ADMITTEDLY ILLEGAL GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOIL FUNGUS PRESENT IN ORGANIC PRODUCTS

http://www.prisonplanet.com/admittedly-illegal-genetically-modified-soil-fungus-present-in-%E2%80%98organic%E2%80%99-products.html

THE LATEST DEADLY "THING". NEW FUNGUS CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII - IS GOING TO KILL YOU!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100421-new-fungus-cryptococcus-gattii-deadly-health-science/

Interesting it was "discovered" and the news released on Earth Day.

What is this - the latest government attempt at a pandemic?

Oh, how I wish I had a paypal account (I do not ike paypal), and could legally take bets on this like I wish I had on the hoaxes of swine flu and climate change, though folks are determined to make us bow to cap and trade.

There is no antidote to this. But I'll bet our CDC will start immediately on one to save us all.

And silly me - if it's a fungus of warm climates, why did it make its appearance in Oregon from the South Seas. Simple. It hitchhiked - just like the Japanese red crabs that we caught and ate that hitchhiked across the ocean to Oregon on a ship from Japan. And wow, are they tasty critters. Had plenty of Japanese crab spaghetti when I lived in Coos Bay.

THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF NOT TRADING WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES! WE CAN BE SELF-SUFFICIENT IN ALL THINGS. But then the globalists wouldn't be able to control us.

On this - let's just wait and see. Be careful. Be prepared, and don't take chances. Be clean.

Thank you to the Casey Dispatch:
he headline from increasingly politicized and sensationalized National Geographic reads…

New Deadly Fungus Found in U.S., Has Already Killed Six
Infections from a new strain are unpreventable—and the strain is spreading. The story is here.

Reading that, you could be forgiven for thinking that a mushroom-breathed Specter of Death will soon be knocking on your door.

To which we would say, “Don’t worry about it” – just as we did back when the headlines were full of the millions of deaths soon to be chalked up to the Swine Flu pandemic and the pending widespread destruction from the rising tides of global warming.

As has become the custom, in the scramble to sell advertising, all hard analysis and scientific facts are heaved out of the window – leaving behind the feeble-minded drivel that has brought mainstream media into such low regard among anyone with an IQ above 60.

(Ed. Note: Just after I wrote that, someone sent me the following article, detailing how the “authorities” so massively misdiagnosed the Swine Flu… here’s the link.)

For the naturalist...

I'm spending Sunday morning, February 23, doing research for an article on fungi. "We" in NW Florida have just experienced the Flood of 2008. With rain and rot comes fungi to help decompose plant and animal matter to nutrients and return the host to the soil. I just found the most amazing site. Here it is: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/.

It is easy to navigate. But please, unless you are absolutely educated on the gathering of mushrooms, do NOT ingest them. Cooking won't help you if you have eaten a poisonous mushroom.

Further down on the home page, I found Pamela's Mushrooms, another terrific site. Pay attention to the large icon she uses for poisonous mushrooms. She's not kidding, and neither am I. http://pkaminski.homestead.com/page1.html

That said, I'm going back to my article, which I'm writing for JPG Magazine.

My father often told me the story of the family he knew who gathered mushrooms on Staten Island, as they did at home in Italy. They gathered their last when some poisonous mushrooms got into their basket and killed the whole family. Don't know if they used Cousin Anthony's method below - no one was left to ask!

Here's a note from my paisan (or, as good as a relation) Anthony, from his childhood. His grandparents and mine were friends from the old country, and found their way to Staten Island together. One sponsored the other, I think. But anyway, here's what he remembers:

For the mushrooms, I remember my father and mother putting a silver coin in the frying pan with ''picked mushrooms'' from the woods on Staten Island. If the coin turned black it was poisoned and discarded. Our olden days were ''teachers''.

Incidentally, I got some good photos this morning, including an Anhinga in one of my favorite trees. I'm getting closer to the perfect shot of those rascals.

The creeks and canals are inundated. And so are some of the waterside yards. Whoever was responsible for releasing the water from the Deer Point dam was asleep. We almost lost the dam because of it. A new post with a slideshow will be posted sometime this week.