Arkansas Blog

TONIGHT is an MSM report on the "reefer madness" which dictates US policy on marijuana, National Geographic Channel - (excerpt) There are also 2 more - one on heroin the other meth, just in case actual HARMFUL drugs are your bag.

Explorer: Marijuana Nation premieres on Tuesday, December 2, at 10 p.m. ET/PT
The big question after all these years and scientific findings, is why the US government still classifies marijuana as a class one drug, akin to heroin and crank.

It's a mystery.

Doctors will tell you the miracles it works for the chronically ill, cancer patients and for a natural sleep aid. It's a crop that earns more than corn, and Americans grow some of the best of it in the world. The legitimate earning potential for farmers and distributors is astronomical.
Big Pharma seemingly won't allow it.

Their lobbyists support the politicians who write the laws and create drug "task forces" to make it onerous for anyone who would prefer a natural euphoric over a sanctioned prescribed legal pill, or heavily taxed shot of alcohol that is much more deleterious to your system.

Cultivation of Marijuana (hemp) stretches back from George Washington's farm when Pot was the leading cash crop in the United States, to today, with annual profits surpassing $65 billion.
The documentary reveals more than 200 million people around the world smoke the natural herb. Producers claim two million Americans alone will try it this year.

Users represent a cross section of our society, conservatives to liberals, teens to the elderly, from top-earning medical and legal professionals to housewives, laborers
and truck drivers.

It is the single most valuable cash crop in the country, spawning a shadowy multibillion-dollar industry that thrives in communities throughout America.
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Anybody heard from Kat?

Norma, loved the babies!

>>The legitimate earning potential for farmers and distributors is astronomical.<<

Thanks for the heads-up Larry. Will watch it for sure.

However, if pot were decriminalized I doubt the price would stay high. Just the people.

How could drug companies make money from a wild growing weed!

Oh wait! I know. The Brits now have cannibus inhalers.

ONCE MORE

Waiting to hear from Kat.

BINGO

We're watching "Santa Clause is Coming to Town."
When the elves adopted the Young Clause I had to break it to my kids that Santa would be S.O.L. if he were born in Arkansas today. There would be no Christmas presents because the elves would be legally barred from adopting him and he would have probably gone on to a life in crime- or something worse like politics.

Roderick, skip on over to the classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," a happier tale where the differently-nosed reindeer and the gay dentist both are eventually accepted. The community of the North Pole embraces the Misfit Toys, the electrified deer and the reformed violent offender, the Abominable Snowman. The female reindeer break out of their usual gender constraints and go to rescue Rudolph The North Pole is obviously outside the jurisdiction of Gov. Palin and is a much cooler (pun intended) place to live than Arkansas. I'll bet they'd let the elves adopt a foundling child.

Besides, that one is just creepy. I can only go for Rudolph, the Grinch and a Charlie Brown Christmas. All the rest are crap.

What's up Jazzy!

Not much Goof....trying to type fast and get it to post....Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden. It suggests the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists. Blue name for more.

Dammit, Saxby Chambliss won in Georgia...I had hoped for a closer vote.

"Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them,"
Maj. Gen. Fred Haynes,
whose regiment in World War Two raised the American flag on Iwo Jima.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama should act from the moment of his inauguration to restore a U.S. image battered by allegations of torturing terrorism suspects, said a group of retired military leaders planning to press their case with the president-elect's transition team on Wednesday.

"We need to remove the stain, and the stain is on us, as well as on our reputation overseas," said retired Vice Adm. Lee Gunn, former Navy inspector general.

Gunn and about a dozen other retired generals and admirals, who are scheduled to meet Obama's team in Washington, said they plan to offer a list of anti-torture principles, including some that could be implemented immediately.

They include making the Army Field Manual the single standard for all U.S. interrogators. The manual requires humane treatment and forbids practices such as waterboarding -- a form of simulated drowning widely condemned as torture.

On blue name.

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"Sarah Palin Still Wearing Campaign Clothes"

That should teach the true believers not to believe Republicans when they say
one thing or the other will be donated to a charity.

