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January 27, 2014

TEApublican Todd Kincannon Calls Wendy Davis a ‘Whore,’ Tells Her to ‘Lick My Taint’ in Barrage...

Update: Yes, this is actually Todd’s Twitter account. His former account was suspended…for some reason.

Todd Kincannon, former head of the South Carolina GOP, feels incredibly threatened by Wendy Davis for some reason–and he’s not afraid to show it! So far, Todd has embarked on an almost full-day Twitter meltdown regarding a claim that Davis abandoned her children to go to “coke parties” at Harvard. Oh, and she’s a whore.

Todd, in his own special way, explains exactly what is wrong with this country with his remarks surrounding the current Wendy Davis fake controversy. Not only does he wish her dead, but the chilling look he provides into far-right mentality is positively haunting.

You see, Wendy Davis’ former husband supported her and her two daughters while they were married. Stop. The. Presses. Oh, and she said she was divorced at a time when she was actually only separated. Recently, right-leaning Texas newspapers embarked on an effort to pick apart Davis’ online Senate biography:



http://aattp.org/vile-teapublican-todd-kincannon-has-wendy-davis-meltdown-on-twitter/

January 26, 2014

Help me respond to this if you would...

No more Amazon for this house- we just got an email from them saying we owe taxes on previous purchases. Put of the blue! From what I can gather it's part of a deal they struck with the state of Tennessee to build a distribution center in East Tennessee. I love Amazon but I am sick as I can be of taxes, taxes and more taxes and will be canceling everything with them ASAP starting now.



this is a musician friend of mine, recently a born again kind of person. Gospel singer. I've tried to respond but come across kind of nasty when I do. But I know all the nice people hre will be able to help me.....
January 26, 2014

Today, I saved a life! (head re-attchment surgery FTW!)

TODAY I SAVED A LIFE! Head reattachment! My buddy, my pal, my rabbit/chicken/llama/whateverinthehellitis, is now again with head! And obviously he, she, it whateverinthehellitis went to New Orleans and earned those beads.
For those of you who don't know, i put this thing in my pocket and it creates A LOT of conversation. And for a couple a years, I've still never met anyone who can tell me what this is. And i've talked to thousands of people about this thing. It has to be a famous something, they don't make just one of these things.
I'm glad I put it together. The head kind of wilted on Friday at the FURTHUR show at the Greek. The stuffing just fell out of it and the neck collapsed.. I kept it on life support but finally figured I need to chop off the head in order to save it.

SO I stuck some tubing and filled it with yarn to give it body and to create some strength in the neck area. Some scaring but that is to be expected in this type of head reattachment surgery.
The beads were well earned and I am sure whateverinthehellitis will earn some more.









We're ready to party in 2014 now> WOOO HOO!

January 26, 2014

California police have no interest in setting pot rules

Published: Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 - 12:00 am

In 2010, as Colorado lawmakers were creating America’s first state-licensed and regulated medical marijuana industry, fellow police officers at a Colorado Drug Investigators Association conference jeered a state law enforcement official assigned to draft the legislation.

Some of the sharpest barbs came from visiting narcotics officers from California.

“I was told that we hadn’t learned anything from California – that you can’t do anything to regulate marijuana,” said Matt Cook, a retired Colorado Springs police officer who became the first director of Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division, a policing agency that now regulates state-licensed marijuana workers, pot stores and commercial cannabis producers.

While Colorado moved forward with pot industry oversight, the narcotics officers who berated Cook were right – at least about California, where trying to regulate America’s largest marijuana economy has become a perennial political loser. A key factor has been intense law enforcement opposition itself.

In California, police have forcefully opposed any legislation seen as legitimizing a marijuana industry. Their opposition reflects a belief by many police officers that medical marijuana businesses are profiteering shams that were never authorized by California voters.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/26/6101596/california-police-have-no-interest.html#storylink=cpy

January 26, 2014

Police oppose making rules for weed...

Published: Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 - 12:00 am

In 2010, as Colorado lawmakers were creating America’s first state-licensed and regulated medical marijuana industry, fellow police officers at a Colorado Drug Investigators Association conference jeered a state law enforcement official assigned to draft the legislation.

Some of the sharpest barbs came from visiting narcotics officers from California.

“I was told that we hadn’t learned anything from California – that you can’t do anything to regulate marijuana,” said Matt Cook, a retired Colorado Springs police officer who became the first director of Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division, a policing agency that now regulates state-licensed marijuana workers, pot stores and commercial cannabis producers.

While Colorado moved forward with pot industry oversight, the narcotics officers who berated Cook were right – at least about California, where trying to regulate America’s largest marijuana economy has become a perennial political loser. A key factor has been intense law enforcement opposition itself.

In California, police have forcefully opposed any legislation seen as legitimizing a marijuana industry. Their opposition reflects a belief by many police officers that medical marijuana businesses are profiteering shams that were never authorized by California voters.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/26/6101596/california-police-have-no-interest.html#storylink=cpy

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/26/6101596/california-police-have-no-interest.html

January 25, 2014

Hey, where are all these Horny Democratic women I keep hearing about?

Someone start a dating site post haste........

January 25, 2014

Pot Legalization.. What I think.....

Pot legalization. I think it is far more complex an issue than "legalize it maaaan". I think both the CO and the WA laws are flawed because they do not cover much of anything really. I don't believe that the initiative process is the right way to go about legalization. I am sure that the voters could not possibly comprehend the complexity of the issues to insure that a proposition would be passed that would cover much past a basic "legalize it" proposal....Because of that, I feel that the number lawsuits concerning the issues below (and many many more) would greatly harm the treasury of the State, as the State, the counties and other municipalities that will be suing and getting sued over every little thing.

