Go, Go GMO

Ronald Bailey of Reason makes the case for GMOs to help the world's poor.

Comments

[henry]

Help them get a base load of calories? My understanding is they are poor and hungry due to excess government, not lack of GMO crops. See N Korea or Venezuela.

[Beasts of England]

Second, but I played the best guitars today: two vintage Gibson J-50s. A 1963 and a 1965. Eat your heart out, GUS!! :)

[Miss Marple]

Henry, in very poor areas of the world you could have a constitutional republic and it would still take decades to get their economies to where their kids weren't vitamin deficient. Certain conditions caused by vitamin deficiencies used to exist in our nation prior to modern food production and knowledge of nutrition, which had nothing to do with our government.

Let them raise the damn rice.

[henry]

Miss M, government is a bigger problem than lack of rice. Plus, I said nothing against GMO crops. Just pointed out that GMO in the hands of a Kim or Maduro solves nothing. Many African governments are that bad as well.

[Miss Marple]

Henry,

Of course there are bad governments. I don't know how to solve that, but I am pretty sure you can't get rid of them if the population is starving or blind.

[mockmook]

It's a chicken/egg problem, MM

Bad government means bad health.

[narcisoyea]

This was from a fausta link:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlmagroSchool/status/945989072434102272?p=v

[GUS]

Beasts, I made a trip to the VAULT at GUITAR CENTER today. I got quite a fix of LES PAUL'S and STRATS, I even played a vintage GODIN and a vintage HAGSTROM.

The boy bought a 61 key midi synth.

[lyle]

What am I, chopped liver? 😎

[Extraneus]

Second, but I played the best guitars today

Have you guys ever been to Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville?

I was standing next to a $25,000 Telecaster, and I do need a Telecaster, but I resisted.

[Beasts of England]

Dang it, Frack - my apologies!!

I think that qualifies for second place, GUS. If that doesn't upset poor neglected lyle... 😜

[Buckeye]

What am I, chopped liver? 😎

Depends.

What guitars did you play today?

[GUS]

I only eat RESPONSIBLY GROWN ORGANIC products.
My Coffee beans are only grown by BROWN PEOPLE who are paid FAIRLY.

I get my groceries a VS.

VIRTUE SIGNALERS

[Beasts of England]

I love Carter Vintage Guitars, Extraneus. He edited Gruhn's vintage guitar reference books and saw an opening in the market as Creepy George grew creepier. I'd say it's a top-five guitar shop in the country.

If you wanna call in your card number for that Tele, I'll run up there in the morning and grab it. Of course, you don't want to ship something like that in this cold weather, ya know. I'll have it to you no later than mid-April... ;)

[GUS]

BEASTS, when I came home, I played my 66 Gold Top, and both of my Takamine acoustics.

OH, and I sang several songs.

[boatbuilder]

I was on a ski lift last year at Breckenridge with my organic farmer-ski bum son (who is currently employed in the medical cannabis field, but that's another subject); I asked him about where he wanted to go with his farming career. He told me all about his interest in "no-till" farming and went on at great length about the evils of Round-Up and the practices of the agricultural corporations, in particular Monsanto, in developing and patenting round-up resistant strains of crops so that all the farmers have to do is spray round up to control weeds, etc., and also described various other evil practices which effectively keep agriculture under the thumb of Monsanto (as he sees it). He is quite eloquent and outspoken about it.

We then skied down and got on another lift with a very nice, older couple; I engaged them in conversation and learned that they were locals. I asked what brought them to Colorado and he said he came out to work for...Monsanto and recently retired from an executive position. My son had the grace to remain silent and I had a face mask on, thankfully, so nobody could see my expression. I asked the guy about the Broncos and we chatted until we got to the end of the lift.

For the record I agree with Mitch Daniels on this one. I have thus far failed to convince either of my sons to become Republicans, and I don't see it happening soon (although the tax cut and the repeal of the Obamacare mandate might help!)

[Beasts of England]

I miss my '52 Les Paul Standard (gold top) sometimes, but it was tough to keep in tune with that darned trapeze tailpiece, GUS.

