FOX News Says Marijuana Activists are Just Internet Trolls

Good reply to FOX News' failure to admit defeat in the elections so they attack people with a purpose thinking they'll break them down...activists are the bleeding heart liberals that the GOP made fun of for sooooooo many years....nothing will break us after the last 8 years of hell...nothing! Boo-Yah!

Peace to those that believe everything is possible!

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Posted in Speakeasy Main by Scott Morgan

Really, FOX News? You are so incapable of understanding our argument that you would dismiss us as saboteurs? If the mere mention of reforming marijuana laws is such a grand affront to civil discourse, let me introduce you to a few more "trolls" out there on the internet spreading crazy ideas about not arresting people for marijuana:
There's Joe Klein at Time, David Sirota at The Nation, Kathleen Parker at the Washington Post, Paul Jacob at TownHall.com, Hendrik Hertzberg at The New Yorker, Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic, Glenn Greenwald at Salon, Debra Saunders at the San Francisco Chronicle, Leonard Pitts at Miami Herald, John Richardson at Esquire, Margery Eagan at Boston Herald and many more. If these names sound familiar to you, it's becaue they aren't trolls at all, rather they are respected journalists who are joining the national conversation about the harms of our vicious marijuana laws.
In one of Obama's recent online forums, I saw this question: "How many donuts can I fit on my dong?" That was a troll, and it got deleted. This is a movement, and it isn't going away. Our issue is bigger than the organizations backing it. It didn't win Obama's forum because marijuana reformers know something about online organizing that other interest groups don't. It won because it is this defining question that quickly separates petty hypocrites from bold leaders, that distinguishes self-evident truths from antiquated propaganda, and that pits common sense against the mindless drug war hysteria that maintains a frigid stranglehold on our political culture, rendering impotent the promise of change that inspired so many hopeful Americans to lay their hopes and dreams at the steps of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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today’s quote…

From MassCann: The Massachusetts Chapter of NORML…

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"It is my considered opinion at present that marihuana is not harmful unless it is taken in enormous and excessive amounts. I believe that we are damaging this country, damaging our law enforcement situation, damaging the trust between older people and younger people by its prohibition, and this is far more serious than any damage that might be done to a few overusers."

-Testimony of anthropologist Margaret Mead to Congress (October 27, 1969)

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Best and Worst Imagine Covers

Sorry, but there's no cover that sounds like John Lennon singing Imagine!
peace,
soul
UpVenue has written up a story with the best and worst imagine covers (Lennon). 14 covers with videos included (all on one page)
Imagine, originally created by John Lennon, helped define an era. Many have tried to capture the emotion, the message and the brilliant simplicity of the tune; a few have been successful but many have failed. UpVenue has decided to look at a few of these attempts - fourteen to be exact, from many genres. Let's check them out.
The original:


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Congress Wants WiFi Owners To Keep Log Files For 2 Years...

Me thinks I can "protect" my own child from the internet and don't need nor want anymore spying by big brother on my child or myself!
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soul

by Mike Masnick - Similar ideas have been proposed before, but new bills have been proposed in both the House and the Senate that require anyone offering internet connectivity to retain log files for two years. There's no good reason for this, of course. It's been shown that such data retention laws actually make it more difficult to track down the information you need while being expensive. But, of course, the politicians are claiming this is "to protect the children." Of course. They even have come up with a silly acronym so that the title of the bill (Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act) spells out "Internet SAFETY Act." Of course, that's a load of crap, because this bill has little to do with protecting children, and won't do much, if anything to actually protect children.
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Watching as our history unfolds…

I have to admit…as jaded as I am…that I'm not into patriotism. But, the majesty of Barack Obama’s Inauguration is beyond description. My feelings of hope, admiration, and patriotism well up in my eyes and give me a lump in my throat. I am, at this moment in time, proud of my country and extremely proud of it’s people!

On the brink of history

From CNN's Anderson Cooper

The challenges Barack Obama is about to take on are overwhelming, but not, of course, unprecedented.

(CNN) – Searching the paper on the way to Washington, looking for news of the inaugural, the headlines warn of what lies ahead: “Big firms Deepen Job, Wage Cuts.” “Circuit City to Liquidate.” The storm clouds are all around us.

