LJ really gets mad if I attempt to post full sized images direct from my camera. No these are not raw images. Though I am kicking that around.  Below was taken before the male plants came into bloom Things  have been thinned.


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For the Record: This is My Position On Trump and His Supporters.

I believe that the the those who form the government of the US at this time are the most EVIL and depraved rulers in all of human history.  Donald Trump is an ABOMINATION.  His blatant criminality is only the beginning.  As bad as Donald Trump is the one thing worse is the Donald ( Read more... )

Growth has been coming along nicely since the beginning of the month.  This about as long as I have been confined.


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My father taught me that the American People were the most brainwashed people in all of history.  According to my father who lived under the Nazis, Nazi propaganda was comparatively crude.  One interesting point I wonder about is that my father maintains that the German People under the Nazis were not taught to hate the way American people were.    ( Read more... )

I just tried out the local dispensary.   Not as simple as buying herbs has been for centuries but the experience was really surprisingly pleasant.  Yes and even this product line has been complicated to death. I am going to have to keep close track of my samples and the associated experience.

In today's trip I got a sample spliff of: Pres Kush and ( Read more... )

5 How to Defeat Conservatism

Conservatism is almost gone. People no longer worship the pharaohs. If the gentry were among us today we would have no notion of what they were talking about. For thousands of years, countless people have worked for the values of democracy in ways large and small. The industrialized vituperations of conservative ( Read more... )

2 How Conservatism Works

Conservative social orders have often described themselves as civilized, and so one reads in the Wall Street Journal that "the enemies of civilization hate bow ties". But what conservatism calls civilization is little but the domination of an aristocracy. Every aspect of social life is subordinated to this goal. That is ( Read more... )

Originally published at:: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/conservatism.html  • August 2004

Note: This essay is an internet classic, and like many of those, not all that well known to the people who should know about it.  Phil Agre never claimed copyright on his work, and he worked for an educational institution when he wrote this,  so I ( Read more... )

As someone who lived for 7 years in an ultra conservative Catholic Religious Order. I really wonder what Conservative Episcopalian means. Conservative Catholics BELIEVE that the Inquisition was a GOOD thing. When conservatives sing Faith of Our Fathers, we are lamenting our failure in snuffing out heresy and the heretics. Conservative Catholics ( Read more... )