Hemp is a plant that is banned in the US. The reason it has been banned is because of its association with marijuana. This crop has many uses and could rake in a lot of revenue. It can be used for stationary, clothes and even rope!
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@ heysoos:
Cannabutter!
@ Bumr50:
sandles!
(amish mode on)
aye, english. that’s a fine stout rope ya got there!
@ coldwarrior:
hemp giveth, hemp taketh away
My grandfather’s first job—at age three—was ropemaking.
fear the hemp bro…
jus sayin
It is way past time to send Rodan back to reeducation camp for a nice long stay… L
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thats not a rope, this is a rope (says the veggie)
https://www.google.com/search?q=rope+sausage&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=YdIJUZHQCIf-0gHxkIH4Dg&ved=0CGEQsAQ&biw=1246&bih=810
hemporoni pizza…
hemp and cheese…
hemp burger…
hemp dog…
hemp and tonic…
etc
heysoos wrote:
we have an amish hardware store near my parents, the finest hemp rope i have ever seen. my parents use different gauges of it extensively.
the stuff is amazingly tough.
@ heysoos:
Don’t forget the laundry hemper.
coldwarrior wrote:
you can do all sorts of groovy stuff with hemp…we are way behind the curve..I hate the feds
heysoos wrote:
Sure, add an “S” and two other Stooges and you have a movie short…
@ heysoos:
i have two friends who are in the import biz for hemp. the industrial slings they get from eastern europe are amazing.
this stuff does not rot or get mold. we are certainly way behind the curve.
@ coldwarrior:
meanwhile , our govt postures and fluffs up for the gun control cameras, while industry suffers…man, I tell you..what am I supposed to think bro?…these people are killing me
Despite all the humor involved in my support of hemp, I am more than a little bit concerned by it’s use as a recreational consumable. My support of it literally is the dozen other commercial uses of the plant.
It’s applications in the agricultural industry alone are in my book enough to justify ending it’s prohibition. It could and should be a multi-billion dollar a year non recreational consumable industry.
Cannabis Sativa out produces acre per acre tree’s for it’s capacity to produce the pulp required to make paper, and out produces Cotton acre per acre for the fibers required to make textile products.
It was used up until the 30′s to prevent frost from damaging the orange crops in California and Florida and was used for thousands of years as a soil nutrition restorative (as a crop rotation crop) that has never been equaled.
The Oil from the seeds is both useful as a nutritional supplement and can be used as a base for biofuels such as biodiesel or alcohol.
doriangrey wrote:
Hemp fiber for clothing is very much like linen—and, unlike linen, is kosher when combined with wool.
Heh. Bob Menendez to take over John Kerry’s seat as Senate Chairman of “Foreign Relations”.
doriangrey wrote:
It is absurd. From my understanding there is both non-thc hemp and even standard hemp has something like less that .3% thc.
Current “weed” has actually been specially bred for it’s thc qualities, so they really aren’t even the same plant anymore.
@ huckfunn:
So the creepy child-man who solicits underage whores is going to step into the shoes of the gigolo traitor?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I was actually quite surprised the first time I ever felt Hemp denim, I was expecting to to be much coarser and more like burlap, but it wasn’t at all. It was softer than cotton denim.
@ huckfunn:
He knows all about foreign AFFAIRS!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
ok, why?
@ doriangrey:
You are Hemp’s #1 fan.Especially the rope based products!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Did you watch the vid? He’s saying that the Secret Service guys who hooked up with hookers in Columbia, or wherever, should be fired.
I use Hempers…super absorbent, low profile snuggle fit, and after you pee, you smell like petunias
Rodan wrote:
He’s got the resume.
@ huckfunn:
Yup.
heysoos wrote:
the pendulum will swing back, it always does.
coldwarrior wrote:
The Torah explicitly forbids “shatnes,” the wearing of fabric that combines wool and linen fibers.
