies - Liberal Planet

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Liberal news and opinion from the Liberal Planet network of progressive websites, groups and news sources that provide thought provoking content for the liberal community.

pic. If you actively work to protect a fetus, but not a child, you are NOT 'pro life.'

Americans Against The Republican Party

Nope, not at all.

From The Boomers Voting Democratic via Being Liberal.

A Little Girls Potato Experiment Will Change The Way You Think About Food! spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com

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A Little Girls Potato Experiment Will Change The Way You Think About Food!

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A little girl decided to do an experiment with a sweet potato, and her results will change the way you think about the fruits and vegetables you buy at the grocery store.

telegraph.co.uk. The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could reach as high as $6 trillion dollars – or $75,000 for every household in America – a new study from Harvard University has found.

Cost to US of Iraq and Afghan wars could hit $6 trillion - Telegraph

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The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could reach as high as $6 trillion dollars – or $75,000 for every household in America – a new study from Harvard University has found.

vid clip. In Seoul, South Korea, hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned on the streets every year. That's when this brave pastor and his wife decided to do something about it. Watch their extraordinary story of love here.

Lauran Carter

This is amazing

See That Box? That’s Where They Put the Babies. And It’s the Most Remarkable Thing You’ll See...

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In Seoul, South Korea, hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned on the streets every year. That's when this brave pastor and his wife decided to do something about it. Watch their extraordinary story of love here.

Watch this, thru tears: "I want less suffering in the world... by everything." Simpsons co-creator dying of cancer. ‘The Simpsons’ Co-Creator Sam Simon Donating Fortune After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis. ca.omg.yahoo.com

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Watch this, thru tears: "I want less suffering in the world... by everything." Simpsons co-creator dying of cancer.

‘The Simpsons’ Co-Creator Sam Simon Donating Fortune After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis

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Watch the video ‘The Simpsons’ Co-Creator Sam Simon Donating Fortune After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis on Yahoo Celebrity. Legendary TV director was behind mega-hits like “Cheers,” “Taxi,” and “The Simpsons” but now, after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, he’s dedicating most of his fortune to a...

article. NY Times says Snowden IS a Whistleblower and should be pardoned. FBI Director says he is not. SOMEONE HERE IS VERY OUT OF STEP WITH THE INTERESTS OF DEMOCRACY. I wonder who.

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NY Times says Snowden IS a Whistleblower and should be pardoned. FBI Director says he is not. SOMEONE HERE IS VERY OUT OF STEP WITH THE INTERESTS OF DEMOCRACY. I wonder who.

FBI director: Snowden not a 'hero whistle-blower'

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FBI Director James Comey says he's confused when he hears people referring to former national security contractor Edward Snowden as a

100,000 Bats Fall from the Sky in Australia Due to Extreme Heat Wave. alternet.org

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100,000 Bats Fall from the Sky in Australia Due to Extreme Heat Wave

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Amid Shocking Changes in Continental Weather Patterns, Australia's Heatwave Leaves Its Mark

Texas man selling restaurant to save uninsured employee suffering from a brain tumor | The Raw Story rawstory.com

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(M) This is pretty incredible. The world needs more people like this.

http://bit.ly/SellingRestaurant

Texas man selling restaurant to save uninsured employee suffering from a brain tumor | The Raw Story

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A Texas business owner has put his restaurant up for sale with the hopes of saving a young employee who has a brain tumor and no insurance.

pic. I know personally, an internationally renown activist. She is constantly working to use her life, her body, her very being... to save humanity. Seems there is no personal price she wouldn’t pay. She doesn't play to play. She plays to win. I don’t know any others besides her, Malala, Aung San... This is why the future is doomed, unless you join her. Now. (She is shy. I’ll not name and embarrass her.)

I know personally, an
internationally renown activist.

She is constantly working to use her life, her body, her very being... to save humanity. Seems there is no personal price she wouldn’t pay.  She doesn't play to play. She plays to win.

