Posted on 02/14/2019 10:56:34 PM PST by plain talk
In his piece “There Is No Green New Deal,” Charlie writes:
What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has thrust upon our national conversation is not, in any sense, a “Green New Deal.” It does not resemble a Green New Deal. It does not approximate a Green New Deal. It does not so much as represent the shadows or the framework or the embryo of a Green New Deal. It is, instead, the inchoate shopping list of a political novice who has managed to get herself elected to Congress and believes that this has turned her into a visionary.
Implicit in the idea of experimentation from Washington is the idea that planners should not be constrained. Implicit in the idea of a constitutional republic is that they should be. As we put it in our editorial on the Green New Deal, “The Left really has only one idea: control” — and that is the idea implicit in New Deal–style “experimentation.”
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Oh, you know when you’re within 100 feet of it - the name applies perfectly...
I’ve probably been near it before, but don’t recall it.
I mean it literally smells like a skunk - strongly.
I grew up on a 120 acre farm in Southwestern Missouri. We may not have had this on our farm, but we had a pretty good bit of wild land on it. I may have run into it, at some point. Seems rather familiar, but I can’t recall exactly.
I don’t think it is wild - just cheap, low-quality marijuana. The stink comes when people smoke it.
I wasn’t aware that the smell came from lighting it up.
We did have some stuff we called stink weed on the farm, so perhaps that’s what it was. Never smelled it that way in the wild though, so it didn’t register.
It’s not important. We may or may not be talking about the same stuff.
It is rather funny that smell though. Ug!
I think there is something called skunk cabbage that smells bad - not related.
Thanks. I’m sure we didn’t have that.
Did run into a few tobacco plants though.
I live on the edge of the Meadowlands here in NJ, and years ago an employee of a junkyard along the swamp was arrested for operating his own little pot farm there in the weeds.
An acquaintance who grew pot on state land described how do it: You couldn’t go back and maintain the plants after putting them in the ground - you just went when they should be ready and swoop them all up at once (in case the place was under surveillance - you just “found them”, and they had no footage of you showing up to tend them over the months).
Yeah, sounds like the right way to do it.
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