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Random Meanderings
23/05/2015 11:07 pm
There'll be lots of green eggs and ham to gobble tomorrow at the local March against Monsanto
There'll be lots of green eggs and ham to gobble tomorrow at the local March against Monsanto
Random Meanderings
23/05/2015 11:07 pmThere'll be lots of green eggs and ham to gobble tomorrow at the local March against Monsanto
Resistance is Fertile
07/07/2013 05:15 pmIzzie has been pigging out on what is possibly a last online seed buying binge.
As of Monday 1st July courtesy of the state government, there are now new fees for home gardeners who buy seeds from overseas or even interstate
Not one or two dollars per order but a ridiculous $56. It's supposedly for the quarantine mob to keep out all the evil nasties so often found in all those ghastly heirloom and organically grown seeds.
They got this little trick in under the radar. The permaculture people and other tree hugging greenies had started a media campaign and were getting good coverage when suddenly a certain drama in Canberra wiped the story right off the map. Ever so convenient for our little Emperor sitting in his ivory tower on the hill
The government made no effort at all to inform anyone about these new charges. In fact they went out of their way to keep them most secret indeed. And this in the very same week that they let Monsanto increase its share in Intergrain which used to be a government owned grain research organization.
Letting The AgriBeast in was just about the first thing the present state government did when it first got into office back in September 2008. Despite the warnings from organic growers, greenies and others that this would risk Western Australia losing its clean and green food producing reputation. Here we are with the natural advantage of distance from most pests and diseases and these goblins go and throw it all away for less than 30 pieces of silver. But they are still happy to use the excuse of quarantine to slug home gardeners with these outrageous charges
It’s not that difficult to show up this big fat new carbon tax as the revenue grabbing scam that it really is. Garden Guru Trevor Cochrane has blown some serious holes in the sad and pathetic concern for protection of our precious biosecurity.
The serpent’s supplier of choice is for the moment absorbing the cost. But here is guessing such good will towards their customers in the wild west will not last longer than a month or two.
And the 8 packets of free seeds that Diggers members get per year will soon be a thing of the past over here in the wild west.
Izzie doesn't want to buy the dodgy seeds in the big barns and supermarkets. Even most of those come from the United Kingdom. Not to mention one is never quite sure of the parent companies and there are less and less of those these days
If the goblins really think they will make a killing on these new fees, then they are in for a big big surprise. Never ever piss off the greenies.
The folks who don’t get all sneaky (and there’s huge fines for seed ‘smuggling’ to discourage them) will find other ways to get even
If there ever was a time to get organizing local seed saving exchanges, this is it.
As of Monday 1st July courtesy of the state government, there are now new fees for home gardeners who buy seeds from overseas or even interstate
Not one or two dollars per order but a ridiculous $56. It's supposedly for the quarantine mob to keep out all the evil nasties so often found in all those ghastly heirloom and organically grown seeds.
They got this little trick in under the radar. The permaculture people and other tree hugging greenies had started a media campaign and were getting good coverage when suddenly a certain drama in Canberra wiped the story right off the map. Ever so convenient for our little Emperor sitting in his ivory tower on the hill
The government made no effort at all to inform anyone about these new charges. In fact they went out of their way to keep them most secret indeed. And this in the very same week that they let Monsanto increase its share in Intergrain which used to be a government owned grain research organization.
Letting The AgriBeast in was just about the first thing the present state government did when it first got into office back in September 2008. Despite the warnings from organic growers, greenies and others that this would risk Western Australia losing its clean and green food producing reputation. Here we are with the natural advantage of distance from most pests and diseases and these goblins go and throw it all away for less than 30 pieces of silver. But they are still happy to use the excuse of quarantine to slug home gardeners with these outrageous charges
It’s not that difficult to show up this big fat new carbon tax as the revenue grabbing scam that it really is. Garden Guru Trevor Cochrane has blown some serious holes in the sad and pathetic concern for protection of our precious biosecurity.
