That is all…

So I’ve been lazy. Read Tigers new years excursions and decided I should get around to doing mine.

I was working new years eve so me and Brad, Nick, and Tesh decided to head up to Pakiri, one of the the meanest, whitest beaches NZ has for new years eve eve. They got there new years eve eve eve night and smashed some pipi’s (literally). Brad even cooked some up and ate them, got drunk and consequently vomited them back up. He no longer eats seafood.

So they had already been there for a day and a night by the time I got there after work on new years eve eve. They had been on a 8 day bender by this time, consuming a 40ounce bottle of Jack Daniels every night leading up to new years eve. Sometimes more than 1 and other times throwing in the odd bottle of Appleton Rum.

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Oh My God his middle name is Hussein!! Blurrgh…

Obama was inaugurated without having a large calibre bullet being shot through his skull which I think is pretty damn good. I hope he manages to make some real good changes before he is assassinated, which, there is no denying it, there is a high chance it is going to happen. Sure it may be insensitive to say that but I’m not one to sugar coat a story. Like every influential person before him, JFK, MLK, to name a few, he is in the targets. If he does too much good, the bad guys won’t let him continue. My old friend said that “When the good guys are in power, they get killed because the bad guys aren’t afraid to assassinate someone. But when the bad guys are in power they are safe because the good guys won’t assassinate anyone,” which is really the only explanation of why Bush was in the picture for so long.

Obama is changing stuff left right and centre.
First you got the changes to flow of money:

• Overturning laws stopping racial minorities and women challenging pay discrimination (means corporates have to spend more money on wages)
• Raise fuel economy (means oil companies won’t be making as much money)
• Ending the war in iraq (means war profiteers won’t be making ANY money)
• Weatherising homes (energy companies lose money cos people can spend less to stay warm)
• Stopping lobbyists giving gifts to administration staff (means corporates can’t influence the govt as easily)

To name only a few. Then you got the things that will upset the religious nutjobs:

• Doubling federal funding for science research (GOD TELLS US HOW STUFF WORKS!)
• Lifting funding stops for clinics that do abortions (an unformed fetus is sacred life!)
• Lifting the ban on stemcell research (taking stem cells from an unformed fetal embryo is murder!)

Holy fucking shit don’t even get me started on them…

Then you got the racists, which honestly I think is going a bit far here. Sure I don’t like black people who just gangbang, do drivebys, abuse the english language, live off the doll cos its easier than getting a job, or infect our children with that stupid horrible music… I’ve seen some real savages, maori’s in town abusing the fuck out people, beating people up completely unprovoked, and grabbing girls that clearly want nothing to do with them. That just makes me angry to live in the same country. I get racist, but really, there’s white people that do the same shit cos THEY think it’s cool so it comes down to kind of a classist thing (yeah, what? I can make up my own words…).

But seriously, you gotta draw the line. Obama is an educated, EXTREMELY well spoken dude who KNOWS his shit, and wears a suit. Plus his mum was WHITE for fucks sake. In the same vein I know maori’s who are absolute sweet dudes… I’m not about to downtrod them just cos of their skin colour.

So already you’ve got three main groups of people who will be upset by his changes, which, ultimately are good for everybody, taking the American society out of the fucking dark ages. The greedy, the religious, and the hateful (though religious and hateful could be combined into the same group). All people who have historically shown to not give a crap about killing someone to better themselves, or their whacked medievil views. Though shall not kill (unless the person being killed murders unformed embryonic fetuses – which are completely different to eating eggs (unformed embryonic fetuses) for breakfast).

Might as well paint a big target on his head. All I can say is I hope the secret service does their job real good.

Moved Skinny down to Wellington on the 3rd (Saturday). 3 days into the new year and I’m already going for a road trip lol. Loaded up the van with all his stuff and took it down there. Ass end was so low. Driving down we listened to the audiobook Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” which is pure win if you wanna know tonnes of random little facts about how stuff around the world and how science stuff works.

Yeah, skinny got a job software testing for the government, got a nice little flat in Newtown. Wellington was pretty nice, went for a few drives. It’s actually amazing how much more relaxed Wellington is than Auckland. Tonnes of bogans in Newtown as well, was cool. Lots of weirdos tho. We started yelling out “Weirdo!” everytime we saw one but then on observing that there were shitloads of weirdo’s around we started yelling out “Wellingtonian!” instead (no offense to any Wellingtonian’s).

I went and watched him on his BMX at island bay skatepark, he’s pretty mean on a BMX. Should’ve taken some vids but no camera. Yeah.

Was gonna see Tiger while I was in town but she didn’t reply to my email so wasn’t worried, think she was in Christchurch anyway lol.

I left on the Monday, after dropping Skinny off at work – bout 830am dept time. Was cool on the way back, pulled over for a rest, jumped in the back in my hammock and read my book. Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods”. Dude is a genius.

Got back to DF at about 6pm, bit long but did have quite a few rests.

