TOTALLY RANDOM POST II

[Harry Gypsna]

I wish Howard Marks was still alive and writing his detective novels. I've got an idea for one. It would have been awesome and it contains characters which are all thinly veiled references to names, faces and stories we've all heard.


It starts when a group of 22 year olds from Morris Minnesota take a trip to Amsterdam, and there (having smoked a bit too much strong Sativa), they have the idea to get to the bottom of all the conspiracy theories surrounding "Skunk" once and for all. So they hatch a plot to kidnap pot celeb "Ben the Budman" and hold him prisoner while interrogating him about the DEA and "his plan" (which they read on some shady stoner website so it must be true) to make it impossible to grow cannabis anywhere in the world without paying him a $500 per month licence fee.
Enter our hero, who has to negotiate the coffeshops and hookers in his efforts to find the Budman without getting distracted by morroccan hash and tiddies along the way, and maybe be taught his secret hash seperation technique by way of thanks.

 

[moose eater]

So how well does the hero negotiate those places (or negotiate with them)?

Just how distracted does he become?

Could it be said that this novel turns from a mystery, into ripe porn??

Lastly, where can I get a copy???????

 

[noyd666]

garbage pick up day, well there's a few leaves gone.

 

[moose eater]

Thinnest ice on the rivers in over 30 years here, yet it snowed again this morning; second or third day this week of 'white rain.'.

May 1st, and everything was covered in a 1/4" of wet snow.

Last year or the year before, we had reached about 80 degrees by the end of April in a freak warming beyond anyone's customary expectations.

This year, and I'm hoping the ground's soft enough in 2 weeks to run the tiller through the potato field, and the raised beds for the carrots soft enough to prep.

We'll see...

 

[Midnite Toker]

I wish Howard Marks was still alive and writing his detective novels. I've got an idea for one. It would have been awesome and it contains characters which are all thinly veiled references to names, faces and stories we've all heard.


It starts when a group of 22 year olds from Morris Minnesota take a trip to Amsterdam, and there (having smoked a bit too much strong Sativa), they have the idea to get to the bottom of all the conspiracy theories surrounding "Skunk" once and for all. So they hatch a plot to kidnap pot celeb "Ben the Budman" and hold him prisoner while interrogating him about the DEA and "his plan" (which they read on some shady stoner website so it must be true) to make it impossible to grow cannabis anywhere in the world without paying him a $500 per month licence fee.
Enter our hero, who has to negotiate the coffeshops and hookers in his efforts to find the Budman without getting distracted by morroccan hash and tiddies along the way, and maybe be taught his secret hash seperation technique by way of thanks.

Sounds like a hell of a video game!

 

[Green Squall]

Father immigrated to the US from Sicily when he was around 5 years old. Today, at 64, he couldn't get his license renewed because they had to check on his Immigration Status. Seriously?

 

[noyd666]

trump might be after you mate , watch out.

 

[Stoner4Life]

and it's nap time.......

 

[Weezard]

 

[moose eater]

I've had a fairly potent 9% blonde ale, so this post is a bit raw for me.

Yesterday was May 4th. For many, that simply means the day before Cinco De Mayo. For me, for the last 48 years, this has been a day of solemn remembrance of the Kent State Shootings by the Nat'l Guard.

Yesterday, for the first time since I can't remember when, I neither heard or saw any remembrance of the incident in the press, or on the radio. Not even on NPR. Significant or indicative of something in the wind? I don't know. I caught it, and it bothered me.

We're trained to accept the MS narrative, and the white-washing of the event has been completed long ago.

But few know or knew that there have been civil legal proceedings right up into the new millennium re. this incident. Few know that many of those wounded, killed, or paralyzed were not even involved in the protests that day.

Once upon a time, we would routinely, on May 4th, sit and listen to Dick Gregory's speech at Kent State, one year after the fact, recorded on May 4, 1971, sometimes loosely re-titled, "The Cowboy Always Needs an Injun."

I can remember sitting and listening to Dick Gregory when I was 15, and the pulse of that speech ranging from gut-busting laughter, to quiet tears, to rage.

