Cocain is a schedule 2 drug which means that it can be prescribed under certain circumstances. Marijuana is schedule 1 which doesn't make it available to patients under Federal Law.
I'll start off with this. I do not use any illegal drugs and have not for the past 5 years. The only illegal drug that I have ever used is marijuana.
I am completely in favor of decriminalizing marijuana and LSD use. I am in favor of using diamorphine(Heroin) for emergency pain relief like they do in europe.
I'm not quite ready to support decriminalizing cocaine, and I am strongly opposed to legalizing methamphetamine.
I made the mistake of assuming that you were a male.
The world was not always as it is now. Liberals as well as conservatives were deeply religious people. Temperance advocates wanted change. Temperance advocates were protestants. Protestants were quite liberal in the standards of that day. It was protestants who made up the early abolitionists. They thought that to eliminate drunkenness we had to eliminate alcohol. A modern analog are the people who believe that the answer to gun crime is to eliminate guns.
What's really funny to me about the whole marriage fight is that the biggest champion of "traditional marriage" is the mormon church. These people only banned polygamy so that Utah could get statehood.
And, before you start throwing around words like stupid and retarded, keep in mind that I've never been stupid enough to have attempted suicide because of an asshole boss.
1. Lynchings are no longer tolerated. The kind of people who used to take part in lynchings are now the kind of people who take part in racial discrimination. 2. There's nothing arguable about it. It is racism. 3. Evil is malevolence. Any act of malevolence is evil. There are clearly degrees of evil, but a greater evil does not negate the fact that a lesser evil is still evil. 4. You are incorrect. A "black" guy is man with readily discernable african ancestry. This whole idea of "black culture" is propogated by people with a limited understanding of black people(Yes, some of them are themselves black). There is no one "black culture". It's determined by geographic location, education and financial status. I'm a middle class man from Pittsburgh. I would have little in common with a man from rural Georgia. 5. Don't be afraid to call a spade a spade, it's racism. As I said, there is more than one kind of racism.
Prohibition was led by reactionary conservatives, _NOT_ liberals.
You, sir, are misinformed. As you said, reactionary conservatives want to go "back" to how things used to be. Alcohol was never illegal in western society before then, so how can it be reactionary? Temperance advocates included some early feminists. Like it or not, history is clear. Prohibition was brought to us by radical liberals.
I quit buying from eBay when I got the one negative feedback on my account. Some asshole was playing a feedback blackmail game. I chose not to play and he left me a negative feedback. My 100% positive rating was fucked. I didn't buy anything else on eBay until they made this new system.
Sellers are necessary, but buyers are where the money comes from.
Internationally speaking it makes the USA look like a staggeringly stupid collection of induhviduals.
I don't see anyone dying trying to get into England or Germany. People die trying to make it to the USA. Ask yourself why. Besides, we know how to spell "individuals".
Besides, there are more ways of self-defence than guns or other weapons. Think e.g. martial arts. Yes that needs training but for a gun to be effective, training is also necessary.
I have no intention of hurting anyone, but I'm over 6 feet tall and weigh nearly 250 pounds so I could if I wanted to. I've fought and placed in martial arts tournaments. I'm not a world class fighter, but I can hold my own against most people. How is a 110 pound 5'2" woman supposed to defend herself from a man my size who decides to take her money, her virtue or her life?
There is NO valid reason of carrying a gun on the streets. Really, there isn't.
You are incorrect. The valid reason to carry a gun is self-defense. I have a concealed weapon permit. When I'm not going to work or school, I carry a gun.
You WILL have a very bad day if you try to hurt me or my family.
However, saying that "liberals" don't want handguns out on the street, is like saying that conservatives didn't want alcohol in the country during the Temperance movement.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I'd say that it was the liberals who wanted to prohibition. Conservatives tend to resist change. Liberals want to fix the world's problems by making radical changes.
What was really funny to me is when Biden called him "Clean".
Loathe as I may be to quote Chris Rock, but he noticed 12-14 years ago that when many white people of Colin Powell it was often heard that "He speaks so well." or "He's so well spoken", Chris's response was that was the kind of thing you say about retarded people that can talk.
I happen to agree on the point. My speech is deliberate and I enunciate clearly. Since I was a kid I always wanted to sound like James Earl Jones or Destro from G.I. Joe. I come pretty close. It drives me absolutely crazy when someone thinks that they are paying me a compliment by saying that I "don't sound black". Yes, the implication is that black people are supposed to sound like the crows from Dumbo and that it's noteworthy when one of us doesn't.
