{"id":1121,"date":"2011-04-24T00:19:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T00:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=594"},"modified":"2011-04-24T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T00:19:13","slug":"gmos-tekisha-victor-and-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"GMOs, Tekisha, Victor and common sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tying up loose ends from the week… \u00a0 At Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, I talked with one of the farm supervisors, Jerry. \u00a0 He said he’d just read in Acres Magazine<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0 that GMOs were actually attacking microbes in the ground, destroying much of the fertility of the soil. \u00a0 When you start tinkering with God’s natural design… \u00a0 Koinonia also offers a certified course on: permaculture<\/strong>. \u00a0 This is, in essence, setting up a tiered eco-system, with things like: berry bushes, an organic garden, free-range chickens, small ponds… \u00a0 It is an interwoven habitat that is rich in diversity, food production and so on. \u00a0 I have often said when we get to D.C. we’ll tear out a good deal of the front lawn at the White House and establish a permaculture. \u00a0 As we will ask many Americans to consider doing the same with parts of their lawn… \u00a0 On Rte 19 in southern Georgia, I talked with Tekisha O’quinn, 21<\/strong>. \u00a0 She is a single mom with one young child at home. \u00a0 Ms. O’quinn works at McDonald’s making $170 a week. \u00a0 She was told she wasn’t eligible for Medicaid because she was “…making too much.”<\/em> \u00a0 I asked her how she was managing and she said she prayed her daughter didn’t get sick… \u00a0 At a Quick Foods about 35 miles down the road on Rte. 19, Victor Hicks<\/strong> and his buddy Herman were sitting at the only table in the store. \u00a0 When Victor heard I was running for president, he said he’d been pondering on why people on food stamps can purchase things like non-nutritional junk food like potato chips and soda pop. \u00a0 I said that was a good point, then promptly told our eight-year-old Jonathan to return the Coca Cola and get an orange juice. \u00a0 Jonathan frowned at “Mr. Victor”… \u00a0 In Tallahassee, Florida, Layton Zeigler pulled up beside us and said he’d noticed one of our campaign signs: \u00a0 Common Man, Common Sense<\/strong>. \u00a0 He said he didn’t want to burst our bubble, but “…there is no common sense in D.C.,” he smiled. \u00a0 I said we’d change that. \u00a0 And so it goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tying up loose ends from the week… \u00a0 At Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, I talked with one of the farm supervisors, Jerry. \u00a0 He said he’d just read in Acres Magazine \u00a0 that GMOs were actually attacking microbes in …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}