Summer Solstice ~ Happy First Day of Summer
Q: What did the pig say at the beach on a hot summer’s day?
A: I’m bacon!
The summer solstice is the day on which the
Earth’s northern hemisphere leans closest to the Sun.
In the southern hemisphere it takes place in December.
It’s an astronomical anomaly, and it all has to do with the positioning of the sun. All the planets move in orbits, and the earth takes 365 days to go through one.
Planets rotate on an axis and spin like a top. The earth is tilted 23.5 degrees to the plane of the solar system. At one point, more direct rays hit the earth each year.
The world ‘solstice’ comes from the Latin derivation, meaning ‘sun standing still. The sun doesn’t actually stand still, it only appears to.
It’s all about the tilt of the axis. That’s what gives us seasons. At the moment of the solstice, the sun appears to stand still during and for a few consecutive days before and after The sun appears to rise and set exactly at the same part of the day. Except in the polar regions (where daylight is continuous for many months), the day on which the summer solstice occurs is the day of the year with the longest period of daylight. The summer solstice occurs in June in the Northern Hemisphere north of the Tropic of Cancer (23°26′N) and in December in the Southern Hemisphere south of the Tropic of Capricorn (23°26′S.)
Celebrations go way back to ancient times. The solstice is a Pagan celebration day and believers gather at spiritually significant sites, such as Stonehenge.
The ancients knew the movement of the sun, the planets and the stars. They used the sun for farming. People would celebrate with huge festivals and bonfires. Now we don’t take notice, but it’s built into our calendars. School comes out around this time, and family vacations are planned around this time. Traditionally, this period of the year fell between the planting and harvesting of crops, leaving a space for pleasure and relaxation in the lives of those living off the land, so June became the traditional month for weddings.
Summer Solstice Fun Facts
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Pagans called the Midsummer moon the “Honey Moon” for the mead made from fermented honey that was part of wedding ceremonies performed at the Summer Solstice.
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Ancient Pagans celebrated Midsummer with bonfires, when couples would leap through the flames, believing their crops would grow as high as the couples were able to jump.
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Midsummer was thought to be a time of magic, when evil spirits were said to appear. To thwart them, Pagans often wore protective garlands of herbs and flowers. One of the most powerful of them was a plant called ‘chase-devil’, which is known today as St. John’s Wart and still used by modern herbalists as a mood stabilizer.
What do frogs like to drink on a hot summer day?
Answer:
Croak-o-cola.
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Joke:
What do you call a cat at the beach?
Answer:
Sandy claws.
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Joke:
What does the sun drink out of?
Answer:
Sunglasses.
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ANTHONY WEINER FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY
Could Anthony Weiner Actually
Be the Next Mayor of New York?
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“add your name” lists that appear in emails.
“add your name” lists that appear in emails.
BUT this one is important.It has been circulating for several weeks and
has been sent to over 20 million people.(Approximately the number of people in New York City)To show your support for ANTHONY WEINER FOR MAYOROF NEW YORK CITY,
please go to the end of the list,
add your name and forward to
all your friends.1. Anthony Weiner
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Mike Duffy Support
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please go to the end of the list,
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If Mayor Rob Ford Resigns
If Mayor Rob Ford resigns (which he should),
what will the Media Maggots do with all their spare time!?
‘Constant Circus’ Around
Rob Ford A Distraction,
Councillors Say
But Prime Minister Harper and his croney Duffy love it!
welcome to Ontario funny Rob Ford
Toronto’s Mayor Rob Ford has been embroiled for the past week in a scandal involving his alleged use of crack cocaine.
The problems for Rob Ford continue to mount. Perhaps the most damaging for Ford and his family is the
Globe and Mail investigation: The Ford family’s history with drug dealing.
This drug scandal may not be all it’s cracked up to be.
I think it’s time that the Ford brother’s and the media to meet and try to hash things out.
Maybe they can make a deal!
It’s time for Rob Ford to do the right thing and resign. Doug Ford would be wise to announce his “retirement” too!
The Ford Brothers “dynasty is in ruins ~ “They go out there and they want to write these stories. They want to try and ruin our family,” he said. “They want to go after the character of our family.”
