Cousins shouldn't marry.
Environmentalist idiocy ping!
The dork who will never be King.
I take anything scientific coming from a guy who’s family tree looks like a telephone pole with a grain of salt myself...
This looks like a headline from “The Onion.”
Chuck reminds me a lot of Queen Vickie’s kid, can’t remember his name but he was a real doosh too.
All agriculture has always been about genetic modification.
Another reason to abolish the monarchy.
"If we all starve now, we won't run the risk of starving later!"
So we’ve been dead for 100 years?
Why should we give a damn about what anyone from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha says?
The royal gene pool is getting a bit stagnant....
“degraded and dysfunctional conurbations of unmentionable awfulness”
There you have it! Charles has been ghost writing Obama’s speeches. Who knew?
Every time that man opens his mouth I am thankful that his royal position is mainly ceremonial. What an utter airhead!
We've just been through a Japanese beetle invasion that is slowly and relentlessly moving westward. They are very destructive, get into corn silk which prevents pollination. To counter them, they are spraying with new chemicals. There is a new class of neocontinids (sp?) containing, for one, imidacloprid. I have seen the destructive effects of the residual effects on a bumblebee and wasplike insect, definite disorientation and probably death. I don't need a scientific study to make the connection, and if I ever feel driven to use that chemical again, will cut off blossoms. They suspect something about the coating of corn seeds is systemic which carries through to the pollen. I've barely scratched the surface and have to admit my shortcomings and inabilities in doing a truly scientific study.
But this is just one pest. Roses are an ornamental crop and industry. We can get along without them. But when food crops, GM crops now, are affected, maybe we had better open our minds a little and not stick to narrow agendas. No, I don't presume to have the answers, just more questions.
Jap beetles have now made inroads in the Pacific northwest. It doesn't take rocket science to see that they will make their way into CA. If they come from the north, it will be the grape crops. Then the fruit crops in the valleys as they have a preference for certain plants over others. There is no really safe way of eradicating them and no natural predators. If we import the wasps, then we are taking another risk. The U of MI has started giving out on an experimental basis for people to try in their gardens adult beetles innoculated with a disease they spread from one to another. No one knows the unintended consequences that could cause.
I did grow cherries for years. I never treated them with anything, bumper crops almost every year. They were specially bred, but I doubt by genetic manipulation, but I don't know for sure, in Minnesota for their cold hardiness. Finally my two trees died, and I replaced them with another variety, don't know how that is going to be, managed to keep most of the beetles off them; they prefer the newest leaves. I never sprayed my apples, lose most of my wonderful apricots to late frosts, and usually the apples are wormy, a few good years. And so it goes. Going straight organic is not easy in the midwest. I've finally resorted to spraying on a limited basis, being careful to gather information on products I choose and their potential effects on the environment.
My only beef with the environmentalists is using it for a political agenda which may be based on false assumptions and conclusions. We are all in this together whether we like it or not. It has always been so.
I'm also 4th gen & 5th gen of a couple of first cousin marriages, some of the lines seem tainted with a particular disorder but no way to prove a link, way above average intelligence though in some descendants, so haven't drawn any specific inclusions one way or the other. Obviously too much of that does have deleterious effects on offspring.
Charles, Charles, Charles...
Any farmers out there?
Someone told me recently that if an ear of corn were picked from a field that the seeds on the ear would never germanate and grow. Is this true?
The person who told me this said that it was so that the sead companies could prevent farmers from harvesting and saving seeds to grow future crops.
If so, then this may not be as whacked out as it appears on the surface.
I read 25 posts and no one asked but I’ll admit ignorance and look it up.....
” A conurbation is an urban area comprising a number of cities, large towns and larger urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban and industrially developed area. It is thus a polycentric form of agglomeration. In most cases, transportation has developed to link areas within the conurbation, to create a single urban labour market or travel to work area.[1]”
As the old Spy Magazine used to call Charlie boy and his friends: “Upper Class Twit Of The Week”.