Paraquat from Wikipedia: Paraquat is the trade name for N,N′-dimethyl-4,4′-bipyridinium dichloride, one of the most widely used herbicides in the world. Paraquat, a viologen, is quick-acting and non-selective, killing green plant tissue on contact. It is also toxic to human beings and animals. Research has shown that it is linked to development of Parkinson's disease.
Paraquat (if you believe the story) was used in the mid 70's to eradicate pot fields. By then I was on the straight and narrow but I heard the residual weed that survived was super good stuff, killer if you will.
Forty years later Seattle police attend Hempfest, a very "groovy" festival I'm sure. Do people say groovy these days? What about cool, bummer, far and freaked out? Oh.....sorry, I lost my train of thought. Just thinking about those days has my mind wandering. Doritos for $50, that was it.
DON'TS Don't drive while high. Don't give, sell, or shotgun weed to people under 21. Don't use pot in public. You could be cited but we'd rather give you a warning. DO'S Do listen to the Dark Side of the Moon at a reasonable volume. Do enjoy Hempfest.
Remember: respect your fellow voters and familiarize yourself with the rules of I-502 at seattle.gov/police/marijwhatnow
The City of Seattle web site is very informative. They are hiring police officers. Great place to live and work....Great benefits: retirement, school reimbursement, health care and free Doritos.
Wanda pointed this out the other day:
The Oakland A's baseball players wives and girlfriends making and selling Root Beer and Orange Crush Floats. It was a fundraiser for.....get ready for it.........the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. A paradox you think?
Depending on size, a Root Beer Float has 60 to 160 sugar grams, even more in Orange Crush. They did serve "sugar free" floats that were also taste free. Next year how about fruit smoothies?
I had no idea a hunger strike was going into its seventh week. When the strike began July 8 it included nearly 30,000 of the 133,000 inmates in California prisons. Now 70 inmates are still protesting and officials "fear for their lives." So, what are these officials going to do?
A federal judge approved a request from California and federal officials to force-feed inmates if necessary as a statewide prison hunger strike entered its seventh week.
Admittedly, there are rules, regulations and ramifications I don't understand. Basically, if an inmate has signed an advanced directive indicating no medical intervention they can die. If they haven't signed one they can't.
The reason for the strike? Gang leaders and violent prisoners held in solitary confinement up to decades. Too long in the eyes and stomachs of the inmates.
Damn, I am a principled, compassionate, socially conscience man but I can only think, let 'em die.
An Australian woman was brought back to life after being clinically dead for 42 minutes. The 41-year-old mother of two, collapsed while getting her kids ready for school a week ago. She’d had a heart attack, and was declared clinically dead soon after she was brought to the hospital.
The cardiology team was able to save her using a high-tech new machine that gave her CPR for 30 minutes, keeping her blood flowing to her brain and other organs while doctors unblocked an artery. Her heart was then successfully shocked into beating again.
Without the $15,000, battery-powered LUCAS 2 or “thumper,” her doctors would have had to do CPR manually while performing surgery. “It’s truly a miracle that after 40 minutes of reduced circulation that she is alive and well and completely cognizant,” says the hospital director.
“I would be dead if it wasn’t for the thumper machine,” said the patient. Just think, a machine named after a Bambi character saved my life." (no one had the heart...get it, heart..to tell her thumper was named for its thump sound)
She was set to be released yesterday, and adds that she’s given up smoking.
People dead for a few minutes come back with tales of white lights, angels, and heavenly emotions. This one is out 42 minutes and nothing. How disappointing. At least she's given up smoking.
I just love those pillows.
An unidentified Texas man twice within the past few weeks has strolled into a Marshalls department store and exposed himself near the pillow aisle.
Two women, ages 48 and 49, saw the man exposing himself and alerted store management, then police.
The unidentified man, who may be in his 20s, will be charged with indecent exposure when he is caught.
"This is an area where you don't really expect something like that, it's kind of creepy," said a female shopper.
OK.....where would you expect something like that? "Honey, while you're looking for dresses I'm going over to the pull out your pecker department. No, I won't be long....scratch that, I won't take long."
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