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[quote=fat_lazy_union_worker][quote=patientlywaiting]Want a good laugh?

On today’s ABC World News show, Bush said that he’s going to write a book. [/quote]

Because if he doesn’t, the terrorists have won.

He can write?
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[quote=fat_lazy_union_worker][quote=patientlywaiting]Want a good laugh?

On today’s ABC World News show, Bush said that he’s going to write a book. [/quote]

Because if he doesn’t, the terrorists have won.

He can write?
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Seems to me like taxes in this country is like cell phone reception in Rancho Santa Fe. Everyone wants the benefit of the cell tower and the reception it brings but no one wants to “pay” for it by putting the tower on their property. Taxes have to be paid by someone and it doesn’t hurt someone making 75K a year like it does someone making 25K a year. Of course most posters on this blog are in the first group so they complain about how unfair it is. Personally I’d rather earn more and pay the taxes than earn less and have less. Then again political views are often influenced by your parents and I had an affluent democrat for a mother who lived within her means, owns her house our right has zero debt and has assets/money in the bank and is now “working retired” collecting social security, retirement and a paycheck. My father is a broke republican who is still working at almost 80 years old and spent more than he earned his whole life. He has massive debts and can never retire. He jokes that “the longer I work the less I have to save for retirement”. Sad truth is he will die working, just as many boomers today.

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Seems to me like taxes in this country is like cell phone reception in Rancho Santa Fe. Everyone wants the benefit of the cell tower and the reception it brings but no one wants to “pay” for it by putting the tower on their property. Taxes have to be paid by someone and it doesn’t hurt someone making 75K a year like it does someone making 25K a year. Of course most posters on this blog are in the first group so they complain about how unfair it is. Personally I’d rather earn more and pay the taxes than earn less and have less. Then again political views are often influenced by your parents and I had an affluent democrat for a mother who lived within her means, owns her house our right has zero debt and has assets/money in the bank and is now “working retired” collecting social security, retirement and a paycheck. My father is a broke republican who is still working at almost 80 years old and spent more than he earned his whole life. He has massive debts and can never retire. He jokes that “the longer I work the less I have to save for retirement”. Sad truth is he will die working, just as many boomers today.

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Seems to me like taxes in this country is like cell phone reception in Rancho Santa Fe. Everyone wants the benefit of the cell tower and the reception it brings but no one wants to “pay” for it by putting the tower on their property. Taxes have to be paid by someone and it doesn’t hurt someone making 75K a year like it does someone making 25K a year. Of course most posters on this blog are in the first group so they complain about how unfair it is. Personally I’d rather earn more and pay the taxes than earn less and have less. Then again political views are often influenced by your parents and I had an affluent democrat for a mother who lived within her means, owns her house our right has zero debt and has assets/money in the bank and is now “working retired” collecting social security, retirement and a paycheck. My father is a broke republican who is still working at almost 80 years old and spent more than he earned his whole life. He has massive debts and can never retire. He jokes that “the longer I work the less I have to save for retirement”. Sad truth is he will die working, just as many boomers today.

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Seems to me like taxes in this country is like cell phone reception in Rancho Santa Fe. Everyone wants the benefit of the cell tower and the reception it brings but no one wants to “pay” for it by putting the tower on their property. Taxes have to be paid by someone and it doesn’t hurt someone making 75K a year like it does someone making 25K a year. Of course most posters on this blog are in the first group so they complain about how unfair it is. Personally I’d rather earn more and pay the taxes than earn less and have less. Then again political views are often influenced by your parents and I had an affluent democrat for a mother who lived within her means, owns her house our right has zero debt and has assets/money in the bank and is now “working retired” collecting social security, retirement and a paycheck. My father is a broke republican who is still working at almost 80 years old and spent more than he earned his whole life. He has massive debts and can never retire. He jokes that “the longer I work the less I have to save for retirement”. Sad truth is he will die working, just as many boomers today.

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Seems to me like taxes in this country is like cell phone reception in Rancho Santa Fe. Everyone wants the benefit of the cell tower and the reception it brings but no one wants to “pay” for it by putting the tower on their property. Taxes have to be paid by someone and it doesn’t hurt someone making 75K a year like it does someone making 25K a year. Of course most posters on this blog are in the first group so they complain about how unfair it is. Personally I’d rather earn more and pay the taxes than earn less and have less. Then again political views are often influenced by your parents and I had an affluent democrat for a mother who lived within her means, owns her house our right has zero debt and has assets/money in the bank and is now “working retired” collecting social security, retirement and a paycheck. My father is a broke republican who is still working at almost 80 years old and spent more than he earned his whole life. He has massive debts and can never retire. He jokes that “the longer I work the less I have to save for retirement”. Sad truth is he will die working, just as many boomers today.

