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06-24-2008, 12:35 PM
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Snowflake
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I don't understand what claim you're refuting.
Are you suggesting that the "fat cats" in the glamorous world of dirt farming will use hemp as a weapon to tighten their stranglehold on the economy, and further their agenda of world domination?
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06-24-2008, 03:32 PM
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Actually I was referring to Radar's claim that hemp "doesn't take food away from hungry people. We could save the corn to feed people and livestock." |
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06-24-2008, 03:38 PM
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Snowflake
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Well, I don't read the threads.
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06-24-2008, 03:49 PM
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You just weave them together to make pretty macrame owls.
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06-24-2008, 03:26 PM
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Me... It's all my fault.
I'm sorry... I voted for Bush. |
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I blame your average American Liberal Environmentalist for the way gas prices are. America is being raped economically by facist middle eastern countries to the tune of $700 billion dollars a year because of oil dependency. When was the last oil refinery built in the USA? The early 70's? What is preventing this country from drilling for oil? The dumb fucking environmentalists who want to save some endangered insect or critter. How much oil does this country have? Enough to last a long freaking time. But, what the hell... carry a banner and save the blind, albino cave bug in south Texas. Bullshit! Give me a gallon of gas and I'll toast that six-legged bug and place an oil rig over its roasted corpse. It just doeasn't make any damn sense to continue this road we are on. We are at the mercy of the Arab nations. |
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06-25-2008, 12:09 PM
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Historically farmers grew hemp between growing foods to strengthen and enrich the soil. Besides, what's wrong with using government owned land to grow hemp? The government allows mining companies, logging companies, etc. to use government land. Why not something as patriotic as helping America break away from foreign oil?
Also, hemp does not take food away from hungry people. Hemp is a source of food.
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06-25-2008, 02:39 PM
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Really? I've never heard that. How do you eat hemp? Like a typical green leaf, or does it need to be prepared in some way?
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06-25-2008, 11:20 PM
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But Radar, the government has so little land to spare.
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06-25-2008, 11:59 PM
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Other than hempseeds, cannabis is great in baked goods, lollipops, and plenty of other things. 
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06-26-2008, 08:54 AM
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Snowflake
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Let them eat lollipops!
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06-26-2008, 09:47 AM
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Read? I only know how to write.
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How bad are GM products? What happens when a company stifles innovation for 30 years, hypes "Buy American", gets the naive to buy a 1995 technology car in 2008 - and praise it ... A GM stock investor now must go back to 1955 to see his capital investment increase. GM stock price reflects how bad GM reliability, design intelligence, and fuel economy really are. GM market capitalization is now so low - a paltry $6.5 billion - that even Sun Microsystems is worth more.
Buy GM; sell off its buildings and machines. Reap a profit. GM products suck that much. Is an investment opportunity approaching as GM stock drops to where it should have been 15 years ago? How did we know this problem existed in GM? Their management (who don't have driver's licenses) joined the mental midget in touting hydrogen as a fuel. Anyone with access to any science knew hydrogen as a fuel was as real as Saddam's WMDs. Flex fuel vehicles? More hyped nonsense. GM getting as good as Toyota and Honda – the propaganda only six months ago? More lies. GM management are bean counters - business school graduates - don't know anything about cars. Management so stupid as to even hype hydrogen as a fuel. That irrefutable fact – the hydrogen claim – said GM products were that bad. What happens when a company stifles innovation for 30 years, hypes "Buy American", gets the naive to buy a 1995 technology car in 2008 - and praise it ... A GM stock investor now must go back to 1955 to see his capital investment increase. GM stock price reflects how bad GM reliability, design intelligence, and fuel economy really are. GM market capitalization is now so low - a paltry $6.5 billion - that even Sun Microsystems is worth more. How did we know these problem existed in GM? Their management (who don't have driver's licenses) joined the mental midget in touting hydrogen as a fuel. Anyone with access to any science publication knew hydrogen as a fuel was as real as Saddam's WMDs. But GM management are bean counters - business school graduates - don't know anything about cars. That irrefutable fact visibly identified GM as a major reason for America's excessive energy consumption. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. The only GM investor who reaped a capital profits is one who bought GM stock in March 1955 because GM products suck. How can that be? Six months ago, GM was touting ‘competitive with Honda and Toyota’? Well GM does these same lies about every five years – and so many consumers believe it for the same reason they believed Saddam had WMDs. Look at the products. Cobalt, G-6 given away by Oprah, Suburban, Volt, Hummer - all crappy products – and no innovations in the GM innovation pipeline. Is a great investment opportunity approaching? Buy GM cheap. Get rid of their only problem. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. Only then do we start addressing the reasons for higher energy prices. GM is an example of the problem that also exists in other American industries, government, and consumers. |
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06-26-2008, 09:56 AM
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Snowflake
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Even equivalent Hondas got better mileage 20 years ago than they do now. The reason is tighter emissions controls.
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06-26-2008, 10:04 AM
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Someone's got a scratch in their record.
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06-26-2008, 10:08 AM
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
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Gez - tw did you get a lemon from GM or what? We got the fact that you think GM products suck - You're done now - ktxbai.
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