The challenges Barack Obama is about to take on are overwhelming, but not, of course, unprecedented. Abraham Lincoln took office with fears the country itself was on the brink of dissolution. Fears for his safety were so great he had to sneak throughBaltimore on board his train. Maryland, like Virginia, was a slave state.

FDR’s first inaugural was in the midst of the Depression. 1933. Relief would not come for many years more. So, as Barack Obama heads to Washington today, on a train trip that will re-trace some of Lincoln’s own train journey, he shoulders a great burden, but one past presidents have as well. He arrives in Washington this evening with a groundswell of public support. More than Clinton did, more than Reagan.

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Video (camera phone?) of Barack Obama's speech at a stop in Delaware...

The Children of Palestine

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The plight of the Palestinian people obviously has me furious, as you may have witnessed by reading my blog. The Palestinian children have it the worst. They're scared, battered, lost, and killed for something that they are too young to understand. The worst injustice of this war is the children's loss of life and if lucky enough to survive the loss of their innocence.

Obama’s Smoking Sheds Light on Presidential Bad Habits

President Franklin D. Roosevelt smokes
a cigarette at Herring Cove on Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada on July
30, 1936.

Barack Obama says the White House will stay smoke-free, while admitting that he has smoked recently. But several other presidents have smoked or chewed tobacco.

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Tuesday goes 'smoothly' for PHS - Berkshire Eagle Online

Tuesday goes 'smoothly' for PHS - Berkshire Eagle Online:
"Wednesday, December 03
PITTSFIELD — Pittsfield High School opened Tuesday morning two hours late, but without incident following a bomb threat discovered late Monday afternoon.
'Everything went smoothly,' said Superintendent of Schools Howard 'Jake' Eberwein III. 'The police did a sweep of the building with the help of the staff, who did a great job, and found nothing.'
Eberwein said the thorough search for a possible explosive was necessary after the word 'bomb' followed by Tuesday's date '12/2/08' was found written on a mural in the school.
Despite the threat, Eberwein said student attendance was strong and the teenagers seemed to settle in quickly once classes began at 9:20 a.m.
'The kids were great, as was the staff,' said Eberwein, who spent the day at Pittsfield High."

Bomb threat to delay PHS - Berkshire Eagle Online

My 16 y/o attends this high school and will not be going to school today. Personally, I think it's probably just a kid who wanted to get out of school for the day. But, what if it isn't? I'm taking no chances and will keep my child safely home from school today. Hopefully, all will go well and no one will get hurt.

PITTSFIELD — Pittsfield High School will open two hours late this morning after the discovery of a bomb threat that was scrawled on a mural at the East Street building.
The School Department said late Monday afternoon that the threat was written on a school mural in gray chalk and included the word "bomb," followed by the date "12/2/08."
Superintendent of Schools Howard J. Eberwein III said his administration consulted with police and fire officials and decided to delay opening PHS until 9:20 a.m. today to allow authorities time to conduct a thorough search of the building before the start of classes.
All bus pickups for PHS students are being moved back two hours. School will be dismissed at the normal time, 2:20 p.m.
Eberwein said he thought the school's response is "appropriate" to the threat, balancing the dictates of public safety with the desire to discourage hoaxes."We are not canceling school, but we are also ensuring the safety of students by doing a comprehensive search in the morning," Eberwein said. "School will go on, but this just gives us more time to make sure everyone is safe and the building is secure."
In Great Barrington in October and early November, a series of bomb threats closed Monument Mountain Regional High School for three days. A 17-year-old student has been charged with making one of the threats.
In June 2004 in Pittsfield, someone detonated a pipe bomb near a rear entrance to Taconic High School. No on was injured; the identity of the bomber remains a mystery.

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We voted! Did you?

My wife and I just voted! Below is a picture of my wife, Kat wearing the fuzzy hat with an Obama/Biden sticker on it (you can't see the sticker too well in this pic but alot of people beeped and waved as we strolled by). There weren't too many people at our polling station yet. But, we voted early. When we asked about the number of voters at our polling place, we were told that they expected heavy voter turnout later in the day.

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