The problem for the Fords is that there are quite a few “THEYS” who are investigating them
and
“WE” are tired of this incredible Mickey Mouse farce of a politician called Rob Ford!
It’s difficult for people to trust Rob Ford.
“I don’t do drugs and if I ever did I’ve forgotten about it. That’s the truth … and I’m sticking to it (for now).” ~ Rob Ford
How can the city continue to function with him as mayor?
Rob Ford Incident File ~ Very interesting facts about Rob Ford!!!!
at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AhpNgYjOr8FzdGhZNVFocUhERUxzRGJBMFBtVDZHaUE&toomany=true
| 1 | 2/15/1999 | Arrested in Miami, Florida, for DUI and receives a marijuana conviction; convicted; denies charges later during mayoral campaign until presented with evidence. |
| 2 | 6/13/2001 | Ford questions a grant for a video about homosexuality in Toronto’s South Asian community, telling The National Post: “I have no problem giving money out to physically or mentally handicapped children or seniors, but spending $5,000 on this video is disgusting, it is absolutely disgusting to spend this amount of money on this, whatever it was called, video.” |
| 3 | 3/6/2002 | During a council budget debate, Ford calls fellow councillor George Mammoliti a “Gino-boy.” |
| 4 | 4/17/2002 | During a council debate on whether there should be homeless shelters across the city, rather than only downtown, Mr. Ford says: “This is an insult to my constituents to even think about having a homeless shelter in their ward. And you want me to have a public meeting to discuss this? Why don’t we have a public lynching?” |
| 5 | 6/14/2005 | Ford questions the utility of grant programs for transgendered and transsexual people during a council debate. “I don’t understand. No. 1, I don’t understand a transgender, I don’t understand, is it a guy dressed up like a girl or a girl dressed up like a guy? And we’re funding this for, I don’t know, what does it say here? We’re giving them $3,210?” |
| 6 | 7/19/2005 | During a council debate over a pothole, Ford calls fellow councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby “a joke. She’s a waste of time. A waste of skin.” |
| 7 | 4/15/2006 | Security guards remove a drunken and belligerent Ford from a Maple Leafs game. After being asked to be quiet, Ford yells, “You right-wing communist bastards,” and “Who the fuck do you think you are? Are you a fucking teacher? Do you want your little wife to go over to Iran and get raped and shot?” |
| 8 | 6/28/2006 | Ford declares during a debate on a $1.5 million AIDs prevention program: “If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn’t get AIDS probably. That’s the bottom line…. How are women getting it? Maybe they are sleeping with bisexual men.” |
| 9 | 3/7/2007 | Comments about cyclists: “My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day.” |
| 10 | 3/5/2008 | Comments about Asians during a holiday shopping debate: “Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are workers non-stop. They sleep beside their machines. That’s why they’re successful in life. I went to Seoul, South Korea, I went to Taipei, Taiwan. I went to Tokyo, Japan. That’s why these people are so hard workers (sic). I’m telling you, the Oriental people, they’re slowly taking over.” |
| 11 | 3/26/2008 | Ford is charged with assaulting his wife and uttering a death threat. The charges are later dropped because inconsistencies in Renata Ford’s accounts make a conviction unlikely. |
| 12 | 6/4/2010 | Ford offers to help an ill man “score” the powerful painkiller OxyContin in a taped phone conversation: “I’ll try, buddy, I’ll try. I don’t know this shit, but I’ll fucking try to find it. Why don’t you go on the street and score it? Fuck, you know, I don’t know any drug dealers at all.” |
| 13 | 7/14/2010 | A Toronto District School Board source states that Ford was asked to stop coaching high school football after he reportedly had a violent physical confrontation with a student player at Newtonbrook Secondary School in 2001. |
| 14 | 8/12/2010 | City’s integrity commissioner finds Ford had violated council’s code of conduct by using his official letterhead to solicit donations totaling $3150 from lobbyists and corporations for his private charitable organization, the Rob Ford Football Foundation. Council recommends he repay this money at its next meeting on Aug 25. Ford does not do so. |
| 15 | 8/12/2010 | Ford tells The Toronto Sun that in-camera council meetings have “more corruption and skullduggery going on in there than I’ve ever seen in my life.” He also says council’s decision to award an untendered 20-year contract to a pub operator “stinks to high heaven.” |
