The drug war continues…er excellerates.

Been doing a lot of poking around the drug war blogs. What I’m seeing isn’t good. Its happening just as I told folks it would back when the med pot question ramped up.I kept tell folks.”Ya, start you dispensaries. Put your names on lists as med patients. Down the road when things are ripe, the Feds WILL come down on everyone getting involved. They will have your names and numbers.” well…here we are….they are cracking down. But they don’t care about people like Korn Likker or my family members and friends. The facts are out there that show our government has lied and continues to lie about cannabis. It doesn’t matter. McCarthyism and Jim Crow are standing tall these days.

Theres a good discussion over at alternet:

http://www.alternet.org/story/154070/why_is_the_obama_administration_suddenly_fixated_on_stomping_out_medical_pot/comments/

Either this powderkeg we call a melting pot is going to explode or I’m going to lose all faith in humanity.

Oh ..by the way… we may be headed into a ‘war’ in..you guessed it..Syria.

http://my.northstate.net/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9SARCMG0%40news.ap.org%3E&ps=1011

This could of course lead to a war in Iran.

What a wonderful world we live in.

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There are no words….

Scotland Says there is no time left…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0053drb

People are people everywhere we go aren’t they. I had prior looked into a company called ‘PLUG’ and it actually has stock– it is wave energy. Now listening to this I kept answering outloud… ” Hell we can’t get people to stop killing people and you want to change people into tree planters. Well and good but in a world gone mad… well, really… what are we doing??? and for heavens sake… Carbon Credits exchanged globally– and Carbon swopping??? Geeeeeeeeece

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0053drb

 

 

5 Amazing Things About The Sticky That You Are Not Allowed To Know

I have touched on many of the following 5 points (and more) over the past couple of years. I addressed the issue of the non-affect it has on brain function;  how it may help with Alzheimer’s patients (and actually IMPROVE memory function);  I have compared booze to weed; and how the most dangerous thing about marijuana is getting arrested. No matter how aggressive we become with the scourge of society pot smokers, we are still Number 1 in consumption.

In addition, I addressed the study that shows that pot does NOT cause cancer, and may very well STOP it.

From Alternet (h/t DisInfo):

1. Marijuana Use Is Not Associated With a Rise in Incidences of Schizophrenia

Over the past few years, the worldwide media, as well as federal officials in the United Kingdom, Canada and the U.S. have earnestly promoted the notion that smoking pot induces mental illness.

Perhaps most notably, in 2007 the MSM reported that cannabis “could boost the risk of developing a psychotic illness later in life by about 40 percent” — a talking point that was also actively promoted by U.S. anti-drug officials.

So, is there any truth to the claim that pot smoking is sparking a dramatic rise in mental illness? Not at all, according to the findings of a study published in July in the journal Schizophrenia Research.

Investigators at the Keele University Medical School in Britain compared trends in marijuana use and incidences of schizophrenia in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005. Researchers reported that the “incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia and psychoses were either stable or declining” during this period, even the use of cannabis among the general population was rising.

“[T]he expected rise in diagnoses of schizophrenia and psychoses did not occur over a 10-year period,” the authors concluded. “This study does not therefore support the specific causal link between cannabis use and incidence of psychotic disorders. … This concurs with other reports indicating that increases in population cannabis use have not been followed by increases in psychotic incidence.”

As of this writing, a handful of news wire reports in Australia, Canada, and the U.K. have reported on the Keele University study. Notably, no American media outlets covered the story.

2. Marijuana Smoke Doesn’t Damage the Lungs Like Tobacco

Everyone knows that smoking pot is as damaging, if not more damaging, to the lungs than puffing cigarettes, right?

Wrong, according to a team of New Zealand investigators writing in the European Respiratory Journal in August.

Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand compared the effects of cannabis and tobacco smoke on lung function in over 1,000 adults.

They reported: “Cumulative cannabis use was associated with higher forced vital capacity [the volume of air that can forcibly be blown out after full inspiration], total lung capacity, functional residual capacity [the volume of air present in the lungs at the end of passive expiration] and residual volume.

“Cannabis was also associated with higher airways resistance but not with forced expiratory volume in one second [the maximum volume of air that can be forcibly blown out in the first second during the FVC test], forced expiratory ratio, or transfer factor. These findings were similar amongst those who did not smoke tobacco. … By contrast, tobacco use was associated with lower forced expiratory volume in one second, lower forced expiratory ratio, lower transfer factor and higher static lung volumes, but not with airways resistance.”

They concluded, “Cannabis appears to have different effects on lung function to those of tobacco.”

Predictably, the scientists’ “inconvenient truth” was not reported in a single media outlet.

3. Cannabis Use Potentially Protects, Rather Than Harms, the Brain

Does smoking pot kill brain cells? Drinking alcohol most certainly does, and many opponents of marijuana-law reform claim that marijuana’s adverse effects on the brain are even worse. Are they correct?

Not according to recent findings published this summer in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology.

Investigators at the University of California at San Diego examined white matter integrity in adolescents with histories of binge drinking and marijuana use. They reported that binge drinkers (defined as boys who consumed five or more drinks in one sitting, or girls who consumed four or more drinks at one time) showed signs of white matter damage in eight regions of the brain.

By contrast, the binge drinkers who also used marijuana experienced less damage in 7 out of the 8 brain regions.

“Binge drinkers who also use marijuana did not show as consistent a divergence from non-users as did the binge drink-only group,” authors concluded. “[It is] possible that marijuana may have some neuroprotective properties in mitigating alcohol-related oxidative stress or excitotoxic cell death.”

To date, only a handful of U.S. media outlets — almost exclusively college newspapers — have reported the story.

