Let me off the Obama bus!

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Monday January 25, 2010 · 8:07 PM PST

2010/01/25 · 20:07

I was an early Obama supporter.

It was around the time of the Iowa caucus. My wife and I liked John Edward's populist "Two Americas" rant, but one day two auspicious things happened that made us Obama supporters.

First, my economist friend said I had to watch Obama's speech on economics at Cooper Union on YouTube.

I did, and the speech was a straight-ahead Keynesian "government's role is to stimulate the economy and create full employment" kind of rant...

jackl

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Sunday January 17, 2010 · 11:32 AM PST

2010/01/17 · 11:32

I'm from upstate New York, so what do I know about the Attorney General of the next state over? That she's running for the Senate for Teddy Kennedy's old seat? That the once shoo-in candidate in a state (or rather, "Commonwealth") with a heavy Democratic majority is now fighting for her political career, because of a suddenly viable campaign of an obscure Republican back bencher?

jackl

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Thursday July 26, 2007 · 5:39 AM PDT

2007/07/26 · 05:39

My congresscritter, Kirsten Gillibrand, is one of the most prominent new Democrats elected to Congress in the 2006 "thumpin". I live in the supposedly conservative NY-20 district upstate near Saratoga Springs and Lake George, about an hour north of Albany. The district has been represented by a succession of Republican hacks and the congresswoman and national party seemed determined to keep her in office.

So far, she's acted like a modern liberal fighting democrat. But I was disappointed this morning to see in my email from a reform org list that she had voted "nay" on H R 3093, the Hinchey Amendment, which would take the feds out of the business of harassing medical marijuana patients in the 12 states which are trying to buck the federal prohibition on marijuana and allow for limited controlled use.

Here's what I emailed my congresswoman:

Poll

39 votes Show Results

Should Dems be "Republican lite" on drug and social issues

39 votes Vote Now!

Should Dems be "Republican lite" on drug and social issues

Yes, there are elections to win. We'll get to your issue someday when it's "safe"

3 votes

Hell, No!

33 votes

Don't know!

0 votes

More cowbell

3 votes

Back from the DPA convo...

jackl

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Monday November 14, 2005 · 2:13 PM PST

2005/11/14 · 14:13

...in Long Beach, CA. (For those of you who don't know what DPA is, that's the Drug Policy Alliance, the preeminent U.S. organization involved in efforts to end the so-called "War on Drugs". DPA's site is at http://www.drugpolicy.org and the conference details can be found by drilling down. (I tried to do an html link but it wouldn't post, sorry!)

More under the fold: Read More

Garrison Keillor Slams Democrats

jackl

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Sunday November 06, 2005 · 7:50 AM PST

2005/11/06 · 07:50

OK, now that I have your brief attention, you should check out this article from "In These Times" by boomer cultural icon Garrrison Keillor (bit more below the fold): Read More

Who is Renee Boje and why is she being deported?

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Thursday June 16, 2005 · 7:38 PM PDT

2005/06/16 · 19:38

Renee Boje is a medical marijuana activist who was a colleague of author and activist Peter McWilliams, the latter author of libertarian, AIDS care and medimar books essentially murdered by the feds in a series of prosecutions and incarcerations stemming from the group's "conspiracy" to cultivate a medimar garden in Bel Air, CA ten years ago, about the time Prop. 215 was enacted.

It appears that Renee is losing her motion not to be extradited and will be before a Canadian court tomorrow morning seeking bail during her appeal of the federal Justice Minister's ruling.

You can read more about this here http://americanmarijuana.org/boje/Boje.Decision.pdf and here http://reneeboje.com/index.html . Read More

Stop H.R. 1528 !!!

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Sunday May 15, 2005 · 8:24 AM PDT

2005/05/15 · 08:24

I'm surprised this hasn't been diaried or frontpaged recently, but there's another stealth attack on our independent judiciary which will hit the floor of the House this week: Congressman Sensenbrenner's H.R. 1528, "Defending America's Most Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 2005".

A seven page "bulletized" summary of the bill is available from Families Against Mandatory Minimums here.

This bill really has to be read to be believed. Basically, it extends current bans on drug Read More

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Letter to my congresscritter (Gillibrand, D, NY-20)

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Garrison Keillor Slams Democrats

Who is Renee Boje and why is she being deported?

Stop H.R. 1528 !!!