Gallup: Majority of Americans back pot legalization
This is, I think, one of the more dramatic reversals of public opinion of the past 30 years.
As Gallup notes, this is the first year in which a majority of Americans polled say they support legalization of marijuana, and the clear trend line suggests that majority is likely to grow. The realities of life offer further reason to think that trend will continue. Support for legalization is lowest among those 65 and older, and highest among those ages 18-29.
Not surprisingly, Southern Republican conservatives older than 65 are least likely to support legalization. But even among that subgroup, it looks as though roughly a third or more think marijuana should be legal. That’s roughly the same level of support that existed in the nation as a whole just a decade ago.
I’m at a loss to explain that sudden shift in sentiment, because I have no idea what outside force might be driving it. It is, you might say, a homegrown movement.
– Jay Bookman
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moonbat betty
October 18th, 2011
5:02 pm
Yeah, I quit years ago too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfgZH8kFAKc
Bosch
October 18th, 2011
5:02 pm
“There are either moral absolutes or there are not.”
I vote not,
“If not, then really anything could be acceptable at some point ”
And I don’t buy the slipperty slope thing either. I know what is right and what is wrong, not because the Bible or anything tells me so, it’s because humans have a sense of that based upon mores and norms of a society.
Yes, cannibalism and child molestation are frowned upon in this society, but in others, cannibalism is totally accepted (I don’t know of any society where child molestation is ok), it’s based upon someone’s culture.
And some cultures have sub-cultures where some practices are more accepting. Read a sociology book, it’ll asplain a little more.
Anywho, gotta go get me daughter! Later gators!!
Aquagirl
October 18th, 2011
5:04 pm
Ah, Strawman—-another “ok for me, but not for thee” moralist.
Actually no one cared about pot until racist fruitcakes claimed it would destroy CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT!!!!111!!!!
So maybe changing attitudes are due to common frakking sense trumping hysterical propaganda. That point probably never occurred to you.
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Reefer Madness.
October 18th, 2011
5:04 pm
pogo, the “wrath of con”. I like that!
But you do remember what happened to him, right?
(He wasn’t luxuriating in fine Corinthian leather!)
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
5:06 pm
“Smoking pot is not immoral, it’s a freaking plant for God’s sake — you of all people, being a straw and all, should understand!”
Bosch, old buddy, I sure hope you don’t apply that same logic on a whim to smoke some poison ivy leaves.
josef
October 18th, 2011
5:06 pm
moonbat
That’s your story, and you stick to it!
Mitzymy
October 18th, 2011
5:07 pm
If they are going to ban something, they should ban cigarettes. They are more addictive than heroin, and they kill. They don’t make you feel good and happy, and they don’t add anything positive to your life, only a reminder that one day the doctor will say that you are dying. Pot does have a cancer causing agent in it, but you don’t smoke as much pot as you do cigarettes. No one smokes 20 to 40 joints a day as they do cigarettes. Smoke a joint, eat a little, and take a nap.
getalife
October 18th, 2011
5:07 pm
“And one that is VERY effective in controlling pain.”
It takes you mind off the pain and kicks starts the opiates for pain.
My doctors have no problem with it.
Liquor and cigars make them upset .
Imagine that.
McCain for Resident
October 18th, 2011
5:07 pm
Pot harvesters are the crux of my new real american jobs plan. But in order for it to have a chance of passing, everybody must sing Bob Dylan tunes.
Joe Mama
October 18th, 2011
5:07 pm
Mitzymy — “It appears that the men and women who were smoking it, did a better job., got along better, and didn’t take their mistakes too seriously. Production went up and every body was happy again.”
Clearly Congress needs to burn a few jays.
too little time
October 18th, 2011
5:10 pm
“One would be the general erosion of moral standards over the past several decades”
???. This presumes that partaking of MJ is moral issue. Much like the prohibition of alcohol, It only became an issue when it was criminalized.
Okay, you want to talk morals? Here is my #1 reason for legalization:
When you pass laws that turn everyone into criminals, you breed deep disrespect for the government and the law. Bad laws CAUSE moral breakdown… the breakdown being disrespect for the rule of law. A concise set of legitimate laws is necessary for the respect for those who enforce them.
