Ron Paul Money

I was thinking of starting my own religion but maybe I should just start a kingqueendom instead. We'll call it Tanyaland and I promise that everybody will get kittens. The best part is that I can have money printed with my picture on it. Just like Ron Paul. He sure does have some devoted fans.

I wish that money had pictures of bunnies and kittens on it instead of old, dead white males.

A Use for the Canadian Wheat Board

This is the way to fix Afghanistan.

Sex Toys for Troy King

Have I ever told you how much I love Loretta Nall? She is just way too cool.

Apparently things are so grand and wonderful in the state of Alabama, that the attorney general has to look for busywork to keep himself occupied. This means calling for a crackdown on sex toys.

No, no you did not misread that. Douchebag Attorney General Troy King wants to pass a law to make it easier to crack down on stores that sell sex toys. Consenting adults having too much fun in the privacy of their own homes is giving this turdlinger the vapors.

In response, the charming Loretta Nall responds with:

Now, I only have six words to say to AG King about his anti-dildo crusade..FROM MY COLD DEAD FINGERS TROY!!!

Can I get an AMEN?

I understand how frightening and threatening it must be for Mr. King to imagine that there are people (women!!) that get their rocks off in ways that he finds distasteful and sinful. However, what happens between myself and my tool box is none of your jizzwax.

I endorse Loretta Nall's campaign to send this weenie some...weenies. Fill his mailbox full of sparkling new sex toys.

US dollar devestates BC Bud industry

The falling US dollar has accomplished what the DEA never could: made BC's marijuana industry unprofitable.

WHITEFISH - For years, backpacks crammed with cash have slipped north into Canada, followed closely by hockey bags packed with premium marijuana skating south into Montana.

A favorable exchange rate (not long ago, one American dollar bought one and a half Canadian dollars) made the smuggling profitable, and thus popular.

But last month, for the first time in more than 30 years, the two currencies were at par, matched in value, and today a Canadian dollar buys $1.10 U.S.

They will be giving pot away around these parts by Christmas. It's too bad that this will lead to more gang violence and more tiresome calls for a crackdown on grow-ops. When will we learn?

Link Dump

A few things to chew on:

Here is the relationship between poppies, war and drug policy.

Bill Piper at HuffPo has an interesting article called Are Higher Cocaine Prices A Good Thing? He presents his view that the War on Drugs is a failure and the increase in cocaine prices that the Drug Czar has been bragging about leads to increased violence and drug-trafficking. I am in total agreement with Bill until he suggests that the US should increase funding to decrease the demand for drugs at home. While helping people get out of drug addiction is a worthwhile cause, trying to decrease the demand for drugs with treatment programs seems doomed to fail. Maybe we need to rethink the ways that we view drug addiction.

Speaking of re-thinking addiction, Walrus magazine has a thought-provoking article about the ways that we view addiction.

“There’s no drug policy that will have much effect on addiction,” he says from his home in Vancouver. “I think that’s one of our diversions: ‘If we could just get the drug policy right, we’d solve our addiction problem.’ I don’t think that would touch it. The only way we’ll ever touch the problem of addiction is by developing and fostering viable culture.”

Drug use is a very normal part of our culture. Catholics have wine, Aboriginals have sacred tobacco and many cultures use cannabis. I can go to school and drink buckets of caffeine to keep me going during the day. Why are some drugs OK while other drugs are demonized?

Finally, I bring you Larry Campbell's solution to our drug problems and the influence of the United States on Canadian drug policy. I <3 Larry Campbell.

Jumping off of the Ron Paul band-wagon

Although I was never infatuated with Ron Paul in any way, I have to admit that I have avoided dumping on him as forcefully as I should have. I was impressed by his opposition to the war in Iraq and to the war on drugs. Those are two important issues and it's very refreshing to see a Republican presidential candidate oppose them so forcefully. But I was very unimpressed by his fetus-worshiping platform. An obstetrician-gynecologist that does not understand the profound harm to women caused by abortion bans sets off huge alarm bells for me. He introduced the Sanctity of Life Act in 2005. The act would define human life as existing from conception and call a fetus a "person" deserving of protection. It's too bad that Mr. Paul regards women as little more than fetus-incubators. This alone should be enough to damn Ron Paul's presidency. But it gets even better.

