– It’s not talked about much, but one of the biggest reasons to end marijuana prohibition is because of the environmental damage that’s done by having the crop grown illegally in our national forests and parks.
– Governor Gregoire has the rare chance to sign a truly progressive drug law reform bill.
– A reader pointed me to this post from Geoff Baker on the Mariners Blog at the Seattle Times. Towards the end of the post, he talks about new Mariner Tom Wilhelmsen, a one-time hot prospect who left the game in 2005 after being sent to a treatment program by his former club, the Brewers, for marijuana use. As someone who writes about sports and not drug policy, Baker’s thoughts came across as honest, insightful, and indicative of how people are having trouble accepting the long-unquestioned idea of treating marijuana the same way we treat other drugs. When some of the best athletes in the world – from Michael Phelps to Tim Lincecum to Santonio Holmes to countless NBA players – have all been exposed as occasional marijuana users despite excelling in what they do, it just doesn’t compute any more why a team like the Brewers would piss away their investment in Wilhelmsen the way they did. Now that he’s a Mariner and joins what might be their strongest pitching staff in years, let’s hope they’ll be rewarded for giving him a second chance.
– Last week, I was watching a rerun of The Chappelle Show and it was the sketch where they juxtaposed how an upper-class white criminal who committed a financial crime gets treated with how a lower-class minority criminal who committed a drug crime gets treated. The sketch contains a very graphic scene where the white criminal’s dog is shot by raiding police officers. It had been a while since I’d last seen this and it hadn’t occurred to me how similar this was to what happened to Berwyn Heights, Maryland mayor Cheye Calvo – except for one major difference – Calvo was completely innocent of any crimes and this fact should have already been obvious to the Prince George County Sheriff’s Office.
Calvo is still fighting back against the reckless officers who invaded his home that day and shot his two dogs. And the latest development is even more sickening. One of the officers tried to get the charges against him dropped because he claims he shot one of Calvo’s dogs after it was already dead. The judge rejected the plea. How disturbed does one have to be to shoot a dead dog in the head? And how out-of-control is the Prince George County Sheriff’s Office that not only do they have psychos like this guy their police force, but that they continue to insist that their officers did nothing wrong during the raid?
Another great Seattle Times editorial showing exactly what kind of county we live in:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....rmid=op_ed
@1
From the editorial you linked to:
How come all sorts of CSA’s, other small farms and farmers markets are springing up everywhere if it’s so hard to farm?
@1
Another whiner showing us exactly the kind of country we’re living in…
Big earthquake in Taiwan tonight. The earth gods must be angry.
Holy Shit Batman, what will Odumba do now?
Now is the time to place some interesting facts on HA…
@4…sure am glad our federal govt has secured the border and is doing their duty of protecting US citizens…
*rolls eyes….
@7
Yeah, Texas is doing so well…
They’ve got a big old budget deficit as well.
It’s called cherry picking your data. There’s enough “facts” out there to make anything look however you want it to look.
Legalizing pot has national security implications. Specifically, pot has saved the lives of American soldiers. In particular, Sgt. Peter C. Lemon singlehandedly stopped an enemy assault with a machinegun, rifle, hand grenades, and hand-to-hand combat. After receiving the Medal of Honor, Mr. Lemon admitted he was stoned during the battle.
This morning, the Container Ship Horizon Tacoma en route to Tacoma from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, developed Engine Trouble off Neah Bay. The Captain shut the engine down to avoid further damage and called the Coast Guard. The rescue tug, which is based at Neah Bay, at State Expense, was called out. Took nearly a day for the Crawley tug Hunter, assisted by the Garth Foss, to tow the Horizon Tacoma into the Port of Tacoma. The shipping companies are supposed to take over the funding of it this year, and some were fighting it, thinking only the tanker companies needed to pay. Well, I think this morning, the Horizon Tacoma, showed any ship can develop trouble. One of the aims of this program, is to have something as a last ditch defense against something like the aftermath of an Exxon Valdez type disaster in treacherous waters.(I do know that the Valdez was caused by human error)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/.....container/
A little background on the Horizon Tacoma, she is U.S. Flagged, and U.S. Owned, built in an American Shipyard, since it is a Jones Act vessel, it is used primarily on domestic runs, like the Tacoma-Anchorage-Kodiak-Dutch Harbor-Tacoma run. Good save though this monring for the Hunter, fuel oil spills can be just as bad as Crude Oil spills.