[GUS]

One of my beauties.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS763US763&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=HItFWpD6EojRmwG28aSgDQ&q=tele+thinline+hmt+pics&oq=tele+thinline+hmt+pics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...39094.43929.0.44196.12.12.0.0.0.0.227.1050.11j0j1.12.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.5.543...0j0i24k1j0i30k1j0i5i30k1j0i8i30k1.0.43bGCHDn7xE#imgrc=C-p2h_32OH255M:

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
24m24 minutes ago

In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!

[Beasts of England]

I've seen that one, GUS - very nice!!

[GUS]

Beasts, scroll down to the PIC, the red swamp ash, immediately below the TELE hmt is mine too.

[JimNorCal]

I want the right to buy GMO foods.
I hope the anti-science types are pushed back so that the low info folks are not stampeded.
GMO foods: it's not just for the poor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ2TF8-PGQ4

[mad jack]

referencing the discussion from the end of the last thread- what we "know" and what can be proved are two different things. if you recall it was a little over a year ago when some of us (me) were saying that HRC could bite the head off a live baby on live tv and the press would cover for and/or explain it away. nothing has changed in that regard notwithstanding PDT's election. in order to get the public's attention on something like this you need incontrovertible proof of malfeasance/treason to get past the bias of the fourth estate and the fact that most of the populace has other things on their plate to worry about. the evidence has to be clear and clean enough to get gop reps and senators and, this is key, a few demos, to go all in. if the case isn't made sufficiently to get that kind of buy in then it's over and OL is pouring me a makers mark.

[GUS]

I was mistaken Beasts, the red one is above to the right. 4th from the left. Red Swamp ash, gold hardware.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

mad jack,

Child sex trafficking. If the Foundation profited from that (remember the comment he made at the Al Smith dinner about her taking several villages) it couldn't be excused away.

I have noticed a lot of thee types of operations being stopped - not massive, but a few herre, a few there. Increased talk about the subject is percolating up.

It's a long shot, but it's the one thing that no one would try to defend against.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/28/epic-trump-tweet-bundle-up/

The reason I am posting this is that the comments have older Trump tweets on global warming. one thing is that he has been consistent! The tweets go at least back to 2013.

Also, if you go to Trump's replies to that tweet, they are full of nutcases in full melt-down. We're all gonna die! Hliarious!

[lyle]

Hey, you're the one who emailed me the guitar porn earlier this year, Beasts!

[Clarice Feldman]

The anti-GMO nonsense, like the anti-vaccers is a tribute to the worthlessness of k-12 science education.

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

Willowed

Frederick reading Gibbon's "The HIstory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" as part of his Global History essay project.

The whole thing including the last volume on the Byzantine empire? That's a huge undertaking. Is the whole class doing it or was it a choice among different sources? I trust the class has some good historical atlases.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Rose Marie has passed away at the age of 94.

[mad jack]

mm: i am taking about the efforts by the deep state to illegally undo or influence a presidential election. this odd belief by some (and i dont include you) that there is some kind of massive international child sex ring run by democrat operatives that include the clintons and finding proof of it will take them down for good is nuts. every time it gets mentioned i think of the childcare witchhunts of the 80's. also every time it gets mentioned along with references to deep state malfeasance i become more convinced that we need not one but a dozen smoking guns to prove the case of deep state treason.

[joan]

Also brought over from last topic:

definition of vague: not clearly expressed : stated in indefinite terms; not having a precise meaning — vague in a sentence.

Conversation:

Gus: "Mockmook. VAGUE REFERENCE???
"In a text from August 15, 2016, Peter Strzok tells Lisa Page: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office” — an apparent reference to Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe — “that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.” Page does not appear to have responded, according to records reviewed by CNN.

"Read the paragraph. Then tell me about it being VAGUE. Why would the FBI need an INSURANCE POLICY against TRUMP being ELECTED??"

"Mockmook: If it wan't vague GUS you could tell me what the hell he was talking about."

Joan: Mockmook, I'll tell you what the hell he was talking about. Strzok reminds Page of a conversation in Andy's office where she is certain that HRC is not going to lose the election -- that there is no way in hell that Trump (he) will win. But Strzok doesn't want to take the risk; he wants to take out insurance and compares it to life insurance that careful people take out against the chance of an early accidental death or unexpected cancer. (This is the way careful people prepare for such an occurrence -- my husband did, in case he died, he didn't want me left alone with two small children to raise.) Strzok appears to be a cautious man.

