Spiders In Your Food

enetically Modified Foods.  The very phrase, which speaks of spiders' DNA being inserted into soybeans, or fish DNA into corn, to name two methods, strikes terror into the heart of knowledgeable consumers.  No wonder science itself, is losing its once inviolate name to draw back the curtain of ignorance, to reveal truth upon greater truth, is now being stained by "scientists" whose every work brings further betrayal upon humanity.

Eight bills dealing with the highly volatile GMO issue are about to be debated in the Oregon Legislature.  True, there was a big moment in California, when voters suddenly turned in upon their own best interest and defeated the motion to label GMOs.  But then too, there was Monsanto spreading huge amounts of money, buying everybody with the smallest amount of legislative power.  Not to mention the fact that the vote count was polluted and that issue, too, has never been satisfactorily resolved.  The polluters counted on time and distance to let the issue pass out of public scrutiny.

Monsanto is known to be extremely liberal in its buying of legislators and judges.  Beginning back with Canadian Farmer, Percy Schmeizer who attempted to sue Monsanto for polluting his crops.  The judge not only found for Monsanto but ordered Schmeizer to forfeit to Monsanto, his heritage seeds; seeds which had been cultivated for generations by his family.  Fortunately, Schmeizer had the good sense to fight the decision all the way up to the Canadian Supreme Court.  Unfortunately, Monsanto had not only fouled Schmeizer's crops, but had paid off every judge along the way to the Supreme Court.

The fouling of Justice is one of most tragic results of all this.

I am not so sure Schmeizer would have won were his case to come before the United States Supreme Court as the court is now structured.



It is simply not possible to be a thinking person, and do just a modicum of research on the subject of GMOs and still come down on Monsanto's side.  Consider: it is Monsanto, alone, which is responsible for the suicides of thousands of farmers in India.  That gross tragedy will have to be discussed in another essay.  Suffice it to say,  India has had to ban Monsanto from dealing at all in that country.  It is a sign of the corrupt era we live in that the American State Department has made sure that that story has never surfaced in America.  That is one of the more embarrassing stories posted on the whistleblower site, Wikileaks.  It also explains why so many at the top of the Obama administration want Julian Assange dead or alive.

If this vital issue should happen to lose in the Oregon legislature, we may soon be reading of bills in Congress which seek to protect the rights of rich people to buy legislatures and congresses.  Not to mention judges and newspapers.
      

n recent years, science and economic theory have learned several crucial points about the link between great wealth and low IQ.  First, great wealth seems to diminish intelligence or IQ.  And along the same lines, one of the important studies recently showed that very stupid people tend to be inordinately proud of their stupidity.  The Dunning-Kruger Effect.  The lower the IQ, the more the pride, and the louder and more persistent the braggadocio.  Did someone say Tea Party?

This explains a lot.

The Dunning Kruger Effect also works in reverse.  Very clever, skilled persons tend to be disconcertingly modest.  Especially about their own talents.  This does not seem to be false modesty.  Rather, it appears to plague one with self-doubt.

But for the moment, let's return to the correlation between IQ and Wealth.

It is the major thesis' of the 2002 book, IQ And The Wealth of Nations, by Richard Lynn, available at Amazon,  that a higher IQ is one of the main keys to earning great wealth.  But there's a big fat irony which then comes into play.  Having once accumulated this great wealth, one's IQ begins to diminish.  That's right.  The engine that got you there begins to fall apart.  And that is where the Dunning-Kruger effect enters.  John Cleese puts it in his own special way ::  "Truly stupid people will never know they are stupid." Why is it, do you suppose, that a truly stupid man never knows, and never will, that he is stupid, ox-like, and foolish in his pride.

Take your average Republican; a neo-con of today, for example.

I rest my case.

One thing which scares wealthy people, is that given a superior education and every opportunity, nobody can say with the least certainty from whence the next Einstein will arise.  If history is at all reliable, genius tends to arise out of poverty, just as easily, indeed, the advantage tends to reside with poverty, rather than privilege.    

The Bush Crime Family

know it is silly to still be fretting over the Bush Administration, but it really bothers me that this entire family, three generations of them, treasonous as the day is long at midsummer, got away with treason starting with Grand Dad Prescott's financial support of Hitler.  Prescott Bush was invested heavily in I.G Farben, who manufactured munitions and weaponry for Hitler's army.  

And then, George W. Bush, got so many of the Religious Right, the Evangelicals, especially in the flyover states, to support him.  And this support was not merely a casual sort of voter support of a candidate.  

No!  

This was loyalty such as we have not seen since peasants and knights loved and swore fealty to their king with a love that surpasseth understanding. This sort of thing is best illustrated by the woman in Ohio who said that if she saw George W. Bush take a gun and blow out her little boy's brains before her very eyes, she would still love that man. This huge support for a monster, who gave us torture, the illegal invasion of Iraq, is very disturbing. These Americans need to be shot for treason as well. With all generosity one might say, that such people did not know who they voted for.  That his appalling policies disgusted them. 

They could claim that the first time.

But they elected him a second time.

They are guilty and complicit as hell!    

But here is video in which a respected investigative journalist talks about what he found as hard evidence demonstrating the treasonous nature of the family.