Oddly enough, that was never expanded to a general principle about “plant and animal fibers” across the board, so there is nothing forbidden about combining linen and silk, or cotton and wool. Also, as an interesting side note, I was at a museum exhibit some years ago that showed some fabrics from around 400 CE; the wool fabrics, and the linen fabrics, were intact, but the wool-and-linen combinations were badly deteriorated.
Anyway, hemp fibers are a plant fiber with properties much the same as linen; lightness and coolness. Combining them with wool would give a fabric similar to Palm Beach Cloth—light and supple for summer wear, but with some wool to prevent the wrinkling to which plant fibers are prone. And, unlike the wool-and-linen blend that is Palm Beach Cloth, it would be kosher to wear.
Mars wrote:
youd need a hell of a gravity bong to smoke enough of that to get anything from it.
heysoos wrote:
How ’bout Cokies. Sniffin them drawers will give you a buzz for sure.
huckfunn wrote:
On the other hand, he should keep his Senate seat …well, because. And the aide whose criminality was suppressed so he could win re-election should get to walk.
What a loathesome toad. And that’s his good side.
Mars wrote:
Yea, Cannabis ruderalis produces almost no THC and there are several varieties of Cannabis sativa that also have very low to nearly non existent THC levels.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
ok. thanks for that.
a day where i dont learn something is like a day without sunshine.
OK, I have to say this since no one else is:
C H O O O O O O M!
huckfunn wrote:
Charlie Daniels should write a song…it’s too good
coldwarrior wrote:
One thing I forgot. The curtains of the Tabernacle were made of “shatnes,” wool and linen combined, and so were some of the High Priest’s clothes. It’s just the rest of us who weren’t permitted the resortwear blends.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
the priests have to look mahvelous!
the rest of you, not so much.
Macker wrote:
coldwarrior wrote:
You gotta keep cool when your main duty is to slaughter sacrifices.
doriangrey wrote:
northern Indiana is full of the remnants of WW1 hemp production, it’s a weed, grows in the drainage ditches…we used to go down there, snatch it, brick it up and sell it to stupid Canadians…they’d swap me hash from the ME at a five to one clip in Toronto…I love you guys!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
i agree. that’s some sweaty work.
doriangrey wrote:
@ doriangrey:
So let me get this straight. The government banned a useful plant that to eliminate a drug but that plant doesn’t actually have that drug? (Or at least infinitesimal amounts.)
Actually I’m well aware that it was mainly banned in order to help the timber, petroleum, and cotton industries.
Hemp producers didn’t have the political pull to compete.
@ huckfunn:
my poor synapses…i am so glad i am not trippin.
Inna Godda DeVitta baby…
let’s go for a spin
coldwarrior wrote:
The colors, man… can you see the colors?
Mars wrote:
Well, not actually accurate, various strains of Cannabis Sativa can have very high THC levels, and Cannabis Indica strains even more. combination of all three strains can have amazingly high THC levels.
huckfunn wrote:
i can hear them.
coldwarrior wrote:
Back in the day….
@ huckfunn:
soothing thanks
@ huckfunn:
no quarter then some dead…
I’m gonna go scavenging for food in Santa Rosa before it gets too late. Anybody wanna come along?
doriangrey wrote:
Except industrial hemp is the low thc style. Sativa at least, was bred specifically for it’s THC qualities.
Indica I’m not as sure about.
I do know there are three specific varieties recognized in the EU (per wikipedia) grown for fiber, grown for oil, and grown for THC.
I really am learning a lot here. I agree that it absurd that we have bans in place on an important fiber and oil crop.
I admit, Led Zep pissing contests are a lot o fun
Mars wrote:
Remnants of 1920′s -- 1930′s attempts to transform America into a Marxist/Socialist collective.
huckfunn wrote:
got you covered bro…you know the routine
doriangrey wrote:
Yep, pick and industry and regulate it out of existence. Same thing that is happening now.
I wish the hell Florida would have a full on revolt against the prohibitionist dems for the damage they are trying to do to the cigar industry with the new FDA regs.
It’s actually funny because at the state level at least a major figure in the cigar industry got elected to the state senate.