The serpent’s supplier of choice is for the moment absorbing the cost. But here is guessing such good will towards their customers in the wild west will not last longer than a month or two.
And the 8 packets of free seeds that Diggers members get per year will soon be a thing of the past over here in the wild west.
Izzie doesn't want to buy the dodgy seeds in the big barns and supermarkets. Even most of those come from the United Kingdom. Not to mention one is never quite sure of the parent companies and there are less and less of those these days
If the goblins really think they will make a killing on these new fees, then they are in for a big big surprise. Never ever piss off the greenies.
The folks who don’t get all sneaky (and there’s huge fines for seed ‘smuggling’ to discourage them) will find other ways to get even
If there ever was a time to get organizing local seed saving exchanges, this is it.
Resistance is Fertile
07/07/2013 05:15 pmIzzie has been pigging out on what is possibly a last online seed buying binge.
As of Monday 1st July courtesy of the state government, there are now new fees for home gardeners who buy seeds from overseas or even interstate
Not one or two dollars per order but a ridiculous $56. It's supposedly for the quarantine mob to keep out all the evil nasties so often found in all those ghastly heirloom and organically grown seeds.
They got this little trick in under the radar. The permaculture people and other tree hugging greenies had started a media campaign and were getting good coverage when suddenly a certain drama in Canberra wiped the story right off the map. Ever so convenient for our little Emperor sitting in his ivory tower on the hill
The government made no effort at all to inform anyone about these new charges. In fact they went out of their way to keep them most secret indeed. And this in the very same week that they let Monsanto increase its share in Intergrain which used to be a government owned grain research organization.
Letting The AgriBeast in was just about the first thing the present state government did when it first got into office back in September 2008. Despite the warnings from organic growers, greenies and others that this would risk Western Australia losing its clean and green food producing reputation. Here we are with the natural advantage of distance from most pests and diseases and these goblins go and throw it all away for less than 30 pieces of silver. But they are still happy to use the excuse of quarantine to slug home gardeners with these outrageous charges
It’s not that difficult to show up this big fat new carbon tax as the revenue grabbing scam that it really is. Garden Guru Trevor Cochrane has blown some serious holes in the sad and pathetic concern for protection of our precious biosecurity.
The serpent’s supplier of choice is for the moment absorbing the cost. But here is guessing such good will towards their customers in the wild west will not last longer than a month or two.
And the 8 packets of free seeds that Diggers members get per year will soon be a thing of the past over here in the wild west.
Izzie doesn't want to buy the dodgy seeds in the big barns and supermarkets. Even most of those come from the United Kingdom. Not to mention one is never quite sure of the parent companies and there are less and less of those these days
If the goblins really think they will make a killing on these new fees, then they are in for a big big surprise. Never ever piss off the greenies.
The folks who don’t get all sneaky (and there’s huge fines for seed ‘smuggling’ to discourage them) will find other ways to get even
If there ever was a time to get organizing local seed saving exchanges, this is it.
As of Monday 1st July courtesy of the state government, there are now new fees for home gardeners who buy seeds from overseas or even interstate
Not one or two dollars per order but a ridiculous $56. It's supposedly for the quarantine mob to keep out all the evil nasties so often found in all those ghastly heirloom and organically grown seeds.
They got this little trick in under the radar. The permaculture people and other tree hugging greenies had started a media campaign and were getting good coverage when suddenly a certain drama in Canberra wiped the story right off the map. Ever so convenient for our little Emperor sitting in his ivory tower on the hill
The government made no effort at all to inform anyone about these new charges. In fact they went out of their way to keep them most secret indeed. And this in the very same week that they let Monsanto increase its share in Intergrain which used to be a government owned grain research organization.
