Category Archives: WTF?!

Let’s get this over with…

Freedom. Heroes. America. Tears. Rah-rah. Just shoot off your fireworks as quickly as possible. Think of the animals, including me.

In return, I’ll refrain from printing my screed that links religion and corporations in a conspiracy to use nationalism to sell you crap. You’ve already bought it.

Uh-oh: Rogue modified wheat found in Oregon #wtf

Can’t stop progress. Or greed. Or mad scientists. We’re doomed.

» Rogue modified wheat found in Oregon | ABQ Journal

Field workers at an Eastern Oregon wheat farm were clearing acres for the bare off-season when they came across a patch of wheat that didn’t belong.

The workers sprayed it and sprayed it, but the wheat wouldn’t die. Their confused boss grabbed a few stalks and sent it to a university lab in early May.

A few weeks later, Oregon State wheat scientists made a startling discovery: The wheat was genetically modified, in clear violation of U.S. law, although there’s no evidence that modified wheat entered the marketplace.

They contacted federal authorities, who ran more tests and confirmed their discovery.

“It looked like regular wheat ,” said Bob Zemetra, Oregon State’s wheat breeder.

No genetically engineered wheat has been approved for U.S. farming

» Rogue modified wheat found in Oregon | ABQ Journal

Counter-attack

Every time a Republican brays “Benghazi!”, say “Iraq Invasion. Afghanistan invasion. Economic collapse.” They’ll NEVER get that message, but everyone else will.

Please to meet you, won’t you guess my name?

And I thought New Zealand is such a cool country. Imagine requiring government permission for a name? Granted, anyone who names their kid * or /.. is just asking for trouble, but let them do it. peace, mark JUSTICE hinton [a tip of the bowler to StEvE Lucifer 0^Neill+.]

New Zealand’s List of Banned Baby Names Gets Updated | TIME.com By Erica Ho May 02, 2013

The name Justice was rejected the most — a whopping 62 times, CNN reports. …

Eight parents wanted to insert backslashes into their children’s first names, while four wanted to put brackets around their middle names. Not to mention that the government has already rejected Lucifer at least six times.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/02/new-zealand-updates-banned-baby-names-list/#ixzz2SXBumflp

New Zealand’s List of Banned Baby Names Gets Updated | TIME.com

Calling Obamacare ‘Fascism’ Was ‘Poor Choice Of Words,’ Whole Foods CEO Says : The Two-Way : NPR

Calling Obamacare ‘Fascism’ Was ‘Poor Choice Of Words,’ Whole Foods CEO Says : The Two-Way : NPR

On CBS This Morning today, Mackey said that was "a bad choice of words on my part" because fascism "has an association with dictatorships." But, he added, in his opinion "we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care." Mackey sees too much government involvement and "not a system … where people are able to innovate."

Calling Obamacare ‘Fascism’ Was ‘Poor Choice Of Words,’ Whole Foods CEO Says : The Two-Way : NPR

Well, there’s no denying that fascism has a strong association with dictatorships. So strong, one wonders how anyone could use the word and only later remember that association.