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Posted by CN Staff on March 19, 2006 at 08:16:57 PT
By Richard Smith
Source: Student Operated Press
Florida -- In 1937, the United States passed the Marihuana Tax Act and banned recreational and medical use of cannabis. In the 69 years since, it has become the most widely used illegal narcotic in the western world. I guess the plan backfired.Since that time, numerous studies have been conducted based on the idea of this sort of plant prohibition. We will look at three.
In 1995, based on thirty years of scientific research, editors of the British medical journal Lancet concluded, "the smoking of cannabis, even long term, is not harmful to health."The Americans found the same thing in 1972 when the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse released a report titled "Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding," and concluded that marijuana prohibition is "Philosophically Inappropriate", "Constitutionally Suspect", and "Functionally Inappropriate." Years before that, in 1944, the La Guardia Committee Report, commissioned by New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia to investigate the effects of marijuana, found that the popular claims about the negative effects of marijuana were wildly exaggerated.These studies are important to know about when looking at the DEA’s argument for the keeping Mary Jane illegal. The organization claims on its website “Illegal drugs are illegal because they are harmful” and “Most non violent drug users get treatment, not jail time”. We know from the aforementioned British study that the first statement holds no water, and to debunk the second statement let us look at the laws for simple possession in one of our states. In Arizona possession of a small amount, less than 2 lbs will land you six months to a year and a half in jail. That does not sound like treatment.President Bush has claimed that today’s marijuana is much more potent than the stuff him and his Yale buddies smoked back in the sixties. Hmm, a former coke addict making complaints about the strength of our pot being too high. It seems the hypocrisy in this nation knows no bounds.The cold fact for any anti-marijuana argument is simple. Marijuana kills zero people every year. How can something be dangerous, much too dangerous to allow into the hands of the public, yet has not once killed anyone? We are, ironically, allowed guns.An overdose of this supposedly dangerous drug is “generally no more than that associated with mild to moderate exercise” according to Medical Admissions Criteria. You would be worse off after running a mile than after smoking too much marijuana.There is still, however, a light amongst all this darkness. Alaska has become the first state to decriminalize marijuana and Denver Colorado has become the first city to allow a law to be passed that treats the plant in the exact same respect as alcohol. Nevada will vote in 2006 on the complete legalization as well.It is only a matter of time before this situation of prohibition must be addressed by those in power. Things are drastically changing and more and more people are learning the truth. Were knocking on the door right now and before the decade is out we will be smoking in the living room.In the end, we will win. We will be free to smoke our joints and puff our bongs without fear of retribution by the authorities. Truth will win out over propaganda and the good people of this earth will finally be free again.Source: Student Operated Press (FL)Author: Richard SmithPublished: March 19, 2006Copyright: 2006 Richard Smith and Student Operated PressWebsite: http://www.thesop.org/Contact: xxoozero shoutwire.comCannabisNews -- Cannabis Archives http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml
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Comment #153 posted by whig on March 23, 2006 at 12:10:25 PT
Hope
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/meth/meth_testing.shtmlAmphetamines are standardly detectable in urine for 1-3 days after use. Methamphetamines stay in the system slightly longer, 3-5 days.Methamphetamine is detectable in blood for 1-3 days. Levels over 100 ng/ml are considered consistent with abuse.Substances or Conditions which can cause false positivesEphedrine, pseudoephedrine, propylephedrine, phenylephrine, or desoxyephedrine
(Nyquil, Contact, Sudafed, Allerest, Tavist-D, Dimetapp, etc)
Phenegan-D, Robitussin Cold and Flu, Vicks Nyquil
Over-the-counter diet aids with phenylpropanolamine (Dexatrim, Accutrim)
Over-the-counter nasal sprays (Vicks inhaler, Afrin)
Asthma medications (Marax, Bronkaid tablets, Primatine Tablets)
Prescription medications (Amfepramone, Cathne, Etafediabe, Morazone,
...phendimetrazine, phenmetrazine, benzphetamine, fenfluramine, dexfenfluramine,
...dexdenfluramine,Redux, mephentermine, Mesocarb, methoxyphenamine, phentermine,
... amineptine, Pholedrine, hydroymethamphetamine, Dexedrine, amifepramone, clobenzorex,
...fenproyorex, mefenorex, fenelylline, Didrex, dextroamphetamine, methphenidate, Ritalin,
...pemoline, Cylert, selegiline, Deprenyl, Eldepryl, Famprofazone)
Kidney infection, kidney disease
Liver disease, diabetes
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Comment #152 posted by Hope on March 23, 2006 at 11:58:15 PT
Great Cover?
Wouldn't it be? For a little dip in the cookie jar at work?
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Comment #151 posted by whig on March 23, 2006 at 11:46:28 PT
Hope
I'm really against dosing people without their knowledge and consent, but I can't even understand what the heck they're talking about. They "became sick" last week (because that's what meth does, right? makes you "sick"). And then tested positive for methamphetamine today. What's the half-life on that stuff?I smell a rat.
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Comment #150 posted by Hope on March 23, 2006 at 11:30:15 PT
Come to think of it...
Everybody whose picture is at the top of that page looks like a meth addict...to me.I'm suspicious.
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Comment #149 posted by Hope on March 23, 2006 at 11:28:25 PT
Oops. Guess they must be "addicted" now.
http://www.kptm.com/news/local/2508801.html
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Comment #148 posted by Hope on March 23, 2006 at 11:22:18 PT
Actually, make that,
"Beaming with joy."
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Comment #147 posted by Hope on March 23, 2006 at 11:19:52 PT
Comment 145
You've got me smiling!
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Comment #146 posted by Hope on March 23, 2006 at 11:18:36 PT
xxoozero
Way to go!Nice to see you are checking in with the people here.Good job, and thank you.
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Comment #145 posted by xxoozero on March 22, 2006 at 16:46:48 PT:
none really
This is just the start of my writing career. I have written for a few sites for a little while now and have a decent body of work on the internet. I like to think I also have gained a decent sized reader base. The readers here have caught me two weeks before I become a published writer. I speak for a group that is currently under represented in the public eye. I'm not scared to write about anything nor do I care what people think about me. Keep an eye on my work, I promise to never dissapoint my readers.
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Comment #144 posted by FoM on March 22, 2006 at 15:27:15 PT
xxoozero
Welcome to CNews. You did a wonderful job on the article. You give me hope that the young people of today can see and will speakout for justice. Thanks again.
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Comment #143 posted by xxoozero on March 22, 2006 at 15:22:13 PT:
Thanks!
I'm glad my fellow smokers liked this article. You can trust this will not be the last you hear from me.
ShoutWire
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Comment #142 posted by FoM on March 21, 2006 at 07:57:58 PT
Hope
Have fun at the farm.
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Comment #141 posted by Hope on March 21, 2006 at 07:56:19 PT
Got to do the farmhand gig today.
Check back in this evening.
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Comment #140 posted by Hope on March 21, 2006 at 07:53:54 PT
Death raises concern at police tactics
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4803570.stmI hadn't heard of this until it came out of the U.K..
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Comment #139 posted by FoM on March 21, 2006 at 07:31:40 PT
global_warming
I have seen a little about this movie. Yahoo e-mail had a banner ad for the movie. It seems like the right leaning papers mind it. Life sure is strange these days.
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Comment #138 posted by Hope on March 21, 2006 at 04:54:34 PT
Thanks, gw
Been noticing stuff about that movie all over the web, but never bothered to check it out. I will from now on. Wouldn't it be something if a movie could draw the fascists back from the line they've been sticking their toes across for some time now?