@8
They can’t secure the southern border! Where would all the Republican leaning businesses like the builders and the meat packing plants get their workers if they did that?
I’d love to see guard towers along the Mexican boarder and employment laws enforced.
Mr. Lemon can play on my team anytime, and I don’t care if he’s been smoking.
@11
Yeah, love that rescue tug.
Roger, seems the Pacific Ring of Fire is acting up a lot this week. An earthquake off Okinawa early Friday, than the earthquake off Chile Saturday morning, the Tsunami it generated, and now an Earthquake in Taiwan. At least Hawaii was prepared, although Robinson Crusoe Island off South America took the brunt of the Tsunami from the Chilean Earthquake, but CNN and others were covering the waves that did not do much damage in Hawaii. Split screening Hilo and Diamond Head.
LMAO @ the moron @ 6
I thought you don’t like Pat Robertson!!!
But you sure like the right wing prattle he manufactures…
Just like Moon… What a silly degenerate fool.
Earth to Moron – if anyone, anyone, perpetrates or provokes unjustified violence on another – they should be removed from society.
@8 Don’t you know? The cheap labor conservatives want the illegals here. Millions of ’em. So they can pay Mexican wages to Mexican workers. So they don’t have to pay American wages to American workers.
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They should be common and mandatory in treacherous waters where some big ships pass on a regular basis. Cape Flattery/Neah Bay included. I believe somewhere in the Strait of Juan de Fuca is where a fishing boat was rammed, by the USS Airzona in 1934. Then again, there was no radar in those days. The tugs in Prince William Sound had a chance to prevent another disaster earlier this year. Another Exxon ship I believe, the Sea River Kodiak, lost power in the sound. ALthough it would not have been as bad as the Valdez, the Kodiak although a used ship, is double-hulled.(The last single-hulled tanker, and ironically the Exxon Valdez’s sister, the Sea River Long Beach was retired last year). Plus with Prince William Sound, escort tugs are mandatory since the spill.
http://www.adn.com/2010/01/17/.....g-oil.html
@17…and the progressive democrats want their votes….so neither party does shit.
man, I am soooo glad for all our partisans fucking things up.
ship every illegal back the fuck home and secure the border…with deadly force if necessary.
@12….and what would the democrats do without that voting bloc?
each party has their own greedy desires – at the cost of the nation.
to hell with the parties..
@12..RE: guard towers and employment laws enforced..
…damn, thats TWICE today we have agreed…
@6 Launch more drone strikes against Muslim jihadists?
“American drones fired missiles at suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan’s tribal areas 55 times last year, killing hundreds of jihadists …. This year, the killing has accelerated; so far more than a dozen strikes have been reported. Mr Obama orders assassinations at a far brisker pace than George Bush ever did.”
http://www.economist.com/world.....d=15579751
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Is there anything Puddy doesn’t lie about?
@18
My dad used to fish out of Kodak. One of my bothers fished out of Ketchikan. I was looking into getting a PWS gillnetting permit when the Valdez did its thing.
@18, 19 Illegals don’t vote, dumbass.
@20
Scary, huh.
Michael, Neah Bay, Cape Flattery, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca are treacherous waters. Some damage had been done by the USS Arizona to a fishing trawler called the Umatilla in 1934. If only they had had radar, but that was not available yet.
http://www.historylink.org/ind.....le_id=5378
Also, back in January, the Sea River Kodiak had some electrical problems in Prince William Sound. The Sea River Kodiak is owned by Exxon, and could say although it was older than the Exxon Valdez, it replaced the Exxon Valdez and her sisters, mainly because Exxon, more concerned with keeping their high profitability, did not follow the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and get double hulled ships until it was too late to buy new. The company that built the Kodiak, was forward thinking, because it was double-hulled from the start. Last I heard about the Exxon Valdez, later called the Sea River Mediteranean, was that it was no longer a tanker, but an ore carrier.
http://www.pmmonlinenews.com/2.....-49th.html
@3..HAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHA…sssuuurrreeee….
Oops, messed up with editing one of my responses and it was considered spam, sorry about the confusion, Michael.
@20..no kidding…one of us obviously needs some meds…. :)
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Unfortuantely the damage was done that day, but the only consolation the courts gave was they upheld the ban on the re-named Exxon Valdez from re-entering Prince William Sound. Exxon ended up selling the boat, which was losing money on the routes it had to be transfered to(Middle Eastern routes) because of the ban. They ended up selling it.
