"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
Hermann Goering, Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Sound Familiar?
"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
Hermann Goering, Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials
Hermann Goering, Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials
Monday, November 21, 2005
Saturday, November 19, 2005
This is funny beyond words...
This guy wants to kill all white people. His name is Kamau Kambon, and he wants to exterminate all white people.
That's pretty ambitious. I was reminded of a song I once heard. You can find the lyrics below.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
That's pretty ambitious. I was reminded of a song I once heard. You can find the lyrics below.
Gonna Get Me a Shotgun
Performed by Garrett Morris on 24 Jan 1976 (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.
When I kill all the whities I see, then whitey he won't bother me,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.
Then I'll get a white woman who's wearing a navy blue sweater.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
This is funny beyond words...
This guy wants to kill all white people. His name is Kamau Kambon, and he wants to exterminate all white people.
That's pretty ambitious. I was reminded of a song I once heard. You can find the lyrics below.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
That's pretty ambitious. I was reminded of a song I once heard. You can find the lyrics below.
Gonna Get Me a Shotgun
Performed by Garrett Morris on 24 Jan 1976 (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.
When I kill all the whities I see, then whitey he won't bother me,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.
Then I'll get a white woman who's wearing a navy blue sweater.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Friday, November 18, 2005
Andrew Sullivan is on the task...
I really can't say it any better than this:
A reader sent Sully and angry email in response to this post. Click here to read it.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
SHE CALLED MURTHA A COWARD: Republican Congresswoman Jean Smith called Jack Murtha a coward this afternoon, unworthy of the Marines, on the House floor. Money quote:The fiery, emotional debate climaxed when Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, the most junior member of the House, told of a phone call she received from a Marine colonel. "He asked me to send Congress a message - stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message - that cowards cut and run, Marines never do," Schmidt said.
She later withdrew her remarks from the record. But those words linger as a reminder of what these Republicans have become. For the record: Murtha served 37 years in the Marines, and has Purple Hearts to his name. He visits wounded soldiers at Walter Reed every week. Three years ago, he won the Semper Fidelis Award of the Marine Corps Foundation, the highest honor the Marines can confer. Every time you think these Republicans can sink no lower, even after their vile smears against Kerry's service last year, they keep going. They make me sick to my stomach.
A reader sent Sully and angry email in response to this post. Click here to read it.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Andrew Sullivan is on the task...
I really can't say it any better than this:
A reader sent Sully and angry email in response to this post. Click here to read it.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
SHE CALLED MURTHA A COWARD: Republican Congresswoman Jean Smith called Jack Murtha a coward this afternoon, unworthy of the Marines, on the House floor. Money quote:The fiery, emotional debate climaxed when Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, the most junior member of the House, told of a phone call she received from a Marine colonel. "He asked me to send Congress a message - stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message - that cowards cut and run, Marines never do," Schmidt said.
She later withdrew her remarks from the record. But those words linger as a reminder of what these Republicans have become. For the record: Murtha served 37 years in the Marines, and has Purple Hearts to his name. He visits wounded soldiers at Walter Reed every week. Three years ago, he won the Semper Fidelis Award of the Marine Corps Foundation, the highest honor the Marines can confer. Every time you think these Republicans can sink no lower, even after their vile smears against Kerry's service last year, they keep going. They make me sick to my stomach.
A reader sent Sully and angry email in response to this post. Click here to read it.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Save the McRib...
Seriously, save it now. If we don't save the McRib, The Hippy may have to break stuff.
Click here to save the McRib.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Click here to save the McRib.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Save the McRib...
Seriously, save it now. If we don't save the McRib, The Hippy may have to break stuff.
Click here to save the McRib.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Click here to save the McRib.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The Vatican: Intelligent Design does not belong in science class...
The Vatican Speaks. (And they've been doing this Christianity thing a lot longer than some others.)
Intelligent design is not science. Let's stop pretending. Feel free to teach creationism in a comparative religion classes.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The Vatican's chief astronomer said Friday that "intelligent design" isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States.
The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was "wrong" and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.
"Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be," the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. "If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science."
Intelligent design is not science. Let's stop pretending. Feel free to teach creationism in a comparative religion classes.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The Vatican: Intelligent Design does not belong in science class...
The Vatican Speaks. (And they've been doing this Christianity thing a lot longer than some others.)
Intelligent design is not science. Let's stop pretending. Feel free to teach creationism in a comparative religion classes.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The Vatican's chief astronomer said Friday that "intelligent design" isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States.
The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was "wrong" and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.
"Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be," the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. "If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science."
Intelligent design is not science. Let's stop pretending. Feel free to teach creationism in a comparative religion classes.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The Right Reverend John Shelby Spong rebukes "Crazy Pat"
This is an answer from John Shelby Spong in response to an inquiry about Pat Robertson's warning to the residents of Dover, PA that they had abandoned God.
This is my brand of Christianity. It's the Christianity of reasoned and intellectually curios minds. God blessed us with an intellect and it insults him when we abandon it.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Dear Christina,
Pat Robertson has said so many silly and ridiculous things that I wonder why anyone would pay much attention to him on any subject.
He warned Orlando, Florida, that God would send a hurricane to destroy them when Orlando's decision makers added "sexual orientation" to that city's civil rights ordinance making it illegal for an employer to discriminate against a person because of race, ethnicity, gender, creed or "sexual orientation." He suggested that Hollywood would be the victim of an earthquake because that is where Ellen Degeneres works. With Jerry Falwell he agreed that the 9/11 disaster was brought upon this nation as God's judgment for harboring "feminists, abortionists, homosexuals and the American Civil Liberties Union." He suggested that the CIA should assassinate the duly elected President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. He has said that the feminist movement is about those women who want to "leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft and become lesbians." The tirade of absurdities goes on and on.
This country treasures the precious gift of free speech and Pat Robertson can obviously say any foolish and ignorant thing he wishes. When he pretends to speak in the name of God, however, I think his fellow believers have a right, indeed a necessity, to speak a word of judgment on his behavior since his words slander the Christian definition of God as Love, given to us first by the author of the First Epistle of John, and even more important, lived out by Jesus, who called us even to love our enemies.
I want to make only two points about this issue. First, I wonder who, other than Pat himself, designated Pat Robertson to be God's spokesperson? How dare Pat assume that the God revealed in the Jesus I serve is filled with all of Pat's peculiar prejudices. Why does he not understand that God is God and Pat Robertson is not? Why does he not see that when he tells the world with an unashamed certainty what God thinks and what God will do, he is only revealing what he thinks and what he would do if he had God's power? Pat needs to understand that he is acting out the very meaning of idolatry. He has confused God with himself.
Second, someone needs to inform Pat Robertson that the idea of God sitting on a throne above the clouds manipulating the weather in order to punish sinners is so primitive and so naïve that it is staggering to the educated imagination. It is bad enough that his mind cannot embrace the thought of Charles Darwin from the 19th century, but Pat has yet to embrace the thought of Copernicus from the 16th century or Galileo from the 17th century.
No educated person today believes that the earth is the center of the universe and that God lives above the sky, playing with low-pressure systems and planning revenge on those who are not believers in Intelligent Design. Indeed why would anyone be drawn to the demonic deity who emerges in Pat's thinking and teaching?
It is surely not a God of Love who punishes New Orleans' poorest citizens with a hurricane that New Orleans' wealthiest citizens could and did manage to escape at least with their lives, because they had cars. Did God kill the poor in New Orleans in order to send a message to New Orleans's prostitutes and those who create its raucous nightlife? Is that a rational concept? Did God cause two tectonic plates to collide under the Indian Ocean because there were some 350,000 evil people, with fully one-third of them children, whom God desired to kill in a tsunami wave? Is that how God communicates divine displeasure? Is that a God worthy of worship? Were the 3000 who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 or the 2100 members of our Armed Forces who have thus far died in Iraq during this war somehow worthy of this ultimate punishment either because of their own evil or because God sacrificed them to send a message to someone else?
Those ideas are so ludicrous as to be laughable, except for the fact that for anyone to suggest such incredible things is still painfully hurtful to those who are the victims of both natural and human disasters to say nothing of their surviving loved ones. I, as a Christian, am embarrassed by the public face that Pat Robertson puts on the religious tradition to which my life is dedicated.
