a watched pot

For your consideration: legalization.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get at least three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy.

Ok, yes, it’s a state’s rights issue and, generally speaking, I’m a fan of anything that takes power out of the federal government’s hands and returns it to the state.  Also, you can tax the living hell out of it.  If people (myself included) pay such ridiculous taxes on cigs, it’s a slam-dunk they’ll do it for grass.  Jails are overcrowded, and locking someone up for something as harmless as weed is beyond stupid.

And yet...for some ill-defined reason, the idea still makes me uncomfortable.  Maybe it’s not the idea of legalized weed itself that bug me, but the most vocal proponents of legalization.

I’d back the play if the vote went that direction, but it’d take some getting used to.  Anyway, this is about your thoughts.

apotheosis
10/07 at 12:46 PM •
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a bitter pill for us menfolk

“Manscara.” “Guyliner.” Metrosexuals.  Hipsters.

Sissies.

Y’all thought it was just a fad, right?  Just a passing phase.  Manly men would come back into style eventually, once women got tired of sharing their mousse and fighting for underwear with their so-called boyfriends.  Testosterone would win the day, and we’d chase the last vestiges of these butt-lipped hair-fussers back into the depths of the woods with the rest of the faerie folk (NTTAWWT).

Guess again.

according to a new study, the Pill may also have changed women’s taste in men.

Scientists say the hormones in the oral contraceptive suppress a female’s interest in masculine men - and make boyish men more attractive.

No comments about how this discovery bears on our current political situation, if you please.

Scientists have long known that a woman’s taste in men changes over the menstrual cycle.

As well as her taste in debate, penchant for melee combat, and accuracy of thrown household items.

During the few days each month when they are fertile - around the time of ovulation - they tend to prefer masculine features and men who are more assertive.
[...]
On days when women are not fertile, their tastes swing towards more feminine, boyish faces and more caring personalities, researchers have shown.

However, if women are taking the Pill, they no longer have fertile days.

Well that’s just f’n swell.  Suddenly, the drawbacks associated with condoms don’t seem like NEARLY such a big deal.

apotheosis
10/07 at 11:16 AM •
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Par for the Course

Africa bishops speak of Obama in religious terms

African bishops attending a Vatican meeting are speaking about the election of Barack Obama in divine terms

Well this, by itself, is hardly even news.  Worship of Obama as a religious figure is already old hat in America.

“It’s like the biblical story repeating itself,” he told reporters, citing the Old Testament figure Joseph, who after being sold into slavery in Egypt ends up becoming a top official.

At least in their telling they demoted him from Messiah to mortal, so there’s that.  Though I think I missed the part of his biography where O! started out as a slave.

I’m not a churchy person myself.  Maybe one of you religious readers can provide a more appropriate Biblical figure for comparison?

And the archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo, Monsignor Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, told the formal synod itself that it would be wise to not ignore what he called a “primordial event” in recent times.

“If the election of a black as head of the United States of America was a divine sign and a sign from the Holy Spirit for the reconciliation of races and ethnic groups for peaceful relations ... this synod and the universal church would gain from not ignoring this primordial event of contemporary history which is far from being a banal game of political alliances,” he said in his speech.

Maybe you guys missed out on the part where anyone who criticizes him is immediately labeled a racist?  Kinda puts a cramp in the “reconciliation” thing.

apotheosis
10/07 at 08:12 AM •
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Jack Sparrow You Ain’t

So, the Somali pirates have struck again.  Under cover of darkness, they spied a large vessel and, presumably after donning their eyepatches and drawing their cutlasses, attacked.

Only problem was, it wasn’t a container ship.  It was the flagship of the French Navy.

Oops.

Somali pirates attempted to storm the French navy’s 18,000 tonne Indian Ocean fleet flagship after mistaking it for a cargo vessel, the military said on Wednesday.

