its actually true. apple tree growing is a bit of an art. and they aren't really grown from seeds because apples don't run "true to the seed".
if you planted the seeds from a Granny Smith, you'd get an apple tree. but it wouldn't produce Granny Smith apples.
that is, you don't really get the specific cultivars from re-seeding the seeds. rather its the combination of your root stock and scion stock that you graft onto it.
unlike many other crop cultivars that are the result of genetic breeding (tomatoes), apple cultivars are a result of the art of botanical grafting, and as such raising an apple orchard has more in common with banana production than to tomato production.
and actually, that makes quite a bit of sense: -tomatoes grow new plants quickly each year. you can go through generations of breeding tomatoes relatively quickly. -whereas an apple tree takes years to grow, and years to mature before it actually produces fruit, thus it takes a human generation or more just to get 1 or two generations of apple trees.
don't bet on it. most of the seats up for grabs are dem seats. and most of those are in states that went Trump, and which have enacted further voting restrictions and gerrymandering over the years, and like to add more, to further tilt the board.
no, 2018 will be a bloodbath. and 2020 likely will be too, as redistricting again due to the census wont really be possible until 2022.
and by then we're actually facing a permanent GOP super majority (hell we already are! look at state houses and governors), in government if not in actual population, so its not clear how much of that will actually be possible to be undone. basically facing permanent apartheid type rule by oppressive political minority.
yeah, but the last one destabilized the entire middle east and crashed the world economy. and the one before that killed wage growth for 40 years, and hit new records for corruption scandals. and the one before that dragged out the Vietnam war in order to win an election, while promising a "secret plan" the whole time.
I did. it was 80f on thanksgiving. a full 40f warmer than the moving average of the past 100 years, and 45f warmer than the average over the 20th century.
oh that is just truly pathetic. I don't whats worse, your lack of education as to the meanings of simple words, or you disconnection from reality.
-no, disagreement in business is not fraud. Fraud is defined as
wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain
, aka, what Trump University did. it wasn't just mere false advertising, though that was part of it, and btw that is also illegal. your doubts on the matter only betray your own ignorance of it.
-no, she was not guilty of espionage. a) guilt only comes following a trial, and a trial requires proof, of which there is none. and b) the definition is
the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.
.
-oh F right off. the idea that the America that decried fascism and torture 80 years ago is now fine with both makes me sick. ivory tower? talk to me after putting your ass on the line in the military. I have. And I tell you now: torture is and will forever be un-American. and if you did too, yet your values change that easily, then you had none to begin with. and further you fools that support torture have forgotten what it means to be an American. we cannot be the shining city on the hill, the example to the world, if we are willing to commit evil in its defense.
and your sig reveals your ignorance and further delusion, as well as that of anyone who actually voted trump based on his "economic arguments".
almost all the corruption BS you accuse the Clintons of, with zero evidence, Trump has actually done, and much of it the past two weeks since he got elected!!!
you have it entirely backwards. there is no "actual actions" of the cliontons vs trumps words. its baseless accusations against the Clintons vs trumps actual actions.
he has ACTUALLY treated his foundation as a piggy bank. he has ACTUALLY profited of political office, and hes not even in office yet!, negotiating things for his businesses as president elect, clearing permits, putting up foreign dignitaries in his hotels, etc.
they did have a clear mandate. his win was overwhelming. unlike trump who is still 2 million votes shy of Hillary's count.
"you didn't build that"
still taken out of context and unable to grasp the point as a result. the point isn't to diminish anything you have achieved, but to get you to acknowledge that you didn't do it alone. you had help. you had parents, teachers, coaches, etc who taught you how to succeed. you had a society that has made it possible to do so, through public education, public infrastructure, etc. only conservatives are so delusional as to think they didn't need any of that and would be where they are today without it.
the ACA is more popular with time. in fact, public polls have shown that when it was described to people without a name, people loved it and almost every aspect of it, including the penalty once it was explained what hte purpose of that penalty was (the free-rider problem). THEY ALSO described the law specifically to conservative voters as a GOP proposed alternative. and guess? they loved it too.
