Exposing the Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana

From the link:

For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by the government. The war was commenced despite the government's own findings that marijuana posed less of a risk to American society than alcohol, and that the greatest harm that would result from criminalization would be the injury caused to those arrested for possession and use. The harm caused by the war extends beyond its 15 million prisoners; its cost has exceeded a trillion dollars, and it has benefited only those who profit from the illegal cultivation and sale of marijuana
More at the link - http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/148396

Here Jesse Ventura begs for the end of the political parties:
















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Colorado ski town legalizes pot

The bummer is that even with a 72% vote - the cops will still act like shrills for the politicians that make the police budget. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h6W7KC63V4xxIsSnUT7zLcWc6upwD9BOGD0O0

The Mystery of the Rising Stock Market - http://www.slate.com/id/2234464/ This quote from the article "The Dow, the S&P 500, and the NASDAQ are primarily indices of large U.S.-based companies, not main street businesses: more Davos than Chamber of Commerce. These increasingly cosmopolitan firms have been busy globalizing and expanding their operations overseas"

Town makes it illegal to own more than 3 cats - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ODD_3_CAT_LIMIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-11-03-15-45-57 Bloated government at its finest.

Man tased while his home burns - http://media.www.kentnewsnet.com/media/storage/paper867/news/2009/11/03/News/Police.Use.Taser.On.Kent.Resident-3820639.shtml And, after he rescued folks in the home. How sweet.

World Military Spending - http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending Resource Alert. Great real information for you.

And, for today's fun link -- CNN last night - Ventura, Stein, and Carville -- it's worth a look:

America's Most Popular `News' `Journalists' - Jim Lehrer, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart

Welcome to Real Heavy Politics:

Hello, welcome to Real Heavy Politics - thanks for your visit today. Several months ago - a new marketing research website was formed (out of another database of people participating in movie research - I will explain that some other time) and `screened' me to see if I had the qualifications to participate in an on-going sample (nearly daily I answer 3-5 questions) about `Politics'. The ultimate sample is composed of folks who exhibited some political knowledge (for example - I knew my Georgia State House Representative's Name) and a willingness to participate regularly.

And, one of the subjects they recent did covered Political Talking Heads ---- After the results are done (usually a few days) - they send the results to the participants and also put them on their webpage. So, today, I got the results of their first `Political Talking Heads' survey. (They `weight' the final sample to reflect the current American mix of Republicans, Democrats, and `Independents' - my category.)

Now, since I've done marketing research for decades myself, I'm always interested in what the results of ANY survey are - but, these are very interesting to anyone with an interest in politics or the talking heads themselves. For example, the favorite of Republicans are (in order): Glenn Beck, Hannity, Neal Cavuto, Mike Huckabee, and Bill O'Reilly -- Most Hated by Democrats: O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Geraldo Rivera, Mike Huckabee.

Likewise, the favorites of Democrats: John Stewart, Colbert, R.Maddow (I don't even know this name), Jim Lehrer, and Bill Moyers -- Most Hated by Republicans: Katie Couric, Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Larry King. Which means - Democrats hate who the Republicans like most -- but -- Republicans don't hate (as much) who Democrats like most.

Therefore, as usual, it's the independents - who matter the most - and, they like: Lehrer, Stewart, Brian Williams, Colbert, and (s) Schieffer (could this be Bob Scheiffer in a misprint?) -- and they hate most: Rivera, O'Reilly, Hannity, Larry King, and Katie Couric. And, other than Geraldo Rivera, the Independents are much more likely to `hate less' and `like less' -- than either the Republinuts or Democraps (sorry, I couldn't resist -- as you might be aware - I hate each party).

Finally, the poll shows how much each Talking Head's public perceptions have changed in the last month -- Up this month are Colbert and O'Reilly -- and down this month are Gretta Van Susteren and Charlie Gibson.

Here's the link for the graph used for this post: http://page.politicshome.com/usa/tracking_americas_talking_heads_july_2009.html

More links of interest:

The Eighteen Million Dollar Web Site. --- http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/the-eighteen-million-dollar-web-site/ This is how much it costs our bloated government to get a website up and running.

A homeless man in Georgia has been jailed for over a year for failure to pay child support for a kid. He is not the biological parent and the judge knew he wasn't the biological parent at the time he sent the man to jail. http://abovethelaw.com/2009/07/judge_of_the_day_only_if_you_r.php Our too full of itself Justice System.

Finally, enjoy Jesse Ventura - who appeared on CNN earlier this week: