So
Sheri and somebody I've never heard of named Jenny (I think) are
leaving The View and their FB page asks who should replace them.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. How can they ever replace the chemistry of a cranky,
loveable renown comic, a bitchy conservative blonde married to a
football player, a ditzy Christian single Mom, and Barb? Well, the
obvious answer is don't. Find a new mix. The other obvious answer is another question: who
cares?
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
The View; Who Cares?
First posted in FB 6/27/14:
Burpee Seeds?
First posted on FB 6/25/14:
In
principle, I am not opposed the concept of GMOs (genetically modified
organisms). But we should have the right to know the pedigree of our
food so that we can responsibly manage our own health and welfare.
Frankly, virtually ALL of the varieties and many of the species that we
love today would not be possible without genetic modification
modification. This is a very basic tenet of understanding
anthropogenics and our role as creators and stewards of the planet. We
are indebted to Darwin and Wallace for our first steps toward a unifying
theory of evolution. Both were naturalists on independent voyages
sailing the world in the mid-1800s. Their field observations on their
respective voyages combined with their collective knowledge of
contemporary breeding experiments of domesticated species of plants and
animals led to their revolutionary theory of Natural Selection. Another
key hallmark leading to our basic understand of simple genetics stems
from Gregor Mendel's extremely important breeding experiments on peas.
These tests also occurred in the mid-1800s. For myself. Its hard to
fathom what our environments and our food would look like without their
early steps. My concerns with GMOs arise when geneticists, breeders and
chemists get into the lab and cross tobacco genes with tomatoes, are add
insecticide and pesticide genes into potatoes. I believe we should all
have a right to know what is in our food and in the air, water, soil and
lifeforms around us. Period.
Regarding:
Can You Trust Burpee Seeds?
www.chicagonow.com
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Loaded Gun in the Toy Aisle
First posted on FB 6/25/14:
I have to say I found this on the Open Carry Texas page with this statement: "#guncontrolextremists
just won't get it through their sycophantic heads that criminals don't
obey laws. This felon had an illegal gun in Target, but these anti-gun
zealots are bullying Target to subject their customers to being victims
of these criminals without the ability to defend themselves." Now I
read the article and I got a whole other
sense of what went down. I suspect the man was guilty of being in South
Carolina while Black. If you look at his "felon" charge it could easily
have been that he got in a fight and then the cops piled on the
charges. He seem to have been lost in the system for four months ended
up with a felony. So there was apparently a man seen in the vicinity of
the toy section who was "black man walking around...appeared nervous and
fidgety." Well, so parts of South Carolina can be as racist as some
parts of Texas? What a surprise. Finally, please notice how the term
alleged is nowhere in the title or the story. The case is ironclad
because "Myrtle Beach Police have positively identified their suspect"
which smacks of...well, enough said. Come one Hollywood, could we
please have a couple of films to drive public sentiment and with it send
these racist gun-toting idiots back into their holes?
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Ultima Ratio Reagan
First posted on FB 6/25/14:
To the neocons who want us to attack Iraq or Syria, or wherever it is today, I dedicate this poem by Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), born in NYC, who serve first as a pilot first in the Canadian Air Force in 1941 and then with U.S. Army Air Force in 1943 (the latter was also my father's branch of the service, although they served in different theaters).
The poem is entitled: "Ultima Ratio Reagan":
"The reason we do not learn from history is
Because we are not the people who learned last time.
Because we are not the same people as them
That fed our sons and honor to Vietnam
And dropped the burning money on their trees,
We know that we know better than they knew,
And history will not blame us if once again
The light at the end of the tunnel is the train."
To the neocons who want us to attack Iraq or Syria, or wherever it is today, I dedicate this poem by Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), born in NYC, who serve first as a pilot first in the Canadian Air Force in 1941 and then with U.S. Army Air Force in 1943 (the latter was also my father's branch of the service, although they served in different theaters).
The poem is entitled: "Ultima Ratio Reagan":
"The reason we do not learn from history is
Because we are not the people who learned last time.
Because we are not the same people as them
That fed our sons and honor to Vietnam
And dropped the burning money on their trees,
We know that we know better than they knew,
And history will not blame us if once again
The light at the end of the tunnel is the train."
Pro-fracking NPR
First posted on FB 6/25/14:
NPR
had business report correspondent today telling us there is more crude
oil in this country than there is refinery capacity and we need to build
up capacity to be able to export it. It was an unveiled
profracking/propipeline propoganda. Its all about oil, they said, the
answer to all our problems. So its not just the warmongers who are
neocons today, its public radio.
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Keystone
First posted 6/18/14:
A lot of Americans still don't even know the corporate plan is to gut and pollute our continent in order to ship oil overseas. Meanwhile Monsanto is gaining control over much of our food supply and Nestle's is privatizing our clean water. Many don't care, others don't want to know. This is a struggle for our sovereignty, our basic way of life as free citizens and our human need to provide healthy, secure, viable lives for our children. We have to stop this corporate takeover of Congress--both Dems and GOPs are complicit. We need to find another path. That's why so many are leaving the two sellout parties and so many young people refuse to partake of the sellout parties.
Regarding 350.org FB photo 6/3/14:
https://www.facebook.com/350.org/photos/a.136077452707.110998.12185972707/10152424687857708/?type=1
A lot of Americans still don't even know the corporate plan is to gut and pollute our continent in order to ship oil overseas. Meanwhile Monsanto is gaining control over much of our food supply and Nestle's is privatizing our clean water. Many don't care, others don't want to know. This is a struggle for our sovereignty, our basic way of life as free citizens and our human need to provide healthy, secure, viable lives for our children. We have to stop this corporate takeover of Congress--both Dems and GOPs are complicit. We need to find another path. That's why so many are leaving the two sellout parties and so many young people refuse to partake of the sellout parties.
Regarding 350.org FB photo 6/3/14:
https://www.facebook.com/350.org/photos/a.136077452707.110998.12185972707/10152424687857708/?type=1
Attention Target Shoppers!
First posted on 6/12/14:
Attention Target shoppers! Ok if the open carry nutbunch in the diaper section of the store wasn't enough, when I wrote a check in Target today and the cashier asked me if I minded if he scanned my drivers license into their computer. Thanks for asking and NO THANKS! Hey, we know how Target protects our privacy and how secure their database is. Driver License in NV provides the following: driver's license number (of course), a reasonably accurate photo ID, birth date, physical address, demographics (gender, hair, eye color, height, weight mas o menos), signature, etc.). What could possibly go wrong?
Attention Target shoppers! Ok if the open carry nutbunch in the diaper section of the store wasn't enough, when I wrote a check in Target today and the cashier asked me if I minded if he scanned my drivers license into their computer. Thanks for asking and NO THANKS! Hey, we know how Target protects our privacy and how secure their database is. Driver License in NV provides the following: driver's license number (of course), a reasonably accurate photo ID, birth date, physical address, demographics (gender, hair, eye color, height, weight mas o menos), signature, etc.). What could possibly go wrong?
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