I remember reading something during the 80’s that the HTLVIII (HIV) was originally thought to be a contrived cross between a bovine (cow) leukemia virus, and a sheep lentivirus (slow virus, which caused immunodeficiency to appear years after an initial infection. Also, the suspicion at the time, and maybe still, was that it was somehow in the serum that the smallpox vaccine was in during the WHO effort to eradicate smallpox in the 3rd world countries, which were where it first appeared in large numbers. Also, I remember them speculating that it would be impossible for the “green monkey” to spread a virus with such enormous numbers so quickly in places such as Zaire, Haiti, Brazil, NY, and San Francisco – did the monkey travel by jet…

This may be conspiracy theory, but who knows.

I just spent a lot of time googling, and there’s PLENTY out there on both sides of the questions being asked by us . . I’d be delighted to hear from those who have DONE that studying and have info they would care to share . . .

I drill a 2″ hole in the bottom of a 3-gallon plastic bucket, then feed the tomato seedling through the hole until the roots are 3″ off the bottom, and then fill the bucket with potting soil. A coffee filter around the stem keeps the soil from falling out. They look great cascading down the walls of my shed.

Thanks, Plovering! Have printed it out. Shade has overtaken my previous tomato spot, and this might be just the ticket.

This may be conspiracy theory, but who knows.

PLovering @ 77

I grow my tomatoes upside-down in 3 gallon buckets hanging from my shed 7 feet off the ground.

Plants grow like crazy. No weeding. No bending over. And no grasshoppers.

How upside down? Please describe!

I drill a 2″ hole in the bottom of a 3-gallon plastic bucket, then feed the tomato seedling through the hole until the roots are 3″ off the bottom, and then fill the bucket with potting soil. A coffee filter around the stem keeps the soil from falling out. They look great cascading down the walls of my shed.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 37

I miss Bob Marley. Terribly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

I don’t miss him OKK, whenever I hear one of his songs, I close my eyes … and there he is …

marley’s was — is — a unique and beautiful spirit.

“None of them can stop the time,” he might have said of the criminals in power today.

It is particularly this last that truly infuriates Africans: the dearth of African voices heard, or even admitted into the debate, as well as the West’s unreliability and penchant in the face of frustration for damning cultural explanations for Africa’s failures.

Not too long ago, in many African countries, the second most powerful person after the president was not the army commander or the vice president, but the World Bank country representative.
The policy prescriptions of the Bank . . . and loan conditions could neither be reviewed nor questioned by elected parliaments and cabinets.

One of the reasons China is gaining ground in its quest for oil and business in Africa is Chinese people today look at Africa and see opportunity, promise and a fertile field upon which their energies, mercantile and otherwise, can be given full play. Too often, the West looks at Africa and sees a problematic pupil, a sickly patient, and a zone of pestilence, where failure looms in the air like a curse.

AP Article on the flawed Army Tribunal process:

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