Daily Archives: March 29, 2015

Monsanto Lobbyist Says You Can Drink “A Whole Quart” of Roundup but Does This When Offered Some!

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Nation of Change has the article Monsanto Lobbyist Says You Can Drink “A Whole Quart” of Roundup but Does This When Offered Some!

The video they show is on YouTube.

French television station Canal+ recently sat down with Dr. Patrick Moore for an upcoming documentary. Dr Moore, who claims to be an ecological expert and is currently the frontman for Ecosense Environmental, stated to the interviewer that Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup was not responsible for skyrocketing cancer rates in Argentina.

Note that I have put this post in the category of Greenberg’s Law of Idle Threats.

Greenberg’s Law of Idle Threats

Never make a threat you don’t intend to carry out. If you have any doubts about your ability to carry out the threat, do not make it.

Corollary:

If you never test the opposition about whether they make idle threats, then you enable them to ignore this law.

The Fifth Reading of Exodus

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According to the WikiPedia article Bo (parsha).

This article is about Judaism’s weekly Torah portion on the parashah of “Bo”
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Fifth reading — Exodus 12:21–28

In the short fifth reading (עליה, aliyah), Moses instructed the elders of Israel to kill their Passover lambs, paint their doorways with the lamb’s blood, and remain inside their houses until the morning. For God would smite the Egyptians, but when God saw the blood on the lintel, God would pass over the house and not allow “the Destroyer” to come into that house. The Israelites were to observe the Passover service for all time, and when their children would ask what the service means, they were to say that it commemorated the time when God passed over the Israelites’ houses when God smote the Egyptians. ‘ And the people bowed the head and worshipped. And the Israelites did as God commanded Moses and Aaron. The fifth reading (עליה, aliyah) and a closed portion (סתומה, setumah) end here.

As a reader of modern history and current events, I got to thinking of how one might interpret this passage. I leave it up to you to do your own thinking on this subject.