I don’t know any others besides her, Malala, Aung San...

This is why the future is doomed, unless you join her.  Now.

(She is shy. I’ll not name and embarrass her.)

pic. In the last 30 years 75% of arctic sea ice has disappeared. Greenpeace

An Inconvenient Truth

Time to tend to the planet.

The false safety promise of Keystone XL. salon.com

The false safety promise of Keystone XL

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The recent spate of train derailments is concerning, but it's no reason to support a pipeline

Pope Francis: Love is concrete. en.radiovaticana.va

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Pope Francis: Christian love is concrete

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Pope Francis: Christian love is concrete

Greedy for oil money, Canada is turning into a rogue petrostate. grist.org

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Blame Canada: Greedy for oil money, the country is turning into a rogue petrostate

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An unforgiving article in Foreign Policy magazine describes Prime Minister Stephen Harper's reckless pursuit of oil-sands wealth.

pic. $178B would eliminate US poverty. $700B US War spending.

David Whittall shared War Costs's photo.

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty, but who's winning this war? "If only the War on Poverty was an actual war. Then we would actually be putting money into it." ‪#‎WarCosts‬ http://bit.ly/1byVOtQ

Officials Say Christie Bridge Scandal Hampered Emergency Responders. TIME

Officials Say Christie Bridge Scandal Hampered Emergency RespondersTIME

Bush's Iraqi “freedom”: Bloody civil war. Salon

Bush's Iraqi “freedom”: Bloody civil war

Salon

Guarani suicides - how mankind's divorce from nature impacts on the psyche. survivalinternational.org

Guarani suicides - how mankind's divorce from nature impacts on the psyche

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'We Indians are like plants,' said the late Marta Guarani. 'How can we live without our land, without our soil?'

China positioning to destroy rest of world in wind power market. BBC

China on world's 'biggest push' for wind power

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Gulf Coast Wetlands Rapidly Declining. blog.nwf.org

Restore the Mississippi River Delta

A new report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finds that the wetlands of the Gulf Coast are in rapid decline, and the area disappearing the fastest are the acres around the Mississippi River Delta. Find out more about why this is happening and what we can do here: http://blog.nwf.org/2014/01/gulf-coast-wetlands-rapidly-declining/

Gulf Coast Wetlands Rapidly Declining

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The Gulf of Mexico is losing more wetlands than anywhere else in the United States and it is losing them more rapidly than ever before, according to a new federal report that assessed the status of wetlands in the United States. The Significance...

Another Crude Oil Train Exploded In Canada, And It's Still Burning. ibtimes.com

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Canadian National Railway Co. train carrying crude oil and propane exploded near the city of Plaster Rock in New Brunswick, Canada — about 20 miles from the Maine border at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

50-60 residents from 45 nearby houses have been evacuated.

POLITICO reports that "North Dakota's congressional delegation will meet Thursday with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration chief Cynthia Quarterman to talk rail car safety standards."

Another Crude Oil Train Exploded In Canada, And It's Still Burning

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A fire burned all night after a train carrying propane and crude oil derailed in New Brunswick on Tuesday, experts are now worried about the possibility of more explosions.

Climate Change Could Cause Deepwater Die-Off. Scientific American

Climate Change Could Cause Deepwater Die-Off

Scientific American

Dangerous Weed Killers Are Helping To Spread “Superweeds.” justlabelit.org

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Dangerous Weed Killers Are Helping To Spread “Superweeds”

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By Violet Batcha (Just Label It) Proposals to expand the use of the dangerous weed killer 2,4-D should serve as a reminder that our heavy reliance on GE corn and soybeans – and the herbicides

article. If you are not terrified of this, you are part of the problem. Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year. politico.com

The Everlasting GOP Stoppers

we CANNOT let up for ONE MINUTE, GOP Stoppers! - james

Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year

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For the last decade, Larry J. Sabato has been forecasting elections and analyzing the results—correctly predicting 98 percent of Senate, House and governor winners in, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012. Starting with this column,

pic. Friends, PLEASE, stamp out the myth that we ever had a war on poverty. We 'announced' one. We didn't WAGE one.

