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Thoughts From Within - by Woody Harrelson

Written by Brenda Shoop
Saturday, 22 September 2007
THOUGHTS FROM WITHIN I sometimes feel like an alien creature for which there is no earthly explanation Sure I have human form walking erect and opposing digits, but my mind is upside down. I feel like a run-on sentence in a punctuation crazy world. and I see the world around me like a mad collective dream. An endless stream of people move like ants from the freeway cell phones, pc's, and digital displays "In Money We Trust," we'll find happiness the prevailing attitude; like a genetically modified irradiated Big Mac is somehow symbolic of food. Morality is legislated prisons over-populated religion is incorporated the profit-motive has permeated all activity we pay our government to let us park on the street And war is the biggest money-maker of all we all know missile envy only comes from being small. Politicians and prostitutes are comfortable together I wonder if they talk about the strange change in the weather. This government was founded by, of, and for the people but everybody feels it like a giant open sore they don't represent us anymore And blaming the President for the country's woes is like yelling at a puppet for the way it sings Who's the man behind the curtain pulling the strings? A billion people sitting watching their TV in the room that they call living but as for me I see living as loving and since there is no loving room I sit on the grass under a tree dreaming of the way things used to be Pre-Industrial Revolution which of course is before the rivers and oceans, and skies were polluted before Parkinson's, and mad cows and all the convoluted cacophony of bad ideas like skyscrapers, and tree paper, and earth rapers like Monsanto and Dupont had their way as they continue to today. This was Pre-us back when the buffalo roamed and the Indian's home was the forest, and God was nature and heaven was here and now Can you imagine clean water, food, and air living in community with animals and people who care? Do you dare to feel responsible for every dollar you lay down are you going to make the rich man richer or are you going to stand your ground You say you want a revolution a communal evolution to be a part of the solution maybe I'll be seeing you around http://www.voiceyourself.com/03_ thoughtsfromwithin/03_poem.php
Last Updated ( Monday, 01 October 2007 )

When Hemp Saved George Bush's Life

Written by Brenda Shoop
Friday, 21 September 2007
This is an excerpt from Jack Herer's The Emperor Wears No Clothes One more example of the importance of hemp: Five years after cannabis hemp was outlawed in 1937, it was promptly re-introduced for the World War II effort in 1942. So, when the young pilot George Bush bailed out of his burning airplane after a battle over the Pacific, little did he know: Parts of his aircraft engine were lubricated with cannabis hempseed oil; 100% of his life-saving parachute webbing was made from U.S. grown cannabis hemp; Virtually all the rigging and ropes of the ship that pulled him in were made of cannabis hemp; The firehoses on the ship (as were those in the schools he had attended) were woven from cannabis hemp; and, Finally, as young George Bush stood safely on the deck, his shoes’ durable stitching was of cannabis hemp, as it is in all good leather and military shoes to this day. Yet Bush spent a good deal of his career eradicating the cannabis plant and enforcing laws to make certain that no one will learn this information—possibly including himself.… (USDA film, Hemp for Victory, 1942; U. of KY Agricultural Ext. Service Leaflet 25, March, 1943; Galbraith, Gatewood, Kentucky Marijuana Feasibility Study, 1977.)
Last Updated ( Friday, 21 September 2007 )