For The Record……

~ Guy Hall ~ 1 Comment

No, I will not go back to smoking marijuana if it becomes legal.

(truthout) But there is a populist revolt brewing. Beginning with state legalization of marijuana use for easing medical pain, the movement to fully decriminalize pot has picked up steam as the voters of Washington and Colorado approved an end to marijuana prohibition.

As with many trends, California is pointing the way. Doug Fine, author and rancher, detailed how the de facto tolerance for marijuana farms and use in Mendocino County is likely a harbinger for a new green economic revolution in the United States: a legalized pot industry.

However, I still believe it should be legal. It is not a harmless drug, by a long shot. Yet, it is far less harmful than alcohol, which directly (i.e., by using it, not by violence associated with selling) kills more people than all the other drugs combined.

Update: Edited to eliminate redundancies. Oh, and because I am an anal-retentive perfectionist.

Only A Stoner!

~ Guy Hall

(RS) A Michigan man on Tuesday was surprised to find a pipe loaded with marijuana inside a Burger King Kids Meal for his 4-year-old grandson.

“He handed the kid’s meal that he had gotten at Burger King to his 4-year-old grandson and when they opened it up they found a loaded marijuana pipe inside the kid’s meal,” police told Toledo News Now.

Yup. I remember those days. Good thing my ass was attached to the rest of my body back when marijuana was a staple of my life, or I would have left it in a bag as well.

Actually, when I was in the Navy, down at the Nuclear Power Training Facility in Orlando, a friend and I once got so stoned that we hide an ounce of marijuana we had just purchased in a floor speaker that he had in his van. We were so stoned that we both forgot it was there. We figured we traveled on and off the base for months with that bag in the speaker. In fact we drove from the Orlando base all the way up the East Coast to Massachusetts without realizing it was there. Not until we actually set up his speakers in the house we were renting did we discover it!

Science Backs My Suspicions!

~ Guy Hall

(RS) A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives’ brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other “primitive” emotions. At the same time, conservatives’ brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate — the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

I always thought Conservatives were cowards!

2013 Tour De Rook – Leg 12

~ Guy Hall ~ 5 Comments

To the stats!

  1. Miles: 10.59Tour_Rook
  2. Time: 45.21
  3. Max Speed: 26.2 mph
  4. Average Speed: 13.9 mph
  5. iPod: Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
  6. Temperature: 88° F
  7. Wind: SW 9 G 16 mph
  8. Humidity: 55%

From Rutledge to Finlyason and back. Now, once again, I have to go put away my bike, stretch, and then make myself some supper.

Update: Damn, am I out of it! I had already put away my bike!

Cameo!

~ Guy Hall

I watched the beginning of “Batman Returns” and just realized that Paul Ruben has a cameo as the Penguin’s father.

A Rude As He Can

~ Guy Hall

Wow. Just wow.

So he’ll just say this: On that night last February, when he got out of his car, George Zimmerman became the judge and jury of Trayvon Martin, accused of the crime of being a black male teenager walking in a neighborhood. Zimmerman then became Martin’s executioner because, like so many oppressed people before him, Martin resisted Zimmerman’s judgment. So Zimmerman did what scared people in power do all the time. He used overwhelming force to stop Martin’s resistance. It is the same kind of force that has killed people and movements in America and all over the world.

George Zimmerman wanted Trayvon Martin to submit to his power, to be what Zimmerman had adjudicated him to be. Trayvon Martin refused. Trayvon Martin resisted. And that’s why Trayvon Martin, like so many resisters before him, had to be killed.

There was no way George Zimmerman was going to be found guilty because his guilt would have made Trayvon Martin innocent and said that the law was wrong. Even worse, it would have made Trayvon Martin, the black male teenager, right in his resistance, and the state of Florida, if not the entire nation, would not allow that to happen.

Hat Tip: Alternate Brain.

Imagine That!

~ Guy Hall

anti-democratic

They really only want freedom for their religions, not all religions.

Oh, Hat Tip to Alternate Brain!

2013 Tour De Rook – Leg 11

~ Guy Hall

To the stats!

  1. Miles: 11.36Tour_Rook
  2. Time: 45.26
  3. Max Speed: 18.3 mph
  4. Average Speed: 14.9 mph
  5. iPod: Sheryl Crow – The Essentials
  6. Temperature: 79° F
  7. Wind: N 3 mph
  8. Humidity: 65%

A run a few minutes past Willow River and back. I pushed myself. I like that I almost achieved an average speed of 15 mph. Okay, I have to go put away my bike, stretch, and then make myself some supper.

 

Rain!

~ Guy Hall

I managed to get my lawn mowed just in time today. It has just started pouring outside! It does put a crimp on my going for Leg 11 of the Tour De Rook.

If you could see my face, it would have a sad on. A really big sad.

Be Pure or Die! The Republican Motto!

~ Guy Hall

(MSNBC) Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed harsh restrictions on abortion into law on Friday, setting the stage for a court battle with pro-choice groups over the new requirements.

The new law would require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of where a procedure is done and mandates ultrasounds for all women before the can get an abortion.

Planned Parenthood and Affiliated Medical Services has already filed a suit challenging the law, arguing that it violates the constitution’s guarantee of due process. Women in Wisconsin are already forced to listen to a presentation and wait for 24 hours between that appointment and actually getting an abortion.

Two of the four clinics in the state have said that they would have to shut down because of the law, leaving Wisconsin’s women with dramatically reduced options for essential reproductive care, particularly in the large rural part of the state.

Congratulated a friend on living in a state that mandates sexual assault.

Her: “Thank God for missing parts!!!”

Me: “Oh, I bet they figure out a way to criminalize that as well! Can’t have you women folk messing with the natural way of things! Be Pure or Die! That’s the Republican motto these days.”