Meant to post a lot, but you know how that goes.
Found this photo on flickr, and was impressed with the stark beauty:
BoingBoing : Guatemala security forces retake "jail town" built by prisoners
BoingBoing : apparently-baked biz school prof who was soon fired - with video to boot! update: remix!
BoingBoing : Adopt a Clitoris / Alien clone sex cult leader launches "Clitoraid" campaign
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - Gandhi
I saw this picture on the Act for Change website, and it really made me sad…sometimes, you have to take the moral high ground. If you do not, you are no better (or worse: no one likes a hypocrite) than the 'terrorists' you are 'trying' to defeat. Click on it if you feel the same way…"NOT IN MY NAME!!!"
Can you imagine what it was like under that hood? Innocent people are convicted every day HERE IN THE U.S. Hell, innocent people have been executed…what is the likelihood that the guy being 'questioned' above was thought of as innocent until proven guilty? More likely just seen as a potential source of information…
Check this link out: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0405/S00011.htm
Winning their hearts and minds indeed…God Bless America, err, excuse me while I hang my head in shame. "I'm proud to be an American" indeed…Is Lee Greenwood's song now an ironic mockery of reality? The Stars and Stripes stand for freedom? Equality? Dignity? That all men are created equal, unless they are not protestant, white, European, Caucasian…then you can stick some electrodes to their nutsack and torture them until they say whatever it is you were trying to get them to say, anything to make the pain and humiliation to stop?
Great…hearts and minds, indeed…
Police in the United States made a record number of arrests in 2005 according to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report. The 786,545 people arrested for marijuana violations made up 42.6 percent of all drug arrests, and more arrests the total number for all violent crimes combined, including murder, manslaughter, and rape, robbery and assault.
From : wired.com
One third of US citizens have tried Marijuana. Prohibition has proven itself a useless excersice. The only things I can think of:
1) Government wants to 'look tough', and repealing prohibition would cost SOMEONE votes.
2) Drug Lords employ lobbyists just like anyone else. Repealing prohibition is bad for their business as it would really cut profits (if prices were then raised with taxes to fund rehabilitation and education, as it should be, which would also reduce their business, the profits would then go towards something useful beyond beer, bitches, massive mansions, and substantial financial consideration to our very much in-need elected representatives…).
3) Marijuana makes black men rape white women…probably has the same effect on macaca's and other ethnic types.
4) Marijuana will make your children have sex with said ethnic people…
5) …and probably crash a train into a bus full of nuns and orphans…
6) …or spend the next decade playing Playstation in your basement.
7) Marijuana contributes to the American obesity crisis.
Et cetera, ad nauseum.
http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/view.html
http://www.breathingearth.net/
The first is simply a gigantic, and yet concise, graphic representation of where our taxes go (after looking at it I alternated between nausea and despair), the second is another graphic representation of humans on the earth (after watching for a few minutes I became increasingly alarmed and dismayed…thinking more and more that there really should be tax penalties for increasing number of children (assistance for one child, neutral for two children, moderate tax penalty for three, severe for four and up).
I feel bad that I just posted a link without any interesting content…damn circular links!
http://www.nerdshit.com/wordpress/?p=2179
Check out the four plugins on the bottom…a world population counter, a national debt counter, a hit counter which graphically displays the location of visitors, and a countdown to December 21, 2012…if only my site were so cool!!!
UPDATE : I found the script which does the countdown, nifty….
UPDATE reprise : I found the site which provides the graphical visitor map, very nifty!!!