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Comment #137 posted by global_warming on March 21, 2006 at 04:41:15 PT
ot: interesting movie review
March 20/21, 2006 -- Its not often that a film can affect the body politic of a nation. But that is the effect of the movie released on St. Patrick's Day, V for Vendetta. Set in a near future England ruled by a Conservative Party government-turned-fascist, the hero, a horribly burned escaped political prisoner named "V" who dons a Guy Fawkes mask, cape, hat, and has an array of fancy weapons (sort of a Zorro, Phantom of the Opera, and Batman clone), blows up London's Old Bailey judicial building and the Houses of Parliament as an act of vengeance for the genocide and political repression carried out by the fascist government. As a historical note, Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliament in 1605 with gunpowder in a plot involving Catholics and Spain. He was caught and hanged but soon became a folk hero to England's working class and Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated with fireworks every November 5. [Note to royalist Anglophiles: yes, I understand that many Britons burn Guy Fawkes in effigy on Nov, 5, but many Britons also celebrate his almost feat with fireworks. I've been to Britain too many times during the festival and know what Fawkes means to those who despise the pederasts and imbeciles who make up the British Royal Family and the House of Lords/House of Commons. It's too bad Fawkes did not succeed in blowing the monarchy and Parliament to hell and back in 1605 . . . there would have never been a Puritan/Pilgrim invasion of North America with all of the concomitant religious idiocy and paranoia we experience today -- which means that George W. Bush would likely presently be a bestial sheepherder on some Shropshire farm].What has our own fascist right wing media hopping mad are the references to the Bush regime and its wars. One political dissident in the movie has a secret room displaying banned art and posters. One of the posters is from the anti- Iraq war London protests -- it displays a U.S. flag and U.K. flag inter-connected by a swastika with the words "Coalition of the Willing." There are references to a civil war- and virus-ravaged "former United States" that has engaged not only in the actual war in Iraq but wars in Syria and Kurdistan. There are comments about America's rendition and there are plenty of black hoods thrown on the heads of political detainees and "yellow" terrorist alerts. Not only has TV come under total fascist control, but Britain's Royal Mail has been privatized and turned into the "British Freight Co." There is also a reference to a genocide carried out by the English fascists in Ireland and it may not have been totally coincidental that a film focusing on an English fascist government's repression of freedom fighters was released on St. Patrick's Day.The Conservative Party reaches ultimate power by unleashing a virus on Britain killing thousands. It turns out that leading members of the Conservative Party own stock in the pharmaceutical firms that have the vaccine drugs and enrich themselves in the process. Several top officials of the Bush regime have interests in various pharmaceutical firms involved with anthrax, smallpox, and avian flu vaccines --including Donald Rumsfeld, the former CEO of G.D. Searle [sold to Monsanto] -- and V for Vendetta's references to avian flu as a government attempt to hype the media and bamboozle the public is another clear link between the film's anti-fascist message and the Bush/Tony Blair governments.Britain's near future features a Fox/Sky News type propaganda news network called "British Television Network." Its major racist, right-wing blatherer also happens to enjoy romping around in a specially-built shower in his office (hmmm... I wonder who that might really be?). There is also the bald, pudgy, and thoroughly revolting top assistant and chief dirty tricks operative to the fascist High Chancellor (hmmm...again, I wonder who that could be?). And then there is the English Bishop who happens to like little girls (well, that could be any of our so-called "moral majority" religious leaders, except in some cases, little boys could be substituted for little girls).In the end, all these fiends are eliminated, one by one, by our man "V." And this is what probably, more than anything else, has the right-wing defecating in their pants. They know that one day they will face a reckoning for the damage they've done to the United States, to Iraq, to the United Nations process and international law, and to peoples and nations around the world. And that reckoning will be far from a slap on the wrists and the right-wing is beginning to wake up to that fact. Some on the right now understand they overplayed their hand and are trying to change their spots.The left has always been tolerant to a point. But pushed against the wall, the progressives of the world have always discovered how to treat their vanquished enemies -- just look at what happened to Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Pierre Laval, Vidkun Quisling, and other fascist leaders of the 20th century.V has one bit of advice that is already echoing around the Internet: "People shouldn't be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of their people."VIt looks like there will be a run on Guy Fawkes masks and maybe quite a few red spray painted "Vs" on various public adverts and walls. And why not? Let neo-con governments and their operatives and lickspittles everywhere know that with a blossoming of red "Vs" that we the people do understand and neo-con governments and their right-wing supporters should be very afraid of the people.Already, the right-wing, including blogs like Town Hall, Men's News Daily, and WorldNetDaily, are attacking the film, calling it, among other things, pro-terrorist, pro-homosexual, neo-Marxist, anti-Christian, and left-wing pro-Islamo-fascist (by the way, co-star Natalie Portman is Israeli born). Someone named Ted Baehr, writing for WorldNetDaily, called Britain's Parliament, blown up by V in the movie, "Western Civilization's most enduring symbols of democracy and republican government." That's funny, last time this editor went to Britain, I distinctly remember the country being a monarchy. But history is not a strong suit among the right-wing. Their hero, George W. Bush, can't even read a history book although he's probably listened to the book-on-tape version of Mein Kampf.The right-wing has plenty to be worried about with the movie V for Vendetta. They will first see the push back in the November elections (and woe be it to them if they once again engage in election fraud). And upon electoral victory will inevitably come the indictments, trials, impeachments, imprisonments, electoral recalls, and, if need be, deportations, or as they called them during the days of Guy Fawkes, banishment.
"V"
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Comment #136 posted by jose melendez on March 20, 2006 at 23:20:26 PT
Resonance
C-News rocks. Love!The cops pulled over a new business partner tonight and harassed him for a while. Now they owe two written apologies and one dollar.When they decline, they'll need to be prepared to pay a tad more than the dollar, and furnish two written apologies.As things stand, they better have a battery of attorneys if they don't apologize, and really that's all I'm asking, plus their pictures and video:http://pipepeace.com/z
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Comment #135 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 20:28:26 PT
Jose...that is good news!
Your eye health is precious and the story is very interesting. She didn't look up at you and do a double take when she read that part? That's funny. I can just imagine you watching her and waiting for her reaction.gw...you do "touch" me, all the time, with your spirit and your words, right here at this place our friend, FoM, has furnished for us all.Whig, comment 131...That's excellent as a choice to "resonate"...may it resonate forever.
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Comment #134 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 19:17:32 PT
sweet 'destiny
that has brought 'all of us together
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Comment #133 posted by jose melendez on March 20, 2006 at 19:13:42 PT
channeling & comment #116
(anecdote) There was a posted sign at the eye doctor's office that stated they were bound to keep medical info private.So I asked, "If I tell you on the record that I am using medical marijuana you won't share that info?"She said that's right. So, when the doctor read my form it was no surprise to see her hesitate when she got to that part of the medical chart.The HUGE surprise came at the end when she said my eyes had improved markedly, and reduced the strength of my prescription glasses.I objected, "but I see floaters all the time!" Her response: that's age related, otherwise your eyes are extremely healthy.(/anecdote)
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Comment #132 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 19:10:17 PT
thank you Hope
Wish I could see you, to offer my hand, in Grace and in a gentle way, i might glance you, secretly touch you, as I pass by, anonymously, knowing, secret loves, and that day, when 'we those people,can come forth, to claim our inheritance, that place that is promised, for now and evermore.
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Comment #131 posted by whig on March 20, 2006 at 19:02:57 PT
Resonate to all
I LOVE YOU.
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Comment #130 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 18:56:23 PT
re: comment 129
this is a beginningpost 130 may never be writtenI 'know, that this 'next postis the loudestfor it is 'heard and listenedthroughout this landit resonates Foreverand Ever
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Comment #129 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 18:54:17 PT
gw
You are a prime example of the thought that true Joy does not always require the absence of suffering.
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Comment #128 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 18:35:58 PT
that 'wedding supper
where I want to be,as 'witness, 'may my 'joyForever' mark my joyMy Hope and LightFor I have 'seen
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Comment #127 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 18:27:05 PT
gw
You're a caring soul. Surely, you'll be ushered to a good seat at that wondrous table at that lovely, and grandest of all, wedding supper.
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Comment #126 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 18:12:02 PT
some other words
Amazing grace! How sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like me.I once was lost but now am found,Was blind but now I see.Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,And grace my fears relieved,How precious did that grace appear,The hour I first believed.
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Comment #125 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 18:05:13 PT
wish
there was 1 'good jew, christian, muslim, hindu,'come forthit is 'time ,who has shepred 'all of usto this place and 'time,for the purposeto 'see and 'witnessour places in this world'it was 'a twinkleon that side of 'your 'eyethat side that was 'twinklingthat side that 'always belonged
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Comment #124 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 17:52:33 PT
a festival
that can place 'a napkin, a clothat 'the table
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Comment #123 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 17:48:35 PT
that party
a Grand Party
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Comment #122 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 17:30:57 PT
re: confessions
there is tomorrow,and 'all those tonight'sin my EternityI have been 'witnessI wish that this ignorant butcheryHas an end.I wish and dream of a 'new worldWhere children can be innocentWhere childrencan find that Grace that is filled with HopeThat 'EmancipationThat FreedomWhen, 'all this Bull-ShitGrows UpFaces 'this 'worldI Am, waiting, for that party,
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Comment #121 posted by whig on March 20, 2006 at 17:10:38 PT
g_w
Whomever you have done an injury to, confess it to him or her. If to yourself, confess it to yourself. If to God, then confess it to God. And then, forgive and accept forgiveness.
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Comment #120 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 16:55:30 PT
from who?
whigger?
