President Eisenhower was a rarity. Perhaps he was rare
because he wasn’t really a politician he was a general out of uniform. A
general who wasn’t afraid to fire officers who couldn’t cut it, spoke out of
turn, tried to run battles from seventy miles in the rear. If he had issued
orders as mealy mouthed and inaccurate as what’s coming out of DC and many
state capitals these days the Allies would have invaded Ireland instead of
Normandy.
And what’s really scary is that nearly sixty years have
passed and nothing has changed. Except that big business doesn’t want to end
farm subsidies. They have too much to lose while we grow so much corn we can
make sugar out of it, so many soy beans they’re used to make almost anything
except food.
I wonder what the old general would think of the idea of
patenting living things.
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