The crew of La Somme, a 160-metre (525-foot) command vessel and fuel tanker, easily saw off the brazen night-time assault by lightly armed fighters on two open-topped motorboats and captured five pirates, a spokesman said.
[...]
The pirates tried to flee when they realised their mistake but were pursued by French forces who, after an hour-long chase, caught one of the skiffs, Prazuck said.

Really, as much fun as I have with the French (and who doesn’t?), this is pretty awesome.

apotheosis
10/07 at 06:57 AM •
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whip it good

when a good time turns around

A court in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia today convicted a man for publicly talking about sex after he bragged on a TV talk show about his exploits, sentencing him to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes, his lawyer said.
[...]
Jumeii claimed Abdul-Jawad was duped by the Lebanese LBC satellite channel and was unaware he was being recorded.

GILES AND O’KEEFE STRIKE AGAIN!!!1!!

apotheosis
10/07 at 06:42 AM •
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that infinite mirror reflection thing


DougM (commissarophobe)
10/06 at 08:03 PM •
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real jackass-jackass

Not real rape-rape of a real 13-year-old - 13-year-old.
*spit*

DougM (commissarophobe)
10/06 at 06:15 PM •
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Giant Rats.  With Horns.

Being as it’s slow right now, I wondered if I might get your thoughts on nature’s wonders.

Specifically, deer.

More specifically still, killing every last one of the wretched little dewy-eyed vermin.

apotheosis
10/06 at 04:46 PM •
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Which way is this gonna go?


Bonus related cartoon BTF:

DougM (commissarophobe)
10/06 at 03:17 PM •
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today’s not Paul Kersey*


DougM (commissarophobe)
10/06 at 02:45 PM •
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man’s got to know his limitations


DougM (commissarophobe)
10/06 at 02:19 PM •
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holy bat, man!

Infrared Video: 500,000 Bats Emerge From Cave
Posted ‘cause, well, it’s just plain cool.

~ Wired Science ~

DougM (commissarophobe)
10/06 at 01:14 PM •
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Curtains For You.  And Maybe Throw Pillows.

Some things you just can’t make up.

A French gay soccer team

..."but I repeat myself"…

says its members were victims of homophobia when a team of Muslim players refused to play a match against them.

What’s amusing isn’t their surprise or their outrage.  What’s amusing is that they’ll quickly be forced into the realization that accusations of homophobia aren’t going to have much effect on a group of people for whom soccer is only the second most popular cultural pastime, having lost out to stoning and hanging homosexuals.

H/T WZ

apotheosis
10/06 at 11:44 AM •
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the meme continues


~vid~

DougM (commissarophobe)
10/06 at 11:34 AM •
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dim bulbs in DC


~link~

Jackassery in the name of the fundamentalist/orthodox greenism cult.
Kool-Aid punch all around.

DougM (commissarophobe)
10/06 at 11:09 AM •
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O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that

...an’ “Tommy, go away”

The Virginia State Board of Elections argued in their most recent filing that they have no legal obligation to send out military absentee ballots in a timely manner. Restated, the State of Virginia has argued in a federal court filing that they can legally send out absentee ballots to active duty soldiers the day before an election. Restated again, theDemocratic Chairwoman of the Virginia State Board of Election (appointed by the Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine, in his capacity as Virginia Governor) Jean Cunningham just claimed a legal basis for massively raising the barrier to voting for soldiers at war.

raz0r

apotheosis
10/06 at 09:09 AM •
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Swiss Chees’d

Swiss reject Polanski appeal

Swiss authorities rejected on Tuesday an appeal by lawyers for Roman Polanski, arrested in September after fleeing America in 1978 from an underage sex charge, to release the film director from prison.

Amnesty Int’l, Hollywood Branch will be holding a candlelight cuckoo-clock burning vigil this evening.  All are invited to attend.  No children under the age of 18 allowed unless accompanied by an open-minded progressive parent.

apotheosis
10/06 at 08:51 AM •
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*blink*blink blink*

image

Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Mobster Ruralist
10/06 at 08:05 AM •
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Double Down on the Stupid, Cont’d

All in!

