tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997793055045021462024-03-07T23:26:14.583-08:00AL BLOGAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-24742230136121245152015-08-16T17:01:00.002-07:002015-08-16T21:43:37.347-07:00Cannabis' anti-aging properties<div class="MsoNormal">
Stress Ages (grey haired presidents = evidence). Cannabis is excellent for stress. The world's most popular herbal remedy is a youth
elixir. Nailed it.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-59669974408724176362015-08-16T16:58:00.003-07:002015-08-27T12:29:37.743-07:00Calling All Quarter-Life Angsters<div class="MsoNormal">
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There’s a reason so many vets are homeless. And Native Americans alcoholics. And young gods in their primes dead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Society sucks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subjectively, that is.
Objectively, this is the greatest country in the history of the
universe. Highest glass ceilings;
plushest safety net (for those who choose to accept charity from a hegemon). But to some scarred souls, none of it is
worth it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Neizsche, first among many, described the phenomenon. PTSD isn’t exactly the same as nihilism, but
it’s similar. Watch the supermarket
scene in The Hurt Locker. Read Into the
Wild. McCandliss was an old soul although
a young naïve one, that is to say, a searcher.
His sister’s “childhood trauma from a broken home” explanation galls,
because I believe I know her brother better than she did, which is sad; he
wanted to taste the marrow, to paraphrase Robin Williams quoting Keating. As did I, in my mid-twenties. Twenty-seven, actually, was the epitome of my
disaffectedness. Like Morrison, Cobain,
Hendrix, Joplin…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once you’ve been exposed to the core; your soul flayed open;
what we lemmings are striving so purposefully to achieve appears – subjectively
– to be bullshit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fair enough.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I get jaded. I get
not wanting to participate in modern society if it means busting my ass to fit
in with drones about whom I could give a sippy cup of diarrhea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you were Native American, would you choose to assimilate,
to digest the colonizer’s ethos? I’d
shit on it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you were a rock god, at the absolute pinnacle of your
power, would you fixate on the futility of your existence, and giggle at the
finality of your death?<o:p></o:p></div>
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After inhaling the nectar, humdrum workaday living (which we
all pressure each other to idealize, for some reason [we’re dependent upon one
another for tax funded infrastructure development, so we enter into a mutual castration
compact]) is noticeably bland. Gimme
flavor! Gimme vivid! Something which stimulates my spirit, otherwise no thank
you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Buddha is considered to have become enlightened. Subjectively, of course. His main message was: become willing to give
it all up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hindus believe anyone can become enlightened. Millions of Indians are holy men; you can be too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Give it all up, and catapult yourself out of your comfort
zone – just don’t <i>give </i>up. Choose existentialism. Choose transcendentalism. Find <i>your
</i>Purpose; don’t let anyone else tell you what it is. Except maybe a Shaman.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To give it all up is to make a great sacrifice; the closest-to-guaranteed
way I know to launch one’s self on a spiritual trip.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Buy a one-way ticket with the last of your cash. Bring a backpack, and gifts.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or not. Ok but be
warned: You may be your own best
bullshitter but you can’t fake it forever.
Your superego’s mission is to drown out your id. But your iGod will out if you let it. Let it, before you regret it. Be the god of your life in your prime; refuse
to be anyone’s bitch until you’re good and ready to surrender to the bliss of
monochrome oblivion.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-41011167179527599562015-07-30T13:13:00.002-07:002015-08-11T13:02:12.434-07:00First and hopefully last words on TrumpI hate to even mention his obnoxious dumb ass because I'd rather he just disappear off my radar, however since he's the current GOP frontrunner I can't not comment on Trump's offensive ethos, to wit: <span style="font-size: large;"><b>if you're smart you must be rich and if you're rich you must be smart.</b></span><br />
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(I refuse to respond to his comments about Mexican-American immigrants - I can't stoop that low without wrenching my back.)<br />
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Here's what I know:<br />
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Many of the most enlightened beings I've met been humble ascetics, by choice. <br />
<br />
The decisions I've made in my own life which have enriched my existence immeasurably while impoverishing me financially are those I regret the <i>least</i>. <br />
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Not everyone born into privilege is a rocket scientist (Bush II, anyone?); many "self-made-men" simply luck into it (<i>see: </i>the inventor of the paperclip).<br />
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The donald isn't just wrong, though, or I wouldn't be writing this - far more caustically, he is full-on declaring that struggling lower and middle class men and women are in their situations because they lack IQ, not because people are in any way a product of their circumstances. Talk about ignorance! Talk about an inability to see through the eyes of one's potential constituents!<br />
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Typical entitled Anglo-Aryan rhetoric, easily dismissed. Except, for some reason, it's not been - yet.<br />
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I'm flabbergasted that Trump is apparently striking a chord with my fellow countrymen, that he is in the news so much, that he's considered a serious contender for the most respected job in this or any other country. Are we the people, who figuratively have the entire world in the palms of our hands, really so impressed by this circus act, this bully who arrogantly crows on and on about how he is everyone's "better"? Or (please o please) isn't our impulse to watch him, to goad him, to spur him on, more akin to that which causes us to rubberneck car wrecks?<br />
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Just try to imagine for a second, if you will, the donald holding high level diplomatic discussions with Putin or Netanyahu, for example. Somehow, I just don't see how shouting over the top of them and calling them idiots and whatever other names he could think of would result in a positive net gain for our nation.<br />
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He's unstable, not someone we can count on for anything other than shock-value soundbytes. He'd make a horrible president, no question about it.<br />
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C'mon people, ain't politics meant to mean something more than entertainment? <br />
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The real question is: what does it say about the state of the Grand Old Party that none of the fifteen other candidates compares favorably to him?!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-60751547522938146822015-06-26T22:03:00.001-07:002015-07-26T14:33:23.380-07:00Gay Marriage, what next? Oh that slippery slope...<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Same-sex marriage has won. “Definition of Marriage” traditionalists’
best argument didn’t meet the rational basis test, much less any stricter scrutiny requirements potentially on deck. Now then…
What <i>about </i>that slippery slope
argument Scalia and his ilk railed so vehemently against?<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I recall, it went something
like this: If we let a man marry a man
or a woman marry a woman how could we prevent a man marrying two women, or
three people marrying each other, or a couple marrying a couple, or a
grandmother marrying her grandson, or a retard marrying a broomhandle or a collie?<o:p></o:p></div>
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(That language isn't mine, it's Republicans')</div>
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C’mon, even the slipperiest slopes
get tacky. I’ll guarantee you that it
shall be slightly tougher to stop a throuple from tying the knot henceforth than it has
been. Incest, though, has always been and will
continue to be distinguishable not just on religious
grounds but on “health and welfare” grounds [<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>]. Everyone who has taken freshman genetics understands the risks of <i>truly</i> “unnatural” intercourse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Neither the nation nor
the state can prefer one religion over another. Nevertheless, the Mormons got <i>railroaded </i>by Lincoln, look it up! He also suspended Habeus Corpus! Father of our nation, what?<o:p></o:p></div>
