End The War on Drugs says Bill Haney
Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by spencer in Crime, Film, Lifestyle
Pertinent shit.Let’s take a step towards solving our financial calamity by ending the nearly 40-year war on drugs. Just the thought of the waste of lives and money boils my bones. Bill Haney sums it up nicely (in a tldr fashion) on the Huffington Post:
Prohibition was repealed during the Depression of the 1930s, as the costs of enforcing draconian anti-alcohol laws became too expensive for society to bear. Today we have laws limiting alcohol use, tax revenues that result from its legal sale and a virtual elimination of violence resulting [...]
What’s So Wrong With A Little Waterboarding?
Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by Travis in Politics
With the recent release of secret CIA memos concerning torture techniques used by military personal to obtain information from “the enemy”, people are turning this whole thing into a gigantic deal. With saying that, I do not condone torture of prisoners for many reason BUT shit happens in war. We have killed thousands and thousands of people the past 8 or so years alone, kids and women too, and people are freaking the fuck out over some water getting poured on a guy’s head while he’s got a sheet over his head. Again, I [...]
Right-Wing Media Machine Backs the Wrong Horse in Pirate Stand-Off
Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Apocalypse, Chico, Politics
While US Navy SEALS were parachuting onto the deck of a US Warship, authorized by President Obama to use deadly force in the rescue of American ship Captain Richard Phillips, whom was successfully recovered after snipers shot three Somali pirates dead, the usual suspects in the right-wing punditry club were too busy calling President Obama a coward for his failure to act and relishing the impending doom of Capt Phillips, to even notice.
Jim Cramer, Rick Santelli and The Class Warfare Meme
Posted on 10. Mar, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in How's Business, Politics, TV
If, like me, you’re the kind of person that loves wasting the hours away by watching the degenerative brain candy that is cable news, then you’ve no doubt heard that reliable old political nugget “class warfare” bandied about quite a bit lately in regards to the tax policies of our new President. This is especially true if, like me, you sometimes tune into those cable news channels that focus ostensibly on “business” such as CNBC, or that bastion of fair-and-balanced reporting, FOX News, both of which have been busy mustering their troops to prepare to face this conflict head on.
CNBC’s Rick Santelli Gets Pissed About Mortgages
Posted on 19. Feb, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in How's Business, Politics, Videos
This morning Rick Santelli laid down the pwn on the Obama Administration’s Mortgage Bail-Out plan and I have to say he’s got a point: at what point do we need to stop sponsoring financial stupidity, both institutionally and individually?
So Much for Bipartisanship: Senator Gregg Withdraws From Cabinet Post
Posted on 12. Feb, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Politics
Senator Gregg Statement on His Withdrawal for Consideration of U.S. Commerce Secretary
Suck On This, Cheney
Posted on 11. Feb, 2009 by Dallas VonKillbot in Blog, How's Business, Politics
On my daily stroll through Faux Fox News today, I saw a little link that was in a sea of “Obama Is Power Crazy” and “Democrats Are Nazi Zombie” posts that looked like it could use some attention. I clicked the little guy, and came to a delightful read about how Halliburton was bribing the Nigerian government for private contracts north of $6 billion. The fine for the crime was around $402 million.
For those of you who don’t know, we call that illegal. Now if only we [...]
Snipers Using Baiting Techniques In Iraq
Posted on 10. Feb, 2009 by Dallas VonKillbot in Politics
This “war” has been going on now for what seems like forever. It’s been a whopping 6 years since President Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, yet even with Obama in office, I don’t see much of an end in sight. There has been countless cries against the gutless human rights violations, immoral tactics and erratic military spending, yet no one in power has done anything worthwhile to combat the issues until very recently.
President Obama made a tough decision recently, suspending prosecutions for 120 days [...]
