GMO backers

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Grist also has this up on the companies who don’t want the public to know what’s in their food.

Again, I go back to the often used Bush-era phrase:  “If you have nothing to hide…”  Why would one object to the GMO labeling unless they know that the public is going to stop buying that trash food in droves when they realize it’s GMO?  Or perhaps they’re afraid that people will finally be able to link their health issues with GMO food–gut inflammation, allergies, skin rashes, lung issues, heart issues, etc.?

 

 

Ryan still trying…

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…to take food out of the mouths of the poor…

…so he won’t have to tax the 1% nor, heaven forbid, cut defense spending…

*note that the Senate has also opted to cut food stamps–just not to the same degree, so, yeah, they’re just as bad.  You don’t cut a food program in the middle of a Depression…er, I mean Recession (like I’ve said before—it’s sooo much easier when you don’t acknowledge there’s a problem, then you don’t have to be held accountable for not getting off your butt to do something about it.)

“cruel” and “cold-blooded”, for sure.

 

 

Cruelty to the two-leggeds, as well…

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…school lunches should not be subsidized, according to this: http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/no-low-too-low-todd-akin

It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant people are who live off the public dole, and then hold themselves up to be pillars of society while kicking people when they’re down…

Here in FW, the second largest city in the state, 70% of the children in school require lunch assistance. Seventy freaking per cent!!

All throughout the summer, the public schools (not charter schools, mind you) provided lunches at the public libraries…they always had a full room of hungry kids.

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And, as a side note, it irritates me that I cannot buy a very nutritious carrot-apple-beet juiced drink at the juice bar in the organic store, but I can buy nutrient-lacking, sugar loaded, gut destroying soda from that same store…makes perfect sense to me. /snark

 

Owner abandoned dog while others rescued it

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Link here.  The first question I have:  Why in the hell would you take a dog up on that kind of terrain?  Second question is why didn’t you mount the same efforts to save her as the complete strangers did?

Of course, I’m for the people who saved her to get to keep her.  The original owner lost is claim on her when he abandoned her.  You’re done.

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The local case here of the soulless creep who allegedly threw a kitten in a fire was back in the news–he is claiming that he *might have bumped* the kitten into the fire while he burned pictures of his now ex-girlfriend….um-hmmm.

And when the reporters told the story, it led one to believe that the kitten perished.  It’s still alive and people have called in wanting to adopt it.  If they don’t get this particular kitten, they should get their butts over to the humane society shelter and adopt a pet from there.  Two of the best pets I’ve ever had came from animal shelters.

…and if one goes to a shelter (or anywhere to get a pet)  let the animal *choose* you…you’ll know what I mean with their body language–they’ll move in towards you, their eyes will brighten up, their tails will be wagging (dogs), or if it’s a cat, it will make its feelings known like my kitty Sammy did–she rubbed up against the cage as if she were rubbing against my leg….these two were the best pets because they chose.  I didn’t know what it meant at the time, as I wasn’t where I’m at now in understanding, but now I get it.

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More animal stuff–

Remember that cool picture I linked to recently with the lion and porcupine? I thought that the porcupines were holding their ground….

…yeah, well, things weren’t quite as they appeared.

My kids used to have a subscription to National Geographic for Kids.  I saved a few issues and found this same picture in it.  The caption had three questions of what was happening.  One of them asked if the lion flipped the porcupine over and pounced.  With a feeling of dread, I looked at the answer…yep…the lion flipped the porcupine over….<sigh>

 

 

 

 

Convergence of communications

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The radio news today stated that Frontier Communications was down…internet and phone service, so if the listeners were being served by that company, they would be out of service until Frontier came back online.

They went on to say that the police in the town of Huntington were affected by this, and if people needed to contact the police, they need to call the Indiana State Police and then they gave an 800 number to call.

WTH?  Can you imagine the chaos this has caused?

It’s another glaring example of the dangers of consolidating all communications into one company.  Even if I had the money, I would not have all of my phone, internet, and cable service from one provider.  (I’m saying that without checking into what’s available in the area–I briefly looked at what was available when I moved here, but haven’t lately–so for all I know, there isn’t separate service available.)

When one company has all of that, and they fail for whatever reason (no reason has been given for Frontier’s issues), it can have serious repercussions, as with a fire breaking out, or someone having a heart attack and cannot call “911” or a crime in progress…and on…

Why is consolidation never considered from the consumer’s point of view??

Numbers of importance

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(Okay, feeling a little more lucid today…back to business…)

People who starve in America per given year.

More statistics on the world here.

More debate about the *cough* non-issue here.  Repeat after me:  “If you don’t acknowledge there’s a problem, then there’s no problem.”

Deaths from prescription drugs here--a whopping 100,000 people die every year from prescription drugs and 2 million are seriously injured…but you wouldn’t know that by the lack of attention it receives.  I’m sure that the drug companies buying advertising on the TV networks has *nothing* to do with the lack of sunlight on the issue.  /snark

But those same TV nooz stations will begin (if they haven’t already, since I’m cable-less, I don’t know and I don’t have time to search the web to find out) their onslaught of dire warnings to the American public on the upcoming flu season and how they better get on the stick and get those poisonous vaccines shot into their already beleaguered bodies.  The radio stations here are doing their best to get the hype going on West Nile again…today they announced that horses have died of West Nile, so owners are being urged to get their horses vaccinated.  Wanna know how many horses have died?  Three.  Yep.  I wonder if those horses die from the vaccine if it will be duly noted and reported to authorities? Nah, we can’t have that.  That would be responsible and accurate.

