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Saturday, June 3, 2017

School Pizza, Yum!!!!!

School Pizza, Yum!!!!



Pizza!



(This is a repost from one of my more un PC blogs, but it's a pleasant look at a food most all of us got to enjoy-no politics in this one.)

One of the nice things about our son's school is that they will let you come and eat lunch with your kids. I always find this to be a real treat. If your children's or grand children's school does not advertise they will let you do this, give them a call and see if you can. Even if it's only once or twice a year I find it to be a real treat.

As to the point of the post, when I visit my son ( I got married later than most, so it has been a while since I've been in an elementary school) I go through the line and buy a lunch. One of the meals served is pizza. Although it has been many years and I attended a school in another state, the pizza they served in my son's school tasted identical to the pizza I used to get. The first bite of that pizza sent my memory, such as it is, zipping back in time to when I was my boy's age.

One other aspect of these visits that is kind of neat is that although the kids have a limited fund of knowledge due to their age, they can still be pretty clever. It is amazing how many different ways kids eat their pizza. My son will sometimes turn his pizza over and eat it, however, on today's visit, he ate the cheese topping off the pizza and then dumped his Goldfish snack on the dough, folded it over and made a sandwich out of it. It is part of the fun of the visit to just sit and watch what the kids will do.

There was always something about school pizza. The thick crust was doughy, the sauce was bland, but sweet, and the cheese (that is one thing that they did not skimp on) was a bit crispy on top, but gooey on the inside. (think creme brulee) I have never been to any pizza shop or ever had any store bought pizza that was identical in taste and texture to school pizza. I guess part of the appeal of school pizza was the fact that you were getting only the basics; no artisan crust, no freshly spiced sauce and no imported Italian mozzarella cheese..........just the basics. Nothing special about the smell of school pizza either, and yet......................chewy, cheesy bliss.

This is one thing the homeschoolers miss out on. Anyone who has ever been to public school and eaten school pizza can immediately relate to this. (and hopefully have some fond memories as well)

I hope the photos and the post bring back some good memories for everyone. Enjoy!!

Ready for the oven...........
mmmmmmmmm... The pizza getting served


Goldfish and pizza sandwich.


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Southern Democrats and Black Genocide

Southern Democrats and Black Genocide





UPDATE: (02/07/15) Yes, I am aware of the post Civil War spike in smallpox. The U.S had an active vaccination program since at least the 1830's and the number of reported blacks killed by smallpox was far less than the census data indicates were missing.

In any recent election,  it is estimated that 90% of blacks vote Democrat. Why? 

A while back I mentioned, in a post whose title now escapes me, about black worker displacement during the Great Depression. If a white man needed a job and a black man had a job, the black worker was fired and the white worker was given the job.

It should be remembered that during the Depression food shortages were common, despite the agrarian nature of the nation, because many crops were destroyed in order to maintain commodity prices.  "The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) (Pub.L. 73-10, enacted May 12, 1933) restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby giving farmers relative stability again.[when?] The farmers were paid subsidies by the federal government for letting a portion of their fields lie fallow. The money for these subsidies was generated through an exclusive tax on companies which processed farm products. The Act created a new agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, to oversee the distribution of the subsidies. It is considered the first modern U.S. farm bill." ( Gosh, isn't  government incompetence great? )

Now, during our Depression, the United States was busy busting the Soviet Union's chops over the Holodomor famine in the Ukraine. A modern Russian researcher by the name of Boris Borisov was a bit irritated by this and decided to examine the American Great Depression in an attempt to discover the number of thoise who perished between roughly 1930 and 1940. Borisov concluded, using some pretty good data along with conservative extrapolation, that about 7 and one half million people died of starvation and other causes during the Depression.

A disproportionate  number of those would have been blacks, due to the black worker displacement of the time. The Democrat Roosevelt administration obviously did not care much about the excessive number of starving blacks. (They were only too happy, however, to train blacks as houseboys though. That was a WPA project of the period.)
(See photo at bottom of post)



The main premise of this post is that southern Democrats, and Democrats in general, are, in fact, responisble for the deaths of more American blacks than were Jews killed by the Nazi's.  

There are some complicating factors involved when trying to pin down the exact number of blacks that were killed. One problem is trying to determine the actual black population of pre-Civil War America. Prior to emancipation, blacks were considered personal property and taxed. 

People did not like paying property taxes in 1850 any more than we do today, so it is no stretch to assume that large plantation owners under reported the number of slaves they owned. Another problem is that many pre-1900 court houses were made of wood and many were destroyed by fire, as were the records contained therein.  Nonetheless, one can conservatively conclude a 10%-15% under reporting of blacks on the census.

If we check census data we see that in 1860 the racial breakdown was 26.9 million whites to 4.4 million blacks. Thus, blacks were 14% of the population. In 1870 the breakdown was 33.6 million whites to 4.9 million blacks. Despite horrific losses during the war the white population had increased 20% while the black population during the same period increased by only 10%.  (After 1865, there would have been no need to continue to under report blacks so a much greater black population count would have been expected for the 1870 census--though we do see a spike on the 1880 census.)

