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Tuesday, July 22. 2014

Tuesday morning links

Anti-GMO Activists Are Harming Hungry Africans (image via Am. Digest)


An outbreak of political correctness in science


Re-linking Barone's Liberalism turns against liberty


Because it is so to-the-point


NYC Pushing to Get Rid of Merit-Based Admissions for Prestigious High Schools


The media is drafting Elizabeth Warren to run in 2016


Related, this song is not parody


Speaking of non-parody, If Only Harper Lee Had Moved To Greenwich Village


Why Are Teachers Unions So Opposed to Change? As a former union leader and a lifelong Democrat, I am deeply troubled by their rhetoric and strategy. (WSJ paywall)


Clegg: Racial Preferences Are Falling


How Matt Drudge Changed The World


Audio Interview: Ed Klein on Blood Feud


What If Everybody Worked for the Government?


We already do, for up to 5 months/yr, for no pay unless we are poor.


Hayward: The Morals of the Welfare State


Thanks, Bill Gates: How to Keep Dictatorships Alive, Squelching Liberty on a Global Scale


Jeremiah Denton, Vietnam War POW and U.S. senator, dies


Spengler: Why Israel Needs to Finish the Job Now


The New York Times: Apologist for a Terrorist Organization

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 05:45 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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Re: Working for the govt.

As much as we work for the government, we also work for those who will not or can't. When someone lives at the expense of another, that's called slavery.

Comin' Massa.
#1 mudbug on 2014-07-22 08:51 (Reply)
Unless the government is the intermediary, then it is called taxation.
#1.1 JKB on 2014-07-22 12:09 (Reply)
Right! It's called 'taxation' but it is slavery.

I guess they think that 'land of the free' stuff was about 'stuff' after all.
#1.1.1 mudbug on 2014-07-22 22:16 (Reply)
Monsanto isn't as nice and as rewarding as your meme would have us to believe. This is just one article on failed crops. Which other seed company has sued farmers around the world for patent infringement when the Monsanto crops blow over to other fields?

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july122011/india-monsanto-beaten-tk.php

Good ideas, but Monsanto, Bayer and the other GMO companies aren't there yet.
#2 Dave on 2014-07-22 09:33 (Reply)
It is illegal to plant seeds with Monsanto genetics unless you buy the seeds from Monsanto.

"Monsanto is notorious among farmers for the company’s aggressive investigations and pursuit of farmers they believe have infringed on Monsanto’s patents. In the past 13 years, Monsanto has sued 410 farmers and 56 small farm businesses, almost always settling out of court (the few farmers that can afford to go to trial are always defeated). These farmers were usually sued for saving second-generation seeds for the next harvest — a basic farming practice rendered illegal because seeds generated by GM crops contain Monsanto’s patented genes."

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/19/1607161/monsanto-supreme-court-hearing/
#2.1 feeblemind on 2014-07-22 12:16 (Reply)
I hope the media succeeds in drafting Sen. Warren. A far-left academic with 2 years experience as Senator? Only the hard-core leftists will vote for her. She'll go down in flames if the GOP can put someone with common sense up as a candidate.
#3 RonF on 2014-07-22 09:43 (Reply)
Assuming the GOP picks someone who will run hard and fight for himself and us.
#3.1 Sam L. on 2014-07-22 13:56 (Reply)
"GOP can put someone with common sense up as a candidate."

iow Warren is a shoe-in...
#3.2 J.T. Wenting on 2014-07-23 04:03 (Reply)
Headline from the link (bolded italics mine):

QUOTE:
Jeremiah Denton, Vietnam War POW and U.S. senator, dies

By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:08pm EDT

Better late than never.
#4 BillH on 2014-07-22 10:58 (Reply)
He is being buried today at Arlington which makes the link relevant.
#4.1 MissyW on 2014-07-22 12:03 (Reply)
Our tenured partisans:

Today we have the worst of both worlds: a tenured and partisan civil service.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383186/tenured-partisans-richard-samuelson
#5 feeblemind on 2014-07-22 12:42 (Reply)
Monsanto is targeted by the left and there are a lot of willing left leaning media outlets to air one sided stories about Monsanto. If you want to see companies that protect their "rights" try downloading or uploading music. You will find yourself in court. Or copy the books on the NY Times best sellers list and post them to your blog and see if anyne tries to defend their copyrights. Monsanto literally spends billions to create a GMO product. They ask that farmers not use seed from the GMO crops they grow but rather buy them from Monsanto. This is of course how they can afford to spend a billion dollars to create a better plant. Why should anyone be suprised that they take their rights to the GMO plant they created seriously?
#6 GoneWithTheWind on 2014-07-26 22:21 (Reply)

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