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For all of its avowed commitment to the separation of Church and State, our nation has always been a Christian one, "under [the Bible]" with liberty and justice for the domesticated.</div>
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Both the Latter Day Saints and Mohammed's Men believe in the sanctity of polygamy. But radical mainstream conservatives demonize those "others'" faith as un-American. [<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span>]</div>
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Before today, any swinging couple with a good
lawyer could marry another down couple in all meaningful ways except assigning federal government benefits; it’s just that sometimes those
government benefits are the <i>best </i>(social
security, pensions, immigration)<i>.</i> That is separate, but NOT equal.<i> Unacceptable.</i></div>
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Why should the fed care if
various claimants split their hard-earned, well-deserved benefits as they
choose? What, they anticipate being rendered incompetent by the slightly more complicated paperwork?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although a man can have a sexual
relationship with a broomhandle or a collie, this can’t be the <i>only </i>reason we’re granting people
marriage licenses. Neither can
procreative ability be. Thus, a grandmother <i>can </i>legally marry a man young enough to
be her grandson in <i>every </i>state today (without
being required to submit proof of her fertility). On a completely related note: one of the best reasons to let gays wed is that
they’re dying to adopt needy kids into often prosperous, surely stable loving homes- do you dare to contest homosexual people’s ability to epitomize family values?<o:p></o:p></div>
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That is to say, Don’t you know
it’s better for kids to have <i>mas</i> responsible, committed, loving, concerned, invested adults around than <i>menos</i>? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Indeed, I say,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why <i>not</i> consensual polygamy?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Where're the Lesbians 4 Libertarians t-shirts! Homos, why don't you heart sluts! (C’mon: polys need your support, you’re a dominant
democgraphic now, after such a long brutal epic struggle to victory! Way to go, congrats on all
your success! Won’t you be empathetic,
in turn? Don’t you remember how it was? Help your fellow outsasts. Or wouldn't that be "just"?)<o:p></o:p></div>
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At least co-habitation is no longer prohibited in Utah - thanks Kody Brown. Many ancient and modern societies both abroad
and at home actually encourage it.</div>
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God forbid we respectfully ponder our forebears’ conclusions; just because they were wrong about a few things don't mean they had pittance IQs.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Big family=successful model. Tried and true. Tell me I'm wrong.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Law of contracts dictates parties
should have the freedom to promise what they like, so long as they possess the
capacity to give informed consent and it’s not otherwise illegal.<br />
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Marriage is a contract; it should be governed by contract law (no coercion, unconscionability, impossibility, etc.), not majority values - that's tyranny, man! </div>
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And yet,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Plural marriage will remain illegal
for at least another generation (I predict). <br />
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Eventually, though, tribe mating will rear its chillaxed head, because so many "normies" are doing it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By 2099 each man woman and child
will be required to work 5 hours per month minimum, nobody <i>more</i> than 10/week
max; all arbitrary boundaries will be erased like an etch-a-sketch. </div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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[<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>] States' police powers allow them to pass laws for benefit of their citizens, interestingly, the U.S. Congress does <i>not </i>have any police powers, but not to worry; it has apparently convinced the Court that the Commerce Clause is basically unlimited, so it now feels it has carte blanche to legislate however it wishes. Federalists rightly argue that the founding fathers intended the powers of the federal government to be limited. To be fair, however, they never could have conceived of the modern United States, with its 300 million citizens. The game has changed since then, fundamentally.</div>
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[<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span>] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reynolds v. United States</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, 98
U.S. 145,162 (1878), the Court opined that polygamy was "Non-Christian", and
"more appropriate for Asians and Africans" than for Americans, and that, </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">like human sacrifice</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, polygamy was not a
legitimate spiritual practice which should trigger First Amendment
protection. Embarrassingly, this case remains good precedent
today. </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">See, e.g, State of Utah v. Green, </i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">2004 UT 76.
(emphasis added)</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-11633253911607556812015-05-21T14:04:00.003-07:002015-08-16T17:17:05.251-07:00Teachers should have to pass standardized tests themselvesTeachers who demonstrate mastery of their subjects should be compensated like professionals.<br />
<br />
Talent must be wooed, especially to places like White Center, WA. Ideally, all teachers statewide should be excellent. Their teaching credentials <i>say </i>they are highly qualified, why not sit them down with a scantron and see how they stack up, then compensate them according to their demonstrated proficiencies? (At least partially,that is - the calculus should account too for subjective measures like instructional fluency, adaptability, ability to establish rapport and to motivate, cultural competency, and tenure should also be factored in.)<br />
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Teachers should be respected instead of sniffed at as underachieving presumptive pederasts (if one can't do, teach, many say; why else would one with other options choose such a poorly paid position?).<br />
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We should thank teachers every time we encounter them for their sacrifice, like we do soldiers.<br />
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Unfortunately, even for those who derive significant satisfaction simply from seeing the lightbulb pop on, the sacrifice is often too much. The bureaucracy which keeps educators-by-calling from ever earning a decent wage, yet pays dinosaurs who ignore the individual requirements of their charges and deliver the same material year after year passionlessly by rote (Buhler... Buhler...?) far more than they're worth, is enough to discourage most would-be-careerists.<br />
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Pay young (especially minority) rock star teachers who are willing to live and work in the neediest neighborhoods the six figures they're worth! Replace all mailers-in whose professional skills are are covered in moss! Or else let the whole system go private-charter.<br />
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Let the schools themselves compete, like businesses.<br />
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Forget the smaller class size argument (result: more mediocre-at-best mentors - albeit a perfect <i>union </i>outcome [unions are, of course, dominated by greyhairs - no wonder so many talented energetic young instructors wash out]) because one excellent mentor can enlighten 200 kids at a time. Especially in this digital age.<br />
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PAY GOOD TEACHERS GOOD!<br />
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Unions are anti-progressive; they incentivise doing the bare minimum not to get fired.<br />
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Sorry if you're a teacher and got offended by this rant; if it makes any difference, if you're decent at your job I'm not dissing you I'm praising you, indeed I'm in awe.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-27674501449324481292015-05-21T13:36:00.001-07:002015-08-11T13:04:13.668-07:00Grammar police: "Literally"<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.3pt; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Will EVERYONE <i>PLEASE</i> stop using the word
literally like literally every sentence? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Especially cause y’all be using it so blatantly incorrectly. Also <i>superfluously</i> – and that too is quite literally annoying. ("Quite" literally - really? As if there is another valid kind?) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">One properly uses the term literally <i>only </i>whilst
contradicting an idiom. Such as: that pool is cool, literally (I don't mean
neat-o, I mean temperature-wise), or gay bars are gay places, literally (i.e.
