Yes. I'm trying to enjoy it while it's here, too. I hate having to close everything up and use the AC.

It's so sweet. It's joy.

(She's here with me and I won't let her smother in the quilts...if any prohibs out there are of a mind that one of those damn lunatic legalizers has a baby in her care! Oh! Oh!)

She's precious. I love the word, "Precious".

It's a very fine, beautiful day here.

Love you guys.

Well this summer maybe as many as or more then a half a million people will hear Living With War. The message will reverberate for a long time and hopefully flip this around this fall.

I resent being treated that way. I blamed the guy who owned the most popular radio stations here. I guess he had the right to not play what he didn't want to play on the stations he owned...but it still makes me feel like a "subject" or something that is not allowed to choose...even music....for himself.

Aaargh.

A hit? Golden Oldie? Did they play it on radio stations up north?

"Medication". Right:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/health/12depress.html

"Lost". Sure:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12758667/

“absolutely nothing, zero”

Q107 has been playing Living with War. Too bad you have to go to another country to hear the truth about the USA on the radio.

Too bad the current administration are such control freaks that they value censorship above freedom. Too bad they are so afraid of the truth that they will not allow opposing viewpoints and will not let Americans make up their own minds. No wonder some 29% still support Bush: they don't *know* any better. Their dogma is showing.

I don't go to any web site that intends to tell me exactly how I have to think. I tend to go to web sites that resemble my way of thinking.

Approval: http://tinyurl.com/ytgzn

As far as his goals are concerned, he is right to reject the left while it is out of power, because he wants to be part of the power structure. And if we wanted to be part of the current power structure, we might be well advised to follow his lead. Love of power is the same as love of money, so far as this is concerned. We are invited to corrupt ourselves.

As far as the political developments that are happening, the discrediting of the administration will bring the Republicans down. Which affords an opportunity for people like M. Simon to glom back onto the Democrats, and he will do so when it is advantageous, he will say, "I have always been one of you." And so he will seek power from the left again, the neoconservatives will be neoliberals.

If you are given a choice between Hitler and Stalin, it is a false dichotomy.

http://info-pollution.com/false.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Thanks!

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions what a great album.

I have NO tolerance for people who talk about "left" and "right," or "liberal" and "conservative."

I'm never left or right, nor liberal or consevative. I more resemble a left/right/liberal/conservative, depending upon the topic.

I'm a gentle, caring human who is fed up with rhetoric and power grabbing, and anybody who still proudly identifies with this administration is the antithesis of everything I believe to be true.

Please consider that you are FoM's guest and respect her other guests enough to answer the objections instead of rudely flaming us and branding us as punks.

That you once considered yourself left and now insist you are right yet refuse to acknowledge the fair and reasonable objections raised gives the impression you are only interested in your peculiar view of the issues at hand.

Certainly, changing the subject while avoiding whig and bgreen's specific challenges makes you appear disingenuous.

Nobody asked, just my not so humble opinion.

My guess is that you were using writer's license to make a point in 'What did you do in the war, Daddy?'.

Good luck explaining that, and I suggest you write with a more contributory and constructive form here on cannabisnews.

Jose Melendez

Concerned Citizens Coalition to Criminalize Prohibition

How dare you come here and say this to us?

YOU are the reason this has gone on for so long, NEW CON!

You are mentally deficient and think unlike ANY of us, but we're supposed to accept your mentally ill diatribe or else it's OUR problem?

Go to National Review or any number of web sites dedicated to the rantings of the mentally ill, but if you think you're going to stick around here, then you better get used to not having anybody agree with you.

You are NO different than all of the evil criminals who have ruined the life of so many good people, regardless of whatever "transformation" you might think you have gone through, PIG.

If you were really changed, you'd think more like the LEAP members than the PNAC members.

You're an irritating little troll, but as far as I'm concerned you don't exist. You're as insignificant as all of the other NEW CONS, and your days are numbered, you little 29%er backwash.

We will win, but not by joining the enemy.

This is a matter of truth v. lies, and you NEW CONS have no grasp of the truth, so an alliance with any of you won't help us a bit.

The truth can't be owned, but the truth can be defended and propagated, so if your psychotic rambling is 180 degrees from the views of the entire cannabisnews family, then you are probably just the crazy uncle that should be locked in the cellar and never mentioned.

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2004/09/heroin.html

It will break your heart.

Here is another one on "drug abuse can be a marker for child abuse"

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2005/02/police-and-ptsd.html

So why are we persecuting the abused?

(typical right wing talk, no? yep a whinger for sure - their electrons is different - you can smell the ozone coming out of the monitor - pure evil)

A counter revolutionary plant? Come here to break you up? You are not that important.

As if you owned the movement and would control who comes to your domain.

When the right is confronted with a big tent problem they grumble and make the tent bigger. They win. The left holds purges and makes the tent smaller. They lose.

