Let's Get Real about a few things

In the early 70's a guy I knew quite well, got 5 years for possessing pot. He was a highly decorated Marine Vietnam vet. It ruined his life. His cellmate was in for armed robbery. My friend was in for getting high.

I know a guy who has a PhD degree in agronomy, he's spent much of his career perfecting hybrid strains of marijuana. and he's also has worked on other cash crops, corn, wheat, sunflowers.

I know doctors, lawyers, accountants, account executives, stock brokers and responsible Americans (and Canadians) from every walk of life who smoke pot on a regular basis and have for years.

You know who the most screwed up driggies I know are? The people who take legal prescription drugs. Ever meet the nice lady from across the street who pops Valium all day? Wasted, toasted and dangerous when she drives to the shopping center. When she gets home she has a cocktail with her hubby on top of all those nice pills. You think her kids don't notice?

Two guys I grew up with drank themselves to death by their mid 30's, they didn't smash a car up, they just sat and drank and drank and drank. I've never heard of,or met anyone who killed themselves slowly by smoking pot.

29 states and the District of Columbia have legalized Medical marijuana, 8 states have legalized recreational pot, Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington as well as our nation’s capital – Washington D.C. And Vermont is next.You know who buys legal pot? Every demographic group from 21 on up.

And now the Feds are going to crack down on legal pot...what a waste of time and money.

Pot is not the problem. Opioids are a huge problem and they are legal. 

Another thing...

Do you think that if there was an outright ban, nationwide, on abortion, that there wouldn't be any abortion? If you were poor you'd head to a back alley abortionist if you were a rich woman, you'd fly off to somewhere you could get a nice, safe abortion in a clinic or hospitable. 

Do really believe if some little Susie Cream cheese white girl going to the University of Alabama got herself knocked up by a football player name LaShon Johnson, her mamma and daddy wouldn't ship her off to somewhere where where the little embarrassment could be quietly taken care of. If you don't think that would happen you are naive or just dumb as a post. 

Do you really think religious women don't use birth control?

Do you think that evangelical couples only have sex for procreation?

Time to wake up and grow up.




 

Don't Get Fooled Again.

The other night when Chris Matthews pushed Trump on Choice, The Donald got lost. The other two Republicans waffled, Ted Cruz said of course a woman wouldn't be punished, so did John Kasich. Never the less they both want to ban abortion, using the word "ban" is a softer way of saying illegal.

If abortion is illegal, there would have to be a law against it. How would you write a law that has no penalties? None of the Republican candidates have an answer for that question, because the issue, until the other night, hasn't come up. The Pro-Life people have been used as a useful voting bloc. Republicans get them all riled up with promises about getting rid of Roe v Wade and the Pro Life people vote for them. Useful tools.

If abortion is against the law, every pregnancy would have to be monitored from conception to birth. Who would do the monitoring of every pregnant woman in America? The cops? Would there be a Federal department created to do the monitoring or would it be left to the states?

In 2015 there were 3,999,386 children born in the US. Think about that number because it's obvious the Republican Presidential candidates haven't.

All three talk about education, of the three only Kasich, as the governor of Ohio,  has had to deal with education directly. When Kasich took office Ohio had the 5th best schools in America, He initiated his "reforms" and now Ohio schools are ranked 23rd. Good job. Kasich wants to get rid of the US Department of Education, probably to duck the monitoring and ranking of student success. Trump and Cruz agree, the Department of Education has to go along with those nasty, unhappy, overpaid teachers..

Ted Cruz wants to abolish the IRS, make the tax codes simpler and easy to use, of course he also wants to lower rates on the highest incomes. Somebody needs to ask the "Tailgunner Ted" who is going to collect the new, lower, simpler and easier taxes if we have no IRS. Is he going to create a new department? From scratch?

The pundits all say Trump is a "New Kind" of candidate, he is not. All three are peddling the same old Republican orthodoxy the party has been selling since Reagan.

If you want to know what the US would look like and be like with Republicans controlling all three branches of government take a peek at Kansas and Louisiana... .

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/02/kansas_state_budget_situation.html

Those two states aren't alone.

These fcking people drive me crazy!

Slut Control

Cakes and I watched the Trump town hall last night on MSNBC. Trump and Chris Matthews got into it several times.

About 10 minutes in, I turned to Cakes and said, "Trump sounds like the drunk guy sitting next to you in a bar."

When it was over, we turned the volume down on the TV, we talked about what Trump said about abortion. He claims to be Pro-Life and abortion should be illegal. Matthews said, "if it's illegal, should there be penalties for women who get an illegal abortion, Trump said "Women deserve 'some form of punishment' for abortion.

Matthews asked, Jail? Trump hesitated, "yes". Matthews asked, "What about the doctor? should there be penalties?" Trump, realized he was getting into deep water, began to back off, but he endorsed penalties for doctors, then backed off again, then he backed off on penalties for women and tried to change the subject to the Catholic church's positon on abortion, he questioned Matthews about his Catholic faith, Matthews said, 'yes I'm a Catholic, I look to the church for guidance on moral issues, not the law." Trump pressed Matthews to no avail.

Then Matthews asked Trump if the man involved with the woman getting an abortion should be held responsible as well. Trump said "No."

There you have it. Men are not responsible, not for the pregnancy, not for anything. In short, it's the slut's fault she got pregnant. Guess what? Trump is no different then Cruz or Kasich on abortion, he's just more clumsy or maybe he's more honest. Personally I don't think he cares one way or another, the Pro-Life people are just another reliable voting bloc for Republicans.

When you drill down on the political side of the Pro-Life position, it's really about control of women. The Republican politicians don't really care about abortion, it's an emotional issue that gets them votes.

The Right to Life movement's long term target is contraception. Before Griswold v Connecticut you couldn't buy a condom in New London, Hartford or any other part of the state, know when that was decided? 1965. 

Condoms  used to have "For protection from disease only" printed on them. You know why? So these people could pretend that condoms weren't used for birth control.

Does anyone seriously think that any so called Pro-Life politician in this country with a 15 or 16 year old daughter knocked up by an unacceptable partner wouldn't get his or her little girl an abortion, legal or illegal? If you think they wouldn't, you're naïve or as dumb about sex as Bristol Palin. 

Women are 52% of the registered voters in this country and I have no idea why you put up with this nonsense. The majority in this country agree with Roe v Wade, are you going to let a noisy, catered to minority take away a right women and men fought for, for so many years. Whether you like it or not, people have sex, women get pregnant and abortion is going to happen, legally and safely or illegally. It always has.  

You need to vote for your best interests. You need to vote every time there's an election. You need to vote on every level, local, state and national.

Pay attention and vote.