4. Marijuana Is a Terminus, Not a ‘Gateway,’ to Hard Drug Use

Alarmist claims that experimenting with cannabis will inevitably lead to the use of other illicit drugs persist in the media despite statistical data indicating that the overwhelming majority of those who try pot never go on to use cocaine or heroin.

Moreover, recent research is emerging that indicates that pot may also suppress one’s desire to use so-called hard drugs.

In June, Paris researchers writing in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology concluded that the administration of oral THC in animals suppressed sensitivity to opiate dependence.

Also this summer, investigators at the New York State Psychiatric Institute reported in the American Journal on Addictions that drug-treatment subjects who use cannabis intermittently were more likely to adhere to treatment for opioid dependence.

Although a press release for the former study appeared on the Web site physorg.com on July 7, neither study ever gained any traction in the mainstream media.

5. Government’s Anti-Pot Ads Encourage, Rather Than Discourage, Marijuana Use

Sure, many of us already knew that the federal government’s $2 billion ad campaign targeting pot was failing to dissuade viewers from toking up, but who knew it was this bad?

According to a new study posted online in the journal Health Communication, survey data published by investigators at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania found that many of the government’s public-service announcements actually encouraged pot use.

Researchers assessed the attitudes of over 600 adolescents, age 12 to 18, after viewing 60 government-funded anti-marijuana television spots.

Specifically, researchers evaluated whether the presence of marijuana-related imagery in the ads (e.g., the handling of marijuana cigarettes or the depiction of marijuana-smoking behavior) were more likely or less likely to discourage viewers’ use of cannabis.

Messages that depict teens associating with cannabis are “significantly less effective than others,” the researchers found.

“This negative impact of marijuana scenes is not reversed in the presence of strong anti-marijuana arguments in the ads and is mainly present for the group of adolescents who are often targets of such anti-marijuana ads (i.e., high-risk adolescents),” the authors determined. “For this segment of adolescents, including marijuana scenes in anti-marijuana (public-service announcements) may not be a good strategy.”

Needless to say, no outlets in the mainstream media — many of which donated air time to several of the beleaguered ads in question — have yet to report on the story.

But this is just old BuelahMan, stupid redneck in charge here. A guy who knows nothing except what he reads and studies (as opposed to those of you that all you know is what you “hear” from Drug War Lords who MUST continue the charade and coverup due to PROFITS). Its funny that an old redneck is far more educated on this topic than even the most highly elected officials in this country.

So let us break down the numbers, a bit:

We have a drug war budget over $40 billion/year. If we legalize marijuana, Big Prison and many anti-marijuana organizations will  lose Big Money. ONDCP and many other anti-marijuana campaigns and organizations would cease to exist and would lose all of their funding. Add Big Meds to the ones that are likely to lose the most (since they squash any relevant news related to the health benefits of marijuana). If marijuana were to be legalized, then it would be used for so many medicinal purposes that much of Big Meds money will disappear.

Think about it. There are no cancer blocking medicines that Big Meds have developed, however, I have just linked you to studies that suggest marijuana can do just what Big Meds can’t.

Let’s put it into perspective. Here, in America,we have a 1 in 3 chance of getting cancer. Big Meds offer no cancer blocking medicines: just treatments. Do you think it just coincidence that our cancer level increase follows the ban? Compare us to other places in the world as far as cancer is concerned. The citizens of India have 1 chance in 10 chance of getting cancer.

Could the difference be marijuana?

The culture uses it as food, medicine and recreation. It has since the dawn of time.

Or will you believe the no_slappz of the world and suggest that there is such a vast difference between them and us that we can’t compare (which really is the simplest and most cowardly debate imaginable).

It boils down to this: our own government (which IS aware of all the above since they funded a study, but refused to publicize the results) has decided that people deserve cancer, rather than lose any of their funding, or dismantle the bogus Big Prison (and anti-drug propagandists).

Bottom Line: It Is All About Big Money

Where In The World Is Universal Healthcare? Denmark

And leave it up to Lou Dobbs to point this out.

WHAT?!? LOU DOBBS?

I don’t know what his angle is, but the illumination from the MSM is needed. Leslie Savan, from The Nation wrote an article, picked up by Alternet and I saw the link at AfterDowningStreet. I couldn’t believe my ears and had to add it here.

Of course, even with the current system:

HERE’S ONE WAY TO CUT HEALTH CARE COSTS

Mort Mintz, Nieman Watchdog - “We have to control the rate of increase in health care costs,” the chief executive officer of Aetna Inc., told Judy Woodruff the other evening on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Woodruff didn’t mention a glaringly obvious way for Ronald A. Williams and his counterparts in the health-insurance industry to slow the rise in those costs: slashing their exorbitant compensation. “Anyone who wants to know why health insurance is so expensive need look no further than the insurance company proxy statements,” Frank Schneider, of Chicago, wrote in the current issue of The Progressive Populist. According to the latest statement, United Healthcare paid its CEO, Stephen Hemsley, $3,241,042 in 2008,” Schneider said in a letter to the editor. “But don’t shed a tear; he was paid $13,164,529 in 2007. . . The top five executives of the half dozen of the largest health insurance companies took home $169,837,696 in 2008. And that was a bad year for executives, with the collapsing stock market.”

h/t UnderNews

“The Select Few Who Actually Get It Done”

‘The Select Few’ Are Cashing in: Shocking Corruption at the Washington Post

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, AlterNet.

If you want to know what really matters in Washington, don’t go to Capitol Hill for one of those hearings, or pay attention to those staged White House “town meetings.” They’re just for show. What really happens — the serious business of Washington — happens in the shadows, out of sight, off the record. Only occasionally — and usually only because someone high up stumbles — do we get a glimpse of just how pervasive the corruption has become.

Case in point: Katharine Weymouth, the publisher of The Washington Post — one of the most powerful people in DC — invited top officials from the White House, the Cabinet and Congress to her home for an intimate, off-the-record dinner to discuss health care reform with some of her reporters and editors covering the story.

