26 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Get well soon Revenant Dream.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  2. Thank you for that clip EBD. It stuck a “chord” with me. I was born in Nakusp, BC but my family lived in the tiny town of Edgewood, not far away. Not far from Edgewood was a tiny church where I was baptised. We eventually moved back to my folks’ home province of Saskatchewn where I have lived and loved ever since.
    One day my family and I were looking at pictures from where I lived back then and there was a picture of that church. Dad told me that every time he thought of that church, the song “Little Brown Church in the Vale” always came to mind.
    Thanks, EDB, for reminding me of that little church where I was baptised and also of my dad who went home to Jesus 3 1/2 years ago. My own family and I travelled through that beautiful Inanoclin (fonetic??) Valley in 1985 and I got to see that little brown church with my own eyes. A wow moment.
    The Carter family has left its mark.

  3. P S – Revnant – with my last posting I also send a prayer of healing and gratitude up to the Lord. Peace be with you.

  4. Much of what was said about the effect of changes on the middle class seems on target. The problem is that roughly fifty percent of the population has an IQ

  5. Much of what was said about the effect of changes on the middle class seems on target. The problem is that roughly fifty percent of the population has an IQ less than 100, and few of these people can make significant contributions to the creative opportunities of the 21st century. So, apart from make-work solutions, call centres for public utilities, checkout chickery and hamburger flipping, there are few opportunities for what is becoming the unemployed underclass. The relevant occupations of the past, like domestic service, labouring, agricultural work and so on, have become unavailable to the superior white people, who become dependent on charity while the dignity of work is exported. I have no solution, but what cannot go on forever will not.
    Ian Macmillan

  6. Bowman’s unorthodox soybean farming techniques have landed him at the center of a national battle over genetically modified crops. His legal battle, now at the Supreme Court, raises questions about whether the right to patent living things extends to their progeny, and how companies that engage in cutting-edge research can recoup their investments.
    What Bowman did was to take commodity grain from the local elevator, which is usually used for feed, and plant it. But that grain was mostly progeny of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready beans because that’s what most Indiana soybean farmers grow. Those soybeans are genetically modified to survive the weedkiller Roundup, and Monsanto claims that Bowman’s planting violated the company’s restrictions.
    Those supporting Bowman hope the court uses the case, which is scheduled for oral arguments later this month, to hit the reset button on corporate domination of agribusiness and what they call Monsanto’s “legal assault” on farmers who don’t toe the line. Monsanto’s supporters say advances in health and environmental research are endangered.
    And the case raises questions about the traditional role of farmers.
    For instance: When a farmer grows Monsanto’s genetically modified soybean seeds, has he simply “used” the seed to create a crop to sell, or has he “made” untold replicas of Monsanto’s invention that remain subject to the company’s restrictions?
    more at:http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/farmers-use-of-genetically-modified-soybeans-grows-into-supreme-court-case/2013/02/09/8729f05a-717c-11e2-ac36-3d8d9dcaa2e2_story.html

  7. Who did Monsanto pay for the seed, they found just lying around….GOD?
    Pay ’em for a generation or two, but as far as I’m concerned, the seed would/should have gotten the same mutation thru evolution. Just a wee bit slower, than in a lab.
    These companies are always spouting about letting the market decide.And I totally agree! I really do.
    Label the stuff…… we’ll decide.

  8. Who did Monsanto pay for the seed, they found just lying around….GOD?
    Yes, a handy way to own what plant breeders have passed down. Patent one small piece, and effectively own the whole thing.
    Let them create their own seed from scratch.
    Probably a moot point, glyphosate doesn’t work nearly as well as it used to…

  9. “the seed would/should have gotten the same mutation thru evolution”
    No. Gene splicing entails splicing a gene that has a specific trait into another plant thereby creating a new plant with a novel adaptation. Intellectual property rights have always been patentable in the past and I don’t see that changing. Bowman is deliberately attempting to nullify the patent.

  10. So the pope got really pissed during one of his shifts and quit his job. But the question lingers; has he been pope long enough to qualify for papal unemployment insurance benefits?
    Popes just don’t “resign”. Lots will be saying the poor fella was tick but I don’t believe them. Popes don’t quit. This will be the day people point to most when they talk about the end of the catholic church.
    The spin has begun.

  11. God bless you, Revenant Dream. Guide me, dear Lord, on the path of life. “Show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory” James 2:1 ~ Amen.

  12. “BBC backs down on David Attenborough’s climate change statistics”
    “The BBC has backed down over Sir David Attenborough’s widely contested claim that parts of the world have warmed by 3.5C over the last two decades.”
    “The comment, first broadcast in the final episode of the Africa series last Wednesday, was removed from Sunday night’s repeat of the show.”
    “Unable to back up the assertion, the BBC last night deleted the words from the repeat of the episode.
    Instead the corporation played orchestral music after Sir David said: “Africa’s climate is certainly changing.” Instead there was only orchestral music in the background.
    The next few words from the original broadcast, referring to the 3.5C rise, were missing.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/9861908/BBC-backs-down-on-David-Attenboroughs-climate-change-statistics.html

  13. http://natpo.st/126OWUz
    So CIDA has cut off the grant of a Christian charity doing God’s work in Uganda, for having the gall to to take God’s teaching on sodomy seriously, and saying so.
    It is of course, a slap to the Ugandans as well, who still take God’s opinions and commands regarding sodomy seriously, and have themselves had the nerve to discuss openly the threat posed to Ugandan society by sodomy, and how best to stop perverts recruiting their children, in a way unheard of in other allegedly Christian nations.
    God bless and keep His people in Uganda, and the devil take all who will them ill.
    (Speaking of sodomites, all I have to say about Joseph Ratzinger is “good riddance.”)