The Other 98%

Exactly.

Image courtesy Stop the World, the Teabaggers Want Off.

pic. 6.59 million trees per year would be saved if all in the US stopped using paper cups. (We are such a disease.)

Forest Freak

Use a mug. Save trees!
From our friends at Sustainable Man.

We are Forest Freak

pic. "Conservatives blaming Pr. Obama for the slow recovery is like John Wilkes Booth blaming Pr. Lincoln for missing the 2nd act of the play." John Fugelsang

Conservatives Are Destroying Our Future

Lol that's one way to look at it. ~Rick

Thanks to The Everlasting GOP Stoppers for sharing.

tic, tic, tic... Christchurch May Disappear in 100 Years Due to Rising Sea Levels au.ibtimes.com

I Heart Climate Scientists

Can Christchurch Be Resurrected?

Christchurch May Disappear in 100 Years Due to Rising Sea Levels

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Some suburban areas of Christchurch may be under the water within 100 years due to rising sea levels. In a Taylor & Tonkin report, experts have warned that South Shore, South New Brighton, Summer and Brooklands could

Abe Lincolon: "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." (me too)

Being Liberal

(M) A great quote.

Loving, here - a reason I don't believe in "Miracles" is, that is NOT WHAT A LOVING 'FATHER' DOES!!! detail

FB note to a really loving, homeless outreach, church group that has been very good to me, at times:

Hi friends. This is weighing on my mind, so I share. No reply expected or needed, and please always KNOW, I NEED YOU to disconnect from me when I become an unhealthy force in your lives. 

I don't believe in physical Miracles, Healings, etc. There are many reasons, but the one that is the most important to me - THIS IS NOT WHAT A LOVING 'FATHER' DOES. I mean, a loving Father hears his child's desperate plea for help, but sits on the sidelines, NOT HELPING, until some 'believer' comes and Praises Him, Tells Him how much she or he Loves Him, that He is Great... and then when that Father, IF that Father, hears such an intercessor, then, and only then, that Father gets off his ass and does something???? That is not what Loving does! That is NOT my Father. WE are the ONLY miracle that was put here - none other. The Father is hands off now. It is up to us, His Loving now OUR Loving in our Hearts, to be the Miracle. No other Miracle is needed. Your brother forever, no matter what

"I don't know how to save the world. I don't have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that withoug compassion and respect for all of Earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive - nor will we deserve to." Leonard Peltier

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Gabriel Hilbert shared Leonard Peltier's Support Group's photo.

"I don't know how to save the world.  I don't have the answers or The Answer.  I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present.  I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive - nor will we deserve to."  Leonard Peltier

... deserve ... http://www.ya-native.com/leonardpeltier/IncidentatOglala.html

The World's Threatened Tribal Peoples. www.survivalinternational.org

The World's Threatened Tribal Peoples

www.survivalinternational.org

Survival helps tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.

***** pic. Only masses of citizens waging all-out unviolent war, MUCH OF IT IN THE STREETS (’Revolutions are won in the streets, not on the internet,’ Egypt’s Wael Ghonim, Google exec) will: 1. Take back the House and keep the Senate 2014; 2. Limit future warming by c02 to NO MORE THAN 1 DEGREES C, NOT to the 2 deg C international goal that is Ecocide; 3. Take back the economy locally and globally, for we citizens of the world (not just the US). You’ve already sided with the Tories (GOP) unless you are wagging all-out unviolent war, day in, day out, TILL WE WIN. NEVER has so much been at stake for US, and for Creation.

Only masses of citizens waging all-out unviolent war, MUCH OF IT IN THE STREETS (’Revolutions are won in the streets, not on the internet,’ Egypt’s Wael Ghonim, Google exec) will:

1.  Take back the House and keep the Senate 2014;

2. Limit future warming by c02 to NO MORE THAN 1 DEGREES C, NOT to the 2 deg C international goal that is Ecocide;

3.  Take back the economy locally and globally, for we citizens of the world (not just the US).

You’ve already sided with the Tories (GOP) unless you are wagging all-out unviolent war, day in, day out, TILL WE WIN. NEVER has so much been at stake for US, and for Creation.