Perhaps there is something to be learned here. Provided you prefer political results to keeping the movement pure. The closer you come to winning the less you are going to like the newest converts. Like Lynn Nofzinger. All the people you like are on your side. To win you are gong to have to attract people you don't like. Are you up to it?

BTW check out some of the stuff I have written on the nature of addiction. It is a phantom meance. How many on the right (or the left for that matter) can support such a position with science:

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2005/11/is-addiction-real.html Is Addiction Real?

BTW as I ponted out earlier - I was very left way back. Left ideals are pretty good. It is the methods that have proved counter productive. Whole nother story.

Yes Bush tried to say that at the end of F-9/11 right before Neil sang Rockin In The Free World. I had to get that in you know. I love this picture of Neil.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ragland14/detail?.dir=17b6&.dnm=1e6d.jpg&.src=ph

I worry that this is a dangerous time, and to trust a secret society to bring down a corrupt government is to place a lot of faith in people who have no accountability to the people.

Leave us, you murderer.

If winning means abandoning everything we believe in and supporting the war-mongering, freedom hating, evil incarnate new cons, then we would also have to change the meaning of "winning" to "being a bunch of sell-out losers."

It ain't gonna happen, M. Simon, you new con fool.

In my opinion you can make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here, and don't let the virtual door hit you in the butt.

Now 29%!

M. Simon came on here and he tried to act like he's our friend but he writes about invading Iran being a good thing, and he lies about having never been a drug warrior when he's written about it on his own site. I don't think we should just act like it's okay.

Peace means to me that I don't use or advocate violence against people when I disagree, but it doesn't mean I can't tell them what I really think.

Not true, and non sequitur.

"In fact I am a true neo-con."

So by your own terms, since you call yourself a neocon, you must favor the Islamic subjugation of women?

"War is not a bad thing if it prevents the subjugation of women."

How many Americans would you kill you ensure that women have the right to bare their breasts in public?

"I was never a drug warrior. Ever."

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2004/09/what-did-you-do-in-war-daddy.html

"BTW the point of this little exercise is to suggest you keep on topic. You might be alienating allies."

I was not a Christian. Ever.

In fact up until the the late '70s I was as anti-war as they come. I believed in the future of socialism and the beauty of the USSR and the words of Mao.

Then I began looking at results. Capitalism is an ugly system. Under it folks have more liberty and wealth. Socialism is a beautiful system. Under it people are ground down. Economically and politically.

So I had to decide: beautiful system that doesn't work (read Hayek to find out why) or ugly system that does (read DeSoto to see how propeerty systems develop where ever there are groups of men).

I've been a Dead Head since '67. A fan of the Airplane since '66. My policies on economics has changed some since then. :-)

In fact I am a true neo-con. I once was left and now I'm right. I now believe in the destruction of tyrants. Which in case you have not been following it is official American policy. It got approved by the house by 4:1. Which means quite a few Democrats voted for it.

The people of Iran are not happy with their tyranical government. In addition their government has offered to start a nuclear war. Where I come from this is not considered a good thing. Some folks even go so far as comparing this situation to one we once had with a certain Austrian corporal. So economic pressure is a good way short of bullets to get them to change their mind. If they don't change their mind it will weaken them for the final blow.

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As a neocon the thing I fear most is that the drug war is ended under a right wing president.

Think of the headlines:

Republicans Wage War On Abused Children http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2004/09/heroin.html

So all you lefties out there who want to discredit the war machine: defeating drug prohibition is the surest way forward.

You will even get my help.

Simon

I'm a firm believer in armed non-violence.

So if some one wants to get violent, I'm prepared.

Those who can defend themselves are called citizens. Those who can't are called subjects.

Are you familiar with the basji of Iran?

BTW the point of this little exercise is to suggest you keep on topic. You might be alienating allies.

Here is something else I am against:

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2005/10/war-on-unpatented-drugs.html

You are at war and you know that this is Armageddon. You are trying to do what you think is required of you, to fight the enemies of Christianity, the Antichrists you think of them, and you think you will defeat them by force on the battlefield or they would defeat us. You are as certain of your just and moral purpose as am I. Though we are on the side of good in our hearts we make mistakes, and learn by them, and try to do better. But some mistakes cannot be taken back, they cannot be repaired, and I say to you that you shall not murder in the name of God and if you do you can not repair what you have done.

You are a man that has seen the error of his ways before, you were once a Drug Warrior, resplendent in the battle against marijuana, which you then discovered to be not the evil you thought it to be. You learned that it was good, that it helped people to live better lives, to survive trauma, to heal their body of cancer and pain, to make them whole. Perhaps you have had the experience of cannabis yourself and found it to be good, but I make no assumption. You think it should be legal, you think it was wrong and beyond wrong that it was made criminal in the first place. You cannot undo the damage that you did when you were on the other side, but you can stop doing it, and you can repent of your mistakes and you can help the rest of us to understand, and you are forgiven it.