| 16 | 8/17/2010 | Ford argues for a cap on immigration in the city of Toronto: “We can’t even deal with the 2.5 million people in this city. I think it’s more important we take care of the people now before we start bringing in more. There are going to be a million more people — according to the Official Plan, which I did not support – over the next 10 years coming into the city. We’re not in the fiscal shape, we’re not in the social shape, to be taking any more people into this city right now.” Previously, in March 2003, Ford had suggested Toronto be declared a “refugee-free zone.” |
| 17 | 12/21/2010 | A Toronto Star story shows that Ford and his aides made misleading statements about his academic career implying that he attended Carleton University for three years (dropping out two credits short) and played varsity football for the Carleton Ravens. In fact, he dropped out of Carleton after one year, and former Carleton Ravens players are doubtful that he ever dressed for a game. York University confirms that Ford took six continuing education courses, completing “some, but not all” of the first-year courses. |
| 18 | 5/13/2011 | Audited for violating election campaign spending rules (improperly paying for his campaign expenses, wrongly borrowing money from his family’s holding company (Doug Ford Holdings), exceeding the campaign spending limit and accepting corporate contributions) |
| 19 | 6/23/2011 | Ford announces his intention to skip the Pride parade in favour of a Canada Day family weekend at his cottage, becoming the first mayor of the mega-city to miss the event. “We’ve been in Huntsville for the past 30 (years), as long as I can remember, since I’ve been a little boy. I’m carrying on a tradition my father had. Last year I was there during the campaign, we’re there every year,” he claims, although photos later surface of Ford at a Canada Day event in East York in 2010. |
| 20 | 7/22/2011 | Ford seen driving while using his cell phone; makes obscene gesture at woman and six-year-old daughter after mother tells him to get off his phone |
| 21 | 10/24/2011 | Ford flees into his house and calls 911 three times after a crew from CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes including Mary Walsh in character as Marg Delahunty approaches him in his driveway. Multiple sources claim Ford verbally abuses the 911 dispatcher, yelling, “You … bitches! Don’t you f–king know? I’m Rob f–king Ford, the mayor of this city!” Ford’s wife, Renata, reportedly places another 911 call at 10:17 the same evening, this time in regard to a verbal altercation between herself and Ford. |
| 22 | 12/13/2011 | TTC chief general manager Gary Webster reports that cancelling Transit City in favour of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s subway-focused plan will cost $65 million in penalties. |
| 23 | 12/25/2011 | Ford’s mother-in-law calls 911, claiming that Ford has been drinking and is taking his children to Florida against his wife’s wishes. |
| 24 | 1/1/2012 | Photographed at the 2012 New Year’s Levee with his arm around Jon Latvis, a member of neo-Nazi band RAHOWA (Racial Holy War), who is attired in the uniform of the Latvian Homeguard. |
| 25 | 1/29/2012 | A report by the law firm Cavalluzzo, Hayes, Shilton, McIntyre & Cornish says Ford exceeded his legal authority when he cancelled Transit City without city council approval. |
| 26 | 2/7/2012 | Council votes to rescind the Aug 25, 2010 recommendation to make Ford repay illegal donations. Rob Ford speaks during debate on the matter and votes on the relevant motion; it is later alleged he broke the Municipal Conflict-of-Interest Act by doing so. |
| 27 | 2/8/2012 | Council votes 25-18 for a plan by TTC chair Karen Stintz to resurrect the Transit City light-rail scenario approved by the city, the TTC and the province in 2009 under former mayor David Miller, and killed by Ford shortly after he assumed office. Ford dismisses city council’s will, calling their defeat of his alternative transit plan “irrelevant.” |
| 28 | 2/21/2012 | While TTC chair Karen Stintz vacations out of town, transit commissioners call a special meeting and vote 5-4 to fire TTC chief general manager Gary Webster two weeks after Webster testifies to council that he cannot justify Ford’s vision of running the entire Eglinton LRT line underground, raising the cost of the line by $2 billion. Webster’s contract stipulates he is to be paid more than $560,000 in salary (plus benefits) over two years, in compensation for being fired without just cause, about $160,000 more than if he had been allowed to work until his planned retirement in July 2013. Frank Di Giorgio, a Ford ally and one of the five voters behind Webster’s firing, suggests that more senior transit managers may lose their jobs for not “respecting the office of the mayor.” |
