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This is so cool, grafting is so easy! We have one tree here that makes 4 kinds of fruit. What a great idea!

Hi Chris,

We all like to get in and critisize how our poliricians behave but in many ways they have evolved to where they are......

Maybe......that's how they eed to be.....I think trump might teach us all why you leave politics to politicians....I have heard it said here many times, if one of these billionaire businessmen was running the country it would boom but I'm not sure.....

..I think Obama is pretty awesome, but I don't judge by really knowing what he has done but how he speaks and carries himself. He looks like he has tried but there must be so many voices, so many compromises, deals etc......

As you said, trump is alresfy backing down from what his most passionate supporters most want...he is meeting all those other voices now and can he manoeuvre through them....we are going to find out.....

But yeah, my hope would be that politicians see the need to actually work for their people a.little more and not just take us for granted......

Ie my latest......we just found out that here we have cheap gas resources and expensive gas resources, so we sold all our cheap gas overseas and now will need to import gas for residents......Japanese citizens buy our gas for $7,

We pay $13.....but ours will go up significantly soon.....it's a joke, globalization free market bullshit so yeah we do worldwide all need a bit of trump but hopefully it will end up only in being a poke for all our politicians...not to much damage to the US because surely we can't all enter an era of such raw testosterone ego based logic..

Professor who called Trump victory now predicts impeachment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNhz6a1PKWY

and Check out Democracy Now this morning
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2016/12/2

and something to think about concerning Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-set-to-pick-steve-mnuchin-as...

Apparently someone was so convinced about Pizzagate that he went to Comet Ping Pong with a gun: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/5/13842258/pizzagate-come...

Yeah Trish, I watched that on TV, gunman read fake article (same one Fred posted here a few days ago) and decided he was going to go in and find those children, walks straight through to the back employees' area and shot off one round to get people's attention.

This is going to be interesting with so much fake news sprinkled in to real news. Made me think of the stuxnet virus and cyber warfare, only this is done to the collective human psyche with fake news articles. People will read the false info and really think they know something about something when they are anything but informed. So we will have a lot of emotional energy being expended based upon bogus data.

And now we have a President-Elect and some of his appointees that read a lot of this fake news and alt-right news and act accordingly. How scary is that?

As Lazlo said at the end of Real Genius, "It's getting pretty weird around here"...

I have a slightly different take on the fake news being brought up. I think it is a way to further reinforce in people's minds that 911 truthers are full of it, equating that episode with actual bogus fake news stuff that is actually circulating freely. Throw enough bullshit out there and it clears the way for more false flag events to come - creating the fertile soil of plausible deniability.

I think they are plowing the field, preparing for the next harvest of completely gullible minds falling for whatever "official" story they wish to run as cover, so when there is a reaction from critical thinking minds crying bullshit as there was with the 9-11 fiasco the MSM can confidently label it as "fake news" and move on. What a brave new world, full of opportunity for whoever is in a position to play the false flag game - methodology for shepherding sheep into whatever corral one wishes to place them.

As for the Russian hacking thing, I watched a Vice special on Viceland a few days ago that interviewed many in Russia and it becomes pretty apparent that not only does Russia have the best and most hackers in the world, but that the Russian government does not go after them because they don't hack Russian interests. As one of the hackers said, "we don't shit in our own back yard".

And there is a special branch right under the FSB that is the go between with hackers and the FSB to maintain plausible deniability for Putin & Co. Putin doesn't have to run a special branch of hackers because there are already so many doing his dirty work and willing to sell their findings and invasions to interested parties in the Russian gov....

This is so obviously the new frontier and current battleground between states, the ability to hack and to infect with malware like Stuxnet did to Iran. It's not just Russia - everyone who is anyone is doing it...

Some more:

Bite the bullet

bite the bullet, idiom, words, Grammarly

Meaning: To accept something difficult or unpleasant

Origin: In the olden days, when doctors were short on anesthesia or time during a battle, they would ask the patient to bite down on a bullet to distract from the pain. The first recorded use of the phrase was in 1891 in The Light that Failed.

