Fuck its silent in here.......

[Bort]

Boned, indeed.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/22/feds-look-to-regulate-food-similar-to-tobacco-with-hopes-of-saving-money-on-health-care/#ixzz1Q0ynJFJL

The federal government has a growing interest in the eating habits of Americans for the same reason it has an interest in tobacco consumption, said Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Goddamnit, they can have my bacon when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

THIS. WILL. NOT. STAND.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

History's Greatest Monster opines...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/opinion/17carter.html

IN an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly important recommendations in a report on how to bring more effective control over the illicit drug trade. The commission includes the former presidents or prime ministers of five countries, a former secretary general of the United Nations, human rights leaders, and business and government leaders, including Richard Branson, George P. Shultz and Paul A. Volcker.

The report describes the total failure of the present global antidrug effort, and in particular America's "war on drugs," which was declared 40 years ago today. It notes that the global consumption of opiates has increased 34.5 percent, cocaine 27 percent and cannabis 8.5 percent from 1998 to 2008. Its primary recommendations are to substitute treatment for imprisonment for people who use drugs but do no harm to others, and to concentrate more coordinated international effort on combating violent criminal organizations rather than nonviolent, low-level offenders.

These recommendations are compatible with United States drug policy from three decades ago. In a message to Congress in 1977, I said the country should decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, with a full program of treatment for addicts. I also cautioned against filling our prisons with young people who were no threat to society, and summarized by saying: "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself."

These ideas were widely accepted at the time. But in the 1980s President Ronald Reagan and Congress began to shift from balanced drug policies, including the treatment and rehabilitation of addicts, toward futile efforts to control drug imports from foreign countries.

...

Meanwhile in Washington, Big Gay Barney and Ron Paul hot box the zeppelin...

http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/22/barney-frank-and-ron-paul-will

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) will introduce "bi-partisan legislation tomorrow ending the federal war on marijuana and letting states legalize, regulate, tax, and control marijuana without federal interference," according to a press release from the Marijuana Policy Project that just hit my inbox. More from that email:

Other co-sponsors include Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA). The legislation would limit the federal government's role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or inter-state smuggling, allowing people to legally grow, use or sell marijuana in states where it is legal. The legislation is the first bill ever introduced in Congress to end federal marijuana prohibition.

Rep. Frank's legislation would end state/federal conflicts over marijuana policy, reprioritize federal resources, and provide more room for states to do what is best for their own citizens.

[Quality Start Machine]

That explains Oleg running down the street naked, yelling "Hallelujah!" last night.

[R-V]

Lots of funny stuff here.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?print=true

[CBStew]

Lots of funny stuff here.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?print=true

You call the end of the world funny?

[Bort]

Lots of funny stuff here.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?print=true

You call the end of the world funny?

I guess you had to be there.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

That explains Oleg running down the street naked, yelling "Hallelujah!" last night.

Why was he naked?

[Bort]

That explains Oleg running down the street naked, yelling "Hallelujah!" last night.

Why was he naked?

An unrelated anecdote.

[PenPho]

Lots of funny stuff here.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?print=true

You call the end of the world funny?

I guess you had to be there.

In Stew's defense, he was there for the beginning of the world.

[CBStew]

Lots of funny stuff here.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?print=true

You call the end of the world funny?

I guess you had to be there.

In Stew's defense, he was there for the beginning of the world.

At first it was too dark to see what was going on.

[Gilgamesh]

Lots of funny stuff here.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?print=true

You call the end of the world funny?

I guess you had to be there.

In Stew's defense, he was there for the beginning of the world.

At first it was too dark to see what was going on.

You sure that wasn't the cataracts?

[Quality Start Machine]

Lots of funny stuff here.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?print=true

You call the end of the world funny?

I guess you had to be there.

In Stew's defense, he was there for the beginning of the world.

At first it was too dark to see what was going on.

You sure that wasn't the cataracts?

Intrepid Reader: Asian Stereotype

Cataract? Stew dlive Rincoln!

[Slaky]

Lots of funny stuff here.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?print=true

*starts thinking of what it would be like to live in Norway*

[Quality Start Machine]

What the Health Care discussion was missing...

[Tonker]

Lots of funny stuff here.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?print=true

*starts thinking of what it would be like to live in Norway*

Dark.  Cold.  Expensive.