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Comment #119 posted by whig on March 20, 2006 at 16:52:13 PT
g_w
Go and confess and accept forgiveness.
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Comment #118 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 16:48:37 PT
I AM Witness
to this place and 'time,I have so 'little to bring back to God,My shame prevents me For I Am a 'sinner,
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Comment #117 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 16:40:54 PT
The blessings of the past
will surely carry me through this time of abstinence.
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Comment #116 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 16:37:28 PT
gw
Occasionally, I find myself wondering if being denied the legal use of cannabis has caused my eyes to deteriorate as much as they have. That makes me sad. I know, for sure, that I'm missing out on the many good things that cannabis can provide to mankind and his body and soul. My little ole cannabinoid receptors are wondering why they're being denied because some busybody says I am prohibited use of God's gift to mankind. That's not right. I won't say they have to use it...so why should they say I can't use it?Darn busybodies.
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Comment #115 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 16:19:22 PT
it is them glasses
that distort 'this place,..this place,.. can confuse,if i had 'a little more 'money,i could 'rule this worldthen 'my handcould reach into this beastand bring forth the heartthat I may reveal the beastthat has it's hand deep into 'our hearts,it is not about some 'Iternet,it is aboutevery 'living creaturewho witness'sthis place and time,
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Comment #114 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 16:00:49 PT
Juggling glasses
is still better than the dizziness I had to endure from bi-focals.
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Comment #113 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 15:58:29 PT
Oh my gosh...got on the wrong glasses...
I know who you are talking about!
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Comment #112 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 15:57:23 PT
gw
Maybe that's not actually my name with his name in the same sentence. But I know who you are taling about.:0)Thanks.Rainbows. Light. They are such sweet things.
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Comment #111 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 15:54:32 PT
Thanks gw.
Your compliment is increased by including my name in the same sentence with Ron Paul's.You're kindness has strengthened me, today. Thank you.
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Comment #110 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 15:45:30 PT
re: comment 77 and those prisms
Gen 9:12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all future generations: I have placed My bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh: water will never again become a deluge to destroy all flesh. The bow will be in the clouds, and I will look at it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh on earth." God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have confirmed between Me and all flesh on earth."
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Comment #109 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 15:38:02 PT
Hope
I'm glad you got the e-mail. I will e-mail you a little later. I am a rich person too. I have always felt rich.
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Comment #108 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 15:21:25 PT
there 2 things
I love about Texas,That women in her 'new boots,And Ron Paul...
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Comment #107 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 15:18:56 PT
Posting an e-mail online attracts robots!
Dang sure don't want a robot grabbing your address. I replied to the one you sent.Still smiling about gw remembering my boots and brush cutting travails.
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Comment #106 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 15:15:48 PT
I regret it every time I say that...
I am a rich woman in many, many ways, even if not especially so in money.
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Comment #105 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 15:14:08 PT
e-mail
Got it this time.
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Comment #104 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 15:13:12 PT
Lol!
gw...you remembered my new boots! They are good and no thorns penetrated the really hard soles. If thorn trees were valuable...I'd be a rich woman.
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Comment #103 posted by global_warming on March 20, 2006 at 15:11:09 PT
re: comment 98
She has been doing that for some time, I have also noticed that.It was them new boots, when she was cutting brush.
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Comment #102 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 15:01:49 PT
Hope
Hopefully you've got mail.
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Comment #101 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 14:57:47 PT
Hope
I have a couple pictures that I uploaded and when I go into the upload program I use to upload a page I can find everything that is on line if I look. That's how I found my St. Patrick's Day page. I have Tim's picture and the one of the house. I wish there was an easier way to share pictures because pictures are so big to put online. If you have kapts e-mail ask him to give you my e-mail and he will I'm sure. He'll probably check with me first but I will say sure. Whig has my address too if you have his address. I just don't want to post it here.
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Comment #100 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 14:48:23 PT
"You're channeling some powerful stuff today."
Thanks, Whig. You're sweet. It's just my heart talking.If you appreciate what I'm trying to say, imagine what I might could say if I weren't so cannabinoidly challenged.:0)
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Comment #99 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 14:44:38 PT
e-mail
Try it again. E-mail isn't what it used to be, is it? Dang spammers. They've just about taken all the fun out of it.
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Comment #98 posted by whig on March 20, 2006 at 14:42:54 PT
Goodness, Hope
You're channeling some powerful stuff today.Renaissance is coming. Soon come.Bless you.
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Comment #97 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 14:42:44 PT
Hmmmm... e-mail? I didn't get it.
Still have the same address I've always had.
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Comment #96 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 14:39:03 PT
Checking my pictures
I still have the one you took of your house during the snowstorm. If you can find the threads where you posted pictures of the work you did, wouldn't that still show them?Tim's picture is saved here, too, of course. I must have deleted the construction ones after a while.
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Comment #95 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 14:32:34 PT
An economy that's about prison
and testing and marginalizing is not one I want to invest in.When I'm free to smoke or eat what I please and medicate as I choose...I'll be a happier and more productive soul and I'll spend some money in the process. Otherwise...the whole scenario of America today is not one I feel confident in going forth boldly in. Barbara Bush may feel comfortable with living off the prison industry...but I don't. It's ugly. It stinks. It corrupts. It's against everything I believe in and, I believe, it tortures my Christ.Give me freedom and I'll be happy to add to the economy. Give me freedom and give me a new and bright and shining world, which will come with that freedom. I'll bloom. I'll flourish. We all will.But...until then...I'll sit tight, keep ranting, and try to pummel a way into that better, saner, more hopeful, and brighter world.
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Comment #94 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 14:31:34 PT
Hope
You go girl. I can't seem to have any profound revelations because I am so sick. One nice thing I figured out. I lost my pictures when my hard drive crashed. I looked in my yahoo accounts and I had sent different pictures to a few people and they were still there. I was able to save them and I have them back now. Not all of them but 13 of them so that made me happy. If we have a special picture on our computer if you send it to a yahoo account it will be there if you computer crashes. By the way I e-mailed you last night but it was an old e-mail address so I don't know if you got it.
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Comment #93 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 14:21:40 PT
People who enjoy a joint over a cocktail...
will be free to work more and make money. We'll all be a bit happier and kinder and more hopeful. We won't feel castigated, demonized, invaded by testing companies, and marginalized. We'll earn more money because of increased freedom, creativity, and innovation...and we'll spend that money and we'll be glad of it. There will be joy where there is sorrow now. There will be more light and less darkness.The economy will matter and flourish, because it won't be about the prison industrial complex anymore. It will be all about creativity and productivity...and I'm looking forward to it.Lord...just imagining it is stimulating.
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Comment #92 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 14:21:21 PT
Hope
I hope that cannabis prohibition ends soon too. I just don't know though. I can't barely find any news worth posting anymore. I know fall, winter and spring are slow times. I know that April it picks up with April 20th. Then the Million Marijuana March if they have one this year.
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Comment #91 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 14:14:19 PT
When it's over and we're free....
Dreams will soar...along with the economy as we spend to make those dreams come true.As it is...it's just too dull and restricted to get too excited about.
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Comment #90 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 14:07:46 PT
Cannabis Prohibition
When it's over, there will be a renaissance of creativity and productivity. It will be wonderful and maybe I can decide what to do then.
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Comment #89 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 13:36:18 PT
Hope
We used the gray blend stone. The roof is gray now and the siding we painted a blue gray sort of. We had a brown roof for 26 years so we stayed with brown colors. We decided to switch colors this time just for something different. It's very expensive but you can't take it with you and we don't have any children so we figured do the work, get it done so when we get older we won't have to tackle it anymore. We don't have a mortgage on our house or barn. We will have a line of credit but not a mortgage which makes it nice. We do have a mortgage or our other houses. Those in time would be sold and pay off this loan if we have to do that in 10 years or so we figure.
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Comment #88 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 13:00:38 PT
Stone and Storm Doors
My storm doors are relatively new, so I'm committed to them for a while. But I love that stone. I like the Texas...the white stone, it's usually called "Austin stone" around here, which is very popular here, now, but to match the brick I already have I will likely have to go with the Alamo, the Tan, or the Natural. Probably the Natural.A large stone wall clear up into the gable over a new living room and front porch is what I'm looking at now and I want to hang one of those giant metal, three dimensional stars that are so popular in Texas, in that stone gable or the wall face, if I ever get to.I know what you mean about a relatively small addition costing more than the whole house did originally. It's staggering.
