Those tomatoes look so good!

"What are you looking at, chump?"

Remember that slogan popular in the 60s, "You are what you eat"?

When it comes to GMOs, I prefer to believe the acronym actually stands for Genetically Mutated Organisms.

So if you want to be a mutant, go ahead and eat them. While those mutant soy products, lovely perfect nutrition-free tomatoes and other Round Up-laced veggies are coursing down your gullet, you might want to read this.

I have been concerned about this issue since my first go around the world, a stretch when I volunteered on organic farms. While on an organic marijuana farm in South Africa, I read "Seeds of Deception" by Jeffrey M. Smith. (For more on my experiences as an agricultural slave look here, scrolling down to the section on WWOOFing.)

My advice . . . Don't eat Frankenfood!

We ignore this matter at our own very high personal risk. We certainly can't expect the responsible government agencies to stand up to Monsanto and the other purveyors of improperly tested but profitable technologies. The sobering fact is the U.S. Department of State is the sales office internationally for Monsanto and other agri-chemical corporations! I fully expect a law to be introduced into Congress, "Hug a veggie, go to jail!"

Please do your own research on this. Especially if you have children. Everyone claims they want the best for their kids. So maybe we shouldn't be poisoning them, eh?

I think I'll have a nice juicy tomato now. One I grew myself.

"Size matters!"

"Bunker Buster!!"

"It's a tomato...I think."

[ This originated at the author's personal web site . . . http://jdrachel.com ]

What’s a trillion dollars or so between friends?

"Magnanimous Uncle Ben"

People wonder why I am so preoccupied with wresting control of our national banking back from the Federal Reserve and putting it directly under control of the Federal government.

Well! It happens to be the most fundamental issue facing America in addressing its debt and systemic insolvency.

Systemic insolvency simply means that bankruptcy is built into the system as now configured. We will always be short of money and will in the end run up against a wall which will guarantee the implosion of the American economy.

Please read this article and ask yourself . . .

What's a few trillion dollars between friends?

[ This originated at the author's personal web page . . . http://jdrachel.com ]

Snatching hope from the jaws of despair . . .

"A true statesman and a bold leader."

It seems that everyone who has declared their candidacy for the presidential election of 2012 missed the implied irony in the title of the Talking Heads live performance movie, Stop Making Sense, preferring to take the title literally and hence to succumb to the ossifying effects of age, the drunken delirium of power, and the mental rot which comes from spending too much time preening for TV cameras and photo ops. Then again, the movie was made in 1984. Since then the entire political discourse has become such an Orwellian exercise, maybe spewing nonsense is "making sense".

Occasionally, however, above the surrealistic din created by the so-called debates, the auditory Möbius strip of sound bites, the Third Reichian repetition of talking points, and the pig-ignorant, tabloid coverage of all of this by a media bent on feeding the sensory overloaded addictions of an exhausted and despondent public, yes, over the shrill chaos and poisonous cacophony rises a voice which reminds us of what it actually means to "make sense".

Here is an article about what one such voice sounds like __ what that voice is saying.

Senator Bernie Sanders has stature, integrity, passion and speaks directly to the issues out of conviction. He is not owned by anyone, therefore is able to think and communicate for himself. He is only national political figure who can pull America out of the quicksand.

The honorable Mr. Sanders says he is only interested in running again for Senate.

But maybe if we begged . . .

[ This originated at the author's web page . . . http://jdrachel.com ]

All Smoke No Mirrors

"Hey! Thanks for your excellent service over the years but we won't be needing you anymore."

As efforts continue to get big government off of the backs of Americans, it was recently announced that they are eliminating 120,000 jobs from the U. S. Postal Service.

No worries!

Just click on the link below and learn how you can send letters using the age-old, time-tested method invented by our Native Americans: Smoke Signals! Yes, we can help you become a world-class expert at communicating with your friends and family using smoke signals. Guaranteed results! We'll get you up to speed. If by the end of the lessons you're not at least cranking out seven words an hour, we will refund the entire purchase price of the course.

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[ This originated at the author's personal web site . . . http://jdrachel.com ]

More Guns . . . Fewer Stethoscopes!

Bigger military is the solution!

More guns, I say!!

For example, if we expand our military capabilities, we can start shooting all those deadbeat Americans who are expecting to get quality health care.

Or a good public school education.

Or a decent paying job.

Should we worry about the wholesale killing of innocent Americans? What about the labor pool? Who will man the drive-up windows at McDonalds? Who will be there to hand out bowls of tepid chicken-flavored brine in our soup lines? Who will hold up the public service announcements __ the 'Will work for food!' signs __ on the freeway on-ramps?

No worries!

Major Keith Markham described the prevailing attitude of the military towards its troops all too clearly in a private memo sent to his platoon leaders. "We have an unlimited supply of expendable labor."

There you go!!

This obviously will have to be the prevailing attitude toward the entire American citizenry.

Otherwise, people will get out of line and start expecting a decent life.

Shoot 'em! Shoot 'em all. More guns!

Fewer stethoscopes.

[ Insert tears here for the America
which is being lost, for the children
who are being abandoned, for the
death of the American Dream. ]

[ This originated at the author's personal web site . . . http://jdrachel.com ]

Really Bad Television

The whole debt ceiling debacle is a really bad made-for-TV drama.

The show should be immediately canceled.

It never should have aired in the first place.

Not only is there specific language in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution which invalidates the very idea that America could default on its obligations. But as is explained in a brilliant and well-supported article posted on OpEdNews, the language embodied in 31 USC 3101 of the Public Debt Law of 1941 itself, unambiguously and explicitly "gives the President the EXPRESS, inherent and unilateral authority to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to incur obligations to cover all expenditures authorized by law, which is to say the sum of the appropriations bills Congress has already passed."

This directly applicable and legally binding statute has not come up even once in all of the blather we have had to endure over the past several weeks. Are we really to believe that not a single one of Obama's policy experts, that not a single one of the 535 lawmakers on Capitol Hill has any idea what existing law says?

I say the debt ceiling crisis and its supposedly bipartisan resolution is a sham. Again the American people are being duped and defrauded by the Congress and the President, with the full support of the corporate propaganda machine known as the media.

This manufactured drama, which is about as real as professional wrestling, is imposition by veiled tyranny of public policy which is contrary to the interests of the vast majority of Americans. It is at its core deceitful and, if we are to be honest with ourselves about it, treasonous.

This whole business is really bad television and it is destroying America.

[ This originated at the author's personal blog site ... http://jdrachel.com ]