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The war on drugs is one part race war and one part criminlization of poverty. Let us remove criminal snactions for pot - regulate it like alcohol.

The war on drugs has been the basis for destruction of civil liberties before the (equally endless) war on terror. Police get to keep assets. The milary is used against civilians. Police units are equiped as SWAT teams and raid homes.

The war on drugs is, by the numbers, a race war. The war on drugs destroys black families. Some background follows.

Felicity
A COLONIAL GIRL

It's 1774 and I am learning penmanship at Miss Manderly's school. I hope you find my quill scribblings legible, as I have a serious question about the inevitable War of Independence. The Patriots say we must fight in order to have a democratically elected leader, privacy rights, and freedom of speech. Yet I understand that you, along with Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld, are dismantling these very things. This vexes me. When I am riding my realistically rendered chestnut mare, Penny, or sitting in my scaled-down Windsor writing chair, I ask: Why must our fittest young men die if the Revolution will prove meaningless? If you will make yourself king, should we not avoid the bloodshed altogether? Please write back to me at Merriman Farm, the Commonwealth of Virginia. Lives are at stake.

there is more here:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/9/14hahn.html

Notice that the most FABULOUS run-up to the war in Iraq happened while Colin Powell's son was the Chair of the FCC. Only a fool would insult Daddy while junior is in charge.

Notice the vast decay of materials in broadcast. There is a reason for this. That reason is lack of competition and ownership rules.

The FCC's 2003 media ownership decision "was a near-disaster for the United States of America, and we cannot let that happen again."
    -- FCC Commissioner Michael Copps

If the Dems are in charge the massive media consolidation will not continue.  The promise from Bush:

ELECT ME AND THERE WILL BE NO BROADCAST RULES

I don't know that person. I would like to be able to contact that person. I am hoping that one of you knows this person.

Here is the press release:

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115275238530405237-xiud_JfavejJtI7_S_7T6fGPmc0_20070712.html

Or go to the top and click on the article:Pelosi Promises
 Fiscal Restraint If Democrats Win

(as if we could do WORSE than turning the largest excess into a deficit? Who would we have to invade for THAT?)

Look to the end for "vote: Who is the most effective voice for the Democrats?"

It is a Lieberman love-fest.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/5/114513/8932

Here is the essence: A town in Iowa was aggressively supporting "Christianity" in schools. One Jewish family went to complain. When the six grader stood up to read, people in the crowd shouted hate speech. Eventually, the family fled from the town, in part because of death threats BY A FORMER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER.

The trial is starting soon, so that is why this would be of interest now.

This is a particularly appropriate discussion for a feminist blog. Privacy is a double-edged sword, and this community is filled with people who understand that. So suffer my introductory diary and let me here from you.

"Under President Bush, the decade-long trend of declining abortion rates appears to have reversed. Given the trends of the 1990s, 52,000 more abortions occurred in the United States in 2002 than would have been expected before this change of direction."
Politically Connect Pro-life? Look at the fruits
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=041013

Therefore I am thrilled and very very happy to point you to an actual Pro Life bill.

I know it is the beginning of the month so we all should be deluded into thinking we can afford this....

Give `Em Hell Harry: Harry Reid's site
The DSCC

Let it spike!

The warmest thought I have had is that long after Santorum has left the Senate, his name will live on for anal froth. Like the representative immortalized   as Gerrymandering....

One black woman is described as "going to loot a store". She is 50 years old, surviving, and HASN'T LOOTED ANYTHING.

The two white folks are "finders" who are surviving.

I am going camping this weekend because I have promised it a million times. I am consumed with guilt. But the people who could make a difference - our "leaders" - don't even care.

redwagon

FDA Delays 'Morning-After Pill' Decision

By LAURAN NEERGAARD
The Associated Press
Friday, August 26, 2005; 4:38 PM

The government today put off its long-awaited final decision on whether to sell emergency contraception without a prescription, saying the pill was safe to sell over-the-counter to adults but grappling with how to keep it out of the hands of young teenagers.

"KANSAS CITY, KS--As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.

....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300853.html

So in response to Islamic extremist who murdered 3,000 Americans we invaded the only major gulf state that was secular so we could install an Islamic government.

In response to the slaughter of 3,000 Americans of all creeds and colors we kill two thousand Americans to install a regime where justice is handed out based on race, creed, and gender.

This is our noble cause? To make women in Iraq wear a burqa? To remove reproductive rights? To implement legal honor killings? To legalize rape?

I must be wrong. Pls tell me how I am wrong. Because this cannot be right.

Someone please find a way I was wrong because this is too painful to believe.