| 29 | 3/17/2012 | A St. Patrick’s Day reveller reports seeing Ford “stumbling down the street … inebriated and sweaty but in a jovial way” and tells him “You’re the worst mayor ever.” Ford allegedly walks over, kissed her on the forehead, and responds, “I know, but I try.” Ford then heads into a private room in the Bier Markt on the Esplanade, where a staffer describes him as “incoherent” and “hammered.” The DJ working that night reports Ford is fighting and carrying on “like an idiot.” After “storming the dance floor,” Ford is asked to leave and escorted out by his own staff and members of the restaurant’s security team. |
| 30 | 4/18/2012 | Ford announces his intention to skip the Pride parade for a second straight year. |
| 31 | 5/2/2012 | Ford applies to buy a 2,800-square-foot publicly owned parkette adjacent to his house. His stated aim is to build a better fence to ensure his family’s security; his agent says they have no plans to build on the land, though this is contradicted by a interview taped on July 15, 2010 in which Ford declares his intention to tear down his bungalow in a few years and build a “nice” house. |
| 32 | 5/2/2012 | Shouts at, then raises his fist and chases Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale, who is standing on public property, examining the public property Ford is attempting to purchase. Ford succeeds in mugging Dale for his cellphone and tape recorder. |
| 33 | 6/6/2012 | Ford asks council to scrap the bylaw forcing retailers to charge five cents for plastic shopping bags. Council does so, but also spites mayor by voting to scrap the bags entirely as of Jan. 1 (a decision that is later overturned). |
| 34 | 6/18/2012 | Having missed several previous weigh-ins and endured both ridicule from his brother Doug and a viral video showing him being heckled while coming out of a Kentucky Fried Chicket outlet, Ford falls short of his stated goal in his “Cut the Waist” challenge, losing no additional weight in his final weigh-in and then stumbling off the scale and twisting his ankle. |
| 35 | 6/18/2012 | Around this time, a photograph circulates online of a bleary-eyed and dishevelled Ford posing with a bachelorette party. |
| 36 | 6/25/2012 | Ford skips a Pride flag raising ceremony on City Hall’s green roof, immediately outside his office. |
| 37 | 6/27/2012 | Ford has verbal altercation with streetcar driver after allegedly driving past the streetcar’s open front doors. |
| 38 | 7/9/2012 | Ford comments on paying for transit expansion: “I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.” |
| 39 | 8/14/2012 | Photos appear on Twitter showing Ford reading documents while driving on the Gardiner Expressway. Ford admits to reading work documents. |
| 40 | 9/12/2012 | Reports indicate Ford uses city staff and taxpayer-funded cars and cellphones to assist him in his football coaching duties |
| 41 | 9/20/2012 | Ford uses his influence to expedite drainage and road repairs in front of Deco Labels, his family-owned business, in time for its 50th anniversary party. |
| 42 | 11/1/2012 | Ford skips 2½ hours of a council meeting to coach a semifinal football game. Two TTC buses are then diverted to pick up his football team following a post-game brawl, leaving passengers stranded in the rain in rush hour. Ford places a phone call to TTC chief executive officer Andy Byford when the first bus fails to arrive quickly enough. |
| 43 | 11/13/2012 | Ford stands trial for Boardwalk Pub libel case. |
| 44 | 11/13/2012 | Picture of Ford’s Escalade with newly and illegally tinted windows is posted online. |
| 45 | 11/15/2012 | Ford skips out on his own trial early to coach football. |
| 46 | 11/20/2012 | Ford stumbles and falls while demonstrating a football play before television cameras; an animated GIF of the incident goes viral. |
| 47 | 12/12/2012 | Gardiner Expressway revealed to be nearly unsafe for use; it turns out a study on what to do about it was shelved two years ago. |
| 48 | 2/23/2013 | Ford arrives late to the Toronto Garrison Ball, a gala event celebrating the Canadian armed forces, speaking in a rambling, incoherent manner that alarms guests. He is asked to leave because organizers are concerned he is impaired. |