^^again. not reflected by reality. your comment only shows your own ignorance about the passage of the ACA.
also: -he deported more undocumented immigrants than the previous 3 presidents combined -he did call for restrictions on the H1B and an end to its abuse as a tool to threaten/replace native workers. guess who opposed it????? -OOOO that evil man, making healthcare affordable. the horror.
yes....AFTER they gave conservatives everything they wanted.
see, that's how compromise works for republicans, with two easy examples, out of many, from the passing of the ACA:
-"we demand you drop the public option"....so dems did
-"if it's so good, then why dont YOU have to use it?"...but dems said, "hey no, that's a good idea, leading by examples, etc", and so they made it so all of Congress does have to use the exchange
remind me again how its liberals, who support equal rights for all, that are vile, and not the white nationalists you seem to like so much, who cant wait to "make america white again"?
except for Trump's actual corruption, actual profiteering off his foundation, actual profiting from office (and he's not even the office yet!), actual bigotry, actual complete policy incompetence, actual transition circus.
i mean, thank god we didn't elect that nerd who actually knows what she's doing right?
well, two of his advisors have publically talked about it following the election.
and another of his surrogates has publicly stated:
It’s so great our enemies are making themselves clear so that when we get in to the White House, we know where we stand. I would never judge anybody for exercising their right to and the freedom to choose who they want. But let me just tell you, Mr. Trump has a long memory and we’re keeping a list.
and electoral votes have dickall to do with population %. the congressional wins aren't a mystery: it was mostly GOP seats up for grabs, and the nature of our (incredibly stupid system) means that 99% of all seats are 100% safe from being taken by the other side. the only exception is when you have seats up for grabs in the following midterms in a state that voted for the opposing POTUS candidate (aka, dems gonna screwed in 2018).
and a lot of people voted "f it, I don't care", until later when they found out what it would mean. thus creating the desire for a re-do that would have reversed brexit.
but too late suckers: you don't let emotion get in the way of rationality, and now you're screwed. ditto America.
-there are studies that link intelligence with ideology.
-reading comprehension is simply another metric for intelligence, so....same answer.
-speaking of reading comprehension and intelligence: who wouldn't want "FREE HEALTHCARE" after multiple successful public trials (ie, successful implementation in basically every other advanced nation, as well as our own medicare system) have shown it to be both cheaper and more effective?
but then evidence based reasoning again goes back to intelligence again.
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you do realize that there are indeed people who speak only Korean and Japanese, right?
its actually true.
apple tree growing is a bit of an art.
and they aren't really grown from seeds because apples don't run "true to the seed".
if you planted the seeds from a Granny Smith, you'd get an apple tree.
but it wouldn't produce Granny Smith apples.
that is, you don't really get the specific cultivars from re-seeding the seeds.
rather its the combination of your root stock and scion stock that you graft onto it.
unlike many other crop cultivars that are the result of genetic breeding (tomatoes), apple cultivars are a result of the art of botanical grafting, and as such raising an apple orchard has more in common with banana production than to tomato production.
and actually, that makes quite a bit of sense:
-tomatoes grow new plants quickly each year. you can go through generations of breeding tomatoes relatively quickly.
-whereas an apple tree takes years to grow, and years to mature before it actually produces fruit, thus it takes a human generation or more just to get 1 or two generations of apple trees.
mod up
motherjones's investigative reporting is right up their propublica and is no way comparable to infowars.
don't bet on it.
most of the seats up for grabs are dem seats.
and most of those are in states that went Trump, and which have enacted further voting restrictions and gerrymandering over the years, and like to add more, to further tilt the board.
no, 2018 will be a bloodbath.
and 2020 likely will be too, as redistricting again due to the census wont really be possible until 2022.
and by then we're actually facing a permanent GOP super majority (hell we already are! look at state houses and governors), in government if not in actual population, so its not clear how much of that will actually be possible to be undone. basically facing permanent apartheid type rule by oppressive political minority.
yeah, but the last one destabilized the entire middle east and crashed the world economy.
and the one before that killed wage growth for 40 years, and hit new records for corruption scandals.
and the one before that dragged out the Vietnam war in order to win an election, while promising a "secret plan" the whole time.
I did.
it was 80f on thanksgiving.
a full 40f warmer than the moving average of the past 100 years, and 45f warmer than the average over the 20th century.
oh that is just truly pathetic.
I don't whats worse, your lack of education as to the meanings of simple words, or you disconnection from reality.
-no, disagreement in business is not fraud. Fraud is defined as
wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain
, aka, what Trump University did. it wasn't just mere false advertising, though that was part of it, and btw that is also illegal. your doubts on the matter only betray your own ignorance of it.
-no, she was not guilty of espionage. a) guilt only comes following a trial, and a trial requires proof, of which there is none. and b) the definition is
the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.
.