I'll explain why these next stats are important in a minute. The white population had increased by 23% from 1870 to 1880 while the black population jumped by 26% from 1870 to 1880. (I'll frame this in context with the Compromise of 1877 shortly)

It was well known by the founding fathers that blacks had a prolific reproduction rate.  This resulted in the Three-Fifths compromise developed during the 1787 Philadelphia Convention. Had the slave population been counted as 100%, slave states would have had greater representation in the House and Electoral College---and we can't have that now can we? 

As Thomas Jefferson observed about blacks:  "They are more ardent after their female: but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions, which render it doubtful whether heaven has given life to us in mercy or in wrath, are less felt, and sooner forgotten with them. In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection." (I.E. They'll screw anything in sight)  We tend to think that there were more male slaves than female slaves, but the numbers were somewhat equal. 

After the end of the Civil War, black men and women should have gotten together, staked a land claim and began having children. Five to ten children per family was not uncommon in those days. 

40 Acres and a mule. 


Union General Sherman's  Special Field Orders No. 15 confiscated 400,000 acres of land along the Atlantic coast and divided it into 40 acre parcels that were to be settled by roughly 18,000 freed slaves.  It was mostly a useless order since it was revoked later that same year (1865) by President Andrew Johnson, a Democrat turned National Union Party member, who succeeded the Republican Lincoln after he was assinated. ( In 1864 Johnson joined the National Union Party that was the name chosen by the Republican party for the 1864 election. The name change was used to attract War Democrats  Johnson was basically a RINO, having swtched parties for political expediency.)

As an aside,  I might get on board with giving  blacks, who could prove they had ancestors alive during the civil war, the value of a 40 acre parcel of  Ag. land and a pick up truck since it's obvious they got screwed on that deal. At any rate, it's just another way the blacks got screwed by the Dems.

Before continuing, I would offer that one point to consider is that most blacks were illiterate and generally unskilled, so, releasing millions of slaves into the general population in a post Civil War environment was bound to generate some problems.  Was there any evidence that blacks were murdered in quantity and were committing serious crimes due to various types of mistreatment (and due to the fact they were undisciplined savages)? Actually, yes.

The Freedmen's Bureau:



The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, known more simply as the Freedmen's Bureau was established in March of 1865 and was discontinued by President Grant in 1872. The Bureau was set up to help newly freed slaves with food, clothing, HEALTH CARE, and jobs.

Goodl ol' RINO  President Johnson vetoed a bill for an increase in the power of the Bureau in 1866. One thing the Freedmen's Bureau did do was document various crimes committed by blacks and it documented some of the mistreatment of blacks. (Link) I'm including the appendix so you can see the scale of violence and murder committed against blacks as well as the crimes they committed.  Keep in mind that the appendix is but a small percentage of the overall violence that was happening at that time. You can scroll through the appendix and view it later in detail if you wish.

Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas 
Virginia
Washington D. C. 

Basically, southern Democrats had a field day killing blacks. Remember also that with technology what it was in those days, it would be a simple matter for a white to kill a black family in a rural area and make a claim on their property or force them to sign the property over and kill them. (As many blacks would not understand what they were signing)

 It is probable that as many as one million blacks were killed by whites during Reconstruction. The census data seems to support this. So where are all the remains of the dead blacks? Growing up in the South, I can remember the local paper frequently reporting on  old  unmarked colored cemeteries being discovered. The remains were usually relocated. 

It appears that the black population was attempting to make a comeback between the 1870 and 1880 census, but alas, this was not to be.  The increasing black population came under the scrutiny of the southern Democrats.

The Compromise of 1877


The Compromise of 1877 basically threw the disputed 1876 Presidential election to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for the removal of Federal troops from the South and adding at least one southern Democrat on Haye's cabinet. Thus,southern Democrats, usually via the KKK,  continued the black slaughter.  Now, I documented in a previous post about the fact that there were several thousand blacks in the Klan at one time. Most were used as spies so the Klan could keep track of the blacks. Also, at the height of Klan power they had three million members at a time when the total U.S. population was under a hundred million or so.

To further keep the brothers down, when white Democrats regained control of the South in the 1870's they began to pull funding for black schools. By the 1890's Jim Crow laws were keeping segregation in full force. However, when the Democrats figured out that under segregation blacks were getting rich and gaining political clout, something had to be done....so, later, the Democrats went in for desegregation.

In the interim, we have the liberal  Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.  Sanger was a big advocate of eugenics. One of her better known quotes: " It is said that a fish as large as a man has a brain no larger than the kernel of an almond. In all fish and reptiles where there is no great brain development, there is also no conscious sexual control. The lower down in the scale of human development we go the less sexual control we find. It is said that the aboriginal Australian, the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets." 

And we have this gem: "In 1939 Sanger teamed with Mary Woodward Reinhardt, secretary of the newly formed BCFA, to secure a large donor to fund an educational campaign to teach African-American women in the South about contraception. Sanger, Reinhardt and Sanger's secretary, Florence Rose, drafted a report on "Birth Control and the Negro," skillfully using language that appealed both to eugenicists fearful of unchecked black fertility and progressives committed to shepherding African-Americans into middle-class culture. The report stated that "[N]egroes present the great problem of the South," as they are the group with "the greatest economic, health and social problems," and outlined a practical birth control program geared toward a population characterized as largely illiterate and that "still breed carelessly and disastrously," a line borrowed from a June 1932 Birth Control Review article by W.E.B. DuBois. Armed with this paper, Reinhardt initiated contact between Sanger and Albert Lasker (soon to be Reinhardt's husband), who pledged $20,000 starting in Nov. 1939. ("Birth Control and the Negro," July 1939, Lasker Papers)"

We also can't forget about Rebecca Felton. (See this LINK)

Yep, no doubt, them colored folks have to go. Thanks to Margaret Sanger about 1,876 black babies are aborted each day. It has been estimated that since 1973 black women have had roughly 16 million abortions. 