But CEOs and lobbyists from the health care industry were invited, too, provided they forked over $25,000 a head — or up to a quarter of a million if they want to sponsor a whole series of these cozy get-togethers. And what is the inducement offered? Nothing less, the invitation read, than “an exclusive opportunity to participate in the health-care reform debate among the select few who will get it done.”

The invitation reminds the CEO’s and lobbyists that they will be buying access to “those powerful few in business and policy making who are forwarding, legislating and reporting on the issues…

“Spirited? Yes. Confrontational? No.” The invitation promises this private, intimate and off-the-record dinner is an extension “of The Washington Post brand of journalistic inquiry into the issues, a unique opportunity for stakeholders to hear and be heard.”

Let that sink in. In this case, the “stakeholders” in health care reform do not include the rabble — the folks across the country who actually need quality health care but can’t afford it. . .

No, before you can cross the threshold to reach “the select few who will actually get it done,” you must first cross the palm of some outstretched hand. The Washington Post dinner was canceled after a copy of the invite was leaked to the web site Politico.com, by a health care lobbyist, of all people. The paper said it was a misunderstanding — the document was a draft that had been mailed out prematurely by its marketing department. There’s noblesse oblige for you — blame it on the hired help. . .

According to one poll after another, a majority of Americans not only want a public option in health care, they also think that growing inequality is bad for the country, that corporations have too much power over policy, that money in politics is the root of all evil, that working families and poor communities need and deserve public support if the market system fails to generate shared prosperity.

But when the insiders in Washington have finished tearing worthy intentions apart and devouring flesh from bone, none of these reforms happen. “Oh,” they say, “it’s all about compromise. All in the nature of the give-and-take-negotiating of a representative democracy.”. . .

It’s not about compromise. It’s not about what the public wants. It’s about money — the golden ticket to “the select few who actually get it done.”

When Congress passed the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, “the select few” made sure it no longer contained the cramdown provision that would have allowed judges to readjust mortgages. The one provision that would have helped homeowners the most was removed in favor of an industry that pours hundreds of millions into political campaigns. . .

Everyone knows the credit ratings agencies were co-conspirators with Wall Street in the shameful wilding that brought on the financial meltdown. But when the Obama administration came up with new reforms to prevent another crisis, the credit ratings agencies were given a pass. They’d been excused by “the select few who actually get it done.”

And by the time an energy bill emerged from the House of Representatives the other day, “the select few who actually get it done” had given away billions of dollars worth of emission permits and offsets. As The New York Times reported, while the legislation worked its way to the House floor, “It grew fat with compromises, carve-outs, concessions and out-and-out gifts,” expanding from 648 pages to 1400 as it spread its largesse among big oil and gas, utility companies and agribusiness.

This week, the public interest groups Common Cause and the Center for Responsive Politics reported that, “According to lobby disclosure reports, 34 energy companies registered in the first quarter of 2009 to lobby Congress around the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. This group of companies spent a total of $23.7 million — or $260,000 a day — lobbying members of Congress in January, February and March.

“Many of these same companies also made large contributions to the members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which has jurisdiction over the legislation and held a hearing this week on the proposed ‘cap and trade’ system energy companies are fighting. Data shows oil and gas companies, mining companies and electric utilities combined have given more than $2 million just to the 19 members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee since 2007, the start of the last full election cycle.”

It’s happening to health care as well. Even the pro-business magazine, The Economist, says America has the worst system in the developed world, controlled by executives who are not held to account and investors whose primary goal is raising share price and increasing profit — while wasting $450 billion dollars in redundant administrative costs and leaving nearly 50 million uninsured.

Enter “the select few who actually get it done.” Three out of four of the big health care firms lobbying on Capitol Hill have former members of Congress or government staff members on the payroll — more than 350 of them — and they’re all fighting hard to prevent a public option, at a rate in excess of $1.4 million a day.

Health care policy has become insider heaven. Even Nancy-Ann DeParle, the White House health reform director, served on the boards of several major health care corporations. . .

That’s how it works. And it works that way because we let it. The game goes on and the insiders keep dealing themselves winning hands. Nothing will change — nothing — until the money lenders are tossed out of the temple, the ATM’s are wrested from the marble halls, and we tear down the sign they’ve placed on government — the one that reads, “For Sale.”

h/t UnderNews

B’Man’s Hypocrite Watch: Joshua Holland at Alternet

Today Is The Day AlterNet Lost Me As A Subscriber

Joshua Holland wrote an article called “3 Good Reasons (and 1 Bad One) Why I Don’t Buy Into Your Conspiracy Theories“. In it he begins explaining why he doesn’t give 911 Truthers any real credence and begins to devolve from there by using questionable sources, himself, to debunk the conspiracy theorists. Then, like a good little Sheople, he writes what is likely to be some of the stupidest words I ever read from him (and I have read him damn near daily for well over a year, maybe two).

He wrote:

Do I know why a BBC broadcast that announced the collapse of World Trade Center Tower 7 bore a time stamp suggesting it was aired 26 minutes before the building fell? No, I don’t, but I don’t believe the U.S. government — or whoever was really behind 9/11 — would blow its cover by tipping off the BBC.

There it is, right there. He just “don’t believe” that someone in our government could do such a nasty thing or that they could be so stupid as to “tip off” the BBC. Yet, he doesn’t offer any other rationale for it. He writes that sentence on the subject and moves on. Yes, that is REAL journalism.

Joshua, do you realize how ignorant you sound when writing something like that? Enough so to convince me that Alternet’s “editor and senior writer” is either a dumbass or complicit. Sorry, that is just the way I see it.

They point to photographs that show a substance flowing out of the damaged buildings before they collapsed, conclude that the substance was steel and argue that this is definitive proof that a substance other than an incendiary mix of jet fuel and office furnishings had to have been used to cut the steel supports.

