I know you don't NEED a bible. I thought the fact that the private swearing in didn't involve one was interesting, and was wondering if there was a metamessage there. BTW, I'm a secular humanist. I wasn't complaining, I was being hopeful, I guess!
Ahh adirondakal --- Strock is about the closest thing the Gazette has to a star - If the Gazette is ever dumb enough to let him go, they lose my subscription.
And I wonder why you think he's a "liberal" - You must not read many of his columns.
Anyway, re: the SPD, (yawn) --- As I've said several times, if the insane "drug war" stopped, and the government stopped trying to tell free adult citizens what substances they can ingest, the majority of our crime and corrupt cop problems would go away. We'd also have plenty of jail space for the real criminals.
It's like an attempt to achieve an intellectual absolute zero, an Omega point of pure banality and noble ordinariness, below which you cannot descend.
Isn't that why these "reality shows" can make a celebrity out of any Joe or Jane six-pack? Hey, Sarah is just like the gal in the double-wide next door. She's not one of them pointy headed intellectuals, screwin' up the world with "science" so that we don't know right from wrong no more...
Anti-elitist flamers and lovers of mediocrity, it's your turn.
First, and most importantly, this is an individual bodily autonomy matter, and the state (government) or anybody, for that matter, should have no say as to what substances people ingest, be it alcohol, tobacco, trans-fats or drugs, and second, by keeping certain drugs illegal, we support huge industries on both sides of the law.
If ALL drugs were deregulated, the police would have time to go after real criminals, the jails and courts would be freed up to deal with these real dangerous criminals, gangs would shrink to irrelevancy, and the underclass career path of drug dealer would no longer exist.
Drug prohibition is just stupid and counterproductive, and has its roots in racism. (White establishment trying to keep the black jazz culture from "infecting" white culture).
The Dems won't bring any "change" either - They're ALL the same, not a dime's worth of difference between 'em. A pox on all their houses. Throw the rascals out every election, regardless of party.
(Or vote Libertarian, Green, etc, which feels good, but accomplishes nothing).
Posted on January 22 at 7:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I know you don't NEED a bible. I thought the fact that the private swearing in didn't involve one was interesting, and was wondering if there was a metamessage there. BTW, I'm a secular humanist. I wasn't complaining, I was being hopeful, I guess!
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