Letting The AgriBeast in was just about the first thing the present state government did when it first got into office back in September 2008. Despite the warnings from organic growers, greenies and others that this would risk Western Australia losing its clean and green food producing reputation. Here we are with the natural advantage of distance from most pests and diseases and these goblins go and throw it all away for less than 30 pieces of silver. But they are still happy to use the excuse of quarantine to slug home gardeners with these outrageous charges
It’s not that difficult to show up this big fat new carbon tax as the revenue grabbing scam that it really is. Garden Guru Trevor Cochrane has blown some serious holes in the sad and pathetic concern for protection of our precious biosecurity.
The serpent’s supplier of choice is for the moment absorbing the cost. But here is guessing such good will towards their customers in the wild west will not last longer than a month or two.
And the 8 packets of free seeds that Diggers members get per year will soon be a thing of the past over here in the wild west.
Izzie doesn't want to buy the dodgy seeds in the big barns and supermarkets. Even most of those come from the United Kingdom. Not to mention one is never quite sure of the parent companies and there are less and less of those these days
If the goblins really think they will make a killing on these new fees, then they are in for a big big surprise. Never ever piss off the greenies.
The folks who don’t get all sneaky (and there’s huge fines for seed ‘smuggling’ to discourage them) will find other ways to get even
If there ever was a time to get organizing local seed saving exchanges, this is it.
Monsanto Mutants and Other Monsters
26/10/2011 10:30 pmThe Izzie has now got nearly three goblin free weeks. Not back to work until Monday 14th which means lots of nanowrimo squiggling time, planting weeds and watching the antics of one Betty Windsor
There should be no shortage of inspiration whatsoever.
One of the most entertaining aspects of the whole nanowrimo business is the rivalry between Izzie's home region and and another that shall remain nameless for the present.
Officially it is a competition to get the highest total word count, per capita word count and the most donors. In reality a big part of the annual ritual is taunting, baiting and insulting each other in order to scramble their puny brains and destroy their will to write. It's a proud old Aussie tradition known here as sledging and is more usually seen in cricket than in word wars
The corn munching critters had always been the winners until last year. The folks here in Dursleyville intend to keep it that way
Izzie's constantly snarking about corn munching monsanto mutants and their sad dreary diet of high fructose corn syrup and Roundup. Also suggested that DeKalbian would make such a perfect name for a villain (or a race of strange space aliens a la Cardassians and Klingons as another forum member suggested)
We are also all fond of offering shipments of Tim Tams and all sorts of Australian creepy crawlies to keep them on their toes. Cute and cuddly cane toads and white pointer sharks are some of the wonderful wildlife on offer.
Decided to add a bit of spice to the usual snark by consulting the Oracle of Google for some background information. Digging up dirt so to say
Nearly had hysterical fits of the giggles. The City of DeKalb Illinois' main claim to fame is the 'invention' of barbed wire. Well they patented it at least. Turns out that patenting of all sorts of strange things is a bit of a specialty of this mob
But the offerings of the Oracle of Google just got juicier and juicier.
Amongst all those golden fields of corn were all sorts of dirty dark secrets. The DeKalbian corn is so crazily mutated that it's even got wings
Oh and the serpent has got a nose for a certain spooky ever so innocent looking logo. Amongst all the happy farming families, it is lurking there being scary. Looks like the "Monsanto family" owns the whole show. They are doing their damnedest to sneak in here too with their weeds and all with the help of the local state government.
Maybe Izzie should send over some Diggers seed catalogues. That will scare the hell out of them.
You really can meet all kinds of freaks on Facebook. Yet another reason to avoid the place like the plague. With friends like those, who needs enemies?
Meanwhile musing that Betty Windsor and all the commonwealth big wigs must be impressed with the show we have put on for them. Rain and thunderstorms and lots of big fat white pointer sharks with very sharp teeth. The poor buggers in the tourism agencies must be pulling out their hair and gnashing their teeth.
Meanwhile the rain is just the perfect excuse for planting more tomatoes, sunflowers and chili seeds with not a hybrid or monsanto mutant seed in sight.
Must be off. Back to baiting those barbed wire munching barbarians
There should be no shortage of inspiration whatsoever.
