Yesterday, for the first time in the history of measurement, and estimated to be for the first time in 3 million years, the average reading for the entire day of parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere crossed 400.
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/10/18175058-carbon-dioxide-level-breaks-3-million-year-record?lite
Now that’s new! Use the 14th Amendment and the Equal Protection clause to go after Prop 8, and only Prop 8. Well played, White House. I guess it sometimes pays to have a president who was a constitutional law professor.
Does the soul begin at conception, as right-to-lifers say, or at birth, as pro-choicers say? Am now reading “The Advent” a radical Hindu-based text, which says the soul enters the body once the body is built up enough to receive it, and all the Gods’ energies are aligned and shazam into the body and go to their respective chakras, somewehre between 2 – 3 months after conception. And in this week’s Economist, in an article on Islamist science,http://www.economist.com/…/21570677-after-centuries-stagnat…, it says Muslims believe the soul enters the body 40 – 120 days after conception, almost the same time frame, and so Muslims by and large are for stem cell research. Maybe it’s true!
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21570677-after-centuries-stagnation-science-making-comeback-islamic-world-road
Prop 37…
October 10 – 48.3% For, 40.2% Against, 11.5% Undecided
October 28 – 39.1% For, 50.5% Against, 10.5% Undecided
Source: California Business Roundtable
Why? The 9 biggest daily papers in Cali are against. Why? HUGE $$ being spent to defeat it. Here’s the top ten spenders:
Monsanto – $7,100,500
DuPont – $4,900,000
Pepsi – $2,145,400
Bayer – $2,000,000
Dow – $2,000,000
BASF – $2,000,000
Syngenta – $2,000,000
Kraft Foods – $1,950,000
Coca-Cola – $1,455,500
Nestle – $1,315,600
But we can’t eat money, even if it is being shoved down our throats.
California needs to step up and require labeling of food that gets sold. Prop 37 does not prevent GMO-based food from being sold. It requires better and more honest labeling of the food, as is done in Europe and 61 other countries. Michael Pollan supports Prop 37. The California Nurses Association, the California Democratic Party, and Consumers Union (Publisher of Consumer Reports) supports it. I support it. Don’t be intimidated by the chemical and / or agri business lobby. Yes on 37. Pass it on.