Hottest New Zealand summer since records began in 1870. article

I Heart Climate Scientists

Oh The Shire! Record Breaking New Zealand Heat.

Read it here: http://bit.ly/1i8yc4x

Colorado River Lowest In 1,300 Years; Climate Deniers Keep It Up. addictinginfo.org

Americans Against The Republican Party via Addicting Info

Yet more proof of how stupid Republicans are.

Colorado River Lowest In 1,300 Years; Climate Deniers Keep It Up

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The right-wing continues to insist there are no real threats to the environment. Meanwhile, the Colorado River runs dry, thanks to short-sighted politics.

A court just gutted your right to sue your boss. politico.com

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A court just gutted your right to sue your boss

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Unnoticed except by employment lawyers, the United States Court of Appeals in New Orleans last month issued what might be the most important workers’ rights opinions in decades. The decision permits employers to require workers,

Thanks to Republican Unemployment Benefit Cuts the Economy is Losing $1 Billion a Week. politicususa.com

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Thanks to Republican Unemployment Benefit Cuts the Economy is Losing $1 Billion a Week

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Thanks to Republican Unemployment Benefit Cuts the Economy is Losing $1 Billion a Week was written by for PoliticusUSA. © PoliticusUSA, Mon, Jan 6th, 2014 — All Rights Reserved

New Figures Show Six Million Americans Have Signed Up for Obamacare aattp.org

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We Told Ya So! New Figures Show Six Million Americans Have Signed Up for Obamacare

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According to figures being reported by the White House, Six-million Americans have enrolled in the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare." Health and

EPA to Allow Consumption of Toxic Fracking Wastewater by Wildlife and Livestock | EcoWatch ecowatch.com

Bold Nebraska

"Under the less than watchful eye of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, fracking flowback is dumped into rivers, lakes and reservoirs... Gushers of putrid, grayish water encrusted with chemical crystals flood through Wind River into nearby streams," said Jeff Ruch, executive director of PEER - Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

EPA to Allow Consumption of Toxic Fracking Wastewater by Wildlife and Livestock | EcoWatch

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Public Employees for Environmental ResponsibilityMillions of gallons of water laced with toxic chemicals from oil and gas drilling rigs are pumped for

Pipeline Explosion Causes Large Fire Near Milfay. newson6.com

Bold Nebraska

BREAKING: Natural gas pipeline owned by ONEOK exploded near town of Milfay, Oklahoma. No reports of injuries. The eyewitness who snapped this photo said the explosion was close to houses but she didn't believe it was affecting them.

Pipelines leak (or explode): It's not if, it's when. ‪#‎NoKXL‬

Pipeline Explosion Causes Large Fire Near Milfay

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An explosion in a natural gas pipeline started a fire near the town of Milfay in Creek County Monday morning.

Wind farms kill only a small fraction of the hundreds of millions of birds and bats killed by buildings, pesticides, fossil-fuel power plants, and other human causes. 8 ways they are working to improve.

Wind farms kill only a small fraction of the hundreds of millions of birds and bats killed by buildings, pesticides, fossil-fuel power plants, and other human causes.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/birds-bats-wind-turbines-deadly-collisions

Climate Change Might Just Be Driving the Historic Cold Snap. TIME

Climate Change Might Just Be Driving the Historic Cold Snap

TIME

Do Nothing Congress Looks To Do Even Less In 2014 By Scheduling Only 97 Work Days. politicususa.com

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Do Nothing Congress Looks To Do Even Less In 2014 By Scheduling Only 97 Work Days

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House Republican leadership unveiled the new House work calendar and it shows that the House will only be in session for 97 days prior to Election Day and 112 days through the end of the year.