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Comment #87 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 12:16:05 PT
Whig
I find politics very hard to handle. People in politics are people in politics. I mind this administration so much I will vote against them. I don't vote for anyone since I don't believe politicians. I believe in people like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. I believe in people who are offended by a situation and do something about it. I believe in young people turning their back on Gonzales in protest. I believe in people.
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Comment #86 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 11:46:47 PT
Hope
I had a weimaraner crash thru a storm door. They were like Houdini. If they wanted out they got out. Here's are pictures of the stone which is cast and the door.Stone: http://tinyurl.com/ekfbsDoor: http://tinyurl.com/8ow6t
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Comment #85 posted by BRM on March 20, 2006 at 11:24:26 PT:
Constitionally suspect, Prohibition
This is to all the Catholics and Protestants who think the Democrats and Republicans are going to save them from the world their God created for them. According to King James GENESIS 1:11-12 says 11: And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yilding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12: And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Then at GENESIS 1:26-27 God created male and female, and then God told them, GENESIS 1:29-31,29: And God said, Behold, I have givin you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 3o: And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.31: And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Now according to King James, we have EVERY green herb yielding seed for meat. and no where did it say execpt marijuana which is a herb yielding seed. Now the Democrats and the Republicans say I know more than your God. Even though the constitution Of the U.S.A. tells me I have the right to believe in my God. They make laws that makes God look like the evil one. The Democrats made big money off of the Vietnam war, and the Republicans are making big money off the war in Iraq, and both the Democrats and Republicans make BIG MONEY off the war on God and marijuana. That is why I pray for my leaders to do the right thing. And to show the Democrats and the Republicans that its time to change I vote third party because thats the only way change will come.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/21/thread21673,shtml
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Comment #84 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 11:15:47 PT
Painting....love it!
Changing my world with paint is something I love to do. One thing that I do that many people like is that I've taken some of my favorite paintings and extended them out onto their frames and the wall behind them. It's a great effect. My best is a sunset over Texas plains and canyons that extends out the frame and across the wall. One I have is an enlarged photograph of a beautiful window in a pink stucco wall taken in Mexico. The wall extends past the frame and onto a wall in my bathroom. With murals, I take walls out and bring in new ones and make scenes and places come right into my house.
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Comment #83 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 11:08:56 PT
That stone work...
I'm interested in that, too. If I could, I would have it added over the brick that we already have, but I imagine I will have to do some matching or blending somehow.That door sounds interesting. I'm very worried about my doors now that we have a big door again. Very worried. I've got really nice doors now. Big dogs knocking to get in can destroy even heavy metal doors. My beloved wiemaraners ruined the last storm doors I had before the ones now. The new dog hit the french doors the other day and I nearly fainted! I know what they can do to doors. He chewed up a new butane lighter last night. Dogs are a kind of costly luxury. Butane lighters being the least of it. Frontline for him is nearly seventeen dollars a month now! He won't chew the rawhides I bought him. I'm really worried about all the problems that he brings with him. I'll take good care of him though and work on his training. He's got a good home.
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Comment #82 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 11:02:30 PT
Hope
I didn't know you painted. That's really nice. I don't have any special talent like that.
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Comment #81 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 10:57:49 PT
"It sounds like you like disco balls!"
It's the light I like. They catch it and reflect it beautifully. I don't use any of the motors. We spin them by hand and they hang at varying lengths to catch any light better and for the longest and brightest periods of time.I paint virtually constantly...and I paint with light...in my mind.I'm trying now, and have been for some time, to capture the light of that dazzling pink star I saw early one morning years ago. It's not easy, but it's getting closer. Of course it will never come close to comparing to the real thing...but it will keep the memory fresh in my mind and perhaps others that didn't see the star might get a hint of what a glorious thing it was.I like painting the illusions of space...the blue, black, purple velvet and deep night sky and the brilliant pink star and it's rays. The night and the rays move around the corner of one wall and have the effect of a larger expanse. It's hard getting the angle of the arm of the cross beam of the star just right to have the effect of extending through space ...but it's fun...and I'm doing a pretty good job of it. The night sky already looks infinite...like you could walk though it. It's my hobby and it's so much fun.
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Comment #80 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 10:47:50 PT
To make something trivial, clearer than I did...
"When the sun is shining there are rainbows in the air nearly all day long, and not just in the bathroom. They are all over the house. I still can't quite fathom how they reflect through the windows and down the hall and around corners."That last sentence should have been in a new paragraph. They aren't just in that one window and reflecting down the hall. They're all over the house, and reflecting down the hall and around corners. Anywhere I can catch a sunbeam.Should have seen my newest, Zoe, the baby, in wonder at the floating rainbows and moving spots of light all around her. It was so beautiful to watch her face as she watched them.
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Comment #79 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 10:42:02 PT
Hope
It sounds like you like disco balls! I want the new room to be comfortable and familiar as far as what I want to remember. The TV isn't really important right now. The living room might not get done this year because the outside must be done first. I love my storm door. You pull it down and a screen opens up the door. You push the screen up and it's all glass. The windows are really nice too. The stone work cost a lot of money but we always wanted a stoned front porch now we have one. The siding is cement fiber. It's called James Hardie Siding and is really strong. We tied in the new addition with all kinds of goodies to keep us from losing the roof if we have bad storms.
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Comment #78 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 10:41:46 PT
Whig
"Ron Paul isn't running for President". Actually, he did years ago as a Libertarian...but I didn't know about Libertarians then.As an individual, my vote matters to me even if it is just a protest vote. I want to keep the Libertarian party on the ballot as a notice to the mainstream pols. I can't back something I don't believe in. I just can't. Not even a little. I know that a little push by even a weak individual can mean the difference between moving something and not. I can't give the fascists even the slightest backing. When they show me they are for the liberty and freedom and good of the American people...I'll lend them my hand...otherwise...if they are going to destroy and dictate, they'll have to do it without my help.The Rubber Tree Plant was a favorite of mine when I was a little girl. It's funny that a little song like that could have an effect on a child's character...but I think it did on mine. That, and "You can do it" and "You can be anything you want." and all that other nice stuff that was handed out without realizing it's power, are part of the foundation that makes me who I am.Ooops...there goes another Prohibition!
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Comment #77 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 10:28:43 PT
TVs and Beads and stuff...
I didn't know that about the TVs either and I can tell you...I'm massively disappointed. That hanger thing for my son's TV, I believe was nearly three hundred dollars, and one isn't even available for ours. The house thing...we need all that stuff, too...roof, windows, etc.. I learned to be so frugal to be able to get where I am with no major debt. *sigh* It's a problem, now. We need those things...but we don't need the debt. It's either invest or deteriorate. My husband, I think, chooses deteriorate. I don't know if I'm up to forcing the point right now.You'd love my bathroom. Murals on nearly every wall, crystals and disco balls in the window, and beads at the entrance to the "throne" area. It's a larger than average bathroom. When the sun is shining there are rainbows in the air nearly all day long, and not just in the bathroom. They are all over the house. I still can't quite fathom how they reflect through the windows and down the hall and around corners.I've been collecting disco balls and prismatic crystals for years, so there's a light show nearly all day every day. Plus I still have my glitter ceiling. When the grandchildren first learn to talk, they gaze at Gammi's ceilings and say "Stars". A doubtful person once said that ending prohibition was like trying to catch a rainbow in your hand. Got news for him. I can do it any day the sun shines and if the sun won't shine...I can direct a light to cause the phenomenon. Prohibitionists want the pot of gold...it's not there. But the rainbows...I have them everywhere. My husband thinks it's funniest when I'm talking to him and I've got a rainbow on my lips.Some might say it's tasteless or tacky behind my back...but everyone that's experienced it is always awed like a child.
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Comment #76 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 10:22:04 PT
bionic man
Thank you. I have a stack of receipts to turn in for this year. Home ownership does help when you do home improvements. We haven't had to pay but a little federal tax for a number of years now. I call it working the system. Make it work for you is my motto.
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Comment #75 posted by bionic man on March 20, 2006 at 10:15:28 PT:
home improvement-tax credit
FoM, there are new tax credits for any improvement done to a home to increase energy efficiency. For windows, insulation, hvac, etc. These items are not totally deductible but each qualify for a tax CREDIT off any taxes you might owe.
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Comment #74 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 10:10:42 PT
Politics
I like Ron Paul and I like Dennis Kucinich. One's a Republican and the other a Democrat. My beliefs just aren't in any party. I've tried to find a party that cares about all the things I care about and the only one that comes close is the Green Party. I think of what the south and coastal communities will be like in not too many years if global warming isn't addressed. Katrina was enough for me to realize we need to wake up. What in the world would we do with displaced people from coastal regions if the ocean starts to rise and it is rising?