Senator Grassley wants an explanation: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Sztrok wrote to Page. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40…”

"Grassley asked Rosenstein to provide any additional materials that might shed light on the meaning of that message. In recent public testimony, DOJ officials, including Rosenstein, have declined to divulge more context or details about the significance of the texts, deferring to an ongoing inspector general investigation of the FBI’s handling of a 2016 probe of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state."

McCarthy won't answer questions. Rosenstein won't answer questions. But there's nothing vague about the abundance of crap that's been emanating from the FBI's Russian investigation.

[mad jack]

rose marie was a lot younger than i thought she was on Hollywood Squares.

[lyle]

I tuned and played my Taylor today, thankyouverymuch.

[joan]

Regarding the GMO discussion -- I saw an article the other day that said broccoli was developed (by man) from the mustard seed.

I'll go duckduckgo it and see if I can find it. There were several other of today's vegetables that were listed as "new", too.

Newness being a relative thing. :)

[GUS]

Mockmook, 3 FBI UPPER ECHELON GOVT EMPLOYEE CRIMINALS, were discussing the NEED FOR INSURANCE POLICIES against a TRUMP PRESIDENCY, in the OFF CHANCE it would happen.

CLEAR ENOUGH FOR YOU???

[joan]

Broccoli is a result of careful breeding of cultivated Brassica crops in the northern Mediterranean starting in about the 6th century BC.

Wikipedia.

[GUS]

Joan, I like my corn BLUE and too hard to chew.

[joan]

Gus: lol !

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

mad jack,

Oh, I know it sounds nuts. I am simply reporting what I am seeing.

However, would you have believed the FBI would try to unseat a duly elected president? That's what they were up to, you know.

Hillary is amoral. I do not forget her "We came, we saw, he died -cackle, cackle, cackle" after Ghadaffi's death. Most chilling thing I ever heard from an American government official - and I am an old lady.

Who knows? Her usual MO is to both bribe people and compromise them at the same time. It will take a lot for people to turn against her. One can hope.

[GUS]

Lyle, that's good enough for me. Taylors are nice guitars.

[joan]

Another little nugget of useless information:

Justin Fuentes, VA Tech coach went to Union High School in Tulsa, OK. (He also played a year or so at OU.)

Mike Gundy, OSU coach went to Midwest City, OK high school. Was quarterback at OSU. His brother Cale Gundy was an OU quarterback, and is an assistant coach at OU.

:)

[narcisoyea]

Like spectre, I wouldn't be surprised they are involved in all sorts of skullduggery but arms sales money laundering at Al are the most likely.

[GUS]

Oh dear, I forgot to mention, the INSURANCE POLICY FBI AGENT, who was cheating on his wife, and texting to a WOMAN WHO IS ALSO FBI and cheating on her husband, is the same CRIMINAL FBI AGENT who interviewed MILLS and ABEDIN and gave them immunity in exchange for nothing.
Same man who exchanged texts expressing his disgust with Trump. I'm sure this INSURANCE POLICY vs TRUMP GETTING ELECTED means NOTHING. I mean it's so vague.

[Clarice Feldman]

wheat was bred from grass, corn from something that looks like insect spittle, broccoli, brussel sprouts, broccolini, cauliflower and kohlrabi, rabe, all were bred from wild mustard.

[GUS]

Can somebody help me with this???? Just a short paragraph, but I can't understand what it means.
"we can't take that risk"???? "insurance"......
It's just so VAGUE........

I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but *******I'm afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy******** in the unlikely event you die before you're 40.

Something about PETER, LISA and some VAGUE ANDY needing to indemnify themselves against a TRUMP UNLIKELY VICTORY. It's all so VAGUE.

[GUS]

Clarice!!! Why do liberals HATE SCIENCE????

[narcisoyea]

Tigerbeat has become a nasty scold

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/politics/trump-world-diplomacy.html?mtrref=drudgereport.com&gwh=E08D2E016F516C578DD14DB68C77FDF9&gwt=pay

[mad jack]

GUS: you know it and i know it but what tv news show or newspaper has published/spoken a word about it? no disrespect to our host but this blog is more spinal tap than the rolling stones. it's not enough at this point in history that we few know the truth of things. the world needs to be convinced. im willing to give it time and RG always gives me a boost when i need it but the fact is that a lot more then what we know now needs to come out or it's business as usual in the deep state.

