gdp's Comments

Breitbart.tv : Miley Turns 18; Celebrates With Bong

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:42:16 +0000

Our education system is destroying the youth. Lack of parenting is destroying our youth. An unbearable tax burden requiring two working parents in most families is destroying our youth. Drugs are a symptom not the problem - This is like cutting down the apple tree because you found a bruised apple.

Breitbart.tv : Miley Turns 18; Celebrates With Bong

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:38:23 +0000

Seriously! This site is so "Question Authority" until the topic turns to "drugs" and then that same government propaganda turns into universal truth.

Breitbart.tv : Miley Turns 18; Celebrates With Bong

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:36:11 +0000

Given that salvia is not illegal, non-toxic, non-addictive, not even fun, and whose effects last all of 15 minutes, would you like to back up your statement? Or perhaps do you not know what you're talking about. Seems like any time the topic of "drugs" comes up, the facts go out the window and suddenly the government propaganda is the word of truth.

Breitbart.tv : Miley Turns 18; Celebrates With Bong

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:36:14 +0000

While the setting looks totally wrong, Salvia isn't illegal, and it isn't even really recreational. You forget who you are for about 10 minutes, aggressively disassociative while also causing temporary amnesia. A friend of mine has tried it a few times, and it seems that it just isn't anything you could describe as a "fun" thing. Not like pot.

Big Government : California Behind the Curve

Wed, 3 Nov 2010 05:54:52 +0000

I'm trying to understand why some of the california races have already been called for the democrats, when only 1 in 3 votes yet counted and differences in races of only 1 or 2%

Breitbart.tv : Olbermann Tries to Rip Breitbart; Best Effort is 'Fart' Joke

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:23:23 +0000

Wow, that is truly teeth grittingly bad

Breitbart.tv : Losing It: Olbermann Rants Tea Party Wants Jim Crow and Union Organizer Lynchings

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:04:41 +0000

Gotta say - This shit makes me smile

Big Journalism : NPR Hits Pledge Drive Week Paydirt, Fires Fox News Contributor for Progressive Cash

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:15:45 +0000

Nope - Because they're funded by the Taxpayer, and as a recipient of non-partisan funds they have to play by non-partisan rules. If they want to pay their own way than they can hire & fire as they please - But as long as you can go to NPRs official webpage and watch "How to Speak Teabag" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor... They really don't have a leg to stand on. ---- Can you at least acknowledge the two-faced nature of this action given the partisan schenanagins easily found anywhere you look at NPR? Lets turn it around, if NPR was the Rush Limbaugh station - would you be happy with your tax dollars paying his salary?

Big Journalism : NPR Hits Pledge Drive Week Paydirt, Fires Fox News Contributor for Progressive Cash

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:09:43 +0000

So then, he's only allowed to talk about his analysis if you agree with him? His statement spoke about current events, a personal observation directly related to the issue, a recent quote from a subject who personifies the topic, and an observation about the chilling effect of political correct-ness to free and open expression, which was then immediately reinforced by his firing for saying as much. Exactly what part of his statement, besides the part you disagree with on an emotional level, was out of line?

Big Journalism : NPR Hits Pledge Drive Week Paydirt, Fires Fox News Contributor for Progressive Cash

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:57:20 +0000

Care to define analyst?

Big Journalism : NPR Hits Pledge Drive Week Paydirt, Fires Fox News Contributor for Progressive Cash

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:46:43 +0000

I'm confused - How can one be a News Analyst if they're not allowed share the results of said analysis? The part about Juan's comments not meeting their ethical standards is... troubling, at best.

Big Government : Don't Ask Me about the NAACP's Desperate 'Report' on the Tea Party

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:19:13 +0000

Can you imagine if the media actually did their job? Oh boy would we live in a different world!