-oh F right off. the idea that the America that decried fascism and torture 80 years ago is now fine with both makes me sick. ivory tower? talk to me after putting your ass on the line in the military. I have. And I tell you now: torture is and will forever be un-American. and if you did too, yet your values change that easily, then you had none to begin with. and further you fools that support torture have forgotten what it means to be an American. we cannot be the shining city on the hill, the example to the world, if we are willing to commit evil in its defense.
and your sig reveals your ignorance and further delusion, as well as that of anyone who actually voted trump based on his "economic arguments".
almost all the corruption BS you accuse the Clintons of, with zero evidence, Trump has actually done, and much of it the past two weeks since he got elected!!!
you have it entirely backwards. there is no "actual actions" of the cliontons vs trumps words.
its baseless accusations against the Clintons vs trumps actual actions.
he has ACTUALLY treated his foundation as a piggy bank.
he has ACTUALLY profited of political office, and hes not even in office yet!, negotiating things for his businesses as president elect, clearing permits, putting up foreign dignitaries in his hotels, etc.
Hillary's past in a nutshell:
40 years of conservatives making shit up and trying to make it stick, and failing.
he did exactly that.
multiple times.
he didn't create the stonewall.
you are delusional.
"WE won"
they did have a clear mandate.
his win was overwhelming.
unlike trump who is still 2 million votes shy of Hillary's count.
"you didn't build that"
still taken out of context and unable to grasp the point as a result.
the point isn't to diminish anything you have achieved, but to get you to acknowledge that you didn't do it alone.
you had help. you had parents, teachers, coaches, etc who taught you how to succeed.
you had a society that has made it possible to do so, through public education, public infrastructure, etc.
only conservatives are so delusional as to think they didn't need any of that and would be where they are today without it.
the ACA is more popular with time.
in fact, public polls have shown that when it was described to people without a name, people loved it and almost every aspect of it, including the penalty once it was explained what hte purpose of that penalty was (the free-rider problem).
THEY ALSO described the law specifically to conservative voters as a GOP proposed alternative. and guess? they loved it too.
again: you are delusional.
^^again. not reflected by reality. your comment only shows your own ignorance about the passage of the ACA.
also:
-he deported more undocumented immigrants than the previous 3 presidents combined
-he did call for restrictions on the H1B and an end to its abuse as a tool to threaten/replace native workers. guess who opposed it?????
-OOOO that evil man, making healthcare affordable. the horror.
see? this is how I know were in a coma for the past 8 years:
100% delusional statements like that one, completely disconnected from reality.
read, and be edumicated:
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2...
http://www.realclearpolitics.c...
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
https://mic.com/articles/22662...
http://www.liberalamerica.org/...
yes....AFTER they gave conservatives everything they wanted.
see, that's how compromise works for republicans, with two easy examples, out of many, from the passing of the ACA:
-"we demand you drop the public option"....so dems did
-"if it's so good, then why dont YOU have to use it?"...but dems said, "hey no, that's a good idea, leading by examples, etc", and so they made it so all of Congress does have to use the exchange
-"well...screw you we wont vote for it anyway"
saying it don't make it so.
so what youre saying is that you were in coma in 2008 and 2012 and have confused the dream you had while you were asleep with reality.
remind me again how its liberals, who support equal rights for all, that are vile, and not the white nationalists you seem to like so much, who cant wait to "make america white again"?
except for Trump's actual corruption, actual profiteering off his foundation, actual profiting from office (and he's not even the office yet!), actual bigotry, actual complete policy incompetence, actual transition circus.
i mean, thank god we didn't elect that nerd who actually knows what she's doing right?
well, two of his advisors have publically talked about it following the election.
and another of his surrogates has publicly stated:
It’s so great our enemies are making themselves clear so that when we get in to the White House, we know where we stand. I would never judge anybody for exercising their right to and the freedom to choose who they want. But let me just tell you, Mr. Trump has a long memory and we’re keeping a list.
and electoral votes have dickall to do with population %.
the congressional wins aren't a mystery: it was mostly GOP seats up for grabs, and the nature of our (incredibly stupid system) means that 99% of all seats are 100% safe from being taken by the other side. the only exception is when you have seats up for grabs in the following midterms in a state that voted for the opposing POTUS candidate (aka, dems gonna screwed in 2018).
and a lot of people voted "f it, I don't care", until later when they found out what it would mean.
thus creating the desire for a re-do that would have reversed brexit.
but too late suckers: you don't let emotion get in the way of rationality, and now you're screwed.
ditto America.
-there are studies that link intelligence with ideology.
-reading comprehension is simply another metric for intelligence, so....same answer.
-speaking of reading comprehension and intelligence: who wouldn't want "FREE HEALTHCARE" after multiple successful public trials (ie, successful implementation in basically every other advanced nation, as well as our own medicare system) have shown it to be both cheaper and more effective?
but then evidence based reasoning again goes back to intelligence again.