Posted on 08/25/2019 4:03:20 PM PDT by ransomnote
Never the left side.
HAPPY birthday!
:)
NOT TO MENTION IT’S A MEME THAT SOMEONE ELSE CREATED..
SHEESH!
http://thyra2005.blogspot.com/2011/11/corn-poppy-and-opium-poppy.html
A few excerpts from link
Internationally: Most species of poppies are attractive and are cultivated as ornamental plants. A few species have other uses, principally as sources of drugs and foods. The opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) is so widely used, for both drugs and food, that its worldwide production is monitored by international agencies.
The Corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is a wild growing papaver species, which usually has got red tepals around a black center. This poppy is the largest and most common of three wild papaver species in Denmark, and it has got its name because it was earlier common as a weed in the corn. Its natural habitat is most of Europe, North Africa, Caucasus, Iran and the Indian subcontinent. In Denmark the Corn Poppy is common in fallow fields and in unfertilized cornfields. The red-flowered corn poppy is of wartime remembrance. It's a common weed in Europe and is found in many locations, including Flanders, the setting of the famous poem "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian surgeon and soldier John Mc Crae.(WWI)
The Corn poppy is one of the most beautiful among weeds. The red flowers arrive in the high season in summer, and each plant can produce about 20.000 seeds. Some seeds sprouts at once. The poppy is a strange and unstable plant. It does not thrive in well cultivated and cleansed soil, and it is rarely seen in the cornfields, but if the soil is allowed to fallow without treatment from field tools, then the poppies sprouts up in numbers. At midsummer time whole landscapes can be bright red with those fine silken flowers. The milk from the plant is bitter and poisonous. The close relative Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy, is cultivated in many places for extraction of opium from the sap of the seed capsules. The opium poppy is about 30 -90 cm tall, it has large white or pale purple or variegated flowers during summer. There are sorts with double flowers
The many seeds from the capsules keep their germination ability for a long time In favorable conditions a field can unexpectedly be blood red with poppy flowers. In some places the corn is covered in poppies. The deep red poppies were in a place explained by that they came from the blood of fallen soldiers in a battle with the Swedes in 1659. But it was also said that the flowers came from the blood of Andalusian stallions, killed by the Spaniards before they went back to Spain. In a certain field at Clausholm castle in the Randers district some unusually large and dark red poppies grow, a Spanish soldier was executed here for insubordination. A Catholic legend says that poppies grew from the blood of Christ at Golgatha, and the flower became a symbol of the healing, sin-forgiving life herb.
Superstition:
The many seeds from the capsules keep their germination ability for a long time In favorable conditions a field can unexpectedly be blood red with poppy flowers. In some places the corn is covered in poppies. The deep red poppies were in a place explained by that they came from the blood of fallen soldiers in a battle with the Swedes in 1659. But it was also said that the flowers came from the blood of Andalusian stallions, killed by the Spaniards before they went back to Spain. In a certain field at Clausholm castle in the Randers district some unusually large and dark red poppies grow, a Spanish soldier was executed here for insubordination. A Catholic legend says that poppies grew from the blood of Christ at Golgatha, and the flower became a symbol of the healing, sin-forgiving life herb.
People who live at the moon have bats as cows and poppies as corn. In H.C. Andersen's fairy tale "The Wild Swans" bewitched toads change into poppies.On the island Tåsinge (south of Funen) parents warned their children not to pluck the flowers from "the herbs of the devil". If you smell a poppy three times you'll get cramps. The poppy capsules were often placed on gravestones as a symbol of death being the sister of sleep.
Wasn’t it just last week that a ruling came down that stated they had to release the memos?
What is this, they don’t like what one judge says so the just go find another one to overrule the first one.
Sheesh, some days ya just gotta wonder what the point of it all is.....
Thanks, bitt. 1944 seems like yesterday.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3774676/posts?page=1
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I have noticed this too. All of them seem to have toned down their rhetoric, so to speak.
If you check out George Webb, he gives a pretty good explanation of what has gone wrong in our country (Problems have to do with massive corruption, that started many years ago- even going back to the end of WWII).
But I have faith that President Trump is doing everything he can to get us back on the right track.
I hope and pray that Barr, and the rest of POTUS team understand that the future of this nation depends on them doing the right thing.
Also, I wonder if any, or all, of the horrible rumors are true?- i.e The supposed guesome tape of Her Heinousness that made NYPD officers cry, (and their subsequent "suicides"-see dead pool), and the terrorizing and possible murder of children by elites, not to mention the trafficking of them, and young women/men- this IS modern slavery. And add all the drug and gun running-What a mess!
It brings up the question:
If we are just going to let all this keep happening, do we even deserve to continue?
It feels like the hand of God is involved here and now. We do have a chance to be better and start to recover- But we have to keep praying and asking for God's help every step of the way.
thanks, cats!
Of course I am an adult so your saying that the government hasnt had enough time to slap some hand cuffs on Hillary for her lawlessness whats it been 6 years???
Happy Birthday Mairdie!!!
Trump made the fatal mistake of relying on *anyone* within the system to do *anything* right.
Military planning at its finest, my ass.
George Webb is straightforward about how deep Barr’s Deep State involvement. IIRC he quotes him as having told Clinton Clinton could get his dream of becoming president as long as he stops with the “shrinkage” Clinton and his pals took out of some massive CIA drug and guns money passing through Arkansas, I believe it was.
Don't feel old! I'm planning the celebration for when my wife is five years "ahead of" you!
Shortly thereafter, I'll have a seven-year "lead" on you... '-)
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Just keep on making those wondrous "music+art" videos. Keeps the brain young! (And provides welcome and joyful mental stimuli for the rest of us...)
ENJOY!!!
TXnMA
You mean like the military that took 4+ years to win WWII?
I thank god this whiny impatient generation wasn’t around then or we would have quit after two weeks hearing Japan attacked us and “nothing is happening”
And I’d have to read all your whining posts about it in Japanese or German...
:)
Thanks for the explanation. Ya had me worryin’ we wuz gonna have one of them classic FR pitbull arguments.
Re Her designs were not very good.:
She didnt have much of a model to work with.
It took that long to spin up the Manhattan Project.
And we had to do things, like win the battle of Midway, first.
For the generation? I'm neither whiny nor impatient. Nor, for that matter, am I a millenial or younger. But I will not stand being lied to.
Happy Birthday, beautiful!
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