One of the most entertaining aspects of the whole nanowrimo business is the rivalry between Izzie's home region and and another that shall remain nameless for the present.
Officially it is a competition to get the highest total word count, per capita word count and the most donors. In reality a big part of the annual ritual is taunting, baiting and insulting each other in order to scramble their puny brains and destroy their will to write. It's a proud old Aussie tradition known here as sledging and is more usually seen in cricket than in word wars
The corn munching critters had always been the winners until last year. The folks here in Dursleyville intend to keep it that way
Izzie's constantly snarking about corn munching monsanto mutants and their sad dreary diet of high fructose corn syrup and Roundup. Also suggested that DeKalbian would make such a perfect name for a villain (or a race of strange space aliens a la Cardassians and Klingons as another forum member suggested)
We are also all fond of offering shipments of Tim Tams and all sorts of Australian creepy crawlies to keep them on their toes. Cute and cuddly cane toads and white pointer sharks are some of the wonderful wildlife on offer.
Decided to add a bit of spice to the usual snark by consulting the Oracle of Google for some background information. Digging up dirt so to say
Nearly had hysterical fits of the giggles. The City of DeKalb Illinois' main claim to fame is the 'invention' of barbed wire. Well they patented it at least. Turns out that patenting of all sorts of strange things is a bit of a specialty of this mob
But the offerings of the Oracle of Google just got juicier and juicier.
Amongst all those golden fields of corn were all sorts of dirty dark secrets. The DeKalbian corn is so crazily mutated that it's even got wings
Oh and the serpent has got a nose for a certain spooky ever so innocent looking logo. Amongst all the happy farming families, it is lurking there being scary. Looks like the "Monsanto family" owns the whole show. They are doing their damnedest to sneak in here too with their weeds and all with the help of the local state government.
Maybe Izzie should send over some Diggers seed catalogues. That will scare the hell out of them.
You really can meet all kinds of freaks on Facebook. Yet another reason to avoid the place like the plague. With friends like those, who needs enemies?
Meanwhile musing that Betty Windsor and all the commonwealth big wigs must be impressed with the show we have put on for them. Rain and thunderstorms and lots of big fat white pointer sharks with very sharp teeth. The poor buggers in the tourism agencies must be pulling out their hair and gnashing their teeth.
Meanwhile the rain is just the perfect excuse for planting more tomatoes, sunflowers and chili seeds with not a hybrid or monsanto mutant seed in sight.
Must be off. Back to baiting those barbed wire munching barbarians
Monsanto Mutants and Other Monsters
26/10/2011 10:30 pmThe Izzie has now got nearly three goblin free weeks. Not back to work until Monday 14th which means lots of nanowrimo squiggling time, planting weeds and watching the antics of one Betty Windsor
There should be no shortage of inspiration whatsoever.
One of the most entertaining aspects of the whole nanowrimo business is the rivalry between Izzie's home region and and another that shall remain nameless for the present.
Officially it is a competition to get the highest total word count, per capita word count and the most donors. In reality a big part of the annual ritual is taunting, baiting and insulting each other in order to scramble their puny brains and destroy their will to write. It's a proud old Aussie tradition known here as sledging and is more usually seen in cricket than in word wars
The corn munching critters had always been the winners until last year. The folks here in Dursleyville intend to keep it that way
Izzie's constantly snarking about corn munching monsanto mutants and their sad dreary diet of high fructose corn syrup and Roundup. Also suggested that DeKalbian would make such a perfect name for a villain (or a race of strange space aliens a la Cardassians and Klingons as another forum member suggested)
We are also all fond of offering shipments of Tim Tams and all sorts of Australian creepy crawlies to keep them on their toes. Cute and cuddly cane toads and white pointer sharks are some of the wonderful wildlife on offer.
Decided to add a bit of spice to the usual snark by consulting the Oracle of Google for some background information. Digging up dirt so to say
Nearly had hysterical fits of the giggles. The City of DeKalb Illinois' main claim to fame is the 'invention' of barbed wire. Well they patented it at least. Turns out that patenting of all sorts of strange things is a bit of a specialty of this mob
But the offerings of the Oracle of Google just got juicier and juicier.
Amongst all those golden fields of corn were all sorts of dirty dark secrets. The DeKalbian corn is so crazily mutated that it's even got wings
Oh and the serpent has got a nose for a certain spooky ever so innocent looking logo. Amongst all the happy farming families, it is lurking there being scary. Looks like the "Monsanto family" owns the whole show. They are doing their damnedest to sneak in here too with their weeds and all with the help of the local state government.
Maybe Izzie should send over some Diggers seed catalogues. That will scare the hell out of them.
You really can meet all kinds of freaks on Facebook. Yet another reason to avoid the place like the plague. With friends like those, who needs enemies?
Meanwhile musing that Betty Windsor and all the commonwealth big wigs must be impressed with the show we have put on for them. Rain and thunderstorms and lots of big fat white pointer sharks with very sharp teeth. The poor buggers in the tourism agencies must be pulling out their hair and gnashing their teeth.
Meanwhile the rain is just the perfect excuse for planting more tomatoes, sunflowers and chili seeds with not a hybrid or monsanto mutant seed in sight.
Must be off. Back to baiting those barbed wire munching barbarians
There should be no shortage of inspiration whatsoever.
One of the most entertaining aspects of the whole nanowrimo business is the rivalry between Izzie's home region and and another that shall remain nameless for the present.
Officially it is a competition to get the highest total word count, per capita word count and the most donors. In reality a big part of the annual ritual is taunting, baiting and insulting each other in order to scramble their puny brains and destroy their will to write. It's a proud old Aussie tradition known here as sledging and is more usually seen in cricket than in word wars
The corn munching critters had always been the winners until last year. The folks here in Dursleyville intend to keep it that way
Izzie's constantly snarking about corn munching monsanto mutants and their sad dreary diet of high fructose corn syrup and Roundup. Also suggested that DeKalbian would make such a perfect name for a villain (or a race of strange space aliens a la Cardassians and Klingons as another forum member suggested)
We are also all fond of offering shipments of Tim Tams and all sorts of Australian creepy crawlies to keep them on their toes. Cute and cuddly cane toads and white pointer sharks are some of the wonderful wildlife on offer.
Decided to add a bit of spice to the usual snark by consulting the Oracle of Google for some background information. Digging up dirt so to say
Nearly had hysterical fits of the giggles. The City of DeKalb Illinois' main claim to fame is the 'invention' of barbed wire. Well they patented it at least. Turns out that patenting of all sorts of strange things is a bit of a specialty of this mob
But the offerings of the Oracle of Google just got juicier and juicier.
Amongst all those golden fields of corn were all sorts of dirty dark secrets. The DeKalbian corn is so crazily mutated that it's even got wings
Oh and the serpent has got a nose for a certain spooky ever so innocent looking logo. Amongst all the happy farming families, it is lurking there being scary. Looks like the "Monsanto family" owns the whole show. They are doing their damnedest to sneak in here too with their weeds and all with the help of the local state government.
Maybe Izzie should send over some Diggers seed catalogues. That will scare the hell out of them.
You really can meet all kinds of freaks on Facebook. Yet another reason to avoid the place like the plague. With friends like those, who needs enemies?
Meanwhile musing that Betty Windsor and all the commonwealth big wigs must be impressed with the show we have put on for them. Rain and thunderstorms and lots of big fat white pointer sharks with very sharp teeth. The poor buggers in the tourism agencies must be pulling out their hair and gnashing their teeth.
Meanwhile the rain is just the perfect excuse for planting more tomatoes, sunflowers and chili seeds with not a hybrid or monsanto mutant seed in sight.
Must be off. Back to baiting those barbed wire munching barbarians