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Comment #73 posted by whig on March 20, 2006 at 10:10:39 PT
Hope
Ron Paul isn't running for President. I understand your point, but if you aren't going to vote for an Ordained Candidate of the Democratic or Republican Party, why participate in voting? I know a lot of people cast protest votes for Ralph Nader or the Libertarian or whatever, but really when you ask them why it's always about "sending a message." Well we ought to be sending messages, of course, but not to people who don't care what we have to say and will ignore us. We should be sending messages to people who will listen and care. We should be sending messages like...oh, this. You know? Like, an actual message, in English, to our friends.Hi Hope! This particular message is for you!Next time you're found, with your chin on the ground
There a lot to be learned, so look aroundJust what makes that little old ant
Think he'll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, can't
Move a rubber tree plantBut he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes
He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopesSo any time you're gettin' low
'stead of lettin' go
Just remember that ant
Oops there goes another rubber tree plantWhen troubles call, and your back's to the wall
There a lot to be learned, that wall could fallOnce there was a silly old ram
Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam
No one could make that ram, scram
He kept buttin' that dam'Cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes
He had high apple pie, in the sky hopesSo any time you're feelin' bad
'stead of feelin' sad
Just remember that ram
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt damAll problems just a toy balloon
They'll be bursted soon
They're just bound to go pop
Oops there goes another problem kerplop
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Comment #72 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 10:10:37 PT
Great piece, gw...thanks
http://www.countercurrents.org/eriqat130306.htm
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Comment #71 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 10:03:19 PT
Hope
I didn't know that about the big thin TVs. This new living room is 14 feet by 24 feet. I want it to be decorated with posters and things that will remind me of the days when you went thru a beaded doorway and could smell incense burning and music playing and bean bag chairs and a cool fluffy lounge. Neil Young posters framed and on and on. Some of this won't happen but it is wonderful to dream. The cost of construction has been more then the cost of the original building our whole house. I lost all the pictures when my drive crashed but I put many of them on a discs so we were watching them just a little while ago. We will take more pictures this year and I will put them on a cd so if this happens again I won't lose them. PS: Home ownership is something I am very happy we did many years ago but houses need maintenance and after 27 years we needed a new roof, new siding, new windows, new doors. It only increases the value of the house so I try to look at it logically.
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Comment #70 posted by bionic man on March 20, 2006 at 10:03:14 PT:
ron paul
I second that! Ron Paul for president! I'm like you Hope, I would vote for Mr. Paul if I could, but at least there are enough smart Texans that vote for him. He is probably one of the only reps. in DC that has'nt been corrupted and he's a repugnican albeit a libertarian one.
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Comment #69 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 09:19:44 PT
New political banner....
"Gimme Some Of That Candy!"
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Comment #68 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 09:17:12 PT
To lean or not to lean.
Well, if one of your advisors or sponsors thinks we ought to be steered to the political right....aaaaackkk! How bout we all turn into bunny rabbits? (That's what a narc over at another site called Kap, and me and several others. "Silly rabbits".)We can't go enmasse into the halls of congress...they'd jail us. We can't protest enmasse anytime we want. They'd jail us. Lawmakers that need to know that change is in the air, ignore us and our letters and calls. We write letters and some get published, most don't. We can't all be on TV. Duh! That wouldn't help and might make matters worse. We can support Ethan and LEAP and St. Pierre and Safer and others who make a noise in our favor...but we support them in many ways. Every word we type here in resistance to cannabis prohibition, and some of us the drug war in general, is substantial. It means something and it has value. It's more public here than some newspapers. I know I've learned new approaches and new "speeches" here from others. I have a soap box in each hand every where I go. When they "see me coming"…some do "step aside". We all talk and some of us learn a lot of what we say here. We have more power to change things...here with our words, than a lot of us could ever find anywhere on our own. It's empowering. And frustrated as I get...I know it's got value. Some of us also march and protest…I have…and we do everything we can. But I refuse to back a money grubbing politician, who doesn't really give a damn about me and mine, just because it's the PC thing to do.Politicians got us into this mess. I used to like Barbara Bush…now I know she feeds off the prison industrial complex. Ewwwww…..I "spit her out of my mouth"!I'm sure that the super timid among us come here and if nothing else, are encouraged to strengthen their beliefs and state of mind...and everyone is one or possibly, more...and everyone that is added to our ranks is an increase in our ability to reach our goal. A lot of us are totally disgusted with our political system. It's not parties or voters at all and we know that. It's big money and none of us have big money, so we are discouraged by the system as it is. To be PC, we're not supposed to say we doubt that our vote matters. We're supposed to say vote, vote, vote. It's the American way! It's also become, obviously, the American way to imprison a huge segment of our population over prohibited consumption. We're supposed to be polarized to one party or the other. We're supposed to be political if we have an opinion and carry a banner for one particular party or another, but we have the idea that maybe their should be a party or politicain to back us...to represent us! Not for us to represent them! And that's the way it is. They want our vote but they don't care what we want.We're freedom from government lovers. There isn't a party like that. Where is the Democrat or Republican that will back us? So far I haven't seen them...if I do I might pick up his or her banner and back them. I imagined that different politicians might stand with us and make it clear and stick to their word or what I imagine to be their inclination. So far...nothing. So I'm going to stop imagining that any one of them might be on our side at all. I'd vote for Ron Paul in a second...if I could vote for him for anything. He's said how he feels. Nearly all the rest of them are puppets for big money. I refuse to back them, because they aren't for the little people, us.Ron Paul for President!
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Comment #67 posted by Hope on March 20, 2006 at 09:08:34 PT
Dear FoM
Being ill makes me soooo vulnerable, too. I understand. Somebody can look at me wrong nearly, and send me into tears at times like that. Careful of those flat screen tvs...they don't all hang on the wall. One of my sons bought a giant one to hang over his fireplace...and the hanger itself was a couple of hundred dollars or more. My husband bought one, looks like it's about a yard wide and it does not hang on the wall. That really irked me. Why have one so unique if you can't do the unique thing with it? If I want it to appear to be on the wall, it looks like I need a shelf about eight or nine inches deep or something. Also...everybody that was skinny is now a sturdy size! I mean the skinny actresses have hips and bellies and thighs and calves! Big time. The men are all more muscular and heavy set. I didn't expect that much distortion. It looks natural, but it's different. They look like regular people.Blessings with your house work. I need to do the same here but I'm traumatized at the costs. Paralyzed from the trauma of the price tags. Got a rough estimate here while back of more than twice of what I thought I could spend for the work I wanted to do. I haven't quite got my breath back.
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Comment #66 posted by FoM on March 20, 2006 at 07:41:34 PT
Toker00
This is something I do all the time and it has saved me from losing a long post. I open up Notepad. I save my comment on Notepad a couple times while I'm typing it. If my comment isn't long I right click and copy my comment before I hit post message. Then if it fails I still have the comment on my browser. Losing thoughts is a bummer because we can't usually find the exact thought again. Just a suggestion.Let me explain this about what has a person upset. Most people in organizations are right leaning whether they are Libertarians or Republicans. I am neither and I don't believe in either of those parties. I am not a Democrat but I am a concerned citizen and what is happening in our country and in the world because of what Bush has done causes many of us, including me, anger. Anger comes from the right not the left. I don't understand how people can want reform and be on the right side of politics.
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Comment #65 posted by Graehstone on March 20, 2006 at 06:31:04 PT
more news
Here's another one I just found and thought to share.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4620272.stm
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Comment #64 posted by mayan on March 20, 2006 at 04:17:59 PT
Uh-Oh
Looks like the sh*t's headed toward the fan...Pentagon 'hedge' strategy targets China:
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060316-114755-3306r.htmWe've already lost. The Iraqi people have lost...Iraq in civil war, says former PM:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4821618.stmWhen Iraqis are killing Iraqis it's a civil war. It has been for quite some time.
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Comment #63 posted by Toker00 on March 20, 2006 at 03:51:47 PT
FoM
I posted that last post before I finished it. Yesterday a had a very long post in reply to one of Whig's post, and suddenly my cursor turned to an hour glass, and a screen came up that said Firefox has caused an error... and I lost the whole post. It was doing it again a second ago, so I posted what I had, and it is fine now. ?If the "problem" is important enough to send an angry e-mail about, then it's important enough to put on the table, and be solved. Wage peace on war. END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW!
