Last week I had an Accountant (CPA) come into my office with her husband who happened to be a banker. She had requested the meeting because she needed “a good person to refer her clients to for investment and insurance needs.” What she was really looking for was aneasy way to make m...
A prophetic but chilling warning about how America is repeating the history of past Republics by accepting and preferring a totalitarian form of government.
“…Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish...
This is a tough question but one that needs to be addressed. All you have to do is search this topic and just read the one liner’s that pop up. Things like “the world is doomed” and “total chaos” will come up almost immediately. The sad thing is that for most citizens t...
You come to me from your washed out, down & out, lost & found-place of make believe. From your easy chair in the air, titanic decks are getting wet from the icebergs of misery. ~ Chip Murray, New Earth
There is a compelling logic in drawing the analogy between this voyage of Ame...
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This article is not as militant as others I have seen on this subject.
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I have mixed feelings regarding this march on July 4th. I'm gonna try to explain them here, and invite othe...
This 1921 essay/obituary of Mary White, written by her father, was required reading when I was in school. It wasn't only for the grammar and writing style, but for the topic as well. It was a unique look at the life of a young girl so many years ago. I'm glad I had the chance to re...
“Government is ‘too vast’ for Obama to know about wrong-doing.”- David Axelrod
There was a time when getting one’s hand caught in the cookie jar was indeed a bad situation leading to a bad consequence for the offending hand(s)? Interestingly, it was a lesson ...
POLICE STATE MADNESS - More and more children being arrested for trivial things - things we all got up to as kids:#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in A...
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Glenn Beck began his radio show Wednesday putting the three scandals currently facing the Obama administration — Benghazi, the IRS targeting conservatives, and the Associated Press’ phone records being seized by the Department of Justice — in...
For the past five years we have suffered the broken heart of separation in this country. Friends from friends, neighbors from neighbors…our sons and daughters, husbands and wives…separated from each other by walls of growing distrust and disharmony that appeared out of nowhere.
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Should any drugs be legalized? If so which ones? I am undecided, so somebody convince me. Actually I am undecided on marijuana. I see both sides of the issue and still haven't made up my mind.
Glen Davis@ Doug: It's only a gateway drug if you have to go through a fence to pick the leaves. Anyone who thinks drug deals don't go down in bars is being naive.
@Vincent: I agree too that I am worried about kids getting it. But pushers right now are handing out ... more@ Doug: It's only a gateway drug if you have to go through a fence to pick the leaves. Anyone who thinks drug deals don't go down in bars is being naive.
@Vincent: I agree too that I am worried about kids getting it. But pushers right now are handing out drugs to 11 and 12 year old future customers. I think that many of us waited outside the liquor store in the old days waiting for the guy who would buy for us. My parents used to let us get drunk on New Year's eve when we reached fifteen, I think. They'd go to jail for that today. Much better to take kids from parents who let them have a few drinks and give them to foster parents that sexually abuse them. less
Vincent RossYeah, the issue with kids is a pretty complex one in and of itself. To tell the truth, my folks let me drink beer when I was a kid. We also owned a tavern. It did not happen all the time, but if I were thirsty and my dad had a beer open, he would let me... moreYeah, the issue with kids is a pretty complex one in and of itself. To tell the truth, my folks let me drink beer when I was a kid. We also owned a tavern. It did not happen all the time, but if I were thirsty and my dad had a beer open, he would let me have a drink if I wanted... and usually get back and empty can. I actually liked it back then.. funny how tastes change. One consequence was later, when in high school and my buddies would get a keg or something and were all wound up about partying and getting drunk... it really was nothing special to me, and I ended up being the designated driver because i had no interest in drinking. I had grown up seeing plenty of drunk people, and I have never really liked hard alcohol, except I do like some mixed drinks when it is hot like a Pina Colada.... but would like that as much if it were a virgin.
Should a parent go to jail for allowing their own child to drink? Or even smoke a joint (assuming pot were legalized)? Probably not. But allowing your kid to throw a party and get other people's kids messed up at your place, or buying it for them, or whatever... that should be your ass. In fact, when i grew up in Kansas, kids could come into the taverns with their parents, and they could legally drink, if their parent were the one who gave it to them. What is really the diff between that and allowing a kid a drink of wine with a dinner? There is something to be said for allowing certain behaviors under the parents eye. Eliminates some of that forbidden fruit attraction I think.
But someone who sells to minors... be it a liquor store or sidewalk dealer... make the penalty so damned severe nobody in their right mind would dream of it. Who is gonna risk 25 years for a $5 a bag profit? And if they ARE that stupid, they NEED to be off the streets. less
August 20, 2012
Vincent Ross
I can honestly tell you that were pot legal... I would rather my son never partake of anything... but if it were a choice, I would rather he smoke pot any day over drinking.