You can quote me on that. It is like the 55mph speed limit. There might have been some tiny percentage of the population that never broke the speed limit, but 99% of drivers broke this law. What kind of respect do you think regular citizens had for officers enforcing this law?
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
5:11 pm
“Actually no one cared about pot until racist fruitcakes claimed it would destroy CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT!!!!111!!!! ”
I always wondered who made Reefer Madness. That’s for clearing that up for us, AquaGirl – it was RACIST FRUITCAKES! One of the perks of reading this blog is, of course, that is has its own superhero.
“So maybe changing attitudes are due to common frakking sense trumping hysterical propaganda. That point probably never occurred to you.”
Not quite like that. But, then again, I am not AquaGirl.
Adam
October 18th, 2011
5:19 pm
Strawman: Bosch, old buddy, I sure hope you don’t apply that same logic on a whim to smoke some poison ivy leaves.
It’s not immoral to smoke those either. It’s stupid, but not immoral.
Aquagirl
October 18th, 2011
5:20 pm
But, then again, I am not AquaGirl
My sympathies. We can’t all be perfect.
uspo
October 18th, 2011
5:22 pm
Oh what a tangled webbed-feet we weave when we first practice to be morons.
Tech '10
October 18th, 2011
5:23 pm
Well, if mj was legal, you could tax it, which would help to raise revenue. Growing modest amounts of pot could be like a small business, which would help stimulate the economy though producing something in relatively high demand and relieve the prison system of its burden. There are very few actual disadvantages to legalizing pot; it is no worse than liquor.
I am sure this has been more eloquently stated, I just don’t want to read through that many comments.
Mudfoot
October 18th, 2011
5:23 pm
“Not quite like that. But, then again, I am not AquaGirl”
Yeah, that’s most evident. Nice attempt at being “MoralMan” though
Kamchak
October 18th, 2011
5:23 pm
josef
Just so happens that shop where I drank my first Coca-cola used to belong to my grandfather until he sold it to “Mr. Tom” who gave me my first haircut and continued cutting my hair for many years when we visited the folks hometown. The last time he cut my hair, Dad had to go get him out of one of those small-town pool halls in the middle of the afternoon. I could smell the beer on his breath and it was the worst. haircut. ever!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Come November of 2012, getalife is going to witness the “wrath of con”.
^^^^^Whistling past the graveyard.^^^^^
Joe Mama
October 18th, 2011
5:23 pm
If my house was burning down, I’d rather Aquagirl come save me than Strawman. Aquagirl comes with her own water, while Strawman’s just tinder for the fire.
Adam
October 18th, 2011
5:23 pm
uspo: Oh what a tangled webbed-feet we weave when we first practice to be morons.
The Republican base crossed that bridge already and burned it so they couldn’t go back to being NOT crazy.
Tech '10
October 18th, 2011
5:24 pm
legalizing it would also force current drug dealers to clean up their act or change professions.. or move on to harder stuff, that should actually be punished…in theory anyway
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
5:26 pm
“When you pass laws that turn everyone into criminals, you breed deep disrespect for the government and the law. Bad laws CAUSE moral breakdown..”
I think you have a point there and, thought I didn’t say it in my initial post, I think it is really hard to make and try to enforce laws that are inconsistent. And, though I think that smoking pot is not beneficial to most people (based on my own personal experience), I nonetheless recognize that it is inconsistent to outlaw this activity when smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, eating 20 Big Macs in one sitting and other harmful things are legal. It is not for me a make or break proposition in considering a candidate for office. I used to smoke cigarettes at one time but am not one of the militant anti-smokers former smokers often become. For me the underlying moral principle is harm to oneself – which not only costs the person but can also cost the society at large (as we have now seen with healthcare and the like).