they're happy and full of pep).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">If you insist on continuing to use such a so-2014 term, please at least amend it to "like literally". As annoyingly valley girl as that turn of phrase is, at least it approximates accurate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Thank you.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-19158750059949826832014-11-28T13:13:00.000-08:002015-05-22T01:14:13.523-07:00 Which is the All-‘Mrrcan-er holiday, Black Friday or Thanksgiving?<div class="MsoNormal">
Thanksgiving should be a two day holiday. Black Friday
should not exist cause it’s disgusting. </div>
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Binge-buying is the opposite of Thanksgiving; indeed it is antithetical to the whole idea of Thanksgiving. That Black Friday is what it is when it is makes us hypocrites. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As my immigrant wife says:
the United States would be a much better country if Thanksgiving were two days long. The idea is
that Thanksgiving should be the biggest, most important holiday we have. We should
really focus on giving thanks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanksgiving is a uniquely ‘Mrrcan
holiday. Therefore it should be our greatest. Right? Most people make it a four day holiday already - except for retailers of course. </div>
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Due to a certain festering canker of a trend. </div>
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Has Black Friday<i> </i>become the quintessential 'Mrrcan expression? </div>
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Which better epitomizes our culture, Thanksgiving or Black Friday? </div>
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Is what it means to be ‘Mrrcan: spend spend spend? Sure. Course it is. Feed like a pig watching football all day watching millions of ads then go out the
next day and buy a bunch of crap you want don't need- is that what it means to give thanks?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once upon a time the final Thursday in November was designated to be a day of appreciation for the <i>indigenous </i>of this land. And we <i>should</i> be thanking them - for saving our ass. Also
for the land I suppose, though we fought them fair and square for that. Except
for the smallpox, etc. Let's just not think about that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Americans spent $9.1 billion dollars "saving money" on "deals" this Friday- in addition to $3.2 billion on <i>Thursday itself</i>!<br />
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Thanksgiving should be about going out and buying anyone
who has any indigenous blood at all a beer rather than a smorgasbord of self-gratification. The least we can do as wannabe mindful citizens is to boycott Black Friday; c’mon, man. Thanksgiving should be
the greatest of all ‘Mrrcan holidays, y'all, a <i>break</i>
from our all-consuming materialism!<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-9360494520938326212014-09-25T12:43:00.001-07:002014-09-25T12:43:10.502-07:00Holder resigns! What this means for medical and recreational marijuana.The next Attorney General of the United States will be in charge of enforcing all federal laws, including Nixon's Controlled Substances Act, which lists cannabis as a schedule 1 hallucinogen.<br />
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Holder has followed Obama's lead; he has been permissive of medical and recreational shops selling buds in the open. But will the next guy be? What we need is an act of Congress (or the Court), amending the anachronistic controlling legislation. Until then-<br />
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The next guy may be a Mormon, or even worse, a Republican. It's a good job Holder's resigning now, to give his boss time to hire and indoctrinate his replacement.<br />
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Regardless, one thing the new AG <i>can't </i>do is conscript local or state law enforcement officers to enforce his objectives. And the crux of any law is the enforcement of it. Short of expanding the DEA until it's larger than the military (or deputizing soldiers to make arrests), city governments will dictate policy - under the command and control of the people.<br />
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Blaze on.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-62929512735546391842014-04-20T16:40:00.001-07:002015-08-27T12:29:02.591-07:00On Being a Pot-Smoking American Hindu<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">No, I haven’t memorized the Vedas or the
Bhagavad-Gita. I like several of the
stories contained in those entertaining texts, though—the Greeks spun pretty
good yarns too. But the fact that I don’t
worship each holy-writ word of them like radical fundamentalists pedestal-place
the Bible doesn’t make me not a practicing Hindu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Indeed, Hinduism only became a text-based
religion once the Brits took over. Hindus never considered themselves a "group" until they were forced by political
reasons (exacerbated by the imposition of their colonizers’ parliamentary
system) to other Muslims. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hinduism pre-dates
books. It was only the Brahmins who could
read throughout most of history after all.
(Just as Catholic priests had a monopoly on the interpretation of the Word until Martin Luther recognized: one requires no conduit to God.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The reason that there
are 30,000,000 Hindu deities is that each individual spiritual practice
developed independently. Whatever made sense
to thee was valid. <i>This </i>truth is what resonates with me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I learned while living
in India that the purpose of the Hindu “religion” is to get in touch with
innergod i. There exists no strict doctrine—
Hinduism mandates no proscriptions, reeks not of blind faith. Hinduism is, quite simply, pure self-seeking, utilizing timeless techniques. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hinduism is <i>natural </i>mysticism (rather than a
carrot-and-stick social control mechanism) in all of its incarnations—and it is
much aided by cannabis sativa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Marijuana is stress-relieving and peace-inducing. It is also a mind focuser, and a spiritual
aid. Meditation is an invaluable ritual, found in many faiths (chanting the Rosary produces quite the same effect - albeit muted - as does singing Hare Krishna) and ingesting THC incontrovertibly facilitates “zoning <i>in</i>”. Shaivites<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/ON%20BEING%20A%20NON%20INDIAN%20HINDU.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
have known as much for dozens of centuries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Music is important to
my spiritual practice. The sympathetic
vibrating of the understrings of the sitar explains Aum to me, if i focus. B</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">eing high helps me to
hear it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Many scholars opine
that Jesus may have journeyed to India. If he did, he probably ingested hashish with
holy ascetics, and wrapped his mind around thier concept of
enlightenment. Then he returned, enlightened, and
devoted himself to uplifting others, exactly as a bodhisattva would.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Easter falls on 4-20
this year. Coincidence?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Q: WWJD?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A: Inhale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All I know is: the more
I booze drink, the less I practice my faith.
Whereas, the more I engage in augmented sadhana<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/ON%20BEING%20A%20NON%20INDIAN%20HINDU.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>,
the more I calm and center myself, and become able to critically re-evaluate paradigms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On this doubly holy day I humbly suggest: marijuana can and should be used as a sacrament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-60343295273827650242014-04-01T06:09:00.001-07:002014-11-30T23:12:39.211-08:00OBAMA ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER, DECLASSIFIES POT!Gotcha ; )<br />
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As long as you're here though, you may be interested in yesterday's post (below).Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-20539947724889204882014-03-31T18:32:00.001-07:002015-05-22T01:21:55.439-07:00WHY THE FEDS REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE THE MEDICAL VALUE OF CANNABIS SATIVA and THE REASON IT REMAINS A SCHEDULE I CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE and THE UNTENABLE NATURE OF THIS POSITION<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Schedule I drugs, substances, or
chemicals are defined as drugs with <b><i>no currently accepted medical use</i></b>.
Schedule I drugs are the <b><i>most dangerous drugs of all.</i></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Really, that bit about “no currently
accepted medical use” is completely ridiculous.
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">According to the
National Institute on Drug Abuse (a division of the National Institutes of
Health):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">“The marijuana plant contains
several chemicals that may prove useful for treating a range of illnesses or
symptoms, leading many people to argue that it should be made legally available
for medical purposes. Medical marijuana
is <i>not</i> recognized or approved as
medicine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But scientific study
of the active chemicals in marijuana, called <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">cannabinoids</span></i>, has
led to the development of two FDA-approved medications already, and is leading
to the development of new pharmaceuticals that harness the therapeutic benefits
of cannabinoids while minimizing or eliminating the harmful side effects
(including the “high”) produced by eating or smoking marijuana leaves.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Put
simply, the feds would rather back a pill <i>derived
</i>from cannabis than the plant itself—one which takes all the “fun”<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a></span>
out of it.</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contemporary
medical research is focusing on two main cannabinoids, </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 14pt;">delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
(THC)</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and cannabidiol (CBD). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According
to NIDA:</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">“THC stimulates appetite and reduces nausea (and there are
already approved THC-based medications for these purposes<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>)
but it may also decrease pain, inflammation, and spasticity. CBD is a
non-psychoactive [meaning: it doesn’t get you high] cannabinoid that may also
be useful in reducing pain and inflammation, controlling epileptic seizures,
and possibly even treating psychosis and addictions.<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Research funded by the NIH is actively investigating the
possible therapeutic uses of THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids to treat
autoimmune diseases, cancer, inflammation, pain, seizures, substance use
disorders, and other psychiatric disorders.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">To
paraphrase: While cannabinoids do seem to be totally awesome, we just need some
more time (and money) to conduct some more research<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Officially:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">“The FDA requires carefully conducted studies in large
numbers of patients (hundreds to thousands) to accurately assess the benefits
and risks of a potential medication. Thus far, there have not been enough
large-scale clinical trials showing that benefits of the marijuana plant (as
opposed to specific cannabinoid constituents) outweigh its risks in patients
with the symptoms it is meant to treat.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Nevertheless, several prominent
physicians, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Andrew Weil for instance, wholeheartedly
support the use of marijuana as a medication.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">And not just for cancer, multiple
sclerosis, and AIDS patients.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Stress
is a legitimate medical issue, isn’t it? Laughter is in itself a medicine, say
most of us…</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Any integrative medicine practitioner
worth his salt is over the moon about the benefits of meditation. </span>Cannabis sativa has been used as a
meditation aid in India for dozens of centuries. Yoga, by the way, was invented in India, by the best of us. Bhang heads.</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Regarding that point. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Is cannabis really one of the “most dangerous drugs of all”? Does the DOJ actually
believe joint smokers behave like heroin addicts? Um, more like they’ve had a few beers, bud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">What are the specific
risks of ingesting the marijuana plant (as opposed to its specific cannabinoid
constituents)?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit;">“The known safety concerns of marijuana include impairment of
short-term memory; altered judgment and decisionmaking; and mood effects,
including severe anxiety (paranoia) or even psychosis (loss of touch with
reality), especially following high-dose exposures. Marijuana also
significantly reduces motor coordination and slows reaction time, which makes
it very dangerous to use before driving a car. Additionally, although we do not
yet know whether marijuana smoking contributes to lung cancer risk, it can cause
or worsen other respiratory problems such as bronchitis or chronic cough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Growing evidence is showing that marijuana may be
particularly harmful for young people: It may cause long-term or even permanent
impairment in cognitive ability and intelligence when used regularly during
adolescence, when the brain is still developing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Another safety
concern is that, contrary to common belief, marijuana can be addictive.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of these “known safety concerns” in turn.
