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My brother runs the public defenders office in Humboldt County, and down there, most of the drug related violent crime is about pot. Street value of good pot runs $4 to $6K /lb. A well grown plant can produce 2 to 5 lbs, and a grower can produce up to 4 crops per year indoors. Do the math. Even a small operation constitutes a big draw for some jaggoff who wants to score big without doing the work. Add to this some guns, and people get shot. This would simply not happen, not once, not ever, if that weed was legal. The main arguments against legalization come from concerned parents. Preventing under age kids from taking a lot of drugs when their brains are still forming and their decision making processes are not mature is a legitimate concern. The statistical reality is that their children are much more at risk of physical injury or death from arrest and incarceration than from 'drug dealers' or 'being too high'. Furthermore, kids who are busted face stiff monetary penalties, loss of employment, and loss of educational opportunities. What happens to a kid when society shuts off all of their healthy, legal options for living a decent life? Finally, it's a myth that pot is a 'controlled substance'. Tobacco and alcohol, much harder to get when under age than pot, are 'controlled substances'. Pot is an uncontrolled substance. If pot were legal, it would be more difficult for those under age to obtain, not less.

Just don't berth in Lake Powell...unless you've got some spare double wide axles, that is.

Mr. Jintao, tear down this Wal-mart!

Well, I guess that explains the mess we're in, then.

Please run. Oh, please.

I just added a rod and reel to my Christmas list. I thought the trailer sucked. The opening scenes were great, as they must be, but half a second into the first night scene, the audience knew they were definitely not in Kansas anymore. Plus, there's lots of unbolted climbing....

Avatar in 3D. You won't be needing it.

It's not taking, but still....

to your credit, FW, you're at least trying to educate yourself

but...you are all those things....

Bug, I love your new line of holiday cards!

Oh, haven't you heard Ivan? I'm no longer an atheist. I'm now a pagan. Baby Jebus, does it ever stop? Actually having a great day kickin back until I attend a matinee of Avatar in 3d; the only thing on my to do list for today. Long month...F'in tired, man!

The herd runs one way, the herd runs the other, and every once in a while, the herd runs off a cliff. Inevitably, those left twitching on the top of the pile blame the one at the very bottom, but the reality is, that's just what herds do. Jesus Christ, cross and all, would probably win even lower approval ratings (long haired, turn-the-other-cheek bullshit et al), given the economic collapse. Add to that Obama's lack of historical boldness, despite his desire to become president to help resolve a historical crisis. The country badly needs to move towards more collective security/socialism to amortize the pain of massive resource depletion and an economic system that no longer fits the times, but that's clearly not going to happen with Obama and his team. This administration is simply not philosophically or politically equipped to address health care, sustainability, and energy independence, the major issues of our time (note that overblown national security front for corporate welfare didn't make the list; from a relative threat standpoint. More smoke up your ass, sir?). It's a small consolation, but the Rfucks have so little talent in their blown out line up at this point that it would be a stretch for them to beat Obama in 2012, although the corporate dick-in-mouth Dems may well take a much deserved drubbing in the midterms. Should Obama stay in office, we can all celebrate the tiny consolation that, at least, there won't be an out and out psychopath in office, which is all the Rfucks seem to offer the public these days. Obama should play Mafia Wars with the Rfucks while he still has somewhat of an upper hand, at least on paper. America respects that kind of hardball regarding that very real threat to this well being of this country. But that's not his style, nor will it probably ever be. Instead, we have a country run by an HR department. It's all really so very 80s. Except that its not the 80s. It's the 21st century, the shit is definitely going down, and we don't have the goods to stop the hemorrhaging.

Mfkr's got some sick fixation shit going on up there.

So, FW, your wife's been living with a guy who gets off on that kind of shit. Kind of changes the flavor of your 25 year 'accomplishment' a bit...at least from her perspective, I'd wager.

Been married for 25 years. Guess that one who left you was a little "too smart", eh? As you may have noticed, I don't comment about other people's wives. For example, I don't laugh at a fellow climber and all around good guy when, say, his wife has developed bipolar disorder and he's going through an unwanted but necessary divorce with two young kids. Ring a bell, FW? Yeah, that rang a big bell with me, too. Pretty much summed you up.

Women who would grant FW about 30 seconds before politely excusing themselves to recount the experience for entertainment purposes.

Smart women. The kind who give a guy who votes moron and thinks that talking about his dick and SUV is a turn on a miss without a second thought...like skipping over dog shit on beautiful summers day.

That, and I prefer women to girls.

you're not, perchance, a Staunch Enemy of Irony, are you? Conservative brain. That plug in doesn't run on it. Nobody bothers to write any interesting apps for it.

Wonder if Facebook's gonna go after Fuckbook...

Fucking moron.

For sound moral reasons, of course.

Pot and meth aren't.