Dopes Reject Medical Dope

The recent Illinois house vote to reject the legalization of medical marijuana is a travesty. The use of this drug to relieve pain, nausea, and other symptoms has been shown to be safe and effective in the treatment of cancer, multiple sclerosis, AIDS, and other illnesses. If the legislators who voted against this or their families had a medical condition that could be treated with this drug, they might change their tune. The idea put forward that this is just a first step in legalization should note that the legalization of cocaine, opiates, and other drugs for medical use has not led to the drugs being legalized. Shame on those representatives who deny people the ability to alleviate their pain and suffering.

Fighting Them There

So far this year, 63 Americans have been charged with terrorist acts. I thought Bush and Cheney told us we were fighting them there so we wouldn't have to fight them here. So much for that theory. The reality is that fighting them there is a recruiting tool for terrorism here.

Burn, Baby, Burn

To the pastor who wants to burn the Quran: Why not burn the Christian Bible, the Torah, the LDS Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, and all the other religious texts that criminals have used as justification for war, murder, rape, genital mutilation, slavery, subjugation, ethnic cleansing, and terror? Isn't it time in the evolution of humanity to abandon the tribal behavior of our ancestors and realize that we are in the end one tribe on this spaceship Earth? Let's put aside the superstition and magical thinking of religion and begin using rational thought to guide us into the future.

Stop the UN bicycle conspiracy!!!!!

Colo. gov. hopeful Maes says bike share threatens ‘personal freedoms’

By Associated Press
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - Added 1 day ago

DENVER - Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes says a Denver bike-sharing program could threaten residents’ "personal freedoms" because it is part of an attempt to control U.S. cities.

Maes said last week that an international environmental group that promotes Denver’s B-Cycle program is part of a "greater strategy to rein in American cities under a United Nations treaty."

The group to which Maes was referring, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, is an association with more than 1,200 communities as members, half of which are in the United States. Denver became a member in 1992.

Maes made the comments at a rally where he criticized Democratic Mayor John Hickenlooper’s initiative to increase bicycling in the Denver through the bike-sharing program. B-Cycle allows people to use about 400 bicycles at dozens of stations around the city for a daily or monthly fee.

"This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms," Maes said in comments that were first reported Wednesday by the Denver Post.

Maes’ campaign said the candidate was illustrating the "larger picture of what this organization represents" and its "extreme" views on global warming.

Nate Strauch told The Associated Press that Maes was trying to say that the biking initiative is a "gateway program" being pushed by ECLEI on cities that eventually lead to extreme measures, such as the promotion of abortions and population control.

Maes is facing a primary challenge Aug. 10 against Republican Scott McInnis. The winner will face Hickenlooper in November.

Hickenlooper’s spokesman, Eric Brown, said Denver joined the group long before Hickenlooper became mayor and that the city has limited contact with ECLEI.

Maes said he thought promoting more bicycling was pretty harmless at first, but he realized later "that’s exactly the attitude they want you to have."

"It’s all part of this population control mentality that we as humans are the disease," Strauch said, adding: "He never said that biking is inherently wrong."

Bicyclists who gathered outside the state Capitol on Wednesday to ride with cycling champion Lance Armstrong weren’t impressed with Maes’ view.

"It’s sad that they play politics with something that’s good and healthy and pro-environment," said Ron Beall, 48, of Denver. "Isn’t there enough issues that we can talk about instead of stereotyping bicyclists? It’s crazy."

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Man Up and Pray

Your home's in foreclosure,

Your son's in Iraq,

You've got no insurance

for your gout attack.

Your job's gone to China,

Your wife's run away,

So why don't you man up and pray?

Man up and pray

Man up and pray

Jesus is gonna be comin' today.

He'll pay all your bills

and make war go away.

So why don't you man up and pray?

Throw the Bum Out

Senator Jim Bunning, a wonderful baseball player, has aspired to a place far below any steroid or black Sox player could even imagine. Cutting off health care for the unemployed is immoral. I wonder who bought off or is blackmailing Jim to make him so cold hearted. If you keep the steroid users and gamblers out of the Hall, maybe you should consider kicking out the heartless.