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Comment #62 posted by Toker00 on March 20, 2006 at 03:43:26 PT
FoM
I hope that's not the same virus that is in our area. Keeps you down for a week or more. Just recovering, myself. Oh no! Could it BE??? Computer viruses have mutated and are now capable of carrying human viruses over the internet! Cyber pandemic!;)I think we should call the e-mailer on the carpet. Is the problem, to them, with FoM, or us, the posters? Are we not fighting hard enough to end cannabis prohibition? Are we embarrassing them? Because I've not seem a more human website host than FoM. The site usually takes on the personality of the host. This site is so popular and respected, what does that tell you abut the host?
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Comment #61 posted by mayan on March 20, 2006 at 03:01:59 PT
oops
Here's that link...http://www.hempfarm.org/Papers/Shadow_of_the_Swastika.html
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Comment #60 posted by mayan on March 20, 2006 at 02:34:21 PT
Australia
Massive cyclone hits Australia
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/cyclone.larry/index.htmlHope the folks down under are safe!On a totally unrelated note, what kind of message does it send to a young person that not even their own bodily fluids are private. Turn them inside out. Oh, the beast will certainly see their insides. The beast will see more than it bargained for.W.House pushes more schools to drug-test students:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060319/us_nm/drugs_testing_dcFoM, I once got a fortune cookie that said something like, "We are never so happy or unhappy as we seem."I still don't know what it means but Gandhi said..."First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win."I say, believe in yourself. There is no reason not to.SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA: The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization:
ttp://www.hempfarm.org/Papers/Shadow_of_the_Swastika.htmlTHE WAY OUT...9/11 Truth in the Media:
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060316135906990
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Comment #59 posted by whig on March 19, 2006 at 22:29:36 PT
OT: Playing football with bricks of $100 bills
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1734689,00.html
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Comment #58 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 21:50:14 PT
whig
Bless your heart. I do feel better. We listened to XM Radio most of the afternoon and they played some really good songs. Music is my way of tuning out and then tuning in to what makes me smile. Heck I was dancing around the living room during a couple songs then I started coughing and sat down. LOL!
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Comment #57 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 21:44:32 PT
Hope
If I sound depressed it is because when I am sick I do feel depressed but it isn't because of life or something like that. Yes the e-mail upset me because somethings I just don't understand. It's ok because you all have made it ok.
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Comment #56 posted by whig on March 19, 2006 at 21:42:59 PT
FoM
We're all down sometimes. It was probably hardly a few weeks ago I was all depressed and not knowing where I was going to be living soon, and I was worrying myself sick about my headaches and everything else. I know how much worse it is, when you're feeling under the weather, to hear criticisms from people you respect and you start to question yourself a little bit. And I know you take it really hard to see what is happening to people you care about. All of these things are hard individually, but together it just gets too overwhelming for one person to handle.I hope you'll remember that you're not alone, we're all here too, and we all care about you just like you care about us. If I can cheer you up with a little music video, I try to do that. Even though he's sad for his own reasons, gw writes poems to seek out your heart. Ekim is even dedicating a conference to you. We're all just trying in our way to let you know how much we appreciate you and how important you are to us.
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Comment #55 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 21:30:26 PT
Hope
I'm really not going anywhere. I am ok. I am sick though. I got a respiratory infection from my husband and I do feel under the weather. I am serious that I do want harmony and understanding between us all. The older I get the less time I like to waste or anyones time. Our society is not running very smoothly. The article that global_warming posted was good. It is how I feel about almost everything the writer said. We are getting ready to tackle more on our house. We have to side the back and a big story and a half side of the house. We are replacing the windows too if we can get that done this year doing it part time. Two days a week my nephew who is a contractor will be working for us. When we get to the inside new room, which will be our living room, hopefully we will be able to afford a flat tv for the wall. I say maybe because I believe prices that are relatively inexpensive might not be inexpensive much longer. If the increased oil demand and prices drives society to a stand still products will become more expensive. We are living in a time almost like what happened in the 70s with the gas shortage crisis. I guess most people are aware of these problems but maybe people don't see what could happen. I'm not sure.
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Comment #54 posted by Hope on March 19, 2006 at 21:19:10 PT
Please
Don't worry.
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Comment #53 posted by Hope on March 19, 2006 at 21:18:08 PT
What I can guess...
is that it's someone important enough to have your e-mail address. I'm sorry. I hope we haven't inadvertently gotten you in some sort of trouble or "tight spot".It seems to me like you are crying. I wish we could help.If you want to know if we are happy here... of course we are...except gw ...of course... and he's certainly at least happy with this site,too. He's here. We're here. We are happy with this place and you.New people sign up all the time. We've had a lot lately. It's a very good place and very well managed.
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Comment #52 posted by Hope on March 19, 2006 at 20:59:15 PT
Oh my gosh...
You are really upset. I'm so sorry!This makes me upset. Without you...without this place. I shudder to think.I wish you could share something of what is wrong with us...but I accept it if you refuse to. We are with you, regardless.
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Comment #51 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 20:46:23 PT
Jose
Thank you. That's all I really wanted to know. I need to know that everything is ok here for everyone. I am not an island. I try but that's all I can do. I don't have all the answers. I think I have a few answers but that's about all.
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Comment #50 posted by jose melendez on March 19, 2006 at 20:36:06 PT
almost forgot
YES, cannabisnews.com and the community here makes me very happy. Thank you, FoM.Waging peace, -jm
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Comment #49 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 20:34:33 PT
ekim
What can I say but thank you.
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Comment #48 posted by jose melendez on March 19, 2006 at 20:33:33 PT
FoM
This site continues to be a blessing, we answer prohibitionist propaganda with facts and follow up armed to the teeth with peer reviewed studies, historical transcripts and news clippings from all over the world.I'd like to second the idea that whoever decided to be mean to FoM perhaps ought to register, post here and take it up with us all.
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Comment #47 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 20:17:50 PT
whig
That is so very nice. I do feel better. I don't want to run this show. I want to do what I do but I want to be a part of the show for lack of a better way of saying it. We come from all different states and are different ages and sexes. We don't have to agree with each other all the time but we should learn from each other as much as we can.
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Comment #46 posted by ekim on March 19, 2006 at 20:12:45 PT
FoM we are doing this show tomorrow
and i would like to dedicate it to you. your everyday example of arts therapist,--cnews-freedomtoexhaleyour passionate focusing on holistic health care research including mind/ body intervention outcome research, spirituality and psychotherapy,--buy posting news and fostering debate. you worked with an interdisciplinary team of faculty to recruit and train health, allied health, and social work students for rural farm industries by printing the truth and allowing us all -country and city- to heal.happy traaaaaaaails to you--Holistic Health: Science and Practice
April 1st.
WMU College of Health and Human Services
Oakland Drived Campus
Gay Walker
Gay is an artist and expressive arts therapist with an M.A. in Holistic Art Therapy from Antioch University, a Graduate Specialty Certificate in Holistic Health from WMU, and a B.F.A. in Fine Art and Graphic Design from Michigan State University. She is an Assistant Professor of Holistic Health at Western Michigan University where she teaches classes on health and healing through expressive arts. Additionally, she offers a variety of presentations, workshops, and retreats, and is a faculty member of the Kalamazoo Institute of Art. Gay is the manager of the Diane's Way Expressive Arts and Comfort Care Program at Borgess Hospice, and is also actively involved in the Arts and Hospice Program sponsored by the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo. She is known for her "Art of Healing" exhibits which travel to hospitals and galleries and focus on images created by people during illness, as well as her own journey through breast cancer. Her mission is to demonstrate the healing power of creativity and to show the therapeutic nature of the arts when people express themselves openly during challenging times in their lives.Thomas Holmes
Thomas Holmes, M.A., M.S.W., Ph.D., Associate professor of Holistic Health WMU hhas been teaching in the Holistic Health Care Program at WMU since 1996. He received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Michigan State University and also holds masters degrees in Clinical Psychology and in Social Work from Western Michigan University, and his Bachelor Degree from Albion College. He taught human growth and development and psychotherapy classes at Western Michigan University from 1985 to 1996. In 1991 Dr. Holmes was awarded the State of Michigan Teaching Excellence Award. He has taught in the Holistic Health Program since 1996. Dr. Holmes’ earlier research focused on mental health outcomes and international mental health. He is now focusing on holistic health care research including mind/ body intervention outcome research, spirituality and psychotherapy, and the education of health and human services workers for holistic practice.