Time to get down to brass tacks. How many blacks have southern Democrats, liberals and Democrats in general killed? 

Currently, the U.S. population is estimated at around 305 million, with 14% being black. That is about 42 million 700 thousand blacks. Without Democrat efforts to control the black population, they should currently make up about one third of the U.S. population or about 102 million people.  Thus,Democrats are responsible for the deaths/non-births of about 59 million blacks.  The Nazis were alleged, and I mean alleged, to have killed six million Jews, while Stalin and Mao had death counts in the 40-60 million range, so the Dems are up there in numbers with their heroes Stalin and Mao.  Yet, 90% of blacks still vote Democrat.  

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Forgotten History: Blacks in the KKK




If ever there were a post title that people would think was a joke, this is it. There was a time, however, when there were thousands of blacks in the Klan. While some folks over 40 are aware that blacks served with the Union Army during the Civil War and fewer people are aware that blacks also fought with the Confederate Army, almost no one is aware that blacks were members of the KKK. Info is scarce, but here are some basics: (I'll have the source link at the end.)

"The Ku Klux Spirit", by J.A. Rogers, noted Negro historian of the 1920's. The Ku Klux Spirit was first published in 1923, by Messenger Publishing Co. It was republished in 1980, by Black Classic Press. On page 34 of his book we find the amazing passage: "A fact not generally known is that there were thousands of Negro Klansmen. These were used as spies on other Negroes and on Northern Whites."

Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905). In 1880 he published his book, "A Fool's Errand", (New York: Fords, Howard and Hubert). It was republished in 1989 by Louisiana State University Press as, "The Invisible Empire". On page 79 of his book we find the passage: "There were no Colored men in the band (of Klansmen) that night. Their hands were not covered. I could see their boots and pants, and I could judge from their hands and feet. Most of them were genteel people, besides being white people. I could also have told by their language if there had been any Colored people among them. Their language was that of white men, and cultivated men."

"Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography", by Jack Hurst. On page 305 we find this interesting quote: "...(the Klan was) reorganized to oppose radical proponents (the Radical Republicans) of what it perceived to be Black domination, NOT to scourge Blacks themselves. Although it has been written that Ku Klux Klan ranks were open only to the more than 100,000 honorably discharged ex-Confederate veterans, the hierarchy in some areas and some instances seems to have accepted and even recruited Blacks, provided they went along with Conservative-Democratic political philosophy. In Memphis of late 1868, sixty-five Blacks organized a "Colored Democratic Club" under the watchful eye of Klansman-editor Gallaway - - who according to an account in the Appeal, "made a motion on behalf of the White men present, that they give employment and protection to Colored democrats." (Yes, it was the Democrats that started the KKK, just ask former Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd)

 One source of information is from the book: Hard Times by Studs Terkel (1970, New York). The book is about the conditions in this country during the Great Depression. On page 239 :

“The Ku Klux was formed on behalf of people that wanted a decent living, both black and white. Half the coal camp was colored. It wasn’t anti-colored. The black people had the same responsibilities as the white. Their lawn was just as green as the white man’s. They got the same rate of pay. There was two colored who belonged to it. I remember those two coming around my father and asking questions about it. They joined. The pastor of our community church was a colored man. He was Ku Klux. It was the only protection the working man had. ……. One time a Negro slapped a white boy. They didn’t give him any warning. They whipped him and ran him out of town. If a white man slapped a colored kid, they’d have dome the same thing. They didn’t go in for beating up Negroes because they were Negroes. What they did was keep the community decent to live in. What they did object to was obscenity and drinking.”

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Quite a while ago I remember seeing some more info on blacks in the Klan, but it basically echoed what is shown above. By 1915, when the "new" Klan came about, the number of blacks in the Klan declined. During the 1920's Klan membership exceeded 3 million, and that was at a time when the U.S. population was about a third of what it is today.

As we can see, most blacks in the Klan were used as spies.  Some, however, weren't.
Spin this bit of history as you will, but it is interesting.

http://www.kkklan.com/negroklan.htm
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Can Hemp Farming Save Ohio





If Ohio were to allow hemp farming as many as one million jobs could be added to the state. There is a push on to centralize world government and to further consolidate big business. There are thousands of uses for hemp that would provide jobs for small specialty manufacturers, which is why we may not see hemp farming ever happen again,since big business likes to remain big business, nonetheless................


Our economy is crashing and an incredibly lucrative cash crop is being denied to our farmers for political reasons. Hemp was grown in the U.S. through WWII. Hemp seed oil was used in american fighter aircraft. Just how useful is Hemp? The following information comes from www.hempbasics.com and is a really good summary of hemp uses:

General Hemp Information, Uses, Facts


On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much fiber as 2 to 3 acres of cotton. Hemp fiber is stronger and softer than cotton, lasts twice as long as cotton, and will not mildew.

