saangels

It's crazy how comfortable people feel telling others what they can do with their own lives. Count me in for legalization of all drugs. It's not my business what you do with your life.

Kruk is terrible to watch, no idea how he keeps his job.
 
 
 
 
 
Mod edit *keep to the subject at hand.

Legalization would also accomplish something else: Cutting off a major source of revenue for gangs, money that they use to buy firearms and other weapons to both intimidate and take out rivals. The illegality of drugs fuels a lot of the street violence that goes on in this country, as well as requiring that a lot of money be spent on incarceration at the local, state and federal levels.

Yeah, not everything but we need to handle the criminality of it much, much differently.
Our prisons our overwhelmed and actual violent criminals are released early just so we can fit more druggies in jail.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/may/10/ron-paul-states-rejecting-failed-war-on-drugs/
 
I have gained respect, over the years, for certain conservative philosophies.  What I cannot grasp, for the life of me, however, is how some conservatives can carry on and on and on about less government intervention and less invasion of privacy, and then turn around and be vehemently against legalizing drugs.  From an ethical perspective, it is a harmless crime.  The argument has always been, “well, after the drug user becomes addicted, he will then start to steal and use other illegal means to get his fix.”  Two points: (1) many drug addicts already use these means to obtain drugs.  These addicts obviously already don’t give a damn about the law, so whether the drugs themselves are legal or not—it’s not going to make a difference in regards to how these people resolve to obtain them. (2) Many drug addicts don’t use these means to obtain drugs, and never will.  I know plenty of addicts who sell cans, or beg for their fix, and have done so for years. I do not hand money out to homeless people for this very reason.  But I nevertheless do find it obscene how the American public can justify stamping felony charges on illicit drug users' foreheads, as if they’d robbed a bank or raped a woman, simply for consuming a mind altering substance.  The illicit drugs these street users take are similar—or in many cases virtually identical—to legal prescription substances on the market, e.g., oxycodon, dextroamphetamine,etc. 
 
In some cases the illicit drug user consumes a drug for the same reason that his more financially solvent counterpart does—i.e., they have pain, and they want it to go away.  In other cases, the illicit drug user abuses a drug that he doesn't need, for the same reason that his more financially solvent counterpart does—i.e., they are addicted to the drug.  The only real difference is that some of these addicts have insurance, and some don’t.  The ones that don’t are felons.  The ones that do are considered law abiding citizens (albeit perhaps unethical, law abiding citizens).                                                                                          
Economically speaking, $3 trillion dollars (the amount the government has wasted on the war on drugs) is roughly 1/5th of the entire national debt.  Every politician seems to be scratching their head, asking “what can we possibly cut next to trim the deficit?”  Time and time again they resort to cutting workers’ salaries piecemeal in an effort to trim the fat.  Why not exert a little common sense for a change, and make a real, substantial reduction to the deficit, by ending this preposterous war on drugs?               

Please!  Continue to jump-ship.  It was very nice having so much leg-room at the game last week when you didn't show-up...  The whine-song is getting old in here.
 
"Howie sucks!"  "Scoscia and Dipoto suck!"  "Hamilton sucks!"  "Pujols is hurt, too old, and sucks!"  "Trout is too fat to improve on his historic rookie season!"  etc.
 
Some of it may be true, and it really sucks to lose a series to Houston... but I will still watch and root for them, as I see some guys still showing some fire and trying to get it done (Hopefully, the Kings will make a repeat-run so I don't have to watch every minute of the Angels games).
 
I don't know what the solution is, but It's not over yet.  I remember a team in '02 that got off to a pretty horrendous start too...

I think he would have deserved expulsion had the administration found him with the gun on campus, or loaded in his car.  But to kick him out of school after overhearing him explain to his mother on the phone that he'd made a mistake and left an unloaded gun in his car is weak.  Cut the kid some slack. 

Whether or not the kid committed an expellable offense, can we at least all agree that he should have been treated the same as the faculty member who essentially committed the same offense and received a slap on the wrist?  Everyone is talking about zero tolerance this, and zero tolerance that.  Clearly these rules are not absolute.    

Yes, I read the whole article. According to wikipedia there were 1,793 abortion providers in the United States in 2008. Ten or so unsafe practices does not mean that we are dealing with a nationwide epidemic. I have no problem with people who are against abortion. It's a difficult issue to grapple with. But don't exaggerate the facts. I'm not saying that these are the only corrupt abortion clinics in the country--but they are the only ones mentioned in the article.  10 out of 1,793 is an aberration.  Furthermore, of those ten mentioned in the article, Gosnell's abominable acts are by far the most unscrupulous in nature.  I don't think you can compare the testimony of the poor girl who got victimized by Gosnell to Jayne Mitchell-Wirbrich's vague statement that her clinic in Delaware "was just unsafe.  I couldn't tell you how ridiculously unsafe it was."  Why can't she tell us?  I don't get it.  Is this a news article or a gossip column?  Regardless, I'm inclined to believe, that if there were detached baby feet involved, she probably would have been specific about it.  My point is: yes, it's tragic that "stuff like this," is being "reported across the country."  It's tragic for two reasons.  First, because nobody should ever be violated or abused the way that this Hawkins girl was.  But secondly, this is also a tragic story because it is a misrepresentation of reality and yet another indication that yellow journalism is taking the place of real, objective news. Gosnell's abortion atrocities is an aberration.  It's not a matter of opinion.  It's a matter of statistics.                                     
 

Thank you, tank. Nice to see you too.