Legislators aim to snuff out penalties for pot use

Active legislation HR 5843 has tremendous public support. Good luck getting the CNN embed to load. EVERY OTHER CNN VIDEO WORKS FINE, but for "some reason" this one constantly fails to play. Hmmm.

• Full text
• DEA, Bush White House say marijuana dangerous, has no accepted medical use
• Decriminalization advocates say marijuana laws should mirror alcohol laws
• NORML spokesman says marijuana user arrested in U.S. "every 38 seconds"
• HR 5843 would not affect laws on growing, importing, exporting marijuana

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What the No on Prop 8 Dangerously Angry Mob Needs to Know

Why are the No on Eighters such haters, excluding polyamorists from the cause? Why LGBT and not LGBTP? Why are you "pulling a black community" on the "poly's", turning around and denying us the same rights you demand? If any "gay marriage" amendment ever passes, it BETTER include polyamory, or you've done the same thing to us polyamorists as you claim the black community has done to you. How selfish and bigoted of LGBT's to only seek their own special exception without including everyone in this alleged civil rights battle.

If we use the term Marriage Equality, it better mean Equality for ALL or we are no better than any of the others.

The maniacally narcissistic leaders and architects of the NO on 8 camp -- as distinct from the vast majority of NO supporters who are infinitely more reasonable -- thought they could just "plug in" to The Civil Rights Formula; co-opting phrases like "by any means necessary" to dangerously vicious ends at times. The raw emotionalism of the NO campaign further complicates and invalidates their cause.

Television and radio commercials have histrionically equated the plight of gays as equivalent to Japanese Internment. Internment? Who are we kidding? Slavery and lynching are equated with marriage? Who sent YOU to such a Rush Limbaugh Institute of Hyperbole? To any semi-objective observer, these are utterly emotionally hijacked non sequiturs. As LGBT, we are not by any stretch of the imagination lynched or interned; to brazenly present such absurdities has discredited and hobbled our cause; to have any effect, the cause must de-escalate to more appropriate analogical ground such as achieving equal pay for equal work. This is vastly more correct and accurate analogy. Women are not "interned" by lack of equal pay for equal work, but they are clearly out of parity.

The NO on 8 camp, in order to be viewed as intellectually honest, in order to be viewed as capable of a measure of objective introspection, in order to be viewed as credible, simply must change its long term strategy.

Let us also acknowledge that in order for those of us in the NO on 8 camp to prevail, we must not in any way turn around to men with 2, 3, or 4 wives; or women with 2, 3, or 4 gender-diverse POLYAMOROUS SPOUSES, and tell them that they don't love one other and are not entitled to be married.

How DARE YOU "pull a black community" by turning around and denying the polyamorous the same rights to the loving contract that you demanded? Logic and legal consistency mandate that if marriage is opened up beyond one man and one woman, then marriage MUST be opened up to all; anything less is the highest of all heights of hypocrisy.

One other option is to get the State out of this Church-entangled business of "marriage" altogether. This could actually be the root of the problem. The idea of marriage originated in religion and the state found this relationship helpful to its own agenda. This was a pre-constitutional breach of division between church and state. Particularly in an era of growing religious diversity, including atheism, it might do well to get the State out of the business of marriage altogether. We might have a better time of arguing that a State engaging in marriage at all, is unconstitutional. Why target pillars when the entire foundation is built on sinking sand? With the State completely out of this marriage gig, those who want to be attached to the flailing, anachronistic, 50% failure-rate of traditional marriage could then find a Church that will grant them that Church's version of whatever it wants to call marriage. In this eventuality, any who go to the State for Civil Union, regardless of gender or number, can get Civilly United.

Change the entire zeitgeist, call it something new and enlightened like Life Bonded; create an entirely new and more enlightend conception of these unions, one that is open to all and free of the historical baggage, muck, and mayhem. There, I said it. So go ahead, add me to the Black List, shout me down, uncritically call me a hater and a bigot, thereby proving the very worst the NO on 8 character to be true. 

I'm not AGAINST; I'm FOR intellectual honesty and clarity, all around. The REAL abiding injustice we should all be fighting against is CLASS, anyway. Race and gender relations are wonderfully powerful emotional distractions that the top 5% would love us to stay embroiled and entangled with in perpetuity. Now that we have a black president, are all of a sudden all black people equal? No. 

Now, maybe we can finally see that our bottom 80% black, white, and latino brothers and sisters have more in common with one another than a Top 1% black has with a Bottom 80% black, or a Top 1% latino has with a Bottom 80% latino, right? Who is REALLY in the same boat with us, someone with the same color skin as a CEO making $400M, or whitey next door struggling like us?

P.S. Just read this: "the death penalty ... cases do not represent as much of a fundamental change as Proposition 8." Holy shit, DEATH is not as fundamental as marriage? Holy shit, people.

On Accusations That Obama is a Communist or Terrorist

"Marx, who drew up this programme to the satisfaction of all parties, entirely trusted to the INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT of the working class, which was sure to result from combined action and mutual DISCUSSION," In German edition, "Marx relied SOLELY upon the intellectual development of the working class, as it necessarily has to ensue from united action and discussion."

Of course, evil men of bankrupt moral character have used equally:

• the Old Testament
  
• the New Testament
  
• the Constitution
  
• the Manifesto
  
• the Q'ran
  
• the Vedas and Gitas
  
• and so many others

... to control people through violence, fear, threat of scarcity, and elevation of greed as a virtue.

I think it's important to remind that the manifesto is often used as a diversion from The Actual Work of economic scholarship; which is also a source of IDEAS; not something to be unilaterally implemented with absurd and dangerous religious fervor.

Since the Manifesto closes with, "The Communists ... openly declare that their ends can be attained ONLY by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions," then no THINKING, EDUCATED, PEACE-LOVING HUMAN can be a Communist as advocated in that closing battle cry.

In this regard, to call any THINKING, EDUCATED, PEACE-SEEKING and PEACE-LOVING HUMAN a Communist is like calling a Rabbi or Bishop a Terrorist because they have a different religious text from our own. It's an insult that pollutes the credibility of the slanderer as much as it impugns the reputation of the slandered.

Peaceful men and women seek rather to render irrelevant those historic justifications for organized control of people by FORCE, FEAR, and GREED; the predominant forces common to both Church and State rule throughout history. This is the history -- the history of COERCION and BRUTE FORCE -- which is to be reversed by Reason and Discussion, not by force.

Nobody with properly firing synapses could ever support such utter ignorance as Stalinist or Leninist mental illness; and to suggest someone of Obama's intellect and introspective nature could be in favor such things is an insult and slander as damaging and deceitful as any McCarthyist Inquisition.

Why not just stand up and shout, "Vote for McCain, because Obama is a Pathological Murderer committed to Violent Communist overthrow of his own political office!"

Knowing and respecting your intellectual honesty, I'm sure you will agree that such a statement is a nauseatingly, and even pathologically absurd; yet, I suspect that you will also surmise that such twisted thinking indeed under girds much of what has circulated among the darker alleys of the interwebz.

To assert that as President of the United States, Obama would lead a Violent Overthrow of his very own office reveals near mental illness grade delusion; and we know that anything less than Violent Overthrow is NOT Communism, as defined in the Manifesto in its closing battle cry, right?

Because if you are not for Violent Overthrow , you can not be a Communist, period.

No responsible contemporary Democrat, Technoprogressive, Social Democrat, or even Socialist believes in such evil violence as MANDATED by the Communist Manifesto.

To suggest that we believe in such things is equivalent to someone suggesting that McCain intends to position troops at every home in order to promote Homeland Security. It is EVIL to call me, Obama, or any educated, peace-loving and peace-seeking American a COMMUNIST. It's EVIL, not to be toyed with in any way.

To make such accusations is equivalent to making direct and sober claims that your pastor is a secret member of the KKK or a closet NAZI. EVIL.

Moreover, we read that, "The practical application of the principles will depend, everywhere and at all times, on the historical conditions for the [present time] and for that reason, no special stress is laid on the revolutionary measures proposed at the end of Section II. That passage would, in many respects, be very differently worded today" (Source).

How many times have we read substantially equivalent clarifying statements regarding various scriptural passages of all kinds? Many times, indeed.

The history of Brute Force Coercion -- Economic, Ideological, and Military -- is the real history to be disdained in favor of a Revolution of Reasoned Discussion by a Universally Well Educated Common Man.

Perhaps most importantly: "These measures will, of course, be different in different countries."

ALL THAT SAID:

The Constitution of the United States is, as we've discussed so many times, ever my Personal Creed and I have nothing but the deepest Allegiance to My Country, The United States of America; one of the all-too-rare nations on Earth where we can have discussions such as this email without fear of intimidation or imprisonment for merely DISCUSSING ideas such as these for the purpose of forever forging A More Perfect Union.