  14. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    …-
    “Italy Snowstorm Unleashes Up to a Foot”
    “Heavy snow fell over northern Italy Monday, even reaching the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/italy-snowstorm-unleashes-up-t/5990403
    …-
    “Delorean Electric surprises in New York, will cost $95,000 in 2013”
    “The current prototype also uses a DC motor, but the production will use AC for better range, performance and regenerative braking ability.”
    http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/05/delorean-electric-surprises-in-new-york-will-cost-95-000-in-20/?NewsWatchCanada.ca

  15. I got the following information in an email this morning, but do not the authenticity of the following. For what it is worth.
    “After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.” – William S. Burroughs.
    See the statistic at the bottom of the page………….
    From the World Health Organization: The latest Murder Statistics for the world:
    Murders per 100,000 citizens
    Honduras 91.6
    El Salvador 69.2
    Cote d’lvoire 56.9
    Jamaica 52.2
    Venezuela 45.1
    Belize 41.4
    US Virgin Islands 39.2
    Guatemala 38.5
    Saint Kits and Nevis 38.2
    Zambia 38.0
    Uganda 36.3
    Malawi 36.0
    Lesotho 35.2
    Trinidad and Tobago 35.2
    Colombia 33.4
    South Africa 31.8
    Congo 30.8
    Central African Republic 29.3
    Bahamas 27.4
    Puerto Rico 26.2
    Saint Lucia 25.2
    Dominican Republic 25.0
    Tanzania 24.5
    Sudan 24.2
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22.9
    Ethiopia 22.5
    Guinea 22.5
    Dominica 22.1
    Burundi 21.7
    Democratic Republic of the Congo 21.7
    Panama 21.6
    Brazil 21.0
    Equatorial Guinea 20.7
    Guinea-Bissau 20.2
    Kenya 20.1
    Kyrgyzstan 20.1
    Cameroon 19.7
    Montserrat 19.7
    Greenland 19.2
    Angola 19.0
    Guyana 18.6
    Burkina Faso 18.0
    Eritrea 17.8
    Namibia 17.2
    Rwanda 17.1
    Mexico 16.9
    Chad 15.8
    Ghana 15.7
    Ecuador 15.2
    North Korea 15.2
    Benin 15.1
    Sierra Leone 14.9
    Mauritania 14.7
    Botswana 14.5
    Zimbabwe 14.3
    Gabon 13.8
    Nicaragua 13.6
    French Guiana 13.3
    Papua New Guinea 13.0
    Swaziland 12.9
    Bermuda 12.3
    Comoros 12.2
    Nigeria 12.2
    Cape Verde 11.6
    Grenada 11.5
    Paraguay 11.5
    Barbados 11.3
    Togo 10.9
    Gambia 10.8
    Peru 10.8
    Myanmar 10.2
    Russia 10.2
    Liberia 10.1
    Costa Rica 10.0
    Nauru 9.8
    Bolivia 8.9
    Mozambique 8.8
    Kazakhstan 8.8
    Senegal 8.7
    Turks and Caicos Islands 8.7
    Mongolia 8.7
    British Virgin Islands 8.6
    Cayman Islands 8.4
    Seychelles 8.3
    Madagascar 8.1
    Indonesia 8.1
    Mali 8.0
    Pakistan 7.8
    Moldova 7.5
    Kiribati 7.3
    Guadeloupe 7.0
    Haiti 6.9
    Timor-Leste 6.9
    Anguilla 6.8
    Antigua and Barbuda 6.8
    Lithuania 6.6
    Uruguay 5.9
    Philippines 5.4
    Ukraine 5.2
    Estonia 5.2
    Cuba 5.0
    Belarus 4.9
    Thailand 4.8
    Suriname 4.6
    Laos 4.6
    Georgia 4.3
    Martinique 4.2
    And
    The United States 4.2
    ALL the countries above America have 100% gun bans

  16. The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them.
    – William Clayton

  17. “Former SNC head Pierre Duhaime formally charged with fraud”
    “MONTREAL — Pierre Duhaime, the former chief executive of Canada’s biggest engineering firm, has been granted permission to travel within the country pending a criminal trial on fraud charges.
    Duhaime, once the head of engineering powerhouse SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC), was formally charged with fraud on Monday.”
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/former-snc-head-pierre-duhaime-formally-charged-with-fraud-1.1151722
    …-
    “Martin’s Libya trip welcomed by Canadian business”
    “Prime Minister Paul Martin Martin met with Moammar Gadhafi Sunday for about an hour and a half inside the Libyan dictator’s tent at a military base on the outskirts of Tripoli.”
    “The prime minister also met with Canadian business leaders looking for contract work in Libya and joined Montreal-based SNC Lavalin in celebrating a potential $1-billion deal for further work on the Great Man Made River project.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2004/12/19/martin-libya041219.html

  18. Liz J @ 12:30 p.m.: “It may be time to cut CIDA.”
    Absolutely. Foreign aid is just another scam to waste the resources of the productive economies of the west. We didn’t become rich through foreign aid, we became rich through capitalism. The rest of the world should do (and some are already doing) the same.

Navigation