I have known the Robertson family for a long time. His father was the Democratic Senator in my state of Virginia from 1946, when he was first appointed to succeed Senator Carter Glass who had died in office. He was re-elected by the people of Virginia in 1948, 1954, and 1960. In the Democratic Primary in 1966 he was defeated in a very close vote by my first cousin William Belser Spong, Jr., who went on to fill that seat in the United States Senate.
Pat is a 1955 graduate of the Law School at Yale University and received a Master in Divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary in1959. He cannot possibly be as dumb as he sounds in his wild and thoughtless utterances. If ignorance is not his excuse, then one has to wonder what motivates him. In academic theological circles he is treated as a buffoon. No one takes his thoughts seriously. It is a pity that some people do actually believe the things he says, but they are far fewer than he imagines. It is an even greater pity that the news media think that his continued utterances are worthy of any public attention at all.
- John Shelby Spong
This is my brand of Christianity. It's the Christianity of reasoned and intellectually curios minds. God blessed us with an intellect and it insults him when we abandon it.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The Right Reverend John Shelby Spong rebukes "Crazy Pat"
This is an answer from John Shelby Spong in response to an inquiry about Pat Robertson's warning to the residents of Dover, PA that they had abandoned God.
This is my brand of Christianity. It's the Christianity of reasoned and intellectually curios minds. God blessed us with an intellect and it insults him when we abandon it.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Dear Christina,
Pat Robertson has said so many silly and ridiculous things that I wonder why anyone would pay much attention to him on any subject.
He warned Orlando, Florida, that God would send a hurricane to destroy them when Orlando's decision makers added "sexual orientation" to that city's civil rights ordinance making it illegal for an employer to discriminate against a person because of race, ethnicity, gender, creed or "sexual orientation." He suggested that Hollywood would be the victim of an earthquake because that is where Ellen Degeneres works. With Jerry Falwell he agreed that the 9/11 disaster was brought upon this nation as God's judgment for harboring "feminists, abortionists, homosexuals and the American Civil Liberties Union." He suggested that the CIA should assassinate the duly elected President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. He has said that the feminist movement is about those women who want to "leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft and become lesbians." The tirade of absurdities goes on and on.
This country treasures the precious gift of free speech and Pat Robertson can obviously say any foolish and ignorant thing he wishes. When he pretends to speak in the name of God, however, I think his fellow believers have a right, indeed a necessity, to speak a word of judgment on his behavior since his words slander the Christian definition of God as Love, given to us first by the author of the First Epistle of John, and even more important, lived out by Jesus, who called us even to love our enemies.
I want to make only two points about this issue. First, I wonder who, other than Pat himself, designated Pat Robertson to be God's spokesperson? How dare Pat assume that the God revealed in the Jesus I serve is filled with all of Pat's peculiar prejudices. Why does he not understand that God is God and Pat Robertson is not? Why does he not see that when he tells the world with an unashamed certainty what God thinks and what God will do, he is only revealing what he thinks and what he would do if he had God's power? Pat needs to understand that he is acting out the very meaning of idolatry. He has confused God with himself.
Second, someone needs to inform Pat Robertson that the idea of God sitting on a throne above the clouds manipulating the weather in order to punish sinners is so primitive and so naïve that it is staggering to the educated imagination. It is bad enough that his mind cannot embrace the thought of Charles Darwin from the 19th century, but Pat has yet to embrace the thought of Copernicus from the 16th century or Galileo from the 17th century.
No educated person today believes that the earth is the center of the universe and that God lives above the sky, playing with low-pressure systems and planning revenge on those who are not believers in Intelligent Design. Indeed why would anyone be drawn to the demonic deity who emerges in Pat's thinking and teaching?
It is surely not a God of Love who punishes New Orleans' poorest citizens with a hurricane that New Orleans' wealthiest citizens could and did manage to escape at least with their lives, because they had cars. Did God kill the poor in New Orleans in order to send a message to New Orleans's prostitutes and those who create its raucous nightlife? Is that a rational concept? Did God cause two tectonic plates to collide under the Indian Ocean because there were some 350,000 evil people, with fully one-third of them children, whom God desired to kill in a tsunami wave? Is that how God communicates divine displeasure? Is that a God worthy of worship? Were the 3000 who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 or the 2100 members of our Armed Forces who have thus far died in Iraq during this war somehow worthy of this ultimate punishment either because of their own evil or because God sacrificed them to send a message to someone else?
Those ideas are so ludicrous as to be laughable, except for the fact that for anyone to suggest such incredible things is still painfully hurtful to those who are the victims of both natural and human disasters to say nothing of their surviving loved ones. I, as a Christian, am embarrassed by the public face that Pat Robertson puts on the religious tradition to which my life is dedicated.
I have known the Robertson family for a long time. His father was the Democratic Senator in my state of Virginia from 1946, when he was first appointed to succeed Senator Carter Glass who had died in office. He was re-elected by the people of Virginia in 1948, 1954, and 1960. In the Democratic Primary in 1966 he was defeated in a very close vote by my first cousin William Belser Spong, Jr., who went on to fill that seat in the United States Senate.
Pat is a 1955 graduate of the Law School at Yale University and received a Master in Divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary in1959. He cannot possibly be as dumb as he sounds in his wild and thoughtless utterances. If ignorance is not his excuse, then one has to wonder what motivates him. In academic theological circles he is treated as a buffoon. No one takes his thoughts seriously. It is a pity that some people do actually believe the things he says, but they are far fewer than he imagines. It is an even greater pity that the news media think that his continued utterances are worthy of any public attention at all.
- John Shelby Spong
This is my brand of Christianity. It's the Christianity of reasoned and intellectually curios minds. God blessed us with an intellect and it insults him when we abandon it.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Got any change?
I'm watching CNN right now, and I just wanted to say that Bay Buchanan looks like a bag lady in a tailored suit. That is all.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Got any change?
I'm watching CNN right now, and I just wanted to say that Bay Buchanan looks like a bag lady in a tailored suit. That is all.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
-The Oklahoma Hippy
I have a question...
Has Ted Stevens resigned yet?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Oct. 23, 2005: "I will put the Senate on notice--and I don't kid people--if the Senate decides to discriminate against our state and take money only from our state, I will resign from this body,"--Alaskan-Sen. Stevens
-The Oklahoma Hippy
I have a question...
Has Ted Stevens resigned yet?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Oct. 23, 2005: "I will put the Senate on notice--and I don't kid people--if the Senate decides to discriminate against our state and take money only from our state, I will resign from this body,"--Alaskan-Sen. Stevens
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Bush is breaking down...
Given his alcoholic personality, this makes perfect sense.
Drudge has published some information via Insight magazine:
The reality of Bush breaking down, and further evidence that he has started drinking again presents this country with a very real concern over his ability to handle the responsibilities of the Office of President.
This is a scary situation, and nobody has the intestinal fortitude to really deal with the consequences. The American people have a right to know if the President has lost his ability to control his alcohol consumption. The American people have the right to know if the President of the United States is suffering a mental health crisis for which he has sought the intervention of a psychiatric professional.
Politics aside, is he capable of doing his job? That's a question for everyone.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Drudge has published some information via Insight magazine:
Bush rarely speaks to father, ‘family is split’
Tue Nov 15 2005 11:23:51 ET
President Bush feels betrayed by several of his most senior aides and advisors and has severely restricted access to the Oval Office, INSIGHT magazine claims in a new report.
The president’s reclusiveness in the face of relentless public scrutiny of the U.S.-led war in Iraq and White House leaks regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame has become so extreme that Mr. Bush has also reduced contact with his father, former President George H.W. Bush, administration sources said on the condition of anonymity.
“The atmosphere in the Oval Office has become unbearable,” a source said. “Even the family is split.”
INSIGHT: Sources close to the White House say that Mr. Bush has become isolated and feels betrayed by key officials in the wake of plunging domestic support, the continued insurgency in Iraq and the CIA-leak investigation that has resulted in the indictment and resignation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff.
The sources said Mr. Bush maintains daily contact with only four people: first lady Laura Bush, his mother, Barbara Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes. The sources also say that Mr. Bush has stopped talking with his father, except on family occasions.
The reality of Bush breaking down, and further evidence that he has started drinking again presents this country with a very real concern over his ability to handle the responsibilities of the Office of President.
This is a scary situation, and nobody has the intestinal fortitude to really deal with the consequences. The American people have a right to know if the President has lost his ability to control his alcohol consumption. The American people have the right to know if the President of the United States is suffering a mental health crisis for which he has sought the intervention of a psychiatric professional.