This is why I so quickly wrote to support your 30 days to KNOW OUR U.S. FOUNDING DOCUMENTS campaign and will happily join you at that point of departure from these matters. The America founding documents are the Strategic Business Plan, the Blueprints for our Union ; you, I, and our fellow Americans are to be the trustees and executors of those hallowed texts and only those hallowed texts -- not interjecting, usurping, or bastardizing with violent and coercion-laden ideological or religious texts, from the Communist to the Catholic.

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Mr. Garrison on Evolution

Defines the phrase, "absolute classic."



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What's another $7B between friends, right?

A measly $7,000,000,000.00 is a completely insignificant 2.3% of the $300,000,000,000.00 American Taxpayer Hose Down in progress.

Meanwhile, go ahead and miss just ONE $3000 mortgage or rent payment and your credit score will be immediately smashed in half and the wage slave shackles tightened another dozen notches. Miss another one -- or just be a couple weeks late -- and you are HOMELESS, Mr. and Mrs. "All Created Equal."

Oh, and don't forget the $1,100,000,000,000.00 "off-balance-sheet" cook-off. Yeah, that would be around 360% of the $300B that, "Seven of the biggest U.S. banks, including Citigroup, are on the hook for ..." according to those Radical Leftists over at Bloomberg.

So is the message getting through yet? Probably not.

Drivers that force bumper to bumper

Drivers that force bumper to bumper traffic on freeways are extraordinarily annoying, as you probably know. Unless you ARE one, of course.

When I create a safe following distance of one car length for each 10 miles an hour in front of me, that is my safety buffer not your space to jam into and force bumper to bumper stupidity again, got it? Stay out of my safety space. listen

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Yeah, WE are the vicious Sharks ... Right ...

The evil short-selling sharks, as this New York Times article refers to us, are only "circling" in the sense that we are considering that this recent down leg may be due for a bit of an upside correction ... and "circling" around to find a good entry point into the inevitable long dollar trade of 2009.

Of course, we all know about those EVIL SPECULATORS ... lazy no-goods working 14 hour days in our home offices of our own internal motivation, crunching statistical risk management models ... engaging in such EVILS as buying a family home on the pure SPECULATION that it will assure our retirement ... speculatively buying condos for our children so that they might have a starter nest egg, too ... investing in 401(k)'s on the sheer SPECULATION that equities will rise over time.

Yes indeed, we must rid the world of "those" evil speculators (just make sure that MY 401(k) goes up). Next, just take the Wall St. to Washington Hank Paulson revolving door, by which you can conveniently advise that the armies of wage slaves whom you already raped and pillaged of all value, must now BAIL OUT THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS BILLIONAIRE BANKERS who (knowingly, for many) drove Freddie and Fannie directly into to ground.

The economic devastation fraught on 9/11 was a FRACTION of the damage done by this devouring locust swarms of Larry Kudlow and Sean Hannity worshippers.

Sound a bit bitter? Not at all.

Roused a bit awake? Wide.

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Oh Yes, Markets Are All Wise, Powerful, Efficient, and Just

That's why U.S. officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest buyers of U.S. home loans. Brilliant job, Free Market. Nicely done. But just go right on ahead berating and belittling government every time it bails your irresponsible @$$3$ out of your latest get rich scheme.

No, market marauders, this is not going to happen for much longer. Too many of us are now onto your game and it is about to end. Your idle threats that you'll cut our jobs have become empty and benign, because you do that to us all -- from migrant, to maven; from administrator to attorney -- regardless of our tax policies.

Of you, in none other than the immortal words of the dreaded Styx, "The jig is up, the news is out, they finally found me; the renegade who had it made retrieved for a bounty. Never more to go astray, this'll be the end today, of the wanted man."

Free Tap Water: For a "Service Fee" of Just $4.18 a Minute

Water, water, everywhere, but so is the need to curb speculators

The $15 billion-plus bottled-water industry has grown out of nothing over the last couple of decades. The water used to supply it amounts to far less than 1% of supply. However, the idea that water itself can be owned is disturbing.
We can only survive about three days without water. Like air, it should be made available to us as part of what many organizations call the "commons." We don't pay for air, why water?

The amount of private water providers has grown more than 100-fold since 1990 and they now supply about 10% of the world's population, according to water activist Maude Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project. And water ownership is growing with people, and investors seeing it as a ripe commodity.

T. Boone Pickens, the famous oil investor, for example, is betting big on water, buying up rights in the Southwest.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't have the right to buy premium water (some wingnuts have opened oxygen bars after all), but there should be a limit on the amount of water profiteers can own, then let speculators have at it.
We need look no further than our food supply to see the dangers speculation has on prices -- and therefore those who cannot afford to pay; they starve.
We should set a water policy that assures people have ready access to it as part of their right to exist. Sure we trade taxes for rights all the time. And I think that is exactly the point of the U.S. mayors who voted to end taxpayer funding of bottled water: It's ours to begin with.