@7 Pudwacker?!?
Funny facts Forbes omits… (Unions! Unions are to blame!!!)
Ranking of states Federal Tax contribution vs. Federal $ returned to the states.
Illinois, 45th ($.75)
New York, 42nd ($.79)
Connecticut, 48th ($.69)
New Jersey, dead last ($.61)
California, 43rd ($.71)
Utah, 29th ($1.07)
Vermont, 26th ($1.08)
Texas, 35th ($.94) aka the anomaly
Nebraska, 25th ($1.10)
Virginia, 10th ($1.21)
Typical of Puddy and the right in general. See a cause and effect and jump on it without looking for any mitigating possible cause. (Nuance, shades of grey, dummies!)
It’s a hell of a lot easier to run a state budget at the largess of the Federal trough. Just ask Gov. Palin. (#3, $1.84 and I don’t think that factors into federal $ spent on the oil leases, but I’ll admit I could be wrong on that point. Late enough that I’m too lazy to confirm.)
Good night now!
Once again ylb arschloch types and all doubt vanishes.
So you’re saying builders and meat packers are Republican leaning. Per The Dumb Bunny all Puddy has to do is provide one example of a DUMMOCRAPT in action to destroy your argument. So Puddy will provide 2.
1) Where would Nancy Pelosi get her non-union winery and vineyard workers from.
2) Tyson Foods gave $218,002 in 2008 with 61% to DUMMOCRAPTS and 39% to Republicans.
Can you hear the KABBBBBBLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMO for that stupid argument Michael?
See ya!
Dumb Bunny Shits
Hey Dumb Bunny, you brought it up not Puddy. Just like your stupid accusation of Puddy discussing BIAW and liquor workers. Or your stupid rant of 50% of people who disagree with Odumba are racists.
Pfffffffft…
Whatamoron!
Read this article about the thin-skinned DEMOCRAT NUTJOB next in line to takeover Crooked Douchebag Charlie Rangel’s spot!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....committee/
The more folks see what a bunch of douchebag’s are on the Democrat “A-TEAM” the worse it gets in November.
Hey Puddy–
Here is the KLOWNS daily dose of reality–
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Notice the last one. It’s a critical reflection of the hole the Dummocrats have dug for themselves. Great leadership by Reid, Pelosi and Obam-Mao!! America is really encouraged by the Atheist Progressive Agenda.
Cynical, all we heard after Scott Brown was elected to the Ted Kennedy senate seat was Odumba would focus on jobs.
Yeah, right.
Taxpayers Hit as TARP Takes a New Turn
Republicans Can’t Spell
“In the blood sport of politics, you never want the other team to see your playbook — especially if what’s in it makes your fans look bad. A Republican National Committee fundraising presentation that hit the Internet Wednesday is just such a playbook. The 72-page document … lays out a strategy to fan fears that President Barack Obama is moving the country toward socialism. The PowerPoint presentation uses the words ‘reactionary’ and ‘ego-driven’ on a page describing potential GOP donors. Another page … includes the infamous ‘Obama Joker’ poster and cartoon images likening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Cruella de Vil (misspelled as DeVille on the slide) ….” (Emphasis added)
http://www.aolnews.com/the-poi.....a/19383182
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Unsurprisingly, the idiots can’t spell the name of a movie character. Probably because they never read the book. And now you know what they think of their supporters!
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@29
Um… Meat packers and the builders don’t lean to the right? I did not know this.
And your 2 examples might have worked if I’d made an absolute statement, but I didn’t.
Japanese Won’t Honor Bluefin Moratorium
The Obama administration has announced it will support a ban on international trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna, which is used in sushi, whose population has declined 80% since 1980.
And Japan, the most predatory fishing nation on earth (they illegally harvest 1,000 whales a year in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary), which consumes 80% of the bluefin harvest, says if the ban is approve “it will exercise its right not to comply.”
Bastards. I sure won’t buy one of their sticking-gas pedal cars! But hey, if you environment-hating wingnuts want to snub the conservationists, feel free to run right out and buy yourself a Toyota with a sticky gas pedal! Just let us know where to send the flowers.
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/.....e/19382413
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Putz gets more idiotic every day!