Big Government : Don't Ask Me about the NAACP's Desperate 'Report' on the Tea Party

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:18:22 +0000

Honestly seeing liberals comment on the breitbart sites is really a delight - As usual this specimen has nothing to contribute and instead focuses on unrelated obviously nonsense personal attacks. Well done! That's a firm -1 par for the course. To the story at hand: Agree with everyone all around, I laughed pretty hard as I read through this most recent "report" (lol what a joke) - My favorite part was where they equated "advocating slavery" to "supporting non-unionized workplaces" Yeah, not being in a union sure is just like slavery - Thank god they're here to remind us how apparently not so bad *actual* slavery was. Thanks for the laughs, Syntax & Ben!

Breitbart.tv : Missouri State Auditor Really Likes Margaritas

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:04:41 +0000

Not to be "That Guy", but that seemed like a social "mixer" party, and drinking too much is pretty much par for the course. How else do you think people manage to spend so much time around music 15 decibels above safe levels and talking about progressive policies. I've been really dismayed to see Breitbart's sites increasingly take the left's character assassination techniques to embarass, even sometimes ginning up the story to make the headline play better (see the recent coverage of Jerry Brown's Aide calling Whitman a whore) I get that alot of conservatives think we should go all alinsky on the left, but I think it's a pretty sad thing that we've now sunk to that level. The left reports the narrative, the right reports the truth - No skeezy tactics neccesary when you're right and your opponent is desperate.

Big Government : No Accepted Medical Use? Three Perspectives on Medical Cannabis

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:13:59 +0000

If you're a medical user, you're not looking to get "effect" from it, only relief. And those two are not joined at the hip. Tolerance in Marijuana is the body getting used to having a certain level of cannabinoids in its system and learning how to function at that level. To obtain relief you merely not to have the cannabinoid level, not the high. You seem to argue "how can medical users do this" while at the same time mis-understanding the fundamental nature of the action. I think it's fantastic that you live a completely unmedicated life, would that everyone could be so fortunate in these troubled times. You talk about "the days of Capone" but lets talk about reality here. Every cartel that exists in the world is allowed to exist by one of two functions: 1) The government allows it to happen 2) Rule of Law in that country is not strong enough to stop them at low levels. Take a Marijuana seed and put it in a pot in your back yard, water it once every 3 days from your garden hose and you'll grow some decent marijuana. Compare that to the process for making distilled hard liquor. Ok, now go ahead and explain to me how the government, the mob, or anyone else can control a plant? Obviously they can't, or the war on drugs would have been something besides a miserable failure, and Marijuana usage wouldn't be up all over the country. You talk about Crack, but again - that's a hard chemical with highly addictive properties, and while as a libertarian I do think that the individual rather than the government should be responsible for their own actions, I recognize that in our current society enough people have grown up without a decent education that any mass legalization of hard drugs would have a pretty serious initial impact. Marijuana isn't any of those things. But it always comes down to this: "Where in the constitution does it give you the right" And the answer is, it doesn't. Any response to that? Or are you only in favor of individual liberty when people make the same life choices as you?

Big Government : No Accepted Medical Use? Three Perspectives on Medical Cannabis

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:40:12 +0000

Actually, the growing community is against Prop19 because prop19 is very poorly written, undoes a substantial amount of the legal framework that make up "The Medical Marijuana Act", and the sponsors in Oakland, CA have already moved to position themselves to soak up as much of the market as they can should legalization come. The reality is there was a real opportunity here to engage the federal government on a "Well, we legalized it so what are you gonna do about it now?" level, but the way they wrote the law makes it very difficult to support, and it has nothing to do with the taxes.

Big Government : No Accepted Medical Use? Three Perspectives on Medical Cannabis

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:35:09 +0000

Once you get used to Marijuana and build up a tolerence to it, it becomes much easier to function. Essentially by medicating and then going about your normal day you re-train your functions to also operate while "medicated" I read a study a few months ago that made a pretty convincing arguement that while people who have used alot of MJ in the last few minutes can be adversely effected re: driving ability, a habitual user with tolerence and practice is not any less safe than a sober driver. But it's more complicated than that, because this is an incredibly advanced plant. There is a huge amount of variation within the genetic pool and a wide variety of possible effects ranging from sedative to stimulative to appetite inducing to pain relieving, the list goes on and on. Each "strain" is a different lineage of those genetics and thus a different combination of effects. I have had major GI problems and food allergies for the last four years and I've used MJ to help me function, i.e. not be in the bathroom constantly. I work sales that requires me to be on the phone functioning at a high level, managing hundreds of relationships, etc. Not something to do with a clouded mind. So for my purposes, I can pick a strain then for daytime use (should I need it) that has little or no "head change", but still calms my system. Someone before mentioned he thought people would go to work and get fired because they're high and turn to stealing, and I think that's a product of the governments decades of propoganda. As someone who has indeed gone to work in the situation you've described I can tell you it (at least for me) was a very negative experience and something I am not likely to repeat. 1) Anything not involving large amounts of driving to perform your duties, although this can depend on the person. 2) Marijuana is one of the easiest and cheapest plants to grow, the cost is only high because the government has made its production dangerous to the producer. Get the government out of it and let the normal market take hold, it seems to be developing very similarly to the wine market, with specific localities, boutique farms, etc. This is already happening in northern CA on a massive scale just through the medical side. 3) This is a common argument by people who havn't really tried the substance in question. The reality is that No, this is not something the government wants because it's 1) a HUGE source of government spending (which they like) on "the war on drugs" 90% of which is directed towards Marijuana. Marijuana isn't a magic bullet, my wife has been rear ended three times in the last two years (Yay driving) and has major pain all over her back. We've been looking for something that can really help with that, but outside of morphine MJ is the next best thing - It doesn't always make you stop hurting, but it will generally at least make it seem less important and thus you feel it less. The other part of the answer is that when you're "high" you think about things... differently. This depends on the strain characteristics more than a little bit, and different strains have different levels of it, but it takes you out of your every day life and lets you look at things from a different perspective. The government does *not* like that, because any fundamental questioning of the system is viewed as a threat to the system... Does that make sense? The funniest part is that all the most informed people I know are the potheads, and every single one of them falls under the broad category of "conservative" And that's in California ;)

Big Government : No Accepted Medical Use? Three Perspectives on Medical Cannabis

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:04:30 +0000

While I don't advocate it, studies have shown that the link between marijuana intoxication and impaired driving is questionable. http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5450

Big Government : No Accepted Medical Use? Three Perspectives on Medical Cannabis

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:59:40 +0000

Honestly trying marijuana for my medical needs is what opened my eyes to the reality that the government is not acting in our best interest. I played the heathcare system for 3 years and literally did not leave my residence more than 3 or 4 times during that period because there was simply nothing that could be done for me. ... So imagine my suprise when I discover this little plant that has a real cost of about $100 per pound when grown outside makes it so I can function like a normal human being. And the government is telling me that my life will be ruined if I ever go near the stuff. That was the first crack in the dam, and now here we are a little over a year later and I'm fully tuned in to the fundamental wrongs in our system and the perverse effect that overreaching government has on every part of the American Dream. I read about the generations who came before us who knew a much different America than I grew up with and it's just shocking to see how the noose has slowly tightened around our necks over the last 90 years. Ultimately we all self-medicate, whether you do it with pot or whisky or beer or cigarettes or aspirin or oxycodeine or adderal, the list goes on and on.... The only question that matters is "Where in the Constitution does it give you the right" And the answer is it doesn't.

Big Government : No Accepted Medical Use? Three Perspectives on Medical Cannabis

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:45:27 +0000

Marijuana is psychologically addicting, not physically addictive. That's a fundamental distinction that often goes unnoticed. Why? Because ANYTHING can be psychologically addictive - It literally results from repeated positive experiances, so marijuana is addictive in the same way as reality TV, or good food. Compare that to someone coming off of Heroin, or even a heavy night of drinking and it quickly becomes apparently how the dangers of "grass" has been greatly exagerated. I suspect someday soon we'll live in a country where you can smoke it if you want, or not. Free adults making informed decisions for themselves. How American is that? As to your concern people will go to work high then get fired for it and lose their job and turn to stealing to support their pot addiction... ... Well, I don't really know what to say to that - Is that what most people who enjoy the occasional beer do?