Light of Jah - Early Wonder Skunk - Soil - OC+ From Seed

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I was just reading a post on DocBud's journal and they were talking about water. That reminded me of this movie I watched. I think everyone should see this movie called "Gasland"

YouTube - GASLAND Trailer 2010
 
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HempRocket said:
That pictures is just WRONG on so many levels.
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:amen: to that!!! Eek. I'm gonna worry about anyone posting a "like" on that photo, lol!
 
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HempRocket said:
I was just reading a post on DocBud's journal and they were talking about water. That reminded me of this movie I watched. I think everyone should see this movie called "Gasland"

YouTube - GASLAND Trailer 2010
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On a more serious note, it looks like a good documentary. I think we all need to be reminded of where and how our fuels are obtained. So many fuels we use daily are now somewhat obsolete. I'm hoping to get some solar and wind powered grows going in the future for multiple reasons.

Thanks for sharing Hemp!
:Namaste:
 
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I saw it mentioned about being more eviromentaly friendly with our energy use in our grows and suggestions of solar and wind energy were mentioned but wouldn't the most enviromentaly friendly form of energy to use for growing cannabis be to use diesel generators that run on bio diesel fuel made from hemp?
 
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I had to run to my wife so she could show me really nice one's to get that picture out of my mine, thankssssssssssssssssssss dirtinmyear. :ban: That picture.
 
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Hey Rocket I know it's a serious problem but that video made me laugh... that water looks perfect for our ladies, especially if you're growing diesels :tokin:
 
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Money is imaginary too. Doesn't even represent a portion of gold anymore like it used to. (I'm not that old; just know a tiny bit of history.)
HempRocket, I can't wait to hear your smoke report on the Light of JAH. The frosting on both that and the EWS looks tasty.
 
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Not only is money fake, the simple fact that the human race has been reduced to a system of I have and you don't makes me sick. You have these super rich bastards drivin an Aston Martin (not that I don't love Aston Martin) or a Ferrari (same) but how they got their money is immoral. Like the ceo of Marlboro who kills people for a living, legally and the owners (be it as it may from stocks) of pharmaceutical companies that advertise happiness as a drug, but causes strokes as a side effect. It bullshi^!

And we can't smoke a little herb or make a profit from it unless someone else says so. Everyone needs to grow more herb. Why can't everywhere be like California?

I have a pacemaker/defibrillator installed and take meds that prevent me from sleeping, and having a routine like a normal person. Pot helps me fall asleep but I'm a criminal in my state for having it. But I can buy cigarettes any time of day? Someone please explain
 
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Lovely looking ladies!

Been focussing on the LST for mine but now thinking I can cram more into my space if they get more height.

Hmmmmm.
 
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We have a good discussion going here. Chee is right, the US $ is becoming monopoly money. The fed is printing money faster than they can spend it and nobody seems to be worried about inflation!!!

But then again, even with monopoly money we can buy things like tiny little plastic houses and hotels. :)

I will have pictures up tomorrow unless I find some time today to tend to my ladies.

On a lighter note, here is another video for all you medicated souls. Once again, it is recommended that you smoke a fat one before watching this:

YouTube - LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem ft. Lauren Bennett, GoonRock
 
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I don't like to post anything with bad vibes but they should gather everyone at Goldman Sachs, every Sec.Treas. in like the last decade, everyone who has ever held an executive position at the Fed. Eichtner, all those guys. There should be no trial, they should be stood up against a brick wall, two in the chest-one in the head. I am so sick of hearing the words, "retainer fees." These guys gang-raped the our antitrust laws (and the US economy) and then got stupid amounts of money to stick around and help "fix it" instead of not passing GO, not collecting $200 billion, and going straight to fucking jail. It's ridiculous how easy it was for these guys to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act and all the other shit they put in place after the Depression and WWII SO THAT SHIT WOULDN'T HAPPEN AGAIN. And then GS goes and pays like $4 billion in bonuses the same year the gov't bails them out for, wait, what was it? Like $4 billion?

Okay I'm done
 
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Cheeforest said:
Okay I'm done
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Well here's something I read in the NYT yesterday. Hate to get you going again ;>) but this this really set me off...

