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Bet the farm?

“For the smaller growers, I don’t think it is reasonable to throw up their hands and say it doesn’t apply to us, or we are not the problem or we can never be the problem,” said Trevor Suslow, a food-safety expert and plant pathologist at UC Davis whose research helped form the basis of the regulations.

- New food-safety rules threaten small, organic farms, MercuryNews.com, May 26, 2010.

2. What difference does it make outside Germany that Angela Merkel has taken an abrupt turn against nuclear power?

Perhaps not much. You’re much more likely to be concerned if you’re part of Germany’s mighty industrial machine, in which case you now risk being left with a power supply gap, and a fear that the wind will drop and leave your machining lathe a bit deficient in elektrische leistung.

That fear of the lights going out is the response from much of Scottish business when facing a government that doesn’t want a renewal of the country’s nuclear power plants, but does want to bet the farm on renewable power.

- Saying Nein to Nuclear, BBC.co.uk, June 6, 2011.

3. When history catches up with Democrat’s hand picked nominee for 2016, the country will be immersed in racial rhetoric, voting rights and women’s empowering, which is the script being written as we visit. Democrats have a thirst to nominate Hillary Clinton in 2016, that’s un-quenchable.

Democrats will bet the farm on Clinton’s chances. She will bet the farm on her Southern theatrics. True lies never dissipate, they recreate in the most unusual places. Clinton is supposedly undecided, but she’s testing the waters, building support among minorities, women and less we forget, contributions.