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Time to Take Charge of Healthcare

President Obama and the Congressional Democrats have long since advocated a bipartisan effort in fixing health care. The... more

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Theatregoers pay to get locked inside a freight container

A 40ft freight container, the sort you see trundling around on the backs of lorries, will be plonked outside the Young Vic theatre... more

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Racism Runs Rampant in the GOP

Submitted for your approval, meet Ms Audra Shay, an up and comer in the GOP and current Vice Chairman of the Young Republicans. Ms Shay aspires to be the actual Chairman and is endorsed by Gov. Bobby Jindal personally. As a member of the Republican youth Ms Shay realizes the party needs to be more in tuned with the information society and social networking in particular. She of course participates in all the popular social networks including Face Book.

Here's where things turn sideways for Ms Shay and her party. After the infamous White House watermelon patch picture followed by the blacked out presidential portrait featuring a set of eyeballs depicting our 44th President and that catchy spiritual "Barack the Magic Negro" the Republicans seem to have trouble shaking their racist label, for some odd reason. Ms Shay helped their cause by responding to a "friend" named Eric from Face Book that thinks "we" need to take back the country from the "coons and illegals", the exact quote is;

“Obama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist… Muslim is on there side [sic]… need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals.”

To which Ms Shay responded "You tell em Eric! lol.

Unfortunately for Ms Shay some of her other followers weren't as comfortable with Eric's enthusiasm and voiced there concerns. Ms Shay promptly DE-friended the dissenters. Keeping Eric as a buddy. As the concerns grew Ms Shay went into damage control and said she hadn't read the entire quote and was responding to something Eric had said previously even though she responded a full eight minutes after his racist remarks. The debate flared with Ms Shay attempting to dance on the head of a pin and Eric helping her with this parting remark;

“This is still America… freedom of speech and thought is still allowed… for now any ways… and the last time i checked I was a good ole southern boy… and if yur ass is black don’t let the sun set on it in a southern town…”

Good luck in your endeavor to become chairman of your fine upstanding Christian organization Ms Shay and political aspiration with the GOP.

Find more on the subject here;
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-06/new-gop-racist-headache/Submitted for your approval, meet Ms Audra Shay, an up and comer in the GOP and current Vice Chairman of the Young Republicans. Ms... more

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Legal bills swayed Palin, official says

"Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell of Alaska said Sunday that Gov. Sarah Palin’s decision to resign was largely prompted by the personal legal costs of the ethics investigations against her.

Ms. Palin announced on Friday that she would quit her job near the end of the month and turn the reins of state government over to Mr. Parnell, who like the governor is a Republican.

At the news conference, Ms. Palin cited numerous reasons for quitting, including more than $500,000 in legal fees that she and her husband, Todd, have incurred because of 15 ethics complaints filed against her during her two and a half years as governor. She said all of the complaints had been dismissed, but she still had to pay lawyers to defend her.

Mr. Parnell said Ms. Palin called him into her office on Wednesday night to tell him she was resigning.

“I think what I heard from the governor,” Mr. Parnell said on “Fox News Sunday,” “really had to do with the weight on her, the concern she had for the cost of all the ethics investigations and the like — the way that that weighed on her with respect to her inability to just move forward Alaska’s agenda on behalf of Alaskans in the current context of the environment. So that’s what I saw.”

Mr. Parnell, who is scheduled to take over for Ms. Palin on July 26, said it was costing the State of Alaska about $2 million just to pay for the staff to deal with the records requests from the ethics complaints.

“That was just over the top, and I think she used the word insane in her remarks,” Mr. Parnell said.

Ms. Palin, who was Senator John McCain’s running mate on last year’s Republican presidential ticket, is leaving office 18 months before the end of her first term as governor. In her comments on Friday, she acknowledged the toll that the ethics investigations had taken on her and her family.

But in the often-rambling announcement, Ms. Palin also sounded at one point as though she was quitting politics entirely and at another as though she had an eye on higher office, which immediately led to renewed speculation about the possibility of her running for president in 2012. She promised supporters that in the coming days, she would provide details — on her social networking Facebook and Twitter sites — on her reasons for leaving the governorship so abruptly.

In a posting on her Facebook page on Saturday, Ms. Palin appeared to indicate that she would seek a larger, national role — citing what she said was a “higher calling” to push for conservative causes nationally.""Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell of Alaska said Sunday that Gov. Sarah Palin’s decision to resign was largely prompted by the... more

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Three Horsesman (Horsepersons) of the Republican Apocalypse

Senator Ensign, Governors Palin and Sanford all prominent members of their party and legitimate contenders for the next Republican... more

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China riots: Twitter and YouTube frustrate 'censorship attempts'

The communist authorities who built the so-called Great Firewall of China raced to stamp out video, images and words posted by... more

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Scientist's mental state at issue in NYC hearing

To government psychiatrists, Aafia Siddiqui has been faking symptoms of mental illness, hoping to avoid a criminal trial on... more

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Marc Emery's Farewell Tour, Summer 2009

CANNABIS CULTURE - The Prince of Pot Marc Emery is taking a final tour across Canada before he is sent to prison in the United... more

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'Prince of Pot' on farewell tour

CALGARY -- A marijuana advocate who has described himself as the "Prince of Pot" launched a cross-country farewell tour... more

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Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74

This kinda stuff upsets me. "The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers... more

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Foreign Policy Magazine Exposes Folly of Marijuana Ban

The reason why the editor of Foreign Policy magazine Moises Naim's recent column is significant is because for far too long... more

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Marijuana law just a political ploy, Letter to the Editor

Congressman Mark Kirk, a Republican from Highland Park, recently introduced legislation to massively increase penalties for producers and sellers of higher-potency marijuana. It's hard to know what's worse, the congressman's scientific ignorance or his blatant hypocrisy.

Kirk said he thought the penalty for selling high-THC marijuana should be equivalent to that for cocaine. From a scientific perspective, that's laughable. Unlike cocaine, THC is essentially non- toxic. It is literally impossible to fatally overdose on even the highest-strength marijuana. And scientific experts remain unconvinced that higher-THC marijuana is any more dangerous.

A review published last year by the journal Addiction noted that warnings about escalating marijuana potency date back to at least 1975, and that the evidence for claims of major increases in potency is "fragmented and fraught with methodological errors."

The researchers concluded that "more research is needed" to determine whether increased potency increases risk at all. International experts report that when marijuana is more potent, users simply smoke less, just as they drink a smaller amount of bourbon than they would beer. Yet Kirk wants us to believe that marijuana is somehow magically different.

The scientific fact - as verified by another prestigious scientific journal, The Lancet - is that marijuana of any strength is far safer than either tobacco or alcohol: It's less addictive, far less toxic, and massively less likely than booze to provoke violence or aggression.

Over the years, Congressman Kirk has raked in thousands of dollars of campaign cash from the tobacco and alcohol industries, including the company that owns Philip Morris tobacco and the National Beer Wholesalers Association.

Meanwhile, he engages in empty political posturing about a nonexistent threat from high-strength marijuana. It's a cheap and dangerous political ploy that should be soundly rejected.

Bruce Mirken

Marijuana Policy Project

Washington, D.C.Congressman Mark Kirk, a Republican from Highland Park, recently introduced legislation to massively increase penalties for... more