Water should not be made into a total commodity. That would have life and death consequences, and markets don't care; they operate without conscience.

The Planet is Fine. Us? Not so much.

Bush Impeached

But have you heard a SINGLE word about it in the mainstream? Of course not. And as usual, guess who our humble, courageous, and persistent American hero is ... yet again ...

Hannity Hounds McCain

Hannity is the best caricature of the immortally immature little school yard dickhead bully that we've seen in decades and the very embodiment of the entire Fox News mentality. I try to not even give him the ink because he thrives on it, even when it reveals his own bombastic histrionic hypocrisy. Below is a great clip of him INCRIMINATING and BADGERING his own political party's candidate as somehow not qualified because he actually works well with others. Nice job, Shawny boy, this is great campaigning for Obama. Keep up the great typical Christian work of eating your own.

On the Surface ...

... is a deeper impact for infectively interactive computing.

Republicans the Most Economically Reckless and Destructive

MarketWatch reports that by Republicans own account, in 2004:

Nixon's secretary of commerce. In "Running on Empty," Peter Peterson says: "This administration and the Republican Congress have presided over the biggest, most reckless deterioration of America's finances in history" creating a "bankrupt nation."

Yep, that's a Nixon man ... surely the most Republican of the Republicans, if ever there were such one.

Subliminal Thoughts of The Education President

You just gotta' see it to believe it!



Hit pause at the Secret Pass Phrase to see the SUBLIMINAL PRESIDENTIAL BRAINSTORM!

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Blazing Fast 3-G Fireball Broadband Comes to Silicon Valley

... or ... NOT.

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Stop the HATE SPEECH and HATE CRIMES against English Speakers

CNN refused to publish this i-Report ... proving again that they only want parrots of what THEY report.

Exactly what part of, "go home and learn SPANISH, gringo!" is not an act of Cultural Terrorism and a HATE CRIME against English speaking Americans?

That incident was HATE SPEECH that threatened the very employment welfare of an American Citizen.

That's exactly what happened to my brother just last week, on a job site in a town between Houston and San Antonio.

We don't have the luxury of "sensitivity" here, my friends! Our "sensitivity" is being taken for weakness and lack of resolve to preserve the one common thread that holds our rich DIVERSITY all together. The Common English Language.

If we are too cowardly to defend our national language as our official language, then we must, at a minimum ... as AMERICANS ... defend our nation's OFFICIAL creed, E Pluribus Unum, which means "Out of Many, ONE." Anything less is traitorous to our very core values.

To oppose that creed is to oppose the American Experiment itself and to oppose Martin's Dream of ONE NATION, with liberty and justice for ALL!

I suggest the everyday editors of CNN go rent "The Lives of Others" and ask yourself what role you are REALLY playing.

Only we in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY can right this wrong! The Republicans are far to punitive and protectionist to pull it off ... we must INSIST upon this single "ante" from every culture in the Melting Pot ... or Salad Bowl if you prefer ... a salad with multiple dressings is a disgusting mess! We can have a BEAUTIFULLY DIVERSE and colorful salad, but the dressing is ENGLISH!

Take your racist Cultural Imperialist asses back to your own country!

Yes, YOU, "la raza" ... YOU who now claim to be "THE RACE" or "THE PEOPLE" ... just like the Nazi's claimed to be THE race.

I'm talking to YOU ... Mexicans, Latinos, whatever you want to call your Culture of Imperialism ... I am sick of the HATE SPEECH you direct at every well intentioned and accommodating English Speaking American of ALL HERITAGES ... you have no right to push your language into the mainstream of American culture as a Mandatory Second Language.

Your decades-long aggressive assault on American Unity -- your cynical hatred of our creed, "E Pluribus Unum" -- your persistent acts of HATE SPEECH directed against America's National Language, your bloodthirsty SOCIOLOGICAL and CULTURAL TERRORISM waged against the Unity of the United States of America ... your EVIL DEPLORABLE PLOT ... is hereby exposed and opposed with all the force of EVERY IMMIGRANT CULTURE who ever JOINED TOGETHER to create our UNITED society.

Even the offspring of Nazi German immigrants didn't push their language, as if by some divine right, the way that the YOU Latino Culture NAZI'S have pushed. The Italian immigrants didn't do this ... and even, arguably, perhaps the most Culturally Proud People on the planet -- THE FRENCH -- did not do this! Nor did the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Arabs, Persians, Africans, or any others.