People took bullets from our own protectors that day, over freedom of speech and civil disobedience. Plain and simple. America's sons and daughter, brothers and sisters, and parents, bled out that day.

Our brothers and sisters were paralyzed, killed, etc., and a precedent was again set and reached, wherein once again it became OK for the Powers That Be to kill dissenters.

I lived in the Yukon Territory the first time I saw the image of Steven/Stephen Miller, flipping the bird to the authorities, immediately before receiving a .45 ACP to the forehead. Coincidence that he was shot in such a gesture,. close enough for a handgun to have such accuracy and impact?

The e-mail below was sent to me by another aging activist maybe 7-8 years ago, and I kept it on my hard-drives. She was our media analyst in an ill-fated run at legalization in 2004, now living as an ex-pat in Central America. A wonderful woman, in my view of things. She's a few years older than I am.

It showed me that we continue to learn as we age, even when we thought we knew much of what there was to know.

I don't know if the links still work.

I should've posted this yesterday. I didn't. I apologize to those who still care.

Remembrance here at my home, and maybe yours, too. And a bowl of good hash for those who lost much that day.

"Tin Soldiers & Nixon Coming, We're Finally on Our Own..." (CSN&Y)

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>
> Kent State Shots Fired by FBI Informant - Allison Krause
> Sister Sends Open Letter to President Obama
>
> My Open Letter on Kent State to President Obama
>
> by Laurel Krause
>
> May 6, 2011
>
> https://mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/my-open-letter-on-kent-state-to-president-obama/
>
> Dear Mr. President,
>
> My sister Allison Krause was killed at Kent State on May 4,
> 1970. I co-founded the Kent State Truth Tribunal with Emily
> Kunstler and we opened our doors for the first of three
> tribunals last year right around this time.
>
> On May 1-4, 2010 we recorded, preserved and honored the
> stories of original participants and witnesses of the Kent
> State shooting on May 4, 1970. It was a blessing that my
> mother Doris Krause, 85, was able to be present for the
> beginning of the Kent State healing.
>
> As I returned to my home in California, I received word from
> Mom that the Kent State Tape had been examined for the very
> first time and a story was breaking in the Plain Dealer
> tomorrow, article here https://bit.ly/aM7Ocm That she had
> given a quote applauding the news of this long-denied order
> to shoot. That it had been analyzed and verified by Mr.
> Stuart Allen, a top forensic scientist (also Stuyvestant
> colleague of General Holder).
>
> In October 2010 at the Kent State Truth Tribunal, we invited
> Mr. Allen to participate as a meaningfully-involved
> participant, to examine the Kent State Tape before our
> cameras. At KSTT-NYC, I received word that there was more
> than the command on the Kent State Tape. That Mr. Allen, in
> preparing for his KSTT testimonial, discovered a violent
> altercation recorded just 70 seconds before the national
> guard command to fire and ensuing barrage, 67 shots for 13
> seconds. Read https://bit.ly/als1xB
>
> As we opened our doors in NYC for our KSTT on October 9-10,
> 2010, and as a result of Mr. Allen's shocking new evidence,
> Representative Dennis Kucinich, chair of the Domestic Policy
> subcommittee responded by immediately opening an
> investigation into the Kent State shootings.
> https://bit.ly/cO69Yx
>
> Then the other shoe dropped. The Democrats lost the election
> and Rep Kucinich lost his seat as chair in the Domestic
> Policy subcommittee. https://bit.ly/hmM2SH
>
> Looking back on my Kent State path, I was 15 years old when
> Allison was murdered. For nine years after, my family life
> and world were also blown apart forever, especially as my
> folks pursued justice for Allison in the courts. Mr.
> President, no one from the government ever came to help us,
> except for Senator Ted Kennedy, and now recently with Rep
> Dennis Kucinich.
>
> Recollecting those horrible years, I remember my Dad
> entering the Kent State Tape into evidence in his lawsuits.
> Lots of folks called Dad Krazy Krause, he would not let this
> go. 40 years later, it was heartening to realize Dad knew
> that the tape held the key to the truth at Kent State. It
> has taken us over 40 years to be able to decipher and once
> in for all, hear the recorded sounds via Mr. Stuart Allen's
> expertise and kgb audio software.
>
