I am one of those people that like listening to class lectures for fun. I know, I know get a life, blah, blah, blah.
However, I have listened to people from berkley, Stanford and more. I like to improve on what I already know and driving around listening to music i have already 1000 times before . . . I am not buying anything that is DRMmed or from a RIAA label. So I stay with what I have and know.
70 years? That long? I was thinking is mostly shorter then that
However, the length and the media campaign really does not make a difference. The fact still stands, the vast majority of Americans will support anti-drug laws.
I am not to sure that the relevance is missing. Any parent of child between 10 and the end of high school has to have that in the back of their mind. That is a large population.
Not to mention that you have the real question of today by politicos of both parties: "Why would I ever want to commit political suicide and stop this stupid war on drugs?"
if we were ever going to have the war on drugs law changed or whatever, it would have happened under Clinton from 92-94.
This is even more true if drug prohibition is lifted, since drug related crime plummets...
I wonder if drug crime would plummet?
we have crime that involves booz (not just DUI) and cigs. THere would still be an illegal side with kids under 18 there will be no way in my lifetime that kids under 18 will be allowed to smoke dope legally on the streets.
The single biggest advantage I see with legal drugs is the purity issues. No longer would people die from bad cut drugs or with to pure of drugs.
The argument with prohibition is usually not a good analogy.
When we did prohibition we screwed up, and really really bad.
1. Alcohol was not totally illegal. It was only mostly illegal. One could not sell it, BUT you could own it.
2. Dope is illegal. You are not supposed to own it at all (only recently have small amounts of pot has been be legalized)
3. Prohibition was sponsored by a very loud minority. Drug laws are from the majority. A mostly quiet minorty wants to legalize drugs.
There are still some prohibition laws on the books.
1. In many places in the country you can't buy booz on Sunday. This even means if New Years Eve falls on a Sunday and this ticks off bar owners.
2. In many places in the country you can't walk into the local 7-11 type store and buy beer. Where I live, you have to go to the county owned store 12 miles away to buy beer.
We lost the war on drugs years ago.
Let's be real here:
20% of teens do drugs. You lost the war.
Inside of prisons is an ongoing drug trafficking. If we cannot win the war on drugs in prison, which is a 'secure' environment. Howe can we ever win in an open and free society (regardless of political opinions on open and free)
Education seems to be a solid deterrent. However, you cannot lie about drugs. "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs." Did not sell because we did not talk about the positive effects of drugs. If we lie on the good effects why would kids believe us on on frying the brain.
I live in a small rural community. If I wanted to I know exactly where to go to buy drugs. IF the cops here do not worry about it to much. Why would they worry more in say the burbs. With all the good kids, who are smoking dope.
If someone is willing to put into their body what is contained in meth. Do you really think that you are: 1. going to stop them? 2. use any kind of education.
Last point. Many of today's 60's parents are unwilling to say no to drugs. Why, because they did drugs and feel they have no moral authority. This is called a logical fallacy. If I have done something, say smoke legal drugs, for 40 years and now I am dying from the effects of the cigs. I can with moral authority say these things are bad. The fallacy that says you can't is called Tu Quoque.
With these facts . . . we have lost the war on drugs.
I am conservative (no spamming or yelling about that) and I have never used illegal drugs. However, we have lost the war on drugs and have lost it for years. We keep pouring money into the program because of politics (on both sides).
We lost the war on drugs years ago.
Let's be real here:
20% of teens do drugs. You lost the war.
Inside of prisons is an ongoing drug trafficking. If we cannot win the war on drugs in prison, which is a 'secure' environment. Howe can we ever win in an open and free society (regardless of political opinions on open and free)
Education seems to be a solid deterrent. However, you cannot lie about drugs. "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs." Did not sell because we did not talk about the positive effects of drugs. If we lie on the good effects why would kids believe us on on frying the brain.
I live in a small rural community. If I wanted to I know exactly where to go to buy drugs. IF the cops here do not worry about it to much. Why would they worry more in say the burbs. With all the good kids, who are smoking dope.
If someone is willing to put into their body what is contained in meth. Do you really think that you are: 1. going to stop them? 2. use any kind of education.
Last point. Many of today's 60's parents are unwilling to say no to drugs. Why, because they did drugs and feel they have no moral authority. This is called a logical fallacy. If I have done something, say smoke legal drugs, for 40 years and now I am dying from the effects of the cigs. I can with moral authority say these things are bad. The fallacy that says you can't is called Tu Quoque.
With these facts . . . we have lost the war on drugs.
