I didn’t follow his work closely and had only a passing familiarity with a few of his references over the years. But that’s often how it plays out with the really great scientists, working in the background, rarely receiving the recognition they deserve. Dr. Lester Grinspoon goes down in history as one of those who’s impact will be felt by increasing numbers of people, long after he was gone.
It took awhile for people to realize Facebook never was anything other than a way to extract advertising money from people’s private information. Zuckie thought he had a lock on things with Donnie’s little dick stuffed way up his anal canal, after it became a propaganda tool for political undesirables. Good luck with that, mutherfucker.
The music industry always harbored many Marijuana reformers, users and others who were a really big part of the developing recreational drug culture in the U.S. Weed’s creativity stimulation has been a self-evident benefit seen throughout the music industry since it’s inception. The fact that Wilie is still around doing great speaks volumes.
I re-posted my regularly scheduled anti-VA rhetoric a month ago after getting an appeal notification from the judge reviewing my claim. Until now, I had not even considered a 3rd lane in the ongoing healthcare debacle known as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. They appear to be equal opportunity fuckers, caring as much about their employees as they do about the vets they serve.
So it’s official: The vets, the claims people and now the whole damn employee’s union in general belong to the big VA Victim’s Club. Fuck you WIlkie and your incompetent gang of medically-challenged administrators.
…Tries to take away 20 million people’s healthcare in the middle of the biggest pandemic in modern history? They will just have to wait to die if the virus doesn’t kill ’em quickly.
We’re gonna need a little more attention to detail in this protest business. The first thing is to understand you cannot fight the police – or the national guard or anyone else for that matter. But you can “win” the day, with a little planning.
Couple points to remember: #1 – If the police think this country belongs to their overlords and wish to engage in brutality and suppression tactics, they are liable to get hurt as well. It’s a legal doctrine called mutual combat. Of course the government narrative implies they are right and protesters are wrong, depending on where you believe any legal authority comes from. So just remember, weapons are cheap, readily available and DISPOSABLE. Nobody wants to get done for killing a cop, because that story’s ending is already written – just like it’s been a foregone conclusion for all their brutally murdered victims over the years.
#2 – Pick your battles. Confrontations tend to happen dynamically and unpredictably. The opportunity to defend yourself effectively will arise at the time and place of your choosing. If the authorities expect to show up, they will be dressed and ready, and your options will be very limited. Surprise, surprise, what have we here… Based on yesterday’s Federal Police Reform discussions in Congress, it’s going to take some dead cops to bring this to a satisfactory conclusion.
The Song Remains the Same.
This one may be the most egregious in modern CO times – and they did NOTHING. Until they get the law right in terms of police tactics and accountability, I declare this nation’s police force as a whole, fair game on the mean streets of the good ‘ol USA.
While politically-concerned pundits revel in the low turnout, the epidemiologists cringe. I pity Oklahoma, and hope few hardcore MAGAs from Colorado made the 500 mile trip east.
Delusional MAGAs – No Masks, no Brains, lost Souls.
Anyone still with Trump at this point is lost. Now many more will die, following their signed waiver not to complain about it. This will sadly, become a very hot topic over the next few weeks…
“We saved millions of lives. Now it’s time, get back to work,” Trump said.
“Won’t Back Down, Huh?” Don’t worry. You will be taken down – systematically, thoroughly and with with appropriate consequences.
“Don’t kid yourself. Americans are dumb as shit. Yes, collectively all people are dumb as shit, but Americans have a particular stupidity based on our culture and long history of thinking we know everything, not giving a shit about other people, and no one having the right to tell us what to do.” -MSmith537
I haven’t been screwed by that many teens since Epstein’s last party.
I have news for this mutherfucker: A precipitous drop in the number of people who “like” you is about to manifest when a number of others come calling at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They will not be on the official visitor agenda.
(Update) Thanks to Mike Littwin for the well thought summary up to this point. My 12-pack of bottled rage is making rational analysis increasingly difficult.
I did not really believe Trump would have the temerity to attempt what has transpired during his administration. The overtly cruel and heinous manner in which this buffoon has shattered all norms of acceptable behavior for a Commander in Chief is nothing less than shocking and regrettable. It the final analysis, Democracy will prevail and Trump will be in jail.
Knowing public attention to the truth was always his Achilles heel, and full well how manipulating the media from all angles was the propaganda birthright in his warped vision of a new era in Western authoritarianism was well, let’s just say stupid. He got away with it for too long, supported by sycophants with compatible aspirations.