As we try to shake off the financial crisis, here’s a bright idea. Take a law that has led to the writing of an enormous amount of bad mortgages and expand it. Then take enforcement away from bank examiners and give it to housing activists.
[...]
[I]n the first 20 years of the act, up to 1997, commitments totaled approximately $200 billion. But from 1997 to 2007, commitments exploded to more than $4.2 trillion. (Keep in mind this is more than four times the size of the current health bill being debated in Congress.)

In short, the CRA is compelling banks to make trillions in loans to individuals who have poor credit and who often can’t or won’t make their payments.
[...]
Obama wants to take enforcement of the CRA away from the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and other financial regulators … Compliance would no longer be done by bank examiners but by what the administration calls “a group of examiners specially trained and certified in community development” (otherwise called community activists).

mojo

apotheosis
10/06 at 07:46 AM •
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Treacher - Hero!

we knew that humor would get him in trouble someday...

[TREACHER’S] TOP TEN REASONS TO ACCEPT THAT JOB OFFER FROM DAVID LETTERMAN

10. Get to find out “Worldwide Pants” refers to his breathing
9. Whenever he has trouble performing, he can always count on Paul
8. Stupid Prostate Tricks
7. Pillow talk includes fond remembrances of working with Calvert DeForest
6. “Can Jay do this? Huh? Can Jay do this?”

Gonna hafta *clicky* to get the pay-off

And read on air by Levin and Miller

Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Mobster Ruralist
10/06 at 07:11 AM •
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Hog Whitman - Bizarre Czar said:

I once made a blowgun in the back of 7th grade science class out of a piece of long, thin glass tubing and a straight-pin --- because there was a substitute teacher that day who wasn’t noticing --- and with my very first silent-but-deadly test shot I nailed a huge wasp who had been buzzing against the window shade, right to that window shade. I swear to God (and that’s not in vain in this case).

With my second shot, I nailed Donald Ludwig, waaay at the front of the class, right in the back, and he immediately jumped-up, clutching at his back, screaming, “OWOW OW OW OW!” or something like that. This was in a previously silent room, as we were all supposed to be reading something.  Or something.

So the substitute teacher, thinking that Donald Ludwig was some kind of insane spastic clown, started yelling at him, and kicked him out of class and sent him down to the Principal’s office. Then the bell rang, and I got away scot-free.

I know I’ll never top that one. Why even try?

Rosebud…

P.S. I sure hope Donald Ludwig isn’t reading this.

