That's It! Im sick of this.

I see, that makes sense.

So, if I run for president and tell people I want to "legalize it", you guys and gals will vote for me ?
 
Yes.

The former hippies are now in power, but the drug laws remain. This is because they're about power, not substance.

John
 
We are going to swim to Jamaica

So what is the best khukuri for shark? :eek: :confused: :rolleyes: :D

n2s
 
DannyinJapan said:
I see, that makes sense.

So, if I run for president and tell people I want to "legalize it", you guys and gals will vote for me ?
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Danny just those pants you were wearing in the video get you my vote but throw the legalize it in there too & I'll donate to your campaign ;)
 
Spectre said:
Yes.

The former hippies are now in power, but the drug laws remain. This is because they're about power, not substance.

John
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The operative word here being substance, or substances ;)
 
I thought substance pretty a damn funny word choice.

..........

No Hollow, I haven't heard them- I have a huge hole in my music library crying for Zydeco. I love it- but don't own much.

If I still drank, wasted and listening to a Zydeco band would be....
well, forgive me, but heaven.


Heck, maybe it could be even better sober. Enough time goes by, and the music itself alters your mind.

That Zydeco is like a Steam Locomotive.

munk
 
Spectre...?


Trust me, the folks in power were never hippies, nor did many of them ever share any of the philosophies nor the practices of the culture. Mostly, I'd imagine, they were people who wanted to be in power.

THAT'S what makes them scary.


Kis.
 
Kismet- that is so right. Almost an absolute. A great politician should be a reluctant participant, dragged kicking and screaming to office. A guy who wants the job from a young age is not a good thing.


I'm not happy with the requirement of a squeaky clean background being neccesary for election. I don't trust people without sin. At least apparent sin.


munk
 
NONONONONONO

I give up... can't resist it any longer ( deep breath ) spits it out:

Does that mean we could trust Bill Clinton?
 
No. Clinton was after political power from an early age, which is why he was visiting the Soviet leadership during the Vietnam "conflict".

Even though he smoked dope, he doesn't get my hippie vote.

(And anyone stupid enough to say, "I didn't inhale...but I wanted to! I just didn't know how"* deserves to die a long, agonizing death for burdening us with their stupidity. That anyone voted for this fool is the sure sign that America's going down the tubes.)

*Said later in an MTV interview.
 
Here we go again... But no Clinton wasn't a hippie. I read this article once by the guy who used to be the manager for Black Oak Arkansas. In the article he talked about Bill and Hillary. Said back in the day that they were both big Black Oak fans. (Were "Hot and Nasty" or "Backdoor Man" Clinton's fave tunes? ;) ) So he kinda got to know them.

Anyway this guy said that Clinton was really straight. That he could believe the "I didn't inhale" thing cause because of his religious background Clinton even felt guilty drinking a beer.

Fast forward.. I think more people went to jail for pot in Clinton's administration than Reagan or Bush 1. Also he fired the Surgeon General in part because she favored legalization. :confused: Not a hippie in my book.
 
"Kismet- that is so right. Almost an absolute. A great politician should be a reluctant participant, dragged kicking and screaming to office. A guy who wants the job from a young age is not a good thing.

I'm not happy with the requirement of a squeaky clean background being neccesary for election. I don't trust people without sin. At least apparent sin."

:eek::confused::eek: ...D@mn! Two things that I never thought would happen in the same reply from 'da Munk -succinct brevity and my total agreement with his words :D
 
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If we can't all swim to Jamaica, can we at least pile into Yvsa's sweat lodge and eat mushrooms until we see Aztec temples ;)
 
NOW you're talking BTC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Munk,

If I get time next coupla weeks I'll make you a CD of their stuff and send it to you. Do you have a CD player??
 
I have a CD player, Hollow.

Rusty, having sin in one's life, a mistake or three, is far different from a pattern of behavior leading to the Office itself, and/or serious crimes, like murder. Our society needs a process for redemption. We have none or little.

Clinton is not a happy subject for anyone. If you are like me, and believe he was implicated in criminal enterprise dating back many years, and abused women even to rape, spending time on the lie under oath and the disbarrment before the Supreme Court and the ARK legal system is unsatisfactory.

We need redemption in this society.



munk
 
I'd say, never trust anybody who actively seeks power.
Consider this, If your neighber told you he was running for president,
would you be happy? I would be looking at him with a different light for sure.
I think a sane person wouldn't do it, It's a thing for people with huge EGO's, far larger than normal men. An Ego that large, has a very good chance of get in the way of good decisions as far as I see it. These people would be more concerned about how history remembered them than doing the right thing.

You guys are making me feel better about the world now. Sanity is returning.
And yes I did put on Mr. Marley just a minute ago....
 
" A fool and his money are soon elected"

A former candidate for governor said the best thing we could do is that we needed a law that

#1 the only person who can contribute to a campaign is someone who can actually cast a vote for you

#2 You should not be able to spend any more money to get elected than what that office would pay in 4 years (or whatever the term is)

I thought that was a real common sense approach. They'd have to go out and shake hands and go to debates instead of running these negative ads.

RE: Clinton. I think the 80 million of the taxpayers money spent trying to get rid of him could have been better spent. However all the money spent by the rich Clinton haters trying to dig up anything on him sure did stimulate the economy. ;)
 
It's long been my opinion that anyone who wants to be president, shouldn't be allowed to be.
 
Aardvark said:
It's long been my opinion that anyone who wants to be president, shouldn't be allowed to be.
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Here, here! Now all we've got to do is find some decent, hardworking chump to drag, kicking and screaming the whole way to the inauguration. Cause the gems the Democrats and Republicans keep digging up during the primaries sure don't fit the bill.

All right, that settles it! Come, Igor. We shall build the presidential candidate of our dreams...

http://www.reason.com/0404/fe.tc.building.shtml

Of course, a similar hybrid could be built out of the 2000 GOP primary lineup. What was it the textbook always says... ah yes, that is left as an exercise for the reader. :P
 
In the book THE EVIL MEN DO, (I think), the main character is an assassin, an ex-patriot American who says:

"The irony of American Politics is that no one who is qualified to run for office, would ever consider doing so."


It was later made into a bad movie starring Charles Bronson. Get the book.


Kis


And bubbling up in my brain is "the order of Cincinatus." Something about a Roman general who only took office on the promise that he could leave as soon as the crisis ended. This might be inaccurate.
 
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