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">First off, they’re
right, being high <i>is </i>like dreaming
awake—although one makes brilliant connections and transcends the training of
one’s superego (which enables one to critically examine one’s paradigms), pot
sucks re: short-term memory. That’s why
it’s important for a stoner to always carry a notebook or a Dictaphone. That’s why musicians can never exactly replicate
a jam. And an expressionist painter could
never paint it exactly that way again.
Cannabis fosters inspiration, which is by nature ephemeral, and
impossible to recall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Next, pot does alter
one’s judgment and decisionmaking—in a good way. One sees the beauty in things instead of
trudging through one’s mundane routines while high on THC (as opposed to CBD);
one chooses to respectfully interact with one’s fellow man, instead of fight
him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Does weed make one
paranoid? Only where it’s illegal. Does it cause loss of touch with
reality? Rather, the opposite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Clearly, one should not
drive (or operate heavy machinery) stoned—even if one’s natural inclination is
to drive 20 miles an hour <i>under </i>the
speed limit (as opposed to recklessly, like on alcohol, which makes one feel
invincible [in addition to uninhibited and irresistible]—how’s <i>that </i>for loss of touch with reality?),
but, as has been opined countless times by minds keener than mine, in this
regard (indeed, in all ways) marijuana is no more harmful than alcohol is. Yes, cannabis should be regulated—like liquor
is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">It is illogical to
prohibit marijuana smoking because it <i>might</i>
contribute to lung cancer risk when tobacco use is allowed. Similarly, although cannabis, like anything
good, <i>can </i>be addictive, it is far
less addictive than nicotine (or alcohol, or schedule II analgesics like
Vicodin).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">But the feds’ main
concern, of course (and rightly so) is the kids. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">According to NIDA:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">“(Marijuana) use has been increasing
among young people since 2007, corresponding to a diminishing perception of the
drug’s risks that may be associated with increased public debate over the
drug’s legal status.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">”</span></span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal;">Sorry about that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Given that many medical professionals
seem to agree, I am willing to grant that </span>“when [marijuana] is used heavily by
young people, its effects on thinking and memory <i>may</i> last a long time or even be permanent.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
(my emphasis.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Indeed, it is someone disconcerting
to learn that</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>“a large
long-term study in New Zealand showed that people who began smoking marijuana
heavily in their teens lost an average of 8 points in IQ between age 13 and age
38.”<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, it is imperative to note
that, according to the same study:</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span>“<b><i>Those who started smoking marijuana in adulthood did not show
significant IQ declines</i></b>.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">The Director of the
NIDA recently issued the following statement:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; font-family: inherit;">“Some teens are no doubt hearing and being influenced by
marijuana’s many outspoken advocates, who claim that the drug does not deserve
continued Schedule I status and that decades of prevention messaging have
overstated its dangers. The ongoing public conversation over medical marijuana
may contribute to the impression that, since some people use marijuana
therapeutically, it couldn’t be that harmful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Given the
increases we are seeing in marijuana use among this age group, it is more
crucial than ever to challenge the impression many of them have that marijuana
is a benign, unfairly demonized substance.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Basically: Pot might
make kids stupider, thus the Just Say No campaign must continue, so we must
continue to keep it Schedule I listed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Setting aside for a moment the undeniable evidence that is the
long list of brilliant thinkers who are proud members of the Marijuana Majority<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
since the government's own scientists <i>admit </i>that
smoking marijuana as an adult <i>does not </i>lead
to cognitive regression, it is nevertheless appropriate to criticize any “preventive
messaging” campaign that insists on continued Schedule 1 designation. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">That is, a mixed message would
not be hypocritical.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.4pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Pot is for
grownups, like lots of things are (like alcohol is).</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.4pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Kids aren’t idiots, they get it.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.4pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">But when you claim it’s psychoactive like
peyote and LSD and addictive like heroin you completely lose your credibility.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Even more imperatively: <b>keeping
marijuana illegal encourages black markets, and black marketeers don’t give a
shit to whom they sell – including kids.<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: 19px;">It does <i>not </i>follow from NIDA's reasoning that <i>adults </i>should be prohibited from using cannabis.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Source:
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The psychoactive chemicals of
marijuana are precisely what engender creativity, mindfulness,
interconnectivity, and dialogue, i.e., the “spiritual” uses of the plant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <strong><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Dronabinol</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Nabilone</span></strong> are
used to treat nausea caused by chemotherapy and weight loss caused by AIDS</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana-medicine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/WHY%20THE%20FEDS%20REFUSE%20TO%20RECOGNIZE%20THE%20MEDICAL%20VALUE%20OF%20CANNABIS%20SATIVA.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> One of the best threads woven
into Initiative 502 (which legalized recreation cannabis in Washington state)
was the dedication of a percentage of tax revenue to research.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sagan, Steven Colbert, Bill Maher, etc. (marijuanamajoirty.com)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-68926658753500709522014-02-03T13:13:00.000-08:002015-08-11T13:05:19.768-07:00Hawk Yeah!Well I'd say that was pretty convincing. <br />
<br />
A total team complete game domination. An old school asswhupping. <br />
<br />
Tough to pick a Super Bowl MVP. Like the '85 Bears, it had to go to someone on the defense. Malcolm Smith was in the right place at the right couple of times (just like he was to seal the NFC championship); got no qualms that they gave it to him. But it was the guys getting up in Old Manning's face who really deserved it. They got Peyton's jersey plenty dirty (as New England couldn't).<br />
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And the offense, which kept cranking out 1st downs, deserves a ton of credit for keeping the other guys' most prolific offense in history off the field. Under-respected receivers Baldwin and Kearse got to taste end zone glory - the latter's spinning, defender-shucking romp was simply awesome - way to go, local kid! As did Lynch, unlike his predecessor in Beast-dom, the late great Walter Payton.<br />
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Yes, this team and its players deserves to be compared with all-timers.<br />
<br />
Percy Harvin finally earned his millions... in twelve electric seconds. Richard Sherman was so good he played himself out of the limelight, for once. Russell Wilson far outshined a first-ballot hall of famer. The list goes on and on. Every man contributed, every single Seahawk left it all on the field.<br />
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John Schneider, the man who put it all together, got plenty of well-deserved credit - when is the last time an <i>exec</i> got so much press? So did coach Carroll, who mentioned to the 12th man over and over (as did commissioner Goodell, and Paul Allen, and everyone else). I expect he led the guys through some new age meditation mumbo jumbo in the days prior or whatever - goddamn hippy, he'll never win in this league... right?<br />
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What a win for the city of Seattle. Expectations were sky high all season, and our boys in blue lived up to every one of them. Won the division. Won home field. Eliminated our rivals for the NFC crown. Then, on the biggest stage of them all, executed an epic beat down. <br />
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Hawk <i>Yeah!</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-82437474771818835322014-01-19T22:19:00.000-08:002014-02-05T12:49:09.324-08:00Hawks Win! Seahawks triumph over 9ers in epic fashion! Too many huge plays to remember!<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Super Bowl XL was too big for us,
we weren’t ready. But these '13 Hawks
is. Defense wins NFC Championship, the
headlines will read tomorrow. They only
tested Sherman twice all evening; his interception assist in the end zone was
ridiculous, obviously the play of the game.