Maybe rodan knows more about it. I only know what I get from the people inside the industry.
Mars wrote:
Sigh…wish I could still afford cigars… /oh dang coldwarrior I didn’t really say that…
doriangrey wrote:
I’m on a limited budget but I try to make sure to have a cigar every week or two.
Even with the taxes there are still some amazing cigars out there in the sub $8 range.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Why is that?
@ huckfunn:
You just can’t make stuff like that up.
@ Mars:
The Feds are the ones who killed the Cigar industry. Some Florida politicians spoke up, but the there is an element on the Right that supported the ban.
It’s not just Democrats who are prohibitionist. The Huckabee/Santorum/Akins wing want to ban alcohol as well.
Rodan wrote:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
doriangrey wrote:
This is from personal experience, I take it?
Moe Katz wrote:
Here I must plead the 5th…
@ doriangrey:
I agree with that statement.
Rodan wrote:
There is a negligible element on the right that has anything to do with that. The cigar prohibitions are completely coming out of the progressive side. The only part the right is complicit in is maintaining the cuban situation. And frankly I’ve talked to many cubans and can see why we don’t want to reward the castro regime.
And I just did a search and have yet to see any of the huckabee, santorum, or otherwise trying to ban alcohol. You’re now seeing shadows where none exist. I am no fan of religious progressives, but you’re way off on this one.
Only one party prohibited alcohol, only one party wants to slap massive warning labels on alcohol now.
The only problem I have on the cigar issue when it comes to republicans is that 100% haven’t signed up to oppose the fda regs when even many dems have. The only way that republicans are complicit is by their silence.
Research history. One side speaks against, the other regulates against. Only one side has been historically prohibitionist.
Even all the so-called “blue laws” were put into place by proto socialist progressive religious groups.
Rodan wrote:
Heh heh heh, thought you might…
Rodan, you know you are a brother to me, but you are so busy watching for dangers from the right that you are going to be stabbed in the back by the left and possibly personally sodomized by Barney Frank.
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I wouldn’t worry too much about the religious progressives on the right, their number one thing is that they are infected with the stupidity of the GOP elite. They will sabotage any efforts they ever attempt all by themselves.
Heh
Mars wrote:
There are 45 of those strategic points, you really should go read them all.
Your stalker is back down-thread Dorian.
(evil, stirring the pot)
((sorry admins, got an evil streak tonight))
/galt
@ Mars:
Same government that requires poisoning what would otherwise be a relatively harmless solvent in order to make sure that it isn’t misused such that the government would be deprived of tax money.
@ doriangrey:
Oh, I did.
Rodan is ordering a copy of a book I have, you should too.
http://www.amazon.com/Conservative-History-American-Left/dp/0307339467
Best non-fiction history book I’ve ever read.
AZfederalist wrote:
Which solvent?
Let’s not forget the banning of DDT and return of Malaria in order to stop mass bird deaths that NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENED, or were even going to happen.
lobo91 wrote:
He’s one of the more active NRA leaders there has been.
CynicalConservative wrote:
Meh…
AZfederalist wrote:
Why is linen-and-wool cloth not kosher? Because the Torah says so.
Why is hemp-and-wool cloth not not kosher? Because the Torah doesn’t say so.
@ Mars:
Ethyl alcohol, when used as a solvent, it is sold as denatured alcohol. Regular grain alcohol with poison added so that people won’t drink it and thus deprive the government of tax revenue levied on drinking alcohol.
Mars wrote:
Wayne is the senior paid official at the NRA. He runs the day-to-day operations.
The president, the other vice presidents, and the board are mostly figureheads.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Thanks. Saw your reply upthread after I posted my question. Is this in the laws given to Moses, or was it added later?
AZfederalist wrote:
Aaah yep, got it.
@ doriangrey:
Yeah, I know, stirring up ####. Bad on me.