August 20, 2012
Chris ...Just ChrisLegalize it. Regulate it. Tax it to the hilt. It's widely available and people already pay a black market premium for it. It would shut down a huge portion of the drug smuggling. Put those enforcement resources into the hard stuff that kills every day. If... moreLegalize it. Regulate it. Tax it to the hilt. It's widely available and people already pay a black market premium for it. It would shut down a huge portion of the drug smuggling. Put those enforcement resources into the hard stuff that kills every day. If someone wants to dull their mind they're going to do it whether legal or not. What's a few more village idiots?
steve slavenskyIf 90% of all crimes in some way involve drugs .Would crime drop by 90% if legalized? Is there a number your willing to accept, say 50%. Would crimes like domestic violence go up or down with more people able to get legal drugs.Making it so exspensive tha... moreIf 90% of all crimes in some way involve drugs .Would crime drop by 90% if legalized? Is there a number your willing to accept, say 50%. Would crimes like domestic violence go up or down with more people able to get legal drugs.Making it so exspensive that poor people can't afford it by taxation will get us back where we started. All it would do is create a whole new bureaucracy with the old DEA still intact. More Gov employee's with all kinds of new beni's and unpaid for retirements. . Go to a NA or AA meeting place, when you get there ask your would that number go down or up . The war on drugs will never be won .How many poppy fields in afgan did we destroy last year it went somewhere. Maybe its all just a way to keep people employed since we no-longer build pyramids. less
August 20, 2012
Chris ...Just Chris
I neglected to specify that my previous comment is in regard to marijuana only
August 20, 2012
steve slavensky
Hey Chris I knew that .But there is this other guy out there who is running for pres. and alot of his people have no limit .
August 20, 2012
Vincent RossI expected as much, Chris. The fact is, the principles stated by Glen, regarding constitutionality, applies equally to hard drugs as it does to pot. I have mixed feelings about harder drugs, and do not really accept the notion of full legalization... bu... moreI expected as much, Chris. The fact is, the principles stated by Glen, regarding constitutionality, applies equally to hard drugs as it does to pot. I have mixed feelings about harder drugs, and do not really accept the notion of full legalization... but I am certain there must be a better way to deal with it than we are.
August 20, 2012
Patrick Wilson
Legalize 'em all. People can make their own moral choices
August 20, 2012
Doug Walters
How would you know anything about morals, Patrick. You have the same morals as Barry Soetoro.
Chris ...Just Chris I can justify the legalization of marijuana basing it on the lack of danger it poses to other people. It's not prone to causing aggressive behavior, (usually quite the opposite) hallucinations, or general loss of reason. It also for the most part doesn't... more I can justify the legalization of marijuana basing it on the lack of danger it poses to other people. It's not prone to causing aggressive behavior, (usually quite the opposite) hallucinations, or general loss of reason. It also for the most part doesn't cause the kind of addiction that can lead to violent crime by a user to obtain it. (No evident physical addiction that causes illness when not available. It just sucks to be straight.) Alcohol use probably causes more aggressive behavior than marijuana, as well as loss of reason and motor skills. Not least important is the danger of overdose. I have never heard of someone dying of pot poisoning. Alcohol yes. Other drugs most definitely.
Great idea Patrick. That will clean out the inner cities in pretty short order. Just give them all the crack, heroin, meth, cocaine, and whatever else they can stand. We could even subsidize it with a welfare program for those down on their luck. Oh wait. We already do. What a great way to give a leg up to those who may already be employment impaired.
The argument that people should make their own "moral decisions" doesn't hold up because "hard drug" use takes away the power of reason to make that moral decision that affects other people around you. Alcohol abuse is the reason/excuse for an awful lot of domestic violence. Lets add a host of others across every spectrum.
I find it difficult to justify legal alcohol while illegal marijuana, and I like my responsible beer consumption too much to give it up. :)
Doug Walters
Excellent points, Chris, except for one. I have been straight for about 25 years and it doesn't suck at all.
August 21, 2012
Doug Walters
Man, did that come out wrong. I meant I have been off of drugs and alcohol for about 25 years or longer. I hereby swear, I have never been a limp wrist in my life.
August 21, 2012
Chris ...Just Chris
Quite true Doug. For most it doesn't suck to be straight. LOL I was speaking as a habitual pot smoker. As far as any other type of straight goes anything contrary is too much information. :)
@Vincent: I agree too that I am worried about kids getting it. But pushers right now are handing out ... more