These claims — offered as “proof” — crumble when examined in detail. As a critical thinker who isn’t an expert in the fine points of metallurgy, it would be deeply irresponsible to take them as evidence of anything more than what Hoftstadter called “the paranoid style in American politics.”

Notice what he did there. He went to the Debunking911 site and offered an article as “proof” that “crumbled” the 911Truthers claims that jet fuel and office materials burning could NOT have caused the molten metal that was pulled from that site for MONTHS after the fall. And then ensures that those who think otherwise are delving into “the paranoid style in American politics” (as if, perhaps other “critical thinkers”, such as myself, are just paranoid and haven’t taken any time to study these facts for themselves).

This is not simply an offensive move, but it appears to me to be purposeful in its attempt to discredit anyone who isn’t the model of “critical thinking” that Mr Holland is. Wonder why he felt he needed to add such a jab? But he carries it even further:

The key to maintaining one’s belief in farfetched theories is the ability to ignore any claims that contradict one’s preferred narrative out of hand and paint any individual or organization that advances those claims as being in on the conspiracy.

No, Mr Holland. I don’t know if you are a part of the conspiracy or not. I do think you are a gullible fool, if you think that things occurred the way the “official report” says (which doesn’t even mention WTC7). It is true, though (and quite apparent) that your tact is to belittle and characterize those who do question the “official report” as uncritical thinkers, or just crazy, maybe. How convenient for you.

It is my contention that if a person isn’t convinced after studying this subject matter like I have for years that something is amiss and that the “official report” is full of erroneous claims and that the “commission” was dubious in its construction and membership. Yes, he gives all the government players all sorts of room to finagle facts, but he gives those of us who question those obvious bogus facts and lies nothing but scorn.

I have never written a single word at AlterNet’s blog or forum (if available), so I am not defending myself or words written there. I am simply saying that Joshua Holland is a much bigger fool than I, if what he wrote today is something he truly believes.

But gosh, Josh, you do have an answer, right? Why are you so adamant to find fault in those pursuing truth, when you admit in this very writing that something is amiss (of course, Josh, you showed your true colors when you brought up Bubba Clinton… just had to protect your Democratic Party Hero, huh?). Or that you somehow believe that theories don’t have a form and life of their own. That they generally are questions about historical events and people work back from there. Hell, Josh, that is what a THEORY is.

Conspiracists often suggest that the evidence for their theory is overwhelming, but on critical inspection, it simply doesn’t stand up. I’ve approached conspiracy theories with an open mind and have found them to begin with a conclusion and work backward to “prove” its veracity.

Gosh, Josh. Do you mean like scientists do and have done with, say, The Theory of Evolution or the Alvarez Asteroid Impact Theory? Do you have any idea how any theory is established? Conspiracy or otherwise? Do you honestly believe that the scholarship and work has been put in to the 911 crime scene that has been put into other scholarly theoretical pursuits like Evolution?

But asking those questions puts one at risk of being lumped in with a fringe movement, and the result is that we’re less likely to get at the truth about what happened that day because of the 9/11 Truth movement, not despite its tireless efforts (a conspiracy theory as good as any other is that the whole 9/11 “Truth” movement is a government operation designed to prevent serious questioning of what led up to the events of that infamous day).

Here, you do it again. Discredit truth seekers as fringe (done just like a good sycophant, Josh: are you proud of yourself and your protection of criminals?) The height of hypocrisy in this man’s case is the fact that the entire “official story” is a conspiracy theory. But let that not bother a man on an erroneous roll (and it would appear someone or something he feels he must protect, as opposed to knowing the full unadulterated truth). Methinks that Mr Holland would rather continue the right/left paradigm and protect the Democratic Party because now all the sudden it is the right-wing fringe that is the biggest culprit (and I am far from “right-wing”):

Many — like the NAU — are enthusiastically promoted by far-right publications. Swift Boat veteran Jerome Corsi, for example, has been the most vocal proponent of the idea, warning of an imminent plot to “replace” the United States.

You know what, Joshua? You should study the facts about this subject. Disenfranchise yourself from the Democratic Party and actually think about what you write, before you put it on paper (the web).

Run Alternet in the ground. I have lost interest in what I once considered a valuable publication.
As for me, I am not so gullible to take the government’s word for it, especially when we have followed the PNAC agenda basically to a “T”. When the entire foreign policy of this nation is based off of that one event, yet to this day, OBL isn’t even on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for the attack. You see, Josh, there are real Patriots out here who want the truth about what was done that day and are not simply ok with the official story.

Alternet? What’s “alter” about it? Just more of the same two party bullshit (and apparently houses an “editor and senior writer” who is ready for more government spooned propaganda to blind those who do really care about this country).

Keep that rag. You’ll get a hell-uv-a lot better alternative news source at this stinking blog than your Democratic Party rag.

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City Slickers Will Never Understand

Cenk Uygur, from Young Turks wrote an article featured on Alternet about guns and basically wants to ban them without just saying it outright. He didn’t address the rationale or motive behind the killings or address much of anything except that basically “guns are bad” and “when will people learn”.

Guns aren’t bad, Cenk. The people are. And people won’t learn to give up their guns.

You must suck at poker for you easily gave away your hand with this paragraph:

I know it’s a political impossibility, but we need to reign in the permissive gun culture in America. I’ve gone to a shooting range several times. I get the allure of it. It’s fun and empowering. Until someone gets their head blown off. It’s madness that almost anyone can stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with a deadly weapon. Guns should be the hardest things to get in America, not the easiest.

No shit, Cenk? You went to the shooting range and was empowered? Did your head or balls swell with that power.

Dude, get out of the city and come spend a week with me on the farm. Or better yet, come ride with me to my home town of less than 2,000 people where there has been a rash of burglaries and thefts. Where people are tearing the copper wiring out of the walls of homes (or even off the poles).

Cenk, you must be rolling in the dough and can afford whatever meat people of your descent eat, but let me explain something about us poor rednecks. Many of us hunt for “food”. Can you freaking believe that? That we actually EAT what is killed and it helps our children NOT starve. Amazing, huh?

Cenk, you mean well and you have some points worthy of discussion and debate. You think gun owners don’t realize the killings or don’t care. You are wrong. That is precisely one reason I am keeping mine, is because of the crazy bastards out there. Your solution is for gun owners to give up their weapons when you know damn well that then only the criminals (both with and without blue uniforms on) will have guns. THAT is a very bad idea, Cenk and your little trip to the range doesn’t help with a real life scenario.

So don’t try this gun-ban lite horseshit. Say it out loud and then listen as you hear from serious people about their gun ownership and how wrong you are. You live in another world up there in CityVille, Cenk. Until you have even a smidget of understanding about country life, you should discuss the city problems and not try to wrap it all up in your ignorance and your experiences with gun empowerment. Your feigned knowledge of the subject is not impressing me in the slightest bit.

“Allowing just about anyone to own guns.” Yeah, it could be that it is ONLY the police that has them, right? In your perfect world? Who is “just about anyone”?

Tell you what, Cenk. You make sure you don’t have any guns (and please stay away from the gun range to avoid the larger crotched shorts from your growing balls), but leave the ones like me, who know how to care for and keep them in their secure position, alone. At least until the financial crash coming and I need it for that asshole from the city who decides he likes my shit more than I do (I wonder if that might be you). Because the fact of the matter is that all those folks who have no grocery making skills will use their grocery taking skills and this poor bastard ain’t having any of it.

Gun Range?

What a man.

Frank Rich, Matt Taibbi, Bill Greider and Don Hazen: The Blind Finally See (When It Is Too Late)

Guys, I don’t really think you are blind. I think you are complicit… maybe by stupidity, but complicit anyways.

I have been a fairly long time receiver of Alternet’s daily briefing called Alternet headlines via email. In most cases I can find myself in agreement with most of the articles, but I find today that I simply must point out something so stinking obvious that I don’t understand why anyone takes them seriously now.

Don Hazen runs down through the latest offerings by these guys and their tear down of Obama’s plan and the obviousness that the rich are being taking care of while the rest… not.

Bill Greider is quoted talking about the past 9 months, as if THAT is when people started to notice shit was going asunder. Bill, Bill, Bill: Did you just arise from a coma 9 months ago? Where the hell have you been? Up the Democratic Party Donkey ass hiding?

You want some kudos and recognition now for seeing what was glaringly obvious all along? Really? Too late, numbnuts. With you and people like you providing the brainwashing, America is fucked alright (just as Taibbi says). Just remember you were a part of it.

I am just a silly old redneck who saw this shit coming a mile back, yet here you are NOW, after you spent so much fucking time trying to get these people elected, in spite of the rhetoric NOT matching their actions. Are you just a wishful idiot or a real coma survivor?

Matt Taibbi has zero credibility and just because he can use the occasional “fuck” or “dumbass” just makes him crude like me. He hasn’t a god damned clue, or he would have been saying something long before the Obama administration was elected and established. Sorry, Matt, no cred. But you do have a following of fruitcakes who worship the cocaine addled ground you walk on. That and another article might actually get you some more fools to drink from your complicit koolaid. What it won’t do is turn back the hands of time to point where we could have elected someone that COULD have done something… and done it like a Patriot. Like someone who cares about you, even, and not just the corporations that you are serving.

When you say, “Its Over. We’re Royally fucked,” I must ask, again, where the fuck were you last year when you were so happy to do or write anything to get the man elected? Did he fool you, too? He didn’t fool this dumb old redneck. Gosh. What does that make of you?

Frank Rich: Where in the hell have you been? Stuck up the Dem’s ass, too. Your peep is barely heard and the only reason I even noticed was that Don published some of your work. Why he did now is beyond me with your previous work as an example.

To all you rednecks out there: paying attention to these folks is akin to taking medicinal advice from a witch doctor.

What you see here is people (Sheople) who happen to have access to an audience who are finally seeing the bullshit for what it is. BULLSHIT! Now they want to “change” the Change man. Well ain’t that a Big “Howdy”?

Here’s the problem, people. You were too far in bed with the Party to realize how this shit has been set up from the beginning. But you still have your audience of like-minded robots who now are having buyer’s remorse. But YOU were some of the biggest salesmen.

It would be hilarious, if not for the total hypocrisy of it all.

Sorry, you are too late and you are instrumental in causing the shit to happen in the first place with your undying support for the clown who does nothing that he says.

Don, you have been the strongest thinker of that entire group you highlighted. Please do not allow their mistakes to color you.

As for them, get something correct… just once and I’ll give you another read. But I am not holding my breath.

Or you could peruse this blog and actually learn some truths about, Mr Obama, The Democratic party, our government in general, and the Corporate Party system you defend with such vigor and to the detriment of my country.

That’s the sad part. This dumb old redneck saw this shit coming a year ago and you are just NOW getting worked up about it?

You Have No Cred.

It boils down to this: The Democratic Party Shills are coming out with fangs bared against Obama and his plan.

My question is: Where the fuck have you been all along?

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: Every Redneck Senator

This is how gullible and ignorant most us rednecks are: we don’t realize that our very own Senators are working very hard against us… because they are so stupid and short-sighted (and/or corrupt).

Is there anyone that actually voted for that fucktard, Shelby of Alabama? There must have because he was elected, but the funny thing is that I can’t seem to find anyone in my travels that will own up to voting for him.

