I Just Want Your COOKIES!

For whatever reason, sometimes it's good to get away from fear mongering. The folk who have the money do their level best to shuffle us all into their way of thinking, and their only concerns are more money, power, control....
Well, the best way around their idiocy is just to walk away from it.
There is a fine phrase from the bible that goes: "Get thee behind me, satan" and this could very well be the best answer, eh?

(Course, that big sharp knife looks handy, too....)

We May Not Be the Cause of Global Warming

But we sure aren't helping any!

Religions of the World

Found it at Jeanie's

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Jeanie's Place

Halloween is for Laughing!

Pass on the Snake, just a bit of beagle, eh?

OK, well, Mickey Mouse and Jiminy Cricket, that is.

The labeling has begun, and we'll soon all of us know from where our food products come from. Which, in itself, will be an amazing transformation of our greater dietary wants and dislikes.
I don't mean to trivialize it, but, really...it's gotten kind of silly, hasn't it?
Eggs are bad for a person.
Eggs are good for a person.
Good for a person, bad for a person, good for a person, bad for a person....
Like wine and coffee and chocolate and milk and meat and bread and carbohydrates....good lord, give us a break!
We eat what we want to eat.
Someone told me that New Jersey was the last place where eating horse was legal.
Tell that to Homer who took one of his ponies out to the slaughter barn last week, shot stripped and cut it into portions for the following two months.
He has snails crawling all over his property, but when asked if he eats them, a resounding, "EEEUUU!" breaks the air.
People eat what they want to eat, what they were brought up to eat....
Some Asians do appreciate dog. Or Snake liver.
Some French eat snails.
Just for laughs
Go to a fancy ball where anti-abortionists are gathered, and around the caviar table mention that they're eating unborn fish....)
So, the tagging of food stuffs has begun in full swing. And it will undoubtedly become a venture in geographic exploration, too. Sure, they grow bananas in California, but the ones from Brazil are cheaper. And where in the dickens is ****ing, Austria? Well, it's in ****ing, Austria, although they do have a problem keeping their signs. Seems that English hooligans come and steal them, for some reason or other.

One of the things folks were interested in was the information concerning radiated food. Or irradiated food. Some fear that the use of food products such as this will make the population sterile. (Is that the same scientific theorizing that said that breaking the sound barrier will create a tear in the atmosphere, pulling all air and oxygen into the outer space regions?) It completely disintegrates bacteriological substances and lets us store some foods in a neutral storage versus the refrigerator. Hey, anyway to cut down energy use is a good thing.
Sure, we'll still need the fridge for after the food is cut, cooked, served, and declined because we have to store it in a cold area so that we can watch the mold grow slowly, methodically over the leftovers.
DNA modified foods, carrying the deadly curse of the cliche, FRANKENFOOD is also suspect. Folks think because scientists have taken the time and effort to separate out the best growers with the greater weight of food that somehow it has become a bad thing. Nevermind that the same folks flock to something called ancient seed gardening, or 'heritage' seeds... where the seeds used are the same DNA structures of plants from a hundred years ago.
Hello....it's the same thing! Difference: One is a studied set from today, the other is a set from hundreds of years ago.
The corn stalks that produce well get their seeds saved for another planting. That's the basis for today's genetically produced foods.
And, my guess is, if you're hungry enough, you'll eat what's on your plate.
Else there won't be any desert!

Now, on the other hand, there is something else.
Here, in meat packing and other, there is an allotment of mice and bugs allowed in food products.
We allow for so many mice/rat parts per million to be absorbed in the whole. Bugs, too.
But in China, say, they may have n allotment of dog and or snake parts in their food stuffs.
And that's why, I'll pass on the viper and beagle, thank you. Just a bit of mickey mouse and jiminy would be fine.
(really? Bugs AND mice?....EEEUUU!)

only as an opinion, mind you

Australia coastal living at risk

About 80% of Australians live in coastal areas

Australians may have to leave coastal areas as rising sea levels threaten homes, according to a new report.

The parliamentary committee report says urgent action is needed, as seas are expected to rise by 80cm (31 inches).
About 80% of Australians live in coastal areas, and the report recommends new laws banning further development in coastal regions.
Correspondents say the authorities are divided over whether to retreat from rising seas or defend the coastline.




There is a similar problem in the states, but, actually it's the opposit.
People try to bind waterways into permanent positions, yet, the very nature of waterways was, for centuries before we arrived, an evolving course.
That is, the Mississippi changed from year to year, smaller streams also varied. Very possibly, this would be one of the reasons so much wonderful growth was present around such a large swath of lands around rivers.
And, now it seems the 'normal' thing to do is dump trash, fertilizers, waste, chemicals, whatever into these waterways. As a nation of slobs, we top most of the world in this matter.

So, to protect the water, people SHOULD be banned from any approach except as environmentally sound visiting.