Archive for October, 2008
This is what happens when you adore politicians and create a cult of celebrity!
In my last post I said, “Don’t feed the pigs!” That was not a juvenile attempt to insult police officers. It was a juvenile attempt to insult only those police officers involved in drug enforcement. I’ll extend that to all police officers who are involved in the enforcment of laws that declare activity with no victim to be a crime. In that case, the real criminals are the ones with badges.
“It’s quite simple, really,
” Nanofsky explains, “I wanted to combine Citrus sinesis with Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol.” In layman’s terms, the respected college professor proposed to grow oranges that would contain THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
This is fascinating…and so very subversive! These oranges aren’t illegal…but kids can get high off of them! SWEET!! (I guess that has two meanings…)
On another note: learn from the kid in the story! Don’t EVER consent to a police search under any circumstances. Tell them to get a warrant or leave you alone. They have no right to search you without a warrant and it could only lead to bad things. Plus, if you happen to have some illegal substance on you, consenting to the search pretty much kills any chance you have at getting the evidence suppressed in court.
It is true: they can seize your property without any genuine due process of law. So, don’t consent to a search, EVER. Don’t feed the pigs.
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I just switched off the vice-presidential debate. What garbage. I really love theatre; the kind where actors memorize lines and entertain. The two actors on stage tonight are reciting lines that they’ve memorized, and they’re doing a really bad job of it.
They aren’t addressing real issues, neither of them has said one thing about the economy or healthcare, and I doubt they’re going to say anything substantial about anything else.
When will we have a wildcard in these debates? When will we have someone who actually brings up real issues and makes real arguments? Not any time soon…
It is my personal mission to become wealthy enough to fund a Libertarian campaign for president that is large enough to become a part of the debate. I can only imagine how those two would squirm on stage against someone like me. Make no mistakes: in four years, they will recast this play. The actors will be different (half of them anyway) but the lines will be the same, the stage will be the same and America’s problems will be worse. Nothing will change until a rational individual comes along and gets ahold of one of those microphones.
I’m still going to vote for Bob Barr. Ten minutes of their bullshit was enough. Now I’ll go bury my head in a biochemistry textbook. I think there are some real correlates there: these actors obvious both have trisomies, and their arguments suffer from osteogenesis imperfecta!
I am very happy that I found my little dog. In the last week, he has gone from a malnourished, abused and terrified puppy, to a rapidly growing, bold, energetic and happy puppy.
He has already learned to fetch (he does it right about 1/2 the time). Hot dogs are his favorite treats, but I can just pick up food out of his bowl and use those as treats and he still gets just as excited. He still doesn’t like to eat from his bowl, but he is getting better about it. I got him a toy that squeaks, and at first he was afraid of it, but now he loves it.
The best thing about having this dog is that it gets me outside several times a day. When I take a break from studying, I take the dog outside to play. This is far better than surfing the net and playing mobwars.
Tonight I took him to the chip van (an outdoors restaurant of sorts), and while he was a little timid at first, he quickly got used to everyone and had a great time. He likes riding in the car! I’m going to get him a leash tommorrow and start jogging with him (I have to do something to burn off his excess energy!). This will be good for me too.
On Friday I’m going to take him to a beach bar, and I anticipate that he will have a blast playing in the sand…while I have a blast drinking carib!
Life is good in Antigua!