Business as Politics as Usual

xoxoxoBruce · 09-13-2013, 09:22 PM

Life Magazine, in the January 23rd 1956 issue, tells of the Boston Ropewalk.

According to Hempology.Org, the Boston Ropewalk did final close in 1971.
I suspect there was a hefty campaign contributor willing to take over the business for a song.

btw, that Hempology link has some fascinating history of our ~~cannabis~~ hemp importing, mostly from Russia.

Griff · 09-14-2013, 07:36 AM

Remember when the government was almost small enough to control? Quaint.

tw · 09-14-2013, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

Remember when the government was almost small enough to control? Quaint.

Back then, government did not have so many wackos with an ideology demonstrated by Joseph McCarthy. Extremists never had so much power as to even undermine and threaten their own Speaker of the House. Never before did a lawmakers get elected on the rhetoric of "We want America to fail."

Lamplighter · 09-15-2013, 08:56 AM

The most influential change has been the U.S.S.C. 2010 "Citizens United" decision
which completed the de facto and de jure control of the government to corporations,
who are now persons to whom all us underlings must defer.
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09-13-2013, 09:22 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Business as Politics as Usual Life Magazine, in the January 23rd 1956 issue, tells of the Boston Ropewalk. According to Hempology.Org, the Boston Ropewalk did final close in 1971. I suspect there was a hefty campaign contributor willing to take over the business for a song. btw, that Hempology link has some fascinating history of our ~~cannabis~~ hemp importing, mostly from Russia. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-14-2013, 07:36 AM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Remember when the government was almost small enough to control? Quaint. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-15-2013, 08:56 AM	#4
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	The most influential change has been the U.S.S.C. 2010 "Citizens United" decision which completed the de facto and de jure control of the government to corporations, who are now persons to whom all us underlings must defer. .

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