/galt
AZfederalist wrote:
The prohibition against wearing linen and wool mixed together (except for priests in certain circumstances I forget at the moment) is in the Biblical text. While the commentators expanded a number of Biblical laws one way or the other, they never, for some reason, extended the shatnes prohibitions to include any and all mixtures of plant and animal fibers, so it applies ONLY to linen and wool. Which means that hemp fibers would be a boon from a kosher point of view.
lobo91 wrote:
Well he’s doing a damn good job. The emails that come out of his office are really informative, and he isn’t afraid to take on the press or the politicians. A good man.
lobo91 wrote:
LaPierre is obviously a dangerously deranged extreme lunatic h8ter. ////////////////////
@ Mars:
Ethanol?
Prebanned wrote:
Yeah, same thing.
huckfunn wrote:
Of course.
The Eddie Eagle program is particularly diabolical.
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@ lobo91:
I watched part of that hearing this morning. One of the dims, maybe Leahy, lamented that “we need to prevent straw purchasers from illegally buying guns for criminal gangs”. I noted that Erkel Holder was conspicuously absent.
huckfunn wrote:
Of course, the main way to do that is by prosecuting the buyers for lying on the 4473. That’s a felony punishable by 5 years in federal prison per violation.
But according to Biden, the feds don’t have time to prosecute violators.
huckfunn wrote:
Umm, isn’t that already illegal? All the gun stores I frequent have that “Don’t lie for the other guy” signs up. So how does any more law make what is already illegal less likely?
Just saw the new FX show The Americans about KGB agents in America during the 80′s. Man it’s pretty good.
@ AZfederalist:
It’s illegal, but they almost never prosecute anyone for it. As Biden said during his little “task force” photo op, they don’t have time to do so.
But if they pass another new law (that they won’t enforce) Obama will get to make a speech, and pass out pens that he used to sign it, and maybe they can wheel out Gabby Giffords again.
@ lobo91:
@ AZfederalist:
The Fast & Furious carnage in Mexico will continue for years to come and not one DOJ honcho was ever charged with anything. In fact, the guy (don’t remember his name) who was the brains behind the whole scheme will become the top turd of ATF.
@ lobo91:
I just saw a clip of her today on the news.
Rather shameful of the Dems to parade her around.
Calo wrote:
The most disgraceful part of that dog & pony show was that her husband was the lead handler.
The anti-gun crowd hates the Eddie Eagle program, probably because it actually works. This bunch of crap from the Violence Policy Center is particularly amusing:
Joe Camel with Feathers: How the NRA with Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids
I haven’t quite figured out how anything in that program could be construed as “marketing to kids.” And then there’s the minor point that the NRA name or logo don’t appear anywhere in the course materials.
I guess it must be some of that subliminal messaging stuff…
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@ CynicalConservative:
That nic is a little “off”.
She also chimed in and flew off the handle the other day about another poster here. Seems to have a few people she likes to stalk.
huckfunn wrote:
How else is he supposed to remain relevant, now that the shuttle program is dead and his wife’s no longer in Congress?
lobo91 wrote:
I guess my getting a hunters safety card at the age of 12 came with a free membership to the hitler youth.
@ Mars:
Yup
lobo91 wrote:
True. Didn’t think of that.
Obama lied…no skeets died:
Rodan wrote:
Word I got from friends who previewed it was that it is an anti-Reagan propaganda series that portrays the KGB agents as heroes and patriots against Reagans villainy.
Still don’t think I’ll watch even after you liking it. Don’t think I want to encourage hollywood to make more shows like it.
@ lobo91:
I knew that, my sarcasm didn’t show.
lobo91 wrote:
You might know something, but it’s probably different state to state. I know in MT it’s not required to take CCW if you fall under certain categories. One is carrying a sidearm in the military, two is having taken a hunters safety class.
The thing I have to call the application number about is this: My hunters safety class was 30 years ago, does it still count? Because if it does count I will dig up that card.
Plus, why just a sidearm? I carried a damn m16 almost every freaking day for 5.5 years. Why doesn’t that count?
@ Mars:
No it’s not like that at all. The Soviets are clearly the bad guys. The only anti Reagan stuff is from the Soviet view.