Break the ice

Meaning: To break off a conflict or commence a friendship.

Origin: Back when road transportation was not developed, ships would be the only transportation and means of trade. At times, the ships would get stuck during the winter because of ice formation. The receiving country would send small ships to “break the ice” to clear a way for the trade ships. This gesture showed affiliation and understanding between two territories.

Butter someone up

Meaning: To impress someone with flattery

Origin: This was a customary religious act in ancient India. The devout would throw butter balls at the statues of their gods to seek favor and forgiveness.

Mad as a hatter

Meaning: To be completely crazy

Origin: No, you didn’t already know this one, because it didn’t originate from Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Its origins date from the 17th and 18th centuries — well before Lewis Caroll’s book was published. In 17th century France, poisoning occurred among hat makers who used mercury for the hat felt. The “Mad Hatter Disease” was marked by shyness, irritability, and tremors that would make the person appear “mad.”

Cat got your tongue?

Meaning: Asked to a person who is at loss of words

Origin: The English Navy used to use a whip called “Cat-o’-nine-tails” for flogging. The pain was so severe that it caused the victim to stay quiet for a long time. Another possible source could be from ancient Egypt, where liars’ and blasphemers’ tongues were cut out and fed to the cats. (What a treat for the cats!)

Barking up the wrong tree

Meaning: To have misguided thoughts about an event or situation, a false lead

Origin: This refers to hunting dogs that may have chased their prey up a tree. The dogs bark, assuming that the prey is still in the tree, when the prey is no longer there.

Turn a blind eye

Meaning: To ignore situations, facts, or reality

Origin: The British Naval hero, Admiral Horatio Nelson, had one blind eye. Once when the British forces signaled for him to stop attacking a fleet of Danish ships, he held up a telescope to his blind eye and said, “I do not see the signal.” He attacked, nevertheless, and was victorious.

Bury the hatchet

Meaning: To stop a conflict and make peace

Origins: This one dates back to the early times North America when the Puritans were in conflict with the Native Americans. When negotiating peace, the Native Americans would bury all their hatchets, knives, clubs, and tomahawks. Weapons literally were buried and made inaccessible.

Caught red-handed

Meaning: To be caught in the act of doing something wrong

Origin: This originates from an old English law that ordered any person to be punished for butchering an animal that wasn’t his own. The only way the person could be convicted is if he was caught with the animal’s blood still on his hands.

Give a cold shoulder

Meaning: Being unwelcoming or antisocial toward someone

Origin: In medieval England, it was customary to give a guest a cold piece of meat from the shoulder of mutton, pork, or beef chop when the host felt it was time for the guest to leave. This was a polite way to communicate, “You may leave, now.”

Go the whole nine yards

Meaning: To try your best at something

Origin: During World War II, the fighter pilots were equipped with nine yards of ammunition. When they ran out, it meant that they had tried their best at fighting off the target with the entirety of their ammunition.

Let one’s hair down

Meaning: To relax or be at ease

Origin: In public, the aristocratic women of medieval times were obliged to appear in elegant hair-dos that were usually pulled up. The only time they would “let their hair down” was when they came home and relaxed.

Rub the wrong way

Meaning: To bother or annoy someone

Origin: Early Americans, during the colonial times, would ask their servants to rub their oak floorboards “the right way”. The wrong way (not wiping them with dry fabric after wet fabric) would cause streaks to form and ruin it, leaving the homeowner annoyed. Alternatively, it could have derived from rubbing a cat’s fur the “wrong way,” which annoys them.

here's some more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/the-surprising-origins-of-35-english-...

texting and tweeting is reducing r words 2 soundbites LOL

doublespeak changes meanings of words like muslim anti-semite conspiracy theorist

Words are power.

Lots of his speeches are available on Youtube but I couldn't find this one. What was interesting to me was how much he sounded like JFK - it made me realize how much JFK must have borrowed from him in his speeches. This is the one I started to listen to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nSgMWW-808