Politics aside, is he capable of doing his job? That's a question for everyone.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Bush is breaking down...
Given his alcoholic personality, this makes perfect sense.
Drudge has published some information via Insight magazine:
The reality of Bush breaking down, and further evidence that he has started drinking again presents this country with a very real concern over his ability to handle the responsibilities of the Office of President.
This is a scary situation, and nobody has the intestinal fortitude to really deal with the consequences. The American people have a right to know if the President has lost his ability to control his alcohol consumption. The American people have the right to know if the President of the United States is suffering a mental health crisis for which he has sought the intervention of a psychiatric professional.
Politics aside, is he capable of doing his job? That's a question for everyone.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Drudge has published some information via Insight magazine:
Bush rarely speaks to father, ‘family is split’
Tue Nov 15 2005 11:23:51 ET
President Bush feels betrayed by several of his most senior aides and advisors and has severely restricted access to the Oval Office, INSIGHT magazine claims in a new report.
The president’s reclusiveness in the face of relentless public scrutiny of the U.S.-led war in Iraq and White House leaks regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame has become so extreme that Mr. Bush has also reduced contact with his father, former President George H.W. Bush, administration sources said on the condition of anonymity.
“The atmosphere in the Oval Office has become unbearable,” a source said. “Even the family is split.”
INSIGHT: Sources close to the White House say that Mr. Bush has become isolated and feels betrayed by key officials in the wake of plunging domestic support, the continued insurgency in Iraq and the CIA-leak investigation that has resulted in the indictment and resignation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff.
The sources said Mr. Bush maintains daily contact with only four people: first lady Laura Bush, his mother, Barbara Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes. The sources also say that Mr. Bush has stopped talking with his father, except on family occasions.
The reality of Bush breaking down, and further evidence that he has started drinking again presents this country with a very real concern over his ability to handle the responsibilities of the Office of President.
This is a scary situation, and nobody has the intestinal fortitude to really deal with the consequences. The American people have a right to know if the President has lost his ability to control his alcohol consumption. The American people have the right to know if the President of the United States is suffering a mental health crisis for which he has sought the intervention of a psychiatric professional.
Politics aside, is he capable of doing his job? That's a question for everyone.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The constitution really is meaningless to republican politicians...
A Florida State Senator is moving to give the police the power to pull certain individuals over without probable cause.
Look, I'm not condoning drinking and driving. But the reality is that normal, everyday people can and have made this mistake once in their lives. What this state senator wants is to remove the protection of the fourth amendment from those who have made a mistake.
I know this hasn't passed. I know that it probably won't pass. Still, the idea that this would even be proposed in seriousness bewilders me.
These people are doing their damnedest to destroy our country. Luckily for us, it looks as if they are failing.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Senator from New Port Richey proposes pink DUI plates
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- A Republican senator wants a law to require bright pink license plates on vehicles driven by people with restricted driving privileges due to convictions for driving under the influence.
Sen. Mike Fasano, of New Port Richey, filed a bill earlier this month that requires the first three characters on the plate to read "DUI."
"Maybe it will embarrass people and keep them from drinking and driving," Fasano said. "Maybe they'll think twice."
The bill also says police "may stop any vehicle that bears a DUI plate without probable cause to check the driver."
Look, I'm not condoning drinking and driving. But the reality is that normal, everyday people can and have made this mistake once in their lives. What this state senator wants is to remove the protection of the fourth amendment from those who have made a mistake.
I know this hasn't passed. I know that it probably won't pass. Still, the idea that this would even be proposed in seriousness bewilders me.
These people are doing their damnedest to destroy our country. Luckily for us, it looks as if they are failing.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The constitution really is meaningless to republican politicians...
A Florida State Senator is moving to give the police the power to pull certain individuals over without probable cause.
Look, I'm not condoning drinking and driving. But the reality is that normal, everyday people can and have made this mistake once in their lives. What this state senator wants is to remove the protection of the fourth amendment from those who have made a mistake.
I know this hasn't passed. I know that it probably won't pass. Still, the idea that this would even be proposed in seriousness bewilders me.
These people are doing their damnedest to destroy our country. Luckily for us, it looks as if they are failing.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Senator from New Port Richey proposes pink DUI plates
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- A Republican senator wants a law to require bright pink license plates on vehicles driven by people with restricted driving privileges due to convictions for driving under the influence.
Sen. Mike Fasano, of New Port Richey, filed a bill earlier this month that requires the first three characters on the plate to read "DUI."
"Maybe it will embarrass people and keep them from drinking and driving," Fasano said. "Maybe they'll think twice."
The bill also says police "may stop any vehicle that bears a DUI plate without probable cause to check the driver."
Look, I'm not condoning drinking and driving. But the reality is that normal, everyday people can and have made this mistake once in their lives. What this state senator wants is to remove the protection of the fourth amendment from those who have made a mistake.
I know this hasn't passed. I know that it probably won't pass. Still, the idea that this would even be proposed in seriousness bewilders me.
These people are doing their damnedest to destroy our country. Luckily for us, it looks as if they are failing.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Monday, November 14, 2005
Please oh please oh please oh please oh please...
Please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please!
Whom must I pay off in order to be included on Bill O'Reilly's official enemies list?
Well, here's to dreaming.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Whom must I pay off in order to be included on Bill O'Reilly's official enemies list?
Fairly typical comments from O’Reilly. But he added an unusual twist. O’Reilly promised to publish the names of everyone who supported these “internet smear sites” on his website:I’m glad the smear sites made a big deal out of it. Now we can all know who was with the anti-military internet crowd. We’ll post the names of all who support the smear merchants on billoreilly.com. So check with us.
It’s unclear where O’Reilly would find such a list. But since he has labeled everyone who supports websites like MediaMatters.org and ThinkProgress.org as “anti-military” it seems to be an effort to intimidate and shame our readers.
Well, here's to dreaming.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Please oh please oh please oh please oh please...
Please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please!
Whom must I pay off in order to be included on Bill O'Reilly's official enemies list?
Well, here's to dreaming.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Whom must I pay off in order to be included on Bill O'Reilly's official enemies list?
Fairly typical comments from O’Reilly. But he added an unusual twist. O’Reilly promised to publish the names of everyone who supported these “internet smear sites” on his website:I’m glad the smear sites made a big deal out of it. Now we can all know who was with the anti-military internet crowd. We’ll post the names of all who support the smear merchants on billoreilly.com. So check with us.
It’s unclear where O’Reilly would find such a list. But since he has labeled everyone who supports websites like MediaMatters.org and ThinkProgress.org as “anti-military” it seems to be an effort to intimidate and shame our readers.
Well, here's to dreaming.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Uh, oh...
Pat Buchanan is pissed:
The President is being attacked from the right as well as the left. The only people still supporting the President are the type of people so blindly loyal that they frighten the rest of the country. In times past, these type of people have formed the core of fascist regimes centered on a cult of personality of a charismatic leader.
Luckily for us, the United States of America is recognizing the road that we find ourselves on, and altering our path that leads to the self destruction of nations.
This is what make America great. We have a self healing system, partly by design and partly by happy accident, and I think God ever day that this is the case.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Indeed, since 9/11, the party has indulged in a willful self-delusion that it has become America’s Party. The Bush triumph in 2004, talking heads brayed, settled the matter: Red State America has triumphed over Blue State America. The future belongs to us.
This was always hyperbole. Where Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan rolled up 49-state landslides in re-election runs, Bush won 31 states, losing every state north of the Potomac and east of Ohio, two of the three great industrial states of the Midwest, Michigan and Illinois, and he was skunked on the Pacific rim. Had Kerry hammered him on trade and lost jobs in Ohio, Bush would be a one-term president.
[...]
Thus, in March, 2003, Bush, in perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history, invaded an Arab nation that had not attacked us, did not want war with us, and did not threaten us—to strip it of weapons we now know it did not have.
Result: Shia and Kurds have been liberated from Saddam, but Iran has a new ally in southern Iraq, Osama has a new base camp in the Sunni Triangle, the Arab and Islamic world have been radicalized against the United States, and copy-cat killers of Al Qaida have been targeting our remaining allies in Europe and the Middle East: Spain, Britain, Egypt and Jordan. And, lest we forget, 2055 Americans are dead and Walter Reed is filling up.
True to the neoconservative creed, Bush launched a global crusade for democracy that is now bringing ever closer to power Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria, and Shia fundamentalists in Baghdad and Basra.