Ron Paul is opposed to the following:

- public education
- stopping genocide in Darfur
- aid for Katrina victims
- affirmative action
- Civil Rights Act of 1964. He believes that property owners should have the right to keep the brown hordes off of their property.

There is even more creamy goodness about the wingnuttiness of Ron Paul. Daily Kos diarist phenry has a must-read four part series about Ron Paul and his voting record. Don't take my word for it that Ron Paul is wack and does not deserve the support of so-called progressives. Read for yourself. His ideas about the Federal Reserve are pretty wacky too.

Ron Paul sucks so many noodles that I am devoting an entire category to him. Stop supporting this knob and stop giving him money. Support a democrat, any democrat (even Hillary, with her scary tooth-filled vagina) before supporting Ron Paul.

Update: Fixed a typo. Thanks for notifying me in a way that preserves my delicate ego. The lively debate in the comments is a refreshing change. I had no idea I would touch a nerve with so many of you Paul supporters.

Also, via Jesus General, I bring you Storm Front's endorsement of Ron Paul's candidacy. Very interesting stuff.

Election 2007

Now for the election analysis that you all have been dying to see. Health care? Waiting lists? Equalization? Election reform? Fixed election dates? Screaming leaders' debates?

Who cares?

I know you are dying to hear about the real issues.

What else did premier-elect Brad Wall do bad while he was in university?

Poor Brad had to confess that he did indeed smoke marijuana once when he was young. It just makes me wonder what else he had to tell his poor mother after she got off of the fainting couch. I simply must know.

Has Brad Wall ever:

- looked at a naked pic?
- forgotten to wash his hands after peeing?
- had sex before marriage?
- picked his nose?
- used potty no-no words?
- left the toilet seat up?
- cheered for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers?

At least he is honest. Calvert and "No Wacky Tabacky Karwacki" are either liars or just plain pathetic. To go your whole life without even once experiencing the demon weed is a life not worth living.

Also, Tom Shapiro beat the Green party in Regina Coronation Park. Take that!

YAY! We're not the worst. I would hate to be the PC's right now. Our candidate in Saskatoon Nutana, Christine King, stomped the PC's by several votes.

Naomi Wolf and Creeping Fasism

This scares the crap out of me. We are all doomed. Here are the ten steps to fascism.

Growing Fear

The National Post has done it again. They have an absolutely fabulous bit of uninformed reefer madness propaganda. They rant on and on about the danger posed by growops run by gangs. And what is their solution to this problem, pray tell? To throw more money at this problem. Fill up the jails with gang-bangers. We all know how well that has worked in the US.

It drives me absolutely crazy to read this garbage. All you have to do to avoid the violence associated with grow-ops is to legalize pot. But such a simple, straight-forward solution is not embraced. Instead we force peaceful pot people to subsidize criminal organizations. Meanwhile, we have a provincial election going on and not a single one of our provincial leaders has the courage or the intelligence to do the one thing that would provide a huge blow to the problem of gangs and violence in this province - legalize marijuana.

Blog Neglect

I just haven't had time to keep this blog alive lately. I feel kind of bad but I have just been too busy to care. Anyway, here is a nice attack ad to laugh at. This is how well the election is going!

SKMP Press: The good, the bad and the ugly

Saskvotes saw fit to blog about Tom Shapiro's candidacy in this provincial election, but they didn't bother to tell us his name. Patrick Book refers to him as "A Regina man suffering from AIDS". How rude! A person is identified by their name, not their physical condition. Luckily, John saved the day and wrote a very supportive blog post over at Abandoned Stuff.