josef
October 18th, 2011
5:31 pm
Strawman reminds me of an old drag queen from way back when who did the Salvation Army Lady
“Brothers and Sisters, I used to run with a bad crowd. Brothers and Sisters, I don’t run with a bad crowd anymore! Brothers and Sisters, I used to drink and smoke marijuana. Brothers and Sisters, I don’t drink and smoke marijuana anymore! Brothers and Sisters, I used to lay in the gutter. Brothers and Sisters, I don’t lay in the gutter anymore! …All I do is stand here and beat this g’d*mn drum!”
pogo
October 18th, 2011
5:31 pm
Too much money is to be made by the DEA and the cops for legalization to ever occur. Furthermore, politicians on both sides know that there is way too much political capital for them to harvest from keeping it illegal to ever consider decriminalization. Even though it would save this country billions. Alcohol is way more destructive than marijuana and yes pot can cause respiratory disease but what does alcohol do? It destroys lives, it destroys health and it causes violence in one
form or the other. There is one thing I know, pot does not cause violence. Unless of course it is kept illegal and the drug dealers continue on with their war.
ODD OWL
October 18th, 2011
5:34 pm
Legalize pot, tax it and revitalize the economy…
roughrider
October 18th, 2011
5:35 pm
Let medical doctors make the call on pot instead of lawmakers.
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
5:36 pm
“Strawman reminds me of an old drag queen from way back when who did the Salvation Army Lady…”
You have a curious imagination…I won’t ask what led you directly to this mental image. Keep it to yourself. Oh, and what is it you “preached” to me yesterday, “brother”?
josef
October 18th, 2011
5:39 pm
Strawman…
The routine…you are the one who fixated on who done it!
I don’t remember what I preached yesterday…! I change sermons too regularly and, well, there IS that short term memory loss!
Aquagirl
October 18th, 2011
5:40 pm
I think it is really hard to make and try to enforce laws that are inconsistent.
When you start picking and choosing who gets to slide by, white skin and social status count. Just ask Rush Limbaugh.
Aquagirl comes with her own water, while Strawman’s just tinder for the fire
And free dolphin rides for the kiddies!
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
5:42 pm
“I don’t remember what I preached yesterday…! I change sermons too regularly and, well, there IS that short term memory loss!”
Got it. In other words, you needn’t be taken seriously. Thanks for clarifying that.
Atlanta mom
October 18th, 2011
5:44 pm
Mexico would be happy to see us legalize pot. It would reduce the violence in their country dramatically.
josef
October 18th, 2011
5:46 pm
Strawman…
“Got it. In other words, you needn’t be taken seriously. Thanks for clarifying that.”
More than welcome. Some things, though, I thought were obvious. Kinda slow on the uptake, there…my needs are simple…
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
5:52 pm
“When you start picking and choosing who gets to slide by, white skin and social status count. Just ask Rush Limbaugh.”
I don’t know him. A lot of things can count when people are “picking and choosing” – not just race or social standing. That is patently obvious. If I go into certain neighborhoods in Atlanta, my white skin and middle class social status will not likely permit me to “slide by” (as you put it). Everyone on this blog (and indeed in the world) has moral standards, as evidenced by the judgements rendered almost every minute. They can all be wrong, but they cannot all be right. But logical inconsistency is a sure sign something is wrong.
kayaker 71
October 18th, 2011
5:55 pm
Aquagirl,
Rush Limbaugh isn’t breaking any laws or enforcing any as well. But if white skin and social status count, why does the DOJ open a hot line for illegal immigrants to call if they feel that they are being discriminated against? Getting to pick and choose who gets to slide by?….. seems like Bozo and the Justice Dept. have a pretty good lock on that with over 23M illegals in this country. And they aren’t white and although I am not so sure about their social status……
josef
October 18th, 2011
5:56 pm
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
–Oscar Wilde
Aquagirl
October 18th, 2011
5:57 pm
It would reduce the violence in their country dramatically.
I’ve always wondered why the “whut don’t u unnerstand ’bout eye-leagle” crowd doesn’t support legalization. But then they seem to think Mexicans are coming here just to spite them. What a bunch of narcissists.
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
5:58 pm
“More than welcome. Some things, though, I thought were obvious.”