From nytimes.com

In Prison for Taking a Liar Loan
By JOE NOCERA
Published: March 25, 2011

A few weeks ago, when the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of Countrywide, I wrote a column lamenting the fact that none of the big fish were likely to go to prison for their roles in the financial crisis.
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Charlie Engle on Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, Calif. He is now in prison for fraud.

Soon after that column ran, I received an e-mail from a man named Richard Engle, who informed me that I was wrong. There was, in fact, someone behind bars for what he'd supposedly done during the subprime bubble. It was his 48-year-old son, Charlie.

On Valentine's Day, the elder Mr. Engle said, his son had entered a minimum-security prison in Beaver, W.Va., to begin serving a 21-month sentence for mortgage fraud. He then proceeded to tell me the tale of how federal agents nabbed his son – a tale he backed up with reams of documents and records that suggest, if nothing else, that when the federal government is truly motivated, there is no mountain it won't move to prosecute someone it wants to nail. And it was definitely motivated to nail Charlie Engle.

Mr. Engle's is a tale worth telling for a number of reasons, not the least of which is its punch line. Was Mr. Engle convicted of running a crooked subprime company? Was he a mortgage broker who trafficked in predatory loans? A Wall Street huckster who sold toxic assets?

No. Charlie Engle wasn't a seller of bad mortgages. He was a borrower. And the "mortgage fraud" for which he was prosecuted was something that literally millions of Americans did during the subprime bubble. Supposedly, he lied on two liar loans.

"The Department of Justice has made prosecuting financial crimes, including mortgage fraud, a high priority," said Neil H. MacBride, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, in a statement. (Mr. MacBride, whose office prosecuted Mr. Engle, declined to be interviewed.)

Apparently, though, it's only a high priority if the target is a borrower. Mr. Mozilo's company made billions in profit, some of it on liar loans that he acknowledged at the time were likely to be fraudulent and which did untold damage to the economy. And he personally was paid hundreds of millions of dollars. Though he agreed last year to a $67.5 million fine to settle fraud charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, it was a small fraction of what he earned. Otherwise, he walked. Thus does the Justice Department display its priorities in the aftermath of the crisis.

It's not just that Mr. Engle is the smallest of small fry that is bothersome about his prosecution. It is also the way the government went about building its case. Although Mr. Engle took out the two stated-income loans, as liar loans are more formally called, in late 2005 and early 2006, it wasn't until three years later that his troubles began.

As a young man, Mr. Engle had been a serious drug addict, but after he got clean, he became an ultra-marathoner, one of the best in the world. In the fall of 2006, he and two other ultra-marathoners took on an almost unimaginable challenge: they ran across the Sahara Desert, something that had never been done before. The run took 111 days, and was documented in a film financed by Matt Damon, who served as executive producer and narrator. Mr. Engle received $30,000 for his participation.

The film, "Running the Sahara," was released in the fall of 2008. Eventually, it caught the attention of Robert W. Nordlander, a special agent for the Internal Revenue Service. As Mr. Nordlander later told the grand jury, "Being the special agent that I am, I was wondering, how does a guy train for this because most people have to work from nine to five and it's very difficult to train for this part-time." (He also told the grand jurors that sometimes, when he sees somebody driving a Ferrari, he'll check to see if they make enough money to afford it. When I called Mr. Nordlander and others at the I.R.S. to ask whether this was an appropriate way to choose subjects for criminal tax investigations, my questions were met with a stone wall of silence.)

Mr. Engle's tax records showed that while his actual income was substantial, his taxable income was quite small, in part because he had a large tax-loss carry forward, due to a business deal he'd been involved in several years earlier. (Mr. Nordlander would later inform the grand jury only of his much lower taxable income, which made it seem more suspicious.) Still convinced that Mr. Engle must be hiding income, Mr. Nordlander did undercover surveillance and took "Dumpster dives" into Mr. Engle's garbage. He mainly discovered that Mr. Engle lived modestly.

In March 2009, still unsatisfied, Mr. Nordlander persuaded his superiors to send an attractive female undercover agent, Ellen Burrows, to meet Mr. Engle and see if she could get him to say something incriminating. In the course of several flirtatious encounters, she asked him about his investments.

After acknowledging that he had been speculating in real estate during the bubble to help support his running, he said, according to Mr. Nordlander's grand jury testimony, "I had a couple of good liar loans out there, you know, which my mortgage broker didn't mind writing down, you know, that I was making four hundred thousand grand a year when he knew I wasn't."