| 49 | 3/5/2013 | Ford continues to solicit donations to his football foundations from lobbyists nearly immediately after the order that he be removed from office for doing the same is overturned. |
| 50 | 3/8/2013 | Ford allegedly propositions and gropes fomer mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson. |
| 51 | 3/8/2013 | Ford’s claims that former Don Bosco football players would be dead or in jail without his coaching are disputed by former Don Bosco football players. |
| 52 | 3/8/2013 | Number of lobbyists registered at City Hall in 2012 is triple the 2010 figure; number of subjects being pushed doubles; allegations of misconduct triples; daily communications between lobbyists and public office holders increases tenfold |
| 53 | 3/22/2013 | Ford gives a rousing pro-casino speech to an audience of orthodox Jews at a religious event. |
| 54 | 3/24/2013 | Rob Ford calls into Closing Arguments with Steven Skurka, a legal affairs radio show on Newstalk 1010, to criticize Richard Kachkar’s legal defence in his trial for the first-degree murder of Sgt. Ryan Russell on the night before the jury is set to deliberate. Ford says Kachkar will walk if he’s found to be not criminally responsible. The panelists cut Ford off repeatedly to explain that he won’t. Concerns are raised that Ford’s comments may result in a mistrial. |
| 55 | 3/27/2013 | Parents from Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School meet to discuss whether they want Ford to continue coaching football there. |
| 56 | 4/1/2013 | Ford pretends to vomit when asked at a press conference about the Metrolinx wish list of taxes and tolls to fund transit. |
| 57 | 4/15/2013 | Ford walks face-first into a television camera. “Ah fuck, man. Holy Christ!” Ford yells, bending over and grabbing his eye. “Holy. Guys have some respect, you just hit me in the face with a camera.” |
| 58 | 4/21/2013 | Ford offers on his radio show to explain to women how politics work, an offer that many women in Toronto regard as patronizing. Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam co-organizes an event to give an explanation of politics from a woman in politics, and offers to explain to Ford how politics work for women. |
| 59 | 5/6/2013 | Maple Leafs great Johnny Bower receives an ovation when he is shown on the Jumbotron at the team’s first playoff home game in nine years. Cheers turn to boos as Ford jumps into the shot for a handshake, and the camera abruptly cuts away. |
| 60 | 5/14/2013 | Minutes after arriving at a community council meeting debating the controversial Humbertown condo proposal, Ford leaves to join David Price, his director of operations and logistics, in wandering around the parking lot and slapping “Rob Ford: Mayor” fridge magnets on cars. Following a citizen complain about a possible bylaw infraction, Ford is investigated by the city’s municipal licensing and standards department and faces a potential $150 fine. |
| 61 | 5/16/2013 | Gawker publishes a story alleging the existence of a recently-taken video of Ford smoking crack cocaine while making homophobic comments and slurs against minorities. The Toronto Star runs a front-page story corroborating the video’s existence. Ford calls the reports “ridiculous.” |
| 62 | 5/22/2013 | Ford staffers hand out “Rob Ford: Mayor” magnets at the funeral of Toronto Sun founding editor Peter Worthington. When questioned about the allegations of his drug use by reporters as he exits the funeral, Ford tells them, “Have some respect.” |
| 63 | 5/22/2013 | Ford dismissed as head football coach at Don Bosco. Bruce Rodrigues, the Toronto’s Catholic school board’s director of education, states, “This decision was based on what is best for our students, our school and the Don Bosco community.” This marks the second time Ford has been ousted from a volunteer football coaching position amid controversy. |
| 64 | 5/23/2013 | Ford fires chief of staff Mark Twohey after the two butt heads over Ford’s plans to throw a pizza party for the staff and players of his former football team; In a phone conversation on the evening of May 22, Twohey urges Ford not to drag the team and city staff into the situation and repeats advice he has offered several times before: that the mayor go to rehab and deal with his substance-abuse problems. Ford loses his temper and tells Towhey: “If that’s all you’ve got for me, then you might as well leave and don’t come back.” Ford confirms the firing in a face-to-face-meeting the next day, and Twohey is escorted out of City Hall by security. |
May 27, 2013
Rob Ford says it’s ‘business as usual,’ as more staff depart
Press secretaries George Christopoulos and Isaac Ransom quit ‘on principle’.