Hmm…perhaps you are a little slow on the delivery (involving, as you say, a short term memory problem) that you forget you have posted seemingly very serious messages in the past – you know, like discussions concerned with minorities (which you consider Jews to be here in America). I’ll remember your new “position” on things when next you pretend to be serious.
TruthBe
October 18th, 2011
6:00 pm
This wouldn’t help the Country. How would this help young people and small children? What negative effects would this do to sociality as a whole? Has anybody throught this out long term? When children see their parents high, what social / emotional effects will this be on them? What are the negative costs of allowing marijuana to be legal? Is marijuana a “gateway drug”? Is long term usage of marijuana dangerous? Does it make people lazy so that they won’t want to work for things? Crime rate increases? More drugs are not the answer are they?
Kamchak
October 18th, 2011
6:02 pm
Is marijuana a “gateway drug”?
No, that would be caffeine.
Aquagirl
October 18th, 2011
6:03 pm
But if white skin and social status count, why does the DOJ open a hot line for illegal immigrants to call if blah blah blah blah blah….
And once again, kayaker’s cheese slides off his cracker.
Doggone/GA
October 18th, 2011
6:05 pm
TruthBe – take a line through the actual, current situation with alcohol. EVERY question you asked can also be asked of that drug. And alcohol is already legal.
pogo
October 18th, 2011
6:06 pm
“Whistling past the graveyard” Kam? We’ll see. Reality is something liberals have never been very good at dealing with. They tend to live in the land of “what may be” meanwhile ignoring that which is plainly in front of their eyes. But YOU never know (but I and every other thinking and taxpaying person in this country do). Come election day, never underestimate the power of the taxpaying people of middle America. We will take care of business next November and Obama will be thrown into the dustbin of American history as another failed mistake of the liberals/progressives. In politics, the beloved Keynesian theory doesn’t stand a chance against us nine to fivers who pay the bills that allow all of you retirees to sit on you ass and blog all day. All you think is that someone owes you. Here is a bit of reality for you, we working people don’t owe you crap. You owe us.
dustbin of American history as another mistake.
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:07 pm
Strawman…
The point was that said “you needn’t be taken seriously.” You= subject, need not=predicate, be taken seriously=complement. No, I don’t NEED that…even when I may be pontificating on this, that or the other of my “causes,” I, personally,neither need nor expect to be taken seriously. If someone takes (or does not take) the content of what I yammmer about seriously, so be it…
Now, let’s see…I go off on gays, Roma, American Indians, American Southerners AND Jews…so why did you pick Jews… hmmmm…
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
6:07 pm
“blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah”
Once again, AquaGirl proves she has been swimming with dolphins entirely too long (though I would have expected her nonsensical utterances to be more along the lines of “gurgle, gurgle, gurgle…”).
kayaker 71
October 18th, 2011
6:08 pm
Aquagirl,
You can make all the cutsie comments you want but your argument is bogus. Limbaugh has a point. According to the GAO, 25 Americans are killed every day by illegals, either by outright murder or in automobile accidents. Thats 9,000 deaths per year or over 36,000 deaths in the last four years. I might point out that that is 10X the number lost in Iraq but who gives a sh*t….. they’re only Americans…. and we have to protect those Mexicans at any cost, now don’t we?
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:11 pm
Aquagirl…
“…cheese slides off his cracker”
May I add that one to my repertoire?
Kamchak
October 18th, 2011
6:12 pm
…us nine to fivers who pay the bills that allow all of you retirees to sit on you ass and blog all day.
And just what is it that you do from nine to five?
I worked construction 7:00 am to 9:00 pm–and later–six to seven days a week while you do what from nine to five?
Sit on your ass running that mouth on the phone?
I scoff at your idea of hard work, sport.
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
6:12 pm
“Now, let’s see…I go off on gays, Roma, American Indians, American Southerners AND Jews…so why did you pick Jews… hmmmm…”
Inquiring minds want to know. I bet, if you made a mad dash to the supermarket, you might still be able to purchase the latest issue of the Enquirer. But listen to me seriously: aliens did NOT abduct and brainwash Condoleezza Rice!!!
