On Wed, 02 May 2007 11:43:26 -0700, William Rose
wrote:

In article , Persephone
wrote:

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:36:31 +0000 (UTC), FragileWarrior
wrote:

Persephone wrote in :

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:37:21 +0000 (UTC), FragileWarrior
wrote:

zxcvbob wrote in news:59lbftF2j2tvaU1
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The best results I've ever had was this year when I took some
unusually-hard-to-sprout pepper seeds to work, planted in a
Tupperware container and put them on the back of my computer monitor
during the days. I took them off at night and removed the lids and
let them cool off and breathe. I got almost 100% germination in
about a week and the seedlings are now strong and healthy. Last
year the same seeds took almost a month to get maybe 10% germination
and the seedlings were weak not a single one survived. The bottom
heat was the only difference.

Funny you should mention that. When I make no-knead bread I put it on
my computer monitor to rise -- works like a charm.

Dang, cain't do thet nohow on flat screen...

Mebbe heating pad on low setting?

Persephone


For the seeds or the bread?

I've heard of people using that for seeds.

Hmmm...seeds, I guess. Never made no-knead bread.
A friend of mine used a bread machine, but I don't know if that
qualifies for "no-knead".

BTW - the Chinese, who were way ahead of us on much* --
the peasants channeled the heat from their household fires into pipes
that ran under the ground and provided nice heat for germinating
seeds.

* of course they're STILL ahead of us on environmental pollution,
summary executions, imprisonment for free speech/writing,
and now contaminated pet food. There were recently articles in the
media about how that plastic waste melamine had been used to bulk up
"protein" for years to unwitting users in China itself. One can see
how they could get away with it in a totalitarian state, but it's
hard to excuse exporting this stuff to the U.S.

Hard? Not at all! The ******* Administration has CUT the FDA
inspection resources, while we are importing four times as much
food as in the past. (Foreign food exporters laugh behind their hands,
knowing how easy it is to dump bad food in the U.S. because of the
dearth of inspection resources.)

Somehow that equation doesn't work out. But wait! It is more
important -- rather than adequately fund the FDA -- to use our money
to kill our soldiers in Iraq, kill innocent Iraqui civilians, AND
enrich the Halliburton-type contractors as well as our
private mercenary armies** doing business Over There.

**Which number almost as many as the "official" army figures
quoted by the Pentagon.

Persephone

That's not really fair Persephone. Our ******* Administration is trying
to catch up on environmental pollution ( Clean Air Act, Clean Water
Act, burn more coal and, build "nucular" acts), summary executions (if
you are categorized an enemy combatant, you can bend over and kiss it
good-bye), imprisonment for free speech/writing (if your not embedded,
you are a target {Palestine Hotel, Al Jazeera, Giuliana Sgrena, ect.}),
and now contaminated pet food (an acceptable fib in China where it is
added to all animal feeds to improve scores on protein assays). What
food products do we import from China? Does your butt fall off
immediately or do you wait 10 years and get Type II diabetes or, twenty
years and get cancer?

If we could just stop those "little Eichmans", maybe the world would
stop being so mad at us. Well at least we won't have Halliburton to kick
around anymore. They took our tax dollars and ran to Dubai to avoid
taxes. I hope they grab Cheney before he skips out of the country. Can
it belong before Blackwater and, Custer Battle come to a town near you?

Believe me, I wasn't trying to go easy on our proto-totalitarian
regime! I just hesitated to get too OT on this amiable NG.
Unleashed, I could froth on for infinite bytes.

Small byte: At least SOMEBODYelse knows that our military deliberately
targeted and murdered journalists from Al Jazeera and Spain. BTW, I
understand a Spanish magistrate has now demanded that the US extradite
the ?? responsible for the deliberate targeting of the Palestine Hotel
(after Al Jazeera carefully gave them the exact coordinates, required
by our military). This is the tip of the iceberg: "Non-approved"
journalists were routinely turned back from entering Iraq; how many
others were killed, one wonders.

The military, and their political bosses, sure learned their lesson!
Allowing unrestricted reporting from Vietnam so outraged the public
that it eventually ended the war, notwithstanding Nixon's sabotage of
the Paris peace talks -- only cost another few thousand American
soldier lives...chickenfeed...

Too bad they didn't learn that OTHER little "lesson" -- Never get
involved in a land war in Asia!

Persephone


But I digress . . .

Using Susan's (The Cook) method (God knows where she stole it from but,
she stole a good one.) of florescence lights on top and a heating pad
(low) underneath, I am getting germination of pepper seeds in 5 days.

I think you can see Ruby Ridge from here.

Not to mention Waco!

- Bill
Cloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)