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Colorado Nails Another Hemp First
(Mañana – September 9, 2016) Colorado is expected to reach another national first on cannabis today when state agriculture officials show off the first domestic certified hemp seeds. The Colorado Department of Agriculture has been working years to produce hemp seeds that consistently produce plants low enough in the chemical THC to qualify as hemp and not its intoxicating cousin, marijuana.
Congress authorized hemp production in 2014. But farmers who want to grow it must have state certification to raise the crop. The industry estimates that fewer than 7,000 acres are being grown nationwide this year. Colorado is the first state to certify hemp seed, which means the seed has been proven to be genetically pure.
How all of this washes with evil giants like Monsanto Corporation and other genetically altered pirates is anyone’s guess. These companies have been making shrouded moves so as to position themselves to act when the country catches up with itself on the long overdue overhaul of our drug laws.
Outhouse tours in Alaska
Poster by Jeff Brown in Real Alaska Magazine
Trump, Hillary to employ shift
(Campaign, IL — Fleecing Flock Tribune — September 7, 2016)
In a turn away from workaday partisan politics, both Presidential candidates are employing “the shift” on each other and on millions of mystified American voters. First introduced by defenses on the professional baseball diamond, the shift moves players around in a non-traditional manner to best make use of computer-generated data on each hitter in a simulated situation.
Democrat Hillary Clinton will still have Bill out in right field but many of her top advisors and political hacks will find themselves hugging the line or stuck out behind second base when left-wing rhetoric is on the mound. Donald Trump will make use of a host of rookies (most veterans have abandoned him and his hair) in his attempt to choke off the long ball. Trump himself will be housed in the visitors’ dugout, gagged and handcuffed until the season is concluded.
Meanwhile, the American people “who deserve the government they get” gape on the sideline or in the light beer line. The Republicans want to make America Great while the Democrats want to extend the Obama legacy. The voters, many of whom sleep in on Election Day, just want to be told what to do and when to do it, here in the Land of the Free. The Dumbing of America has not only arrived but it has been welcomed.
Neither candidate has advanced a platform that undresses the pandemic problems of economic disparity, bad schools, corporate welfare, global warming, the Medical-Insurance-Pharmaceutical Complex, the crumbling infrastructure, the chaos of the Middle East, immigration or the chronic loss of everyday kindness that plagues the nation. As puffed up reflections of our sad society Hillary and Trump just move their mouths and the same old tired words march out.
“The shift was introduced to utilize statistics gathered on each player,” said Rocky Flats the manager and chief executive of the Nattering Nabobs, a Raton, New Mexico farm team. “If he pulls the ball or has had success hitting to the opposite field we move players around the diamond to compensate for strengths and weaknesses. It’s the same with elections only the repositioning is accomplished by the super delegates, the television networks and the people who actually run the country.”
Meanwhile the tax paying public gets screwed according to Flats who added that it appears
September in the San Juans
Photo by Delinda Austin
Rockies’ scouts in Gaza in search of relief pitching
(West Bank) Sticks and Stoned September , 2016)
The Colorado Rockies front office has sent a company of scouts to the often-embattled Gaza Strip this week in hopes of signing a few short relief pitchers. The preponderance of strong young arms in the region coupled with a chronic lack of opportunity has created a buyer’s market there.
“Many of these potential hurlers stare down tanks and assault weaponry armed only with rocks,” said Emile Turlo, a former coach for the Asheville Tourists who now makes a living developing new talent. “Constant violence and desperate economic conditions here have created a glut of raw players far more comfortable with the a soccer ball than a baseball.”
Turlo confirmed reports that his team would not be looking at Israelis to fill the void on its pitching staff.
“They are too busy building new settlements on Palestinian land to play at sandlot assimilations,” said Turlo. “It’s pretty tough establishing a curve ball with a rock, especially when one is lugging around an AK-47.”
– Kashmir Horseshoe
DuPont Circle color
Georgian edifices near DuPont Circle in Washington DC on a hot, sunny afternoon.