I can't say it authoritatively, but I'm fairly certain that anywhere in America black people know the term as a racial epithet.
Tony Snow most likely hasn't experienced skin tone based infighitng amongst black people and he wouldn't know that some people will take offense. It's completely innocent on his part. However, there is a reason why he wasn't exposed to black culture.
I've still been trying to come up with an example of latent racism that I consider to be solid, but am having no luck.
One of my aunts wrote a book about her childhood and she was taken to an all-white church by the administrators of the orphanage where she grew up. One of the white chilren asked her why she didn't go to the "nigger church" down the street. That child didn't know any better, but it didn't hurt my aunt any less.
Really, so basically lynching people is about as bad as not hiring some people?
Yes.
Justifications vary depending on people's reasons for thinking what they do, but it can be discomfort with other races, not knowing anyone of the other race and therefore thinking of that group as a foreign group you're too unfamiliar with to be comfortable.
And that, sir, is racism.
A white guy in a suit isn't necessarily evil because he won't hire the black guy to be his assistant, for possibly any of the aforementioned reasons.
If he won't hire the black person solely because that person is black, yes he is evil.
Oh and as for characters being white, the thing is, be it in movies or video games, you pretty much *need* a reason to make a non-white hero, particularly in some countries such as the USA.
Why? Nearly 40% of the people in this country are non-white. In 20 years it'll be 60%.
Nobody flips a coin to decide the 'race' of characters, and hardly anyone picks random races without even thinking of it, you'll just pick a white guy unless you have a reason not to.
And that is the latent racism that I was referring to.
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There is no good motivation to kill a child.
LK
Actually no. It's not deep down. Right on the surface I know it can be done for the wrong reasons.
Not the motivation, the act. You know that the act of killing an unborn child is wrong.
It can also be done for the right reasons.
There is no right reason to do something wrong.
LK
Why should abortion be safe, legal and rare? Why is it unfortunate?
Because deep down, you know it's wrong.
LK
Yes.
LK
Actually I DO have the right to talk about anything I want. The US Constitution enshrines that right in law.
LK
Make that "cocaine".
LK
Cocain is a schedule 2 drug which means that it can be prescribed under certain circumstances. Marijuana is schedule 1 which doesn't make it available to patients under Federal Law.
LK
I'll start off with this. I do not use any illegal drugs and have not for the past 5 years. The only illegal drug that I have ever used is marijuana.
I am completely in favor of decriminalizing marijuana and LSD use. I am in favor of using diamorphine(Heroin) for emergency pain relief like they do in europe.
I'm not quite ready to support decriminalizing cocaine, and I am strongly opposed to legalizing methamphetamine.
LK
I made the mistake of assuming that you were a male.
The world was not always as it is now. Liberals as well as conservatives were deeply religious people. Temperance advocates wanted change. Temperance advocates were protestants. Protestants were quite liberal in the standards of that day. It was protestants who made up the early abolitionists. They thought that to eliminate drunkenness we had to eliminate alcohol. A modern analog are the people who believe that the answer to gun crime is to eliminate guns.
What's really funny to me about the whole marriage fight is that the biggest champion of "traditional marriage" is the mormon church. These people only banned polygamy so that Utah could get statehood.
And, before you start throwing around words like stupid and retarded, keep in mind that I've never been stupid enough to have attempted suicide because of an asshole boss.
LK
1. Lynchings are no longer tolerated. The kind of people who used to take part in lynchings are now the kind of people who take part in racial discrimination.
2. There's nothing arguable about it. It is racism.
3. Evil is malevolence. Any act of malevolence is evil. There are clearly degrees of evil, but a greater evil does not negate the fact that a lesser evil is still evil.
4. You are incorrect. A "black" guy is man with readily discernable african ancestry. This whole idea of "black culture" is propogated by people with a limited understanding of black people(Yes, some of them are themselves black). There is no one "black culture". It's determined by geographic location, education and financial status. I'm a middle class man from Pittsburgh. I would have little in common with a man from rural Georgia.
5. Don't be afraid to call a spade a spade, it's racism. As I said, there is more than one kind of racism.
LK
Prohibition was led by reactionary conservatives, _NOT_ liberals.
You, sir, are misinformed. As you said, reactionary conservatives want to go "back" to how things used to be. Alcohol was never illegal in western society before then, so how can it be reactionary? Temperance advocates included some early feminists. Like it or not, history is clear. Prohibition was brought to us by radical liberals.