Or was it, even?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can think of six other
candidates which deserve consideration. The
first is the heave to Baldwin which set up the Seahawks’ only points of the
first half. Because that showed Russell wasn’t
cowed. The next is Marshawn’s beast
burst with that Walter Payton kick move; sweet as every flavor of Skittles
at once. How is that corporation not
paying that man? Who is his agent, that
he’s doing “Stop Freakin’, Call Beacon” instead of national “Taste the Rainbow”
ads. Third best play of the game was the
fourth down hail mary touchdown to Kearse; easily the best play of any <i>other </i>game. Fourth was Kaepernick running and slinging,
it has to be said: dude’s an incredible athlete – but I prefer Russell’s
head. That 9ers defense was all over number 3
all night, he had to scramble backwards like his video game avatar just to get rid of it
and hopefully avoid intentional grounding.
Aldon Smith got <i>after </i>our QB,
it has to be said. Which is why I’m
looking forward to the Super Bowl. I don’t
think Denver’s got half San Fran’s defense.
And Old Manning, for whom I have nothing but the ultimate respect (his hall
of fame career and his demeanor as a role model family man have inarguably exceeded any
football aficionado’s hopes for someone to look up to), is gonna have to run for
his life against this pumped up D-FENSE!<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 takeaways in the 4th quarter, nuff said. Especially that gamewinner - damn! Who deserved the game ball? Everyone. Blue’s D-Line dominated, stuffed
Gore, and the secondary the pass completely.
Yes, we did let that Irish bitch loose a few times but held firm when it
counted. Like after that first-play
fumble. Important that the D held then,
and indeed, kept us in the game throughout the 1<sup>st</sup> half. Easily could’ve gotten out of hand there in
the 2<sup>nd</sup> quarter. 17-3, 24-3 at the intermission. Offense wa’nt doing shit at the beginning, but I
love we kept poundin it with Skittle Beast (<i>damn
he got a sweet skittle skip – and he stiffarmed A.Smith to the ground
that time too, changed -5 into +2</i>) and it opened up a couple times. You could tell it was going to after he got
ten to start the second half. Then he
busted that great one. Place went
nuts. Then you could smell a fumble
coming, and it almost happened three times but Kaepernick zipped that lazer
beam to quiet us, kinda. Then Baldwin
returned that kick almost to the house!
89’s second huge play of the night.
Best play candidate because with it the Hawks regained the
momentum. What’s number six? The 2 delay of games attributable to the
12trh man? Very possibly. Maybe it was that S.F. assistant’s cheap shot
on the sideline – <i>fire and fine that
fucker</i> – maybe it was that long Hauschka kick that made our hated
archrivals need a touchdown to win it in our house. Maybe it was the plays their quarterback <i>didn’t </i>make with his legs because of the
halftime adjustments by our Defensive Coordinator. Maybe it was one of several forgotten third-down
conversions (mostly to Baldwin) with which we retained possession. But how can anyone deny the heroics of Navarro Bowman, who got
his leg broken but held on to the ball at the goal line; whose martyrdom was somehow
not reviewable / challengeable. An
injustice. I like that Marshawn, in a
soccer-like gesture, gave the ball right back, out of sportsmanship. Did y’all notice that? Or maybe you thought it was Karma.<o:p></o:p></div>
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C’mon Skittles. Give the man a contract.<o:p></o:p></div>
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C’mon D. Win us one more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Go hoist that trophy,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Bring it home, Hawks.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-48090245210555823972014-01-06T10:55:00.001-08:002014-01-19T22:49:13.792-08:00'Lone Survivor' : Long Game High Ground<div style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">That pretty young Afghan boy with the big eyes pondering why we decided to take the humanitarian route, that decidedly 'brown' Arab kid practicing
our words; think about that. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Those
villagers helping Marky Mark were cool and made sense, as did the inevitable military
brotherhood tripe – which is probably indubitably accurate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Hollywood
personalizing the soldiers with enhanced peccadillos was obvious, so too was
the call for more hardware on the ground and in the air (subtext: it all could’ve
been avoided given more "defense" contracts). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">But really, the movie was all about the importance of making an
impression upon the next generation of our enemies’ doormats. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Those few hero marines who perished in combat because they followed the rules of engagement</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> wouldn’t
want to be thought of as martyrs, except to their loved ones (by whom they inevitably will
be). They were just doing their jobs, obeying the directive of their commander-in chief.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Because they’re Frogmen – Hoo-rah! Maybe they were even actually cowards come
crunchtime, who knows, who cares? There’s no declassified evidence regarding
any of this shit. But that wouldn’t make
for such a saleable story. Hey, at least they
put themselves <i>there</i>, which is more
than one can say for the 99%.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-23299871759131457322013-12-06T09:18:00.000-08:002015-08-11T13:06:06.737-07:00Marijuana as “Medicine” - Just what the M.D. / Ph.D. / J.D. ordered<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Marijuana as “Medicine”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Just what the M.D. /
Ph.D. / J.D. ordered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I am a Seattle lawyer with chronic back pain and a history of
S.A.D. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I suffer from spinal
arthritis and a genetic predisposition to alcoholism. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I have been prescribed Oxycontin, Hydrocodone, Prozac, and Wellbutrin and told not to mix them with
booze. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Frustrated by my
constantly knotted bowels, nervous terror, and desire to jump off a bridge, I
decided to seek an umpteenth opinion. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>On
the advice of my metaphysician, I recently filled a medical marijuana
prescription. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s made all
the difference in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It has been one year since we Washingtonians passed Initiative 502. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The medical marijuana industry stands
to lose big from regulation when it finally kicks in next Spring; indeed, the
only people I know who voted no were MMJ distributors. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>We patients will be fine; the new
scheme only<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>expands</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>our rights. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Vendors, on the other hand, must
become state-licensed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> There
are currently hundreds of untaxed, unregulated pot shop shops in Seattle. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Only 21 in-city licenses will be
issued. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Here’s hoping that
such a paucity of legal suppliers will indeed be able to decrease black market
demand, and that industry experts (i.e., medical marijuana collectivists) will overcome their paranoia about having cameras recording every inch of their operations 24-7, and file the paperwork to go legitimate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">D.C. told Olympia: “We’ll back off and wait to see what happens
if you promise to thwart the black market, and keep it from kids” </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> goals which the DEA has unequivocally<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>not<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>itself achieved in its protracted
war on its own minority citizens. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The
cost of zero-tolerance over the years has been incalculable. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But I digress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The federal government continues to classify THC as a schedule 1
hallucinogenic. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s on par
with LSD because the other Washington recognizes no benefits. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Anyone who witnessed San Fran in ‘68
can probably imagine a balancing test in which mind-altering (read:
subconscious-outing) chemicals are perceived to be threatening to the
establishment. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And to be
fair, THC<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>de-square-ifying. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>On the other hand it confers certain
benefits. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Because the debate lacks empirical evidence, I, as one of the
few people in the world with permission to walk around with a joint in my
pocket, feel duty-bound to relate my iota of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here’s what my addiction looks like: <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I come home from my job
stressed. My back and neck hurt. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I desire to unwind. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Rather than ten fingers of scotch, I pour myself a half-cup of chilled lemon water into a
double-percolated glass-blown hookah pipe. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Then I select exactly the right strain
of cannabis for my needs, play some evocative music, stretch out on floor
pillows like the Cheshire Cat, and light up. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Occasionally (usually on weekends) I
take a whole day to check in with myself; I find that self-psychoanalysis