Fascism and the Internet

he Federal Government is about to become your enemy.  The FBI has already shown itself to be working on behalf of the criminal banksters and against the 99%

1984 is the blueprint of a perfect society --- at least as far as the Fascists are concerned.  Why are the American people letting this happen?  View this video and do something about it or become a serf.


  

Abortion Profiteering and Mitt Romney

itt Romney's refusal to reveal his income taxes, is based on more than the fact that for some years he did not pay a dime.  His base would be fine with that.  Oh, they might not love it, but it would not seriously hurt. It bothers them not one whit that Romney, a trust baby, who began life with millions of dollars, who persecuted gays boys at his elite private school, now evades paying any taxes at all, while you and I are up to our elbows, struggling to pay our mortgages to the pig banks.and the IRS.  No, conservatives like that about Romney. But there is another reason.  A reason that would force his base to weep great salty tears whenever they heard his name.  A reason which, if proven beyond a reasonable doubt, would end his entire campaign overnight.  And his campaign people are running as fast as they can to put out the little fires that would blow this into a huge conflagration.

Oh, the flat-out mutha-lovin' hypocrisy!

This is good!

Really good.

Ever hear of a company called Stericycle?

Stericycle is a medical waste clean up company.  As in cleaning up after an abortion.  Abortion?  Yes.

Abortion.

Mitt Romney and company have tried their damnedest to distance themselves from Stericycle.  They have tried to claim that Mr. Romney was no longer associated with Bain Capital Equity Group at the time that Bain owned controlling shares of Stericycle.  But they can't make it stick. Mother Jones sent a request to the SEC for copies of original documents tracing the ownership of Stericycle to Bain throughout the very years Romney's people are trying to claim he just wasn't there.

Those claims turn out to be just another bald faced lie, of which there have been far too many lately.  So let's just clear the air:  A vote for Romney is a vote, not for Pro-Life issues, and not even for abortion.  

A vote for Romney/Ryan is a vote for abortion profiteering.  Let me say that again.

Abortion Profiteering / Mitt Romney!

Romney made millions upon millions on Stericycle.  How could he not?  They have more than 475, 000 accounts.  Now the next question is this: Why the Republican owned media has fumbled the ball on this issue? Not so much as a a peep from the New York Times.  Not a hint or a clue from the Gannett owned Statesman Journal here in Salem, OR, the Capital city of the great state of Oregon.  Nada from the conservatively owned Oregonian in liberal Portland.   Not entirely Zero but close.
 

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Tactics of Gangsters

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he Republican Party should be ashamed of themselves.  Running around desperately restricting the rights of voters.  If Republicans had a photon of decency, they would not countenance such outright villainy.

 Specifically in the states of Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.  So far.  And this is over the strenuous objections of the federal Department of Justice.  Those conservative officials seem to enjoy thumbing their noses at the Feds on this issue.

In America, for Christ's sake!

It is a series of moves by state governors and legislators, those which are predominantly conservative, which points to desperation.  It says, very loudly, that there is the head-banging realization followed by the palpable, throat-grabbing fear, that the only way the Republican Party can win is by cheating.  Last time, the Republicans cheated by fixing the Diebold voting machines.

Oh, puh-leez, don't even think about denying it.  Everybody knew!  We even have the statement from the CEO of Diebold promising that he would do anything to guarantee Bush election. So what we have is a Party of Dunces who can achieve nothing without willfully destroying the Spirit of Democracy.  And whose members have so relinquished their moral compass that they've descended to the level of snake in the grass;  and this time they make no bones about the fact that they are doing this sort of thing.  In Ohio, for example they are extending the hours of voting polls in Republican districts.  But they are shutting down the polls in Progressive districts early.  And the statements uttered by the Secretary of state are so absurd it makes one woozy to contemplate the chutzpah he brazenly demonstrates to the world.

This is the way of the bully, the fraud, and thug gangster.  One feels embarrassment for the poor creature even if he himself is beyond such emotions himself.

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 As they say in the Deep South: a man who will lie to you, will steal from you.  And a man who will steal from you will kill you.

But beyond the officials, who give no hint of embarrassment at their own treason,  are the conservative voters themselves, who have made no outcry protesting such blatant attempts to circumvent the US Constitution and abridge the right of voters, regardless of said voters political persuasion.  Such lack of sanguine response to chicanery and outright knavery, speaks volumes about the moral fiber of the rank and file conservative voter themselves.

My new definition of a Republican is one whose political purview causes one's soul to cry out to be murdered in his sleep.

Dominionists and The New Theocracy

nthinkable as it is to me, there is a group of Christians, so called, the Dominionists so twisted in their cult-think that their main effort, their raison d'étre, is the destruction of the U.S. Constitution so as to replace it with the Bible.  And there is a great deal of money behind the movement.  People we have a lot of work to do.  To think that there are so many people in America who's heads are so twisted that they would desire to destroy the very country which allowed them the freedom to come together in the first place.

This is madness.

Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich are indicative of the ilk they would choose for their leaders.

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What will these people do when they finally discover that they, themselves are the false prophets and Anti-Christ they so much fear?  That the Bible is just a collection of old war stories and love songs, rants and fallacious histories?  In the meantime while it is most often counterproductive to ban a cult such as this, Christianity is now more detrimental to the welfare of our community than it is positive.

The Unitarians came out of the Enlightenment.  In fact, the Unitarian Universalists are the Enlightenment.  The same Enlightenment which produced the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.