Whew! It's been a while since any of us has written on our blog! I wonder if that has effected our readership?
A recent story peaked my interest and let me decide to get back here to the ol' trusty blog. The story comes from my birthplace in Atlanta, Georgia. The legislature, lead by Senator Doug Stoner (*giggles*), has recently passed a law that bans retailers from selling lollipops that taste like marijuana to minors. First of all, how addicted do you need to be to pot to have to have candy to taste like it. What's next, beer suckers? Actually, that sounds pretty good, nevermind.
The real absurdity comes from the ban in the first place. Apparently, people think that the pot suckers will lead people to do the real thing. My theory is that they have the exact oppisite effect. If I were a parent, I'd give a sucker to them at a young age and explain to them that this is what drugs taste like. After being revolted by the butt-tasting candy they'd never do drugs their entire life. Crisis averted.
The best part of the article has to be the gem of a quote by State Representative Judy Manning. After explaining that she had been recieving death threats about the bill, she explained the situation by saying, "Some people think their rights are their rights." Ah yes, silly me to think that I should have rights in a supposedly "free" society.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Who Owns My Rights?
Monday, April 21, 2008
Just Woke Up
4/20 went off with a roaring success, both for me and for marijuana decriminalization/legalization activists throughout the states.
Just to clarify: you don't have to be a drug user to support drug decriminalization/legalization efforts.
Colorado University had over 10,000 smokers in attendance at a 4/20 celebration. Yet in this 10,000 strong crowd of stoners and first-timers alike were subject to absolutely no criminal penalties. It is also important to point out that police actually assisted with two cases of dehydration at the event (hopefully a bad case of cotton mouth) and there were no incidents of violent behavior (at least anything that attracted the attentions of the police). Read the whole article here.
Pot smokers know how to protest. There were even students selling food at the event, hoping to make a buck or two off those poor bastards suffering from the munchies. Capitalism! Doesn't the government realize the money they're missing out on by not decriminalizing marijuana? You'd think they would give us something else they could tax excessively.
In previous years, the police in the area did everything they could to catch smokers at the event, including video surveillance and spraying the smokers with water. This year, I believe, the massive numbers overwhelmed them. Only 5,000 were in attendance last year.
In any case, this is a victory for decriminalization/legalization efforts. Big event, no problems. Civil disobedience at its best.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
The Tin Man
Dick Cheney is in the news again. Not for looking creepy, but for supporting torture! It's probably because he isn't afraid to be interrogated the same way: "He's more machine than man, now."
In case you are wondering, this happy picture of our VP came from a DARPA dinner. I am pretty sure his facial nanobots were trying to produce a smile. "What's that Mr. Cheney?"
"Oil, need oil."
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Misappropriation
I would seem that the cops in Wausau, Wisconsin are overpaid, and bored. It would seem that they have nothing better to do than interrupt a peaceful assembly of children under 18 to test them for a crime. Not just a sample of them, but they search the house and administer a breath test to 90 people. Why? Because, according to the gestapo, if a minor present there had consumed alcohol in the previous 5 hours and if that minor had gotten into a horrible car accident, then people would have been angry at the police. I really hope there weren't violent criminals about. Odds are they got away because the cops were busy depriving children of their fundamental rights.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Sleeping Spies!
According to this article, China has a growing espionage network here in the United States.
What are we worried about anyway? He's probably just here to take inventory of all the stuff they'll acquire when the U.S. economy goes completely bust.
This is in stark contrast to our own spy programs, which have ultimately failed.
In this dark hour, who will we turn to? Who can save us from the coming apocalypse?
"...Ludwig Von Mises escaped to the United States when the Nazis ransacked his apartment in 1938. It was his landlady, a friend of his mother's, who told the authorities Von Mises was working on a new book which challenged Nazi social and economic policies. They slowed him down, but they couldn't stop him. He continued work on a book which was eventually published in '49, called 'Human Action', now considered one of the great libertarian works of our times. Von Mises anti-authoritarian ideas were first a threat to the Nazis, then the Soviets, and to all increasingly regulatory governments in our own times. He was against socialism in all its many forms. He was an advocate of individual liberty, free speech, and free thinking... and so, should I add, the Berlin Batman. The Batman, as we all know, got better at what he does, and the legends of his exploits continued to grow to this day."
The Berlin Batman!
