Trans-Siberian Orchestra promises a slew of surprises at this year's Pepsi Arena show.

http://tinyurl.com/837pz

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Miller 'Lites' up Deerfield Home in Ad

I don't think TSO was involved in the Miller Lite commercial since it was a family in Ohio that made the light display using TSO's one song. Since Miller came and recorded the light show to use TSO has to get some credit since it is their song. I'm sure the money they get for the use of the song will help them with the growth of TSO. At one of their shows they gave a child a guitar and another child $100. They act like the Spirit of Christmas at their shows I've read in their guestbook. Here's a great song to enjoy this holiday season.

Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) (mp3-full song)

How American, a residential Christmas light show now can sell "tax and regulated" booze to the masses all the while cannabis plants are still seized in California at gun point?

I figure that it has probably been instrumental in relieving the stress of believing that all this was all supposed to make sense somehow. That people matter. That our lives are supposed to be for something greater than ourselves. I don't know if that is true any more. Not really. But, I don't really care anyway.

I enjoy this freakshow carnival ride I call my life. I'm sorry, but I think that if more people could just take a moment and look around at how stupid our entire species is, it would be very hard to stop laughing. Think of all eternity and all space. No matter what, we are so tiny in all of it. How can we be so pompous as to believe that our species survival is important?

And yet, our history is replete with examples of people thinking they have some moral authority over another. And then they translate that into some sick legal system that only corrupts those whom it touches.

Personally, the government can kiss my ass. Who are they anyway? Are they even relevant to a modern society? Can they continue along this path and will the world survive? The world will. But, I don't think the universe would miss such a stupid species as us if we don't grow up.

Maybe in a million years or so we will matter. And then all of this would have mattered. But if we keep on belieiving that the way our society is structured is good enough, then we won't matter at all.

I'm just here to enjoy the ride. I just had an amazing conversation with a friend a I made here concerning the changing nature of government in the world. A lot of people have a lot of information now. A lot of people have access to a Master Mind now (this would be a search engine). And that means a lot of change is going on. Cool.

I think we have an amazing opportunity to truly become an enlightened society. There is all this opportunity, but most of us aren't even here anyway. How "here" can you be if you're on your cell phone while riding a motorcycle! And we're the dominant life-form of all creation? Give me a break.

I just visited a web site that this friend mentioned. It is the epic 2014 museum thing. just type those words in google and you'll get it. It's a techno version of the future. Not to my liking, but hey, it's an alternate future that is extremely possible. As possible as any other future we want. What kind of future do you want? I just know that this societal change will come a lot sooner than 2014.

I hope that I can predict the day of legalization a lot better than I can predict the weather. But, at least there is an expiration date for my prediction. 31 Dec 05. Doesn't matter to me though. I find I don't have a vision of the future. I'm too busy enjoying today.

I know Cannabis will be legal soon. I'm just enjoying watching it all play out. I see it coming in so many different ways. It's awesome how so many forces are combining in order to have a global hemp-based economy. But even if I'm wrong, I'm okay with that. All decisions are truly democratic in a society. Your level of participation in a government determines it's success. Non-participation can be the ultimate form of disagreement with a government anyway. Who are they to tell me how to live my brief moment of this gift of life?

Maybe Cannabis isn't good for me. Who knows? Why is it anyone else's business anyway? Damn Tamiflu apparantly helps the bird flu become fatal and you don't hear the damn government sending in goons with guns after Rumsfield do you? Of course not. Why? Because Amerikans are fat and lazy. We are consumer zombies. Or maybe, we just don't give a rat's ass about this government anymore. They are quickly becoming irrelevant to the needs of the society. And they are scared.

Anyway it goes though, I'm sure it's going to be a hell of a ride. I'm just here to enjoy the show. I don't celebrate xmas. Every day is xmas to me. Truly it is. But, it would be nice to have Cannabis legal for xmas. But either way, I'm still going to have a big old fattie for xmas if I'm still here. Maybe even two! Peace, Jim

Rev Jim Lunsford

First Cannabist Church

Attend every rally you can and be as loud as possible. March on Brothers and Sisters.

tHE lIGHT

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

A well-known San Francisco medical cannabis dispensary (MCD) was raided yesterday by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Pre-dawn, federal agents entered the home of Steve and Catherine Smith and seized plants and money, before turning their attention on the collective they run, HopeNet.

There they faced off with about 60 activists and patients who gathered to protest the raid, including San Francisco supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Chris Daly. California State Assemblyman Mark Leno, formerly a San Francisco Supervisor, also made a statement condemning the attacks. After several hours, the agents left, but they returned after dark when the crowd had dispersed to break down the door and enter the collective.

No arrests were made, but medical marijuana advocates are outraged that HopeNet was targeted by the DEA. HopeNet is an exemplary dispensary which adheres scrupulously to local and state law. At the invitation of city supervisors, the collective participated in drafting San Francisco's recently passed Medical Cannabis Act, the ordinance regulating medical cannabis dispensaries, after working closely with DPA staff on developing and promoting smart legislation for several years.

With this needless raid, the federal government squandered resources, denying critically ill people access to their medicine in the process. "This dispensary provides a vital public health service, and the Smiths should be commended, not punished, for their compassion," said Camilla Norman Field of the Drug Policy Alliance.

I understand that letter writing is a way to go. Just I tend to think a little outside the box.