Democratic imperialism is still imperialism. To Arab and Islamic peoples, whether the Crusaders come in the name of God or in the name of democracy, they are still Crusaders.
When Ronald Reagan went home to California, his heirs said, “Goodbye to all that,” and embraced Big Government conservatism, then neoconservatism. If they do not find their way home soon, to the principles of Taft, Goldwater and Reagan, they will perish in the wilderness into which they have led us all.
The President is being attacked from the right as well as the left. The only people still supporting the President are the type of people so blindly loyal that they frighten the rest of the country. In times past, these type of people have formed the core of fascist regimes centered on a cult of personality of a charismatic leader.
Luckily for us, the United States of America is recognizing the road that we find ourselves on, and altering our path that leads to the self destruction of nations.
This is what make America great. We have a self healing system, partly by design and partly by happy accident, and I think God ever day that this is the case.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Uh, oh...
Pat Buchanan is pissed:
The President is being attacked from the right as well as the left. The only people still supporting the President are the type of people so blindly loyal that they frighten the rest of the country. In times past, these type of people have formed the core of fascist regimes centered on a cult of personality of a charismatic leader.
Luckily for us, the United States of America is recognizing the road that we find ourselves on, and altering our path that leads to the self destruction of nations.
This is what make America great. We have a self healing system, partly by design and partly by happy accident, and I think God ever day that this is the case.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Indeed, since 9/11, the party has indulged in a willful self-delusion that it has become America’s Party. The Bush triumph in 2004, talking heads brayed, settled the matter: Red State America has triumphed over Blue State America. The future belongs to us.
This was always hyperbole. Where Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan rolled up 49-state landslides in re-election runs, Bush won 31 states, losing every state north of the Potomac and east of Ohio, two of the three great industrial states of the Midwest, Michigan and Illinois, and he was skunked on the Pacific rim. Had Kerry hammered him on trade and lost jobs in Ohio, Bush would be a one-term president.
[...]
Thus, in March, 2003, Bush, in perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history, invaded an Arab nation that had not attacked us, did not want war with us, and did not threaten us—to strip it of weapons we now know it did not have.
Result: Shia and Kurds have been liberated from Saddam, but Iran has a new ally in southern Iraq, Osama has a new base camp in the Sunni Triangle, the Arab and Islamic world have been radicalized against the United States, and copy-cat killers of Al Qaida have been targeting our remaining allies in Europe and the Middle East: Spain, Britain, Egypt and Jordan. And, lest we forget, 2055 Americans are dead and Walter Reed is filling up.
True to the neoconservative creed, Bush launched a global crusade for democracy that is now bringing ever closer to power Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria, and Shia fundamentalists in Baghdad and Basra.
Democratic imperialism is still imperialism. To Arab and Islamic peoples, whether the Crusaders come in the name of God or in the name of democracy, they are still Crusaders.
When Ronald Reagan went home to California, his heirs said, “Goodbye to all that,” and embraced Big Government conservatism, then neoconservatism. If they do not find their way home soon, to the principles of Taft, Goldwater and Reagan, they will perish in the wilderness into which they have led us all.
The President is being attacked from the right as well as the left. The only people still supporting the President are the type of people so blindly loyal that they frighten the rest of the country. In times past, these type of people have formed the core of fascist regimes centered on a cult of personality of a charismatic leader.
Luckily for us, the United States of America is recognizing the road that we find ourselves on, and altering our path that leads to the self destruction of nations.
This is what make America great. We have a self healing system, partly by design and partly by happy accident, and I think God ever day that this is the case.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
God Bless Dan Froomkin...
From Froomkin's Monday White House Briefing column from WashingtonPost.com:
The tide has turned. The President is never going to convince the majority of Americans that the case against for the war in Iraq was legit. That boat has sailed. I agree with Froomkin. The longer the President goes without refuting that evidence in detail the more persuasive it becomes.
This is what happens when the country elects a stuttering wonder. I know Al Gore was boring, but the country is showing it's collective buyer's remorse. It's about time.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
President Bush on Friday launched his third presidential campaign -- this one to salvage his reputation, and what's left of his second term.
His goal this time is not to win an election; it's to gain back the public trust.
Amid all the tumbling poll numbers of late, Bush's biggest problem is this: A sizeable majority of Americans -- 55 percent according to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll -- believe that he intentionally misled the American public in making his case for war in Iraq.
So Bush's speechwriters on Veteran's Day added a few fiery paragraphs to his standard war-on-terror address.
Here's the text : "Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war. These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments related to Iraq's weapons programs," Bush said.
"[M]ore than a hundred Democrats in the House and the Senate -- who had access to the same intelligence -- voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power," he noted.
And, he concluded: "The stakes in the global war on terror are too high, and the national interest is too important, for politicians to throw out false charges. (Applause.) These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will."
But Bush's argument is deeply flawed. Far from being baseless, the charge that he intentionally misled the public in the run-up to war is built on a growing amount of evidence. And the longer Bush goes without refuting that evidence in detail, the more persuasive it becomes.
And his most prized talking point -- that many Democrats agreed with him at the time -- is problematic. Many of those Democrats did so because they believed the information the president gave them. Now they are coming to the conclusion that they shouldn't have.
Like other Bush campaigns, this one will inevitably feature the ceaseless repetition of key sound bytes -- the hope being that they will be carried, largely unchallenged, by the media -- and virulent attacks by the White House on those who dare to disagree, even going so far as to question their patriotism.
The tide has turned. The President is never going to convince the majority of Americans that the case against for the war in Iraq was legit. That boat has sailed. I agree with Froomkin. The longer the President goes without refuting that evidence in detail the more persuasive it becomes.
This is what happens when the country elects a stuttering wonder. I know Al Gore was boring, but the country is showing it's collective buyer's remorse. It's about time.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
God Bless Dan Froomkin...
From Froomkin's Monday White House Briefing column from WashingtonPost.com:
The tide has turned. The President is never going to convince the majority of Americans that the case against for the war in Iraq was legit. That boat has sailed. I agree with Froomkin. The longer the President goes without refuting that evidence in detail the more persuasive it becomes.
This is what happens when the country elects a stuttering wonder. I know Al Gore was boring, but the country is showing it's collective buyer's remorse. It's about time.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
President Bush on Friday launched his third presidential campaign -- this one to salvage his reputation, and what's left of his second term.
His goal this time is not to win an election; it's to gain back the public trust.
Amid all the tumbling poll numbers of late, Bush's biggest problem is this: A sizeable majority of Americans -- 55 percent according to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll -- believe that he intentionally misled the American public in making his case for war in Iraq.
So Bush's speechwriters on Veteran's Day added a few fiery paragraphs to his standard war-on-terror address.
Here's the text : "Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war. These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments related to Iraq's weapons programs," Bush said.
"[M]ore than a hundred Democrats in the House and the Senate -- who had access to the same intelligence -- voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power," he noted.
And, he concluded: "The stakes in the global war on terror are too high, and the national interest is too important, for politicians to throw out false charges. (Applause.) These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will."
But Bush's argument is deeply flawed. Far from being baseless, the charge that he intentionally misled the public in the run-up to war is built on a growing amount of evidence. And the longer Bush goes without refuting that evidence in detail, the more persuasive it becomes.
And his most prized talking point -- that many Democrats agreed with him at the time -- is problematic. Many of those Democrats did so because they believed the information the president gave them. Now they are coming to the conclusion that they shouldn't have.
Like other Bush campaigns, this one will inevitably feature the ceaseless repetition of key sound bytes -- the hope being that they will be carried, largely unchallenged, by the media -- and virulent attacks by the White House on those who dare to disagree, even going so far as to question their patriotism.
The tide has turned. The President is never going to convince the majority of Americans that the case against for the war in Iraq was legit. That boat has sailed. I agree with Froomkin. The longer the President goes without refuting that evidence in detail the more persuasive it becomes.
This is what happens when the country elects a stuttering wonder. I know Al Gore was boring, but the country is showing it's collective buyer's remorse. It's about time.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
For those interested in Maryland politics...
If you do happen to be interested or versed in Maryland politics, then you have probably heard the infamous "Oreo Story" that Ehrlich and Steele keep pimping to the media.
Well, it turns out that it probably didn't happen.
Click here to see AmericaBlog's rundown of the lies.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Well, it turns out that it probably didn't happen.
