When I was a lad I had a paper route and on weekends, my best friend, Carl Mitchell and I would cook up a batch of lemon tarts in his mom's kitchen and sold them door-to-door. We never paid his mom back for supplying the materials but we did pick up movie and popcorn money on Saturdays. I should mention that one of our experiments with "cooking" failed. Actually it was brewing. Carl found an abandoned capper - a device that but caps on beer bottles and soda bottles. He sent away for caps and a root beer kit which comprised of root beer flavoring, and yeast to make the bubbles. All you had to do was add water and a ton of or so of sugar. The kit made up ten dozen bottles (which we gleaned from the alleys of Detroit) of root beer. What we didn't know was that the mixture should be allowed to ferment before bottling. That night, Carl's family was awakened at about 3 am by gunshot-like explosions coming from their basement. It was the fermenting bottles of root beer exploding as they expanded in the bottles turning them into mini-cannons. I think Carl slept out in the garage for a week. I got off scot-free.

Like I said, I didn't like Clinton at all. Perot, as paranoid as he was, would have been far better than HW or Clinton as president. Someone who didn't want Perot to win threatened to ruin Perot's daughter's wedding, and that was pretty much the end of what will be the last good era for America.

Thank you. I had missed that discussion. Looking a bit further, as you hinted, has unearthed this article: http://gmoanswers.com/studies/ultimate-g...

Thanks for the ideas.

Jan

every damn politician in the country has chosen not to stop him. they must think if they do think which I doubt that things will go back the way they were before he was elected. the reality is that things will never be the same.

Just be glad it wasn't Dr. Stadler...

Hate to disagree, but I'll take HW's "no new taxes" gaffe over Clinton's numerous and expeditionary ventures from honesty...

Now, if you'll pardon me, I won't have that staffer killed, while I don't inhale and not have sex. And while I'm at it, I'll use this cool thing I found called an executive order to change the nation to one I and my successors can rule. (Hey, chuckle, I c'n git rid of gun ownership too? Cool...)

Were it not for Clinton's games and blatant and calculated abuse of power, those steering W down the rocky road to infamy would never have gotten away with what they did, setting the stage for the Dear Leader and the soon to be Queen Regent to make Ayn's predictions non-fiction. I would have *much* rather seen HW win a second term than putting a criminal enterprise into office.

My brother - who lived in Arkansas at the time - said most people there voted for 3 dollar Bill just to get him OUT of the capitol in Little Rock...

As much as I disagreed with him, it scares the heck out of me to think that Clinton was the best president since Reagan. He actually knew how to govern. I did not like either Bush.

Yes, I was a pin cushion, but no longer. I must have had Dr. Hendricks taking care of me back then.

I remember kids like you... we called them the Pincushions. :-)

My only allergies were some redwood dusts (tho not cinnamon) and certain pollens (eg Hay Fever). Finally outgrew that, but now that I live on one microclimate and work in another, my hay fever gives me fits - I'm fine by Sunday, then Monday, wham.

Add this to the many reasons that I need to expand *my* business and retire from the other! :-)

We could toss the baby out with the bathwater... or in her case, the baker out with the ruined cookies.

Obviously - she chose the wrong profession... then again, so did her husband. Wrong for America, anyway.

No wonder all these life in prison shows are so popular nowadays - we're allowing the government to force us into raising convicts, not children. That's how they're going to separate the Morlocks from the Eloi (or for those not familiar with H G Wells, the Da Costas from the Delacourts)... the working class subjects will come from the force-grown convict base (as they have no rights); the ruling class, those who went to private schools and learned how to think, reason, and not be spoon fed by others.

You only tell your kid "no" if you value them, if you want them to grow into a productive adult who values themself. Parents are lazy, weak and want a friend in their child...and all that responsibility stuff is really HARD... and let's face it... why, in the current state of this country, would such a parent start teaching discipline... is there any fear of them growing up and being homeless, or starving, or without any of life's necessities?? NO! Everything is funded for them regardless of effort. So who cares if they do well in school and learn anything, or behave, or are conscious of their surroundings or have any interest in life whatsoever? There is NO risk of failure anymore....so much so that soon they won't have to make one single decision for themselves...the friendly government will handle everything for them...."you just sit back and enjoy being a useless schlub, just remember who loves you and makes your life so easy...oh, and don't forget to vote."

He knows EXACTLY what he's doing...he SAID he was going to do it and either the idiot people didn't hear him or they thought he meant "transform America" in some other way than how bo meant it. Transform = weaken, change, ruin, destroy...
and he's getting away with it!! Who's pathetic, and appalling, and full of lunacy? Who's the guiltiest man in the room? In other words...who's not stopping him???

i didn't realize how far a pres could go with loonacy but it is so obvious as to be pathetic. what is even more appalling is the fact that the pres does not recognize when he is being rejected. and it is not only this but more things than can be counted on all fingers and toes. I think the pres has no capacity to think, as he never learned.

Maybe we should just let them drink the coolaid

They have been eating my cake for a long time.

Are these the cookies that Hillary claimed to be baking so many years ago?

"I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life."

Response to reporter's questions (16 March 1992), reported on "Making Hillary an Issue" Nightline (26 March 1992). Quoted in Boston Globe.

Already know about this as a former teacher.
We were told cupcakes and cakes were not allowed at birthdays. Healthy snacks only.

Parents LOVED that one.
The response was "to heck with you and the teacher I'm walking in with the treats anyway and you can confront me then."

No one did (I told them of the school policy and then told them if they disagree they are free to do what their conscience told them (and I said it with a smile).

My principal didn't like me much.

Glyphosate in Roundup herbicide is a suspected reason. I found something about in the Gulch archives, but I think I remember a much more recent discussion of this correlation being rejected by the scientific community:

http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/53...

Other than peanuts and bee stings, I was allergic to pretty near everything as a kid. My parents drove me 80 miles once a month for a year when I was six so that I could get desensitized to an array of allergens. I looked like a drug addict when I came home, but it worked. I'm not allergic to anything anymore.

That is actually a serious question that is being asked in the medical community. Why are there so many gluten intolerant people now when they were rare before?? The answers come in 3 categories: (1) change in wheat (known to have occurred with short wheat in the 1970's - but no known changes in gluten accompany this) (2) change in biome (we are just getting to understand how changes in our microbial flora affect our physiology - this is supported by some experimental transfers of micro-flora reversing Crohn's Syndrome in some people) and (3) changes in lifestyle (almost no one who eats short wheat and works 14 hours per day in the fields and dies of old age at the age of 42 has gluten sensitivities).

This is a real question and the answer is more likely in the realm of science than in the realm of politics.

Jan

Yes, you speak the truth. A local high school here has required volunteer (great oxymoron) before students can graduate. What a load of crap.

It's sad to say I'm waiting for that, because I know it's coming.

OK, I see the set-up story already, where there's a rash of "drug-laced" bake sale goodies in school bake sales, and the infotainment shows will be full of "evil bake sale stories"... You heard it here first.

I just think it's a wonderful thing that we need the government to tell the American populations (and our kids) what they can and cannot eat, instead of relegating the responsibility to the parents. (pardon me while I toss some cookies, speaking of...)

Of course, that's assuming parents who have some sense of responsibility, and enough backbone to actually raise, limit, and discipline kids, rather than stuffing their faces to make them "feel good"... Where did they lose the backbone to tell their kids "NO!" and f'n mean it?