Say it ain’t so, Ma, not another hypocritical Republican politician:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....85419.html
@37….ummm…so?
maybe you should volunteer for that lieing sack of crap Capt. Paul Watson and his merry boat of sailing amatures…lol
talk about a group of bumbling fools…I wouldnt trust them in a rowboat on Green Lake.
This would be a game changer:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....85842.html
@34 That’s why Obama wants a 10-year, $119 billion tax on the big banks (which they can easily afford) — so taxpayers will break even on the bank bailouts.
I’m not sure what your point is. Of all the rightwing stupidity we’ve been inundated with lately, their foaming-at-the-mouth opposition to rescuing the banking system from collapse is the most asinine of all.
In 1930, a third of America’s banks went under, and in those days there was no government insurance program (paid for by fees on banks) to save depositors.
The Hoover administration, marching in lockstep with the laissez-faire ideology that still prevails in the GOP, did nothing to stop the bank runs. Historians now agree this policy was one of the important causative factors that turned an ordinary recession into the Great Depression.
In the current crisis, nothing has incensed the uneducated, uninformed, redneck-conservative elements of our population than the bank bailouts. Nobody could be stupider than these people.
Letting the banking system go under would have had catastrophic consequences. We’d be looking at 20% or 25% unemployment instead of 10% unemployment. Even Bush, an idiot in all other respects, recognized this and initiated the bank bailouts in the waning days of his administration. Obama’s first act as president was to continue this policy, and within a couple months, turned the situation around. Very quickly, panic subsided, and the financial system stabilized. The stock market, which bottomed in March 2009, regained most of its losses by the end of the year.
And this will cost taxpayers nothing if Congress passes Obama’s bank tax.
Just how stupid can the knee-jerk redneck-conservatives be? The same people who brandish guns as a form of political speech, and shout “Keep your government hands off my Medicare!” in townhalls? Judge for yourself. All I can say is, anyone who falls for their bumper-sticker slogans or the faux-populist demagogues leading them is just as stupid as they are.
33. Puddybud is Sad my friend died spews:
Obam-Mao thinks he can continue to get away with saying one thing, doing the opposite with no consequences.
That’s why in the 2010 and 2012 elections, the Republicans biggest problem is how to present all the hipocrisy without looking mean.
It’s truly amazing.
We owe this to the Leftist Ideologue MSM who continues to allow Obama to do this.
@40 Why am I not surprised that lebowski’s answer to eradication of endangered food fish species and a rapacious nation’s ruthless commercial exploitation of gentle sea mammals is, “So?” You’re an ass, lebowski. A stupid, insensitive, uncaring jerk. You must have been raised in a cave by wolves, because it’s clear you don’t have a mother. Do you really think people who kill and eat whales and dolphins care about your sorry ass when they make and sell cars? Go ahead, drive one, you’re no loss …
Hey Puddy–
Look at the Baird thread–
The Pelletizer is plagarizing Wikipedia!!
Comment 63.
He claims to be a lawyer.
Obviously cut out of the Joe Biden dungheap!
@43 Does this mean you agree he should support the Armenian genocide resolution in pending Congress, and Turkey be damned?
http://www.aolnews.com/story/w.....391?cid=10
@39
He was just doing research!
@45 I suppose the idiot who claimed a state liquor store clerk made $105,000 last year would say I “plagiarized Wikipedia” if I posted that the Civil War ended in 1865 because Wikipedia says that, too.
Let’s get to the bottom of yet another Democrat Ethics scandal!!
Updated March 04, 2010
Massa to Retire, Citing Ill Health, But Faces Misconduct Allegation
FOXNews.com
Massa claims he is an old sailor using salty language. That’s his excuse.
I told N in Seattle that I really truly hope the reason Massa is not running is because of his CONDUCT and not Cancer.
I truly hopr Massa is lying about the cancer…using it as an excuse to avoid being held accountable.
Roger Rawbutt–
Racist, plagarizer…and wrong-headed.
Oh yeah…and Rawbutt is also a LIAR about his stock transactions.
@44….ahahahahhaha
I dont care if they do not care about me. why should they? and I dont give a damn about them either.
I only drive Fords and Ferrari’s(old ones)…I dont do the Japanese thing…although I have done the German thing – your nazi ass should appreciate that.
I dont support whale hunting, but they are a free nation, they dont have to listen to ass-hats like you or paul watson.
so get to it goebbels rabbit – go join sea shephard…mayne you and Paul can FAKE another episode of being shot – and then crash your boat…LOOLOLOLOLOLOL.
