Day: February 13, 2015

  • One GMO apple will spoil the bunch

    Imagine an apple that never browns.. Never seems real. Perhaps never tastes real.. just a vacant, emotionless apple.

    gmo

    Welcome to your new apple, AMERICA..

    Despite a big push against it, the first GMO apple in the United States was just given FDA approval. Safe to eat they say!

    At this point, I don’t have an opinion.. Everything has become so GMO related, it’s tough to even care about it.. Fight MONSANTO and their weed killers? You’re fighting an uphill battle.. The real battle is just to find your source of good, healthy, and viable organic foods.. The challenge may be difficult, but regardless of FDA approvals and certifications of safety, I still think eating a fresh and healthy bin of apples from organic growth is better than a chemically enhanced specimen that never grows brown.

    But that’s just me..

    Reuters reports:

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) approved two genetically engineered apple varieties designed to resist browning that have been developed by the Canadian company Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc.

    Okanagan plans to market the apples as Arctic Granny and Arctic Golden, and says the apples are identical to their conventional counterparts except the flesh of the fruit will retain a fresh appearance even after it is sliced or bruised.

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  • At this point investigators need to be determining e if this was intentionally done

    At this point investigators need to be determining e if this was intentionally done

    Yahoo news reporting this tonight:

    New troubling details are emerging about the livery cab driver who survived the fatal crash of journalist Bob Simon in a car accident this week.

    Police have confirmed that the Lincoln Town Car transporting the longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent to a medical talk about Ebola on Wednesday night sped up before rear-ending the Mercedes-Benz in front of it and crashing into metal barricades on Manhattan’s West Side Highway.

  • Again Brian Williams? Again?

    Again Brian Williams? Again?

    “What was my wow … I’ve been so fortunate. “I was at the Brandenburg Gate the night the wall came down.”

    The NBC tall tales continue.. With Williams suspended, there’s lots of time to go through each record of every word Williams ever uttered–and there have been lots of them. Get ready for a big amount of oddities and strange non-occurrences of his brain to penetrate our society at large..

    Wait.. didn’t mainstream news talking teleprompter reading heads tell us the blogosphere and now social media were just liars and frauds vying for attention?
    Cue the special report music..

    Enter this:

    Williams went on to tell a possible whopper at the Gipper’s Ronald Reagan museum in 2008..

    The only problem with him standing at the Brandenburg Gate is that he really didn’t. Tom Brokaw did. Williams arrived 12 hours after it came done. But it was a long time ago, right?

    I figured six months would be ample time to find the other Williams whoppers ..

    While we’re at it..

  • MID ATLANTIC EARTHQUAKES

    MID ATLANTIC EARTHQUAKES

    A strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck in the open waters of the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge; the quake struck within the last 30 minutes

    The NATIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER says this:

    “A destructive widespread tsunami threat does not exist based on historical earthquake and tsunami data. However, there is the small possibility of a local tsunami that could affect coasts located usually no more than a hundred kilometers from the earthquake epicenter.”

  • FRIDAY THE 13TH

    FRIDAY THE 13TH

    Until I saw—quite literally—a black cat walk underneath a ladder this morning, I completely forgot the calender read Friday the 13th..

    So for all of those out there with that sick sense of doom lurking behind every bad event, happy day to you all..

    In 2004, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC detailed the horror that some people face when they wake up on the 13th when it’s on a Friday.. the fear.. the refusal to even get out of bed!  In that report 11 years ago, NAT GEO said that over $800 mil was lost in productivity because of people neglecting to live their normal lives, instead fearing the 13th..

    I would imagine that fear is only amplified as time goes on..

    For those with triskadekaphobia, it’s going to be a long day.