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Re: “Quad City DJs”
Of course a male would have something to say. And of course it's someone who doesn't go to SSU. did you know there have been multiple sexual assualts and rapes on campus? Did you know that a male referring to a woman as a bitch, then that person being praised and paid mulitiple millions of dollars is setting the example that if you treat women like property, they will believe they are property? Your argument would be valid if the media didn't constantly degrade women. But the proof that something needs to change lies in the sheer number of girls and women with eating disorders, or women who think they need to get surgery to live up to someone else's standards. If we're playing this garbage on college campuses, a supposed safe place for students, then where do we females have to go so we're not surrounded by loud speakers, images, and even the opposite sex either blanantly or figuratively disrespecting us because of our gender?I did contact the group that played the music, and of course, I never got a response. I, for one Alex hope that you never have kids. Especially a girl because you have very little respect for women.
Re: “Letters to the Editor:October 10, 2012”
Rep. Paul Ryan as Romney' his vice presidential running mate. At an Atlas Society meeting celebrating Ayn Rand's life in 2005, Ryan said that "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand", and "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff."
Greenspan was born and educated in New York City, where he earned a BA, MA and, 27 years later in 1977, a PhD in economics. After earning his MA in 1950, Greenspan became a 20-year associate of famed philosopher Ayn Rand, author of books "The Virtue of Selfishness,""Atlas Shrugged" and more. Greenspan wrote for Rand’s newsletters and authored a chapter for a Rand book. As legend has it, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was once a member of Ayn Rand's 1960's salon. He was invited guest at Rand's apartment and apparently was close enough to have read her epic Atlas Shrugged as it came off her typewriter.
With his selection of Representative Paul Ryan as a running mate, Mitt Romney has told us exactly who he would be as President: a selfish capitalist. A Romney-Ryan White House would elevate selfishness above all else. To understand the values of Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan, it is necessary to understand their intellectual forebear, Ayn Rand. Ms. Rand was one of the most extreme public intellectuals of the twentieth century. As her central creed, she rejected the idea that people in a community should approach each other with charity, compassion, and altruism.
Ted Rudow III
Re: “Free Engine”
Here's a graphic reminder of what a fraud the 'regulatory' apparatus that supposedly protects us is:
http://www.cornucopia.org/is-the-usda-a-wholly-owned-subsidiary-of-monsanto/
What this scientist is saying is dead serious. This is not some philosophical
argument.
There is nothing more basic than what you eat. Your body has evolved over millions of years to protect your system from foreign proteins.
Genetically modified organisms not only have the genes from other species inserted in their DNA, i.e. soil bacteria genes in plants, fish genes in plants, other plant genes in plants, but in addition, all manner of uncontrolled odd combinations and recombinations of genes that cause your body to go into defense inflammatory mode every time you eat this junk.
Result? Allergies, stomach disorders, autism, arthritis, breast and prostate cancers.
This is not even mentioning the special pesticides like Roundup that the plants are
custom modified to resist in large amounts and that leaves residue in factory food.
See this movie for a through exposee of all this. It's your health.
Youtube
Genetic Roulette Movie
84 minute full length version.
Re: “Oct. 7: Calabash-A Festival of Gourds, Arts and Gardens at Food for Thought”
Please note that yellow crookneck squash is now being genetically modified by having different species genes from bacteria and virus inserted into its DNA.
That means in addition to corn, sugar beets, soybeans and canola and all the thousands of products made from them eating this squash can laterally transfer the bioengineered genes into your stomach flora and make them continuing producing the pesticide in your stomach.
Oh well, at least the insects and worms will die in your belly. Of course your children can get allergies, autism, leaky gut syndrome and other autoimmune conditions from this. You may get prostate and breast cancer and other conditions like fatique and premature aging. It's a risky gamble with you winning nothing but supposedly pest free food and the house winning every time in the extra expenses to grow these crops and as a bonus, the money from selling the special herbicide that the plants can resist and are drenched with.
