Hemp thoughts

I read a blog at http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/article.aspx?aid=1118 and started to comment. Thanks bud, that was an interesting article and it stimulated my intellectual side. My comment got long so I posted to my blog.

Almost any vegetation can produce methane that powers mobility. Coconuts are plentiful in several parts of the world and will provide an alternative there, returning them to pre industrial technology. Great. Many of the worlds most severely affected poverty stricken polluted nations live in that area, and I am sure the coconuts would be shared with them. It might not be a world wide solution however. Kudos from the planet for promoting this idea!

Funny. Prior to the 20th century when we were first developing Automation and developing motors that retired our horses, we used green fuels like Coconut, corn and hemp for fuels. Petrol was considered and was available but Green fuels were way more efficient for power. Petrol was too unstable. In the USA it was racial prejudices that started the change to petrol use on this isde of the world. Marijuana (Hemp Cannabis) is the female of the species. The term "Marijuana" (properly pronounced "Marihuana") was a slang the Mexicans used to identify the plant

In the Deep South where the Mexicans and blacks smoked Ganja and laughed as they slaved for the plantation owners, the biggest push for prohibition started. Cotton farmers saw hemp as a competition on a few of their plans for expansion. They had investments in petrol too. They were masters at starting nasty rumors that became popular news and they were successful in promoting the evils of hemp to their many contacts. Of course companies promoting “alternatives” to hemp use filled the void hemp loss produced.

Many old school people from back there had very red necked attitudes. It was promoted in town gossip, newspapers, radio shows and popular new TV’s emerging in the 1940's. Blacks and Mexicans, Rock and Roll Music, everything Evil to them began with drugs. The Great depression was blamed on societies’ decadence into the madness of illicit drugs! The most visible drug and promoted as the worst one, was Marijuana.

Check out the film "Refer Madness" which the US government used, during a time of national depression (1932), to spark national / then international hatred and prohibition. The plant we loved; used to healed our sick, give us fuel for the future, made depression vanish and feed our strong, healthy growing nation. The USA was founded on Hemp and is a big part of why it developed into a planetary superpower! I feel the Government of the United States of America should be held accountable for hate crimes against the plant species “Hemp Sativa” and “Hemp Indica” throughout the 20^th century.

Stay tuned for further posts... Ken

What is your phobia?

Sorry if that is too personal a question but what the heck... The Internet is impersonal eh? Anyway, I suppose I would let you know mine and see what scares you the most. Please, no one say "Ken's first film! Arrrrg!!!" Anyway, my fear:

I dunno. I have seen pure evil manifest itself in front of me once. It was a a mistake the vile beast apologized for b4 disappearing in a thick sulphurous smog. When the smog dissipated, we discovered one hell of a bong which we enjoyed immensely:) I have also sailed on the River Styx (actually, the Potomac) on a tall ship during red tide so there is not much that gets me scared. Well, not true. Women scare me. Success scares me. The combination would be explosive; soooo whatup with life today?

Success is measured small. For example; I have always wanted a top of the line 1st owner computer. Wow- that arrives tomorrow about 1100 hrs I am told. Shh... Do not tell anyone I bought a "DELL", Dudes & Dudettes, but I'll report on it when I get it and use it a bit. It's already here way ahead of schedule. If that is anything to impress a guy on the speed of new technology, I am sure of great things from this machine. For this point in my life, it is a great way to start the new year. Expect major things from WalkNRoll Publications & http://www.pgwalknroll.com/ as aamd productions rolls out to promote Prince George with a new theme! Stay Tuned as I cringe in total fear!!

Then there are all these women. All sorts of women not just the usual "snow blowers" from along the street below me. Ladies from my past; ladies who could become future ex's... heartaches... That is sure to come if my next plan succeeds *Shudder* Be prepared for far worse; but I do not want to get together with the last ex anytime soon (Oh wait- that is my biggest phobia!!)

ttyl, Ken (Meinbc)

Environmental 1

DO YOU NOTICE THE TAGLINES?

Although intended to be a paperless communication medium, e-mail has felled more than its fair share of trees. To fight back, a group that includes bloggers and business folk has begun punctuating its electronic communications with a sentence that's salutation, admonishment and battle cry in one. The message? Stop sending those memos to the laserjet. Chances are, you've received the appeal, even if you didn't realize it.

