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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

ROFL !! 
 
With my luck it is some Monsanto mutation with mind control orders... buy 
only Monsanto seed, buy only Monsanto seed...
 
Nah,,, who knows what it is.  It very easily could be something that was 
brought up from Mexico.  A lot of the veggies in the local small grocery 
store look like they have had no preservatives/ wax etc on them as the shelf 
life is pretty short (as compared to large grocers like Publix, etc).  
 
Actually, I have a whole small ziplock with seeds from the original squash 
bought at the grocery.  Sure glad I only planted one seed though.
 
Clipped off a nice big sunflower head today.  Its turning dried, and the 
stalk was breaking.  
 
Other than cucumbers and tomatoes keeping me busy, it's nice to have a break 
here on harvesting as most things are on the pause button, or still growing 
out.  For a while there I didn't know if I was ever going to get a full 
nights sleep from canning into the night hours.
 
 

--- On Fri, 8/7/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:



Leslie; you definately need to save seeds from that one. You could 
single-handedly cure world hunger!

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 7:01 PM
Subject: [Homestead] plant geneticist


I need a plant geneticist to come out here and quickly do some gene splicing 
on that crazy spaghetti squash plant.

I swear it is a mutant monster................ One seed, one plant, one 
plant that is now over 12 feet across, and has 12 squashes growing and still 
lots of new growth on the tips of more and more branches coming out.


I need someone to splice in a STOP GROWING GENE quick, or I'm going to lose 
the driveway.............


Seriously, is this a normal size plant for a spaghetti squash?



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> >When my parents use their government provided coverage, they were the
> patient, but the govt. pays the bill.

That's an important point.  The Canadian system is NOT a government medical
system, it's a government INSURANCE system.   Unlike our hyprid (mongrel)
system of part private and part govenment insurance, the Canadian system
successfully keeps medical costs down.  An acquaintance was travelling in 
Canada
when her son needed emergency medical treatment.  She went into the
Canadian clinic where her son was treated, and not being a Canadian, she was
presented with the bill.  The total bill including all meds was LESS, she 
said,
than just the co-pay would have been here under her HMO.

Here in this country (as in most) electric rates, phone rates, water rates,
gas rates, etc. are not subject to market competion but rather are set by
boards.  In some areas even rents are set by boards.  The businesses
supplying those services and commodities are privately owned, but when they 
send you
a bill, the rate has been set by a board, often a government board.

The Canadian system is like that.  Everyone is covered by the national
insurance and the rates are set by the government.    It is quite amazing to 
me
that in our current economic make-up, people don't think twice about common
funds supplying the roads, the schools, the libraries, and prices being
established for gas (not gasoline), electricity, phone service, and in many
areas cable TV and rents ... and yet they break out into a blind panic over 
the
idea of the government setting a schedule for the fee for medical payments.


>
> >Nope, they have lived with this situation and you and I have not, so the
> idea that we are better informed is rather silly.

If you had ten thousand Canadians who all said that Alberta lies south of
Montana, it would not matter a whit that they are in Alberta and I am not
.... they would be idiots.  It is simply something that is not true.   
Likewise
if you have any number of Canadians that say that the doctors are
government employees and the hospitals and clinics are owned by the 
government,  they
would be just as wrong.  It is something that is factually not true ....
unless of course you are stealing a page from Clinton's book and making the
argument that it "depends on what the definiton is 'is' is."


>In neither case can doctors do as they feel best and be assured of payment
if they have to step outside the guidelines.

And neither can you in the case of private insurance, HMO's or any such
"coverage" in our system.  The range of services and medicines covered by
Medicare and Medicaid are far greater than are covered by most private 
insurance
policies.  Doctors and hospitals get their funds from the government
coverage without having to file the same claim a dozen times and fight with 
the
insurance companies.


James