Cotton grows only in moderate climates and requires more water than hemp; but hemp is frost tolerant, requires only moderate amounts of water, and grows in all 50 states. Cotton requires large quantities of pesticides and herbicides--50% of the world's pesticides/herbicides are used in the production of cotton. Hemp requires no pesticides, no herbicides, and only moderate amounts of fertilizer.

On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much paper as 2 to 4 acres of trees. From tissue paper to cardboard, all types of paper products can be produced from hemp.
The quality of hemp paper is superior to tree-based paper. Hemp paper will last hundreds of years without degrading, can be recycled many more times than tree-based paper, and requires less toxic chemicals in the manufacturing process than does paper made from trees.

Hemp can be used to produce fiberboard that is stronger and lighter than wood. Substituting hemp fiberboard for timber would further reduce the need to cut down our forests.
Hemp can be used to produce strong, durable and environmentally-friendly plastic substitutes. Thousands of products made from petroleum-based plastics can be produced from hemp-based composites.

It takes years for trees to grow until they can be harvested for paper or wood, but hemp is ready for harvesting only 120 days after it is planted. Hemp can grow on most land suitable for farming, while forests and tree farms require large tracts of land available in few locations. Harvesting hemp rather than trees would also eliminate erosion due to logging, thereby reducing topsoil loss and water pollution caused by soil runoff.

Hemp seeds contain a protein that is more nutritious and more economical to produce than soybean protein. Hemp seeds are not intoxicating. Hemp seed protein can be used to produce virtually any product made from soybean: tofu, veggie burgers, butter, cheese, salad oils, ice cream, milk, etc. Hemp seed can also be ground into a nutritious flour that can be used to produce baked goods such as pasta, cookies, and breads.

Hemp seed oil can be used to produce non-toxic diesel fuel, paint, varnish, detergent, ink and lubricating oil. Because hemp seeds account for up to half the weight of a mature hemp plant, hemp seed is a viable source for these products.

Just as corn can be converted into clean-burning ethanol fuel, so can hemp. Because hemp produces more biomass than any plant species (including corn) that can be grown in a wide range of climates and locations, hemp has great potential to become a major source of ethanol fuel.

Literally millions of wild hemp plants currently grow throughout the U.S. Wild hemp, like hemp grown for industrial use, has no drug properties because of its low THC content. U.S. marijuana laws prevent farmers from growing the same hemp plant that proliferates in nature by the millions.

From 1776 to 1937, hemp was a major American crop and textiles made from hemp were common. Yet, The American Textile Museum, The Smithsonian Institute, and most American history books contain no mention of hemp. The government's War on Drugs has created an atmosphere of self censorship where speaking of hemp in a positive manner is considered politically incorrect or taboo.


United States Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp, used products made from hemp, and praised the hemp plant in some of their writings.


No other natural resource offers the potential of hemp. Cannabis Hemp is capable of producing significant quantities of paper, textiles, building materials, food, medicine, paint, detergent, varnish, oil, ink, and fuel. Unlike other crops, hemp can grow in most climates and on most farmland throughout the world with moderate water and fertilizer requirements, no pesticides, and no herbicides. Cannabis Hemp (also known as Indian Hemp) has enormous potential to become a major natural resource that can benefit both the economy and the environment.

Uses

Housing
70% of the Cannabis Plant total weight is made up of the 'hurd' or woody inner core. This part of the plant is THC free (i.e. Hemp) and is used in housing construction. The silica leached from the soil by the plant combined with unslaked lime forms a chemical bond similar to cement which is fire and water proof. Cannabis Homes


Food

Hemp may be grown also for food (the seed) but in the UK at least (and probably in other EU countries) cultivation licenses are not available for this purpose. Within Defra (the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) hemp is treated as purely a non-food crop, despite the fact that seed can and does appear on the UK market as a perfectly legal food product.


Nutrition

Both the complete protein and the oils contained in hempseeds (rich in lanolin and linolenic acids) are in ideal ratios for human nutrition.


Fiber

Until its rediscovery in the late 1980s, the use of hemp for fiber production had declined sharply over the past decades, but hemp still occupied an important place amongst natural fibers as it is strong, durable and unaffected by water. The main uses of hemp fiber were inrope, sacking, carpet, nets and webbing. A hemp clothing industry was reborn in the West in 1988, and hemp is being used in increasing quantities in paper manufacturing. The cellulose content is about 70%.
Harvesting the fiber Hemp stem.


Smallholder plots are usually harvested by hand. The plants are cut at 2 to 3 cm above the soil and left on the ground to dry. Mechanical harvesting is now common, using specially adapted cutter-binders or simpler cutters.

The cut hemp is laid in swathes to dry for up to four days. This was traditionally followed by retting, either water retting whereby the bundled hemp floats in water or dew retting whereby the hemp remains on the ground and is affected by the moisture in dew moisture, and by moulds and bacterial action. Modern processes use steam and machinery to separate the fiber, a process known as thermo-mechanical pulping.


Fuel

Fuel can be a by-product of hemp cultivation. One fuel would be biodiesel because of the oils in the seeds and stalk of the hemp, another would be biofuel from the fibrous stalks.