Too bad for him it’s not working. Unfortunately it’s gone way too far before rational, honest people were able to do anything about it. The good news is, light of day is now shining brightly on the Traitor-in-Chief’s little den of iniquity called the White House. Time to clean house. I think there is time for another impeachment. Should go pretty quick this time. That would be an impressively unique legacy for the cocksucker. But we still have the debacle deciding what risk is less: Wait for the election, or do it now. He’s not gonna go quietly, either way. Hopefully enough of his sycophants are sick of him by now.
It’s been a long two years, but I can now say with confidence my overall health is on the upswing again.
17 JUN 20: Going all day with no structural support now. Still pretty sore by nightfall, but improving. It now seems latent effects of soft tissue damage done by a year long untreated back injury and the remaining nerve damage is what I am going through now. The most recent surgeries, both hip and lumbar fusion, are good to go.
A big factor in that equation these days might be your proximity to the fracking industry. Glad my Mom moved out of the place at 961 before those new brine tanks on the hilltop across the road got into production. Can I expect to find my old neighborhood hopelessly contaminated soon? Guess I’ll need to add a Geiger counter to my toolbag.
It’s all about the money, nothing else.
“But in the excitement of this boom there is little mention of the pipes, pumps, and filters in these plants that will become coated with radioactivity. Or of the fountain of radioactive brine and drill cuttings spewing forth from wells. Or of the workers being exposed, the land being contaminated.
One question I ask these companies, says Smith, the New Orleans lawyer, ‘What have you done to go out and find all the radioactive waste you have dumped all over the United States for the past 120 years?’ And the answer is nothing.”
The man speaks the truth. We have an alarming lack of that little commodity in society these days. But the score is still not settled. How many Wendy’s = a Police Murder?
So apparently the Nittos on the ’91 were sitting on the rack for a long time before I bought them. They were only halfway worn down, but hard as rock. When Coronavirus arranged for an extra shot of government money, I had no trouble deciding where to put some of that.
Would the White Letters be too flashy?
Seems like tires are always a compromise of one sort or another, especially when it comes to the trucks. Cooper has a new design minimizing those comprises, for me at least. This tire runs smooth and quiet on the highway, with big side lugs to make it good in the snow, as well. Gonna have to break them in with a fall homecoming again this year.
I finally got to the point a few weeks ago where it felt like my back was healing up pretty good, so it was time to challenge myself in that department. Moving and mounting the 100+lb tires is probably one of the most physically demanding tasks I have around here. The only real difference now is I need a ramp to get them up on the truck. Got ‘er done!
Black males, despite being central to the problem, aren’t the only ones getting needlessly killed by the cops. Whatever happened to the nutbags who perpetrated this violent, appalling affront to society? Here’s a new idea for ongoing police reorgs across the country: No more high speed chases. How about no more chases at all? Roads are dangerous enough as it is.
The military has great success with overhead ISR. Cops are all about militarization, right? Get with the fuckin’ program. How many drones you think you can get for the price of one fully equipped police cruiser? Even better, start earmarking some of these dumbasses to sit behind a computer screen with a joystick instead of a steering wheel with a gun. Maybe they will learn something.
Flashing lights and sirens, or the element of surprise?
Healthcare and cops. What do these seemingly universal, mundane societal institutions have in common when it comes to the “problem” category these days? It is pretty simple when you step back and focus the optics. They are two of the secret societies Kennedy warned us about.
Law Enforcement and Healthcare are insulated from oversight and protected from regulation and legal liability by a system of laws and government designed not for the benefit of the citizenry, but only for the LE/Med operator’s financial gain and grip on power. Municipal security and healthy people are merely secondary considerations. The real purpose of the public-facing houses of law enforcement and healthcare is to form a facade hiding the fat, dumb and happy mayors, doctors, insurance executives and politicians raping society for every penny they can extract.
I find it particularly disturbing how the army of clinicians, patrol officers, nurses, administrators, clerks and other worker bees do not seem to understand how badly they are being exploited. Just look at the budgets. What is the first thing that happens when they get cut? “Follow the Money” was never a more appropriate adage illustrating the degree to which our society has degraded into a financial fuck-all in terms of what the police and doctors are doing. Police get big chunks of the general spending in many jurisdictions, but their budgets pale in comparison to the healthcare money being spent on among other things, cleaning up their messes.
…with the unions and politicians feeding off each other. What makes the lawyers piles of money with malpractice lawsuits backed up for years and allows people like George Floyd to be murdered in the street? Healthcare and cops. It is a mindset purposely designed that way and we are doing it to ourselves. And remember, you are approximately 9,000 times more likely to be killed by a healthcare provider than anyone wielding a gun. The silver lining to this pandemic is laying bare long standing problems. Will we as a society have the wherewithal to fix them?
What seems to be the problem? Not enough paper masks and plastic shields?