By Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
The District of Criminals was brought to a standstill and congress rendered unable to meet as a result of three blizzards converging over a three day period. The snow which collected at about 2 feet, along with winds and severe cold temperatures was too much even for the criminals in the beltway. Democrats and Republicans alike were forced to remain at home. Considering the damage done to the country each and every time congress is in session, most of us had long ago concluded that D.C. was the epicenter of hell. Well…..HELL FROZE OVER.
Meteorologically speaking, two blizzards in any area during a one week period is a spectacular occurrence. To have three converge, especially over D.C. is divine intervention.
In terms of fiscal issues, these could be the storms that saved the country from total insolvency.
In terms relative to congress, these could be the storms that created career threatening conditions. After all, if congress can’t get together to reek havoc on the country how will they ever be able to shovel enough crap our way to earn all those perks and special privileges they enjoy so much? Geez! This could cause a great deal of lobbyist money to stop rolling in the door! The money mill that is our government will effectively be brought to a halt.
May the snow continue to fall. May the snow removal equipment stall out and fail to function. And may the god of blizzards continue to dump as much snow, ice, wind and whatever else it has in its arsenal upon this corrupt district that has caused so much despair and misery in our nation all for their own profit and self promotion.
Mark this week on your calendars; this was the week that hell actually did freeze, and we are getting this small reprieve from more government corruption. Enjoy this quiet time, take a deep breath and appreciate the peace and quiet. After all, when hell thaws out again the same bunch of criminals will be working fast and furious to make up for lost time.
With that thought in mind, maybe we should all start praying for the Potomac to breach its banks in the spring. One can only hope.
Tags: congress, corruption, Democrats, government corruption, Republicans
(C) Kathryn Smith, February 5th 2010
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Just weeks after the September 11th, 2001 attacks, Bush confronted Congress with the thick Patriot Act bill, saying that anybody in Congress who did not vote for it blind, would be publicly dubbed as “soft on terror”. The traumatized and strong-armed Congress passed it without debate in a matter of days. Senator Russ Feingold stood as the lone Senator to “Just Say No”, while 2/3 of the House passed it, with only 1/3 voting “No”. On the second time around, very few additional Congresspersons had the courage to join the “no” ranks, though a few of them did.
According to an email from the ACLU dated on February 4th, 2010, the Patriot Act is now up for renewal in Congress as certain provisions are set to expire this February. And as is typical, Congress is once again being fear-mongered into voting for it, along with what the ACLU says is even more freedom-curtailing provisions than before. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: aclu, congress, Constitution, house, patriot act
By Barbara H. Peterson
A USDA press release put out yesterday, February 5, 2009, states that implementation of NAIS has been ceased, and instead, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack will opt for a state and tribal-run system. Read this brochure from APHIS:
USDA Animal ID QandA
Here is the press release from the USDA site: Read the rest of this entry »
We are back up and running. However, I am going through the postings because it seems that most of them lost some formatting. I am going through them one at a time to clean up the gibberish inserted in the text.
Thanks for your patience.
By: S.D. Fields (C) copyright 2010 All rights reserved
How could this happen? There is catastrophic ignorance from our legal system when applying patent law to life. Assuming genetics are stable enough to continue indefinitely is equivalent to assuming a farmer is going to get the same amount of rainfall every year, exactly when they need it.
These genetics are a parallel to our hi-way system. Layers of publicly funded research and development have expanded the various corridors for the public to access and spur economic growth. The same taxation without benefit is occurring also. Public universities are patenting publicly funded research and allowing single seed companies to claim it as their own.
Dupont recently tried to utilize the genetic infrastructure by attaching their chemical event to Monsanto’s chemical event. Dupont wanted to behave like Monsanto in the end; eliminating farmers choices by enforcing no seed saving. Monsanto certainly didn’t want to be piggybacked off of; they could dish it out but they couldn’t take it. The courts lack the wisdom to settle issues in an industry that Monsanto had covertly worked to de-regulate; their court opinions simply don’t work. Read More
Tags: dupont, genetics, monsanto, patenting life, patenting seeds, public domain, public funding, seed saving
Wafaa’ [INEAS] speaks about IRAQ’s Order 81, which was passed by Paul Bremer on April 26, 2004 to award Iraq’s agricultural treasures to multinational corporations such as Monsanto and Cargill.
Tags: bremer, Cargill, destruction of agriculture, dupont, genetic engineering, GMO, iraq, Monopoly, monsanto, order 81, seed theft