It would be nice if genetically modified foods were labeled.
Vote Yes on Prop 37 to label them.
www.carighttoknow.org
This youtube video, the 84 minute version, will educate about this.
"Genetic Roulette Movie"
Re: “I Lost My Son That Night”
May the Federal Grand Jury indicted the shooters with live rounds for murder one.
They destroyed my life with falsehoods from a sick relative, and paralyzed me.
I knew too much because my father trained me. He was A. T. and F. and Explosives, and I.R.S..40 years plus...
Re: “Ride on a Zeppelin? Why, Sure! I'd Love to!”
Yeah, I have to say, I didnt like this thing flying so low over my house this past weekend.. it almost looked like it was gonna crash it was so low.. with the fire risk, Id rather them fly somewhere else.
Re: “Sept 8: Geoffrey Nunberg at Book Passage”
Seems Mr. Nunberg is an a-word...
Re: “The Real Genetics”
More vindication for the Prop 37 label GMO philosophy:
A new study shows crops that are genetically modified to resist drenching in Roundup herbicide cause cancer.
This is a full blown scientific peer reviewed study.
But first, I want to point you to a new video that will convince you to never eat another genetically modified crop again:
www.geneticroulettemovie.com
Roundup causes cancer:
http://www.criigen.org/SiteEn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=366&Itemid=130
“The two tested products are in very common use : (i) a transgenic maize made tolerant to Roundup, the characteristic shared by over 80% of food and animal feed GMOs, and (ii) Roundup itself, the most widely used herbicide on the planet. The regulatory approval process requires these products to be tested on rats as a surrogate for humans.
The new research took the form of a two year feeding trial on 200 rats, monitored for outcomes against more than 100 parameters. The doses were consistent with typical dietary/ environmental exposure (from 11% GMO in the diet, and 0.1 ppb in water).
The results, which are of serious concern, included increased and more rapid mortality, coupled with hormonal non linear and sex related effects. Females developed significant and numerous mammary tumours, pituitary and kidney problems. Males died mostly from severe hepatorenal chronic deficiencies. Professor Seralini's team in the University of Caen is publishing this detailed study in one of the leading scientific international peer-reviewed journals of food toxicology, on line on Sept. 19, 2012.
The implications are extremely serious. They demonstrate the toxicity, both of a GMO with the most widely spread transgenic character and of the most widely used herbicide, even when ingested at extremely low levels, (corresponding to those found in surface or tap water). In addition, these results call into question the adequacy of the current regulatory process, used throughout the world by agencies involved in the assessment of health, food and chemicals, and industries seeking commercialization of products.”
Re: “Romney, Victim Shaming and Medi-Cal-Induced Guilt”
Is there any doubt that a Romney administration would favor the rich and increase the income gap in our country? Mitt is a pariah in Mormon Clothing and will stop at nothing to expand an empire of greed for the rich in this country by expanding tax cuts for the 1% of the wealthiest Americans. He’s out to gut the Middle Class for every red cent he can get. Will his sacred Mormon underwear grant him the protection and money to buy this election? See for yourself as Mitt dons his tighty-whities sent down from the Good Lord Himself at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/05…
Re: “The Fountaingrove Winery”
There's a lot of info. about Nagasawa and Thomas Lake Harris in the library Annex here in Santa Rosa. I've been doing research on this too. Nagasawa spent several years growing up in Scotland and may have formed long lasting connections there which he may have later used when he ran the winery after the Brotherhood of the New Life fizzled.
Re: “Rohnert Park's 50th Anniversary 'Celebration'”
Actually we had a founders day parade every year in "A" section and a event in "A" park every year when I was a child in the 80's and 90's it did not move until mid to late 90's when they moved it to the current route, then they lost funding and stopped it all together for many years.
Re: “Rohnert Park's 50th Anniversary 'Celebration'”
Well that's one way to look at it I suppose. Another would be to enjoy the day with your family and feel fortunate that your city is putting on any event at all. I'll go with option 2 and leave my cynicism and looking down my nose for another time.
