Growing the perfect ear of corn.

Corn. Corn is a member of the grass family and is monoecious having both male and female reproductive organs on each plant. However, unlike many monoecious plants the sex organs of the corn plant are widely separated from each other. The male flowers are located in the top of the corn stalk in the plants tassel while the female flowers are the silk of the corns ears. Each strand of silk is attached to a single kernel of corn. For pollination to occur the pollen grains produced by the tassels must contact the silk of an immature ear of corn. If each strand of silk is not pollinated the kernel it is attached to will not develop and the ear of corn will be deformed. To assist the pollination of an ear of corn select a few tassels that are golden brown. Cut off the tassel and shake it vigorously in a paper bag. Pick it up the pollen that has collected in the bag with a medium sized paintbrush. Select a tassel that is drooping and ready to be pollinated. Hold the brush an inch or so above the drooping tassel and tap it to allow the pollen to fall onto the tassel. For best results, repeat this process daily for one week.

The Roots Of White Racism

This is my 100th blog. Over the past three years I have covered a number of controversial topics, but none as contentious as this one! The question I will address in this essay is why, 151 years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, is white on black racism so rampant in land of the free and the home of the brave. I believe the answer to this all important question is simple and straightforward but, because of the continual barrage of social liberal propaganda, extremely difficult for most guilt ridden white Americans to accept. This, of course, is especially true for wealthy Americas who have been thought to believe that they do not deserve to benefit from the fruits of their labor because they somehow stole it from the countries' unproductive underclass. I have long believed that white racism in America had little to do with skin color and everything to do with the far more important genetic and cultural differences that exist between the black and white races. The recent outburst of the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has served to focus our attention, once again, on the deeply held, but most often carefully concealed, white abhorrence of blacks and their culture. Basically, Mr. Sterling, a typical affluent white liberal who has given millions to various black causes and received numerous awards for his philanthropy from black and white functionaries alike, admitted that he hated blacks and detested being in their presence unless, of course, they were sexy black women. The real question is not, as the drive-by media would have you believe, if and how Mr. Sterling should be punished for his racist comments. Rather, the sixty-four thousand dollar question is how did such a successful American capitalist develop such a hatred for blacks. Several factors contributed to Mr. Sterling's low opinion of blacks. In the first place, most whites in America inherently know, although in many cases only subconsciously, that blacks are inferior intellectually. In this respect, whites who have never read The Bell Curve and know nothing about the numerous studies of racial differences in IQ, discern from their life experiences that the average black is ill-equipped intellectually to compete in today's technologically driven world. Why has the white population come to this conclusion despite everything to contrary that they have been taught in school, read in the newspapers and watched on TV? In this respect, the behaviorists have maintained for the past 60 years that the genetic differences in inherited IQ between the races are infinitesimally small and that the measured racial differences in intellect are the result of environmental factors such as economic status and white privilege. In other words, despite all the evidence to the contrary, the behaviorists would have us believe that environmental factors, and not inherited intelligence, determines whether we become brain surgeons or end up living a life of poverty and crime. However, the average guy on the street knows from experience that the trillions a dollars spent on social programs to level the educational playing field for blacks have been a futile waste of time and money. These wasteful social boondoggles include school busing, affirmative action, head start and a host of other programs designed to bring blacks up to speed intellectually. In this respect, despite the best efforts of the social engineers to hide the failures of Lyndon Baines Johnson's great society, the dismal failure of the social programs designed to level the playing field for blacks has not gone unnoticed by the Caucasians who have been forced to pay the price, not only in money but in lost opportunity, for affirmative action and the other failed social programs promoted by the liberal do-gooders over the past six decades. Older Americans, like Mr. Sterling, know the truth, after all they lived through it! Unfortunately, most younger Americans don't have a clue. But, given time, I believe that even these young sculls full of mush, will stumble to the truth. God help us if they don't! But the white disdain for blacks is not solely based on their perception that blacks are intellectually inferior to whites, far from it! The average white person may not be able to tell you the exact percentage of young black males who are either in prison or on parole (72 percent), but they inherently know that criminality is rife in the black community. In this respect, even though the liberal drive-by media refuses to identify the race of those responsible for the carnage caused by those participating in the knockout games, most whites know that black hoodlums are primarily responsible these vicious senseless attaches on the innocent, usually elderly, whites. Similarly, although most whites may not know that 72 percent of all black births are illegitimate, they do know that marriage and legitimacy are uncommon, at best, in today's black culture. Finally, it does not go unnoticed among white America that cities like Flint and Detroit Michigan, Oakland California and Washington DC, to name only four of worst offenders, have all been run by corrupt liberal black politicians (remember Marion Berry) for the past 50 to 60 years. In this respect, when I visited my aunt in Oakland as a child it was a vibrant beautiful city perhaps, because of its idyllic climate, one of the nicest places to live in California; now after a half century of black control Oakland is a crime-ridden impoverished wasteland. Situations like this do not go unnoticed by the white population, despite the attempts of the social engineers and liberal politicians to sweep them under the rug. The point of this treatise is that the deeply engrained white racism in this country is not based on anything as superficial as skin color. Rather, it is founded on a century or more of accumulated personal experiences which has led whites, like Mr. Sterling, to the undeniable conclusion that blacks, as a race, are intellectually inferior, not only to whites, but to all other races. More importantly perhaps, no matter how hard they try, whites, including Mr. Sterling, find it impossible to escape the inevitable conclusion that members of the black community are prone to criminality and other forms of antisocial behavior. This, despite the fact that, in cities like Oakland California, there literally is a black church on every street corner. Occasionally, someone like Mr. Sterling, will blurt out the truth and be punished severely for it. That's just the way it is in twenty-first century America where the concept of free speech is little more than a faint memory of the far distant past.