(Melchizedek Communique, MC011310) This week, the American Farm Bureau Federation has opened its annual meeting in "a feisty mood." American Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman got a standing ovation Sunday at the group's annual meeting in Seattle after promising a stronger fight against activists critical of modern commercial agriculture and cap and trade bills in Congress. Reportedly, there is lately "a defensive mood among farmers who are tired of an onslaught of books, movies and news reports critical of agricultural production methods and its affect on the environment and livestock." [1]

But could the increasingly angry farmers get to the point where they are saying, "It blowed up good... Yep, it blowed up real good..."?

It was on the old SCTV television network that, not so long ago, a strange program appeared: "Farm Film Report". From its humble beginnings as a straightforward hog futures report, Farm Report evolved into a film review show where a couple of farmers enthuse about films where people are blown up.

But then the show's hosts, Big Jim McBob and Billie Sol Hurok, increasingly exhibited bizarre alienation until, ominously, they turned to actually blowing people up!

Supposedly it was just a forklift accident which punctured containers holding the super-explosive PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate.) This had happened at a busy North Carolina port. But then, within 48 hours of the PETN incident, Haiti "blowed up real good." They say, "Earthquakes... Fork lift accidents...", but what if farmer fury has passed the point of no return?

American farmers are tired of nitpicking dweebs in Washington, DC micro-managing their vital production. "Oh deary me," whine the federal pencil pushers. "The cow dung is causing global warming." The federal dweebs are, in turn, under the thumb of the United Nations, which has decided methane released when cows chew their cud and belch, and nitrous oxide and ammonia when they leave manure all over the barnyard, must now be regulated.

It is interesting that one of the buildings in Haiti which "blowed up real good" was the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission there.

"A line must be drawn between our polite and respectful engagement with consumers and how we must aggressively respond to extremists who want to drag agriculture back to the day of 40 acres and a mule," Stallman said, at the annual American Farm Bureau Federation meeting. "The time has come to face our opponents with a new attitude. The days of their elitist power grabs are over." [2]

In related news, coincident to the North Carolina PETN episode and the Haiti devastation, the Friends Of Millard Fillmore (FOMF) have released their long-awaited report, "What Would Millard Do?" (Further info at http://www.shout.net/~bigred/FOMF.html)

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[1] "Farm Bureau members open annual meeting in a feisty mood", by Dan Looker. Agriculture Online, Jan. 11, 2010
http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/1263268905381.xml
[2] "Farm Bureau Fires Back Against Climate Bill's 'Power Grab'", by Allison Winter. Jan. 11, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/01/11/11climatewire-farm-bureau-fires-back-against-climate-bills-93758.html