So far I haven't heard any stoner jokes, references to grass-roots activism or smoky-filled back rooms. I am very disappointed. :(

Trouble in My Constituency

According to Celestial Junk, Sask Party campaign signs are being vandalized in my constituency of Saskatoon Meewasin. I noticed this myself, as I was driving down Warman Road in my ugly little car.

I want to make it clear that I deride these tactics. But I don't think anybody would like my hippy, liberal, environmentally friendly solution to this problem:

Ditch the campaign signs.

We humans are such sheep that we need flashy, pretty campaign signs to decide who should represent us for the next four years. We need to fill the landfills with this nonsense and our candidates need to spend all that money on this crap. Who cares? Quit being a bunch of sheep and quit letting yourselves be influenced by advertising.

If I ran Elections Saskatchewan, I would only let candidates spend $1000 and have no billboards or campaign signs. They could have a web-site and a few speeches to sell their ideas. That's it. There wouldn't be any campaign signs to destroy and there would be less crap in the landfills. Everybody wins and I never have to look at butt-ugly campaign signs ever again.

Pot 2.0

While I fiddle around trying to fix this $#^$(%^# bog, go ahead and read this reefer madness from the Drug Czar. They are at it again.

Where did my comments go?

I changed my template and my haloscan comments disappeared. Being a n00b when it comes to all these technical matters really sucks. As soon as I have a minute I will try to fix it. In the meantime I will re-activate blogger comments.

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Marijuana

Canada's number one google search.

From the Brits

Drug prohibition gets kicked in Britain in the Independent. The North Wales Police Authority deserves credit for endorsing Chief Constable of North Wales, Richard Brunstrom.

Canada chooses cannabis, not so high on steroids

So it isn't just Ross Rebliati, the famous Olympic snow-boarder that tested positive for weed.

Do you think cannabis is a performance-enhancing substance?

Saskblogs Meet at Jerry's Food Emporium

*WARNING* Contains self-satisfied, blogger-ific navel-gazing. If you want to read about the drug war and why it sucks, go and read some of the links in the side bar until I decide to write about the provincial election.

Against my better judgment, I went to a Saskbloggers luncheon at Jerry's Food Emporium. It was a lot of fun and very educational to meet some of the faces behind Saskatchewan bloggers. I met Lance from Catprint in the Mash,Saskboy from Abandoned Stuff and Kate of Small Dead Animals. There were a number of other people there, including the leader of the Liberal Party, David Karwacki. If I have left you out, please put your name in the comments.

Update: I also met Twyla.

While it was a great experience meeting these people and chatting, the experience was ruined by the realization that I hate blogging. All the petty internet bickering and blog wars and email wars and on and on. I hate it completely. And it is pretty much impossible to blog if you are as bored by this stuff as I am. Just to keep up with all the petty blog wars is difficult. So when Kate was talking about an internet poll that was rigged by a bunch of bloggers, my only thought was "Why does anybody care about an internet poll in the first place? Hasn't everybody figured out by now that they are completely irrelevant?" I have a hard time believing that anybody takes that stuff seriously. But I guess that they do. The emperor has no clothes?

Also, Kate was talking about a photograph of smog that was photo-shopped. Again, who cares? That has nothing to do with anything. It says nothing about the validity of global warming. It just means that that reporter was stupid and lazy. Kate certainly got a lot of attention by mentioning it. If anybody has a link to that story and is so inclined, please link it.

Although I absolutely love writing and putting my ideas out on the internet and I love engaging people about the drug war, I despise blogging. I will continue to put my left-wing, hippy liberal views out there but don't be surprised if I shut down the comments.

Don't ever let me write about blogging ever again. It's giving me a migraine.

The Provincial Election

I get to help the SKMP run in the election. This is going to be a lot of fun. We go to the polls on Nov. 7th. As soon as we get candidates registered I will blog it and put it on the SKMP site, as soon as I figure out how it works*. I am not so techno-literate, I probably fried my brain with all the drugs that I have supposedly used.

Anyway, the idea of going door to door and engaging the public about the harm caused by the war on drugs, makes me very happy indeed.

* If you know how to use Joomla, let me know.