Cultivation

Millennia of selective breeding have resulted in varieties that look quite different. Also, breeding since circa 1930 has focused quite specifically on producing strains which would perform very poorly as sources of drug material. Hemp grown for fiber is planted closely, resulting in tall, slender plants with long fibers. Ideally, according to Defra in 2004 the herb should be harvested before it flowers. This early cropping is because fiber quality declines if flowering is allowed and, incidentally, this cropping also pre-empts the herb's maturity as a potential source of drug material, even though the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content would still be very low with these strains of hemp.


The name Cannabis is the genus and was the name favored by the 19th century medical practitioners who helped to introduce the herb's drug potential to modern English-speaking consciousness. Cannabis for non-drug purposes (especially ropes and textiles) was then already well known as hemp.


The name marijuana is Mexican (or Latin American) in origin and associated almost exclusively with the herb's drug potential. That marijuana is now well known in English as a name for drug material is due largely to the efforts of US drug prohibitionists during the 1920s and 1930s. We can surmise that this name was highlighted because it helped to characterize the herbal drug as quite alien to English-speaking culture.


Varieties

There are broadly three groups of Cannabis varieties being cultivated today:


Varieties primarily cultivated for their fiber, characterized by long stems and little branching, called industrial hemp


Varieties grown for seed from which hemp oil is extracted


Varieties grown for medicinal or recreational purposes.


A nominal if not legal distinction is often made between hemp, with concentrations of the psychoactive chemical THC far too low to be useful as a drug, and Cannabis used for medical, recreational, or spiritual purposes.


Historical cultivation


From the 1881 Household Cyclopedia:


The soils most suited to the culture of this plant are those of the deep, black, putrid vegetable kind, that are low, and rather inclined to moisture, and those of the deep mellow, loamy, or sandy descriptions. The quantity of produce is generally much greater on the former than on the latter; but it is said to be greatly inferior in quality. It may, however, be grown with success on lands of a less rich and fertile kind by proper care and attention in their culture and preparation.
In order to render the grounds proper for the reception of the crop, they should be reduced into a fine mellow state of mould, and be perfectly cleared from weeds, by repeated plowings. When it succeeds grain crops, the work is mostly accomplished by three plowings, and as many harrowings: the first being given immediately after the preceding crop is removed, the second early in the spring, and the last, or seed earth, just before the seed is to be put in. In the last plowing, well rotted manure, in the proportion of fifteen or twenty, or good compost, in the quantity of twenty-five or thirty-three horse-cart loads, should be turned into the land; as without this it is seldom that good crops can be produced. The surface of the ground being left perfectly flat, and as free from furrows as possible; as by these means the moisture is more effectually retained, and the growth of the plants more fully promoted.

It is of much importance in the cultivation of hemp crops that the seed is new, and of a good quality, which may in some measure be known by its feeling heavy in the hand, and being of a bright shining color.


The proportion of seed that is most commonly employed is from two to three bushels, according to the quality of the land; but, as the crops are greatly injured by the plants standing too closely together, two bushels, or two bushels and a half may be a more advantageous quantity.

As the hemp plant is extremely tender in its early growth, care should be taken not to put the seed into the ground at so early a period, as that it may be liable to be injured by the effects of frost; nor to protract the sowing to so late a season as that the quality of the produce may be effected. The best season, on the drier sorts of land in the southern districts, is as soon as possible after the frosts are over in April; and, on the same descriptions of soil, in the more northern ones, towards the close of the same month or early in the ensuing one.


The most general method of putting crops of this sort into the soil is the broadcast, the seed being dispersed over the surface of the land in as even a manner as possible, and afterwards covered in by means of a very light harrowing. In many cases, however, especially when the crops are to stand for seed, the drill method in rows, at small distances, might be had recourse to with advantage; as, in this way, the early growth of the plants would be more effectually promoted, and the land be kept in a more clean and perfect state of mould, which are circumstances of importance in such crops. In whatever method the seed is put in, care must constantly be taken to keep the birds from it for some time afterwards.

This sort of crop is frequently cultivated on the same piece of ground for a great number of years, without any other kind intervening; but, in such cases, manure must be applied with almost every crop, in pretty large proportions, to prevent the exhaustion that must otherwise take place. It may be sown after most sorts of grain crops, especially where the land possesses sufficient fertility, and is in a proper state of tillage.

Thick stands of fiber hemp compete well with weeds.

As hemp, from its tall growth and thick foliage, soon covers the surface of the land, and prevents the rising of weeds, little attention is necessary after the seed has been put into the ground, especially where the broadcast method of sowing is practiced; but, when put in by the drill machine, a hoeing or two may be had recourse to with advantage in the early growth of the crop.
In the culture of this plant, it is particularly necessary that the same piece of land grows both male and female, or what is sometimes denominated simple hemp. The latter kind contains the seed.

When the grain is ripe (which is known by its becoming of a whitish-yellow color, and a few of the leaves beginning to drop from the stems); this happens commonly about thirteen or fourteen weeks from the period of its being sown, according as the season may be dry or wet (the first sort being mostly ripe some weeks before the latter), the next operation is that of taking it from the ground; which is effected by pulling it up by the roots, in small parcels at a time, by the hand, taking care to shake off the mould well from them before the handfuls are laid down. In some districts, the whole crop is pulled together, without any distinction being made between the different kinds of hemp; while, in others, it is the practice to separate and pull them at different times, according to their ripeness. The latter is obviously the better practice; as by pulling a large proportion of the crop before it is in a proper state of maturity, the quantity of produce must not only be considerably lessened, but its quality greatly injured by being rendered less durable.

