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Well, look at who has resurfaced! And just in time for the general election. Happy-making, this is.
(big thanks to blogless Ogged for the heads-up)
In any country that wasn't dominated by hypocrites and morons, this wouldn't even be controversial. Unfortunately, we're talking about the United States.
The U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users, Rep. Barney Frank said Wednesday, announcing a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams, almost a quarter-pound, of the substance.
Current laws targeting marijuana users place undue burdens on law enforcement resources, punish ill Americans whose doctors have prescribed the substance and unfairly affect African-Americans, said Frank, flanked by legislators and representatives from advocacy groups.
"The vast amount of human activity ought to be none of the government's business," Frank said during a Capitol Hill news conference. "I don't think it is the government's business to tell you how to spend your leisure time." [...]
There have been 20 million marijuana-related arrests since 1965, [Allen St. Pierre] said, and 11 million since 1990, and "every 38 seconds, a marijuana smoker is arrested." Rob Kampia, director of the Marijuana Policy Project, said marijuana arrests outnumber arrests for "all violent crimes combined," meaning that police are spending inordinate amounts of time chasing nonviolent criminals.
Of course, this would still leave all the state laws in place, but it would be a step in the right direction. Kudos to Rep. Frank for being unafraid to state the freaking obvious.
Eel juice made by a tobacco company? Sounds fishy.
A canned drink called "Unagi Nobori," or "Surging Eel," made by Japan Tobacco Inc., hit the nation's stores this month just ahead of Japan's annual eel-eating season, company spokesman Kazunori Hayashi said Monday.
"It's mainly for men who are exhausted by the summer's heat," Hayashi said of the beverage, believed to be the first mass-produced eel drink in Japan. Many Japanese believe eating eel boosts stamina in hot weather.
The fizzy, yellow-colored drink contains extracts from the head and bones of eel and five vitamins - A, B1, B2, D and E - contained in the fish. [...] The $1.30 drink costs about one-tenth as much as broiled eel, but has a similar flavor.
I think its market potential here in the states might be limited.
Here we go again. Set the gaps between tracks to 0 seconds to make it fit on an 80-minute CD and, if you're burning from iTunes, turning on Sound Check (Preferences-> Advanced-> Burning) is probably a good idea.
Details and the goods are behind the cut.
01 Betty Davis - Anti Love Song
02 Nils Landgren Funk Unit - House Party
03 Eddie Kendricks - Let Me Run into Your Lonely Heart
04 Cold Blood - Baby I Love You
05 Black Heat - No Time to Burn
06 Smoke - Gotta Bad Feeling
07 Bobby Byrd - Never Get Enough
08 Bobby Patterson - If You Took a Survey
09 Swamp Dogg - Total Destruction to Your Mind
10 The Black on White Affair - Bold Soul Sister, Bold Soul Brother
11 King Floyd - I Feel Like Dynamite
12 Shuggie Otis - Miss Pretty
13 Elliott Small - E Ni Me Ni Mi Ni Mo
14 Pleasure - Midnight Oasis
15 Gonzalez - Pack It Up
16 New World - J.R.
17 Infernal Blues Machine - When You Move You Lose
18 The Highlighters Band - Funky 16 Corners
19 Brian Culbertson - Funkin' Like My Father
20 The Brides of Funkenstein - Party Up in Here
21 Betty Davis - This Is It
In case you're new to this, here are the archives.
"Curious locals flocked to the home of owner Feng Changlin after news of the piglet spread in Fengzhang village, Xiping township. [...] He says the piglet looks just like a monkey, with two thin lips, a small nose and two big eyes. Its rear legs are also much longer than its forelegs, causing it to jump instead of walk."
The ten greatest misspelled tattoos.
He should get a second tattoo just below it that says "[sic]" in gothic lettering.
via Fark.
Please Monsignor, keep it down or else everybody will want one.
A man of the cloth and his family got the shock of their lives Monday morning after finding a four-month-old fetus hidden in a basket of fruits. Monsignor Gerry Santos had just celebrated Mass at the Quiapo Church in Manila around 9 a.m. when he received a basket of fruits from an unknown donor. [...] Santos said the aborted baby's hand and feet were already formed. He said a rosary was also placed inside the cheese spread bottle, which was hidden in a pile of apple and bananas.
He said his family wasn't able to continue eating lunch after the shocking discovery. His parents were "very disturbed" and "traumatized" by the experience. After recovering from the trauma, the prelate said his family immediately brought back the fetus to Quiapo Church, "and then I blessed the aborted fetus."