Click here to see AmericaBlog's rundown of the lies.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
For those interested in Maryland politics...
If you do happen to be interested or versed in Maryland politics, then you have probably heard the infamous "Oreo Story" that Ehrlich and Steele keep pimping to the media.
Well, it turns out that it probably didn't happen.
Click here to see AmericaBlog's rundown of the lies.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Well, it turns out that it probably didn't happen.
Click here to see AmericaBlog's rundown of the lies.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The essence of the problem...
Taken Wholesale from Andrew Sullivan:
NEWSPEAK AT THE WHITE HOUSE: This morning's NYT has an insightful op-ed on how the interrogation techniques now used by the U.S. were actually first developed by the Communist interrogators of the Soviet-controlled world. They were designed not to get actionable intelligence but to destroy a person's soul and enforce ideological conformity. In this "Animal Farm" moment, where the United States has literally adopted the immorality of its erstwhile enemy, it's hard to improve on this email:
The audacity of what the WSJ and the White House are trying to do is staggering. What they are attempting to do is one of the most profound moral outrages that Orwell (and myself) ascribed to the left, which is simply redefining a word and insisting on that redefinition in the political discourse, until that word has lost its original primary function. The academic establishment has gone a long way in changing the word "tolerance" to have overtones of being sympathetic to a thing, whereas it used to have a meaning similar to this: "In the use of torture, many people have a threshold of pain beyond which they cannot tolerate it and will give in to the demands of their captors." I will not be a part of this debate anymore, because anybody with an 8th grade education knows exactly what both "torture" and "tolerate" mean here. The president and his allies are (characteristically) pulling one out of the Orwellian left playbook to redefine the word into irrelevance. In other words, if "torture" means "organ failure" or "death" as the White House has argued (and let's open our eyes and notice that organ failure is a corrolary to death without immediate, radical medical treatment, e.g. a liver transplant or permanent dialysis), then the above statement becomes nearly nonsense, because dead people are by definition unable to give in to the demands of their captors. A good way to settle a dispute among rational parties is to find an impartial, mutually respected source to arbitrate. I often find that people go around spilling a lot of words in a discussion without resolution in cases where consulting the definitions of words provides so much clarity that people are rendered without argument. From the "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary," torture:
A noun 1. Originally, (a disorder characterized by) contortion, distortion, or twisting. Later, (the infliction of) severe physical or mental suffering; anguish, agony, torment. b transf. A cause of severe pain or anguish. 2. The infliction of severe bodily pain as a punishment or as a means of interrogation or persuasion; a form or instance of this. b transf. An instrument or means of torture. B verb trans. 1. Subject to torture as a punishment or as a means of interrogation or persuasion. 2. Inflict severe mental or physical suffering on; cause anguish in; torment. Also, puzzle or perplex greatly. 3. figuratively, to force violently out of the original state or form; twist, distort; pervert. Also followed by /into/. 4. extract by torture.
Torture is defined purely in terms of inflicted suffering. These people who want to argue the point in the face of the definition are not engaging in a rational discussion, and should be treated as such. I will point out that the one sense of torture here that is not referring to concrete torture describes their tactics. They are, in fact, attempting verb form number 3 of torture on the word torture. They are trying to twist, distort and pervert the word out of its agreed definition.
Yes, they are. And they are doing so because what they have done and permitted to be done is so outrageous to civilized norms that they have no option but to destroy the very language that we use. We do not have to be a party to this. We have to expose it for what it is.
The essence of the problem...
Taken Wholesale from Andrew Sullivan:
NEWSPEAK AT THE WHITE HOUSE: This morning's NYT has an insightful op-ed on how the interrogation techniques now used by the U.S. were actually first developed by the Communist interrogators of the Soviet-controlled world. They were designed not to get actionable intelligence but to destroy a person's soul and enforce ideological conformity. In this "Animal Farm" moment, where the United States has literally adopted the immorality of its erstwhile enemy, it's hard to improve on this email:
The audacity of what the WSJ and the White House are trying to do is staggering. What they are attempting to do is one of the most profound moral outrages that Orwell (and myself) ascribed to the left, which is simply redefining a word and insisting on that redefinition in the political discourse, until that word has lost its original primary function. The academic establishment has gone a long way in changing the word "tolerance" to have overtones of being sympathetic to a thing, whereas it used to have a meaning similar to this: "In the use of torture, many people have a threshold of pain beyond which they cannot tolerate it and will give in to the demands of their captors." I will not be a part of this debate anymore, because anybody with an 8th grade education knows exactly what both "torture" and "tolerate" mean here. The president and his allies are (characteristically) pulling one out of the Orwellian left playbook to redefine the word into irrelevance. In other words, if "torture" means "organ failure" or "death" as the White House has argued (and let's open our eyes and notice that organ failure is a corrolary to death without immediate, radical medical treatment, e.g. a liver transplant or permanent dialysis), then the above statement becomes nearly nonsense, because dead people are by definition unable to give in to the demands of their captors. A good way to settle a dispute among rational parties is to find an impartial, mutually respected source to arbitrate. I often find that people go around spilling a lot of words in a discussion without resolution in cases where consulting the definitions of words provides so much clarity that people are rendered without argument. From the "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary," torture:
A noun 1. Originally, (a disorder characterized by) contortion, distortion, or twisting. Later, (the infliction of) severe physical or mental suffering; anguish, agony, torment. b transf. A cause of severe pain or anguish. 2. The infliction of severe bodily pain as a punishment or as a means of interrogation or persuasion; a form or instance of this. b transf. An instrument or means of torture. B verb trans. 1. Subject to torture as a punishment or as a means of interrogation or persuasion. 2. Inflict severe mental or physical suffering on; cause anguish in; torment. Also, puzzle or perplex greatly. 3. figuratively, to force violently out of the original state or form; twist, distort; pervert. Also followed by /into/. 4. extract by torture.
Torture is defined purely in terms of inflicted suffering. These people who want to argue the point in the face of the definition are not engaging in a rational discussion, and should be treated as such. I will point out that the one sense of torture here that is not referring to concrete torture describes their tactics. They are, in fact, attempting verb form number 3 of torture on the word torture. They are trying to twist, distort and pervert the word out of its agreed definition.
Yes, they are. And they are doing so because what they have done and permitted to be done is so outrageous to civilized norms that they have no option but to destroy the very language that we use. We do not have to be a party to this. We have to expose it for what it is.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
When Piety Attacks...
Ok, this is insane:
Uh, I don't even know what else to say here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Man Jumped From Truck Following Argument
November 12th, 2005 @ 9:21pm
(KSL News) Police now say an argument caused a 21-year-old man to jump from a moving truck in South Jordan.
Tyler Poulson was riding with his brothers last night when he became offended by one of them using profanity. Poulson, who recently returned from an LDS mission, threatened to get out of the truck if he continued.
One of the men, not thinking he would, told Poulson to.
Earlier police said the car was going about 35 miles an hour when Poulson opened the door and jumped. He was pronounced dead on scene.
Uh, I don't even know what else to say here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
When Piety Attacks...
Ok, this is insane:
Uh, I don't even know what else to say here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Man Jumped From Truck Following Argument
November 12th, 2005 @ 9:21pm
(KSL News) Police now say an argument caused a 21-year-old man to jump from a moving truck in South Jordan.
Tyler Poulson was riding with his brothers last night when he became offended by one of them using profanity. Poulson, who recently returned from an LDS mission, threatened to get out of the truck if he continued.
One of the men, not thinking he would, told Poulson to.
Earlier police said the car was going about 35 miles an hour when Poulson opened the door and jumped. He was pronounced dead on scene.
Uh, I don't even know what else to say here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Dear San Francisco...
From the November 8 broadcast of Fox News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
Many people, myself included have made a point of saying that Bill O'Reilly had really outdone himself this time. I called him an asshole.
It seems enough people have voiced this opinion that O'Reilly felt the need to respond:
Yes. Bill O'Reilly is an ASSHOLE.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
O'REILLY: Hey, you know, if you want to ban military recruiting, fine, but I'm not going to give you another nickel of federal money. You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, "Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead."
And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.
Many people, myself included have made a point of saying that Bill O'Reilly had really outdone himself this time. I called him an asshole.
