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Dishonored: The Many Deaths of Lady Boyle

Rare Spider Shuts Down Huge Construction Project

chingalera says...

Now, now Greogory, troll is convenient label for all manner of folk who use the internet like crack cocaine....

I must concur with the spider not playing a pivotal role in the bio-train. If this project were halted by otters, snakes, owls, mice or beavers I could understand the fuss....Hell, even fleas or mosquito threatened would be cause for major alarm but a rare species of fucking arachnid?? Stomp that squishy, worry about the karma later, and build the fucking bypass!

....unless some arachnologist can find a biochemical compound it produces that cures cancer maybe....or maybe repairs livers "I dunno, JUST DON'T SQUASH IT!!"

Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future

MrFisk says...

Cops are a paranoid lot.

Is this guy implying all criminals are terrorists? Because he starts with drug dealers in Mexico, and then leaps to terrorists in India.

According to him, it started with knives and guns. Then it went to trains. Well, no shit. I assume after trains, people robbed cars. Imagine that!

And he's worried about printing weapons when we don't even regulate the sale of real weapons.

In the U.S. we have 25 percent of people incarcerated, but only 5 percent of the world's population. I assume some conservatives would call criminals job creators. After all, California correction officers earn more money than Yale graduates.

We squander $28,000 a year, per inmate, for federal prisoners. States vary, but in Nebraska it costs $25,500 a year. I've got to pull teeth to get a $5,000 Pell Grant to go to school. But if I raped, killed, or had less than a gram of crack cocaine, the government would invest five times that much on me.

He said he doesn't have all the answers. When in fact, he doesn't even have all the (honest) questions.

*controversy

Clint Eastwood Anti-Drug Commerical

I don't sell crack...

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Heart Failure and Obesity ...on a Stick!

Heart Failure and Obesity ...on a Stick!

Ice Cream Truck in da Hood

'Just Say Now': Campaign To Legalize Marijuana

MrFisk says...

Our judicial system needs a face-lift. Her splendor has been mangled by injustice as the U.S. leads the world in caging its citizens. Legislators need to reverse our imprisonment trends and stop building prisons. Repealing life-without-parole sentences for non-homicidal criminals would be a good start.
In Lincoln last month, U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf sentenced Jaktine Moore to life in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine* in the Lincoln area. It was his third felony drug conviction, and the court entered the statutorily mandated sentence: life with no chance of parole.
The three strikes law—coining its name from baseball—is one of a handful which force state and federal judges to hand down life sentences, regardless of the circumstances. The intention was to make punishment severe enough that no one would dare err. The result is that many Americans are now serving more time for drug offences than murder. It reflects poorly on society’s values.
Skeptic? Here’s a sad story: My cousin was murdered when I was 12 (she was 17). She was strangled. It was my first funeral, and I cried like a baby. Her killer rots in a Texas prison. But he did not get the death penalty. And he did not get a life-time bid. And the fact that a three time punk drug dealer in Lincoln, Nebraska did, is a travesty of justice. It’s like a punch to the gut.
The message is clear. Selling crack thrice is worse than murdering once. Fortunately, the majority of messages—owing to blatant hypocrisy—fall on deaf ears.
When punishments for drugs outweigh murder, it fails to make drugs the worst evil, it makes justice impossible. Crack cocaine is a wretched drug. But Americans shouldn’t get life for selling or smoking it, any other drug, and most non-violent crimes.
The Eighth Amendment states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
Last term the Supreme Court agreed, at least with respect to juveniles. NPR reports: “By a 6-3 vote, the court ruled it is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a juvenile convicted of a non-homicide crime to life in prison without the possibility of parole.”
This ruling should apply to adults as well.
Some politicians will argue that our current system is too lenient. They will say too many offenders get away with just a slap on the wrist. They may suggest we need more prisons in order to keep our kids safe. They will roar, “What kind of a message would decriminalization send to our children?” Fear is always potent come election time.
Cost alone should be deterrent enough. The average annual cost of incarceration in a federal prison is $25,895 per inmate, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Pew Center on the States pegs the average annual cost of housing an inmate in a state prison at $29,000. States would be foolish not to take action. Imprisonment alternatives are fiscally responsible.
America is in denial. It is high time she realized she has a problem. She is an incarceration addict. Once she learns to accept the things she cannot change (legislating morality), she’ll have the courage to change the things she can—and the wisdom to know the difference.
The race to lock up the most citizens is one we shouldn’t strive to win.
*Penalties for crack cocaine are exceptionally harsh when compared with powdered cocaine. It would be like paying a $50 MIP for beer, or a $5000 MIP for whiskey. In March, the Senate unanimously approved the Fair Sentencing Act, legislation that reduces the disparity in sentences for crack and powdered cocaine possession, from 100 to 1, to 18 to 1. The House has yet to approve the bill.

edit: http://www.dailynebraskan.com/hale-judicial-system-requires-revamp-on-drug-laws-1.2280845

How to make a Big Mac clone; tastier and probably healthier

Osaka Report (Blog Entry by dag)

Farhad2000 says...

Thanks for sharing that.

The scratching out bit is hilarious, that's pretty much what they do here in Kuwait only its far more draconian obviously magazines have entire pages ripped out, so T3 and Maxim are very slender magazines here. Funnier is when it comes to mail order catalogs like JC Penny or say Victoria's Secret, customs women in large factory setting sit in abbayas with large permanent black markers covering up boob, the words Israel and changing Persian Gulf to Arabian gulf.

Hilarious is when you order something like death metal, there is a a fairly good chance it will get stopped for being demonic or witch craft content.

To stay alive I do crack cocaine on weekends.

Glenn Beck Is Clearly No Longer A Dirtbag And A Liar

bcglorf says...

From watching clips of him, I don't think he re-discovered his 'values' I think he discovered crack cocaine.

He also needs to stop being a dirt-bag befor admitting it means anything to me.

"Prepare to witness powerful mighty miracles in your lifetime!"

It's like he's a fanatical preacher, but instead of preaching from the Bible he's thumping the American flag and American 'values'.

This doesn't only disturb me for it's level of crazy, you can find worse out there. What disturbs me most is that in America there is a sizable population this will actually have great appeal to. Wrapping the ideals of American values and patriotism up into a religious zealot like sermon cuts at two things that many Americans value highly and will respond to.

There are people that will be deceived by this nut because of the strong emotional impact his presentation will have on them.

Fox: Faith Healing vs. Medicine

Sessions: "We're Gonna Do That Crack Cocaine Thing"

Sessions: "We're Gonna Do That Crack Cocaine Thing"



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