The line “Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail" and its variants have been gaining on that chestnut of electronic communications, "If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender immediately." And, some would wryly argue, the environmentally friendly line could become equally unmemorable - drowned out as more "background noise" or "clutter." Fans of this conservationist creed say they were less likely to waste paper after first seeing it in a colleague's e-mail, later rigging their own e-mail program to automatically paste the sentence alongside their phone number and title, typically in green font.

As with many things viral; its origins are murky and while it's difficult to quantify its impact, the practice has caught on from the blogosphere to the boardroom. The e-mail tagline earned a plug in March from the blog “Tree Hugger" and after dozens of employees at project-management and construction company Bovis Lend Lease began adopting the message in the last year, the 10,000-person company made an exception to its rule requiring a standard style of e-mail signature, according to its sustainability chief.

A 27-year-old film publicist in L.A., Kate adopted the tagline about a year ago after it made her think twice about printing a colleague's e-mail. "In our office, there's a lot of white paper that gets used up daily and it sort of stings my heart a little bit every time I see someone print out a 50-page e-mail correspondence," she said. The average office worker in North America prints 10,000 sheets of copy paper pear year (or about 50 kilograms), compared to about 8,800 sheets by the average British worker according to the nonprofit Metafore, which advises businesses on how to make their paper supplies more environmentally friendly. Adding in paper products used in the home and elsewhere, the U.S. ranks second in the world behind Finland in per capita consumption, at 311 kilograms per person per year. Metafore chief executive David Ford said anything that raises awareness of people's consumption habits is a positive step, although "whether it'll actually save a lot of paper in the long run, I'm not sure."

Lifestyle editor for the Sierra Club's bimonthly magazine Jennifer Hattam said the taglines would be less meaningful than changes implemented by office decision-makers. "If individuals get the message and reduce their printing, that's great," she said. "But if someone is in position for setting policy for a whole office ... then that's going to have a magnified effect." Bovis vice-president and sustainability guru Paul King said that while the tagline isn't a formal part of the company's waste reduction initiatives it's useful if it gets people thinking about efforts that are.

The company is greening its offices by reducing the ratio of printers to people and replacing paper cups with reusable china in its kitchens, among other moves. In a very unscientific survey of his e-mail inbox, King counted that 27 of 33 e-mails from Bovis employees received on a recent day included the sentence. "It is spread very much virally. There was never any request from anyone in the company for this to be included, nor was there any objection," said King. Similarly, Andrew Kalish, a 24-year-old account executive at PR firm Edelman, said voluntary use of the tagline is common among its 2,100 employees, and attributes its popularity to word-of-mouth. Kalish began using it after noticing it in colleagues' e-mails. But could the message become a victim of its own successful spread?

Deborah Fallows, a senior research fellow at the Pew Internet and American Life Project said that while the message is benign, it's also easily overlooked. "Taglines become part of the 'clutter' within e-mail and the Internet user experience in general that make it much more likely that readers will overlook them or dismiss them than be offended by them or feel harangued by them," she said in an e-mail.

James Orsi, who runs an Internet gallery of annoying e-mail signatures, concurred. "If that is going to be adopted by a lot of businesses, it's going to become background noise. It's just going to be ignored," said Orsi, who by day serves as business analyst for an Internet development company. However, Orsi remarked, "I wouldn't necessarily put it up in my gallery."

Weird... Simply Weird.

While surfing on a Friday night.... Actually that was a Sunday evening. By a strange twist of fate that has occurred, Sundays are now Fridays for me, and my week consists of a Monday, a Wednesday, and the ever present "Friday". More on how that occurs for me (Totally w/o being under the influence of THC) in some further edition of "Weird... Simply Weird".



Anyway, I was surfing on Fr... Errr Sunday after work and found some radical news about weird things that caught my eyes. I flushed the eyes with that blue bottle in the first aid kit and thought I would post some of the more outlandish ones I come across!



Enjoy!



I wonder if this work for me on my Electric Mobility Scooter?



