Here's a song I love and it helps me to know that the future will be what we teach them it should be.

Teach your children well

Their father's hell did slowly go by

And feed them on your dreams

The one they pick's the one you'll know by

Don't you ever ask them why

If they told you, you would cry

So just look at them and sigh

And know they love you

I confess a certain despondency based on a close encounter with one of those 27% of people that still think republicans can do no wrong, and if they do, it's OK since Democrats would have done the same.

I don't see Clyde very often, but he is the other grandpa of our granddaughter in Montana.

I can't have a normal conversation with him, so I have written him a letter and will mail it this week. It's a two page missive that basically asks, "Can we have a real exchange?"

On a positive note, we here at the OK homestead have returned from a very nice trip from OK to Denver, to Missoula, Kalispell and Bozeman, back to Denver and then home.

Along the way we treated our OK granddaughters and ourselves to Old Faithful, Grand Tetons, the "Museum of the Rockies" where we saw a planetarium show on the dinosaurs, a western exhibit and the "King Tut" exhibit and the "Kids Fest" in Missoula, and a dip in Flathead Lake which is the largest fresh-water lake west of the Mississippi. It's huge.

Our granddaughter, Ayla Isis Luna Wingnut Baca, is six, energetic, willful and way too smart for her age. It's scary to see what can result from a life with few arbitrary limits, much love and support. She is a force and will do great things. Interestingly enough ... she has never eaten meat. I'm not sure I could revert to such, but being brought up that way seems to make it more possible. It's fascinating to see.

So thanks again, all, it IS possible to gain strength from here.

Peace to all the champions of truth and justice.

As my study of history got more sophisticated, I realized that the real reasons and motivations behind that second revolutionary war (that the people lost) were not even what the textbooks claimed.

The racism aspects that developed afterwards helped to obscure the truth by distraction, and to this day many black folks hate whites because of what happened to their ancestors, and many whites hate blacks because of what happened to the 'glory of the south.' While the real crime and motivations -money and power- got away with it, kinda like now.

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_gTxSlDydA

Johnny Cash - Sixteen Tons

For every force, isn’t there an equal opposite? I’m thinin’ Newtons 3rd law.

I have to agree with museman about things being the same for thousands of years. I see that too. At the same time I’m glad Sam Adams brought up the Civil War. There was a lot more to that war than what meets the eye. It was definitely a turning point.

Slavery was the issue, but what was it really all about. When the war was ‘over’ slavery turned into poverty. Same thing different name, only no ‘official’ ownership papers for humans.

Enter the ‘company store’

Look at what the modern day ‘company store’ looks like. Insurance payments, tax payments, overpriced energy bills, not to mention rent, or, mortgage. If there is any left over you might be able to go to the local grocery store.

those people, though, survive at the whim of governments ...

"How deep down the rabbit hole do you want to go?"

I make it out to be somewhere around the beginning of the Sumerian Empire, give or take a few hundred years.

Nothing has changed economically, politically, or socially -relatively speaking- for thousands of years.

Thanks, Gary!

Hemp considered an option for biodegradable sandbags: http://tinyurl.com/2hgus9

THE WAY OUT...

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n934/a07.html?397

Pubdate: Mon, 06 Aug 2007

Source: Red Bluff Daily News (CA)

WHERE CAN YOU GET HUNTING LICENSE FOR ILLEGAL POT GROWERS?

Editor:

Your illegal marijuana garden poll has brought some questions to mind. With 26.92 percent voting to "make it legal to hunt marijuana growers," will there be a special season?

Where can a license be purchased?

If I get one, how do I cook him?

Linda L. Richards, Cottonwood

I wonder why ABC erased our votes for Ron Paul of their Poll?

Or, to be more precise, Big Oil took over in the early 1900's, the national security state component really kicked in during WWII.

One could also make the case for the Civil War as the point where the US government's primary purpose became a vehicle to enrich certain people on the backs of everyone else. Instead of the minimalist organization it had represented for the prior 100 years.

So, they are willing to go in, like cops always do, and tear up everything in their wake. Charge American taxpayers extra money for the 'work' even though the pot warriors are already getting their wages whether they sit on their asses, bust teenagers, or do the weed gravy train.

They will 'get the weed' but just whine about a little trash, -which isn't in their job descriptions- they can trash, they just don't get paid to pick up their own mess, let alone someone elses garbage.

The BLM and the DEA think nothing of spraying defoliants, closely related to agent orange, and herbicides. They have been lighting slash fires for years using 8 mil black plastic, which as everyone knows burns as clean as any other plastic.

The fact that the lumber companies have TRASHED 80% of our national forest land, and gotten subsidy from the feds for about 150 years, certainly doesn't figure in to modern equations of who is trashing what.

Of course, the funny thing about these 'new' grows, apparently they are all done by illegal mexicans (so they say) but none have yet been convicted, or even arrested. I suspect it's the same group, funded by the DEA, that is doing it year after year.

It's the tactic of the New World Order; dress up like Arabs and burn down your house, then draft your children to go fight in some war of aquisition, or in this case create a special unit of mexican guerilla pot growers (what poor mexican wouldn't jump at the chance?) and keep letting them 'get away' for the next year. I mean if these guys (the mexicans) were actually doing it themselves, their 'bosses' would have to cut their losses at some point, and frankly I don't see how growing pot in No. California is somehow better acclimated than Mexico, which has grown some fine smoke over the years.

I know a few of the native growers in that area that have been at it a long time, and they are very careful about leaving 'footprints' that can be viewed from the air, and on the ground. A drip-line with water in it can be seen from space (or aircraft) with infra-red. Smoke from fires is a no-no, and trash that has a different color scheme than nature (most paper and plastic packaging) is easily noticed.

Of course not every grower is environmentally conscious, but over all I would be willing to bet that if you gave a random calif pot grower, and a random DEA officer tools of environmental destruction, the DEA officer would accomplish the most destruction in the least amount of time.

How much longer are we going to have to suffer these fools to be in power? Lets see, Hitler came to power in '33, and was defeated in '45. That's 12 years it took for the world to realize a monster was loose and deal with it. Bush came to power in 2000.

http://laist.com/2007/08/06/laist_interview_24.php

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Leading Marijuana Reformer Available for Interviews — Willie Nelson Benefit Friday

If you don't want marijuana growers in the hinterlands of California, then legalize the stuff.

Purdy simple solution. The action that is truly necessary.

There is probably a good crop of cannabis coming to market by the end of October. The distribution system is in place, has been for years, so it really isn't a problem of selling the cannabis to those who choose to smoke it. The deal is done.

Another record poppy crop in Afghanistan: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070804/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_afghanistan