After being thus pulled, it is tied up in small parcels, or what are sometimes termed baits.
Where crops of this kind are intended for seeding, they should be suffered to stand till the seed becomes in a perfect state of maturity, which is easily known by the appearance of it on inspection. The stems are then pulled and bound up, as in the other case, the bundles being set up in the same manner as grain, until the seed becomes so dry and firm as to shed freely. It is then either immediately threshed out upon large cloths for the purpose in the field, or taken home to have the operation afterwards performed.

The hemp, as soon as pulled, is tied up in small bundles, frequently at both ends.
It is then conveyed to pits, or ponds of stagnant water, about six or eight feet in depth, such as have a clayey soil being in general preferred, and deposited in beds, according to their size, and depth, the small bundles being laid both in a straight direction and crosswise of each other, so as to bind perfectly together; the whole, being loaded with timber, or other materials, so as to keep the beds of hemp just below the surface of the water.

It is not usual to water more than four or five times in the same pit, till it has been filled with water. Where the ponds are not sufficiently large to contain the whole of the produce at once, it is the practice to pull the hemp only as it can be admitted into them, it being thought disadvantageous to leave the hemp upon the ground after being pulled. It is left in these pits four, five, or six days, or even more, according to the warmth of the season and the judgment of the operator, on his examining whether the hemp material readily separates from the reed or stem; and then taken up and conveyed to a pasture field which is clean and even, the bundles being loosened and spread out thinly, stem by stem, turning it every second or third day, especially in damp weather, to prevent its being injured by worms or other insects. It should remain in this situation for two, three, four, or more weeks, according to circumstances, and be then collected together when in a perfectly dry state, tied up into large bundles, and placed in some secure building until an opportunity is afforded for breaking it, in order to separate the hemp. By this means the process of grassing is not only shortened, but the more expensive ones of breaking, scutching, and bleaching the yarn, rendered less violent and troublesome.
After the hemp has been removed from the field it is in a state to be broken and swingled, operations that are mostly performed by common laborers, by means of machinery for the purpose, the produce being tied up in stones. The refuse collected in the latter process is denominated sheaves, and is in some districts employed for the purposes of fuel. After having undergone these different operations, it is ready for the purposes of the manufacturer.

History

Hemp use dates back to the Stone Age, with hemp fiber imprints found in pottery shards in China over 10,000 years old.

Major hemp producing countries

From the 1950s to the 1980s the Soviet Union was the world's largest producer (3,000 km² in 1970). The main production areas were in Ukraine, the Kursk and Orel regions of Russia, and near the Polish border.

Other important producing countries were China, Hungary, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, France and Italy.

Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany all resumed commercial production in the 1990s. British production is mostly used as bedding for horses; other uses are under development. The largest outlet for German fiber is composite automotive panels. Companies in Canada, UK, USA and Germany among many others are processing hemp seed into a growing range of food products and cosmetics; many traditional growing countries still continue with textile grade fiber production.

Future of hemp

In the last decade hemp has been widely promoted as a crop for the future. This is stimulated by new technologies which make hemp suitable for industrial paper manufacturing, use as a renewable energy source (biofuel), and the use of hemp derivatives as replacement for petrochemical products.

The increased demand for health food has stimulated the trade in shelled hemp seed. Hemp oil is increasingly being used in the manufacturing of bodycare products.
Jesse Ventura was a vocal proponent of hemp cultivation while governor of Minnesota, though agricultural policymakers within his administration felt that hemp cultivation could not compete economically with crops such as corn and soybeans.

THC in hemp

Hemp contains delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the psychoactive ingredient found in hashish. THC is present in all hemp varieties to some extent. In varieties grown for use as a drug, where males are removed in order to prevent fertilization, THC levels can reach as high as 20-30% in the unfertilized females which are given ample room to flower.

In hemp varieties grown for seed or fiber use, the plants are grown very closely together and a very dense biomass product is obtained, rich in oil from the seeds and fiber from the stalks and low in THC content. EU regulations limit THC content to 0.3% in industrial hemp. In Canada, the THC limit is 1%.

On October 9, 2001, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ruled that even traces of THC in products intended for food use would be illegal as of February 6, 2002. This Interpretive Rule would have ruled out the production or use of hempseed or hempseed oil in food use in the USA, but after the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) filed suit the rule was stayed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on March 7, 2002. On March 21, 2003, the DEA issued a nearly identical Final Rule which was also stayed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on April 16, 2003. On February 6, 2004 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous decision in favor of the HIA in which Judge Betty Fletcher wrote, "[T]hey (DEA) cannot regulate naturally-occurring THC not contained within or derived from marijuana-i.e. non-psychoactive hemp is not included in Schedule I. The DEA has no authority to regulate drugs that are not scheduled, and it has not followed procedures required to schedule a substance. The DEA's definition of "THC" contravenes the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress in the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and cannot be upheld". On September 28, 2004 the HIA claimed victory after DEA declined to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States the ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals protecting the sale of hemp-containing foods. Industrial hemp remains legal for import and sale in the U.S., but U.S. farmers still are not permitted to grow it.