It seems enough people have voiced this opinion that O'Reilly felt the need to respond:
I mean, look, everybody knows what’s going on there. What I said isn’t controversial. What I said needed to be said. I’m sitting here and I’m looking at a city that has absolutely no clue about what the world is. None. You know, if you had been hit on 9/11 instead of New York, believe me, you would not have voted against military recruting. Yet the left-wing, selfish, Land of Oz philosophy that the media and the city politicians have embraced out there is an absolute intellectual disgrace.
Yes. Bill O'Reilly is an ASSHOLE.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Dear San Francisco...
From the November 8 broadcast of Fox News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
Many people, myself included have made a point of saying that Bill O'Reilly had really outdone himself this time. I called him an asshole.
It seems enough people have voiced this opinion that O'Reilly felt the need to respond:
Yes. Bill O'Reilly is an ASSHOLE.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
O'REILLY: Hey, you know, if you want to ban military recruiting, fine, but I'm not going to give you another nickel of federal money. You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, "Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead."
And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.
Many people, myself included have made a point of saying that Bill O'Reilly had really outdone himself this time. I called him an asshole.
It seems enough people have voiced this opinion that O'Reilly felt the need to respond:
I mean, look, everybody knows what’s going on there. What I said isn’t controversial. What I said needed to be said. I’m sitting here and I’m looking at a city that has absolutely no clue about what the world is. None. You know, if you had been hit on 9/11 instead of New York, believe me, you would not have voted against military recruting. Yet the left-wing, selfish, Land of Oz philosophy that the media and the city politicians have embraced out there is an absolute intellectual disgrace.
Yes. Bill O'Reilly is an ASSHOLE.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Friday, November 11, 2005
Billy Boy...
Bil O'Reilly speaks:
What an asshole.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
"...If al-Qaida comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead,"
What an asshole.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Billy Boy...
Bil O'Reilly speaks:
What an asshole.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
"...If al-Qaida comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead,"
What an asshole.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Bush's Iraq Speech...
He offered nothing new. He's given us nothing to give us any more hope. He offered more of the same.
Worst. President. Evah.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Worst. President. Evah.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Bush's Iraq Speech...
He offered nothing new. He's given us nothing to give us any more hope. He offered more of the same.
Worst. President. Evah.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Worst. President. Evah.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Christianity Today!
Pat Robertson speaks:
Pat Robertson. Why does anyone still take this fool seriously?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting "intelligent design" and warned them Thursday not to be surprised if disaster struck.
[...]
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city," Robertson said on his daily television show broadcast from Virginia, "The 700 Club."
"And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there," he said.
Pat Robertson. Why does anyone still take this fool seriously?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Christianity Today!
Pat Robertson speaks:
Pat Robertson. Why does anyone still take this fool seriously?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting "intelligent design" and warned them Thursday not to be surprised if disaster struck.
[...]
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city," Robertson said on his daily television show broadcast from Virginia, "The 700 Club."
"And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there," he said.
Pat Robertson. Why does anyone still take this fool seriously?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Jack Abramoff Charging Admission to Meet President Bush...
Raw Story has this tease:
Can you believe how crooked these people are? I mean, I am a died in the wool, partisan, left-wing lunatic, but these people continue to amaze me. Who the hell is Jack Abramoff to charge $9,000,000 to meet the President?
Isn't this the State Department's job, and don't we already fund the State Department be our liaison to foreign heads of state?
It's looking like everyone Republican in Washington is going to end up in prison at this rate.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Thursday's New York Times will feature a front page story on Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist linked to former House GOP leader DeLay, RAW STORY has learned.
Excerpts from the forthcoming story:
The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a small West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents.
The African leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, met with Bush in the Oval Office on May 26, 2004, 10 months after Abramoff made the offer. There has been no evidence in the public record that the lobbyist had any role in organizing the meeting or that he received any money or had a signed contract with Gabon.
White House and State Department officials described Bush's meeting with Bongo as routine. Gabon is regularly accused by the United States of human rights abuses.
Can you believe how crooked these people are? I mean, I am a died in the wool, partisan, left-wing lunatic, but these people continue to amaze me. Who the hell is Jack Abramoff to charge $9,000,000 to meet the President?
Isn't this the State Department's job, and don't we already fund the State Department be our liaison to foreign heads of state?
It's looking like everyone Republican in Washington is going to end up in prison at this rate.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Jack Abramoff Charging Admission to Meet President Bush...
Raw Story has this tease:
Can you believe how crooked these people are? I mean, I am a died in the wool, partisan, left-wing lunatic, but these people continue to amaze me. Who the hell is Jack Abramoff to charge $9,000,000 to meet the President?
Isn't this the State Department's job, and don't we already fund the State Department be our liaison to foreign heads of state?
It's looking like everyone Republican in Washington is going to end up in prison at this rate.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Thursday's New York Times will feature a front page story on Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist linked to former House GOP leader DeLay, RAW STORY has learned.
Excerpts from the forthcoming story:
The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a small West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents.
The African leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, met with Bush in the Oval Office on May 26, 2004, 10 months after Abramoff made the offer. There has been no evidence in the public record that the lobbyist had any role in organizing the meeting or that he received any money or had a signed contract with Gabon.
White House and State Department officials described Bush's meeting with Bongo as routine. Gabon is regularly accused by the United States of human rights abuses.
Can you believe how crooked these people are? I mean, I am a died in the wool, partisan, left-wing lunatic, but these people continue to amaze me. Who the hell is Jack Abramoff to charge $9,000,000 to meet the President?
Isn't this the State Department's job, and don't we already fund the State Department be our liaison to foreign heads of state?
It's looking like everyone Republican in Washington is going to end up in prison at this rate.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Boomerang!
From John Aravosis at America Blog:
Let's see if Frist and Hastert stick by their outrage now...
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Oh my. It is a good day to be a Democrat :-)
From the DSCC:Last Wednesday, the Washington Post ran a front page story revealing that there are secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe. Apparently thinking that current and/or former CIA officials leaked this story, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist today launched a formal investigation into the leak. But now, Sen. Trent Lott, one of their own, is suggesting that the Republican efforts could boomerang… in a huge way. Were National Republicans Involved in Yet ANOTHER CIA Leak??
Lott: “We Can’t Keep Our Mouths Shut.” Sen. Trent Lott “stunned reporters” by saying that the issue of secret CIA prisons was discussed at a Republican-only lunch, attended by Vice President Dick Cheney, last Tuesday, the day before the Washington Post reported the story. Lott said of the Washington Post story, “a lot of it came out of that room on Tuesday” and he said of his Senate Republican colleagues, “we can’t keep our mouths shut.” [CNN, “The Situation Room,” 11/8/05]
CNN Calls Potential Senate Republican Leak “Boomerang.” Discussing the Republican investigation into the CIA prison leak and Sen. Trent Lott’s subsequent comments, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said, “That would really boomerang against Hastert and Frist…that would be a bombshell…” [CNN, “The Situation Room,” 11/8/05]
Were National Republicans Involved in Yet ANOTHER CIA Leak??
What the CNN video here, with Lott implicating GOP Senators.
Let's see if Frist and Hastert stick by their outrage now...
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Boomerang!
From John Aravosis at America Blog:
Let's see if Frist and Hastert stick by their outrage now...
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Oh my. It is a good day to be a Democrat :-)
From the DSCC:Last Wednesday, the Washington Post ran a front page story revealing that there are secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe. Apparently thinking that current and/or former CIA officials leaked this story, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist today launched a formal investigation into the leak. But now, Sen. Trent Lott, one of their own, is suggesting that the Republican efforts could boomerang… in a huge way. Were National Republicans Involved in Yet ANOTHER CIA Leak??
Lott: “We Can’t Keep Our Mouths Shut.” Sen. Trent Lott “stunned reporters” by saying that the issue of secret CIA prisons was discussed at a Republican-only lunch, attended by Vice President Dick Cheney, last Tuesday, the day before the Washington Post reported the story. Lott said of the Washington Post story, “a lot of it came out of that room on Tuesday” and he said of his Senate Republican colleagues, “we can’t keep our mouths shut.” [CNN, “The Situation Room,” 11/8/05]
CNN Calls Potential Senate Republican Leak “Boomerang.” Discussing the Republican investigation into the CIA prison leak and Sen. Trent Lott’s subsequent comments, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said, “That would really boomerang against Hastert and Frist…that would be a bombshell…” [CNN, “The Situation Room,” 11/8/05]
Were National Republicans Involved in Yet ANOTHER CIA Leak??