Dr. Holmes has been a practicing meditator for more than 25 years and since 1980 has been studying the integration of spirituality and psychotherapy. He has studied many forms of meditation and spiritual traditions. Over the past ten years he has offered seminars on utilizing spirituality as a resource for therapist burnout prevention and for the development of the therapeutic conditions to helping professionals in the U.S. and in Europe. During this time his focus has increasingly been on Buddhist psychology's rich tradition of studying the nature of human consciousness and its interaction with the conditions of everyday life which bring about either suffering or well-being. Over the past decade he has studied with Thich Nhat Hanh, Genpo Roshi and other Buddhist monks, nuns and scholars to better learn how to apply this knowledge to Western culture and psychological theory. This work has continued in a book he co-authored with other faculty from the holistic health program titled “Seeds of Awakening.” In this book he wrote of the application of several Buddhist concepts to the enhancement of personal and professional well beingKathi Fuller
Kathi Fuller - Former Director of Rural Health Education for the College of Health and Human Services at WMU. In this position, she worked with an interdisciplinary team of faculty to recruit and train health, allied health, and social work students for rural professional practice. Her interests in this area stem from both personal and professional experience. She served in the U.S. Peace Corp, where she worked in a rural community in Latin America. She has also been involved in developing creative solutions to communica¬tion and service delivery problems, as well as team teaching the Interdisciplinary Rural Health Seminar at WMU. Kathi holds a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology.
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Comment #45 posted by whig on March 19, 2006 at 20:11:06 PT
I'd also like to suggest...
If someone has something negative to say about US, let them come out and say it directly, instead of hiding behind an e-mail and making FoM feel bad. I bet he thinks we're a bunch of wacky pothead freaks who ought to present ourselves like proper businessmen and women, or at least as politically palatable "ordinary folks" (in the sense that we see fake-people on the major network sitcoms).But you know what? To meet me in person, he'd probably think I was a square guy. Maybe a little egghead-ish, a little bit of a nerd, but nothing out of the mainstream. Here, though, I like to take my shoes off and hang out the way I am with my friends. Because, that's exactly what I'm doing.Most political-action groups are totally not this way. They aren't casual with one another, because they don't really want to be friends, they don't want to share their intimacies, they just want to work together for some purpose. Well, this ain't a job for us. We're a family.And by the way, FoM, while you are honorable in not sharing the contents of private e-mails, summarizing what someone's complaint was, without identifying the person or otherwise exposing something private, is perfectly fine. So if you want to get our take on the gist of what he said, you shouldn't have to keep this on your chest weighing you down.
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Comment #44 posted by whig on March 19, 2006 at 19:57:21 PT
WoooOOOO!
We love you FoM.
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Comment #43 posted by Hope on March 19, 2006 at 19:42:55 PT
Comment 41
Good to know I'm standing with you, heh, BGreen?:0)You know I love you.
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Comment #42 posted by Hope on March 19, 2006 at 19:41:08 PT
It must have been someone who matters...a lot.
I'm sorry. If we can help...tell us how.
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Comment #41 posted by Hope on March 19, 2006 at 19:39:00 PT
BGreen Comment 38
I do agree with you, sir!Well...I'll let him bite you, though. If you don't like it...Bite him! See what happens!:0)
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Comment #40 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 19:34:34 PT
Hope and BGreen
Sometimes I wish I could turn my thoughts off. Sometimes I can for a little while. Most times I can't. If we know that something is wrong and we don't talk about it what good is that? Why do we even bother? Life is short and we see what is happening and we must be alert and stay aware or how can we fix anything?
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Comment #39 posted by Hope on March 19, 2006 at 19:30:44 PT
If we aren't upsetting a few people...
we're doing something wrong!We're supposed to be "stirring the fire" and "rocking the boat" and all that other good stuff.
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Comment #38 posted by BGreen on March 19, 2006 at 19:24:27 PT
I'm not just happy here with you, FoM
I'm at home with my family here at cannabisnews.com.Whoever sent you the email can bite me.The Reverend Bud Green
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Comment #37 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 18:58:36 PT
Hope and b4daylight
Everyday on the news we something else troubling. Everyday people wonder how we can stop this madness. I believe we upset a few people because we actually see the problem and want so hard to fix it.
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Comment #36 posted by b4daylight on March 19, 2006 at 18:30:13 PT
Let's Roll
Comment #9 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 09:55:51 PTawsome
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Comment #35 posted by Hope on March 19, 2006 at 18:27:59 PT
FoM
This is a great place, FoM. I'm certainly happy with it and I certainly hope it wasn't my fault that you got complained against. There are times when I can irritate a rock.Hey, if no one was ever complaining it would probably mean you weren't causing enough of an unpheaval.I hope it wasn't someone that really mattered to you.Maybe he wants it to be like some place else. That sure isn't necessary. Someplace else is someplace else and perhaps the complainer might be happier there...some place else.You have worked so hard here. You've been here day after day for years now...with never even a short vacation. There isn't dedication like that anywhere else on the web. Your stats are good. People are checking your news. You're on top of it all. If they want it different, maybe they could start their own site and dedicate the kind of time you do to it. Yeah, right! Likely they just want to complain.I'd bet it was someone complaining about posters and certainly not the news you gather.So if they have any valid complaints, perhaps you should share those complaints and we can see if we can't do something about it.If not. Ignore them.
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Comment #34 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 16:12:04 PT
Toker00
Thank you. I am happy with us too and how we feel about how things are and where they might be going. I enjoy nature programs. Tonight at 9 pm et a program called Perfect Disaster will be on Discovery. I marvel at nature. It does what it wants when it wants. It has no conscience, no political motive. It is affected by what we do though. We are part of it all. It's fascinating to me.http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/perfectdisaster/perfectdisaster.html
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Comment #33 posted by Toker00 on March 19, 2006 at 15:41:19 PT
Thank you gw.
The protest pictures are great. I really liked the one with a police escort in front. THAT is what police should be doing. Protecting and serving. NOT throwing us in jail for self-medicating with natural herbs. FoM, you shouldn't worry about that e-mail. It's proof you really ARE doing a great job. You make us SSSSSOOOOOOO HAAAAAPPPPPPPYYYYYYY!!! when skies are blue...I mean grey!!!! I never was a singer....Wage peace on war. END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW!
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Comment #32 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 14:49:27 PT
Whig
That was a woooOOO video! What comes to my mind is it's space trucking music.
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Comment #31 posted by global_warming on March 19, 2006 at 14:11:04 PT
it is us
watching the videos and historybefore 'our eyesit is 'usmaking changes'
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Comment #30 posted by whig on March 19, 2006 at 13:51:29 PT
Elvis is back
http://tinyurl.com/f6yao
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Comment #29 posted by global_warming on March 19, 2006 at 13:45:08 PT
Elvis has left the building
and that working carpenter,
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Comment #28 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 13:41:02 PT
global_warming
You're right.
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Comment #27 posted by global_warming on March 19, 2006 at 13:39:10 PT
hey fomme
that medicine jarhas been denied usright here at cnews
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Comment #26 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 13:32:21 PT
I'm Listening To This Song on XM Radio
I haven't heard it for years. It's called Medicine Jar. Here are the lyrics.http://www.song-teksten.com/song_lyrics/paul_mccartney/venus_and_mars/medicine_jar/
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Comment #25 posted by global_warming on March 19, 2006 at 13:29:36 PT
sometimes
it can be a cold,that can bring dreamsthat illuminate your place in the world,that place, that Eternal Place,
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Comment #24 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 13:23:22 PT
global_warming
I'm sorry you aren't happy. It's hard to be happy sometimes. I got a cold and I feel yucky and that makes me feel not happy.
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Comment #23 posted by global_warming on March 19, 2006 at 13:17:12 PT
I for one
am not happy.
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 13:10:31 PT
whig
That's warm. I just want to know that you all are happy.
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Comment #21 posted by whig on March 19, 2006 at 13:07:41 PT
FoM
You're doing a great job here. I don't know who would tell you otherwise, unless it is someone who has a perverse desire to put people down who are good organizers because he (and I'll bet it's a he) thinks he knows better how "serious" organization is done.Am I in the ballpark?
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Comment #20 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 13:04:27 PT
global_warming
I like the whole article but I can relate to this part of it very well. I don't want to share any e-mail's because to me that is wrong when I know it was only meant for me.The End of MoneyThe 1970s was the apotheosis of the “American Dream.” Wedged between the preceding decade of civil unrest and the subsequent decade of recessions, rapidly rising homelessness, and mass layoffs, the 1970s was a comparatively idyllic decade. It certainly had its problems – stagflation, for instance – but even while living during that time I felt it was a special decade. Life was good; people were happy, friendly, and mellow; TV shows and movies were cheerful; civil liberties were at their peak; government power was at its lowest ebb; the country was affluent and at its peak of industrial prowess. It’s not a coincidence that the tallest buildings in America were built during the 1970s. Those buildings were icons of American industry and power. Although the Vietnam War raged during the first half of the 1970s, it was in the process of winding down and came to an end by the middle of that decade. The cessation of the Vietnam War was as much a reflection of the peoples’ desire to “live and let live” as it was a military defeat. Military conscription also ended in that decade, and even the cold war cooled off because of détente.