in 'tonight's audience participation'.
~~~~~
--Jack said:

Follow Obamas eyes. Reminds me of a Chinese saying:
“When a finger points to the moon, the idiot looks at the finger.”

Fake Nobel Prize
Fake Blackbelt
Wouldn’t those look great on a shelf next to his genuine *coughbullshit* birth certificate?

in 'tonight's round kick to the head award'.
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Old Retired Petty Officer said:

Cancer Survivor. Left Kidney came out on 21 September just two days after my Number Two Son’s Wedding.  Doc said it covered most of the upper outside half. Found when looking for something else. I’m good, gotta a spare and a new job at Edwards AFB as a (sigh) F-16 crew chief.

in 'tonight's audience participation'.
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Old Retired Petty Officer said:

Sounds as if Andrew and the gang at Breitbart have the AG by the stacking swivel! Ain’t that right MCPO Airdale?

in 'a kick in the nuts, cont'd'.
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xc said:

Sondra - It was only $50.  XC isn’t part of my paypal - I don’t trust those guys an inch.

-XC

in 'Operation Warm Hearts Warm Hands'.
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DougM (commissarophobe) said:

Heh
I can’t wait for the inevitable lapdog-mediaweenie’s repetition of a “gotcha question” when she answers, “Oh, that’s old news.” By the time she runs again, everything will be “old news.”

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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mech (determined characterist) said:

Weeeeeeee! I got my copy today!!!!

And SondraK, I’ll tell her.

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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dick, not-quite-dead white guy said:

I’d like to see Senator Byrd offer him a Grand Kleagle-ship.
D’ya think Byrd could stay awake long enough to do that?

in 'tonight's round kick to the head award'.
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mech (determined characterist) said:

I used to use them in another life when I did construction and also hunting and skiing. Nifty little things, they are.

Try target, wally world and car parts places for varieties of nice smelling thingys.

I just realized--did I connect for you my regular e-address with my paypal address: the comcast one that starts wif a j and ends with a 24? (Not Jack Bauer)
I should be able to send another $30 next payday.

in 'Operation Warm Hearts Warm Hands'.
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DougM (commissarophobe) said:

I think Breitbart is using his strategy consistently.
Each video release has one of two objectives:
- Prompt denials and public statements
- Prove previous denials and statements to be lies
The goal is to get Holder to ...
well, as was demonstrated in Sergeant York:
*gobble*gobble*gobble* ... *bang!*
Oh, sure, you remember. @2:00

in 'a kick in the nuts, cont'd'.
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Bobb Cobb said:

I use toe warmers at work when I know I will be spending 3+ hours outside in below freezing temps. They really do work, but it’s weird when they are in your shoes. Probably would be good for guard duty or sentry or what ever they call it now. Would have been nice to have had some in Graf.
Buy some, they can always stick them in their pockets.

in 'Operation Warm Hearts Warm Hands'.
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JoeBandMember said:

Andrea Mitchell has been stalking Sarah Palin.

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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SondraK, Lympian Slayer said:

Huh...well, the “clip” is over 17 minutes long....maybe it is the whole thing.

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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SondraK, Lympian Slayer said:

http://www.dennismillerradio.com/pg/jsp/charts/streamingAudioMaster.jsp?dispid=301&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD04MTUwJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPTMwMSZwbGF5bGlzdFNpemU9MQ==

There’s a clip right below the header of the page. The whole audio archive is pay-for.

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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Elvis, Formerly Gruntled American said:

Sarah is a force.
No matter how the state-run-media try to frame her, she is true to herself.
I hope she picks up some teflon in the next year.
We need her to keep the heat on conservatives to take nothing for granted.
The dark side is relentless in its quest for power.
Sarah is the sunlight from which the demonrats cower.

008

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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Bobb Cobb said:

mojo, dead link.

in 'a kick in the nuts, cont'd'.
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SondraK, Lympian Slayer said:

JR said her interview with Dennis Miller was the best so far. Awesome. She was very comfortable. It’s nice that she’s being able to just be herself and have fun.
I’m going to try to find it.....

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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mojo said:

More than that. I grabbed a copy last night, been reading. The email doesn’t really mean much, it looks like someone’s personal “save” spool, split into individual files, and not all of that. Might be some interesting threads, but that will take a while to stitch together. For what it’s worth, I havent found any of the common signs of email fakery in the headers that are there. They aren’t all.

The real action will be in the Fortran90 code. This looks like the stuff they were going all psycho about keeping secret, “Intellectual Property” and all that, as if academics didn’t give that shit away every day. This code, it seems, is “special” - gonna make ‘em a fortune or something.

Some other notes:
A “thematic project” with the acronym PRESCIENT (arrived at after Herculean efforts at capitalization)

Dr. Phil seems a “right prat”, and Mike Mann rather thuggish. Not a pretty pair.

in 'hot off the press'.
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Hog Whitman - Bizarre Czar said:

I don’t know why it is that Chicks with Chainsaws turns me on, and in a way that the the word “naughty” would need a few more syllabbles just to describe it, but it just does.

Photobucket

I know… I need help.

in 'a kick in the nuts, cont'd'.
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raz0r said:

I never tire of her.

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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