^Wrong again, my friend. I never mentioned that I thought you were a marijuana user. I was referring to other comments made by... potheads. I'm sorry if you felt wrongly accused.

Do you need citations? Okay, here:

A 2007 study by the Canadian government found cannabis smoke contained more toxic substances than tobacco smoke. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7150274.stm

Cannabis use has been assessed by several studies to be correlated with the development of anxiety, psychosis and depression.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118739270/abstract?C
RETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Links between long-term use and incidence of heart attacks, strokes, as well as abnormalities in the amygdala and hippocampus regions of the brain.
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/05/13/pot-stroke.html

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews
/story/CTVNews/20080602/marijuana_effects_080602/20080602?hub=Health

It has been estimated by the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention that over 140 million people worldwide use marijuana. Their study has shown that marijuana is the second most common drug found in the bloodstream of those who have suffered fatal injuries.
http://www.ehow.com/about_4688712_harmful-effects-marijuana.html

Medical Marijuana? The National Multiple Sclerosis Society states that there is no convincing evidence that marijuana provides any health benefits for those with MS.
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/index.aspx

Legalization advocates point to marijuana's many claimed health benefits, such as the possible reduction of cancerous tumor growths, decrease in the number of spasms in Parkinson's and epilepsy patients, and that it is useful in the treatment of wasting syndrome caused by AIDS. However, in a study conducted by the Institute of Medicine in 1999, it was concluded that there is no medical value attached to marijuana in the treatment of these conditions. It is the belief of the British Medical Association that due to these widespread misconceptions, the public has been fooled into believing that marijuana is safe to use, when in actuality its effects have been proven harmful to health.
http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3775/5608/14066.aspx

In 1982, the National Academy of Sciences conducted a study on the health effects of marijuana on the body. The study spanned a period of 15 months, and in its closing statement says, "...the scientific evidence published to date indicates that marijuana has a broad range of psychological and biological effects, some of which, at least under certain circumstances, are harmful to a person's health."
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/nas/AMPMenu.htm

...and one of my favorites:
One study that was published in 'Neurology,' conducted by Dr. Lambros Messinis, neurologist for University Hospital of Patras in Greece, concluded that the longer a person used marijuana, the greater the deterioration of their cognitive abilities such as their ability to remember important facts and their ability to learn new things.
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/reprint/67/10/1902
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/426691/marijuana_again_
tied_to_memory_problems/

>> ^Arg:
I'd be amazed if this man is capable of tying his own shoelaces.


I meet him and he is an intelligent, funny and likable guy. Of course you can mock and spout something about a person that you don't know instead of dealing with what he says.
Ben Stein was considered one of the smart guys before he decided to make his movie about Evolution. Now (even though he is not a Christian) he is mocked in similar fashion.
I was under the impression that this is a country where people can speak their mind and challenge thought?! Isn't that, an open discusion and reasoning, what makes sience worthwhile and lead to something?
Funny how nobody wants to talk about the things that Darwin said would have to fall into place to prove his theory. Funny how many of the “proof” comes out forged or plain false? If it is so clear and logigal… why the need to forge things? Funny how these known forgeries are still used in school text books today?!

Just to name a few:

Piltdown man: Found in a gravel pit in Sussex England in 1912, this fossil was considered by some sources to be the second most important fossil proving the evolution of man—until it was found to be a complete forgery 41 years later. The skull was found to be of modern age. The fragments had been chemically stained to give the appearance of age, and the teeth had been filed down!


Nebraska Man from the Illustrated London NewsNebraska man: A single tooth, discovered in Nebraska in 1922 grew an entire evolutionary link between man and monkey, until another identical tooth was found which was protruding from the jawbone of a wild pig.


Java man: Initially discovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois in 1891, all that was found of this claimed originator of humans was a skullcap, three teeth and a femur. The femur was found 50 feet away from the original skullcap a full year later. For almost 30 years Dubois downplayed the Wadjak skulls (two undoubtedly human skulls found very close to his "missing link"). (source: Hank Hanegraaff, The Face That Demonstrates The Farce Of Evolution, [Word Publishing, Nashville, 1998], pp.50-52)


Orce man: Found in the southern Spanish town of Orce in 1982, and hailed as the oldest fossilized human remains ever found in Europe. One year later officials admitted the skull fragment was not human but probably came from a 4 month old donkey. Scientists had said the skull belonged to a 17 year old man who lived 900,000 to 1.6 million years ago, and even had very detail drawings done to represent what he would have looked like. (source: "Skull fragment may not be human", Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1983)


Neanderthal: Still synonymous with brutishness, the first Neanderthal remains were found in France in 1908. Considered to be ignorant, ape-like, stooped and knuckle-dragging, much of the evidence now suggests that Neanderthal was just as human as us, and his stooped appearance was because of arthritis and rickets. Neanderthals are now recognized as skilled hunters, believers in an after-life, and even skilled surgeons, as seen in one skeleton whose withered right arm had been amputated above the elbow. (source: "Upgrading Neanderthal Man", Time Magazine, May 17, 1971, Vol. 97, No. 20)

