California campaign finance disclosures reportedly show that the campaign to defeat marijuana legalization is being funded in part by the alcohol industry which does not relish the idea of joints replacing shots as intoxicants of choice.
The California Beer and Beverage Distributors contributed $10,000 to the No on Prop. 19 campaign, also known as “Public Safety First.” The industry has also spent considerable funds to fight other pot-related legal change, including opposition to Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act (NORA), which attempted to reduce marijuana possession from a misdemeanor to an infraction.
This is something truly out of the movie “Thank You For Smoking.”
Polly: Did you see the coverage the fetal alcohol people got themselves over the weekend? They made it seem like we were encouraging pregnant women to drink. I’m surprised I didn’t get kidnapped to my way to work this morning. NICK: I don’t think people from the alcoholic beverage industry need to worry about being kidnapped just yet.
Polly: Pardon me?
Nick: Look, I mean, nothing personal, but tobacco generates a little more heat than alcohol.
Polly: Oh, this is news.
Nick:My product puts away 475,000 a year.
Polly: Okay, now, 475 is a legitimate number.
Nick: OK 435,000. 1,200 a day. How many alcohol deaths a year? 100,000, tops? That’s what, 270 a day? Wow, 270 people, a tragedy. Excuse me if I don’t see terrorists getting excited about kidnapping anybody from the alcohol industry.
Nick: How many gun-related deaths a year in the U.S.?
Bobby Jay: 11,000.
Nick: Thirty a day. That’s less than passenger car mortalities. No terrorist would bother with either of you.
Source: Huffington Post
I dont think I ever admitted I was illogical, that was some other posters and they pretty much explained why. But good try and keep believing how “logical” you are.
Technorat,
I like the cut of your jib. You remind me of someone I know.
“At this point I don’t think it is a crime to point out bad logic and stupidity.” Hey, you finally got something right! We haven’t been committing crimes pointing out your bad logic and stupidity.
As to differing opinions? You have the right to have them. You have the right to express them. You don’t have the right to not have them challenged. That you can’t adequately defend your opinions and in fact have admitted they are based in the illogical and/or irrational would simply be your problem. Nothing totalitarian about that. If you had been able to defend your case with logic and proof instead of looking like idiots? No one would have challenged you.
I am certainly on board for law enforcement to fight crime. At this point I don’t think it is a crime to point out bad logic and stupidity. Although in some circles a difference of opinion is dangerous to the status quo, typically in totalitarian societies.
So Blouise are you telling me this blog, ostensibly run by a libertarian civil liberties type, is actually a nest of totalitarian, civil rights stomping morons?
I think you should give a little more credit to your host.
And we had such “high” hopes for you.
Trolls now schooled by a librarian and a rat.
This is starting to sound like “Wind in the Willows”.
Technorat,
I love lurkers!
Several LEO’s have told me they set up some of these sites for various purposes and use the funds provided by gullible civilians like this dude to help fund their operations. After all, why would a law abiding citizen want to surf anonymously … typical LEO reasoning … but really funny when it comes to ol’ basement boy.
you are as bright as the rest of them.
Technoputz:
duh
ha ha HA! The librarian schools the trolls again!
I became a fan of Professor Turley after seeing him on TV. I usually only lurk. I’m happy to read without comment, but this is too funny and I want to point Professor Turley in the right direction if he needs help culling you out. I know there are some cat fanciers here but I mean no disrespect when I say there is more than one way to skin this cat.
Not only have the regular posters here made you trolls look like idiots and it has been a laugh riot although easy pickings for them, but you have no idea how computer security or anonymizing servers and services work either.
To block connections from your toy there, little boy, all that needs to be done is block connections from the following range of IP addresses: 168.143.0.0 – 168.143.255.255. Yeah, they will still be hiding your IP information. You will be getting the service you are paying them for, but it will just be irrelevant – ha, HA! – like most of your troll comments. While that’s a pretty large range, big enough to do the job they advertise, they can be blocked like any other IP because connections rely upon local permissions to connect. No permission means no connection. You can block ranges of IPs just like you can block a singular IP.
You see that’s a funny thing about IP addresses. You can not be a legitimate tax paying enterprise like the one you are using and just use any old IP you want. That would be illegal and just like stealing someone’s identity and property. You have to buy the specific IP or IP ranges and register them. No matter what random IP they assign you, it is going to come out of that range of IP addresses. Network engineers have the skills to look up who owns what IPs on any .com, .edu or .net domain. It is your bad luck that at least one person with IT skills reads this lovely blog. Now Professor Turley has a starting place if he needs it to kick you trolls out.