How about that dickhead, Bob Corker, who wanted President Obama to automatically force a wage cut on American autoworkers, so wages will be more in line with the transplants Asian automakers? (Now ain’t that a hoot, rednecks. Your Senator wants to cut your wages to bring it DOWN to match the rest of the world. And you seem to be oblivious and in some cases agree wholeheartedly.)

I prospered as the automotive sector made a move from higher wages up north to the “right to work” states that have so many uneducated workers who have lived basically poor lives that it was heaven for us. But now we are seeing how this shift affects us because many of the good jobs that were shipped here because of cheap labor have now all gone overseas, leaving us dumbass rednecks poor and stupid. Why? Cheaper labor (and in some cases, slave labor).

When will we act as if we have just a little bit of sense and cull these absurd fools out? When will you ignorant and complicit rednecks realize the royal f#cking you are getting from your own redneck leadership?

I have nothing to lose (its already gone), but you might. You better get vocal before you lose all of your shit, too. From Alternet:

Even More than Race, the South Is About Exploiting Workers

Cheap labor. Even more than race, it’s the thread that connects all of Southern history—from the ante-bellum South of John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis to Tennessee’s Bob Corker, Alabama’s Richard Shelby and the other anti-union Southerners in today’s U.S. Senate.

It’s at the epicenter of a sad class divide between a desperate, poorly educated workforce and a demagogic oligarchy, and it has been a demarcation line stronger than the Mason-Dixon in separating the region from the rest of the nation.

The recent spectacle of Corker, Shelby and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky leading the GOP attack on the proposed $14 billion loan to the domestic auto industry—with 11 other Southern senators marching dutifully behind—made it crystal clear. The heart of Southern conservatism is the preservation of a status quo that serves elite interests.

Expect these same senators and their colleagues in the US House to wage a similar war in the coming months against the proposed Employee Free Choice Act authorizing so-called “card check” union elections nationwide.

“Dinosaurs,” Shelby of Alabama called General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler as he maneuvered to bolster the nonunion Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai and other foreign-owned plants in his home state by sabotaging as many as three million jobs nationwide.

Corker, a multi-millionaire who won his seat in a mud-slinging, race-tinged election in 2006, was fairly transparent in his goal to expunge what he considers the real evil in the Big Three and US industry in general: unions. When the concession-weary United Auto Workers balked at GOP demands for a near-immediate reduction in worker wages and benefits, Corker urged President Bush to force-feed wage cuts to UAW workers in any White House-sponsored bailout.

If Shelby, Corker, and McConnell figured they were helping the Japanese, German and Korean-owned plants in their home states, they were seriously misguided. The failure of the domestic auto industry would inflict a deep wound on the same supplier-dealer network that the foreign plants use. The already existing woes of the foreign-owned industry were clearly demonstrated in December when Toyota announced its decision to put on indefinite hold the opening of its $1.3 billion plant near Blue Springs in northeast Mississippi.

The Southern Republicans are full of contradictions. Downright hypocrisy might be a better description. Shelby staunchly opposes universal health care—a major factor in the Big Three’s financial troubles since they operate company plans—yet the foreign automakers he defends benefit greatly from the government-run health care programs in their countries.

These same senators gave their blessing to hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to the foreign automakers to open plants in their states, yet they were willing to let the US auto industry fall into bankruptcy.

In their zeal to destroy unions and their hard-fought wage-and-benefits packages, the Southern senators could not care less that workers in their home states are among the lowest paid in the nation. Ever wonder why the South remains the nation’s poorest region despite generations of seniority-laden senators and representatives in Congress?

Why weren’t these same senators protesting the high salaries in the financial sector when the Congress approved the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street? Why pick on blue-collar workers at the Big Three who last year agreed to huge concessions expected to save the companies an estimated $4 billion a year by 2010? These concessions have already helped lower union wages to non-union levels at some auto plants.

The idea of working people joining together to have a united voice across the table from management scares most Southern politicians to death. After all, they go to the same country clubs as management. When Mississippi Republican Roger Wicker warned of Democratic opponent Ronnie Musgrove’s ties to the “Big Labor Bosses” in this year’s US Senate race, he was protecting the “Big Corporate Bosses” who are his benefactors.

The South today may be more racially enlightened than ever in its history. However, it is still a society in which the ruling class—the chambers of commerce that have taken over from yesterday’s plantation owners and textile barons—uses politics to maintain control over a vast, jobs-hungry workforce. After the oligarchy lost its war for slavery—the cheapest labor of all—it secured the next best thing in Jim Crow and the indentured servitude known as sharecropping and tenant farming. It still sees cheap, pliable, docile labor as the linchpin of the Southern economy.

In 1948, when the so-called “Dixiecrats” rebelled against the national Democratic Party, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina declared war on “the radicals, subversives, and the Reds” who want to upset the Southern way of life.

Seven years later, Mississippi’s political godfather, the late US Sen. James O. Eastland, told other prominent Southern pols during a meeting at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis that the South will “fight the CIO” (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and unionism with just as much vehemence and determination as it fights racial integration.

Eastland, Thurmond and their friends lost the integration battle. Their successors are still fighting the other enemy.

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Joseph B. Atkins is a veteran journalist, professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi and author of Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press (University Press of Mississippi, 2008), a book that details the Southern labor movement and its treatment in the press. A version of this column appeared in the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American and the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger.

Winning Over The Hearts and Minds of America’s 51st State Policemen

“You think this is funny? You wanna call me out?” (I look at the weaponry on this man and those surrounding him, then look at the non-existent weapons on the Iraqis and he expects them to fight? LOL)

“Why don’t I take your ass out back and kick your little ass?” (Make it an even fight and let’s see. Otherwise, these poor men are only hearing the machine guns and weaponry you and your posse are toting. Brave under the circumstances, huh?)