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[quote=Navydoc]If I’m not mistaken, I think the reason while it’s illegal is in the early 20th century William Randolf Hearst spent a fortune demonizing MJ as the paper made from it is vastly superior to that made of wood pulp, and Hearst had invested heavily into paper mills for his newspaper industry. Wood pulp paper is crap, it actually destroys itself with time due to organic acids. Want to know what’s printed on hemp paper? Try the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I doubt those documents would still exist if they were printed on wood paper.

One more thing, from a medical standpoint MJ does far less damage to your body than alcohol, and is NOT addictive, so count me in the “make it legal” camp of Piggs.[/quote]

Another industrial competitor to the natural, long and strong hemp fiber was the synthetic fiber producer DuPont. Ironic how they invented Nylon in 1935 and then passed the Marijuana Tax act in 1937 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon). Also during the 30s mid-depression a lot of white folks didn’t like cheap labor from Mexico coming here to steal their jobs. So calling it Marijuana instead of Hemp made people associate it with Mexicans, not to mention blacks with their jazz music luring all the white woman into their Clubs. Just pointing out that racism also fueled the criminalization of the plant. Looking back to colonial times George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew and smoked it. George Washington once said “Make the most of the Indian Hemp seed, sew it everywhere”. Landowners in those days were required to grow at least a quarter acre for the government by law since Jamestown 1619. You could pay your taxes with it up until the 1820s. In fact the very term Legal Tender meant you were bartering and trading in cannabis. Also looking at the word Canvas came from the word Cannabis. As in flags, uniforms, paintings, covered wagons, tents, anything called Canvas was once made from Cannabis. Not to mention the rope they made you climb in gym class that hurt your hands.

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[quote=Navydoc]If I’m not mistaken, I think the reason while it’s illegal is in the early 20th century William Randolf Hearst spent a fortune demonizing MJ as the paper made from it is vastly superior to that made of wood pulp, and Hearst had invested heavily into paper mills for his newspaper industry. Wood pulp paper is crap, it actually destroys itself with time due to organic acids. Want to know what’s printed on hemp paper? Try the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I doubt those documents would still exist if they were printed on wood paper.

One more thing, from a medical standpoint MJ does far less damage to your body than alcohol, and is NOT addictive, so count me in the “make it legal” camp of Piggs.[/quote]

Another industrial competitor to the natural, long and strong hemp fiber was the synthetic fiber producer DuPont. Ironic how they invented Nylon in 1935 and then passed the Marijuana Tax act in 1937 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon). Also during the 30s mid-depression a lot of white folks didn’t like cheap labor from Mexico coming here to steal their jobs. So calling it Marijuana instead of Hemp made people associate it with Mexicans, not to mention blacks with their jazz music luring all the white woman into their Clubs. Just pointing out that racism also fueled the criminalization of the plant. Looking back to colonial times George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew and smoked it. George Washington once said “Make the most of the Indian Hemp seed, sew it everywhere”. Landowners in those days were required to grow at least a quarter acre for the government by law since Jamestown 1619. You could pay your taxes with it up until the 1820s. In fact the very term Legal Tender meant you were bartering and trading in cannabis. Also looking at the word Canvas came from the word Cannabis. As in flags, uniforms, paintings, covered wagons, tents, anything called Canvas was once made from Cannabis. Not to mention the rope they made you climb in gym class that hurt your hands.

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[quote=Navydoc]If I’m not mistaken, I think the reason while it’s illegal is in the early 20th century William Randolf Hearst spent a fortune demonizing MJ as the paper made from it is vastly superior to that made of wood pulp, and Hearst had invested heavily into paper mills for his newspaper industry. Wood pulp paper is crap, it actually destroys itself with time due to organic acids. Want to know what’s printed on hemp paper? Try the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I doubt those documents would still exist if they were printed on wood paper.

