MSM Finally Uses The D Word - Depression

Now, as a Real Heavy Politics reader - you have already seen RHP use that word to describe the situation in various income levels http://realheavypolitics.blogspot.com/2010/06/is-great-recession-actually-depression.html - something the media will never do outloud. But, now, even the NYTimes is starting to allow the viewpoint to make it to print - lord help us now - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/opinion/28krugman.html

You mean we can't afford the military?


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The Absurdity Of Young Police Arresting Old Long Time Pot Smokers

A brazen senior citizen evidently has had enough of being in the closet and decided to grow her pot openly for all to see outdoors - including the police. Seems the police aren't  into such a disregard by citizens for the concerns of the politicians. (And, police budgets are set by those same politicians.) Read more here - Grandmother Caught Growing Pot - http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/061010-grandmother-caught-growing-pot

Meanwhile - Drugs found in sheriff's vehicle (again) - http://standardspeaker.com/news/drugs-found-in-sheriff-s-vehicle-1.861946

Meanwhile - 3 more dogs bite the dust to police bullets - Cop vs. Dog - http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/22/cop-vs-dog

I cover politics almost daily at my other blog http://barfstew.blogspot.com/ too - give it a try.

Oh, and before you go -- google places some weird ads on all pro-pot webpages - you gotta see this crazy shit they peddle.

ACLU Chief 'Disgusted' With Obama

To me, the funny part - is that the ALCU - STILL doesn't `get it' that we don't have a two party system -- and that BOTH parties are BEYOND worthless to the average folk. This quote from the link:"It’s 18 months and, if not now, when? ... Guantanamo is still not closed. Military commissions are still a mess. The administration still uses state secrets to shield themselves from litigation. There's no prosecution for criminal acts of the Bush administration. Surveillance powers put in place under the Patriot Act have been renewed. If there has been change in the civil liberties context, I frankly don't see it." - http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0610/ACLU_chief_disgusted_with_Obama.html?showall

Here's Jon Stewart making the same point: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-15-2010/respect-my-authoritah

DARE program failed because it's ineffective - From the link:

I do not question the sincerity or intent of people involved in the DARE program. ("School resource officers felled by state budget ax," June 14.) Nor do I question their desire to prevent drug and alcohol abuse among youth. Nonetheless, there is a significant problem with DARE.
Evidence and research indicate, in the words of one study, that DARE "has a limited to nonexistent effect" on drug use. The General Accounting Office, U.S. surgeon general, National Institute of Justice, Department of Education and American Psychological Association conclude that DARE is ineffective.
A 2009 study of a new DARE curriculum, "Take charge of Your Life," involving 20,000 seventh-graders, concluded: "Far from being a success, the program is actually counterproductive." That from University of Akron researchers who designed the program.
Even on DARE's website, so-called research in support of DARE's effectiveness is primarily testimonials from DARE personnel and police and anecdotal evidence, not objective research. One "study" stated DARE is a success because it improved the image of police. That's what DARE is for? DARE money improves the police image?
A more accurate headline for the article, had The Day researched DARE's "success," would have been "School resource officers and DARE programs felled by facts." -- A success because it `improves the police image?' -- you have got to be F-ing kidding me! http://www.theday.com/article/20100617/OP02/306179447

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