What the CNN video here, with Lott implicating GOP Senators.
Let's see if Frist and Hastert stick by their outrage now...
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Saturday, November 5, 2005
You can't trust Republicans with your money...
From today's Washington Post:
Don't worry though, they have a plan. They've figured out what to do about it. Is it repealing all of the pork that's earmarked in the highway bill? Surely you jest. How will they do it? By screwing poor people.
From yesterday's Washingotn Post:
I have nothing else to add to this outrage.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The highway bill seemed like such a good idea when it sailed through Congress this summer. But now Republicans who assembled the record spending package are suffering buyer's remorse.
The $286 billion legislation was stuffed with 6,000 pet projects for lawmakers' districts, including what critics denounce as a $223 million "Bridge to Nowhere" that would replace a 7-minute ferry ride in a sparsely populated area of Alaska. Usually members of Congress cannot wait to rush home and brag about such bounty -- a staggering number of parking lots, bus depots, bike paths and new interchanges for just about every congressional district in the country that added $24 billion to the overall cost of maintaining the nation's highways and bridges in the coming years.
But with spiraling war and hurricane recovery costs, the pork-laden bill has become a political albatross for Republicans, who have been promising since President Bush took office to get rid of wasteful spending.
Don't worry though, they have a plan. They've figured out what to do about it. Is it repealing all of the pork that's earmarked in the highway bill? Surely you jest. How will they do it? By screwing poor people.
From yesterday's Washingotn Post:
The Senate approved sweeping deficit-reduction legislation last night that would save about $35 billion over the next five years by cutting federal spending on prescription drugs, agriculture supports and student loans, while clamping down on fraud in the Medicaid program.
The measure would also open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, a long-sought goal of the oil industry that took a major step forward after years of political struggle. A bipartisan effort to strip the drilling provision narrowly failed.
The Senate bill, which passed 52 to 47, is the first in nearly a decade to tackle the growth of entitlement spending, the part of the federal budget that rises automatically based on set formulas and population changes.
It would shave payments to some farmers by 2.5 percent, while eliminating a major cotton support program and trimming agriculture conservation spending. A proposal to limit payments to rich farmers failed yesterday. The measure passed largely along party lines, with only two Democrats voting for it and five Republicans voting against it.
I have nothing else to add to this outrage.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
You can't trust Republicans with your money...
From today's Washington Post:
Don't worry though, they have a plan. They've figured out what to do about it. Is it repealing all of the pork that's earmarked in the highway bill? Surely you jest. How will they do it? By screwing poor people.
From yesterday's Washingotn Post:
I have nothing else to add to this outrage.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The highway bill seemed like such a good idea when it sailed through Congress this summer. But now Republicans who assembled the record spending package are suffering buyer's remorse.
The $286 billion legislation was stuffed with 6,000 pet projects for lawmakers' districts, including what critics denounce as a $223 million "Bridge to Nowhere" that would replace a 7-minute ferry ride in a sparsely populated area of Alaska. Usually members of Congress cannot wait to rush home and brag about such bounty -- a staggering number of parking lots, bus depots, bike paths and new interchanges for just about every congressional district in the country that added $24 billion to the overall cost of maintaining the nation's highways and bridges in the coming years.
But with spiraling war and hurricane recovery costs, the pork-laden bill has become a political albatross for Republicans, who have been promising since President Bush took office to get rid of wasteful spending.
Don't worry though, they have a plan. They've figured out what to do about it. Is it repealing all of the pork that's earmarked in the highway bill? Surely you jest. How will they do it? By screwing poor people.
From yesterday's Washingotn Post:
The Senate approved sweeping deficit-reduction legislation last night that would save about $35 billion over the next five years by cutting federal spending on prescription drugs, agriculture supports and student loans, while clamping down on fraud in the Medicaid program.
The measure would also open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, a long-sought goal of the oil industry that took a major step forward after years of political struggle. A bipartisan effort to strip the drilling provision narrowly failed.
The Senate bill, which passed 52 to 47, is the first in nearly a decade to tackle the growth of entitlement spending, the part of the federal budget that rises automatically based on set formulas and population changes.
It would shave payments to some farmers by 2.5 percent, while eliminating a major cotton support program and trimming agriculture conservation spending. A proposal to limit payments to rich farmers failed yesterday. The measure passed largely along party lines, with only two Democrats voting for it and five Republicans voting against it.
I have nothing else to add to this outrage.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Friday, November 4, 2005
Culture of Corruption...
What have we here? Another Republican corruption scandal?
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- One week before Election Day, the mayor of Chicopee was arrested Tuesday, charged with extorting $10,000 in campaign contributions.
NewsCenter 5's Jim Boyd reported that neither Chicopee Mayor Richard Goyette nor his lawyer had any comment as they left federal court in Springfield, Mass. But U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan had plenty to say after Goyette's arraignment about how the 36-year-old city leader leaned heavily on two local businessmen for cash contributions.
"Citizens expect their elected public officials to represent the best interests of all their constituents without expecting cash contributions to do their jobs," Sullivan said. "Goyette sought an illegal campaign contribution with the owners of one of the towing companies that had a towing contract with the city of Chicopee in order to continue that contract for the coming years."
Sullivan said that Goyette also allegedly agreed to help a business owner who was having difficulty working with the Chicopee Office of Community Development.
From top to bottom, the Republican Party has become a vile cesspool of corruption. The Republican Party has become a cancer on our nation. Do we cut it out and allow the country to heal, or do we accept our fate, refuse treatment and wither into fascism?
I love my country too much to remain silent. I love my country too much to be complacent.
There comes a time when we will take no more and should take no more, when we should ask what is good for the whole and not what is good for the individual, when we get past the divisions manufactured by the right and stand together to demand competence above artificial partisanship.
Corruption is not a partisan issue. We should all stand against it. From Karl Rove to Tom DeLay to Richard Goyette, it's time for a change.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Culture of Corruption...
What have we here? Another Republican corruption scandal?
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- One week before Election Day, the mayor of Chicopee was arrested Tuesday, charged with extorting $10,000 in campaign contributions.
NewsCenter 5's Jim Boyd reported that neither Chicopee Mayor Richard Goyette nor his lawyer had any comment as they left federal court in Springfield, Mass. But U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan had plenty to say after Goyette's arraignment about how the 36-year-old city leader leaned heavily on two local businessmen for cash contributions.
"Citizens expect their elected public officials to represent the best interests of all their constituents without expecting cash contributions to do their jobs," Sullivan said. "Goyette sought an illegal campaign contribution with the owners of one of the towing companies that had a towing contract with the city of Chicopee in order to continue that contract for the coming years."
Sullivan said that Goyette also allegedly agreed to help a business owner who was having difficulty working with the Chicopee Office of Community Development.
From top to bottom, the Republican Party has become a vile cesspool of corruption. The Republican Party has become a cancer on our nation. Do we cut it out and allow the country to heal, or do we accept our fate, refuse treatment and wither into fascism?
I love my country too much to remain silent. I love my country too much to be complacent.
There comes a time when we will take no more and should take no more, when we should ask what is good for the whole and not what is good for the individual, when we get past the divisions manufactured by the right and stand together to demand competence above artificial partisanship.
Corruption is not a partisan issue. We should all stand against it. From Karl Rove to Tom DeLay to Richard Goyette, it's time for a change.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
A Pie Fight...
Thanks to Howard Kurtz for point out this Billmon Post:
A pie fight in the Vatican... That's excellent imagery.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Billmon enjoys the spectacle over at his Whiskey Bar:"In some ways, the reaction of the GOP grandees was an even bigger treat than watching the Democratic jellyfish rear up on its hind tentacles and sting someone. Outside of a nursery school, I don't know if I've ever heard such a chorus of crying and whining from a bunch of babies before. The Republicans have been in power so long now they've started to take on the pompous self-righteousness of those who believe power is their due . . .
"But, GOP sob stories notwithstanding, it really was a remarkable outbreak of minority uppityness. The Gingrich gang used to pull stuff like this all the time when the Dems controlled the House (if Pelosi tried the same tactics now, I think Hastert would probably have her taken outside and shot) but the Senate is still the world's most exclusive men's club and isn't supposed to have its feathers ruffled this way. It's like a pie fight breaking out at the Vatican."
A pie fight in the Vatican... That's excellent imagery.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
A Pie Fight...