Continuing on with why the game is rigged, I went from hemp to cannabis and checked out the two major components. THC or Tetrahydrocannabinol (which I have explained before how we have receptors to process) is the main one, and then there is Cannabidiol which can be up to 40% of the plant.

Now get this. Cannabidiol has been studied by many research groups and this is what they have found:

It appears to relieve:

• convulsion
• inflammation
• anxiety
• nausea

And it appears to inhibit cancer cell growth.

HELLO!? Appears to INHIBIT CANCER CELL GROWTH!!

Why aren’t they researching this shit more? Further top this they also say that it reduces growth of aggressive human breast cancer cells in vitro (in a test tube) and reduces their invasiveness. Thus it represents the first non toxic chemical that can make tumours less aggressive! You’d think this would be big news right? Wrong. Did you know “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”? Can’t be having that now!

It is also a neuroprotective antioxidant, which means it can stop neurons in the nervous system dying or being damaged after a brain injury or or as a result of chronic neurodegenerative diseases.

Thankfully Canada now has a product called Sativex which is cannabidiol and THC in a mouth spray to treat multiple sclerosis.

And even though the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy still says that marijuana can cause Schizophrenia, initial research shows that cannabidiol has an effect in reducing schizophrenic symptoms in patients.

Plus they have found the receptor for this chemical, called the GPR-55, common all over the brain, especially the cerebellum. They want to call it CB3 (Cannabinoid receptor 3), already having CB1 and CB2. But there is another possible candidate for CB3 that has been found in the hippocampus. So thats 4 cannabinoid receptors found in our bodies now, 3 of which are in the brain. Anyone tend to think we are supposed to consume this drug, cannabis?

So you have this chemical, cannabidiol, it has the potential to stop nausea, inflammation, Schizophrenia, neuron death/damage, anxiety, convulsion and the aggresiveness of breast cancer. There are no psychoactive effects and no known abuse potential and guess what..?

It is a Schedule 1 drug under United States law.

This hints to me population control. The game is rigged people. Enjoy your cancer.

OK so first post for the new year, guess what it is? It should be my trip to Pakiri the other day but I found something way more interesting.

I was looking through wikipedia as I do and I was looking at hemp production (the non-drug type of cannabis). In 1916 it was found that 1 acre of hemp can produce as much pulp for making paper as 4.7 acres of wood over a 20 year cycle. Also to break down the fibres 1/4 the amount of sulfur-based acid chemicals are needed for hemp (or none with soda ash). Also Chlorine bleach is not needed to bleach the paper, instead hydrogen peroxide can be used.

There are more environmentally friendly ways now but wood paper pulp production is still the second highest CO2 producing industry.

Did you know they use hemp fibre to strengthen concrete? Yeah, its called Hempcrete among other names and acts as an insulator and moisture regulator. Plus it is lighter, less brittle and doesn’t need expansion joints.

Some other random facts from the wiki article:

• It is reported to produce 250% more fiber than cotton and 600% more fiber than flax when grown on the same land.
• Hemp seed oil is reported to have anti-inflammatory properties.
• Hemp seeds contain all the essential amino acids and essential fatty acids necessary to maintain healthy human life.
• Mercedes-Benz uses a “biocomposite” composed principally of hemp fiber for the manufacture of interior panels in some of its automobiles.
• It is sometimes used in the manufacture of oil-based paints, in creams as a moisturising agent, for cooking, and in plastics.
• Biofuels such as biodiesel and alcohol fuel can be made from the oils in hemp seeds and stalks, and the fermentation of the plant as a whole, respectively – and it is reported to produce more energy per acre per year than corn, sugar, flax, or any other crop currently grown for ethanol or biodiesel
• Every industialized country in the world, excluding the United States, produces industrial hemp including Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Great Britain, France, Russia and Spain (although Canada only grows hemp for seed and oil, not fiber).
• Hemp Plastic is a new technology based on 20-100% hemp fiber-based plastics that can be molded or injection molded. Demand for fiber-reinforced composites and other natural plastics could become more popular as oil prices rise and environmental awareness increases.
• It is used for non-dairy milk somewhat similar to soy and nut milks, and for non-dairy hemp “ice cream.”
• Hempseed is an adequate source of calcium and iron. Iron deficiency is the leading nutrient deficiency world wide.

So as you can see, hemp has a lot of applications, that are better for the environment, and sometime of much better quality and quantity.

The problem is, hemp is grouped under marijuana and is condemned thanks to people and companies who had various interests in competing industries. Such as forestry (William Randolf Hearst), nylon (Dupont), and cotton plus competing industries to all mentioned above. Then there was the intense racism (which was suitable for this time ~1930) by Hearst, and Harry J. Anslinger, the first head of the Narcotics Bureau in the US. And finally the misrepresentation of the cannabis drug (which hemp is grouped under).

The game is rigged. Companies just want money and more money so they are gonna try and keep this stuff down.

A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis