Global Warming Effects Us All
Posted on July 3, 2008
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Even where you least expect it…
Don’t Stop Believing
Posted on July 3, 2008
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Ok so I’m a newb and thought Hempfest was going to be August 24t and 25th, I forget who told me that but as it turns out Hempfest will be August 16th and 17th. That means I won’t be at stompin in the woods with The Hunt getting ready to go to Burningman. PAX however is the weekend after that, which I will be Nevada and couldn’t possibly come up for.
So this year at Hempfest we will be having a massive voter registration drive separate from Hempfest. I’m working with a group that wants to get a feel for people willing to go around for a few hours and register voters, you have 2 options.
1. Volunteer for Hempfest at their website. They always need help, it takes just a few hours of your weekend and aside from voter registration you can do a whole host of things.
2. Volunteer through me! We’re soon to have a group up on the Barack Obama website but if you’re interested in registering voters for the Obama team drop me your e-mail (watchout5@gmail.com)! We’re building a group of people as we speak to help get out the vote, you’ll be going to Hempfest anyway and I know most if not all of you support Obama so why not get the vote out on behalf of the campaign!
It’s no secret that Obama wants to take another look at our failed drug laws that put people trying to get high in prison. We need someone with this kind of vision in the White House! Thanks everyone!!
Seattle Super Sonics
Posted on July 3, 2008
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Seriously. Fuck yourself. In your own ass. With your own dick. Douche bag.
I was going to say something about this, I really don’t feel like I can do any better than this though. Good bye Super Sonics, I hope you never win a championship and forever get last place in your new division. I urge the people currently on the team to start looking to get away as fast as possible, your team is forever cursed.
P.S. For those of you confused Seattle Sonics are no longer Seattle but Oklahoma Sonics now. At least we’re getting our money back. Assholes.
You All Saw Him, He Had a Gun
Posted on July 3, 2008
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I can’t find a youtube of that bill hicks moment but it would be great for this gem.
In the botched operation, police constables ended up turning their guns on each other and creating a bloody scene that lasted about two hours.
Among the dead was a 10 year-old-boy identified as Willy Byamukama, killed by a police constable�s bullet.According to an eyewitness, the gruesome incidents started at 3:30pm after the police raided the area to arrest an unidentified marijuana dealer. Kalerwe, like many other slums in Kampala is known for harbouring hardcore criminals.
What
The
Fuck
You killed a 10 year old boy because there’s a chance a drug dealer might be in the area. It’s not like it was the best of scenes though.
Another unidentified youth who is suspected to have torched the Police patrol van was also arrested.
Maybe if we decriminalized marijuana fewer people would feel the need to torch police vans for the sake of keeping their stash.
Bush’s 3rd Term
Posted on July 2, 2008
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Ut-Uh vote on thing terror stop
We’re beginning to understand why Barack Obama keeps protesting so vigorously against the prospect of “George Bush’s third term.” Maybe he’s worried that someone will notice that he’s the candidate who’s running for it.
Is this because we’re not giving him money?
So many of you are upset that I pulled back my credit card last night, making a last minute decision to hold back on a $2,300 contribution to Obama.
Oh no the dailykos isn’t giving money to Obama, he’s totally like Bush.
Did everyone forget during the haze of pandering that many of Obama’s original positions are still unchanged? He still supports a subsidized health insurance program, against some kind of gas tax holiday, pro-choice, anti-war, pro-environment, do I even need to go on?
On every single one of those but the gas tax one Bush is against, and I would only think his motive would be so that when gas prices don’t come down he’s not to blame (that’s not to say we’re already not blaming him though). Just because Obama panders on a few mundane issues it doesn’t mean he’s somehow changed from a liberal to a conservative overall. We should criticize, we should mobilize and we should shape him into the democrat we need him to be but calling him Bush, thank the news media for trying to tell me how to think.
This week the great Democratic hope even endorsed spending more money on faith-based charities. Apparently, this core plank of Mr. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” is not the assault on church-state separation that the ACLU and liberals have long claimed. And yesterday, Mr. Obama’s campaign unveiled an ad asserting his support for welfare reform that “slashed the rolls by 80 percent.” Never mind that Mr. Obama has declared multiple times that he opposed the landmark 1996 welfare reform.
It’s a bad one sure, federal money doesn’t deserve to be going to faith based organizations under any circumstance, but that shouldn’t take away from the help they do give. I guess the way I see it is that McCain will continue Bush’s policy of giving millions of dollars to faith based organizations unchecked, at least Obama wants to put some checks in place. It could be worse and it’s not like we wouldn’t have a chance to say something about the groups getting money. I’d rather see federal money meant for helping the community going into the community rather than in the trash on paperwork. The faith based groups are already there and ready (blame Bush), while the government having to start over from scratch will cost us years in the long run.