One more thing, from a medical standpoint MJ does far less damage to your body than alcohol, and is NOT addictive, so count me in the “make it legal” camp of Piggs.[/quote]

Another industrial competitor to the natural, long and strong hemp fiber was the synthetic fiber producer DuPont. Ironic how they invented Nylon in 1935 and then passed the Marijuana Tax act in 1937 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon). Also during the 30s mid-depression a lot of white folks didn’t like cheap labor from Mexico coming here to steal their jobs. So calling it Marijuana instead of Hemp made people associate it with Mexicans, not to mention blacks with their jazz music luring all the white woman into their Clubs. Just pointing out that racism also fueled the criminalization of the plant. Looking back to colonial times George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew and smoked it. George Washington once said “Make the most of the Indian Hemp seed, sew it everywhere”. Landowners in those days were required to grow at least a quarter acre for the government by law since Jamestown 1619. You could pay your taxes with it up until the 1820s. In fact the very term Legal Tender meant you were bartering and trading in cannabis. Also looking at the word Canvas came from the word Cannabis. As in flags, uniforms, paintings, covered wagons, tents, anything called Canvas was once made from Cannabis. Not to mention the rope they made you climb in gym class that hurt your hands.

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[quote=Navydoc]If I’m not mistaken, I think the reason while it’s illegal is in the early 20th century William Randolf Hearst spent a fortune demonizing MJ as the paper made from it is vastly superior to that made of wood pulp, and Hearst had invested heavily into paper mills for his newspaper industry. Wood pulp paper is crap, it actually destroys itself with time due to organic acids. Want to know what’s printed on hemp paper? Try the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I doubt those documents would still exist if they were printed on wood paper.

One more thing, from a medical standpoint MJ does far less damage to your body than alcohol, and is NOT addictive, so count me in the “make it legal” camp of Piggs.[/quote]

Another industrial competitor to the natural, long and strong hemp fiber was the synthetic fiber producer DuPont. Ironic how they invented Nylon in 1935 and then passed the Marijuana Tax act in 1937 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon). Also during the 30s mid-depression a lot of white folks didn’t like cheap labor from Mexico coming here to steal their jobs. So calling it Marijuana instead of Hemp made people associate it with Mexicans, not to mention blacks with their jazz music luring all the white woman into their Clubs. Just pointing out that racism also fueled the criminalization of the plant. Looking back to colonial times George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew and smoked it. George Washington once said “Make the most of the Indian Hemp seed, sew it everywhere”. Landowners in those days were required to grow at least a quarter acre for the government by law since Jamestown 1619. You could pay your taxes with it up until the 1820s. In fact the very term Legal Tender meant you were bartering and trading in cannabis. Also looking at the word Canvas came from the word Cannabis. As in flags, uniforms, paintings, covered wagons, tents, anything called Canvas was once made from Cannabis. Not to mention the rope they made you climb in gym class that hurt your hands.

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[quote=Navydoc]If I’m not mistaken, I think the reason while it’s illegal is in the early 20th century William Randolf Hearst spent a fortune demonizing MJ as the paper made from it is vastly superior to that made of wood pulp, and Hearst had invested heavily into paper mills for his newspaper industry. Wood pulp paper is crap, it actually destroys itself with time due to organic acids. Want to know what’s printed on hemp paper? Try the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I doubt those documents would still exist if they were printed on wood paper.

One more thing, from a medical standpoint MJ does far less damage to your body than alcohol, and is NOT addictive, so count me in the “make it legal” camp of Piggs.[/quote]

Another industrial competitor to the natural, long and strong hemp fiber was the synthetic fiber producer DuPont. Ironic how they invented Nylon in 1935 and then passed the Marijuana Tax act in 1937 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon). Also during the 30s mid-depression a lot of white folks didn’t like cheap labor from Mexico coming here to steal their jobs. So calling it Marijuana instead of Hemp made people associate it with Mexicans, not to mention blacks with their jazz music luring all the white woman into their Clubs. Just pointing out that racism also fueled the criminalization of the plant. Looking back to colonial times George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew and smoked it. George Washington once said “Make the most of the Indian Hemp seed, sew it everywhere”. Landowners in those days were required to grow at least a quarter acre for the government by law since Jamestown 1619. You could pay your taxes with it up until the 1820s. In fact the very term Legal Tender meant you were bartering and trading in cannabis. Also looking at the word Canvas came from the word Cannabis. As in flags, uniforms, paintings, covered wagons, tents, anything called Canvas was once made from Cannabis. Not to mention the rope they made you climb in gym class that hurt your hands.

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