The DEA's strong opposition to a chemical widely thought to be less addictive or harmful than legal nicotine or alcohol leads some of its critics to charge ulterior motives such as protection of the synthetic-fiber, wood pulp, petrochemical, and pharmochemical industries. The position has been an occasional embarrassment to the US government, as when they ignored their own arguments and grew it large-scale in Kentucky and Wisconsin for World War II. Critics of the HIA, however, argue that the necessities of the war and the unavailability of adequate synthetic substitutes outweighed the social, health, and public safety risks of producing hemp. Today, they assert, those risks are substantial, according to many experts, because hemp resembles crude marihuana and there is no visual way to distinguish the two. This, alone, would make enforcement of the marihuana laws by federal and state authorities all but impossible if hemp were legalized. The critics of HIA often allege that it is the HIA that may have an ulterior motive in promoting hemp for economic reasons while really seeking to legalize marihuana for recreational use. They add that if the federal government were to authorize the production of industrial hemp, it would likely require registration of farmers, inspections and audits of farms, and a "strict liability" clause in the law to allow administrative seizure of all land parcels upon which any crude marihuana is grown or where hemp with a THC level above one percent is found. This would discourage farmers from trying to use hemp to circumvent the law's prohibition of marihuana while still protecting the public's right to produce industrial hemp -- a compromise that would satisfy all but those with the aforementioned hidden agenda.

The presence of (some) THC in hemp varieties and the fear that THC could be extracted from industrial hemp for illegal purposes has hampered the development of hemp in many countries. Since the early 1990s, however, many countries, including Canada, Australia, the UK, The Netherlands and Germany, allow hemp plantings and commercial scale production. Plant breeders are working on the development of new varieties which are low in THC.
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The U.S. is losing out on hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue from this crop. There is no logical  reason we should not be growing hemp as fast as we can. This is not a liberal or conservative issue, it is a common sense issue. Wake Up America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

World's First Photograph.....................Jesus











"The first photo of the full Shroud of Turin was taken in 1898 by Secondo Pia. It shows the surprising feature that the image on the negative was clearer than the positive image."




The photo of Jesus at the top of the post is the below negative image taken with the Helmut negative film app. set on color negative. The result was then single color filtered via Aviary. If you look at the top image for a minute or two you will note it is actually a positive image. Note particularly the lips and left eye. (Viewer's perspective)

So, how do I know this is the actual face of Jesus when radiocarbon dating puts the age of the Shroud of Turin at the late 1300's? There was a fire in the 1500's that damaged the shroud and altered the true date of the Shroud. The best proof, however, is the Sudarium of Oviedo. this was the face cloth that covered Jesus and it's provenance is not in question:

"The experiments with the model head and the study of the stains also show that when the man died his head was tilted seventy degrees forward and twenty degrees to the right. This position further suggests that the man whose face the sudarium covered died crucified.

There are smaller bloodstains at the side of the main group. It would appear that the sudarium was pinned to the back of the dead man's head, and that these spots of blood were from small sharp objects, which would logically be the thorns that caused this type of injury all over Jesus' head.

The medical studies are not the only ones that have been carried out on the sudarium. Dr. Max Frei analysed pollen samples taken from the cloth, and found species typical of Oviedo, Toledo, North Africa and Jerusalem. This confirms the historical route described earlier. There was nothing relating the cloth to Constantinople, France, Italy or any other country in Europe.

An international congress was held in Oviedo in 1994, where various papers were presented about the sudarium. Dr. Frei's work with pollen was confirmed, and enlarged on. Species of pollen called "quercus caliprimus" were found, both of which are limited to the area of Palestine.

Residues of what is most probably myrrh and aloe have also been discovered, mentioned directly in the gospel of john, 19:39-40, "Nicodemus came as well...and he brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes...They took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, following the Jewish burial custom."

The stains were also studied from the point of view of anthropology. The conclusion was that the face that had been in contact with the sudarium had typically Jewish features, a prominent nose and pronounced cheekbones.

Finally, the very fact that the cloth was kept at all is a sign of its authenticity, as it has no artistic or monetary value at all. All the studies carried out so far point in one direction, with nothing to suggest the contrary the sudarium was used to cover the head of the dead body of Jesus of Nazareth from when he was taken down from the cross until he was buried.

3: Coincidence with the Shroud

The Sudarium alone has revealed sufficient information to suggest that it was in contact with the face of Jesus after the crucifixion. However, the really fascinating evidence comes to light when this cloth is compared to the Shroud of Turin.

The first and most obvious coincidence is that the blood on both cloths belongs to the same group, namely AB.

The length of the nose through which the pleural oedema fluid came onto the sudarium has been calculated at eight centimetres, just over three inches. This is exactly the same length as the nose on the image of the Shroud.

If the face of the image on the Shroud is placed over the stains on the sudarium, perhaps the most obvious coincidence is the exact fit of the stains with the beard on the face. As the sudarium was used to clean the man's face, it appears that it was simply placed on the face to absorb all the blood, but not used in any kind of wiping movement.

A small stain is also visible proceeding from the right hand side of the man's mouth. This stain is hardly visible on the Shroud, but Dr. John Jackson, using the VP-8 and photo enhancements has confirmed its presence.
The thorn wounds on the nape of the neck also coincide perfectly with the bloodstains on the Shroud.