The fetus was then brought to the La Loma cemetery where it was provided a proper burial.
Also notable is this quote from the priest:
After the mass, pinauwi sa akin ng mother butler. I brought the fruits to my parents' home because it was our regular lunch and my parents' house helper showed it to me. It was inside a bottle of Cheez Wiz.
Pinauwi sa akin ng mother butler, indeed.
"Instances of octopuses with extra arms have been noted but few, if any, reach anything approaching this number. The octopus had eight main arms that branched off into separate bundles of multiple arms. It has been suggested that the extra arms may be the result of abnormal regeneration from suffering multiple injuries."
Remember this guy?
Sure you do. Just so you know...
A 19-year-old man must make an apology to the city of Saratoga Springs for dressing as an inflatable 6-foot penis and then parading across SPAC's stage at the high school's graduation last month. Calvin Morett of 337 Pyramid Pine Estates must also pay to have the letter published in the Saratogian newspaper as part of a City Court sentence that calls for him to pay $95 in court fees and perform 24 hours of community service. Morett had previously pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a violation.
And of course, because it's 2008, it's on Youtube. But the video makes it look even less impressive than the stills.
As much as I think Elizabeth Dole is a bubble-headed, do-nothing, empty suit completely and totally out of her depth pretending to be a senator, I have clung to the small comfort that she is, at least, a mighty improvement over the recently deceased asshole that preceded her.
But she's trying hard to convince me otherwise.
This is unbelievable. Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) wants to rename the the current AIDS relief bill after Jesse Helms.
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1987 described AIDS prevention literature as "so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up."
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1988 vigorously opposed the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS research bill, saying, "There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy."
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1995 said (in opposition to refunding the Ryan White Act) that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct."
Jesse Helms, the man who in 2002 announced that he'd changed his mind about AIDS funding for Africa, but not for American gays, because homosexuality "is the primary cause of the doubling and redoubling of AIDS cases in the United States."
Many people hold Ronald Reagan responsible for adding to the early AIDS death toll by his inaction on the pandemic, but it was Helms' actions in thwarting early research that inarguably hastened the demise of many thousands of Americans. How many of my friends, of your friends, would be alive today if the life-saving medications had arrived just one fucking year earlier?
Maybe next we can rename the Civil Rights Museum for Strom Thurmond and the Chicago Children's Museum for John Wayne Gacy. God, please, my fellow North Carolinians, elect Kay Hagan this November. I'm so fucking sick of being represented by moral retards.
(thanks for the tip, Joseph)
I've commandeered my brother-in-law's laptop to break my internet embargo here in the Low Country. Why? Because a dear friend who knows me well enough to know it was necessary just phoned to let me know that the man who was my senator for 30 of my 39 years on this planet shuffled off this mortal coil today.
Well.
Given Jesse Helms' health, the past several years couldn't have been anything but sheer misery for him. Accordingly, I'd hoped he would live to 150 or 200, fully aware all the while as ever more bits of him failed painfully, taking the tiny shreds of what passed for dignity with them. Alas, he instead exits ostentatiously, on the Fourth of July, just before the Republican Party implodes, in no small part due to the senseless hatefulness he did so much to help foster.
I always said I'd throw a party when Ol' Jesse seized up and quit breathing. As I'm down here for another week or so, I suppose that won't happen. However, I was already drunk when the call came in, and I'm going to see fireworks tonight, so I'm judging that close enough to round up. North Carolina particularly, and the United States generally, just became slightly better places and that's reason enough to celebrate.
Happy birthday, America. Comments are back on.
An animal lover whose nose was bitten off and his testicles mauled by two chimps has made an appeal for his missing pet monkey. Horrifically disfigured St. James Davis was attacked in 2005 after going to see his house-trained chimp in an animal sanctuary. Two other monkeys escaped their cage and set upon him.
The chimps nearly killed Mr Davis, from West Govina, in eastern California, chewing off his nose, testicles and foot. They also bit off chunks of his buttocks and legs before the sanctuary owner shot the animals dead. Now Mr Davis' pet monkey Moe – who had previously bitten a woman's finger off – has vanished after his cage was found empty on Friday.
I'll warn you ahead of time that the picture at the link, while safe for work, may not be safe for lunch. And now I'm off for real.
The American Family Association's "family-friendly" news outlet gets burned by auto-replace.
Oops. (via Emerson)