[Janeprobably about 10 minutes after getting there]

Mad jack,

I'm not sure I understand the child trafficking thing but I read it as an executive order that would start with industry and work inward to the polititions which is why they talked about Eric Schmidt and Eric B (I forget) who ran Hillarys campaign and no one can find lately. At any rate it seemed like the EO could also sink Planned Parenthood. And if that makes no sense to you, join the club.

[Man Tran]

I read a fair amount about the development of corn many years ago and was flummoxed by a fundamental disconnect. The original grass ancestor was inedible except maybe for goats. So what motivation and what insight did those ancient farmers have to presumably take a few dozen human generations to patiently nurture the evolving plant into something useful.

On a larger scale I ponder how any development progressed down through history when the initial steps were essentially invisible to the the early inventors.

[narcisoyea]

Fix has a little off it, one America news I guess, the daily caller, mist everywhere else isotemki press.

[Jim Eagle]

Back from dinner.

One of Mrs. JiB's college classmates is now a prominent scientist in the GMO fields. Constantly, writing and testfying on the benifits of GMO against the "flouride" crowd as I call them. He is in Switzerland now, moving a few yeas back from Research Triangle.

Frederick is prepared to defend GMO at a moments notice if anyone wants to argue.

[Neo]

A pot dealer sets up business in a parking lot behind a local donut shop. Some local teens decide to rob the pot dealer. The pot dealer pulls a gun and shoots a 15 yo dead.
The dead teen's cousin sets up s Go-Fund-Me page ... to pay for what ? ... replacement of the pot he didn't bring home.

[Man Tran]

On a separate note, Bruce's posting on the last thread about lead poisoning bothers me mainly because it was always a hack excuse for inner city kids being well down the IQ curve. The new research seems more legit, but my skeptic gene is lit up and I'm inclined to wait for some counter studies to see where the holes are.

[mad jack]

thanks jane. i need to learn the secret handshake for that club:-)

[narcisoyea]

This is right out of yes prime minister:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/897602/Margaret-Thatcher-panda-flight-election-campaign-plane

[RattlerGator]

Even if Andy was McCabe, what was illegal? A vague reference to "insurance"? Certainly nothing we KNOW about.

Posted by: mockmook | December 28, 2017 at 06:43 PM

* * *

Mockmook (mad jack, et al.), are you asking a serious question? If so, I think this is where the Trump Administration will truly distinguish themselves, historically. I've read that a novel racketeering prosecution may be forthcoming but . . . the entire reason we have a FISA court is because it’s a TEXTBOOK CASE OF ILLEGALITY to spy on a political opponent (this is especially true where an attempt is made to use the government’s massive security apparatus to do it). The FISA Court was founded in 1978 after President Richard Nixon left office in disgrace for spying on a political opponent, right ???

I mean, are you saying a very clear crime isn't committed when a known false document is submitted by officers of the court *to* a federal court?

So, specifically and individually, how about we start with Criminal Fraud, mockmook? A crime revolving around this concept has definitely been committed. At a minimum, these are practicing attorneys we’re talking about. They are officers of the court. Whenever any officer of the court commits fraud during a proceeding in the court, he/she is engaged in "fraud upon the court".

I pulled this from a legal website somewhere so skip over if uninterested in caselaw -- In Bulloch v. United States, 763 F.2d 1115, 1121 (10th Cir. 1985), the court stated "Fraud upon the court is fraud which is directed to the judicial machinery itself and is not fraud between the parties or fraudulent documents, false statements or perjury. ... It is where the court or a member is corrupted or influenced or influence is attempted or where the judge has not performed his judicial function --- thus where the impartial functions of the court have been directly corrupted." "Fraud upon the court" has been defined by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to "embrace that species of fraud which does, or attempts to, defile the court itself, or is a fraud perpetrated by officers of the court so that the judicial machinery can not perform in the usual manner its impartial task of adjudging cases that are presented for adjudication." Kenner v. C.I.R., 387 F.3d 689 (1968); 7 Moore's Federal Practice, 2d ed., p. 512, ¶ 60.23. The 7th Circuit further stated "a decision produced by fraud upon the court is not in essence a decision at all, and never becomes final."