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The Scientific 7-Minute Workout
Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice.
The Scientific 7-Minute Workout may be just what the doctor ordered!
Perform each exercise for 30 seconds ~ very intense.
Rest 10 seconds!
An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal does just that. In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.
“There’s very good evidence” that high-intensity interval training provides “many of the fitness benefits of prolonged endurance training but in much less time,” says Chris Jordan, the director of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Fla., and co-author of the new article.
Work by scientists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and other institutions shows, for instance, that even a few minutes of training at an intensity approaching your maximum capacity produces molecular changes within muscles comparable to those of several hours of running or bike riding.
Interval training, though, requires intervals; the extremely intense activity must be intermingled with brief periods of recovery. In the program outlined by Mr. Jordan and his colleagues, this recovery is provided in part by a 10-second rest between exercises. But even more, he says, it’s accomplished by alternating an exercise that emphasizes the large muscles in the upper body with those in the lower body. During the intermezzo, the unexercised muscles have a moment to, metaphorically, catch their breath, which makes the order of the exercises important.
The exercises should be performed in rapid succession, allowing 30 seconds for each, while, throughout, the intensity hovers at about an 8 on a discomfort scale of 1 to 10, Mr. Jordan says. Those seven minutes should be, in a word, unpleasant. The upside is, after seven minutes, you’re done.
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Happy Earth Day 2013
Hope you have a
Happy Earth Day
Why should I care about future generations? What have they ever done for me?
– Groucho Marx
Earth Day is 43 years’ old today!
Happy Earth Day Quotes:
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
– David Letterman
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
– Thomas Fuller
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
– Ralph Nader
There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.
– Gaylord Nelson
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead
For 200 years we’ve been conquering nature. Now we’re beating it to death.
– Tom McMillan
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National Weed Day in the USA
HI!
Happy National Weed Day
Growing weed is like watching grass grow…
UPDATE:
MARIJUANA IS FALLING FROM THE SKY
Initiative 502, passed last month by Washington voters, legalized recreational marijuana use starting December 6, but it will take a year before there are rules for growing and selling it.
But a legal haze still engulfed pot smokers Thursday, when possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by adults become legal, though growing and selling it remains a crime.
”So I’m not sure where you’re suppose to get it,” Satterberg said. “If you stumble across some on the street or it falls from the sky, then you can have it. Otherwise, you are part of a criminal chain of distribution.”
Can’t believe we have a National Weed Day?? What a great place to live!
The origins of 420 are a bit cloudy and covered in smoke.
Party On!!!!!
Can anyone
catch 
those damn bugs?
National Weed Day is an informal sub-culture holiday that takes place on April 20th annually, in honor of the marijuana buzz term 420. Also known as ‘National Smoke Day’
Cheba Hut “Toasted” Subs will host what the company is billing as “the nation’s largest commercial celebration of 420, a holiday dedicated to those who enjoy the ‘high’ life of cannabis culture,” according to a news release.
The sandwich chain, which has an Iowa City location at 314 E. Burlington St., is offering a meal deal April 20 — a 4-inch sub, chips and a drink for $4.20. All meals will be served on Frisbees.
All-day festivities are planned at Cheba Hut locations nationally, including live music, ranch dressing and pickle juice chugging contests, Kool-Aid dunk tanks.
For more National Weed Day humor check out:
Weed Day Humor
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Garlic Quotes, Jokes and Funny Pictures
Garlic, besides being an incredible herb, keeps vampires away!
Hope you enjoy these Garlic Quotes, Jokes and Funny pictures.
