Putting real seeds in real dirt and growing REAL FOOD?

Biotech corn study raises safety questions

Cookson Beecher
Washington State Staff Writer

Recent publicity surrounding a Monsanto study on a biotech corn variety, MON 863, has raised questions about whether eating the corn could harm human health.

According to the study, rats that were fed MON 863 had smaller kidneys and elevated levels of white blood cells and lymphocytes compared to those that were fed conventional corn.

The man who “flipped the switch” on MTV and HBO has a few ideas about turning this country around:

I’m not talking about any particular affinity I might have for her people, or her purple mountains majesty, or any of that. That stuff can be found elsewhere. No, what I love is the idea of America, the abject audacity of it. Equality, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, government of by and for its people, freedom of and freedom from religion, as well as from poverty, hunger, want, slavery, and on and on forever. America. The sheer fearlessness of the idea is astounding. America has allowed me to live an amazing life just by playing hard and playing fair. I’ve lived a life my immigrant grandparents could never have imagined. I’ve never suffered at the hands of a biased or unfair institution. When pushed, I’ve pushed back harder, spoken my mind without fear of official reprisal. I want only the same for my kids, and theirs, and every kid who wants to play fair, and swing for the fences. That’s not so much to ask - hell, to demand!

So. I for one will not stand idly by and watch it all brought to its knees in the gutless coup our current “leadership” and their treasonous puppeteers are attempting. Will you?

Continue reading “Good night America, how are you?”

$100m cut rejected for public TV, radio
By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | June 24, 2005

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives yesterday voted overwhelmingly to keep intact the government’s basic funding for public television and radio, turning back an effort by GOP budget-writers to cut $100 million from the broadcasting agency they have accused of pushing a left-leaning political agenda.

Yeah!

that it was “libruls” who negotiate with terrorists?

Report: U.S., Iraq insurgents talked
By THOMAS WAGNER
Associated Press

LONDON — U.S. officials recently met secretly with Iraqi insurgent commanders at a summer villa north of Baghdad to try to negotiate an end to the bloodshed, a British newspaper reported today.

Its commendable that they try this, although I imagine the talks ended rather soon after the locals went “You leave, now…” and we said “Can’t, we’re building all these bases…”

The album of the year, IMHO.

White House Supports Rove Over Comments

By JIM ABRAMS

WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is defending presidential adviser Karl Rove against Democratic demands that he apologize or quit for implying that liberals are soft on the Sept. 11 attackers and other terrorists.

Generally Rove and the White House release some big blather right before bad news hits, as a distraction. TTP thinks it’s this.

Socialism: An economic system based on state ownership of capital

When the government can take your property for the “public good”, then you don’t own it. End of story.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses — even against their will — for private economic development.

This is beyond eminent domain, where generally private property was taken to build a road, or a dam or something where the “public” benefits. This ruling by the SCOTUS means your government can take your house to build a Walmart.

Look at it this way: The majority of the nation knows Bush lied like a dog to drive us into an unwinnable (but, for his cronies, incredibly profitable) war. The rest either refuse to believe it, or they claim, with equal parts ignorance and blind jingoism, that the ends (ousting a pip-squeak dictator who was no real threat to anyone and who had been successfully contained for 20 years) justify the means ($200 billion, 1,700 dead Americans, over 10,000 wounded and disabled U.S. soldiers, countless tens of thousands of dead innocent Iraqis, staggering economic debt, the open disrespect — if not outright contempt — of the entire international community).

Here is the American cynic’s view: It is almost too late to care about the lies. It is almost pointless to scream and rant and point fingers of blame. We all know who is to blame, and it ain’t Saddam, and it ain’t Osama, and it ain’t “terror,” and it ain’t our “freedoms.” Bush has driven us so deep into the Iraq hellhole it serves almost no purpose to whine about the obvious deceptions and blatant whorelike pre-9/11 machinations that got us here.

More from Mark Morford here.

On File

By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet.

So now the DOJ has wisely made the world safer by forcing anyone even remotely connected with publishing erotic images to keep elaborate files on the true identities of everyone in said images for seven years. And we’re even more secure because law enforcement officers can wander into adult businesses any time they want, without a court order, and go through every single file for hours or days at a time. But few people - save for the heroic Free Speech Coalition, which is working on crushing this new regulation with injunctions and lawsuits - are going to argue with placing porn under surveillance. After all, porn is naughty, and the people in it don’t deserve privacy.

Romney eyes penalties for those lacking insurance

By Scott S. Greenberger, Globe Staff | June 22, 2005

Massachusetts residents who choose not to obtain health insurance would face tax penalties and even the garnishing of their wages under a proposal Governor Mitt Romney unveiled yesterday.

Romney says the ”individual mandate” he is proposing, part of his broader plan to cover the roughly 500,000 people who are uninsured, would not cost the state any money. But some healthcare specialists say the approach might cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than state taxpayers currently provide for government health coverage.

This is just nuts. First off, if you can’t afford health insurance, why does this moron think you can afford a fine? And secondly, since when is it the state’s business if we have health insurance or not?