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ConningOfficer 585 desperate attention whore postings
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10. "RE: Best Campaign Promises" |
Since when did THC become a magic panacea? And when did it become mainstream? 1998? 1999? Or am I just a victim of my naive, sheltered midwestern upbringing?When THC treatments start getting published in the New England Journal of Medicine, then maybe I'll start paying a little closer attention. The only panacea arguments that I've read have been pamphlets handed to me by dread-locked, hemp-clad college students that are advocating the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana, or those trying to get me to sign some petition - which I do - as Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse. Moot point, though for me, philosophical concerns aside (and you can guess where I fall on the issue, and you're likely right). The simple consequence equation is: Frequent pee tests + any THC use = instant bad-conduct discharge (at a minimum). 
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udg 3381 desperate attention whore postings
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04-30-04, 02:53 PM (EST)
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For the record, I've never even been in the room with pot (after pot has been smoked, yes, but not while it's been consumed &/or smoked), let alone used it personally. I don't drink alcohol, and I've taken over the counter medication a grand total of 3 times in the past 6 years. I threw a surprise party for my husband's 21st birthday, and he and a lot of his friends were drinking. One of them slurred, "Partying with you is like partying with the pope. You're so pious 'n stuff." Hee hee.However, I do know that pot is supposed to be good for nausea caused by chemo, so I can see why people would want to try it for extreme morning sickness as well (and we're talking EXTREME, losing lots of pounds over the course of months and months of not being able to even keep water down sick, not just puking once a day sick). And, I thought it would make for interesting conversation.  UDG
Personally, I think that medicine is medicine, whether it comes from a plant, the ocean, an animal, or a chemical lab.
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tjstein 1960 desperate attention whore postings
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04-30-04, 03:45 PM (EST)
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And I thought it meant "No New Texans"...but that ended up not being true either....*sigh*
slice slice baby!Speaking of taxes & such, I still remember the SNL episode after Dukakis lost the election. They did a Dukakis After Hours sketch with Jon Lovitz as Dukakis in a smoking jacket. Someone asked him to be honest...he really would have raised taxes, right? He just looked at the camera, stuck his thumb in the air and said "Through the roof!"
I *heart* me some Jon Lovitz.
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nailbone 27263 desperate attention whore postings
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04-30-04, 03:47 PM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 04-30-04 AT 03:47 PM (EST)*reaching under the desk to deliver a sharp Texas WHACK to Grit* And tj is next. 
Cool new sig courtesy of Jslice o-
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tjstein 1960 desperate attention whore postings
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tjstein 1960 desperate attention whore postings
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04-30-04, 04:44 PM (EST)
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28. "RE: Are you threatening me?" |
No, I was just messin' with Winky Boner...I'll stop now.
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Back when I was a christian and was in this really cool youth group, we had elections for our youth group. We had the coolest.person.ever (IMO) run for office, her name was "Whitey" due to the fact she looked like an albino, she was short, had short white hair, she was one of the most incredible people I ever knew. Anyway, she had the BEST.promise.ever: "I won't make any bogus campaign promises. Those kind of promises just set people up for disappointment, false hope and expectations. To me expectation always set you up for disappointments. I will just do my best that's all a person can hope for." Won by a landslide. And she rocked.  
Excellent siggy by JSlice, Worm by the Fab IceCat
I wish I were a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum...Cuz how can you be grumpy, When the sun shines out your bum??
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I liked the toilet paper platform. It was tangible.For your amusement, some of Huey Long's "Every Man a King" speech: Now, we have organized a society, and we call it "Share Our Wealth Society," a society with the motto "every man a king." Every man a king, so there would be no such thing as a man or woman who did not have the necessities of life, who would not be dependent upon the whims and caprices and ipsi dixit of the financial martyrs for a living. What do we propose by this society? we propose to limit the wealth of big men in the country. there is an average of $15,000 in wealth to every family in America. That is right here today. We do not propose to divide it up equally. we do not propose a division of wealth, but we propose to limit poverty that we will allow to be inflicted upon any man's family. we will not say we are going to try to guarantee any equality, or $15,000 to families. No; but we do say that one third of the average is low enough for any one family to hold, that there should be a guaranty of a family wealth of around $5,000; enough for a home, and automobile, a radio, and the ordinary conveniences, and the opportunity to educate their children; a fair share of the income of this land thereafter to that family so there will be no such thing as merely the select to have those things, and so there will be no such thing as a family living in poverty and distress. We have to limit fortunes. Our present plan is that we will allow no one man to own more than $50,000,000. We think that with that limit we will be able to carry out the balance of the program. It may be necessary that we limit it to less than $50,000,000. It may be necessary, in working out of the plans, that no man's fortune would be more than $10,000,00 or $15,000,000. But be that as it may, it will still be more than any one man, or any one man and his children and their children, will be able to spend in their lifetimes; and it is not necessary or reasonable to have wealth piled up beyond that point where we cannot prevent poverty among the masses. Another thing we propose is old-age pension of $30 a month for everyone that is 60 years old. Now, we do not give this pension to a man making $1,000 a year, and we do not give it to him if he has $10,000 in property, but outside of that we do. We will limit hours of work. There is not any necessity of having over-production. I think all you have got to do, ladies and gentlemen, is just limit the hours of work to such an extent as people will work only so long as is necessary to produce enough for all of the people to have what they need. Why, ladies and gentleman, let us say that all of these labor-saving devices reduce hours down to where you do not have to work but 4 hours a day; that is enough for these people, and then praise be the name of the Lord, if it gets that good. Let it be good and not a curse, and then we will have 5 hours a day and 5 days a week, or even less that that, and we might give a man a whole month off during a year, or give him 2 months; and we might do what other countries have seen fit to do, and what I did in Louisiana, by having schools by which adults could go back and learn the things that have been discovered since they went to school. We will not have any trouble taking care of the agricultural situation. All you have to do is balance your production with your consumption. You simply have to abandon a particular crop that you have too much of, and all you have to do is store the surplus for the next year, and the Government will take it over. When you have good crops in the area in which the crops that have been planted are sufficient for another year, put in your public works in the particular year when you do not need to raise any more, and by that means you get everybody employed. When the Government has enough of any particular crop to take care of all of the people, that will be all that is necessary; an in order to do all of this, our taxation is going to be to take the billion-dollar fortunes and strip them down to frying size, not to exceed $50,000,000, and it it is necessary to come to $10,000,000, we will come to $10,000,000. We have worked the proposition out to guarantee a limit upon property (and no man will own less than on third the average), and guarantee a reduction of fortunes and a reduction of hours to spread wealth throughout this country. We would care for the old people above 60 and take them away from this thriving industry and given them a chance to enjoy the necessities and live in ease, and thereby lift from the market the labor which would probably create s surplus of commodities. Those are the things we propose to do. "Every man a king." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear something when there is something to wear. That makes us all sovereign. 
You have to imagine Broderick Crawford reading it. "Any government that would deny a gay man bridal registry is fascist." Margaret Cho
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