No, it has to be a well written law, with all concerns involved and comprehensive. A new industry is being born here. One that existed but now is going to be legit. And industry that still has a grip on the old ways. Not unlike moonshiners.

This goes out to everyone involved in the cannabis legalization issue in California.


Some background things to consider before we even begin to think about legalization:

Population of CA (2013 Census) 38 million.

Population under 18= 24% (even though there is a very large % of cannabis users in this category) = (approx 9 million)

Total CA population of legal age to consent = 29 million people.

If 15% of 29 million people use cannabis = 4.4 million people using cannabis (A very low number)

If 4.4 million people use cannabis at ¼ ounce a week, that is 4.4 million ounces per month or 275,000 lbs a month.

275,000 lbs a month is = 3,3000,000 pound per year, JUST TO SUPPLY CA.

That equates to over 3,300,000 one pound (Buds yield only) plants need to be produced just to supply CA every year.

The real number is more like double that, as everyone is finding out in CO and Washington. And we are not talking about exports here, just the domestic use and requirements. Nor are we talking about hash, edibles, tinctures and other products.


Some pertinent questions:

Where can it be smoked? Big difference between a concert, a sidewalk cafe, and a trail. State Parks? what about if you don't smoke it but ingest it, can you be cited for stoned in public? and what is that criteria?

Vaporizers?

Where should it be sold? At “cannabis stores” exclusively? Liquor stores alongside other products? At football games, concerts, wherever alcohol is sold? How about in roadside stands in pot tourism spots? Tasting rooms at growers?

And what if a guy sells edibles, say at an event that “Corporate pot” has a booth, selling the same thing?

Will there be a separate medical cannabis industry, selling essentially the same products but being used for medical purposes? (This I can see happening actually, like GNC does) What types of cannabis products can be sold and manufactured? Edibles? Hash? Oil extracts? How do you insure that hash oil is manufactured in safe environments?

Dosage levels and testing? Strain labeling?

How do you tax the growers, the manufactures?

Does law enforcement's job become tax enforcement? The growers I know will not be taxed, ever, unless they are forced to be taxed.

How do you possibly tax edibles and other products? The weights, strains, etc all are different.

How do you differentiate between a major pot farmer and a guy who grows 5 plants but still sells 10K worth of cannabis every year?

If there is going to be a craft beer, Napa valley thing going, where there are special areas know for cannabis production, then what is allowed there? Tasting rooms? Handmade edibles?

How do you differentiate between a handmade and a mass manufactured product? Can you allow both? How do you tax both? How do you label both?

Labeling, product safety, inspection of processing plants for safety , OSHA regulations, all of that.

Advertising? Where? TV? Radio? Billboards on State Freeways?

Drug testing? Schools? Employment? Welfare? (not so pertinent in CA)

Driving? I want to see some science based evidence that it is more dangerous than talking on a cell phone before impairment standards are placed.

Testing? How, What types? Roadside test?

What constitutes impairment and probable cause for police to test for impairment?

What about transporting cannabis products?

Imports? Export market?

Pot prisoners. What do with the people who are now under probation, or locked up due to pot arrests?
This will save the State kajillions of dollars.

January 25, 2014

Former NFL'er Darren Sharper accused of rape (3 different times)

It began as a night of celebration. After the Saints' Sept. 22 home victory over the Arizona Cardinals, NFL Network commentator and former Saints player Darren Sharper went out on the town in New Orleans.

The venerated former safety met a woman at a bar in the Central Business District. They kept drinking into the early hours of the next day, and a group made their way to another bar. At the end of the night of drinking, the woman went back to Sharper's apartment in the Central Business District.

It was there, the woman told police, Sharper raped her.

READ MORE: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/01/darren_sharper_rape.html

January 25, 2014

The Fukushima Secrecy Syndrome – From Japan to America by Ralph Nader

Last month, the ruling Japanese coalition parties quickly rammed through Parliament a state secrets law. We Americans better take notice.

Under its provisions the government alone decides what are state secrets and any civil servants who divulge any “secrets” can be jailed for up to 10 years. Journalists caught in the web of this vaguely defined law can be jailed for up to 5 years.

Government officials have been upset at the constant disclosures of their laxity by regulatory officials before and after the Fukushima nuclear power disaster in 2011, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).

"The Obama administration must become more alert to authoritarian trends in Japan that its policies have been either encouraging or knowingly ignoring – often behind the curtains of our own chronic secrecy."

Week after week, reports appear in the press revealing the seriousness of the contaminated water flow, the inaccessible radioactive material deep inside these reactors and the need to stop these leaking sites from further poisoning the land, food and ocean. Officials now estimate that it could take up to 40 years to clean up and decommission the reactors.

Other factors are also feeding this sure sign of a democratic setback. Militarism is raising its democracy-menacing head, prompted by friction with China over the South China Sea. Dismayingly, U.S. militarists are pushing for a larger Japanese military budget. China is the latest national security justification for our “pivot to East Asia” provoked in part by our military-industrial complex.


http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/24-8

January 24, 2014

Holder: Feds to let banks handle pot money

Source: Politico

The Obama administration will soon announce regulations that allow banks to do business with legal marijuana sellers, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday.

"You don’t want just huge amounts of cash in these places. They want to be able to use the banking system," Holder said during an appearance at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. "There’s a public safety component to this. Huge amounts of cash—substantial amounts of cash just kind of lying around with no place for it to be appropriately deposited is something that would worry me, just from a law enforcement perspective."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2014/01/holder-feds-to-let-banks-handle-pot-money-181777.html



This is HUGE. ENOURMOUS.

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