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Today's anti-weed legalization piece from FASCnews (they've been running one a day since the election): Home brewers could make pot beer Oh my heavens, no! On another note, it appears that the MT busts are a complicated subject. It would appear that the large grow ops busted may not have been in compliance with state law...it's an ambiguous situ at this point. In addition, MT's Righty Tighty legislature largely repealed their medical MJ law - before the Governor vetoed it. The Tighties than responded with an ballot initiative to do the same - which passed, unfortunately. It's good to be a Washingtonian.

Perhaps a deep breath, smoke free or not, is in order? After all, this entire thread is about something that doesn't really matter...at all.

WE BELIEVE IN AMERICA (kind of self evident, no? But we all know the part they left out..."AND THE OTHER GUYS DON'T") GOP Platform 2012 "...we believe that marriage, the union of one man and one woman must be upheld as the national standard, a goal to stand for, encourage, and promote through laws governing marriage. We embrace the principle that all Americans should be treated with respect and dignity." LOL I guess the secession movement is just one more way to show you believe.

Start fewer wars and we won't need so many generals to fire. FISCAL CLIFF. On that subject - what now in Syria, gentlemen? Any suggestions? My opinion currently follows Hilary's lead - she seems to be one of the few competent, ethical people in high office these days. Not to be a fear monger, but... Pakistan, Afghanistan, Taliban, Syria, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Iraq...is WWIII brewing, or is it all gonna be OK?

Isn't it your party that views women as reproductive chattle, KKK? Or have you defected recently? Or is the abortion issue really not about forcing women to have children they neither want nor are prepared to raise, and making the birth control that would prevent that as difficult as possible to get? Or have I somehow misinterpreted the GOP's ant-abortion anti-birth control agenda? Oh wait, neither abortion nor birth control appear ANYWHERE in the GOP's 2012 platform. Funny...that's all GOP candidates seem to talk about, and that's at the very heart of the GOP's legislative social agenda - with more than 500 anti-abortion and birth control measures in federal, state, and local legislative bodies just last year. Hmmmmm. Probably just a typo. I like a party that lies through omission to confuse less informed voters. When you're selling a turd in an shoe box, the least you can do is put a bow on it.

Do you see? Do you see what happens when you give a Whoop too much responsibility? Seems as though WASP Point hasn't birthed a high ranking winner since Stormin' Norman. By all accounts there seems to be plenty of talent in the junior ranks - perhaps a more battlefield promotion style is in order, cuz the filtering process doesn't seem to be working out too well.

I'm reminded of some crusty old Whitey Tighties on FOX yesterday - and even a youngish blogger - God I fucking hate bloggers - who still parrot the 'pot as a gateway drug' and 'legalization will increase crime' arguments. That's what 2 generations of propaganda will do for ya. Interestingly, not a single member of the public raised either those concerns out of the many hundreds of folks I spoke to on the topic. Yes, folks, the modern conservative movement: hip to be square, cool to be stupid.

Googlephobia kills.

I agree wholeheardely. My opinion is that we need about 1 billion people on earth. Instead we have China and India with a billion each and we go on from there. Crocodiles have 2% of their youngsters reach adulthood. But we worry about every single opportunity to procreate. I recall a Playboy cartoon from the 80's which shows a man being arrested for masturbating, wasting his opportunity to have yet another child. 990 women to 10 million men would be about the right ratio. Men who...fail to keep up would, of course, need to be culled. I envision very few hubbies stumbling home shitfaced in such a world. Plus, women would run things. Cheeerist, THAT would be an improvement. Utter the phrases 'legitimate rape' or 'God's will' at your own risk, gentlemen.

The Corvair controversy, unlike the Pinto, was a total fabrication by Nader that was debunked by a comprehensive DOT study - all the damning details on wiki, of course. It did sell Ralph's bullshit book, though, so somebody benefited. Nader's just another one of the progressive darlings whose personal behavior doesn't stand up to even the most watered down ethical scrutiny. I actually know people personally who worked on his last campaign. Funny thing - Nader stiffed them when payday came around. He's a shitheel opportunist who will grab a paycheck where he can get one - most recently from FOX news. Yeah, real stand up guy concerned with getting at the truth. PS - Ralph's Corvair scam had nothing to do with seatbelts.