Rodan wrote:
I hope so, but understand my innate trust of Hollywood. Especially since the source I talked to has seen more than the first episode.
Calo wrote:
Rumor is they are moving back to AZ (well, Gabby would be moving back, he’d be moving to, she spent a great deal of her time as a rep living in Texas and “representing a quaint little district in Arizona”.
Guessing that he is going to pursue McCain’s senate seat
@ Mars:
I just looked it up. It says a 214 showing weapons qualification, not sidearm.
But I couldn’t find anything about how long it’s good for. Here, it has to be within 10 years.
lobo91 wrote:
Could be touch and go then. Pretty sure my 30 year old hunter safety card is not going to fly. Maybe I can get luckier with my dd214. But, we’re still talking 17 years or so.
Here’s the section. I may be screwed anyway because it specifically refers to handguns.
Just trying to make my limited budget spread far enough.
@ Mars:
My suggestion would be to call them and ask.
@ lobo91:
Yeah, that’s my plan.
I just wish I could figure out why when daylight hits I forget all these important things I was planning to do that day. lol.
@ Rodan:
I’m watching it right now. Not bad so far.
I always had Felicity figured for a Russian spy.
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@ lobo91:
No spoilers! I’m only 5 minutes into it.
We’re looking for a pot consultant.
@ Calo:
It’s pretty good.
I’m back to watching last night’s Justified again.
Raylan really needs to stay away from blondes.
@ lobo91:
A much younger blonde than himself?
Calo wrote:
She did seem to be somewhat younger.
Another character called her “grifter Barbie.”
Hemp is really good in brownies too!
@ EBL:
I saw you posted that earlier today somewhere.
Really made me laugh.
Under the revised rules in VA, a qualifying course for CCW (which can be as simple as an online gun safety course -- takes about 90 minutes total) never expires. One advantage of the CCW used to be that it made the bearer an exception to the “one handgun purchase per 30 days” restriction, but VA did away with that restriction. We’ve been making some progress in The Old Dominion, despite being over-run by FedGov-associated trash in NoVa.
Good morning. Public art appreciation session is now open for the day.
@ PaladinPhil:
You know, there’s a lot of ‘modern art’ I just don’t get.
Better half & I went through the local art gallery a number of years ago, and there was a piece called ‘Hammer in Box’ that was just that. A hammer sitting in the middle of a box about 24″ long by 8″ wide & 4″ deep.
Nice pics!
Breakfast VDH: War is like Rust
Personally, I believe the “Lead From Behind” strategy will bite us in the ass sooner rather than later; it’s no more than isolationism with an elegant name. The desire to pull back into our shell always comes after wars, particularly protracted or costly wars, but we always find that our retirement to be no more than a brief vacation and reality always welcomes us back with a fury.
@ PaladinPhil:
@ mfhorn:nd looking at
Much of “modern art” is more design than art but, for the life of me, I cannot say where to draw the line betwixt the two. These sculptures are interesting and quite pleasing to the eye (except for the worm-like Slinky thing, which kinda creeps me out), but are they “art”? I guess that is, as they say, in the eye of the beholder. But looking at The Pieta and comparing it with these, or many other examples of modern sculptures, tells me the two are simply not comparable- one brings tears of awe to my eyes and the others are intriguing and visually stimulating- it’s not just that one is better, they’re two entirely different animals.
Strictly my opinion on a question that will like;ly never be resolved……nor should it be.
Hey folks. Another well run ATF operation down the shoottoobs.
Via Drudge
@ mfhorn:
@ MacDuff:
Thanks. And as to “modern” art, some pieces are fascinating and intriguing. Others inspire a more “WTF?” to them. The slinky thing, I was showing those pics to some friends of mine and one of them said that would make a great BBQ or fish smoker.
@ PaladinPhil:
And as to “modern” art, some pieces are fascinating and intriguing. Others inspire a more “WTF?” to them.
Very true. The ‘Hammer in Box’ was a ‘WTF’ piece.