On the welfare reform? You’re saying that like it’s a bad thing. Both Democrats and Republicans would love nothing more than to have 0 people getting welfare, the problem we face today is that so many people have become so dependent on it that cutting them off completely would be impossible. The two groups just have different approaches, Republicans would love to stop sending people checks and let capitalism take over. Democrats understand that you can’t just stop giving people money who depend on it, that you need some kind of worker based system to ween people off of it. I would hope we can both agree we should close welfare as soon as possible, we don’t need new people leaching off the government, you can support yourself with a single job.
Calling Obama a continuation of Bush is laughable, this is the senator who openly came out about doing copious amounts of drugs and how our current system of locking up people who are addicted to drugs isn’t working. To think for one moment that he would continue the policy of creating a war every time we face a problem is absurd. We need to stop fighting so many wars with ourselves and start focusing on the only thing that a government should ever care about, all it’s people.
The So Called “Death Tax”
Posted on July 2, 2008
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I’m all for personal wealth, if you made yourself billions of dollars you and your closest friends and family should almost never have to work again. Put the money into some kind of trust and just live off the interest, go nuts. I have a line, and it’s at around 5 billion.
Her instructions, specified in a two-page “mission statement,” are that the entire trust, valued at $5 billion to $8 billion and amounting to virtually all her estate, be used for the care and welfare of dogs, according to two people who have seen the document and who described it on condition of anonymity.
What the hell would dogs need 5 billions dollars for? Wikipedia estimates the world dog population at 400 million worldwide. About 200 million of those would be domesticated and in a home, so I would hope they don’t get too much of the money.
$25 per dog, really? HUMAN BEINGS go hungry every single day and giving them $25 would put food on the table for months if not years. It’s estimated though about 800 million people go hungry, $6.25 would still drastically alter their lives. It could give them much needed medicine, cure TB for fucks sake 5 billion dollars is really going to go just to dogs?
Even if the resulting total is at the low end of the estimate — $5 billion or so — the trust will be worth almost 10 times the combined assets of all 7,381 animal-related nonprofit groups reporting to the Internal Revenue Service in 2005.
A challenge with animal and environmental work is always nature. You could throw 10 billion dollars at dogs and it’s not going to make them anymore or less likely to go hungry or without a home. If nature provides them food, shelter and a mate at some point in their lives they have no reason to change their ways and we really have little reason to interfere (unless it’s going on in our alleys, cause that’s just gross).
This is why I’m an advocate of this supposed “Death-Tax”, if she really wants to send all that she’s accomplished at the cause of ‘dogs’ please do, that’s more than in your rights to do so. She would have never amounted to that much cash if it weren’t for America and I see no problem with redistributing that much wealth to people who could truly use it. The purpose of this tax is to insure everyone has a fair shot, one of the reasons we broke from British rule was that we felt like everyone deserved a fair shot, not to have dynasties where the rich stay rich and the poor could never get ahead. That everyone deserves to go from nothing to something, and that we shouldn’t just be born into a class.
I guess it’s a socialist belief, that if you’re unbelievably wealthy you have an obligation to the country that helped create you. I don’t see it as socialist, it’s patriotic. You’re so rich that not only can you support yourself, your family and your best friends but you help everyone else because they deserve the same shot you got. It’s about the pursuit of happiness, we’ve failed. In a just world the company that does well shares that wealth with the people that helped make it, in the country we live in CEO’s look for every means possible to skimp and screw over the worker. We should be competing based on who treats their employees the best, not who can pay their employees the least and still keep a workforce. Don’t create anymore jobs! The more jobs we have we might actually have to provide health care!
If a company, or a country, is doing well the people inside that company, or country, should all be feeling the benefits. We shouldn’t be giving people handouts or pampering them, that’s not the American way, we should be giving them carrots on a stick. Taking a portion of a 5 billion dollar trust fund to give millions of people carrots on a stick could work, or we could give that money to dogs and let them gamble it away on wall street.
Bush Stimulates The Porn Industry With His Economic Package
Posted on July 2, 2008
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Ya I just about spit out my tea this morning
Normally thinkprogress is really boring, this morning they had this to add.
I am pleased that this agreement meets the criterion that I set forth last week to provide an effective, robust, and temporary set of incentives that will boost our economy and encourage job creation. This package has the right set of policies and is the right size. The incentives in this package will lead to higher consumer spending and increased business investment this year.
Oh Bush stimulated the ‘economy’ *wink* alright.
An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans’ mailboxes across the country.