Dear Rush: You blew goats 3 decades ago. Things haven't improved. Please die.

i love ya man. and if vaccines are proven some day to cause asperger's, i guess you'd be one example of the positive side. again, i love ya man. I'm reminded of the classic Texan rebuttal "Well, you argue just lahk a faggit"

The counter argument is 100% religiously based, of course. We're God's chosen ones, separate and above the rest of the universe, which was put here solely for us, so what could go wrong? Would God let anything really bad happen? Of course not. Remember, every sperm (or sperm+egg) is sacred. The truth, of course, is that there is a glut of humanity on this planet. As we rapidly automate everything - most especially innovation and invention - we're increasingly finding out that we can, indeed, do more with fewer people in a far less damaging way. We'll either have to depopulate voluntarily, or nature and human nature will do that job for us.

Actually, homo sapiens behave much more like bacteria in the aggregate than herd animals. We populate and consume to the point where habitat destruction forces us to do otherwise. It's not an insult to the human spirit or the value of the individual - who can make a difference - its just an honest self assessment of how the species actually behaves given, you know, the actual scientific data. In other words, exactly what I've been saying the GOP cannot or will not do - honest self assessment using observation and reason. Try it. You won't like it.

I hear the Ford Pinto argument a lot. BTW, a total of six people were injured or killed in Pinto burning incidents prior to Ford's recall. The argument has several critical flaws: 1) It ignores opportunity cost - could the resources spent fixing the Pinto's exploding gas tank have been used making Ford cars safer in some other way for a much larger population of future crash victims? Litigation often skews the cost side of the cost benefit equation in instances like this - essentially replacing human misery (of not doing using those resources to address more pressing safety issues for a much larger population) with the monetary penalties from a handful of large litigation awards. 2) In incidents like this, more relevant factors are often ignored as time goes on. For example, 3 out of the 6 total people injured or killed in Ford Pintos actually lost their suit due to the more relevant factors of alcohol impairment coupled with unsafe driving conditions. Similarly, death statistics are often inflated over time - 57 versus the actual figure of 6, for example. Both figures are tiny as compared to the 50K + traffic fatalities per year that were occurring at the time. It was hardly the car industries biggest problem, but media attention certainly changed that pretty quickly. 3) What got Ford into PR trouble was not that the Pinto was particularly unsafe - people were dying in many other car models in much greater numbers, but that Ford was aware of possible weaknesses in the design beforehand and so performed a macabre cost/benefit analysis regarding its gas tank design decisions which compared payout out an estimated 125M in litigation awards with beefing up the design. That analysis was famously leaked by Mother Jones and the rest is history. The Pinto debacle was a very different situation than today's vaccine 'controversy'.

It'll be awesome to see a GOP politician actually, you know, do something constructive at some point. Reagan and the ozone layer comes to mind. Doesn't seem to have happened in a while. A long, long while. Why non-stop bitching about gays, those slutty rape victimz, muslims, Kenyans, taxing the rich appropriately, unions, those lazy poor people, an overly entitled middle class, immigrants, People Who Hate America , the healthy food movement, any regulation whatsoever, Big Gubmint, gun control advocates, folks who object to 2 really stupid fucking wars, and the hoax that is global warming earns a taxpayer funded paycheck is beyond me. Can anyone come up with even a single constructive thing GOP elected officials have done in the past, oh, decade? One thing that turned out for the better public good? Let's lower the bar - how about one constructive, magnanimous thing a GOP official has even said? Cuz I'm kind of drawing a blank, here. Contrast the finger pointing by 'numbers man' Paul Ryan, the teabaggers, FASCNews, the Krisjunz, blah blah for the GOP's self-induced pineapple enema versus Hilary Clinton's acceptance of blame for the Libya attack or Obama's admission of failure for his first debate performance. It's a maturity thing. I prefer to have adults in governance, personally. Look, if you want to be the party of chair-warming whiny assholes, thas coo. Don't be surprised when your get your assholes handed to you by the voters, however.

