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West Virginia surpasses Tennessee in per capita prescription drug use
Feb 06, 2008 @ 11:08 PM
By LAURA WILCOX
The Herald-Dispatch

HUNTINGTON -- West Virginia leads the nation in prescription drug use, according to a report by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee . . .

Oh, come on. You can't use some atheist blog to defend your position; and I'm speaking as an atheist. You can, however, use this: link here as a persuasive argument. You're right. These folks were just exercising their rights and were arrested at the direction of an overzealous secret service agent. Now, what this has to do with metal detector use by local police at a mass demonstration adjacent to a U.S. military base escapes me. But you're absolutely right; these folks were treated shabbily. And their rights were unlawfully abridged. And they were owed the apologies they received. And it needs to not happen again.

I guess you suck at doing google searches or you suffer from the same cognitive dissonance problem of most Bush supporters. They've totally demolished civil liberties in this country in the name of "safety" and "security" and you all have your heads stuck in the sand.

Both incidents have been carried on the major news networks with video of the couple with the T shirts arrested and a Mankato Minnesota TV station interviewed the kid who was detained for having the sticker on his wallet.

Here I'll help, in google:

"Mankato Kerry sticker"

Here is a search for the couple with the T shirts arrested:

"Tshirt Bush arrested"

and I'll even send a URL.

Here is one for the couple arrested for the T shirts from a search on:

It is something of a saving grace that as far as I know all the judges have thrown out the trespassing cases as the travesty of justice they are though the people involved have had to endure, arrest, lawyers and trials.

Here is an unrelated incident where a man was arrested in a mall for refusing to take off a Tshirt that said "Give Peace a Chance" in 2003.

If this is what America has come to, stop the merry go round, I want to get off and I'm moving to another country. America is a sad parody of the principals its supposed to stand for.

NBC ran a story on how several people have been arrested this year for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts at Bush rallies. They wear something over the shirt (otherwise they couldn't even get in), then reveal the shirt. Then the Secret Service tells the local cops to revoke their "pass" (to public grounds) and arrest them for trespassing. The charges don't stand up in court, but by then of course the false arrest has served its purpose.

Second are these "protest zones." (I'm aware BOTH parties are guilty of this, so don't point that out as if it nullifies the issue somehow). This is America; we do not have "free speech zones."

Nobody ever said Democracy wasn't a little inconvenient or expensive at times. We don't seem to mind sending our soldiers to die for our rights, or spending billions on nation building, yet somehow can supress those same rights at home by citing the fear of crumpling the grass in a public park.

Do they by chance live in West Virginia? Insurance companies in this state have been trying pretty hard to drop a lot of their customers since it's not an especially profitable state to insure people in. The state has tried to pass laws preventing some of this, but the result is usually that it just drives more companies to exit the state.

Regardless, even accounting for all the tragic deaths from CHernobyl, EUrope (FRance, in particular) still has cleaner power than the primary power source in AMerica. I would gladly trade the coal fire plant nearby for a nuclear plant; the waste is much easier to contain, even if it is more dangerous. Fusion reactors would be much better, of course -- but many malign nuclear power and install designs that are much more harmful to the environment. Also, "clean" natural gas power plants don't seem so clean when we have to go to war to fuel them.

Summary: Many, many, many more people have died for non-nuclear power supplies, than in nuclear disasters. The environment has been much more damaged by non-nuclear power supplies as well.

Some highlights:

Propaganda and 'Lord of the Rings' Area theaters prepare for 'The Two Towers' Lord of the Rings labelled racist Fans gear up for 'Lord of the Rings' release

I thought it was going to be a sequel to "Pulp Fiction."

In other news, that Marshall backup QB who threw for 4 TDs and ran for one last night apparently had an unconventional freshman year as well.

Funny you should mention that, because AEP, the nation's largest producer of electricity did just that to a whole town in southern Ohio.