Other deaths by pharmaceutical companies here.  Keep the kleenex handy.  A story of a mother’s heartbreak over the belief she was doing what a good mother does…

More on vaccine deaths here.    Note the similar blanket excuse of SIDS. Here’s a site that blames the parents (mother) for SIDS…oldest trick in the book–that way, she’ll feel guilty for being a poor parent instead of questioning the vaccines the child received. More blaming here…by National Polite Republican.

More parents’ stories here.  But the public is going to be urged to put this poison into their children…and then be blamed if their child dies as a result.  This is criminal.  I can’t even read them all because it’s just too hard.

I’m struggling with this issue with my own kids now–they’ve been brainwashed to believe vaccines are okay and I’m being an alarmist.  I’ve seen how they have affected a sibling’s grandkids and how the child changed dramatically after receiving these horrible shots.  I can’t convince my kids that there is a connection.  I don’t have grandchildren yet, but I’m trying to prevent a tragedy.

And thanks to Senator Frist, you can’t touch Big Pharma.   Profit$ without penalty nor accountability. More here.

…let’s not forget Frist killing kittens for “medical research”.   Paragraph here:  http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/bill-frist/

And more here.

And speaking of cruelty to animals, the FW radio stations were reporting this morning that allegedly a man had tied a firecracker to a kitten’s tail, and it appears that he allegedly threw the kitten into a fire.  The story went on to say that the man’s girlfriend owned the cat and she was quoted as saying that the boyfriend was complaining that the “cat was always around.”    Sounds like a great guy. /snark

 

Michigan

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(A side note~ A funny thing about the migraines is that a song will usually pop into my head. This time it was “We all live in a yellow submarine…a yellow submarine…a yellow submarine…”  (Yellow Submarine, The Beatles)  Haha.  It’s funny now but not so much when I’m lying their like a slug in pain…)

I’m still feeling rather puny and foggy-brained, so I’m not posting any more than this post–
One of the residents of the building has left copies of Muskoka magazine out for the rest of us to enjoy.  This particular month’s magazine just has me drooling…

They talk about a couple who lived on Lake Muskoka (that has got to be a Native American name.  They inhabited the area before the Europeans took over.)  Anyway, this couple had made plans all their life to build their own dream home on the lake and it looks and sounds wonderful.

Michigan itself is a beautiful state.  They actually treasured their trees, unlike Indiana, which couldn’t plow them down fast enough…and *still* has not learned the lesson of what has been lost.  If you take a look at a real time map, you’re able to spot Indiana without anyone even drawing lines–compared to Ohio and Michigan, we are devoid of trees.  There’s a little scrap of land here that must resemble what Indiana once looked like before paved roads and skyscrapers took over–it’s like walking back in time…

…and it’s being threatened with closure (probably some greedy developer wants the land to build more condos…)

Speaking of which, the Muskoka magazine featured an article on a 70-acre (?) spread that once was home to a sanitorium, long since closed.  Can you imagine?  They once actually cared about mentally ill folks (and the ones with tuberculosis) in a setting that was peaceful and serene…

And now they’ve hired a new head honcho who wants to…wait for it…demolish the buildings and…well, we don’t know what they want to do with the property, because the article just dances around what they’re planning, but where have you ever heard of a $$$ dollars man seeing the value in nature and leaving it undeveloped??

I mean, the properties listed in the back of the magazine are prime real estate–they actually have an island for sale for $13,000,000.  Of course, if this is too salty for you, they also have some for the *cough* poor folks in the $3-9 million dollar range…

…so…you can see what is going through this head honcho’s mind without the article even stating the obvious…the property has been left alone since 1994, and they just hired this guy and he immediately wants to tear the buildings down (not really a problem, unless they’re in the way of building something…but since they will cost millions to tear down, there will be money coming in to cover it, n’est pas? (gah, I hope I spelled that right–long time since high school French class )

So…a serene untouched area will be once again devalued for the very natural state that gives it value.  Makes complete sense to me. /snark

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And speaking of serenity for the mentally ill–the state hospital I used to work out was like that, also.  Of course, we didn’t have a lake or as many trees on the property, but it was still maintained in a way to give a sense of peace and serenity.  It also was self-sufficient back in the day.  They had their own bakery, their own farm to grow their food, and I think they may have even had their own butchering, but I’m just guessing at that.  That all went away with the reforms of the mental institutions.  They threw the baby out with the bathwater.  I think it would be so much more gratifying for a patient to help in farming than to sit around all day watching mindless TV.

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And speaking of things popping into my head–I thought of something that I wrote on a blog many years ago–

It’s the same blog that I had my answer deleted after I said that Hillary Clinton was no “Shirley Chisholm”…

There was a guy that the blog owner liked, so he frequently guest blogged.  He was obsessed with the behavioral psychologists, and one in particular really irked him.  He was always writing blogs against this guy’s research.

One day, he wrote a blog on how this guy was studying the human will.  He asked the question “Why would anyone try to determine if there is a human will?

To which I replied:  “Job security??”

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