Dr. Alan Whanger applied the Polarized Image Overlay Technique to the sudarium, comparing it to the image and bloodstains on the Shroud. The frontal stains on the sudarium show seventy points of coincidence with the Shroud, and the rear side shows fifty. The only possible conclusion is that the Oviedo sudarium covered the same face as the Turin Shroud."

Some interesting things about the picture of Jesus are that his features ARE caucasian as opposed to the revisionist history view that Jesus was negroid. He almost certainly was olive-skinned, however.

Also, how would one expect God to look if he was to manifest himself as human? The photo of Jesus indicates he was the typical "Joe six pack" of his day. There was nothing unusual about him. Had he manifested as a glowing white lighted atypical human then faith in him would not have been necessary. In short, he HAD to look ordinary.

From Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3 we know Jesus was a carpenter. There's an old Amish saying.."Hands to work, hearts to God." It is also logical that God would not only have manifested himself as a "common" human, but that he would have been a blue collar tradesman as well.

At any rate, faith is faith and you have it or you don't. If you have been given the gift of sight then you will know, and be very humbled, to be looking at the face of Jesus.
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Sunday, February 28, 2016

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state.......








...being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

So states the text of what was originally the Fourth Amendment. The Bill of Rights originally had 12 Amendments, but the first two did not get ratified, thus we ended up with ten and the Fourth Amendment became the Second Amendment. There has been much argument as to the meaning of the Second Amendment. The Heller decision (DC v. Heller 2008) was the first Supreme Court decision to declare that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self defense.

From Heller:
"(1) The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. Pp. 2–53.
(a) The Amendment’s prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause. The operative clause’s text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms. Pp. 2–22.
(b) The prefatory clause comports with the Court’s interpretation of the operative clause. The “militia” comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. The Antifederalists feared that the Federal Government would disarm the people in order to disable this citizens’ militia, enabling a politicized standing army or a select militia to rule. The response was to deny Congress power to abridge the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear arms, so that the ideal of a citizens’ militia would be preserved. Pp. 22–28.
(c) The Court’s interpretation is confirmed by analogous arms-bearing rights in state constitutions that preceded and immediately followed the Second Amendment. Pp. 28–30.
(d) The Second Amendment’s drafting history, while of dubious interpretive worth, reveals three state Second Amendment proposals that unequivocally referred to an individual right to bear arms. Pp. 30–32.
(e) Interpretation of the Second Amendment by scholars, courts and legislators, from immediately after its ratification through the late 19th century also supports the Court’s conclusion. Pp. 32–47.
(f) None of the Court’s precedents forecloses the Court’s interpretation. Neither United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542 , nor Presser v. Illinois, 116 U. S. 252 , refutes the individual-rights interpretation. United States v. Miller, 307 U. S. 174 , does not limit the right to keep and bear arms to militia purposes, but rather limits the type of weapon to which the right applies to those used by the militia, i.e., those in common use for lawful purposes.
(2) Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons. Pp. 54–56."
Well, that's nice, but what did the founding fathers really have in mind with the Second Amendment? Let's look at it again:


A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. We think we know what these words mean today, but what was the common usage in 1789? To determine this I used Samuel Johnson's 1792 edition of "A Dictionary of the English Language."

In those days a "militia" was defined as "the trainbands" or trained band of men. Specifically, a company of trained civilians, in England or America, from the 16th to the 18th century.

"Regulate" was defined as "to adjust by rule or method" and "to direct".

"Arms" were defined as "weapons of offense" and "war in general", so the Miller decision which restricted they type of weapons a person could own was incorrect as it was expected that citizens could own, provided they were not insane, any such weapon used in warfare.

Now let's look at the Second Amendment as the verbiage was understood by the men who wrote it:

"A well directed band of civilians, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and carry weapons of offense used for war in general, shall not be infringed.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........

In Heller, the Supreme Court did get right that the Second Amendment was there to prevent tyranny and that "the right of THE PEOPLE" was also an individual right.

The specifier "being necessary to the security of a free State" is critically important because it separates a militia from the government. Civilian militias can be used to assist the government in times of emergency, such as if the British are invading, but the specifier clause has a different duty for the militia.

There is a famous quote by Thomas Jefferson to wit:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Here it is in context:

 "The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion.[1] The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted." - Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787."

Thus, the importance of "being necessary to the security of a free State" is that the Second Amendment was specifically written to allow the militia to detach itself from the State and overthrow the government that has become tyrannical by the use of force. The militia then goes from a team player whose function is to assist the government to the ultimate check of destroying the government.

UPDATE: Some additional commentary. For additional clarification, it is the word "free" in the clarifier sentence that is important. As defined, "being necessary to the security of a non-tyrannical/non-oppressive State"(I.E. free State) as opposed to, "being necessary to the security of the State" makes the Second Amendment essentially a command for the militia to overthrow an oppressive government rather than an equivocal suggestion.

Also, based on the definition of "Arms" at the time, ANY weapon of war would be permissible to own.(Voiding the 1934 National Firearms Act) The definition also includes the phrase "and armor for defense" so MRAPS can be sold to civilians, who aren't insane.

TO ARMS!!!! TO ARMS!!!! It's fast approaching now or never.
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