I smoke 2 joints in the morning, I smoke 2 joints at night, I smoke 2 joints in the afternoon, cause de law say it's alright.
Alright! Congratulations to Oregon, Alaska and Washingstone D.C. You may not have justice, a living wage, civil rights or representation in government, but you got headies. Be grateful.
NOTE: Please note that I Smoke 2 Joints is by the Toyes, not Bob Marley and the Wailers. I just thought they'd appreciate being mentioned in the context of our celebration of legalization.
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They're arresting people in Florida now for feeding the homeless, a 90-year-old no less. At that age, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want...with maybe just a few exceptions like murder or driving. When they outlaw feeding the hungry, you know it's on.
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Seal Team 6 are arguing about who shot Bin Laden. Several of them are claiming bragging rights. With all the squabbling and claims to be the shooter, history will probably never know. Too bad. Poor Seal Team 6. They were just dying to be proud of themselves.
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How fast can an advanced civilization go backward? We're about to find out.
Lamar Smith, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, hasn't read the latest report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but he says he knows enough to conclude that “most of the predictions have been wrong," he told Bloomberg TV on Friday.
“Congressman, it’s science. It’s 800 scientists," Bloomberg host Cory Johnson interrupted. "It’s not some random guy making a prediction.”
“There are a lot of other scientists who disagree," said the Texas Republican. "For example, we’ve now had close to 18 years of no global warming even though carbon dioxide emissions have increased 25 percent over the last 18 years. Nobody can explain that."
Smith told Johnson he had not read the IPCC report. “I only read summaries,” he said, and described the report authors as “clearly biased.”
House Science Chair Says Latest Climate Report Is 'Clearly Biased,' But He Only Read The Summary
Okay, let me get this straight. The chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology is a raging right-wing ignoramous and howling buffoon. Somehow that seems appropriate. Americans abroad can hold their heads high on that one. We're the wonder of the fukn world.
And now they're talking about James Inhofe replacing Barbra Boxer as chair of the Environmental Committee. Boy are we fucked.
In the war between the greater and lesser assholes, the greater assholes have once again won a handy victory, even though there are more lesser assholes than greater ones. I'm starting to wonder if some of the lesser assholes aren't really greater assholes themselves. How else does one explain the ascendency of the greater assholes (a minority) in what is ostensibly a democracy? Some of the lesser assholes must be secretly helping them, I'm a thinkin'.
Just a theory.
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And now, an unholy alliance of greater and lesser assholes is threatening to break the fukn internet.
The results of the midterm election confirm Americans' widespread discontent with Washington gridlock on a range of issues.
In the last few months, millions of people contacted the White House, Congress and federal agencies to demand action on one of those issues -- protecting a free and open Internet.
Their message was overwhelmingly clear: Americans don't want fast and slow lanes online. They want the government to preserve the Internet as a place where everybody -- startups, small businesses, nonprofits, activists, and independent artists -- has an equal chance of reaching people.
Yet it appears their voices have fallen on deaf ears.
Will the FCC ruin the Internet?
The president has come out in favor of net neutrality, saying that the net should be reclassified as a public utility – the best possible outcome. What the FCC and Obama's appointee, Wheeler actually do should tell us how serious the president is on this matter.
Ted Cruz also weighed in:
“‘Net Neutrality’ is Obamacare for the Internet..." ~ Ted Cruz
The geniuses just keep on winning.
This is a faith-based democracy – many still believe in it but no one can offer any scientific proof of its existence.
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President Obama had some rather interesting advice for the Chinese leadership during his recent visit. He urged restraint in the treatment of the protesters in Hong Kong.
"Our primary message has been to make sure violence is avoided," the president said, adding, "We don't expect China to follow an American model in every instance, but we're going to continue to have concerns about human rights."
NYTimes
He concluded his remarks recommending restraint in the treatment of the Chinese protesters with, "Ahhh, I'm just kiddin'. PSYCH!"
After the not-at-all-hypocritical advice on the treatment of protesters, President Obama then pitched the Chinese on his Trans Pacific Partnership, which according to the Times, stands a much better chance of passing now that Republicans are in charge of congress...the TPP and probably some other stuff too. Can you say 'Grand Bargain? That's just OPOL Report speculation of course, but I'd say watch them. The shit train's a comin'.
"Today is an opportunity, at the political level, for us to break some remaining logjams," the president is quoted as saying.
Heh. Those are some of my favorite logjams.
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It would be irresponsible of us as journalists not to repeat the following Public Service Message here:
“We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.”
Wendell Berry
Fifty years of bitter struggle and we're still protesting for basic civil rights and being met with the same old police brutality...and we have fewer rights than ever. The hippies, the civil rights marchers, John Lennon, the Black Panthers and everyone from MLK to Malcom X tried to warn us, but no one was listening and you see what we get. And people wonder why I smoke 2 joints.