“I got no problem beating any of your asses… not one.” (And the love pours down so much that the inspiration these Iraqis must be feeling at that very moment brings tears to my eyes. What an inspiring speaker and leader…)

“I’m not gonna come down here and waste my fucking time, or my soldier’s lives because you don’t want to do shit.” (Then, by all means, go home, dammit. Let them have it. As it should be.)

“You love seeing Americans die for your fucking country, but you won’t die for yourself“ (Tell that to the 1 Million + who are dead because of America’s illegal activities and deadly invasion)

“Figure out what you want out of us or we are gonna stop coming down here“ (Promises, promises)

The winning Quote:

“I don’t see your ass in my home town“ (And I bet you a million donuts to a dollar that they are wishing like hell that they didn’t see YOU in THEIR hometown… what a schmuck)

No shit, Sergeant Fuckstick? If they were here, you’d be killing them here or talking down to them, just like you do on THEIR soil.

Thing is, Master Gunnery Asshole, your “mission” is a bullshit illegal invasion and occupation.  Should you be even remotely surprised that those people don’t hate you with a passion and want you dead at every moment they are alive? Look what you (in my name) have done to them.

Pitiful.

And such is the method that people such as this guy use… invade, oppress, kill, maime, then treat them like the dogs you consider them to be. Well, as an American, I think it is all bullshit and you are perpetuating the bullshit due to your evil indoctrination. There isn’t an honorable reason or thing you are doing there. The Iraqis know it and the majority of Americans know it. Hell, the whole world knows it, yet you are living in a dream world, as if these people are neholden to you (or America) for the travesty we have bestowed upon them.

If you or any military person thinks, even for a second, that these people want you there in the capacity you are, you are fucking nuts. Just like your money quote, they don’t WANT to be in your hometown doing to your folks and family what you have done to theirs. That, in and of itself, speaks huge volumes.

Let me tell you the best thing to do: get the fuck out of their country. Then you can go to your own hometown and get that McDonalds job you are obviously more suited for. I wonder if the fry cooks would be inspired by your “pep talk”? Maybe even some transplanted Iraqi “Dogs” you can beat around?

h/t Alternet

Via Ken Silverstein at Harpers, “an amazing and disturbing YouTube video that shows an American military officer trash-talking to a group of Iraqi police. It doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence in the U.S. mission there, to put it mildly.”

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Joe The Plumber: GOP Face and Failure

You rednecks know how I feel about the two Big Parties, but the latest GOP strain at significance is really funny. Truly hilarious.

We have watched over the past month or so as the GOP pulls every old dog (and new) out to try and place a face with the Party. Sadly, the right-wing nincompoops are stupid, very stupid, because they keep hauling out these losers that they hope will spark a racist or otherwise brainwashed idiots into the fold.

They have been plastering Joe the plumberpunditpootsniffer all over the world and he is getting a really nice reception from you rednecks. You should be ashamed that one of you is being treated so badly. I figured you would all pile into cars and go to whatever book signing this amazing personage decided he would conduct. Standing room only because you love him and his message so much:

But, “Houston, we have a problem!” His performance and draw was not as good as I might muster with a cartoon painted with bloody shit.

Poor Joe the Plumber Looks Lonely at His Own Book Signing

Posted by Melissa McEwan, Shakesville

Joe the Multi-Faceted Hat-Wearer puts on his “Writin’ Hat” to sign autographs last night at a Borders in DC, where “about 11 people wandered into the rows of seats set up hopefully in the basement” who he addressed “from behind a lectern and with a microphone … that seemed unnecessarily formal.”

Never have I longed to be in DC so much as reading about this splendid event:

The only heat generated by Joe’s appearance last night came when a young man named Jabari Zakiya recounted great moments in American racism (slavery, annihilation of Native Americans, segregation, etc.) and asked Wurzelbacher if the “hegemony” of the white man in America is “doomed” now that five states and the District of Columbia have majority minority populations.

Joe replied that he believes “our American heritage is being torn apart” by flag burners, critics of the military, and those who mock Christian values. He expressed his admiration for patriotic immigrants, and said he dislikes terms like African American and Asian American (“We’re all Americans,” he said). For some reason, he concluded by saying, “America has always been a kick-butt, take-names kind of country.”

Wow.

The event was scheduled to last three hours, but ended after 55 minutes, with Joe having sold a total of five books.

h/t Alternet: Traveling heavy today and tomorrow. Lite posting, but I will have some of the best Hemp explanation videos available soon.

B’Man’s Sabbath Watch: Creedocide- Harness The Power Of Religion

Hilarious New Skit Takes on the Absurdity of Religious Violence (h/t Alternet):

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Creedocide: Harness The Power Of Religion

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Richard Noggin Saturday: Rats- To Capture or Beat Down?

I’m not a big rat fan but I wanted to mention two stories about rats and you decide which is best… the one where a big rat is caught in the streets or where a big rat is beaten down in the streets (h/t’s Neatorama and Alternet):

Giant rat caught in China

By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai

The rat, which weighed six pounds and had a 12-inch tail, was caught at the weekend in a residential area of Fuzhou, a city of six million people on China’s south coast.

The ratcatcher, who was only named as Mr Xian, said he swooped for the rodent after seeing a big crowd of people surrounding it on the street.

He told local Chinese newspapers that he thought the rat might be a valuable specimen, or a rare species, and had to muster up his courage before grabbing its tail and picking it up by the scruff of its neck.

“I did it, I caught a rat the size of a cat!” he shouted out afterwards, according to the reports. Mr Xian is believed to still be in possession of the animal, after stuffing into a bag and departing the scene.

Christopher Hitchens Catches a Beat Down in Lebanese Street Brawl

Heroic Whaa

The assault on Christopher Hitchens’ body continues – he’s been waterboarded, body-waxed and suffered through countless hangovers.