According to Kirk Mishkin, Head Research Consultant for AIMRCo, “Many of the sites we surveyed have reported 20-30% growth in membership rates since mid-May when the checks were first sent out, and typically the summer is a slow period for this market.”
Bush’s ‘economic’ package is more effective than not penis cream. I guess we can’t say Bush hasn’t done anything good, he’s stimulated millions of Americans, I don’t think we’ll fully be able to grasp the kind of growth he’s created for a very long time.
When You Really Look Back, Iraq Wasn’t That Bad
Posted on July 1, 2008
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Well over a few trillion down the drain, the quagmire was worth it in the end
In an interview with reporters on the back of his campaign bus, the “Straight Talk Express” Monday afternoon, McCain said that even in retrospect he would still have voted to authorize the war, as he did in 2002.
Oh
My
God
This is like the world’s most softball question, it’s like when you fall down the stairs and they ask “Knowing what you know now about breaking your arm off falling down those stairs, if you could change things would you?”.
One of the biggest reasons for going into the Iraq war was this magical threat of a mushroom cloud over a US city. That we had to invade Iraq because if we didn’t we were all going die a slow, painful and mutilated death by the hands of Saddam Hussein, the ruthless dictator who was sitting on a few billion nuclear weapons that were all pointed right at us.
Needless to say, over the last 6 years we’ve learned of 2 very specific things about Iraq that clearly anyone with a brain can come to the conclusion that Iraq has been a horrible idea.
1. In 2005 we found out not a shred of WMD material existed in Iraq.
2. Dick was right, Iraq is a quagmire.
If that’s not enough for you, overstretched military, children left behind in our schools, millions without health care, just a few of the millions of things that looking back now are unquestionably more important that overthrowing Joe Blow who happened to be a crazy dictator.
One of the most important aspects of our country has been that every time we fall down we get back up with the knowledge of how not to fall in that fashion again. McCain doesn’t see it that way, he’s willing to fall down until we can’t stand up again. We’ve had decades of policies that don’t “maintenance of basic security and public order” and it’s about damn time we change gears.
I Would Call Her Hot…
Posted on July 1, 2008
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Darcy Burner’s House Burns Down
Eighth Congressional District candidate Darcy Burner’s Redmond home went up in flames today, according to her spokesman.
The fire started around 7:30 a.m. at 3630 West Ames Lake Drive Northeast, fire authorities said.
Oh my, that’s terrible, right in the middle of a campaign. It’s good to know she’s ok but I can’t even imagine going through that. 
It’s over by Ames Lake, east a bit.
This Is Why We Need To Do Something
Posted on July 1, 2008
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I’m sorry you don’t have health insurance, feel free to die on our floor
Green is lying facedown on the floor, her legs splayed, when a security guard strolls by at 5:53 a.m., looks at her for about 20 seconds and then walks away.
This is inside a fucking hospital, someone died in the waiting room. This is why we need some kind of government run program, this dog eat dog world of ‘you only get to live if you have enough money’ is just bullshit. I would hope we could put the partisan bullshit aside and fix this sooner rather than later.
I talked a bit about this to a libertarian last night at dinner and he really couldn’t say much about it, heath care is a human right and that’s all there is to it. If the capitalistic system worked we wouldn’t have to change it, the fact of the matter is that it’s broken. We can’t deny people health care, ever and we can’t force businesses to take on customers who will certainly cost the company money. It’s unfair to the business, it’s unfair to the people and it’s about damn time we shape up.
It would be one thing if this was an isolated incident, but things like this happen far too often. The mental patient who is taken via cab to a curb a few miles away because keeping them in the hospital costs too much money. The older couple who have health insurance but simply because they got old they now lose everything they have just to keep living. We shouldn’t wake up in the morning thinking “God I hope I don’t get sick, that would ruin my life”, I don’t care what kind of political philosophy you believe in this is 2008 and we should be better than that.
Government should compete with private companies, but never should we deny someone health insurance and never should we force business to take a loss. Look at the fundamental purpose of Government.
The fundamental purpose of government is the maintenance of basic security and public order — without which individuals cannot attempt to find happiness. The philosopher Thomas Hobbes figured that people, as rational animals, saw submission to a government dominated by a sovereign as preferable to anarchy.
Millions of people in this country suffer because of their health, making it impossible for them to find happiness. What’s more secure than having a nation of healthy people, maintaining public order by insuring that people who need mental health care get it. Our government these last 8 years has utterly failed us and gone out of it’s way to make us less happy, to put up extra barriers for us to jump over to just to be happy. The majority of us have jumped over those barriers, but what voice do the people who fell behind have?
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