I’d also like to wish Professor Turley the best of luck with his Senate trial of Judge Porteous. I have not been following it as regularly as some of your posters, but what I have learned here has been very educational.
If you’ll pardon my intrusion, I have some computers to get running before Monday morning. You ladies and gentlemen keep up the good work. You trolls? You can burn for all I care.
Which if you keep messing with these people here, you will.
And speaking of burn . . . legalize it, don’t criticize it.
… just keep lettin’ out the rope … somebody crazy enough to buy into that web site will buy anything … gotta be an Orange Man admirer … or the son of one
Scooby dooby do,
You wrote to me:
You said
“I was thinking of using another green leaf in place of the basil, doncha know?”
since it has now been accepted that u are jus another stonehead, junky bitch any right you have to propriety is long gone
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I’ll repost an earlier comment I addressed to Buddha for you:
Gullibility may be a factor in the rube’s inferring from my comments that I’m a pothead. I guess when one has no sense of humor, it might be difficult understanding light-hearted banter.
Where would Faux News be without the likes of gullible right-wingers who believe everything their spin masters say–spin masters who tell them what they want to hear. Folks like that don’t need drugs. They get high on their own delusions of moral superiority. They can also get whipped up into a state of frenzy/delirium by the rantings of folks like Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann.
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Some of the regulars here may think your behavior bespeaks that of a teenager whose frontal lobe hasn’t yet fully developed. IMO, it reminds me more of some of the juvenile misbehavior I witnessed when I taught in an elementary school.
Have a nice day!
🙂
bud aint got no sense nor no logic, what a moron.
scooby:
https://www.anonymizer.com/landingpages/lp_c.html?gclid=CJD0geSXlKQCFYs65QodHVGXXQ
just 22 cents per day, enjoy.
“No need to tell.”
I wont bother then Dopey
“As soon as he reads you call her a “junky” bitch (which is spelled properly “junkie” in the context you were using, you illiterate nitwit)?”
I’m shitting myself at the prospect Dopey, Is it really spelt incorightly Dopey? damn, I wish I had a spellcheck, or I understood the context in which I was using it, ROFLMAO, git the fuck outa here
“You’ll be gone, sport.” gimme about 15 minutes and I will be gone and not an unlawful drug in sight *snicker*
“Lucky for you he’s a busy guy right now or he’d have kicked you lot to the curb on the first thread you stank up.”
yeah, I heard it all before, in just about every bar I ever been in, my dad is bigger than ur dad, my brother will do that an my uncle will do this, but you, u little green stain will do nothing, because u are an empty vessel, only ever full when ur biggin ursel up from yo dictionary an at someone elses expense
“and I have some raking to do before this evening creeps in.”
I suspect that the night’s not the only thing that’s out creepin, what ya say Dopey, you been out sniffin the trash?
ok so teach is gonna take away my hall pass, big fuckin deal, it still won’t give u a set of balls will it Dopey
No.
No need to tell.
As soon as he reads you call her a “junky” bitch (which is spelled properly “junkie” in the context you were using, you illiterate nitwit)?
You’ll be gone, sport.
Lucky for you he’s a busy guy right now or he’d have kicked you lot to the curb on the first thread you stank up.
But alas, my lunch is finished, just like yours is most surely eaten, and I have some raking to do before this evening creeps in.
Really, best of luck when you’re discovered.
Buddha Is Laughing
1, September 19, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Wow.
Screwing with me is one thing?
But screwing with Elaine like that will indeed get you clowns banned as soon as the Prof catches up with your antics.
Good luck with that.
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Yep … they broke a few rules on that one …
Screwing with me is one thing?
you need clarification on that? erm……yup it’s just the one thing
I aint screwed elaine, we aint even swapped spit
you gonna tell teach, little green gasbag?
I wonder does the fact that the gasbags avatar is green meant denote that he’s a toxic little fucker, or is that just an indication of the flacidity of his logic
Wow.
Screwing with me is one thing?
But screwing with Elaine like that will indeed get you clowns banned as soon as the Prof catches up with your antics.
Good luck with that.
GASBAG
An incendiary
Doctrinaire
Spouting racist talk—
And full of hot air!
so you known buddha for a while then?
hypocrite
liar
pedant
law breaker
illegal drug user