Thanks to Howard Kurtz for point out this Billmon Post:
A pie fight in the Vatican... That's excellent imagery.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Billmon enjoys the spectacle over at his Whiskey Bar:"In some ways, the reaction of the GOP grandees was an even bigger treat than watching the Democratic jellyfish rear up on its hind tentacles and sting someone. Outside of a nursery school, I don't know if I've ever heard such a chorus of crying and whining from a bunch of babies before. The Republicans have been in power so long now they've started to take on the pompous self-righteousness of those who believe power is their due . . .
"But, GOP sob stories notwithstanding, it really was a remarkable outbreak of minority uppityness. The Gingrich gang used to pull stuff like this all the time when the Dems controlled the House (if Pelosi tried the same tactics now, I think Hastert would probably have her taken outside and shot) but the Senate is still the world's most exclusive men's club and isn't supposed to have its feathers ruffled this way. It's like a pie fight breaking out at the Vatican."
A pie fight in the Vatican... That's excellent imagery.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Now we run the Gulags...
What has become of the country I love over the last 4 years?
From The Washington Post:
What has become of my nation's values?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
From The Washington Post:
The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important Al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.
The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents.
The hidden global internment network is a central element in the CIA's unconventional war on terrorism. It depends on the cooperation of foreign intelligence services, and on keeping even basic information about the system secret from the public, foreign officials and nearly all members of Congress charged with overseeing the CIA's covert actions.
The existence and locations of the facilities -- referred to as "black sites" in classified White House, CIA, Justice Department and congressional documents -- are known to only a handful of officials in the United States and, usually, only to the president and a few top intelligence officers in each host country.
The CIA and the White House, citing national security concerns and the value of the program, have dissuaded Congress from demanding that the agency answer questions in open testimony about the conditions under which captives are held. Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities, what interrogation methods are employed with them, or how decisions are made about whether they should be detained or for how long.
What has become of my nation's values?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Now we run the Gulags...
What has become of the country I love over the last 4 years?
From The Washington Post:
What has become of my nation's values?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
From The Washington Post:
The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important Al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.
The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents.
The hidden global internment network is a central element in the CIA's unconventional war on terrorism. It depends on the cooperation of foreign intelligence services, and on keeping even basic information about the system secret from the public, foreign officials and nearly all members of Congress charged with overseeing the CIA's covert actions.
The existence and locations of the facilities -- referred to as "black sites" in classified White House, CIA, Justice Department and congressional documents -- are known to only a handful of officials in the United States and, usually, only to the president and a few top intelligence officers in each host country.
The CIA and the White House, citing national security concerns and the value of the program, have dissuaded Congress from demanding that the agency answer questions in open testimony about the conditions under which captives are held. Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities, what interrogation methods are employed with them, or how decisions are made about whether they should be detained or for how long.
What has become of my nation's values?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Uh....
From Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby's 1996 novel "The Apprentice":
Alrighty then. (Shudder.)
-The Oklahoma Hippy
At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.
Alrighty then. (Shudder.)
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Uh....
From Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby's 1996 novel "The Apprentice":
Alrighty then. (Shudder.)
-The Oklahoma Hippy
At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.
Alrighty then. (Shudder.)
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The residents of Denver ask: Got Ganja?
Today is a good day in fight against marijuana oppression. The citizens of Denver have sent a powerful message, even if their victory has little practical effect.
From The Rocky Mountain News:
Those who continue to oppose the outright legalization of marijuana do so out of sheer ignorance. The absurd notion that an adult's use of marijuana will cause them to become heroin addicts and other such nonsense is a dissemblance that needs to fade into posterity. It's right up there with the horrible claim that blacks are biologically and intellectually inferior to whites or the claim that masturbation will lead to hairy palms, blindness, and insanity.
It's time we grew up as a society. It's time we stopped wasting our resources on the persecution of those who would smoke a joint. It's time we have a national discussion on priorities.
If we want to be "tough on drugs", then perhaps we should be doing something about the real drug problem in this country. Perhaps we should focus all of our time an attention on methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is a killer. the mere production of meth is dangerous because of the volatile chemicals used. Kids die because of meth. Adults die because of meth. Lives are destroyed by meth.
Let's hope this spark in Denver ignites a fire of awareness and a reorientation of our national priorities. Don't hold your breath though. (It will keep you from finishing your joint.)
-The Oklahoma Hippy
From The Rocky Mountain News:
A measure that would legalize adult possession of small amounts of marijuana in Denver was approved by voters Tuesday, following a heated campaign that saw pot backers accused of exploiting residents' fear of crime.
The measure was leading by more than 7,000 votes with just over 100,000 votes counted when the Rocky Mountain News called the contest.
The central theme of Initiative 100, the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative, is that adults should have the right to legally choose marijuana, because it's a safer alternative to booze, which supporters argue — citing national and local studies — fuels violence, deadly car wrecks, collegiate binge-drinking and alcoholism.
Those who continue to oppose the outright legalization of marijuana do so out of sheer ignorance. The absurd notion that an adult's use of marijuana will cause them to become heroin addicts and other such nonsense is a dissemblance that needs to fade into posterity. It's right up there with the horrible claim that blacks are biologically and intellectually inferior to whites or the claim that masturbation will lead to hairy palms, blindness, and insanity.
It's time we grew up as a society. It's time we stopped wasting our resources on the persecution of those who would smoke a joint. It's time we have a national discussion on priorities.
If we want to be "tough on drugs", then perhaps we should be doing something about the real drug problem in this country. Perhaps we should focus all of our time an attention on methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is a killer. the mere production of meth is dangerous because of the volatile chemicals used. Kids die because of meth. Adults die because of meth. Lives are destroyed by meth.
Let's hope this spark in Denver ignites a fire of awareness and a reorientation of our national priorities. Don't hold your breath though. (It will keep you from finishing your joint.)
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The residents of Denver ask: Got Ganja?
Today is a good day in fight against marijuana oppression. The citizens of Denver have sent a powerful message, even if their victory has little practical effect.
From The Rocky Mountain News:
Those who continue to oppose the outright legalization of marijuana do so out of sheer ignorance. The absurd notion that an adult's use of marijuana will cause them to become heroin addicts and other such nonsense is a dissemblance that needs to fade into posterity. It's right up there with the horrible claim that blacks are biologically and intellectually inferior to whites or the claim that masturbation will lead to hairy palms, blindness, and insanity.
It's time we grew up as a society. It's time we stopped wasting our resources on the persecution of those who would smoke a joint. It's time we have a national discussion on priorities.
If we want to be "tough on drugs", then perhaps we should be doing something about the real drug problem in this country. Perhaps we should focus all of our time an attention on methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is a killer. the mere production of meth is dangerous because of the volatile chemicals used. Kids die because of meth. Adults die because of meth. Lives are destroyed by meth.
Let's hope this spark in Denver ignites a fire of awareness and a reorientation of our national priorities. Don't hold your breath though. (It will keep you from finishing your joint.)
-The Oklahoma Hippy
From The Rocky Mountain News:
A measure that would legalize adult possession of small amounts of marijuana in Denver was approved by voters Tuesday, following a heated campaign that saw pot backers accused of exploiting residents' fear of crime.
The measure was leading by more than 7,000 votes with just over 100,000 votes counted when the Rocky Mountain News called the contest.
The central theme of Initiative 100, the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative, is that adults should have the right to legally choose marijuana, because it's a safer alternative to booze, which supporters argue — citing national and local studies — fuels violence, deadly car wrecks, collegiate binge-drinking and alcoholism.
Those who continue to oppose the outright legalization of marijuana do so out of sheer ignorance. The absurd notion that an adult's use of marijuana will cause them to become heroin addicts and other such nonsense is a dissemblance that needs to fade into posterity. It's right up there with the horrible claim that blacks are biologically and intellectually inferior to whites or the claim that masturbation will lead to hairy palms, blindness, and insanity.
It's time we grew up as a society. It's time we stopped wasting our resources on the persecution of those who would smoke a joint. It's time we have a national discussion on priorities.
If we want to be "tough on drugs", then perhaps we should be doing something about the real drug problem in this country. Perhaps we should focus all of our time an attention on methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is a killer. the mere production of meth is dangerous because of the volatile chemicals used. Kids die because of meth. Adults die because of meth. Lives are destroyed by meth.
Let's hope this spark in Denver ignites a fire of awareness and a reorientation of our national priorities. Don't hold your breath though. (It will keep you from finishing your joint.)
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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