LK
I quit buying from eBay when I got the one negative feedback on my account. Some asshole was playing a feedback blackmail game. I chose not to play and he left me a negative feedback. My 100% positive rating was fucked. I didn't buy anything else on eBay until they made this new system.
Sellers are necessary, but buyers are where the money comes from.
LK
Internationally speaking it makes the USA look like a staggeringly stupid collection of induhviduals.
I don't see anyone dying trying to get into England or Germany. People die trying to make it to the USA. Ask yourself why. Besides, we know how to spell "individuals".
LK
Native Americans are the one group who have a legitimate claim to have gotten it worse here than black people.
LK
Besides, there are more ways of self-defence than guns or other weapons. Think e.g. martial arts. Yes that needs training but for a gun to be effective, training is also necessary.
I have no intention of hurting anyone, but I'm over 6 feet tall and weigh nearly 250 pounds so I could if I wanted to. I've fought and placed in martial arts tournaments. I'm not a world class fighter, but I can hold my own against most people. How is a 110 pound 5'2" woman supposed to defend herself from a man my size who decides to take her money, her virtue or her life?
LK
There is NO valid reason of carrying a gun on the streets. Really, there isn't.
You are incorrect. The valid reason to carry a gun is self-defense. I have a concealed weapon permit. When I'm not going to work or school, I carry a gun.
You WILL have a very bad day if you try to hurt me or my family.
LK
However, saying that "liberals" don't want handguns out on the street, is like saying that conservatives didn't want alcohol in the country during the Temperance movement.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I'd say that it was the liberals who wanted to prohibition. Conservatives tend to resist change. Liberals want to fix the world's problems by making radical changes.
LK
That's funny.
However, Hans would know what he's capable of. It was just a lucky guess on my part.
LK
What was really funny to me is when Biden called him "Clean".
Loathe as I may be to quote Chris Rock, but he noticed 12-14 years ago that when many white people of Colin Powell it was often heard that "He speaks so well." or "He's so well spoken", Chris's response was that was the kind of thing you say about retarded people that can talk.
I happen to agree on the point. My speech is deliberate and I enunciate clearly. Since I was a kid I always wanted to sound like James Earl Jones or Destro from G.I. Joe. I come pretty close. It drives me absolutely crazy when someone thinks that they are paying me a compliment by saying that I "don't sound black". Yes, the implication is that black people are supposed to sound like the crows from Dumbo and that it's noteworthy when one of us doesn't.
LK
I appreciate the reference, but look. The message that I linked is me telling Hans that he's a bad motherfucker.
You just can't beat that. Well, maybe if I had called him a Ladykiller.
LK
Liberal gun owner here.
Then, you are lying to yourself about being a liberal.
LK
I want to see liberals' heads explode when they realize that Socialized medicine is being used to buy people guns.
LK
I can't say it authoritatively, but I'm fairly certain that anywhere in America black people know the term as a racial epithet.
Tony Snow most likely hasn't experienced skin tone based infighitng amongst black people and he wouldn't know that some people will take offense. It's completely innocent on his part. However, there is a reason why he wasn't exposed to black culture.
I've still been trying to come up with an example of latent racism that I consider to be solid, but am having no luck.
One of my aunts wrote a book about her childhood and she was taken to an all-white church by the administrators of the orphanage where she grew up. One of the white chilren asked her why she didn't go to the "nigger church" down the street. That child didn't know any better, but it didn't hurt my aunt any less.
LK
As someone of neither the majority power class or the 'oppressed' power class, I find the constant "oh my, I'm so oppressed" to be mostly humorous.
Maybe this is racist on my part. But I take it that you're asian.
LK
Really, so basically lynching people is about as bad as not hiring some people?
Yes.
Justifications vary depending on people's reasons for thinking what they do, but it can be discomfort with other races, not knowing anyone of the other race and therefore thinking of that group as a foreign group you're too unfamiliar with to be comfortable.
And that, sir, is racism.
A white guy in a suit isn't necessarily evil because he won't hire the black guy to be his assistant, for possibly any of the aforementioned reasons.
If he won't hire the black person solely because that person is black, yes he is evil.
Oh and as for characters being white, the thing is, be it in movies or video games, you pretty much *need* a reason to make a non-white hero, particularly in some countries such as the USA.
Why? Nearly 40% of the people in this country are non-white. In 20 years it'll be 60%.
Nobody flips a coin to decide the 'race' of characters, and hardly anyone picks random races without even thinking of it, you'll just pick a white guy unless you have a reason not to.
And that is the latent racism that I was referring to.
LK