* * *

Whether a crime has been committed isn't, I don't think, open for debate. CRIMES have been committed by what is essentially a criminal syndicate. The only remaining thing is to see how well our team exercises their prosecutorial and political savvy. Again, they've shown themselves to be quite competent, and quite capable of methodically taking down their prey.

[RattlerGator]

The anti-GMO nonsense, like the anti-vaccers is a tribute to the worthlessness of k-12 science education.

Posted by: Clarice Feldman | December 28, 2017 at 07:58 PM

Clarice, that is precisely what my friend the Oregon farmer says. He's a fellow Board member on our project in Haiti and he just shakes his head at the foolish discussions that must be endured repeatedly.

[Jim Eagle]

joan.,

Congrarts on Cowboys win. Beth wasn't able to screw it up with her false baritone voice. Now its Stanford V. TCU. Should be a nice tonic for a long day where the weather has turned nasty on the coast in Florida. Wind, misting rain, heavy seas. But still in the low 60's F.

CH,

Only reading the one volume of Gibbons. What,Volume 1? His essay is on the 3rd century rulers who all were assassinated or killed themselves. I am waiting to read the final product:)

[Another Bob]

"CRIMES have been committed by what is essentially a criminal syndicate"

Preach it Brother RG, preach it.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

RG,

I have this argument with my daughter from time to time, because she took zero science in college (fine arts major) and is prey to every scare tactic the left can crank out.

I finally got her to understand the errors in global warming and today she said she wanted to put in a wood-burning stove in the back part of the house. Success!

Now if I can get her to quit worrying about GMO crops I will be quite satisfied.

[Jim Eagle]

Going to bed soon but would love to hear from RG and the other true believers in a full revealing of the sedition on how it is all going to come down. How do you see the scenario unfolding?

I do not believe the IG report will set off any triggers or explosions. Spending time in DC, I know how protective they all are of anything deep and expansive. Sacrifice one or two minor players? Okay, but don't ever go deeper.

But I am all ears for everyone else's take.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Jack,

All of the things that RG and GUS have discussed are crimes, but the general public (especially the dem side) will treat it as a ho-hum event. That is why the conspiracy has to involve not only the political spying, but crimes which are easy to understand, and upsetting to the average person.

As I said a few days ago, Trump has to have known about a lot of this before he ran. I believe it is partially why he ran. I also believe things were really bad or the members of the cabinet wouldn't have returned from retirement or left lucrative positions unless they knew they were needed, badly.

I just don't know how they will get the public to understand, given how terrible the press is. I talk to people who are interested and tell them what I know. I ask questions of people who seem like they are fence-sitters.

I just have to have faith.

[mad jack]

Please. To suggest that those of us who lean to the ledge side don't think major crimes have been committed is an (im sure unintended) insult. Prove this shyte! Put some heads on spikes! I'm patient but please don't tell me it's a done deal when no bad guy has even had to hire an attorney as far as i can tell.

[Catsmeat]

RG, I agree, sing it. But it has been a hard day (our second Christmas, unnecessary in its turkey and gravy and pies, I would argue, but the audience isn't me). All well, but nytol. Wine was good, blue Glenlivie good, cat and dogs happy, so basically all well.

That said, "insurance policy" seems obvious to me--the game is afoot! That's exactly the sort of things the clever people who are sure they are more virtuous than we would say as a mild periphrasis for "we will break the law for a good end."

[mockmook]

"It’s like an insurance policy"

What the hell is "it's"?

I'm sure the conviction for spouting nonsense is just around the corner.

[Catsmeat]

"It" means the behavior we are already engaged in with its dubious legality and our continuance of the same dubious behavior--given its obvious good ends (getting rid of Trump).

[narcisoyea]

No that only applies to speaking the truth, this policy was both defensive redoubts against the implementation of new policies by the incoming administration and the proactive targeting of all officials deemed effective.

That was quite a row of dominoes into the 3rd century from commodes to aurelian

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I am signing off. May check in on my tablet later.

Nytol.

[Threadkiller]

When Obama promised flexibility, after the election, to Vladimir, did we ever figure out what it meant?

[JimNorCal]

MissM, 7:38-ish
"Child sex trafficking ... it's the one thing that no one would try to defend against."