TruthBe
October 18th, 2011
6:12 pm
Doggone/Ga, Yes, but we are talking about marijuana. Look how alcohol has done to sociality as a whole and to people’s lifes.
Bosch
October 18th, 2011
6:13 pm
And once again, kayaker’s cheese slides off his cracker.
Thats why we love Aquagirl.
Strawman,
RE: smoking poison ivy
I see no problem with that, as Adam wrote, it’s not immoral or illegal to smoke poison ivy and would probably kill the individual- I’m all for natural selection – if your dumb enough to do something like that, then you are probably too dumb to live.
Jay
October 18th, 2011
6:13 pm
kayaker, I guarantee you that there is no GAO report making such a ludicrous claim. None.
Really, I absolutely marvel at the capacity of the right to simply invent facts and statistics out of thin air as they need them. And once one lie is exposed they go merrily onto the next.
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:17 pm
Strawman…
I don’t have to make a mad rush to the supermarket…got it in “the reading room” already…
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
6:17 pm
“I see no problem with that, as Adam wrote, it’s not immoral or illegal to smoke poison ivy and would probably kill the individual- I’m all for natural selection – if your dumb enough to do something like that, then you are probably too dumb to live.”
Yes, it would likely kill the individual. So, that being the case, should it be legal (or moral) to sell it to another person (I mean, because it’s just a plant, right)?
uspo
October 18th, 2011
6:17 pm
the people here comment all day and all night for years and years and years.
It’s rather unsettling. They think they’re accomplishing something. They think that they’re weaving the fabric of the social network.
They’re only being knit wits and morons. If only they could read themselves as they are being read.
They’d stop commenting, that’s for sure.
That’s 4 dang sure.
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
6:18 pm
“I don’t have to make a mad rush to the supermarket…got it in “the reading room” already…”
Really? Where do you work?
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:18 pm
“If drugs are outlawed, only outlaws will have drugs.” –Unmentionable
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:19 pm
STRAWMAN
In which of my jobs?
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Reefer Madness.
October 18th, 2011
6:19 pm
josef, you know why.
The Zionist banking cabal, that I am still trying to get into! (And apparently because you consider Jews to be a minority!)
Man, oh man, oh man.
Here is to hoping that the condidates in Vegas tonight get asked point blank about the OWS protests. The ones gone nationwide and international.
This promises to be a huge public collapse by more than few of the fake conservatives on that stage.
And yet more garish, foot-in-mouth spectacle…
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:20 pm
uspo
And? You’re here on the cyber front porch with the rest of us, ain’t you?
Aquagirl
October 18th, 2011
6:20 pm
Hey, kayaker, right now, somewhere there is an illegal alien smoking pot. Deal with it. So you should be headed over to NORML’s website for full membership if you want those funny talking brown people out of your manifest destiny.
Also, you have confused “wingnut congressman talking out his butt” with “GAO.” The rest of us know the difference.
TruthBe
October 18th, 2011
6:21 pm
Jay, That sounds like the corrupt liars of the Democrat Party and their brought and paid for wouldbe news media that you belong to. The left has ALWAYS used lies and deception as an allied to FORCE their perverted belief system down our throats.
kayaker 71
October 18th, 2011
6:21 pm
Bookman,
Hate to do your homework for you but go to Review America.com, June 22,2006, A report on “Illegal Aliens Linked to Rise in Crime Statistics”. It is much worse than I stated. These stats are not lies. They are not fabricated and they certainly are not ludicrous. Look it up and then give me a shout.
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:22 pm
ZamVet…
But you’ve got to be a gay na-zi Jewish banker, doncha know?
Jay
October 18th, 2011
6:23 pm
And right on schedule, there it is, the much-dreaded “I know you are but what am I?” defense, offered by someone advocating Truth in his blog name.
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
6:23 pm
“In which of my jobs?”
Oh, boy. TMI, Josef; I’ll withdraw the question.
kayaker 71
October 18th, 2011
6:24 pm
Aquagirl,
But do you deny the stats? Whether they came directly from the GAO or from a Republican Congressman or from Batman, they are not bogus. Your are dodging the bullet. This is real.