Did you know that April is
National Garlic Month?
and
April 19, 2013 is National Garlic Day?
Garlic is as good as ten Mothers! ~ proverb
“No one is indifferent to garlic. People either love it or hate it, and most good cooks seem to belong in the first group.” – Faye Levy
You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
Morley Safer
“Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke.” – Thomas Nash
“Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.” – Alice May Brock
“Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.” – Cyril Connolly
“Stop and smell the garlic! That’s all you have to do.” – William Shatner
“There’s no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats.” – Les Blank
“Without garlic I simply would not care to live.” – Louis Diat
“There is no such thing as a little garlic.” – Arthur Baer
Q: Have you heard of the garlic diet? A: You don’t lose much weight, but from a distance your friends think you look thinner!
Q: What do cloves use for money? A: Garlic “Bread.”
Q: What kind of socks do you need to plant garlic? A: Garden hose!
Q: Where did the garlic clove go to have a few drinks? A: The Salad Bar!
Two garlic cloves One day two garlic cloves, who were best friends, were walking together down the street. They stepped off the curb and a speeding car came around the corner and ran one of them over. The uninjured garlic clove called 911 and helped his injured friend as best he was able. The injured garlic clove was taken to emergency at the hospital and rushed into surgery. After a long and agonizing wait, the doctor finally appeared. He told the uninjured garlic clove, “I have good news, and I have bad news. The good news is that your friend is going to pull through.” “The bad news is that he’s going to be a vegetable for the rest of his life”.
Doctors Office A guy walks into the doctor’s office. A banana stuck in one of his ears, a garlic clove in the other ear, and a carrot stuck in one nostril. The man says, “Doc, this is terrible. What’s wrong with me?” The doctor says, “Well, first of all, you need to eat more sensibly.”
Math Mistake After a minor mathematical error on a routine report, a worker’s boss tried to belittle him in front of his peers. Angrily she asked, “If you had 4 garlic cloves and I asked for one, how many would you have left?” Quickly he replied, “If it was you who asked, I’d still have 4 garlic cloves.”
Is Garlic Good for You?
Garlic is one of the most valuable and versatile foods on the planet. Garlic belongs to the Allium family of vegetables which also includes onions, chives, shallots and leeks.
Today garlic is a widely recognized health enhancing supplement. Garlic promotes the well-being of the heart and immune systems with antioxidant properties and helps maintain healthy blood circulation. One of garlic’s most potent health benefits includes the ability to enhance the body’s immune cell activity.
Garlic Trivia
Alliumphobia is what the fear of garlic is called.
Garlic only contains 4 calories per clove.
Chicago was named after the American Indian word for the wild garlic that grew around Lake Michigan, chicagaoua.
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Boston Marathon Bombing Keep Calm and Carry On
Such a sad disaster. Such a cowardly act of terrorism. What I noticed, besides the devastation, was the incredible number of people helping others.
This quote from Mr. Rodgers may be comforting for some people.
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news,
my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers.
You will always find people who are helping.”
Great article
The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On
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Tiger Woods and The Masters Illegal Drop Scandal
Tiger Woods was assessed a two stoke penalty at the Masters for an illegal drop!
Who called in to let the officials know that Tiger Woods took an illegal drop?
There are a number of conspiracy theories
but many believe that the call was from Sweden.
Apparently a beautiful Swedish viewer was the caller!
Elin Nordegren?????????
The Masters Rules committee says a 2 stroke penalty is enough!
The Golf Channel “experts” say he should disqualify himself.
What do think Tiger Woods should do after being told he made an illegal drop.
Some say:
1. He should be disqualified.
2. Tiger Woods’ Penalty Should Have Been Assessed On The Spot Or Not At All
2. A two stroke penalty is enough
4. Tiger should continue to play
5. Tiger Woods should disqualify himself
If Tiger Woods disqualifies himself from the masters for the illegal drop, one thing is certain. TV ratings will go way down. Most of the “experts”, who are fuelling this scandal, on the Golf Channel should realize that their jobs probably wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Tiger!
Tiger Woods and The Masters Illegal Drop Scandal
to be continued…
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