Story/Pics on bluename

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Yeah, Saxby Chambliss, the giant ass has won. Another low IQ state fails to get the big picture on change. I say we abuse him to the max for the next 6 years. Find his email and send him a picture of your ass each and every day for the next 6 years.

What we'll be seeing at noon on January 20th won't be the end of an error, it will be the end of an 8 year crime spree. Cheney-Bush will have accomplished their purpose for winning office, the rape of the world. It was about money every second of those 8 years. In order to get to the money, every American rule, law, and tradition had to be watered down or killed.......in order to steal harder and pave the way for future stealing. Torturing and killing was just the price of doing business. Ain't nothing better for the upper 1% than a good war......and why not 2! The war profits must stun God. Never has so much money been made and stolen by so few! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Assuming Barry & Company are taking office to actually govern, we're in for some great times somewhere in the future after this Bush disaster is cleaned up. But what will they do with the Bushies? What's better for America? Indict them till they glow? Assemble a Truth or Consequences commission and embarrass them? (like they embarrass) or just forget the whole thing and let bygones be bygones? The only way I can look at all this is to compare it to my own life.

I haven't been indicted. But I've been arrested and ticketed and fined and had liens slapped on my house. I've paid late charges, processing fees, penalties, lawyer's fees. I've had to walk straight lines and blow into tubes and show IDs and proof of insurance and registration and blah blah blah.

If I leave the house tomorrow and do a bad thing can I expect anything other than arrest and punishment if I'm found guilty? Can I touch your wife's ample breasts and get away with it? Can I steal anything from anyone and get away with it? Can I hook 220 to your nuts and get my dog to bite ya and get away with it? Can I keep your son or daughter penned in my basement for 7 years and get away with it? Let's make this easier.......you tell me what I can get away with?

If I can find something to get away with, I'll try it again....and again and again. I'll make yer wife too sore to go to work tomorrow. But someone invented STOP. Someone else invented NO. Later someone invented BUSTED and probably the same guy invented PRISON. And since that time we've learned about limits and laws and rules and indictments and convictions and sentencing. Pretty much stopped my bad behavior. Law & Order is a good thing. But I'm FK'ing sick of it only applying to us little people. What will Barry do?

Kat......baby......???

re: "The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013"

They already hit Arkansas in 2007 and 2008. They shot several million gallons of unidentified chemicals into our precious hillsides. We still don't know what hit us. One might say "THEY IS US," or if you work for Haliburton, perhaps "WE ARE THEM."

Click blue name for story.

Sorry, this is the link I meant to post.

Roderick, your xmas comment made me laugh out loud!

When will Dems learn they can't beat republicans by being republicans? Suxby or Pryor... not much difference when it comes to the constitution, rule of law, or deciding to wage needless wars and torture.

I would have worked tirelessly to help old Max Cleland or a sincere fighting Dem take on Suxby, but I won't lift a hand or spend a dime helping another DLC type fight to be nothing more than a nicer more polite republican.

Left this in the coal thread... will leave a short snip here.. I think this is something which will hurt Arkansans... so worth noting twice. Click blue name for the whole article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/washington/03mining.html?ref=us

Edward C. Hopkins, a policy analyst at the Sierra Club, said: "The E.P.A.'s own scientists have concluded that dumping mining waste into streams devastates downstream water quality. By signing off on this rule, the agency has abdicated its responsibility."

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"This is unmistakably a fire sale of epic size for coal and the entire fossil fuel industry, with flagrant disregard for human health, the environment or the rule of law," said Vickie Patton, deputy general counsel of the Environmental Defense Fund.

The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to finish work on a rule that would make it easier for utilities to put coal-fired generating stations near national parks. It is working on another rule that would allow utility companies to modify coal-fired power plants and increase their emissions without installing new pollution-control equipment.

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Thanks to my friend R.....there is some good Saxby reading with a click of my blue name.

For you old timers, a moment of grace:

"Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77 "

Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 77.

The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager. He added that she had been hoping to sing at Barack Obama's inauguration."

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eLwood, Palin's gonna wear those campaign clothes until it's time to vote again. Those clothes will be pretty rank by then, but I suspect she thinks if she takes them off long enough to wash them, someone like Jeb might get a step ahead of her. She's in perpetual run mode..........