In the latest incident, Hitchens sustained gashed knuckles and bruises in a vicious street brawl with shoe-shopping thugs during a Valentine’s Day night out on the streets of Beirut.

Hitchens, the chain-smoking, hard-drinking, intellectually ambitious Vanity Fair columnist, was beat up during the altercation, according to several blogs.

Hitchens was apparently visiting Beirut at the invitation of the Hariri-Saudi group, affiliated with the assassinated Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, when he defaced a poster for the Syrian Social Nationalist party and was assaulted by some members of the SSNP who happened to be walking by, according to the Angry Arab News Service.

I kinda like the second story best. Why? Because any drunk and stupid son of a bitch that would go to a country like that and deface anything pretty much deserves to have the shit beat of him.

Let’s say that he happened to walk down the streets of my little TN town and decided to deface a poster or whatever on our streets. I would hope that someone would at the very least call the cops, but knowing my redneck friends and the fact that Hitchens is a loud-mouthed foreign prick (he don’t come from these here parts), I doubt he would get off as lightly as he did in Beirut.

I mean, REALLY. Beirut?!?

Does anyone really give this drunken clown any credibility any more? Give the man a joint and have him calm down a bit.

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: Kellogg’s

So the kid burned a little weed in a bong and Kellogg’s gets its panties in a wad and decides their best action is to stop their endorsement with Michael Phelps. They believe they are protecting their image, but what Kellogg’s is actually doing is causing the wrath of BuelahMan to point out their Dick-Headishness and the hypocrisy behind their latest statement (which I hope will instigate an outcry to boycott and call them to tell them why).

The hypocrisy comes when Kellogg’s didn’t bat an eye when Mr Phelps was caught drinking and driving (nor do I believe he should have lost his endorsements for that), yet they QUICKLY unendorse his ass when he smokes a little?

I call bullshit, Kellogg’s. And what that means to you is that this house will not buy any of your stinking assed products until you re-endorse young Mr Phelps and apologize for your actions.

Hypocrites make me wretch. Hypocrites who make cereal, should not be allowed to make people wretch.

Bruce Mirken, at Alternet points out:

Let’s get real here. If Phelps had been photographed hoisting a Budweiser, no one would have said a word. But there is simply no question that if one wants to relax with a mood-altering substance, marijuana is far safer than alcohol.

Alcohol is more addictive. According to the Institute of Medicine, 15 percent of those who ever drink become dependent on alcohol. The figure for marijuana is just 9 percent (for tobacco, by the way, it’s 32 percent).

Alcohol is massively more toxic. Every year, people die from alcohol overdoses (too often in college drinking parties and the like). And the chronic effects of heavy alcohol use — e.g. liver damage — kill thousands upon thousands more. There has never been a medically documented marijuana overdose, and the chronic effects of even heavy marijuana use are relatively mild and decidedly nonlethal.

And unlike marijuana, alcohol tends to make users reckless, aggressive and violent. A review in the journal Addictive Behaviors explained, “Alcohol is clearly the drug with the most evidence to support a direct intoxication-violence relationship. … Cannabis reduces the likelihood of violence during intoxication…”

Yes, rednecks, even though you have spent your entire life being told how horrific marijuana is, in comparison to alcohol (that blessed Budweiser), it is many times safer for you and others. Period. No debate. End of story.

This is where you rednecks need some edumacation. Stop listening to the damned people that keep you locked in your ignorant world. Open your minds to real data. The government sponsored TV commercials are full of shit. Everything to do with the War on Drugs is Full of Shit.

Its the hypocrisy, folks. And your ignorance to that hypocrisy needs to be addressed.

Bruce adds:

People are already talking about a boycott of Kellogg’s, while others are urging folks to contact the company and complain. I don’t know if a boycott will work — they’re difficult to pull off, and most don’t succeed. But I do know that there are plenty of other breakfast-cereal makers that haven’t indulged in such stupidity and hypocrisy, and they will be getting my business for a while.

Well, Mr Mirken, this redneck (and hopefully any readers that happen along) will try. There is not a single thing that Kellogg’s makes that I MUST have. As for that matter, there are enough alternative sources that make virtually the same stuff, packaged differently and likely less cost. My boycotting of YouTube and WalMart are much harder than this boycott and so far, I am successful.

And think of this. If enough people stopped buying their garbage for just two weeks, I bet you my asshole that they will renege their stupid action.

Thing is that Americans don’t have the balls to pull it off. They gotta have their Rice Krispies. Well, as far as Kellogg’s goes, Snap, Crackle and Fuck them.

There is a plan you can follow. A very easy plan, at that. Ethan Nadelmann at The Drug Policy Alliance has this to add and gives the number to call (h/t The Huffington Post):

… My organization, the Drug Policy Alliance, is working — starting now — to send Kellogg’s this message, and we’re joining with others as well. More than seventy percent of Americans say that marijuana should be decriminalized and that no one should go to jail. We agree. In fact, the residents of Kellogg’s home state of Michigan recently passed, by an overwhelming margin, a ballot initiative legalizing marijuana for medical purposes. We also think that arresting almost 800,000 Americans each year for possessing a little marijuana is both a stupid waste and diversion of police resources as well as a cruel intrusion into the lives of ordinary Americans. And we’re sick and tired of the public outings, and forced apologies and recantations, which perpetuate this shameless hypocrisy.

So let’s send Kellogg’s a message! Criminal laws and corporate drug testing successfully deter millions of Americans from openly identifying as responsible citizens who happen to smoke marijuana. But a “Call Kellogg’s Campaign” that lets the corporation know that their dumping Phelps is good reason for us to dump Kellogg might just make the point that more and more Americans are sick and tired of this particular spectacle.

Just say No to Kellogg’s. Call them at 800-962-1413 and 269-961-3799 to tell them what you think

Do Mr Phelps and the entire country a favor. Call these assholes and tell them like it really is.