facilitates good mental health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why doesn’t Obama just order the FDA to conduct a clinical
trial? <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Because he knows
what the results would be. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And
then he’d<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>have<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>to comment. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But he doesn’t really give a darn –
it’s only pot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Leave it to the states, says our judicious leader, re-delegating to we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>grantors</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of his power our 10<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Amendment rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Herb might adversely affect adolescents’ brains say medical
professionals. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Okay,
restrict it to adults; that (kind of) works with alcohol. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Prosecute street deals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Black marketers are businessmen; they have bottom-lines, like
everyone else. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Cut deeply enough
into their profits and they cannot continue to function. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Take away their weed sales, and they
will have to shut down their entire operations, including distributing to minors
bath salts and meth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now the only guys who<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>will<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>sell weed to kids are SOL. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Shucks, maybe they’ll have to look for
a 9-5 gig.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Interestingly, prior criminal convictions for marijuana related
offenses will not preclude entrepreneurs from applying for the grower,
processor and distributor licenses now available. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Which seems correct –
after all, what<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>other<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>job can a convicted brother get?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In my opinion, in this case, federal interests will be excellently
served by regulation at the state level. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And the economics of the idea is
sound: tax the profits; conserve – indeed,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>increase</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>– our monetary resources for use on
more pressing<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>problems. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Furthermore, society in general will
profit from the more equitable treatment of its tan men. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Legislation which produces
discriminatory results is per se unconstitutional.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=199779305504502146" name="_ftnref1"></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/NY%20times%20op-ed.docx#_ftn1" title=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">[1]</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We’ll have to wait and see how it all plays out. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But I for one vow to continue to use
medical marijuana even if the federal government<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>does<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>step in. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Because bud is kind for what ails me,
way mellower than anything else. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And
as a citizen it is my right to civilly disobey unjust laws and try to catch a
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anomalous district boundaries was sufficient to state a claim under the Equal
Protection Clause for racial gerrymandering. [DeWitt v. Wilson, 856 F. Supp.
1409, 1412 (D. Cal. 1994)]. (Source:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://definitions.uslegal.com/r/racial-gerrymandering/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: x-small;">http://definitions.uslegal.com/r/racial-gerrymandering/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-23103380757097176592013-11-26T11:58:00.000-08:002013-11-26T15:10:25.409-08:00Seahawk Studs Suspended for Smoking Plant Less Harmful Than Alcohol<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Seahawks will battle the Saints next
Monday for first place in the NFC without two of their top defensive backs, Brandon Browner and Walter Thurmond. Second-stringers
will have to do their best to slow down Drew Brees because the starters smoked
pot and got caught. To be fair, Browner’s gotten burned
a bunch this year; maybe he’s been playing baked. But Thurmond surely hasn’t, all he’s done is
relax with a joint or two rather than<i> </i>pound Vicoden and beer like his peers do.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/AL%20Blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yeah, Ricky Williams and Tyrion Mathieu smoked weed and maybe it messed with their heads a bit. But it’s way better that they puffed herb than abused alcohol, isn’t it? Athletes’ bodies are fine-tuned machines, booze is horrible for them, so what - jocks don’t get to hang? Marijuana
use doesn’t signal “character issues”, it signals interesting characters, like
basketball’s Bill Walton and Bison Dele. But football players are only encouraged / allowed to be macho drunk meatheads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Michael McKnight reports that many NFL players “see marijuana as a viable
option to the pills and injections given to them by their employers to manage
the side effects of their violent occupation.” (‘Joint Account, <i>The politics of pot in professional football</i>’,
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-18816899431291086792013-11-18T10:46:00.000-08:002014-01-08T14:27:33.799-08:00The Trajectory of Russell Wilson’s Balls<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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He flings Tecmo Bowl blimpballs, easy for
receivers to adjust to; his range is about 70 yards. Kid’s got a cannon – everyone remembers his “Simultaneous Possession” hail mary to Tate. Hawks fans also remember well number 3's heave that beat Brady last year. His precision touchdown to
Baldwin Sunday just before halftime (it must be mentioned: he manages the game
well) was beautiful, it plopped down right where only his guy could catch it;
above double coverage with pinpoint accuracy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Also, Russell Wilson has courage. And ambition and
drive. In a word, balls. I like that he’s studious
(whenever it’s the D’s turn he retires to the bench with his
notebook and immerses himself in intellectual analysis of the game) does well
in interviews, etcetera. I like that
he's heady: he only runs when he has to, and protects himself. I like that he played baseball, because he
knows how to slide, and can flip backhanded touchdown pitches. I love that he sacks up in crunchtime, and
that he sprints out of the pocket and threatens to run... then throws over the top like Randall Cunningham.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I love that fact that the
young man has proven himself to be a mature and capable leader. I trust him to use the clock to his
advantage, and to make something happen with his huge gun or his lightening
quick pistons, and never to bitch when he gets hit. Never to commit a personal foul (unless someone
deserves it). Never to whine about his
coaches or teammates. Certainly to
appreciate Hawk Nation Fans, who have fallen in young with the brainy underdog. Stud’s got big balls. His potential is as sky high
as his throwing style, because of his physical, emotional and
intellectual IQ.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-78217213764334624992013-10-18T11:17:00.000-07:002013-11-26T15:08:16.213-08:00Tokers' Right: Peaceful Assembly<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The 1<sup>st</sup> Amendment grants American citizens the right to assemble peacefully – ever been to Hempfest? Diverse strangers co-mingling under the influence of marijuana is a sight for starry-eyed humanists to behold. Whereas such a gathering would obviously be dangerous chaos were everyone drunk. </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Marijuana is less bad than alcohol</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of the deficiencies in Washington State Liquor Control Board’s rules is that marijuana cannot be consumed in public; not even inside a club. Never out in the open (although this rule is ignored all over Seattle) and <i>explicitly </i>not in a park, which sucks. Nor at a concert, nor at a ball game... It’s prohibited like booze <i>and</i> like cigarettes combined. Unless one owns one’s own home one has no legal place to get high. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I applaud the Seattle Police's provisional decision not to enforce. But power should be vested in the people; I suggest explicitly <i>permitting </i>it in spiritual temples, like churches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to pertinent jurisprudence, recognized members of recognized indigenous communities get special “spiritual uses” protections. That is, Native Americans on Native land can do hallucinogens (which pot is). Fair enough; tribes <i>should </i>be treated as quasi-sovereign, since they <i>are</i>. But what about we Rastas and Hindus? Why can’t <i>I </i>convert to whichever religion I choose? Oh I yeah, I can. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">My 1<sup>st</sup> Amendment right of assembly also confers upon me the right to join any religious or secular association. A tribe (not the government) gets to decide who is a member of said tribe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The counter-argument is I should just get a vaporizer.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-2649700754335332052013-10-17T09:05:00.000-07:002013-11-29T10:39:54.170-08:00Liquor Control Board Announces Pot Rules; MMJ Pissed<div class="MsoNormal">
By now you’ve seen the headlines; if you’re a medical
marijuana distributor you’ve gotta be pissed.