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:26 pm
STRAWMAN
Oh, I haven’t worked in THAT area since I was about 16-17 years old!
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
6:27 pm
“The left has ALWAYS used lies and deception as an allied to FORCE their perverted belief system down our throats.”
I would have to disagree, I remember at least one time when Jay did not do this. So you can’t say always.
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Reefer Madness.
October 18th, 2011
6:28 pm
Damn! Really?
Well, josef, I guess I’ll just have to be content to be one of the working class schmucks.
Speaking of which, I think I’ve discovered one of the reasons why several of the right wing schmucks here are so damn delusional:
A poll from 2000 showed that no less than 19% considered themselves in the top 1% — and another 20% on top of that expected they would be soon.
Which explains why our billionaires, who contribute regularly here, write the things they do!!
Kamchak
October 18th, 2011
6:29 pm
I have found that those who complain the most about having something forced down their throats, are the same ones who will swallow just about anything.
TruthBe
October 18th, 2011
6:30 pm
Jay, You wouldn’t know the truth if it was setting in front you. You are paid to promote the lefts agenda plain and simple my deal friend. If you were free to write about the truth, would you???????? Not just what you are instructed to write about from your liberal progressive bosses.
Jay
October 18th, 2011
6:32 pm
And you compound one lie with two more, Kayaker. The site in question is RenewAmerica.com, not ReviewAmerica, but that’s a simple mistake.
The lies come in the fact that nowhere on that site does it say a damn thing about 25 Americans dying each day at the hands of illegals, nor is there a link to any GAO study claiming such a thing.
Making up baloney to hide the fact that you’re making up baloney…. Shall we now go for the rarely attempted triple-baloney play, in which the contestant makes up a lie to hide the lie told to hide the initial lie?
Soothsayer
October 18th, 2011
6:33 pm
Here’s where the “stats” come from. This dumbass.
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:33 pm
ZamVet
That’s what I keep saying myself…but they’ll keep on shlepping for Soros!
Kamchak
October 18th, 2011
6:34 pm
Meltdown in progress.
Jay
October 18th, 2011
6:34 pm
TruthBe, if you care to be specific about a lie I have allegedly told — not just a conclusion that disagrees with YOUR conclusion — then step right up and state your piece.
Jay
October 18th, 2011
6:36 pm
Here’s the GAO site, Kayaker: http://www.gao.gov/
Find that report and prove me wrong.
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:36 pm
K’Chak
@ 6:29
Good one!
TRUTH BE
You seem to know an awful lot of (incidentally incorrect) details…where IS your mind? You’ve got the wrong gutter here!
Liberal Progressive Boss
October 18th, 2011
6:37 pm
Jay, did you write that column on how Romney is a secret admirer of Butch Cassidy (a baptized Mormon) yet? No??? Why not? What do you think we pay you for – to chat with mindless neocons on your pathetic blog?? Have you not noticed that Cynthia is not around any longer? Did you see how FEW columns she was writing for us? Put two and two together, mister!
Soothsayer
October 18th, 2011
6:37 pm
You see, the way it works is this: some dumbass like this Kowalski makes absurd unfounded statements and the right “adopts” them. Then as it is repeat over and over again, it takes on the mantle of “truth,” such as it is. Would you really expect anything else?
Aquagirl
October 18th, 2011
6:37 pm
This is real.
Only in your scared lilly-white brain, kayaker.
And yes, those “stats” are complete and total crap. And you are incredibly gullible to believe them. You want me to provide links? Why would I do that, since anything that disagrees with your nutcase forwarded e-mails is clearly untrustworthy commiepinko propaganda? I seem to recall you saying snopes was a liberal left wing bunch. Too much WhirledNutDaily has infected your brain.
But for hilarity’s sake, here’s the godless socialist SPLC explanation of how someone sold you a load of BS.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/summer/paranoid-style-redux/getting-immigrat
BTW, the Army spent taxpayer dollars teaching me about propaganda and how it’s used to gain political power. You are one screaming textbook case if I ever saw one.