> Mr. Allen verified the long-denied `order to fire' at the
> unarmed students, and surprisingly discovered new evidence
> in the violent altercation between Mr. Terry Norman and
> students. Mr. Allen heard Mr. Norman's later surrendered
> pistol shoot off four pistol rounds, creating the sniper
> fire claimed by the national guard. Mr. Norman was a
> consensual informant for the F.B.I. and working that day.
> More on Mr. Norman https://bit.ly/gSN9pP and
> https://bit.ly/994afB
>
> Mr. Norman is one of many present that day, cogs in the
> wheel delivering four homicides on May 4, 1970 and crossing
> the line at Kent State, yet Mr. Norman's actions directly
> connect the FBI with the command to fire. Mr. Norman's
> actions prove the intent to create, as in instigate sniper
> fire 70 seconds before the guard shot. Now we understand the
> odd `Alright' in the `command to fire' order.
>
> It is for this reason that I formally request you Mr.
> President examine the new evidence in this cold case
> homicide of Kent State. Furthermore I ask you to create an
> impartial and unaffiliated team to investigate the F.B.I.
> This is the same instruction I gave Congressman Kucinich.
>
> From Wikipedia: Impartiality is a principle of justice
> holding that decisions should be based on objective
> criteria, rather than on the basis of bias, prejudice, or
> preferring the benefit to one person over another for
> improper reasons.
>
> Mr. President, please examine the new evidence in the Kent
> State Tape.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Laurel Krause
>
> P.S. Recent writing on learning the truth at Kent State in
> 2010, also published at the request of Rep Dennis Kucinich
> in the 2010 Congressional Record: Truth Emerging in the Kent
> State Cold Case Homicides https://bit.ly/fgI0h2
>
> *******
>
> In today's snail mail letter to President Obama, I enclosed
> my father's words & image:
>
> Yesterday on the Internet I discovered my father's words
> from 1979 and wish to share them with you. Here's a picture
> of united Kent State, May 4th folks at a press conference,
> taken at the end of their nine year search for justice
> through the judicial system.
>
> https://mendocoastcurrent.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/dadtrial78.jpg
>
> [Photo caption: Arthur Krause is the tall man in the back,
> smoking a cigarette & my mom Doris Krause sits in front of
> him. My father shared, "The thing that I hope people
> remember ... is that it could happen to their child. I was
> like everyone else and then it happened to us."]
>
> Arthur and Doris Krause carry on their lives ten years after
> the incident, but the pain and the lessons of the last ten
> years are evident. "I think we are all responsible for the
> killings at Kent. You can't get away from the hatred being
> spread by national leaders during that time. That political
> period was one which bred hate and with Nixon and Rhodes
> fanning the fires you can expect killings to result."
>
> Krause, the parent who initially began the quest for justice
> in the Kent State case continued, "I knew what was going to
> happen; that justice would not be served, but I wanted to
> make sure that there was pressure applied. In the beginning
> the other families were not as believing that nothing would
> be done; I think they thought I was some sort of radical.
> But I can tell you that if you don't stand up for your
> rights they will be taken away from you just like they were
> from Allison and the others."
>
> Arthur and Doris Krause have mixed feelings about the 1979
> settlement. "We don't want the damn money ~ we want the
> truth. If we had wanted the money I would have accepted the
> one and a half million dollar bribe I was offered to drop
> the civil suit, offered to me in the presence of Peter
> Davies in 1971.
>
> We want the facts out about how the four died. We aren't
> afraid of the truth. We aren't the ones who have been saying
> `no comment' for the past ten years."
>
> Arthur and Doris Krause hope the movie would generate more
> of the same hate mail they have received for the past ten
> years. "They always point out that my daughter had gravel in
> her pockets . . . that this was the rationale for killing
> her . . . why didn't they throw gravel at her?"
>
> "The political climate is very similar to that in 1970,"
> Krause added, "Kent State, 1970 means we no longer have our
> daughter, but it also means something to all Americans. Our
> court battles establish without a doubt one thing. There is
> no constitution. There is no Bill of Rights."
> - Arthur S. Krause