Hmm, you may not have seen this link ...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/california-democrats-legalize-child-prostitution/article/2610540
This terribly destructive legislation was written and passed by the progressive Democrats who control California’s state government with a two-thirds “supermajority.” To their credit, they are sincere in their belief that decriminalizing underage prostitution is good public policy that will help victims of sex trafficking. Unfortunately, the reality is that the legalization of underage prostitution suffers from the fatal defect endemic to progressive-left policymaking: it ignores experience, common sense and most of all human nature — especially its darker side.

[John Clark]

Have to agree with liberals on this. The spread of GMO DNA has been found 13 miles from the nearest GMO crops. If an organic farmer wants to avoid GMO or pesticides, property rights say we have to respect that. "Economic externalities" and all that.

[Clarice Feldman]

John Clark, it's a much less risky proposition that choking out waterways with run off insecticides and fertilizers which the GMO crops make unnecessary .

[mad jack]

our AG recused himself from anything to do with Russia so who in the DOJ is going to push on the FISA case fraud? The Special Mr.M? Congress? Ha. The best case scenario i can see is a tinker, tailor, soldier, spy ending where the traitors quietly get cashiered or shot and the right guys get put in charge. no big public fireworks. i hope to be pleasantly surprised. nite all.

[Buckeye]

If I am a GMO farmer, and my fields are being affected by organic DNA, shouldn't my property rights be respected?

Or maybe we should get a clue that nobody has control of the wind.

[narciso]

News from the kingdom

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-corruption/two-saudi-princes-released-from-detention-in-anti-corruption-probe-source-idUSKBN1EM1L4

[narciso]

I'm sure the globe and mail are on this:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/239983

[JimNorCal]

John Clark has a reasonable position. I don't come down on that side myself but it'd be good to have a thoughtful decision on where to draw the line.

I've heard lawyers sometimes say "hard cases make for bad law" or something similar.

[GUS]

I'm sorry, but Mockmook is hilarious.
Whether anyone in the LIBERAL CABAL OF CRIMINALITY and CONSPIRACY and SPECIFICALLY FBI AGENTS is ever charged or convicted, only a FOOL would not see what was going on.

Am I being vague??

[JimNorCal]

Yeah, GUS, you're too vague.
Yep yep, that's the ticket, your limiting factor is being wishy-washy. Spit it out, brother, tell us what you really think! :) :)

[Dave (in MA)]

Chuck Ross‏@ChuckRossDC 23: The number of times over the past day that CNN has mentioned the white box truck that obscured view of Trump golfing

0: For comparison, the number of times CNN has mentioned that Politico report on Obama admin's quashing of Hezbollah investigation.

[narcisoyea]

Quelled surprise:
https://mobile.twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/94637394927703244968

[JimNorCal]

Did we ever get to the bottom of the Las Vegas shootings?
How about the AmTrak derailment?

Or is it all some variant of HooCouldaNode?

[narcisoyea]

I don't think so, what happened to the crash in 2015, or the ambush in garland, we have a little more if an idea. But there are no seeming consequences. We sidnt put Donald steeling in a Philadelphia motel 6, and beat himwith steel rids but he was shook down just the same

[Dave (in MA)]

narcisoyea | December 29, 2017 at 12:08 AM

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[boatbuilder]

I come down on the pro-gmo side, JNC. But you are correct that it isn't as clear cut as either side presents it. I am a huge fan of locally grown and unusual varieties of veggies and the survival of small farms.We are enjoying a revolution in terms of what we get to eat these days. But I tell my son to read about Norman Borlaug. Feeding the world is a huge priority and agricultural technology is the key. Lots to talk about.

[narcisoyea]

Carlos slims hides the fact it wee zaphods delay I. The opinion.

[joan]

JimNorCal: "To their credit, they are sincere in their belief that decriminalizing underage prostitution is good public policy that will help victims of sex trafficking. Unfortunately, the reality is that the legalization of underage prostitution suffers from the fatal defect endemic to progressive-left policymaking: it ignores experience, common sense and most of all human nature — especially its darker side."

This reminds me of an article I read awhile back. Didn't California legalize HIV transmission between sexual partners (or something like that.) They didn't want to attach a stigma any longer or something to people with the virus.

"Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday that lowers from a felony to a misdemeanor the crime of knowingly exposing a sexual partner to HIV without disclosing the infection.
"The measure also applies to those who give blood without telling the blood bank that they are HIV-positive."

Supposedly, modern medicine has practically eliminated the disease. Also, CA legislators want to remove stigma against prostitutes and also claim now people will get tested, where before they wouldn't.

Republican opposition says "...if you purposefully inflict another with a disease that alters their lifestyle the rest of their life, puts them on a regimen of medications to maintain any kind of normalcy, it should be a felony,”....

I don't understand liberals.

[JimNorCal]

Joan, yes I think the CA Dems reduced the penalty for knowingly giving AIDS to another person (basically, giving them a death sentence) from felony to misdemeanor. Or maybe detention after school.

[JimNorCal]

narciso: "the ambush in garland"

Wait. We know more about that now? I somehow missed that an FBI guy was with the 2 Muslim shooters and apparently was egging them on. But that was highlighted recently in an article doing a roundup of "startling FBI" revelations.

[narcisoyea]

Well we know it happened, pinatas allow for more trajectory variation.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/366734-trump-us-could-use-some-good-old-global-warming-to-heat-up-cold

[MJW]

After spending hours looking through old Conservative Treehouse comments, I've got to admit my disparagement of sundance was unjustified and unfair. I apologize for my poor memory, and especially for not checking before commenting. I couldn't find any of the threads I objected to, but even if they exist (and I still think they do), they were obviously only a tiny fraction of his comments about the Zimmerman case. Next time I'll to have my facts straight before delurking.

[narcisoyea]

Yes one forgets how a mild outbreak became a global pandemic, it wee related by randy stilts in the band played on, and also David horowitz, they had identified the bathhouses in San Francisco as a man transmission point , and the health commissioner there merwyn silverman, refused to clise them. You may have heard of mervyns name, he is the head of afar, the leading aids charity, but they blame Reagan instead.

[MJW]

Next time I'll try to have my facts straight before delurking.

I always have at least one typo, no matter how many times I proofread.

[JimNorCal]

Dems and the media think recent VA and AL elections show they're back on top and have a plan.
Sometimes a blog post comes together in a real harmonious way, like this one by Deplorable Don Surber on that premise above.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2017/12/fake-news-may-cost-democrats-mid-term.html

First the article being quoted has a cool line:
"Gingrich ended his column, "If Republicans can learn to tell the truth better than the elite media and Democrats lie, the GOP will win an astonishing victory in 2018.""
A good clear prediction, easily verified. And well stated!

Next Don writes quite a nice line:
"The tax cuts and the Alabama loss have brought Republicans together. The sniping at The Donald from Republicans has subsided."
We all feel it, right? The tax cut bill was full of malarkey but overall it moved the ball in the right direction and there does seem to be a new willingness by Repub congress critters to do good instead of do what the Dems/MSM ask them to do.

Finally, a number of commenters with cogent remarks:
"Congress should pass a law requiring photo ID for national elections. The dems will lose all the dead, illegal and alien voters and their numbers will shrink by millions. Maybe even outlaw votes "found" in car trunks days after the election, too."

"A significant part of my DJT vote was a f*** you to the press. I doubt I'm alone."

"The (Dems) have acted like such lunatics, it's hard to see, with 23 of their Senators up for re-election, how they come through unscathed."

[joan]

The massacre in Las Vegas -- I realize we had a two or three-day debate about whether Stephen Paddock was the sole planner and shooter, and that the police have come to that conclusion.

But I still have a hollow and empty feeling when I think about that evening and see any pictures of Paddock, his girlfriend, the Mandalay with its two broken windows, and the festival grounds, littered and desolate.

I want to know more about how he lived, the money he sent abroad, his weapons, and how one man could be so evil, and no one in his life had an inkling of its vile and cancerous growth.

I think the police, FBI, our justice system owe us that much.

[narcisoyea]

Its understandable sometimes their hunches don't pan out, their conjecture re the shooting in north charlestin, certainly didn't turn out correctly.

But in the realm of foreign policy and domestic skullduggery they are on point more often than nit. When Mccarthy is debating angels on a pin, they have names dates places at Al.

[JimNorCal]

MJW, I like the cut of your jib! Pls delurk often :) :)

[narcisoyea]

Yes don't be a stranger. When opportunity presents itself.