NOT ONE OTHER IMMIGRANT GROUP has *ever* sought to DIVIDE OUR PEOPLE with the viciously divisive and disingenuous passion of the Mexican immigrants who continue to attempt to FORCE OUR NATION APART with their FOREIGN TONGUE!

Tonight, on the PLATFORM FOR THE PRESIDENCY ... this was the LAST STRAW.

Just look at the bitter history of Canada, or Europe, or any nation that is divided by language. From the Tower of Babel, NOTHING divides a people like fractured languages. Nothing could be a more direct and dangerous assault on our national unity than the Cultural Terrorism of the Cultural Terrorist LA RAZA attacking our nation.

English MUST become the NATIONAL and the OFFICIAL language of this nation, as soon as possible These aggressively self-absorbed people will not respect or understand anything less.

If it's a war they want, it's a war they'll get ... from every United English Speaking Immigrant Citizen who proudly pledges allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

To all my fellow immigrant citizens of the United States, many of whom like us risked life and limb to LEGALLY gain our right here in this fine nattion: it is HIGH TIME for us to now STAND TOGETHER to oppose this terrorist threat from the Latino Culture NAZIS!

The NAZIS must be stopped. NOW!

All War is Socialism Incarnate

Americans LOVE socialism when it suits their emotional whimsy -- like WAR with really cool tricked out remote bombs -- then curse it when it conflicts with their 4th grade civics book text. We're so easily indoctrinated in our early years. Who manufactured those books that said that socialism is evil? Jesus the Bookmaker? Pastor's Publishing, Inc.? Probably not. A subsidiary of the Wall Street Journal? Much more likely.

A Tangent on Warfare as an Intrinsic Social Good

All war is pure socialism, paid for in whole without any authentic regard to cost containment; in fact, all war is a political act of pure communism, because the leaders are committing the labor of the entire population to the cause, no matter what. War is the only 100% Tax Expenditure Burden, benefiting only the corporations that can extend the reach of the PepsiCo market, and the only one we give the Royal Imperial Executive Branch carte blanche to wage -- COMPLETELY contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11, aka the War Powers Clause.

The Congress shall have Power To:

• regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
• establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
• coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; (OOPS! Federal Reserve is ILLEGAL, TOO!)
• declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
  

Yet, will we hold the current CRIMINALS in both the executive and legislative branches responsible for their illegal breeches of duty? Congress, for chicken-shit pass-the-buck policy over to the executive branch and the White House for then preemptively storm trooping on what it very likely knew was false evidence?

No, instead, the lunatic fringe and fully intubated fox-fed-far-right will seek instead to emasculate the inevitable democratic leadership in 2009, out of no motivation other than misguided self-righteous spite. I find that utterly nauseating.

Perhaps the only thing more nauseating is all the MINDLESS DEMOCRAT SHEEP in the Congress that voted to abdicate their own responsibilities and hand that power to a pinhead in the white house -- Hillary was indeed among them. Only 23 Thinking Humans in the Senate voted NAY; while 133 Sentient Representatives were found in the House. This is yet another reason why I've had my eye on Barack Obama for the past several years.

H. Clinton:

So it is with conviction that I support this resolution as being in the best interests of our nation. A vote for it is not a vote to rush to war; it is a vote that puts awesome responsibility in the hands of our President and we say to him - use these powers wisely and as a last. And it is a vote that says clearly to Saddam Hussein - this is your last chance - disarm or be disarmed.

B. Obama (c-span archive video):

Afghanistan in fact was NOT a preemptive war, it was a war launched directly against those who were responsible for 9/11. Iraq WAS a preemptive war, based on faulty evidence; and, I say that not in hindsight or Monday morning quarterbacking -- six months before the war was launched I questioned the evidence that would lead to us being there. In terms of timetable, I not somebody who thinks we can say with certainty that year from now or six months from now, we're going to be able to pull down troops.

This clip from Obama is not out of political expediency of the moment or lusting for QUICK CHEAP POLL SUPPORT ... this is 2004's Road to the White House ... a road he wasn't even on. This is about the time when I first saw his ANALYTICAL PRECISION and POLITICAL INTEGRITY taking shape. We may well have a new JFK for our era ... my concern is that he gets elected, only to be murdered by some goddamn bible-slinging KKK Neanderthal within the first two years.

yes, we create life

and new life forms, to suit our scientific purposes.

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