HAR. HAR. Biznatch.
Interesting use of “all” Michael! Per the Dumb Bunny you don’t need to use the word all for any deconstruction to work!
Hey Daddy Love… It’s in the P-I.
“But in a statement late Wednesday, Hoyer said he was told the week of Feb. 8 by a staff member in Massa’s office about allegations of misconduct. Hoyer directed Massa to report the allegations to the House Ethics Committee within 48 hours. Hoyer said he got confirmation within 48 hours that the Ethics Committee had received the report and would review the allegations.”
Soooooooooo Daddy Love, even if the dude has cancer, it does make an interesting read even in the P-I nonetheless.
Dear JackRabbit Jackass Caucus:
GBS is MIA & SOL, but how did Rabbit respond? This way:
Looks like arrogant ignorant presumptuous GBS, with all that GBS historical stuff, just got his biggest beatdown. And he got it from his pet Rabbit.
But then Rabbit, who probably wasn’t and isn’t “a constitutional lawyer specializaing in First Amendment law” tried to act like a constitutional lawyer specializing in First Amendment law. Cyn shows that Rabbit plagiarized Wiki.
As it happens, I brought Wiki and supporting citations into this discussion almost two weeks ago. But here’s where my Wiki differed from Rabbit’s Wiki: I gave full attribution. Rabbit didn’t, but maybe plagiarism is what he means by Fair Use.
Then I cited Wiki’s footnotes. Then I went to the sources. One of those sources is a constitutional lawyer specializing in First Amendment law. That specialist published 492 closely-reasoned pages showing how First Amendment law (ahem) evolved, and showing beyond reasonable doubt that arrogant presumptuous GBS and his pet, vindicating text-stealing Rabbit, are fucking fools.
Some more details on the Horizon Tacoma rescue and assist off Neah Bay yesterday. They did some repairs en route, and also, the company was at first debating about calling for the tug, because although it is state funded, the vessel being towed still has to pay for being towed, and the money usually goes into extending the season the tug is deployed.
http://www.peninsuladailynews....../303049987
Max, sorry I couldn’t play, but I had to go to bed for work the other evening, I am an East Coaster, so when it is 8:00pm over on the West Coast it is 11:00pm here on the East Coast. My boss, who pays me good money for the last 22 years likes me to be on time.
I looked at the list of serial killers on Wikipedia and the list of “heterosexual” serial killers was as long as my donkey dick. You have to be kidding. Maybe the list of “Homosexual” serial killers took up the full length of your 2 inches, but we need to keep things in proper perspective.
Heterosexuals – 1
Homosexuals – 0
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....4100.shtml
Be sure to send me a link on a publicized murder by homosexual. Hint – check the San Francisco Chronicle or the Ft. Lauderdale rag, or maybe a Provincetown Paper
Heterosexuals – 2
Homosexuals – 0
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....bsCarousel
RR @ 42: The wingnuts who rail against Obama’s bank tax are the same ones who blame Obama and the Democratic Congress of 2007-2009 for the bank bailouts – conveniently ignoring the fact that it was G.W.Bush who started that ball rolling.
The main difference between Bush’s version of the bank bailouts, and Obama’s version, is that Bush simply handed the money to the banks without any strings attached – Congress couldn’t even ask how the money was being used, and the banks didn’t have to tell them. Under the Obama bailouts of the banking and auto industries, there were provisions allowing regulation of executive salaries, how the money could be used, accounting requirements, restrictions on bonuses, etc.
Logical consistency has never been a wingnut trait. They look for the bright red buttons which motivate their base, and they push those buttons. As long as they can dream up some spurious argument to blame banks, lawyers, Communists, Jews, and liberals in general, they feel like they’ve accomplished their purpose for the day – the truth be damned.
I miss the old Republicans of my youth. They would be utterly embarrased to try to make some of the arguments you regularly hear coming from wingnuts today. They would have recoiled at having someone think that they were so dumb or dishonest to spout such nonsence while trying to keep a straight face.
@62….
ok, lets keep score:
you suck dick, I dont. Me +1
You take dick in the ass, I dont. Me +1
I eat pussy, you dont. Me +1
Looks like I win. 3 – 0
any questions?
Max,
You are truly an ass. Why all the hate?