I am conservative (no spamming or yelling about that) and I have never used illegal drugs. However, we have lost the war on drugs and have lost it for years. We keep pouring money into the program because of politics (on both sides).
Time for the white flag.
What this does represent is that for the first time, middle-class white America is subjected to the same kinds of abuses that poor and/or minority comminunities have been for decades.
I love how they did this to as a reaction to polls.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The only good news . . . this so violates the freedom of speech.
I think driving is becoming a right. One cannot function in many places without a car. This said, if I lived in say NYC I would not own car.
You are also short sighted becasue you forget farming and they all use diseal. Trucks that transport fodd to you wherever you live. Unless there comes something better then a car people will use cars. We have to use them.
And cars will be used until there would be equal access for cheap public transportation for rural areas.
Dumping cars might be a good idea for a few large cities.
Removing scenes that contain sex, violence, nudes and more and then renting that movie seems like a bad idea. Why would I want to rent a movie that has maybe one two minute scene that means nothing and then the credits.
I still do not see the harm what harm is done when people are renting these knowing what they are renting.
Up here in the frozen tundra of Minnesota. Cub Foods has been using this for close to a year.
After talking with a few cashiers at Cub Foods, they have told me that every few people use the fingerprint system.
Title of a book that has really helped me.
I have taken several paycuts for other jobs, the total overall is about 2/3 paycut over the past 10 years. The last one I took was about 1/3 paycut. Best thing I ever did. Money is sometimes tight but my sanity is worth it. My wife is hapy, I am happy and my kids are happy.
Now, I am doing what I love amd love what I am doing. When the alarm goes off, I am glad to get up. In three years I have never had to think, maybe today I will just oversleep. When vacation is over I am ready to go back.
BTW: I am high school teacher at a private school who earns about 60% of the public school counterparts. I receive no bounses, no profit sharing, just my pay and I am glad.
After reading it... I am left wondering what evidacne do we have that this is the real letter. I had been hoping for a.jpg of the letter. Of course this would not be the first letter faked.
I am not to sure what this positoin is besides a religious position. Kinda reminds of the crusades and the inqusitions.
Punish Punish Punsih. Seems like they are narrow minded bigots that is the, The National Academies' National Research Council and the National Science Teachers Association.
I just love narrow minded religious fools.
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I am one of those people that like listening to class lectures for fun. I know, I know get a life, blah, blah, blah.
However, I have listened to people from berkley, Stanford and more. I like to improve on what I already know and driving around listening to music i have already 1000 times before . . . I am not buying anything that is DRMmed or from a RIAA label. So I stay with what I have and know.
I was thinking the exact same.
However, the length and the media campaign really does not make a difference. The fact still stands, the vast majority of Americans will support anti-drug laws.
I am not to sure that the relevance is missing. Any parent of child between 10 and the end of high school has to have that in the back of their mind. That is a large population.
Not to mention that you have the real question of today by politicos of both parties: "Why would I ever want to commit political suicide and stop this stupid war on drugs?"
if we were ever going to have the war on drugs law changed or whatever, it would have happened under Clinton from 92-94.
This is even more true if drug prohibition is lifted, since drug related crime plummets...
I wonder if drug crime would plummet?
we have crime that involves booz (not just DUI) and cigs. THere would still be an illegal side with kids under 18 there will be no way in my lifetime that kids under 18 will be allowed to smoke dope legally on the streets.
The single biggest advantage I see with legal drugs is the purity issues. No longer would people die from bad cut drugs or with to pure of drugs.
When we did prohibition we screwed up, and really really bad.
1. Alcohol was not totally illegal. It was only mostly illegal. One could not sell it, BUT you could own it.
2. Dope is illegal. You are not supposed to own it at all (only recently have small amounts of pot has been be legalized)
3. Prohibition was sponsored by a very loud minority. Drug laws are from the majority. A mostly quiet minorty wants to legalize drugs.
There are still some prohibition laws on the books.
1. In many places in the country you can't buy booz on Sunday. This even means if New Years Eve falls on a Sunday and this ticks off bar owners.
2. In many places in the country you can't walk into the local 7-11 type store and buy beer. Where I live, you have to go to the county owned store 12 miles away to buy beer.
20% of teens do drugs. You lost the war.
Inside of prisons is an ongoing drug trafficking. If we cannot win the war on drugs in prison, which is a 'secure' environment. Howe can we ever win in an open and free society (regardless of political opinions on open and free)
Education seems to be a solid deterrent. However, you cannot lie about drugs. "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs." Did not sell because we did not talk about the positive effects of drugs. If we lie on the good effects why would kids believe us on on frying the brain.