You are making a mistake again, and I have tried to set you on the path of peace because it is the path of God and Christianity. There is no righteous war against the unbelievers, they will believe in their time and in their way and according to God's plan, and the war that matters is the one that goes on within your own spirit today. You are on your own soul journey and you must choose the right and the good or you will be told you have done wrong and you will have to face yourself.

http://tinyurl.com/fuj2o

M Simon writes:

"So if we are going to war with Iran the first thing that needs to be done is preping the battlefield. You want to weaken the enemy position before attacking it. The easiest way to do that is with a spoiling attack. Such an attack is implimented against enemy formations that are massed for an attack. This disrupts the enemy while he is in the prepratory stage and as a result disorganizes or prevents anticipated attacks."

Now, those drugs are LEGAL and GOOD, but cannabis is NOT medicine. Even though 100 million have SMOKED it, with untold millions doggedly trying to smoke themselves to death every day for years, and no one has ever died. Actually, no one has ever gotten lung cancer, either.

Why doesn't the FDA produce ONE person who's contracted lung cancer from cannabis smoking, and did not smoke LEGAL cigarettes.

In fact, the doctors well-known for making the most cannabis recommendations in California also explain vaporization to their patients. So the reality on the ground, as they say, is that medical people there already have moved away from "smoked medicine".

None of these researchers have sought any higher quality marijuana, but if they ever did, it could be supplied. Supplied from where? Their one schwag factory that produces all the raw product for testing? Inside the beltway they like to call this a misstatement. Round these parts they call it a baldfaced lie. Those 163 researchers are mostly shills they commissioned to get the results they wanted. The only reason no one asked for better grade testing material is because they get fired for failing to prove the schwag is harmful.

Study after independent study going back well over a century has found the plant to be safe for moderate use. Modern day studies have proven its medical benefits and in fact, alternate agency disinformer, Andrea Barthwell -- formerly of the ONDCP before she was fired for that unforunate drunken incident at the office party -- is now a paid lobbyist for Sativex. Don't let the fancy talk fool you. Sativex is essentially liquid marijuana.

And why would they bother to develop this all natural version when they already have synthetics that allegedly deliver the same effects? Because its chemical composition is so complex that it is the most effective when used in its whole plant state.

A lot of corporate cash is riding on this one. Protecting the pharma corps' interest in marketing a prescribed delivery system is the only reason they are still vilifying the "raw" plant. Anybody can grow a weed, but only Bayer Canada can dispense the "distilled" plant. One expects possession of the natural plant will remain a crime while the pharmaceutical version, distilled from the exact same plant, will be legal only by prescription and at a hefty profit to Bayer and GW Pharma. Explains a lot about the war on marijuana, doesn't it?

Meanwhile, terminally ill patients suffer in pain for lack of a effective medicine or fear of arrest for using a natural remedy to ease the pain of their dying days. It's just not right. -----------------------------------------------------------------

May 5 06 4:20 Drug War NEWS 04:20 PM Terry Nelson Houston Texas USA Speaker Terry Nelson will discuss Mexico's movement to decriminalize small quantities of drugs when he is a guest on the "4:20 Drug War News". The program is heard at 4:20pm in every time zone in which it is broadcast. The broadcast is originated at KPFT, 90.1 FM in Houston, Texas & on the web at www.kpft.org.

May 6 06 Cures Not Wars Rally 04:00 PM Jeff Kaufman New York New York USA Speaker Jeff Kaufman will speak at this year's "Cures Not Wars Rally". Location: Battery Park. Visit the following for a map to the rally: http://www.cures-not-wars.org/nymap2006.pdf May 8 06 A Debate Re: "Have Our Drug Laws Failed?" 04:00 PM Jim Gray San Diego California USA Speaker Judge James P. Gray will particpate in a debate with student drug testing advocate Roger Morgan. The topic of the debate is "Have Our Drug Laws Failed?" Location: San Diego State University, downstairs in the Aztec Center

May 8 06 University of Washington: "Crime, Politics, and Justice" 09:00 AM Norm Stamper Seattle Washington USA Professor Katherine Beckett welcomes Former Seattle, WA, Chief of Police Norm Stamper to the University of Washington, Seattle, to present "Crime, Politics, and Justice" to students and faculty. Location: University of Washington, Seattle, Kane Hall, Room. 210.

BUWAHAHAHAA!!!

THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...

Universal Admits Defeat, Removes Flight 93 Forum: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/040506admitsdefeat.htm

It was fun while it lasted... http://stopthelie.com/universal_pictures.html

Flight 93: Index of What Really Happened: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/flight_93_index.html

Hufschmid Discusses 9/11 Movement with Louder than Words: http://www.911source.org/audio/interviews/hufschmidt_avery_rowe_bermas

The anti-‘Farenheit 9/11’: http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2006/04/26/the_antifarenheit_911.html

Truth Will Always Out: http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1819868.php