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Comment #19 posted by global_warming on March 19, 2006 at 13:01:44 PT
hey fomme
please share, the importent parts of this email, I understand that this place on the internet, has allowed many to share the places where 'we have been and are going, it is not a far place from heart to mind and soul, and many need help, from good minded people, such as you.
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 12:51:51 PT
global_warming
That is an excellent article. When I read something like that I don't feel so all alone. I'm going to say something. I received a very angry e-mail from someone. It upset me so much I blocked any future e-mails. I am not doing a good job here basically I was told. I hope you all are happy here.
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Comment #17 posted by global_warming on March 19, 2006 at 12:46:31 PT
for those who enjoy reading
a lengthy article that explores some of the problems that 'we are looking at,..http://www.countercurrents.org/eriqat130306.htmThere is no mention made about renewable energy such as a Hemp system, it is primarily concerned with the cheap and dirty oil business. One might be able to make that leap and question how 'we got here, and the higher price of survival.Life was before oil, and Life has the blessings and stamp of that Higher Authority.
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Comment #16 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 12:08:43 PT
Peaceful Resistence
There is nothing more energizing to me then seeing people say no I don't agree and in a peaceful way. Young people it's your world. It's your time. Go for it and help us all.
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Comment #15 posted by Hope on March 19, 2006 at 12:04:36 PT
Max, Comment 6
It is beautiful, isn't it? Strengthens my sense of hope for the future of this country...a great deal.Congratulations to these young people. May they make America beautiful again...and the land and hope of the free.God bless them if he will.Gonzales looks more hunched and drawn than usual. That's great.
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Comment #14 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 11:56:51 PT
global_warming
Thank you for the pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Comment #13 posted by global_warming on March 19, 2006 at 11:53:39 PT
some more photos
http://thefairandbalancednews.com/seattle%20protest.htmhttp://homepage.mac.com/kaaawa/Polly_Tiks/PhotoAlbum89.htmlI hope Gonzales got a lesson at that moment, in the American Dream.
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Comment #12 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 10:41:08 PT
A Request For Help
Media War Comes To MediaChannel.org: Our Site Is Under Attack! http://mediachannel.org/attack.shtmlIf you are experienced at combating this type of pernicious internet warfare, please write: david medichannel.org
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Comment #11 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 10:37:49 PT
Off Topic
Last night we watched a documentary about Iraq and some here might remember Peter Arnett during the early invasion of Iraq. He lost his job because of appearing on an Iraqi tv station and said that we under estimated the people and how they would fight us. He got removed from the tv news. They said they got a lot of complaints but in the end it was e-mails sent from a web site called Free Republic. They called themselves something like freebers and bragged about it.http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/31/sprj.irq.arnett/
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Comment #10 posted by ekim on March 19, 2006 at 09:58:00 PT
just now on npr splendid table show
the host was asked about hemp seed and how to eat them.
the hose went into a long story about being in italy and how many of the linnen like things have been made from hemp-bed spreads and table cloths, the host went on to say that hemp seeds can be used like any nut dish and she commented that she is seeing a huge increase in hemp use in food that is going on all over.
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 09:55:51 PT
Protest Pictures: The Invasion of Iraq
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=war+protest&fr=&c=news_photos
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 09:54:20 PT
Wow
Max Flowers that picture gives me hope. These young people seeing thru it all are our future. Bless their hearts.
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Comment #7 posted by whig on March 19, 2006 at 09:54:04 PT
Max
Of course, John Yoo is at Berkeley.http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/yooj/Consistent with the Yoo Doctrine, Yoo acknowledged during a December 2005 debate at Notre Dame University with professor Doug Cassel that no treaty prevents the President from authorizing the torture of a detainee's child -- including by "crushing the testicles" of the child. When asked whether any law prevents it, Yoo replied that it would depend on why the President was authorizing it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo
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Comment #6 posted by Max Flowers on March 19, 2006 at 09:47:48 PT
Beautiful
God, that is a beautiful sight (the photo in the link below with students turning their backs on Gonzales). It brought tears to my eyes instantly and gave me a shot of hope.Those college girls have more balls than basically every male member of congress! I wish I could kiss every one of them. They're true patriots.Gonzales is a traitor and a large part of the cancer on this nation.
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Comment #5 posted by jose melendez on March 19, 2006 at 09:21:17 PT
Justice. Right.
from: http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/gonzales.htmFuture American lawyers to be proud of...[U.S. Attorney General] Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown Law School today [2006-03-07], attempting to justify illegal, unauthorized surveillance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.To make matters worse for Gonzales, additional students came into the room, wearing black cowls and carrying a simple banner, written on a sheet.Fortunately for him, it was a brief speech ... followed by a panel discussion which basically ripped his argument in half.And, as one of the people on the panel said: When you're a law student, they tell you that if you can't argue the law, argue the facts. They also tell you if you can't argue the facts, argue the law. If you can't argue either, apparently, the solution is to go on a public relations offensive and make it a political issue... to say over and over again "it's lawful", and to think that the American people will somehow come to believe this if we say it often enough. In light of this, I'm proud of the very civil civil disobedience that was shown here today.
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Comment #4 posted by jose melendez on March 19, 2006 at 09:17:19 PT
food for thought: are prohibitionists corrupt?
from: World Food Summit: Five Years LaterRemarks byAntonio Maria Costa
Executive Director, UN ODCCP, Vienna
Under-Secretary GeneralRome, 11 June, 2002http://www.unodc.org/unodc/speech_2002-06-11_1.html The situation in Central Asia today is another important example. Today’s Afghanistan illustrates the extent to which the lack of economic alternatives, is forcing local people to resort to drugs cultivation. We all know that over time Afghanistan has become the source of 70% of the world’s production of opium: an illegal activity, fought quite forcefully by the new Interim Administration (AIA). Why such heavy dependence on illicit crops in Afghanistan? For several reasons. Because of the lack of seeds, equipment and irrigation facilities, and because of lack of export markets for licit crops. Furthermore, during more than two decades of war, despair and destruction, practically the only money available to Afghan farmers has come from drug traffickers. They have provided the credit needed before the planting season, repaid with opium after the harvest.In Afghanistan, the lack of credit can be remedied rapidly: indeed, we are now working hard at developing innovative micro-banking facilities. - - -
from:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles9/Edwards_Iraq-Qaeda-Lie.htmNicholas Kristof notes in (the) New York Times that “the big winner” of US security strategy in Afghanistan “was the Taliban, which is now mounting a resurgence”. In the two years since the war, opium production in the demolished country has soared 19-fold and become the major source of the world's heroin. Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, writes in a “grim new report” on Afghanistan: "There is a palpable risk that Afghanistan will again turn into a failed state, this time in the hands of drug cartels and narco-terrorists." (Nicholas D. Kristof, ‘A Scary Afghan Road’, The New York Times, November 15, 2003) - - -
compare to:Cole explained that he reversed his personal feelings on the war on drugs in 1973. His new stance on drug use came after about nine years on the New Jersey State Police department, three of which were spent as an undercover narcotics investigator. Cole did not retire, however, until after spending 26 years with the New Jersey State Police."I had an epiphany," said Cole. "I found that I liked the people I was working on better than those I was working for. They seemed less likely to turn their backs on me." http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n329/a08.html
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Comment #3 posted by ekim on March 19, 2006 at 08:39:27 PT
Have Your Say: Can The War on Drugs Be Won?"
Mar 19 06 BBC Worldwide “Have Your Say: Can The War on Drugs Be Won?" 09:00 AM Jack Cole Medford Massachusetts USA
This is sure to be a lively and informative discussion between Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Executive Director, Jack Cole, and Mr. Antonio Marie Costa, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. To get involved in the discussion before and during the show, go to the BBC website at: http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=1261&start=0&&&edition=2&ttl=20060309175453. The show is broadcast to 65 countries. Be sure to check for the air time in your time zone.
http://www.leap.cc/events
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Comment #2 posted by Graehstone on March 19, 2006 at 08:39:26 PT
The Dream ...
... "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, free at last!"
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on March 19, 2006 at 08:39:26 PT
Just a Comment
I looked up the bio of this young writer. He is 28 years old with a 7 year old son and lives in Colorado. This is the generation that will do the foot work like people did in the 60s. Young people like him, not politically motivated, are the Indigo Children to me.
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