ivan

pat's much like the long-dead comedian bill hicks - he says some funny, insightful shit, gets a good gut-chuckle out of the room, then tells everyone he hates them - strange comedy model i'll grant you, but probably not the cause of hick's lethal cancer

you should replace the top shot of rainier w/ the toof-wand, but other than that, nothing but my good-old-fashioned-fear-of-change can find faults

looks like the kids from the mountain dew ads took over can i please get a brawndo sidebar-ad now? "it's got what climbers crave!!!"

no doubt ye would have drank the hemlock, too, oh tvashcrates

While Romney's rhetoric on the issue may seem extreme, he appears to be largely in step with President Barack Obama when it comes to marijuana enforcement. The tone from candidate Obama gave hope to marijuana reformers, but according to all measurable figures, the administration has increased crackdowns on medical marijuana facilities in states that have legalized the substance Cuts both ways apparently. indeed, neither obama nor romney inspire much hope, though, for political reasons, obama could have well been okay w/ weed but had to deprioritize it in order to get re-lection - all the more reason to stop hoping for an end to the madness from the feds - individual states have to man up and defy the big boys via the ballot measure - once a critical mass forms, the congress will have the cover they need to do what's right, just gotta get all the hippie states on-board

shit, stoners done been discussing it since the first time they had a spliff! my point is that olympia can't do something so dramatic as change a long-held-dear dip-shit national drug policy w/o ample amounts of cover - a ballot measure gives them that - this measure doesn't seem to have that many bugs, but those that it does, can right conceivably be fixed by the normal channels of government, once apparent, no?

He might just be the best Republican ever to run, as long as he can get Ivan as his running mate. sorry, i won't be available - my recent write-in campaign for superintendent of public instruction is likely to keep my occupied for a long, long time

Here's the point I added after your response: I believe as does whoever posted sensiblewashington that public sentiment is in support of legalization. If that is true, might supporters be better off waiting for a better proposal? "public sentiment" is a fart in a stiff wind - fukkit - strike while the iron's hot - get the meat of the matter accepted now (pot should be legal, w/ sensible government oversight), using the power of the ballot measure which lets the politicians off the "soft-on-crime" hook, then the boys n' girls in olympia can mold it to make it more sensible.

dunno 'bout president, but press secretary would suit him for at least a coupla months

any movement forward is better than the status quo - why is the state regulating this drug different than alcohol or tobacco?

i didn't get shit - these dickheads i live w/, despite all the negative-energy i could omit on the subject, did - i made it painfully clear how little i was planning on contributing to said canine the few tiny shards of my personal life have long since been placed in a zombie-proof facility, which no doubt will withstand a determined assault for no more than a few hours- but hey, my ghetto-ass gear can't get much worse, can it? hey, you're next trip down here, at least you'll have company on the bofa!

"hoomanz?" you channeling yer inner lou gosset junior, boy-o? speaking of alien life, jesus christ my fucking family! i come home today and find a new furry life-form, 4 paws n' canine-slobber n' all, infesting my goddamn little quite beach-front community...

"buy, mortimer, buy!!!"

i'm not certain that's true though - while voters on both side might largely be made up of dipshits and devils, i do think there's clearly more of them right of center. "political orthodoxy" doesn't seem to me to be the problem (that would assume some level of actual thinking), it's somethign else, and not anything that i think can be cured (god knows, my whole professional life being for this purpose, i feel firsthand the flimsiness the tool of education). i'm prepared to accept that this is just the nature of things, like flies on turds. i do think liberalism does have more to offer than old-skewl beat-em-harder-n-longer conservatism though...

need i quote dr. johnson at you twice in one day? instead, i quote one of my libtard heroes, mark twain: “always acknowledge a fault - this will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more”

you are only partly right - actually i wish to portray everyone on every side of me as ignorant (i've no doubt that a disturbing # of self-proclaimed democrats don't know the history of their party as being pro-slavery either) i'll gladly add that i'm full aware of my own limitations - that i'm a half-wit is obvious to more folks than just you still, is it really that controversial that fucking raytards tend towards conservatism? not trying to be a dick, but conservatism is well aimed at the dim-witted and ill-informed - it has no subtleties, no gray zones, no self-doubt, no oh-my-god-i'm-actually-part-of-the-problem-existential-crises to overcome and jesus-fuck, fox news is sure easier to understand than an editorial in the economist, no? of course there are plenty of smart republicans (they're just more inclined to be evil to the core! smart democrats, on the otherhand, harness their intellect to help the helpless, if for no other reason than to score sloppy bj's from their true-believers )

bloomberg? shiiiiiiit, fucking peanuts! mitt got the endorsement he most needed today! [video:youtube]

"he who would pun would pick a pocket"

debunk this! obama used the government's top-secret weather-control machine to exact this miracle

©oc(k)tober surprise?

who's we? i might be interested if it ain't gonna be too wet to climb.

BIAS ALERT!!!

man, thread hijack! shall we return to gay power questions now?

hard to see pot tourists as anything other than a boon, unlike say, meth n' heroin tourists. i imagine seattle will have no hard time making hendrix n' nirvana inspired attractions if, dog willing, 502 does pass, might be good to remind all the climbers 'round the campfire though that rainer, olympic n' n cascade naty parks won't be inclined to change their enforcement plans

wilson was of course a democrat (and virginian, no less) and thus not suprisingly of a mindset that would justify both the south's actions in the civil war and autonomy for folks in the balkans as to the last, i'm a teacher, so thus used to being rather unemotional in my disagreements, see?