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(continued from yesterday's National Review comments on non-GMO nonsense)
Anti-science really? I have two friends who are microbiologists and both work in GMO fields. Both agree that GMO's do not increase yields, harm bees, and that patenting life is wrong. And how dare you call us leftists. You would be hard-pressed to find someone more conservative than me. I am pro free-market and GMOs are anything but. When you have a government subsidizing and industry to the tune of $1 billion a year there is no free market. It's simply government subsidizing crap. No one wants GMO's and they will fail.
I'm an empirical researcher, and I don't care how many crackpot scientists in name only you claim to know, this is all utter alarmist bullshit and completely false. I am not going to review all the debunked junk science you and other gullible non-researchers believe in; I don't have the time or inclination to debate garbage, but just to disprove your absurd bee statement:
(Reason). In case you thought Donald J. Trump couldn't get any more awful..
It's scary to me how many "libertarians" and "conservatives" admire Trump. He's easily the most "big government" candidate in the entire race and that includes Bernie Sanders. Does anyone really think a bombastic protectionist with a penchant for cronyism is going to shrink government?
You are absolutely full of crap. I am a libertarian/conservative, and there's not a genuine libertarian or conservative ANYWHERE who supports Trump. Case closed! He appeals to right-wing populists like nativists and anti-intellectuals. I have published many critical pieces on this self-serving right fascist. Jeffrey Tucker wrote a brilliant piece on Trumpism a while back.
A taste: "It’s not too interesting to say that Donald Trump is a nationalist and aspiring despot who is manipulating bourgeois resentment, nativism, and ignorance to feed his power lust. It’s uninteresting because it is obviously true...The ideology is a 21st century version of right fascism — one of the most politically successful ideological strains of 20th century politics. Trump has tapped into it, absorbing unto his own political ambitions every conceivable bourgeois resentment: race, class, sex, religion, economic... I watched as most of the audience undulated between delight and disgust — with perhaps only 10% actually cheering his descent into vituperative anti-intellectualism...When a Hispanic man asked a question, Trump interrupted him and asked if he had been sent by the Mexican government. He took it a step further, dividing blacks from Hispanics by inviting a black man to the microphone to tell how his own son was killed by an illegal immigrant."
(IPI). Chicago's police and fire pension funds have just 26% and 23% of their required funding, respectively, and are just years from running out of cash. They are already bankrupt under any private-sector measure.
We're are all you police loving conservatives? You only love them when they are brutalizing minorities. I think police and firemen deserve a damned good wage and pension. So lets just call it a big bank or corporation instead of a pension, then it will be too big to fail!
First of all, you economically illiterate "progressive" hack, no true conservative or libertarian believes in "too big for fail". We are not the Fascists who passed Dodd N Frankenstein or the President in Name Only who signed it into law. But let's point out by all means, if you want to give all your paycheck to the public sector parasites at the expense of your own pocket, show us you are not simply playing a cynical hypocrite. As for the rest of us, keep your morally corrupt pickpocket fingers out of our wallets.
My Greatest Hits: Blog Lifetime
Tomorrow will be the blog's seventh blogiversary; In addition, sometime next month, I'll probably publish my 2500th post. Google/Blogger started tracking page views sometime around 2010 and there were also one or 2 posts that seemed to be targeted by spammers with unrealistic pageviews and I republished. Apparently Blogger only lets me see my top 4 (it seems in the past I could track more). The top one currently was one after now Congressman Brat primaried former Majority Leader Cantor; I was not happy Brat played the nativist card during the campaign:
- Miscellany: 6/12/14
- Miscellany: 9/03/12 Happy Capital Labor Day
- Miscellany: 8/22/10
- Miscellany: 10/23/10
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