A Canadian man has earned the title of world's biggest skinflint. The dude successfully beat a DWI rap by arguing he was too cheap to have bought enough drinks to have gotten as drunk as cops said he was when the police found him behind the wheel. In his ruling, the judge was apparently impressed by the Man's "tightfistedness" and said his claims of cheapness raised "reasonable doubt" that he didn't have a .13 alcohol level, as cops contended. I dunno. Perhaps some "Private consultation" took place in Chambers; details were sketchy on the trial.

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Oh I was so deprived as an adolescent; I never got an Elephant!!!!!!!


(ain't He cute? Lets get him for Junior and move to Canada!)


If you ever dreamed of owning an elephant in England, you can forget about it. The government has banned the ownership of pachyderms, despite a major letter-writing campaign on the part of Jumbo-loving children. "We believe that every child in the UK would benefit from owning an elephant," said one of the rejected pleas.

Can U imagine little Johnny taking Jumbo to school for Show and Tell? I would hope that the Canadian Government would be that wise, I would hate for the elementary school just down the way to house those critters!!

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Well, that is all for tonight folks. I will see you the next time I am here... Who actually reads these things anyway?

Ken (AKA "Meinbc"; yes Grace, it is I lol)

Keep the comments clean

I received this in a forward, so I hardly think that a copyright applies here. My personal thoughts on this radical forward follow it: Please respect that these posts are my personal thoughts opinions and expressions; and in no way reflect on PG WALKNROLL's opinions, values or thoughts of global conquest. Enjoy! Ken (by the way, the forward does not hold the values etc of mine either)

VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) -

Despite being given a show of support by Vancouver 2010 organizers, embattled music manager and CKNW editorial list, Bruce Allen is not out of hot water just yet as the fallout continues from his recent commentary indicating immigrants to Canada should 'fit in,' or 'go home.'Richmond Liberal MP, Raymond Chan, is set to file an official complaint with the CRTC (Cdn Radio Television Commission) about Allen's recent 'reality check' alleging the piece was discriminatory. Chan is also demanding an official apology and a retraction of the comments. It's time we all get behind Bruce Allen, and scrap this Political Correctness crap. His comments were anything but racist, but there are far too many overly-sensitive 'New Canadians' that are trying to change everything we hold dear.

For example, our National Anthem: Don't know what your opinions are, but I certainly agree. I am sorry, but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Hindi - enough is enough. No where or at no other time in our nation's history, did they sing it in Italian, Japanese, Polish, Irish (Celtic),German, Portuguese, Greek, or any other language because of immigration. It was written in English, and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation not even close.

I am not sorry if this offends anyone, this is MY COUNTRY - IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY, SPEAK UP & please pass this along. I am not against immigration just come through like everyone else. Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past --and LONG LIVE CANADA!

PART OF THE PROBLEM: Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!!!! Will we still be the Country of Choice and still be CANADA if we continue to make the changes forced on us by the people from other countries who have come to live in CANADA because it is the Country of Choice?????? Think about it! IMMIGRANTS, NOT CANADIAN'S, MUST ADAPT. It is Time for CANADA to Speak up.

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My Personal beliefs; in no way reflecting anything of WalkNRoll's opinions or values... other then our patriotic love of Canada :)

I am proud that the song of my Country can be sung in so many languages. One of Canada's strongest characteristics is "Diplomacy". Communication; Crystal clear and to the point in any language is critical. Our United Nations Peace-Keeping forces are masters in diplomacy and proudly display our flag all over the world. It is because of them that the National Anthem ("Oh Canada") is learned in hundreds of languages in many parts of the globe who ( thankfully) consider us "Friends" eh?.

I do agree however, that at public venues where CANADIANS gather on Canadian soil it should be sung in one of the Traditional languages of Canada (not just English). If the Immigrants should choose to sing it (in their own spaces) in the tongue that they learned our national anthem in their home countries, so be it. If is sung with the "Pride of the Nation" in their hearts and voices it does not matter what language it is sung in, does it?

It is my understanding as well, that the song being sung will be sung to a world audience. Some of the contestants at the olympics will be Hindi. Again if it is well sung and heartfelt it will install Pride international in our country; far more so then if they could not understand our language and resent us due to an arrogant attitude!

Nuff Said!