here ya go folz hot off the press... The U.S. government believes that
America is going to pot - literally.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/armentano-p/armentano-p24.html

Earlier this month, the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse
announced plans to spend $4 million to establish the nation's first-
ever "Center on Cannabis Addiction," which will be based in La Jolla,
Calif. The goal of the center, according to NIDA's press release, is
to "develop novel approaches to the prevention, diagnosis and
treatment of marijuana addiction."

Not familiar with the notion of "marijuana addiction"? You're not
alone. In fact, aside from the handful of researchers who have
discovered that there are gobs of federal grant money to be had
hunting for the government's latest pot boogeyman, there's little
consensus that such a syndrome is clinically relevant - if it even
exists at all.

Before the California Gathering in 2004, a small group of people decided to
grow food to bring to the gathering.

Can you believe that was 4 years ago? Well at any rate, going through
my saved cool posts I found this one and thought I'd share it in case
anyone is so inspired as to grow veggies for the gathering in Wyoming.

Thanks to all the brothers and sisters who worked on this project.
I was lucky enough to be able to partake of the sacred salad.
Beautiful project.

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namaste'
This might be the very last aok update. i know i have no imediate
need or intention of doing so.
Aok, under the alias BOOM GARLIC, delivered about 1,000 lbs of
carrots, beets, etc, and mixed...

Another useful post from my files that I saved off another newsgroup.

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From: penny s
Subject: Re: Camping with a 15 month old
View: Complete Thread (10 articles)
Original Format
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.camping
Date: 2002-08-16 13:28:23 PST

Here's a copy of the distilled wisdom panel for camping and
backpacking with
kids and babies, compiled by yours truly. It's posted once a month on
rec.backcountry

Important:

Happy is he who will repay you, with retribution, for what you have
inflicted on us.

HA HA

By the rivers of Babylon, where we wept, while we remembered Zion.

Jerusalem if I forget you, let my right hand forget what its supposed
to do.

Cut off the roots from your family tree, can't you see, thats not the
way.

(hear the whole song)
On my new MYSPACE page

Http://myspace.com/holesky

WEEEEEEEEEEEE LOOOOOOVVVVEEEEEE YOU

Bbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppp

"It's really unfair to expect people to choose. It's like asking to be loyal
to one parent or the other."
- SHAFIA ZALOOM, who is Asian and white, on being asked to pick a racial
identity.

"It's really unfair to expect people to choose. It's like asking to be loyal
to one parent or the other."
- SHAFIA ZALOOM, who is Asian and white, on being asked to pick a racial
identity.

Notice to Employees (Includes Temporary and Part Time Staff)

SICKNESS
We will no longer accept your doctors' notes as proof.
We believe if you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to work.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR SURGERY
We are no longer allowing this practice. As long as you are employed here,
you will need all of whatever you have and should not consider having
anything removed. We hired you as you are, and to have anything removed
would certainly make you less than we bargained for. Anyone having any type
of surgery will be FIRED immediately.

PREGNANCY
In the event of extreme pregnancy, you will be allowed to go to the first
aid room when the pains are FIVE MINUTES apart. If it is false labor, you
will have to take an hour's leave without pay.

DEATH
This will be accepted as an excuse, BUT we would like two weeks notice, as
we feel it is your duty to teach someone your job prior to . . . or after
death.

This new benefit program goes into effect immediately.

On Mar 30, 7:27 pm, "00BNZ" <00...@dooooooooodoooooo.com> wrote:

The second column of the table is the probability of non-zero
correlation F-statistic. Numbers near zero indicate weak trends,
while numbers at, or near, one mark strong trends.

These data were found at:

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/hcn_calc_mean_data.Z

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/station.inventory.Z

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/README.TXT

Lauren Keane wrote:

Question: Is denouncing NAZI literature as
"fascist" and "inciting people to murder" ...
"clearly crass and self-serving exercises that
pay lip service to the idea of freedom of
speech while being little more than vehicles
for xenophobia?"

The Linux fans will be thrilled to find out that their favorite operating
system have proved the safest at the contest organized this week by the
security firm TippingPoint.

The contest was in Vancouver, Canada and it had three phases: during the
first day, only network attacks were allowed, but none of the laptops could
be broken into remotely. In the second day, rules stated that the hacker
could give instructions to a staff member.

During the third day, the rules of the contest allow the installation of
popular 3rd party client applications on the notebooks.

The prizes were $20,000 for those who would manage to break the security of
the laptops in the first day, $10,000 on day two and only $5,000 on the
third day.

Apple's MacBook was first to be hacked and for the team led by Charlie
Miller, an analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, two minutes were
enough to break the notebook.

The team of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel from Independent
Security Evaluators has successfully compromised the Apple MacBook Air by
exploiting a brand new 0day vulnerability in Apple's Safari web browser.