Mr. Engle added, "Everybody was doing it because it was simply the way it was done. That doesn't make me proud of the fact that I am at least a small part of the problem."

Unbeknownst to Mr. Engle, Ms. Burrows was wearing a wire.

Lying on a stated-income loan is, without question, a crime, and one ought not to excuse it even though, as Mr. Engle says, "everybody was doing it" – usually with the eager encouragement of their brokers. But the Engle case raises questions not just about the government's priorities, but about something even more basic: did he even commit the crimes he is accused of?

Partly, I concede, Mr. Engle is easy to root for. He is a personable, upbeat man who has conquered some serious demons. Part of his Sahara expedition was aimed at raising money for a charity to help bring clean water to Africa. "Every experience in life has the ability to teach lessons if I am open to them," he wrote on a blog as he prepared to enter prison. How can you not like someone like that?

But the more I looked into it, the more I came to believe that the case against him was seriously weak. No tax charges were ever brought, even though that was Mr. Nordlander's original rationale. Money laundering, the suspicion of which was needed to justify the undercover sting, was a nonissue as well. As for that "confession" to Ms. Burrows, take a closer look. It really isn't a confession at all. Mr. Engle is confessing to his mortgage broker's sins, not his own.

Perhaps anticipating that problem, when Mr. Nordlander finally arrested Mr. Engle in May 2010, he claims to have elicited a stronger, better confession while Mr. Engle was handcuffed in the back seat of his car. Mr. Engle fervently denies this. This second supposed confession, however, was never captured on tape.

As for the loans themselves, on one of them Mr. Engle claimed an income of $15,000 a month. As it turns out, his total income in 2005, according to his accountant, was $180,000, which amounts to ... hmmm ...$15,000 a month, though of course Mr. Engle didn't have the kind of job that generated monthly income. (In addition to real estate speculation, Mr. Engle gave motivational speeches and earned around $50,000 a year as a producer on the hit show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.")

The monthly income listed on the second loan was $32,500, an obviously absurd amount, especially since the loan itself was for only $300,000. It was a refinance of a property Mr. Engle already owned, allowing him to pull out $80,000 of the $215,000 in equity he had in the property.

Mr. Engle claims that he never saw that $32,500 claim and never signed the papers. Indeed, a handwriting analysis conducted by the government raised the distinct possibility that Mr. Engle's signature and his initials in several places in the mortgage documents had been forged. As it happens, Mr. Engle's broker for that loan, John J. Hellman, recently pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud for playing fast and loose with a number of mortgage applications. Mr. Hellman testified in court that Mr. Engle had signed the mortgage application. Early this week, Mr. Hellman received a reduced sentence of 10 months, less than half of Mr. Engle's sentence, in no small part because of his willingness to testify against Mr. Engle.

Even the jurors seemed confused about how to think about Mr. Engle's supposed crime. When it came time to pronounce a verdict, the jury found him not guilty of providing false information to the bank, which would seem to be the only fraud he could possibly have committed. Yet it still found him guilty of mortgage fraud. "I think the prosecution convinced the jury that I was guilty of something but they weren't sure what," Mr. Engle wrote in an e-mail.

Like many people, Mr. Engle's biggest mistake was believing that housing prices could only go up. When the market collapsed, Mr. Engle defaulted on the two properties, which of course is not a crime. Although his accountant tried to persuade the banks to do a complicated refinancing, they refused and foreclosed on the properties. Like many Americans, Mr. Engle wound up being punished by the market for his mistake, losing all his remaining equity along with the properties themselves. Thanks to the government, though, his punishment was far more severe than most.

At his sentencing, Mr. Engle told the judge: "I can say with confidence that I can turn negatives into positives. I have no doubt I will make the best of it." With his inspiring prison blog, Running in Place: A Blog About Surviving Adversity, he has already begun to do that.

Even when he emerges from prison, though, his ordeal will not be over. As part of his sentence, Mr. Engle was ordered to pay $262,500 in restitution to the owner of his mortgages. And what institution might that be? You guessed it: Countrywide, now owned by Bank of America.

Angelo Mozilo ought to get a good chuckle out of that one.
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