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"Find the cost of freedom,
buried in the ground.
Mother Earth will swallow you,
lay your body down..." (CSN&Y)

 

[Green Squall]

Father immigrated to the US from Sicily when he was around 5 years old. Today, at 64, he couldn't get his license renewed because they had to check on his Immigration Status. Seriously?

Update: 2nd attempt failed even though his paperwork was in order and he did everything they told him too. Mass RMV employees are less than helpful. Rude bitches, frankly.

 

[noyd666]

I like the waiting room at my doctors, while everybody tries to avoid each others eyes I check the size of room out, just right, 12ft ceilings n enough for three rows of tree's, just 9 plants fuk'n perfect think i'll buy the place.

 

[7thson]

This genetic lottery shit is really irritating me!

 

[Stoner4Life]

Update: 2nd attempt failed even though his paperwork was in order and he did everything they told him too. Mass RMV employees are less than helpful. Rude bitches, frankly.

sorry 'bout your dad's continuing issues bro. I'm sure it will come to pass favorably for him.


maybe would he now more clearly understand, or perhaps even sympathize over the bureaucratic bullpoop that we as cannabis user's have been going through for decades? not to say that he didn't already & not that he needs another issue on his plate atm.

 

[Green Squall]

sorry 'bout your dad's continuing issues bro. I'm sure it will come to pass favorably for him.


maybe would he now more clearly understand, or perhaps even sympathize over the bureaucratic bullpoop that we as cannabis user's have been going through for decades? not to say that he didn't already & not that he needs another issue on his plate atm.

Thanks. If anything, its just basically a huge pain in the ass with a side on incompetence on the employees part. It all has to do with new laws in my state. Its all pretty simple, maybe they haven't worked all the kinks out yet? Did I mention hes been here 60+ years LOL.

 

[moose eater]

Got a phone call from a scammer today. Pesky buggers must have a list of persons they haven't been able to persuade to allow them access to their computers, despite repeated efforts.

He informed me of the (more recent effort toward scamming) tracking of hackers' attempts to breech my computer and leave malware on my drive.

Thank goodness he was here to help me. ;^>)

I challenged him to reveal what kind of computer and operating system I was using, and if he was aware of such numerous attempts to hack my computer, what kind of security program am I running.

He replied with the same old nonsense, identifying a sequential number that is uniform and on all Windows computers, to my understanding of how the scam works. He also tried to impress me with knowing my real name, which I neither denied nor confirmed, though I told him he can get that info from a phone book, or on-line.

I asked him who his company worked for. he replied, "The internet service providers." I asked, which ones? He more or less said all of them, without giving me any names of any companies. I asked him who my ISP is/was. He never answered.

I told him the story of how there are nasty conniving people in this world who will call folks up and try to gain access to their computer by pretending to help, then either lock the thing up for a ransom, or try to get into profitable data, to include any financial information.

He assured me that he was out to stop such people, not to be one..

I told him many of these people called in from foreign lands, but spoof tel. numbers to appear to be calling locally.

He assured me that those were the bad people they try to stop, as he struggled to speak intelligible English, and told me he was calling from New York.. Never mind that the # he pretended to be dialing from was a spoofed number.

I asked him if his mother and father were aware of what he does for a living.
He replied that they had kicked him out of the house.

I told him that if one of my children were scamming people to make their wages in life, I'd probably kick them out of my house too.

Ultimately he hung up.

It's a good thing I have lots of discretionary time right now.

 

[Stoner4Life]

needing a nap.......

 

[noyd666]

not wrong.

 

[Green Squall]

The only tolerable Kardashian.

 

[FatBlunt420]

Fun Fact, when the beatles wrote let it be, it was about poison ivy.