I live in a small rural community. If I wanted to I know exactly where to go to buy drugs. IF the cops here do not worry about it to much. Why would they worry more in say the burbs. With all the good kids, who are smoking dope.
If someone is willing to put into their body what is contained in meth. Do you really think that you are: 1. going to stop them? 2. use any kind of education.
Last point. Many of today's 60's parents are unwilling to say no to drugs. Why, because they did drugs and feel they have no moral authority. This is called a logical fallacy. If I have done something, say smoke legal drugs, for 40 years and now I am dying from the effects of the cigs. I can with moral authority say these things are bad. The fallacy that says you can't is called Tu Quoque.
With these facts . . . we have lost the war on drugs. I am conservative (no spamming or yelling about that) and I have never used illegal drugs. However, we have lost the war on drugs and have lost it for years. We keep pouring money into the program because of politics (on both sides).
Time for the white flag.
We lost the war on drugs years ago. Let's be real here: 20% of teens do drugs. You lost the war. Inside of prisons is an ongoing drug trafficking. If we cannot win the war on drugs in prison, which is a 'secure' environment. Howe can we ever win in an open and free society (regardless of political opinions on open and free) Education seems to be a solid deterrent. However, you cannot lie about drugs. "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs." Did not sell because we did not talk about the positive effects of drugs. If we lie on the good effects why would kids believe us on on frying the brain. I live in a small rural community. If I wanted to I know exactly where to go to buy drugs. IF the cops here do not worry about it to much. Why would they worry more in say the burbs. With all the good kids, who are smoking dope. If someone is willing to put into their body what is contained in meth. Do you really think that you are: 1. going to stop them? 2. use any kind of education. Last point. Many of today's 60's parents are unwilling to say no to drugs. Why, because they did drugs and feel they have no moral authority. This is called a logical fallacy. If I have done something, say smoke legal drugs, for 40 years and now I am dying from the effects of the cigs. I can with moral authority say these things are bad. The fallacy that says you can't is called Tu Quoque. With these facts . . . we have lost the war on drugs. I am conservative (no spamming or yelling about that) and I have never used illegal drugs. However, we have lost the war on drugs and have lost it for years. We keep pouring money into the program because of politics (on both sides). Time for the white flag.
The vote was 410-15. This is really bad becasue everyone was involved in the stoopid bill.
Does not matter, "its for the childeren."
I think driving is becoming a right. One cannot function in many places without a car. This said, if I lived in say NYC I would not own car. You are also short sighted becasue you forget farming and they all use diseal. Trucks that transport fodd to you wherever you live. Unless there comes something better then a car people will use cars. We have to use them. And cars will be used until there would be equal access for cheap public transportation for rural areas. Dumping cars might be a good idea for a few large cities.
Not really. The MN high court just tossed out red light running tickets. Now they are being sued up the . . . . . and will pay piles of money.
Actually where I live in rural MN, the same still happens (sans plates). We also have a reverse phone number directory. All in one happy book
What about Mac VPC, would be nice to have that for free.
Removing scenes that contain sex, violence, nudes and more and then renting that movie seems like a bad idea. Why would I want to rent a movie that has maybe one two minute scene that means nothing and then the credits. I still do not see the harm what harm is done when people are renting these knowing what they are renting.
Up here in the frozen tundra of Minnesota. Cub Foods has been using this for close to a year. After talking with a few cashiers at Cub Foods, they have told me that every few people use the fingerprint system.
Who opened the envelope? Did a machine optical reader open the envelope? MacIke
Title of a book that has really helped me. I have taken several paycuts for other jobs, the total overall is about 2/3 paycut over the past 10 years. The last one I took was about 1/3 paycut. Best thing I ever did. Money is sometimes tight but my sanity is worth it. My wife is hapy, I am happy and my kids are happy. Now, I am doing what I love amd love what I am doing. When the alarm goes off, I am glad to get up. In three years I have never had to think, maybe today I will just oversleep. When vacation is over I am ready to go back. BTW: I am high school teacher at a private school who earns about 60% of the public school counterparts. I receive no bounses, no profit sharing, just my pay and I am glad.
Thank you for your openess and blutness. I think your post should be a reality check for all.
After reading it... I am left wondering what evidacne do we have that this is the real letter. I had been hoping for a .jpg of the letter. Of course this would not be the first letter faked.
I am not to sure what this positoin is besides a religious position. Kinda reminds of the crusades and the inqusitions. Punish Punish Punsih. Seems like they are narrow minded bigots that is the, The National Academies' National Research Council and the National Science Teachers Association. I just love narrow minded religious fools.