The theory of embryonic recapitulation asserts that the human fetus goes through various stages of its evolutionary history as it develops. Ernst Haeckel proposed this theory in the late 1860’s, promoting Darwin’s theory of evolution in Germany. He made detailed drawings of the embryonic development of eight different embryos in three stages of development, to bolster his claim. His work was hailed as a great development in the understanding of human evolution. A few years later his drawings were shown to have been fabricated, and the data manufactured. He blamed the artist for the discrepancies, without admitting that he was the artist. (source: Russell Grigg, "Fraud Rediscovered", Creation, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.49-51)

1- I once drove Zsa Zsa Gabor's Rolls Royce with her husband in the passenger seat

2- The same day, Zsa Zsa spilled her hommade soup on a white shirt I was wearing

3- I've never impregnated a girl

4- A song I wrote has been banned in Thailand (1 woman, 2 men...google it)

5- I've been a non-theist since the age of 8

6- I don't like any of the tattoos that I have

7- When I was ten years old, I killed a turtle with a rock and felt horrible ever since.

8- As a kid, I cried at the end of the M*A*S*H series

9- My band was the in-house band for the 2000 AVN (porn) awards ceremony

10- I once sang a song with Ween on stage (up on the hill)

11- I've never been in a car accident nor received a traffic ticket, yet I've been driving for 25 years

12- I never graduated from high school and don't really care about a GED or whatever, also

13- My band gigged regularly from 1982-1988

14- When I was 7, I pooped in my pants at a playground, then ran into a local bar, removed my underwear and left them in a bathroom stall (little kids undies in a bar's bathroom?!)

15- I can't remember a couple of my past girlfriends' names

16- My first animation gig was working on a Bjork video in 1996

17- I collect matchbooks from around the world (for reasons unknown to me)

18- I am consciously and happily addicted to the internets and aware of all of its traditions

19- My best friend in Jr. High was caught by the FBI for phreaking (1984)

20- I was given a 22 revolver for my 4th birthday

21- My family has owned most farm animals, except a cow

22- I had a spinal tap at age 17

23- I've never broken a bone

24- There are unwritten symphonies constantly playing in my head

25- I once gave John Draper (Captain Crunch) a ride home from an outdoor rave

26- The only goals I have in life are to have as many peak experiences as possible, and try to be a nice and smart person

Here's Lynn's biography:

"Lynn previously served as the director for Program Analysis and Evaluation in the office of the secretary of Defense, a position he had held since April 1993, and earlier as assistant to the secretary of Defense for Budget.

From 1987 until 1993, Lynn served on the staff of Senator Edward Kennedy as the legislative counsel for defense and arms control matters and his staff representative on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Prior to 1987, he was a senior fellow in the Strategic Concepts Development Center at National Defense University, where he specialized in strategic nuclear forces and arms control issues. He was also on the professional staff of the Institute of Defense Analyses. From 1982 to 1985, he served as the executive director of the Defense Organization Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Lynn is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1976). He has a juris doctorate from Cornell Law School and a master's in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (1982). His publications include "Toward a More Effective Defense" (1985) as well as articles in various newspapers and professional journals."


Given this guy's CV, especially with nuclear proliferation on the verge of spinning out of control, I'd give this guy a big fucking waiver, too.

Anyone else think the bad cat in here kind of looks like Wile E Coyote

http://www.scribd.com/doc/983548/Wile-E-Coyote-1982

>> ^quantumushroom:
FOIA? Start with this: Obama was a Kenyan citizen up until 1982. To prove he wasn't born there, he should release his REAL birth certificate.

Hey QuantumBuffoon, onus is on those who make the claim that his birth certificate is not real. Now, go prove that there's no such thing as space aliens...

Can you prove he was a citizen of Kenya?

>> ^quantumushroom:
FOIA? Start with this: Obama was a Kenyan citizen up until 1982. To prove he wasn't born there, he should release his REAL birth certificate.

>> ^quantumushroom:
FOIA? Start with this: Obama was a Kenyan citizen up until 1982. To prove he wasn't born there, he should release his REAL birth certificate.


I don't care if he was born on the moon, at least he doesn't have Palin standing up there with him.

FOIA? Start with this: Obama was a Kenyan citizen up until 1982. To prove he wasn't born there, he should release his REAL birth certificate.

Here's a list of the military actions the US has been involved in since 1960.

I think he may have a point...

