Genetically Modified (GM) Corn Causes Cancer in Lab Rats

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Thursday September 27, 2012 · 12:15 PM PDT

2012/09/27 · 12:15

In a recent report published by the journal Nature, European researchers demonstrated some alarming findings about one GM crop. Critics have been vicious and vociferous, but few are toxicologists, and many have ties to agribusiness. http://www.nature.com/...

“NK603 maize (corn), developed by biotech company Monsanto to resist the herbicide glyphosate and approved for animal and human consumption in the European Union, United States and other countries. It reported that the rats developed higher levels of cancers, had larger cancerous tumours and died earlier than controls. The researchers have not conclusively identified a mechanism for the effect.”

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Sunday September 16, 2012 · 1:55 PM PDT

2012/09/16 · 13:55

The 2190 date is snarky because I believe that a small number of these reforms will take that long. I will be long gone, but I can dream, can't I? Comments and suggestions are encouraged and appreciated, and will be added to the list. Be specific. Pax vobiscum, Shalom Aleichem, Salaam Aleichem.

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Thursday September 13, 2012 · 4:43 PM PDT

2012/09/13 · 16:43

I posted this on 5 Oct http://www.dailykos.com/... but I was struck by an Op-Ed in the NY Times a week later. http://www.nytimes.com/... It turns out that Bush received specific warnings all through the summer of 2011, which he ignored.

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Wednesday September 05, 2012 · 12:03 PM PDT

2012/09/05 · 12:03

I get angry when I see 9/11 being treated as a celebration, a holiday. It is neither. Those attacks represented a catastrophic defeat for the US. Our “Department of Defense” did not defend us against 19 hijackers armed with box cutters. Our nuclear submarines, with their missiles did not defend us, nor any of our high-tech aircraft; nor did our fabled Abrams M-1 tank, nor did our fleets of aircraft carriers. Get the picture? Maybe we should cut the defense budget by 75 percent to punish those who failed.

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Friday June 29, 2012 · 12:23 PM PDT

2012/06/29 · 12:23

My comment on dcampbell’s post http://www.dailykos.com/... insulted my fellow Kossacks twice, and I have to apologize for it. What I intended was to point out the dog whistles within the Repub/Teabagger talking points when they leave their sentences unfinished. They want to take back the country, but from whom? Of course it’s the blacks, the immigrants, the gays, and the atheists. I did not aim it at liberals who have problems with President Obama (including myself), and I thought my track record at DKos would have made that clear. Sadly, it didn’t work out that way.

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Friday June 22, 2012 · 3:18 PM PDT

2012/06/22 · 15:18

This diary was triggered by a question someone raised about the number of Irish in police departments, and the clergy. I knew the issue was tied to the Irish potato famine, which ran from 1846 through 1848. I had known about the potato famine for some time and realized something of the impact it had on Irish society. As I dug into the topic, I began to realize the origin of the vitriolic hatred Irish Catholics have had toward the British. I will cite two sources, "The great Irish famine" by Cathal Poirteir, 1995 and the almost unbearable 1982 book by Thomas Gallagher entitled "Paddys lament."

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Saturday June 16, 2012 · 10:23 AM PDT

2012/06/16 · 10:23

First, some background: William Paley was a 19th century theologian and philosopher who is best known for using the parable of finding a watch on the ground and wondering about its origin. “There must have existed, at some time, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed [the watch] for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use…. Every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in the works of nature; with the difference, on the side of nature, of being greater or more, and that in a degree which exceeds all computation.” http://en.wikipedia.org/...

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Tuesday June 12, 2012 · 7:02 PM PDT

2012/06/12 · 19:02

Forgive me if I don’t join in the pundit plaudits for Bush 41. A WW II hero? The main reason he joined the military was to take the spotlight off his father, Prescott Bush, who was a Nazi sympathizer (http://www.dailykos.com/...) and was involved in the plot to kidnap FDR and take over the White House (http://www.eclectica.org/...).

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Friday May 25, 2012 · 8:35 AM PDT

2012/05/25 · 08:35

That is the gist of a recent article in Science. The full title is “Analytic thinking promotes religious disbelief,” but the article provides the first theoretical support for the idea. Scientists have been interested in the cognitive underpinnings of religious beliefs, but this article actually provides experimental support concerning the impact that scientific thinking has on people people's religious beliefs. For those of us who have undergone a rational awakening, we often discover that the naïve religious beliefs that we clung to when we were young no longer apply in this world. Link

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Sunday May 20, 2012 · 10:59 AM PDT

2012/05/20 · 10:59

This is a letter published in my local paper. I will be pushing my state to adopt VBM. Anybody up for an online petition?

In 1980, Paul Weyrich, one of the founders of the conservative movement, said: “I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” Very simply, “our leverage” refers to the power exerted by the super-wealthy in this country, their lobbyists and bootlickers. The Republican Party is determined to cut voter turnout by alleging voter fraud (almost non-existent), and requiring voters to provide forms of identification that may not be easily available.

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Saturday May 05, 2012 · 10:08 AM PDT

2012/05/05 · 10:08

I retired from university teaching some years back, but like all teachers, it's in your blood (hats off to teacher ken). I really enjoy teaching science to lower grades with a batch of hands-on, messy exercises developed over the years, as I've tracked my grandkids from kindergarten through 5th grade. My daughter overheard the pre-K teacher wishing there was some science in the early grades.

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Friday February 24, 2012 · 8:01 AM PST

2012/02/24 · 08:01

Anthony, who? You innocents ask. Anthony Comstock (1844-1915) was the man who made contraception illegal in the United States, the first (maybe only) country to do it. He founded the Society for the Suppression of Vice, which operated in New York City from 1873-1882. He referred to dealers in contraception as “abortionists.” To say he was obsessed with sex is an understatement. In his autobiography, he confessed to masturbating 30 times a day (!). He apparently had a busy childhood, growing up in New Canaan, Connecticut as the child of puritanical parents. It is incredible and appalling that Santorum and other Republicans really want to turn back the clock to the 19th century abyss of Comstockery. I wonder if Rick Santorum had a self-abuse problem as a boy.

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