Re: “The Real Genetics”
Your article is short and makes bold statements. There is a massive amount of scientific evidence to back it up and the cat's out of the bag as far as GMOs among people that know and care about the quality of the food they eat.
However, many people will be fooled by the folksy propaganda put out by these hundred billion dollar transnational corporations. The online newspapers in the interior of the state and in L.A. are full of banner ads with headings like this:
"My dog food has to be labeled but not my steak"
"Your right to know" crossed out and replaced with "your right to sue"
"This pizza has to be labled-this one doesn't"
Simplistic messages to simplify a complex issue and get people to vote for their own destruction. Unfortunately, most of the votes in the state are in places where the misinformation is targeted.
Don't take this campaign for granted folks, they'll spend any amount of money to defeat Prop 37. Imagine that this is the most vital campaign of your life and work accordingly.
Mr. Smith, thank you for your work. Here's a link to your book which I bought. I'll never buy conventional food again until and unless it's labeled. I don't want this to be a commercial for your book. I've donated mine to the library after reading it. Notice the subject headings. One can learn as much as they want about this subject online and for free.
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/genetic-roulette/65-health-risks/
Re: “August 13: South Park Summer Day and Night Festival at Martin Luther King Jr. Park”
Great event! Thanks to all of the performers, vendors, community organizations, recreation and parks, santa rosa police, and the DIG Youth Leaders who worked so hard to make this event a success.
Re: “Going Grey”
Give credit where credit is due:
Remember, Art Ludwig invented and designed most of these systems, wrote part of the greywater plumbing code, got the law passed and these Janie-Come-Latelys act as though they invented
the concept.
Here's his incredibly educational website:
http://www.oasisdesign.net/greywater/laundry/
Re: “Letters to the Editor: Aug. 29, 2012”
Tuesday Sep 4th, 2012
At age 33, Ralph Reed was the Christian Right’s wonder boy.
He was anointed in a 1995 Time Magazine cover story as the “right hand of God” for spinning the trust of conservative Christians into political gold. It was Reed who built the Christian Coalition of televangelist Pat Robertson into a powerful arm of the Republican Party.
But Reed fell from grace in 2006 after he was implicated in the biggest Washington scandal since Watergate. His pal and colleague, the lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pleaded guilty to defrauding clients of millions of dollars, some of which had landed in Reed’s pockets as well. The money spigot was now wide open. Abramoff was being paid millions as a lobbyist. Reed was being paid millions to dupe his fellow Christians.
He says he intends to build the 21st century version of the Christian Coalition, with an annual budget of $ 100 million, five million members, full-time lobbyists in all 50 state capitols, and an enormous database. The pharisaical ultra-conservative, hard-Right support he receives comes largely from a hard-core of misled, fanatically anti-Communist, fundamentalist, evangelical, bigoted, self-righteous religious minority, as well as from the vast silent majority, of the indifferent, couldn't-care-less, self-indulgent, self-satisfied. That fact is these fanatical religionists also consider themselves above the law and the courts and the freedoms of the people and willing to commit any crime in the name of national, religious or so-called family security!
Ted Rudow III
Re: “Say It Ain't So, Joe”
I'm sorry to break it to you, but TJ's hasn't been as honest about their "story" as you think they have. In fact It's quite the opposite.
Fortune Magazine reports "'Fortune obtained a copy of a standard vendor agreement, which states, "Vendor shall not publicize its business relationship with TJ's in any manner.'
Why the lockdown? Former executives say that Trader Joe's wants neither its shoppers nor its competitors to know who's making its products."
Here's the link: http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/20/news/companies/inside_trader_joes_full_version.fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
Not supporting the GMO Initative isn't surprising considering that one of their chip vendors is Lays (owned by PepsiCO).
Re: “Say It Ain't So, Joe”
I love TJ so it's painful to read this- but thanks for forcing us to look clearly at our stores and force them to be accountable.
This Week's Issue
Re: “The Lost Ark”
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