But fair enough; gotta regulate the industry all the way and eliminate
the black market, which doesn’t care to whom it sells; keep it from kids – control
the supply.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seed to sale tracking, so you know whose product you find
across state lines. Concessions to the Feds. Who’ve been cool as shit so far; to
be fair, they’ve got bigger concerns.
Here’s an idea to balance the budget: defund the DEA!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Growers and Processors should find plenty of secure warehouse space for their LCB-mandated-high-security operations in the industrial district. Taxable retail sales are expected to begin mid 2014; licenses
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Medical Marijuana dispensaries must obtain a retailer’s
license by 2015. There are currently 200
MMJ dispensaries in Seattle. Squeezed
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more than an ounce, and grow up to 3 “unlicensed” plants.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-76549799488377783462013-10-10T10:13:00.001-07:002013-11-29T10:27:50.314-08:00News Flash: Two party political system leads to gridlock<br />
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The United States is the only
power nation I know of that uses a two party political system. The Brits have like six major parties which
all send representatives to the legislature.
They present to one another varied points of view, which are debated in a
collegial atmosphere conducive to the critical analysis of multifaceted
issues. Or something like that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Whereas House Republicans throw a temper tantrum, and Tea Party radicals arm themselves
in preparation for the colored people apocalypse.
Right wingers oppose any idea which might bring Left wingers credit. And vice versa to a certain extent. Good ideas get thwarted out of spite.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What’s ironic is that a two party
system also creates a coming-to-the-middle effect. Party lines vie for the middle, to get that swing 10%. Their rhetoric is barely different. (Though not having been <i>caught</i> saying nigger in da white house don’t make you not racist.)</div>
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Personally I think our system would be
better off if it were a little more socialist.
That’s different from democrat (though most all socialists vote democrat so's not to waste it). Yes there’s a
green party and a libertarian party and that, but how many of those guys actually represent
constituents? The Tea
Party should be its own radical fundamentalist splinter party. For example. And there should be a thoughtful humanist party comprising a shit ton of swing votes. <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-51954151791693831312013-10-10T10:13:00.000-07:002013-10-17T09:06:48.239-07:00What should be done about the NCAA (Fuck the BCS)<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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The inequitable monopoly that is
big time college sports has been exposed for its greed and hypocrisy. They all (school presidents, millionaire coaches,
billionaire boosters etc) claim that they want to preserve the integrity of
the game. But not even in the F<i>C</i>S are
most athletes serious students. An Ivy
League game may be played by scholars, to a crowd of 20,000. Armed services games make money as well, but none of those dudes were offered scholarships to play for a D1
behemoth. Sports Illustrated’s expose of
the Okalhoma State football program sufficiently illuminates the truth, which
is no longer even seriously debated: The
NCAA and its member institutions make huge money off of talented young brown
men and don’t give them anything viable in return.</div>
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Maybe one percent of big time college athletes will strike it rich in the NFL or NBA draft lottery. Many more baseball players will live comfortably playing farm MLB hoping to get a shot at the bigs. But then their sport isn't nearly as popular. A
Damoclean sword constantly threatens foot and basket ball jocks' cocks; they only
remain on scholarship as long as they continue to perform at a peak level. On the field that is. Who has time for class and homework? Maybe the most dedicated and disciplined. Realistically most of these coddled superstar
athletes aren’t exactly superb scholars because they've never had to be. Or because they come from neighborhoods with
bad schools. Most of them have no chance
of making it to the NFL <i>or </i>to graduation; pay em now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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NCAA and Texas A&M press
their rights to make money off Johnny Football while telling him he can’t. Ed O’Bannion sues because he should have made
millions off his video game. College
sports has become an entertainment business.
The NCAA is a monopoly. And monopolies are illegal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They’re not gonna budge – and
they shouldn’t. Although I for one would like to think those are actually students in the midst of earning their degrees out there representing my huskies. I’d root for em harder if they were. Then
again, I’d want them to win. Probably wouldn’t pay fifty bucks to see them get
their asses whipped. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What if NCAA sports went back to
being respectable? Tons of exes would
lose their profits, dozens of chick sports would lose their funding, the list
of losers goes on… <i>That </i>situation is <i>not </i>what anyone wants.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What if it wasn’t their
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What if there was a semi-pro league? Where athletes would
play for money, and not have to bother about school. The quality of the game would be high, and the passion for it. A lot of these guys would go pro. What if the NFL set up a
feeder league similar to MLB's?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Competition is the essence of
regulated capitalism.<o:p></o:p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Allen/Desktop/AL%20Blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">[1]</span></span></span></a> </div>
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Fans are rabid about football;
they’d go to semi-pro games, even watch em on T.V. They could play on Saturdays. Fuck the BCS.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Recruiters could go around to
high schools and just scoop up the talent – where’s a kid gonna wanna go: a
place where he’s getting paid and looked at by the bigs, or a place from whence
he <i>might </i>graduate one day if he
practices his sport and studies and does nothing else including sleep?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Certain power football and
basketball conferences like the SEC and the ACC and the BIG 12 and the PAC 12
for that matter, would keep the lights on in their athletic departments. So could an entity like Boise State, if they
(correctly) determined that having a big-time football program brings in donor money and
freshmen; if Universities could make the deal sweet enough for a few teenaged
stars they’d probably land em. Gotta treat
them like the gold they is though. Help em by
getting em a <i>tutor</i>, not by writing
their papers to keep em just barely eligible to play.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Antitrust laws exist because industry barons like Rockefeller made billions and
paid tidbits; a just society must be equitable, even if this means being a bit
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-5929768373595550412013-10-10T09:59:00.000-07:002013-11-29T18:04:28.347-08:00New Grand Old Party Platform<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">I've
been working on my speech for the convention. Republican leaders want me
to unveil their new improved updated party platform for some reason. Now
they're just looking for the perfect puppet candidate: preferably a pregnant paraplegic lesbian.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to some meetings and took notes. Here's what I've come up with
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">“Might
makes right” may seem "wrong" to you pussies in rose-tinted tea-lenses, but to us it’s crystal clear; the USA is top
dog for a <i>reason</i>, and we should all get on board with the winning
team! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt;">Now this man Obama...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">We like
the universal healthcare and respect he espouses; we like some of his other
Marxist tendencies too, even if he <i>is </i>from one of those Niger places full of colored people; we think the U.S. <i>is </i>too caught up in
consumer greed and screen entertainment to truly think about things, much less
research, campaign and vote for them. Which has worked well for fearmongerers in the past. But all these young whippersnappers with this newfangled interweb... The fact is we <i>are</i> too
fat. We have king’s disease (aka gout). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Every responsible adult with a job eventually comes to realize… even ex-hippies
started voting for Reagan... It's good to be red, but maybe we should just incorporate a
touch of purple, whatever them donkeys are winnin with; rework social welfare more on a Norwegian model for example - whichever
country way better services, somebody should do some research or something. But let’s
also get back to being real: being bullies is what got us where we are atop
the food chain. We <i>should </i>be pro-military, it’s by far
our greatest international advantage; it’s what makes us the world’s only
superpower, which makes us an economic superpower in turn. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">We
have the luxury to piss away cash on our crippled weaklings because we pick on
middle eastern dictators before they get too big and band together and defeat
us like the Soviets couldn’t either because we outspent them until they busted
(truism of war, politics and the Olympics: gold wins). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">The
history of east west relations is unequivocally characterized by animosity, and
Russia is half chink for that matter. </span></span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt;">Fuckin
Brown People; bomb em all to Hell. Oh yeah, some of us </span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt;">are
Brown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Okay
then, treat em like the rest of us and pick on somebody <i>else</i> for
some reason <i>other</i> than skin color. Not Canada though,
they’re like our differently mentally abled kid brother with retard chromozone: you kinda want to stick up for em. How bout fuckin New Zealand?