I know that you are looking into the mouth of the beast, and I feel so helpless, here before Christmas, surrounded by so many good Christians, Jews, and Moslems.

I have read somewhere, that 'we, should 'shoot them all, and let God sort it out..

This war on drugs aka' war on people in this 21st century, is our testament, that testament that we offer to all of our children, that testament, that is ruled by law', the filth of error and corruption, can not ever endure the close scrutiny, that we witness' for 'we those people, shall survive, and we cannot change one letter of the 'law, we cannot forget, forgive, the smallest part of this gift of life and our smallest glimpse of our world.

Peace and Strength to all,

Anybody want to disagree with me?

Bring it on!

Get out of California and come to a part of the country where these DEA "bots" act without restraint, terrorizing the innocent.

Why do we blame the VICTIMS for being brutalized by the DEA?

I've NEVER met anybody as evil in my entire life as agents of the DEA (except the local cops with visions of working for the DEA.)

cloud7, you're spot on!

FEDS' TANGLED WEB UNRAVELING IN EPIS CASE

I once thought (still do)a mail protest, an act of civil disobedience and non-violent protest, say an address is posted, one that is used by the DEA in CA, now say everyone who cares takes the time to roll a fatty, be it catnip, oregano or herb even, tag it with a $.37 stamp (good for the PO) and off it to that address, include any rant you wish. Okay, what effect would something that simple have? Certainly it would give them something to do, opening the letters. They'll get a real gander at how little their efforts have on curbing med/pot use. Imagine thousands of fatties appearing at their door with no return addresses, let them sort through what is pot and what is not.

Just a thought.

But of course, they'll find something illegal of such an endeavor, the mail thing, they claim something most lilkely using the word 'terror' or narco whatever, but all's fair in love and war on some drugs.

Cannabis is medicine.

http://www.conquestdesign.com/uncler/MfgIndex.htm

http://www.conquestdesign.com/uncler/index.html

Now go out and plant some seeds. Be sure to include court house and police stations flower beds.

Peace. Happy Holy Days. Merry Christmas. God bless everyone, even the cruel, misguided DEA dopes.

Heres a by the way, The DEA was created by Nixon because he had no law enforcement authority in the verious states. He went against all recomdations to create the CSA, created by the most part by Reinquist then a young lawyer in Nixon's administration. He was rewarded for his efforts and betrayal to America by being appointed as the supreme court justice. The CSA is a very clumbsy assertion into the commerce clause of the constitution. It survives because it serves so many. This one "act" has nearly demolished our rights and the constitution. Yet it still survives! A stake needs to be driven throu the heart of this evil document that allows an agency like the DEA to exist.

I absolutely commend you, cloud7, for dehumanizing the enemy.

Only when everyone in the world is dehumanized and we all exist at the same level of angry judgement and hostile suspicion will there be any chance at all for a peaceful, loving world.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Let's all just give in to our basest instincts and turn this holiday into a Festival of Hate!

How much I love it here! How life affirming and positive! How optimistic and confident!

December 21, 2005

LINDSAY - The City Council piggybacked off of another local city in its attempt to eradicate medical marijuana dispensaries in the city limits.

But their laws do not jibe with the state's leading law enforcement official, Attorney General Bill Lockyer.

Taking a page from Exeter City Council's recent actions, Lindsay's governing board simply added a sentence to the Municipal code that in effect ends the operation of medical pot stores in the city.

Section 18.01.090 of the city code says that “No use of land, under this Title, shall be permitted within the City Limits if such use shall be in violation of any local, state, or federal laws.”

Excerpt from article:

As for his stance on Prop. 215, the just-appointed sheriff, who will serve until January 2007, said: "I have to uphold the law. Prop. 215 is the law, and I will respect that like I always have.

"I have been the field operations commander for the last eight years, so I have been a large part of how that has been policed while Craver was in office. ... I don't see any immediate changes, but one of the biggest concerns I have is that gray area that exists between legitimate Prop. 215 medical marijuana users and people that are doing it strictly for profit. ...

"I do have a big concern on how big of a problem we have in the community now -- of how this has impacted the community and all the problems it has caused, therefore it has to be addressed ... there are people who have a legitimate need and are following the law, and there are people who are manipulating the system ... and that needs to be separated."

I think they are doing it now because most Americans are to busy and distracted with Christmas to take notice of an overarching bunch of government thugs coming down on terminally ill people.

Cannabis in the news is overshadowed by everything else going on right now. I had hoped that some of the media would pick up on the big bad central government harrassing ill people at Christmas time. They said after the Supreme Court ruling thta they had no intention of harassing ill people but..........there you have it. Once again, this administration shows their true colors....and it is dishonesty and deception with every step they take.

Could they be anymore grinch or scrooge like?

In the words of Dennis Leary; "merry f****ing christmas"

We must keep on smiling thru our fear and then we win.

It's over for the US gov. They have overreached their power, and it's all on a downhill slide.

"Lysenkoism is often invoked to imply the overt subversion of science by political forces."

http://www.answers.com/topic/lysenkoism

The US gov's crackpot 'governance' has become too much to bear.

How don't know how much longer it will last, but the US gov is digging its own grave.

The war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on rights, the war on Christmas, the war on anything and everything must come to a screeching halt. The US gov cannot afford to do it anymore.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Days before the celebration of their Savior's birth.