1959-60 -- The Caribbean.
1962 -- Thailand.
1962 -- Cuba.
1962-75 -- Laos.
1964 -- Congo (Zaire).
1959-75 -- Vietnam War.
1965 -- Invasion of Dominican Republic
1967 --Israel.
1967 -- Congo (Zaire).
1968 -- Laos & Cambodia.
1970 -- Cambodia Campaign.
1974 -- Evacuation from Cyprus.
1975 -- Evacuation from Vietnam.
1975 -- Evacuation from Cambodia.
1975 -- South Vietnam.
1975 -- Cambodia.
1976 -- Lebanon.
1976 -- Korea.
1978 -- Zaire (Congo).
1980 -- Iran.
1981 -- El Salvador.
1981 --Libya. in the Gulf of Sidra, claimed by Libya as territorial waters but considered international waters by the United States.[RL30172]
1982 -- Sinai.
1982 -- Lebanon.
1982-1983 -- Lebanon.
1983 -- Grenada.
1983-89 -- Honduras.
1983 -- Chad.
1984 -- Persian Gulf.
1986 -- Libya.
1986 -- Libya.
1986 -- Bolivia
1987-88 -- Persian Gulf.
1988 -- Honduras
1988 -- Panama.
1989 -- Libya.
1989 -- Panama.
1989 -- Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru.
1989 -- Philippines.
1989-90 -- Panama.
1990 -- Liberia.
1990 -- Saudi Arabia.
1991 -- Iraq.
1991 -- Zaire
1992 -- Sierra Leone.
1992 -- Kuwait.
1992-2003 -- Iraq. Iraqi No-Fly Zones
1993-Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1993 -- Macedonia.
1994-95 -- Haiti.
1994 -- Macedonia.
1995 -- Bosnia.
1996 -- Liberia.
1996 -- Central African Republic.
1997 -- Albania.
1997 -- Congo and Gabon.
1997 -- Sierra Leone.
1997 -- Cambodia.
1998 -- Iraq.
1998 -- Guinea-Bissau.
1998 - 1999 Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 -- Afghanistan and Sudan.
1998 -- Liberia.
1999 - 2001 East Timor.
1999 -- NATO's bombing of Serbia
2000 -- Sierra Leone.
2000 -- Yemen.
2000 -- East Timor.
2001 -- Afghanistan.
2002 -- Yemen.
2002 -- Philippines.
2002 -- Côte d'Ivoire.
2003 -- 2003 invasion of Iraq
2003 -- Liberia.
2003 -- Georgia and Djibouti
2004 -- Haïti
2004 -- Georgia, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Eritrea.[7]
2006 -- Pakistan.
2006 -- Lebanon.
2007 -- Somalia.

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wiki: The terms fiat currency and fiat money relate to types of currency or money whose usefulness results not from any intrinsic value or guarantee that it can be converted into gold or another currency, but instead from a government's order (fiat) that it must be accepted as a means of payment.


ALSO:

As of June 13, 2008, the US nickel has $0.06013 in metal content; all circulating US nickels carry a 20.3% premium over face value in metal content metal at market prices. The intrinsic value of pre-1982 US cents, weighing 3.11 grams, are worth $0.02414, 141.4% above face value in metal content at market prices. However, post-1982 US cents, which weigh 2.5 grams, are 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper (coated over the zinc) by weight. These have an intrinsic value of $0.00508 as of June 13, 2008, or 49.2% less than face value.


source wikipedia

Amazing how history looks different if you only tell one side and remove all context. A full accounting would of course require a goodly stack of history texts and global newspapers, but here's a 5 second primer:

"1982:U.S. provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians."
All true, but one shouldn't ignore that the amount of Soviet military equipment provided to Iraq made the American contribution almost irrelevant by comparison. Any criticism of America for aiding Saddam needs to go 10 times over for Soviet aid.

"1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S."
As above, they also used 10 times as much Soviet provided equipment. The wording implies that the invasion of Kuwait was somehow approved of by the U.S....

"1991: U.S. enters Iraq...Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait."
Wow, that sounds like Saddam "liberated" the Iraqi province of Kuwait from a dictator and then the U.S. was the aggressor coming in and invading the Iraqi province of Kuwait... No comment.

"1998:Clinton bombs weapon factory in Sudan...Factory turns out to be making aspirin."
Actually, my understanding was that the factory produced much more important medicine than just aspirin. Things like anti-biotics for which many died for the want of.

"1991 to present: American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis."
Actually, the no fly zone enforced over Iraq had a less sinister purpose. It was to prevent Saddam from repeating his genocidal "Al-Anfal Campaign". Look it up, dropping VX gas on villages is pretty ugly and I think it's sick to make out like the American no fly zone preventing that kind of thing was an imperialistic maneuver.

One of the Nation's "leading newspapers"? Oh please.

As of March 31, 2007, the Washington Times had an average daily circulation of 102,351, about one-seventh that of its chief competitor in Washington, The Washington Post.

The Washington Times was founded by the direction of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon in 1982. Bo Hi Pak, called Moon's "right-hand man", was the founding president and the founding chairman of the board. In 2002, during the 20th anniversary party for the Times, Moon said, "The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world."

Moon has said that he [referring to himself] is the Messiah and the Second Coming of Christ and is fulfilling Jesus' unfinished mission.