Jm
October 18th, 2011
6:37 pm
Jay. Re earlier post, any scoop on occupy Atlanta.
What’s your read?
Soothsayer
October 18th, 2011
6:39 pm
Jay, my 6:33 shows exactly where he got it from. Case closed.
Jay
October 18th, 2011
6:39 pm
jm, that’s my morning post.
Don't Forget
October 18th, 2011
6:41 pm
TruthBe
October 18th, 2011
6:30 pm
Jay, You wouldn’t know the truth if it was setting in front you. You are paid to promote the lefts agenda plain and simple my deal friend. If you were free to write about the truth, would you???????? Not just what you are instructed to write about from your liberal progressive bosses.
Hey Einstein, who pays Kyle Wingfield?
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
6:41 pm
Come on, LPB….your zeal is getting the better of you. Romney is NOT a secret admirer of Cassidy; he only said in passing that he enjoyed watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Geez..get a grip, man!
Doggone/GA
October 18th, 2011
6:43 pm
“Doggone/Ga, Yes, but we are talking about marijuana. Look how alcohol has done to sociality as a whole and to people’s lifes.”
As someone in Ken Burn’s series about Prohibition said, in effect: you treat those who have a problem, you don’t legislate for everyone because 10% of the people have a problem. It doesn’t work.
McCain for Resident
October 18th, 2011
6:43 pm
uspo,
read my lips. No New Jobs! I mean… real jobs for real Americans… dammit, that’s not what I meant. I’ll chase Osama to the gates of haides, if I knew where that was. Is it 2008 yet.
Don't Forget
October 18th, 2011
6:44 pm
Aquagirl,
BTW, the Army spent taxpayer dollars teaching me about propaganda and how it’s used to gain political power. You are one screaming textbook case if I ever saw one.
Exactly. Crazy like Fox.
USMC
October 18th, 2011
6:44 pm
Jay@6:32
WOW! Jay, that was a lot of bluster and bravado for just one post.
McCain for Resident
October 18th, 2011
6:46 pm
Mitt claims to know the 99%. He will say anything to get their votes. I have scruples. Where did I put them. I can’t go anywhere without them.
josef
October 18th, 2011
6:46 pm
Doggone
You know my jaundiced opinion of Ken Burns…but that Prohibition one was him at his best! Watched it twice…
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Reefer Madness.
October 18th, 2011
6:46 pm
Yep, sometimes the adults just gotta tell the screaming kids to shut the hell up or go to another room…
Jay
October 18th, 2011
6:47 pm
TruthBe, another post like that one and you’ll be gone, capice?
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
6:49 pm
“Only in your scared lilly-white brain, kayaker.”
I’ve learned so much since I’ve been reading this blog. I never knew brains could be both scared and lily white. Those silly doctors who refer to them as grey matter…where did they get edumacated?
Jm
October 18th, 2011
6:49 pm
Jay 6:39 aha!
The suspense is killing us all.
Kamchak
October 18th, 2011
6:49 pm
Yellow card!
Strawman
October 18th, 2011
6:53 pm
“TruthBe, another post like that one and you’ll be gone, capice?”
Like what one?
Aquagirl
October 18th, 2011
6:54 pm
that was a lot of bluster and bravado for just one post.
Most people don’t realize how much havoc you can wreak with crap information. If you did, you’d be less complacent when you see zombified posters.
kayaker 71
October 18th, 2011
6:55 pm
Bookman,
You and others like you decry the illegal immigrant problem as just another walk in the park, no problem, we can handle that….. they only contribute to our well being and do the jobs that others will not do. But CA is a prime example of how wrong that premise is. CA spends close to 10.5B/yr on illegals. 7.7B in education (close to 15% of the student body is latino illegals), 1.4 B on health care, 1.1B in subsidies and they are 28B in the hole as of last month. And you and people like Aquagirl, who has her head in the sand,want us to believe that that is not a problem? What kind of world do you live in? Go to About.com. They will make you much smarter.