More links, a little less rant
Medical marijuana just passed the MN Senate, 36-28.
I know I should be happy, but instead I’m filled with loathing because this is just round one. Now we have to listen to each and every rightwing I’m-not-from-the-Twin-Cities-and-fuck-everyone-who-is nutjob in the House talk and talk and talk about how sinful alleviating pain and suffering is. Then we have to kiss the asses of every law enforcement jackass with an opinion and an invite to testify.
Then we get to watch Governor BridgeFAIL veto medical marijuana.
Fuck it. Scrap this bill and lets just replace all our state pot penalties with the death penalty. Death for dealing, death for using, death for even talking about pot.
Then when the Supreme Court throws that nonsense out, let’s just simply not have any pot laws at all. The Right’s insistence that pot be illegal is just flat out mean nasty in-your-face fuckyouism. If we were like them, we’d ban talk radio, and we’d have better science on our side.
Medical marijuana is a 20th Century issue. Isn’t it time to just legalize soft drugs across the board?
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100 Days:
Sara Robinson on the Far Right
Bernie Horn on 100 Days of conservative failure
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Lugar will support Dawn Johnsen.
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My high school’s most famous alum is busy making an ass out of himself on Gitmo prisoners. From Booman:
I just watched freshman Republican Senator Mike Johanns of Nebraska give a speech in the Senate where he said the people of his state were too afraid of terrorists for him to support the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to either Kansas or Colorado supermax detention centers.
We are not even talking about these prisoners being housed in his state. According to Johanns, the people of Nebraska are collectively so cowardly that they can’t sleep at night knowing that there are alleged terrorists being held hundreds of miles away in another state in a super maximum-security prison.
Johanns is wrong in just about every possible way on this one, but mostly he’s misreading his constituency. Americans aren’t the bedwetting cowards the right thinks we are.
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The other links:
Good article on what’s going on in Thailand
Complain to a newspaper about lousy healthcare and get sued by the provider
Rush is now defending animals from cruelty, and his listeners are outraged
More reasons to hate Jane Harman
Feel the fear and do it anyway: more copyright idiocy, this time from a Ph.D.
The bacon cure (it’s all about the amines)
Ireland dumps electronic voting
Boeing back on the hook for their extraordinary rendition flights
Isaiah J. Poole on the FBI’s widely ignored 2004 warning about a mortgage fraud epidemic
Palin’s Deceptions updates and has pix
Does it make a difference when the thieving bastards were court-appointed?
Warner Music sets new record for dumb
PZ on the shitty science that’s all too easy to find at the Huffington Post
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A Tiny Revolution is celebrating their fifth blogiversary. They’re not asking for money so it’s safe to visit and leave a comment.
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There are, incredibly, other links to me that are actually weirder.
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It probably speaks to what a soft life I’ve got, but lately the most stressful thing I do is drop off and pick up a friend at the UM where she’s having dental work done. I’ve done this enough times these past few years that I feel entitled to ask, who was the fucking moron who put a dental school and a medical school right in the middle of a major campus that’s right in the middle of a major metropolitan area?
Because not being able to use the back loading area reserved for patients (thanks to UM employees who use it as their lunch rendezvous pick up/drop off zone) is getting really old. So is waiting five minutes to turn at a four-way stop because 20-something people can’t be distracted from texting long enough to actually let motor vehicles turn despite the fact that all turning traffic is to a medical facility.
Yes, I recognized the looks. The you’re in a fucking car and this is my campus righteousness that keeps the morally superior pedestrian from wondering why you’re trying to access the dental school’s patient loading zone, or why a nurse and a woman in a wheelchair are patiently waiting for you amidst the gas fumes from the employee lunch hour car pools.
And no, I don’t think I’ll be updating or correcting this rant.
My 100 Day thing on Obama tonight (or tomorrow) but definitely after he speaks to the nation tonight.
The citizens of Nebraska need to recall this clown now before he embarrasses them any further. If this statement represents his real feelings about them, he needs to STFU.
Your experience at the local medical scene is not unique. It’s a prerequisite that all hospital/university settings cause those who are there for anything other than work should proceed at a snail’s pace and with as much confusion as is possible. If you’re pissed off, their mission is accomplished.
How dare you drive a car? You are scum.
Also, a bacon sandwich is the perfect food.
In a car I’m contained; on the sidewalk I leave a trail.