Petraeus's inability to keep his Johnson stowed seems to be the least of the man's shortcomings. Recall that he was the architect and chief cheerleader for the Afghan Surge. It doesn't seem to have worked out all that well. Summary results of The Surge Will Petraeus be remembered as our modern day Westmoreland, albeit a much more preening version?

So much for Patriotism . Conservatives play a valuable role in our society. They fuck shit up, and we clean up their mess. Job creation.

Military wife swapping is as old as warfare

I just read an article in the Atlantic that a lot of our generals really suck and should be fire a lot more often than they are. Tommy Franks was spotlighted as an especially chowderheaded, not my job kinda guy, uninterested in the little things like cultural savvy and local politics. The premise was that we could have done a lot better in both wars with some more diligent ass kicking at the top. The inevitable comparison was made to WWII, of course. Regarding Petraeus, I've noticed that the narrative seems to be that its all the whore's doing. Petraeus' legendary narcissism, which would make a hot 40 year old sycophant a primary target of conquest, gets nary a mention. Other than her little turfishness issue, the chick sounds pretty regular, even if her writing style, according to critics anyway, isn't exactly top drawer. It wasn't like she was driving across the country in a diaper or anything. The whole thing sounds like some 13 year olds who could benefit from 3 days suspension and a trip to the school counselor. Except that it involves the head of the CIA.

Cheerist, those Tighties openly DESPISE America. Why the fuck else would they keep talking about taking it back? They haven't the faintest clue about the country they have so much contempt for, either. Witness all the 'mile high' and bong jokes about pot legalization. Nary a mention of the actual issue behind the reform - 2.4 million Americans in the slammer - disproportionately black Americans. No, we wouldn't want to be uncomfortably aware of the results of the policies we came up with and championed for 4 decades, would we?

What happened to...to MY America? N why does nobody wike me???

Liberals are WAY better at business. Rfucks are good at exploitation, lying to their employees, fraud, graft, and asset stripping. The whole 'business does it better' is laughable on its face. Most 'businesses doing it better' don't do it for more than 2 years before they go Chapter 11. Competent, open minded, innovative people do it better - regardless of what sector they choose to operate in, so save the ideological cartoons for your country club boozathons, conservicunts. Just die en masse so the rest of us can actually solve some problems and grow the economy like adults while we're at it.

The Party of Whinerz fights back! Kinda wish my party would hold its ground against their job-destroying fiscal idiocy, but oh well. Having the GOP around is like dropping a sea anchor on the economy. We'd be in so much further along in our economic recovery without those regressive tools around. I really love the whole 'job creator' myth. You want people who really are good at creating growth companies and jobs? Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple...yeah - they're liberals, assholes. Open minded, innovative, cool with others' differences. You want shitty fast food, outsourcing shops, and financial ass rapists - well, that would be the GOP's version of Business Acumen. As a data point, let's compare the 'smarts' used in the Romney campaign (I be a bidness man!) to those used for the Kommie Kenyan. From getting blindsided by the poles to a great steaming pile of a get-out-the-vote system that left headquarters blind as a bat on election day, Romney's campaign looked like it was run by the local paper boy. So fuck you, GOP posers. You could't manage a laundromat after a shit storm. Perhaps you can get into the business of ass mounted smoke alarms and start selling them to your own people.

I'm sure not a climate-be-all-fucked-up-today denier. Malaria is largely a political issue - countries torn by war and fucked gubmint can't seem to eradicate the carrier. Mozambique largely had malaria under control until their civil war, for example. Anyone who's had a mefloquine nightmare can be forgiven for attributing to it demonic properties. Vaccine superstitions have been around from the very beginning. Overcoming them can be the hardest part of a vaccination program. Primitive cultures that cling to belief in magic and witchcraft, like Americans, can transform even the most obviously beneficial medical breakthroughs into a Great Satanic Plot.