Smug piece of shit Kiwis. Ain't doin dick but drinking beer and
marrying sheep down there. What’s waterfront cost in Hawaii and Cali
these days? Yeah. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Let’s
go park an Aircraft carrier off Auckland (<i>just one </i>mind you would
do it) and appropriate an island or two, why not? How would that tactic <i>not</i> result
in an increase in our gross holdings? What has every king ever
attempted to do (besides feast)? That's right, conquer. Who says we
have to stop at 50 states, why not 60? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Why
shouldn’t Costa Rica follow Puerto Rico into the Union? Ya mas dos
estrellas. Next El Salvador, Panama, the Phillipines, Israel… Oh yeah...
that whole racist dick we’ve been throughout history thing. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-40869262318528837252013-10-10T09:54:00.000-07:002015-05-18T17:45:28.368-07:00NEZs and SL<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As well as delineating DRUG
FREE areas (i.e. the 1000 buffer rule), cities should designate NON ENFORCABLE
ZONES (NEZs).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Places where it's okay to smoke weed in public.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Private clubs should be permitted to encourage members to relax and enjoy a pipe or two, clearly - employees worried about second-hand smoke don't <i>have</i> to work there (an analogy would be cigar bars or golf clubhouses). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition, certain <i>open air</i> spaces should be designated NEZs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
Quiet corners of parks could be set aside, for example. Of course, they’d have to be gated to keep minors out, like ashrams. Or made otherwise inaccessible to minors, like ewok treehouses… </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Furthermore, certain "churches" should be designated SOVEREIGN LAND
(SL), where marijuana is used for spiritual purposes, or for recreational
purposes, who cares? Who are we hurting
over here? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At Hempfest, a
cross-section of subcultures co-mingles so excellently – can you imagine 50,000 <i>drunk </i>people getting together like
that? They’d <i>murder </i>each other. Better
to lump us together, give us stoners a place, keep us from mixin with the
square citizenry is all one can ask. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As it is
now, if one doesn’t own one’s home, one has no legal place to get high. Even if
one does (or rents from a sympathetic landlord), private abodes
are no place to meet interesting strangers and socialize.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-12458508806463351672013-10-10T09:53:00.000-07:002013-11-26T15:01:29.524-08:00HOV Lanes<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">God I fucking hate traffic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">How great would it be if all new cars
were electric, with smart cruise control like my Dad’s Durango has? We’d cut down on fuel consumption; conserve our oil for when that valuable resource becomes scarce (and an even more irreplaceable one: the environment), and, by outfitting the entire car with sensors, we'd be able to plug in to a supercomputer which moved us from
point A to point B maximally efficiently. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Super Smart Cruise Control wouldn’t only
wisely slow you down when you came flying up on somebody’s tailgate, it would
brake to avoid mistakes you couldn't see coming and we’d travel through cities at exactly the speed
limit, all of us together, sitting there drinking our lattes, chatting out our
windows (you could :find friends and request to ride next to them in
the interest of a pleasanter commute), wearing our Google glasses to direct our vehicle’s focus when necessary, like around turns or in emergencies. But mostly, the <i>vehicle</i> would help <i>us</i>.
It would see things coming from all sides and keep perfect space and
pace even when merging, eliminating bottlenecks and caterpillar humpback flow,
possibly even red lights. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Author demands 10% gross project
budget, to which he is entitled, as Author retains All rights to
his intellectual property, which he automatically copyrights by writing it down right now.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991158061425655133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199779305504502146.post-65431280308282504492013-06-30T16:00:00.000-07:002015-08-11T13:11:17.207-07:00Pride; Mainstream<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Originally this was an alternative parade,” I remarked to my wife as the third group of
bank employees shuffled listlessly by, humbled by the lack of applause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The
dykes on bikes led it off excellently, it must be said, with wonder-woman and
everywoman revving their phat hogs down 4<sup><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">th </span></sup>street. But then came commercials for
at least 20 corporations who’d “asked” their employees to participate to promote name recognition – a not-bad idea considering that the crowd of spectators must’ve exceeded a hundred
thousand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some firms at least got into the spirit; like Chipotle, with their cowboy straddling a
gyrating burrito “So Big You Can Ride It”. Starbucks made a commendable
showing numbers wise; as did Microsoft, whose employees who got more into the colorful spirit.
Uninterestingly enough, Amazon again didn’t do dick for the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Neighbors
had a memorable float, so did Wildrose, as is to be expected of the best gay and
lesbian clubs in town, respectively. The firefighters elected not to display their
beefcake, a shame, because it was like 90 degrees out and everyone was panting for their hoses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kudos
to the kamikaze bikini squirt gun crew, who flitted up and down the line,
teasing marchers and watchers alike; applause also to pink roller batman, who I
swear I saw last week in freemont as black batman – unmistakable
physique. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A heartfelt thumbs-up to the doggie fetishists with butt plug
tails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But
all in all, San Fran wouldn’t’ve been real impressed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Mormon Church was there pledging their solidarity; interesting. I suppose
they must be angling for that slippery slope towards polygamy. Washington’s first
wives were present as well; kind-eyed smiling octogenarians they looked from afar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From
the boy scouts to the tranny dominatrixes, everyone was totally into it.
Especially, I assume, the absent Dan Savage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Even
the bike cops sported mardi gras necklaces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Afterwards
at the Seattle Center there was a mile long line to pee. The A/C was
sweet, but the real fun was in getting drenched in the joyously ejaculating fountain. A competent
D.J. rocked rave tracks and several freaks flocked towards his beats… but the problem was not enough
people were on enough drugs. But that’s okay, there’s a time and a place for
that; this was a family affair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chock
a block with vendors’ stalls; all manner of entrepreneurs selling all kinds of
shit: kudos to the guy with the $1 ice cold water cooler on wheels, my wife was just talkin bout how
thirsty she is. Marijuana perfumed the air, as it does at every Seattle
public gathering these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Shoulder
to shoulder “Wieners! Penis popsicles for sale”!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It
was almost weird being a straight couple there. Don’t get me wrong, we
were totally welcomed (if a bit swept to the edges): one very sincere dude even
stopped us and thanked us from the bottom of his heart for our support.
To which I of course replied: we just came for the flesh, bro- whatever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not
much tittilating naughtiness in the end; lots of partners with kids. That’s what gay
has become in Seattle: no big deal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another majority-held value, with which everyone is rushing to associate now that it’s mainstream.</span></div>
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