Legalizing Pot Now Front Page News in Sacramento
The Sacramento Bee today upped the ante in pushing the debate on legalizing pot, running a "debate stirred over legalizing marijuana" article with photos on its Saturday front page. The link is:...
View ArticleRoxana Saberi's "Confession" any Different from Those of CIA's prisoners?
How about some consistency in our thinking about the efficacy of "harsh interrogations." The Iranian courts have released Roxana Saberi, after she was convicted of espionage. I'd bet that 100% of...
View ArticleVicente Fox Says Legalize Marijuana
Vicente Fox, President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, said today "It's time to open the debate on legalizing marijuana." Fox pointed out that ending Prohibition in the U.S. in 1933 brought down...
View ArticleSCOTUS Upholds Medical Marijuana Laws
The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) today dismissed challenges to California's Medical Marijuana law by two California counties. Here is the link to the L.A. Times report on this: http://www.latimes.com/......
View ArticleDecriminalization of Drugs Works in Portugal
Portugal decriminalized all drug use in 2001. TIME Magazine online raises and answers the question: "Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?" http://www.time.com/... The answer is unequivocally...
View ArticleDionne: Obama Succeeding in Isolating GOP [w/Update]
E.J. Dionne looks past the MSM fixation on ephemera to describe the deeper significance of Obama's somewhat politically contradictory position taking during the past few weeks in a new Op-Ed that is...
View ArticleSome Good News About the LAPD. Really.
The L.A. Daily News reports that "Diversity Bolsters the LAPD," proving the value of the long held "liberal" view that government works best when its makeup mirrors the actual population it is...
View ArticleWhy I support Conrad's "Health Co-ops" proposal
In a diary on the recommended list, slinkerwink says: I'm tired of Senator Max Baucus trying to do anything he can to avoid the passage of a strong, robust Medicare-like public option in the Senate...
View ArticleRepub "Death Spiral" = New Center Right National Party?
The Republican Party is eating its own, and the more thoughtful people are leaving the ship. See this story in Huffington Post about Joe Repya leaving the party and writing a very incisive letter to...
View ArticlePot dispensaries multiply, want to be taxed in CA
The Sacramento Bee ran a front page story this week on pot dispensaries multiplying in Sacramento and marijuana advocates running ads on TV in major California cities proposing marijuana be legalized...
View ArticleNightmare Scenario: Corporations Can Make Campaign Contributions
If you believe the Repub and Dem Parties are tools of corporatist interests now, read the nightmare scenario coming to us this fall courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court right wing Gang of Five. E.J....
View ArticleLegalize Pot = 1.4 Billion A Year in New Tax Revenue Says CA Bd. of...
Now we can quit throwing around "pretend" numbers about this. The California state Board of Equalization analyzed the financial impact of a bill pending in the legislature to legalize and tax the sale...
View ArticlePOT VIRTUALLY LEGAL NOW in CA, Says Huffington Post Article
The Huffington Post is currently featuring a very lengthy pro-legalization article entitledCalifornia Sprouts "Green Rush" from Marijuana that wonderfully describes what so many of us see as the many...
View ArticleOakland About To Pass Pot Tax Measure
The San Francisco Chronicle carried several stories this weekend on the mail-in voting which closes this Tuesday on a new ordinance in Oakland for a special tax on sales of marijuana at medical pot...
View ArticleSkateistan: How a Country is Healed One Kid At a Time
The L.A. Times is running a story on its front page today whose humanity touches my heart -- Afghan kids find skateboards the wheel deal. The story begins From Kabul, Afghanistan. Oliver Percovich, a...
View ArticleLegalize Pot or We're All Gonna Die!
California's cut-backs in police and forest service personnel this year is leading to a big increase in illegal pot production on government lands. The SF Chronicle reports in Mexican growers having...
View ArticleCitizens Rebel Against Spending on Pot Raids in CA
The Sacramento Bee today ran a short report online on "successful" raids on pot grows in two California counties over the past couple of days. LOS BANOS, Calif. -- Authorities say more than $50...
View ArticleNew CA Poll: Repub Party Isolated = GOPASAURS
Shout it from the rooftops. The Sacramento Bee reports today that Field Poll contends GOP is isolated as California shifts left. The report on the new Field Poll begins: The climbing number of...
View ArticleYOU Can Vote for Legalizing Pot in CA NOW!
So I'm listening to the 11 o'clock news and they're telling me how the State of California is having a HUUGE Garage Sale this week, including 15 cars to be sold on ebay signed personally by Gov....
View ArticlePALIN = "HANDGATE"
Sarah Palin's Presidential ambition won't be done in by politicians, polls, or pundits. Her candidacy will be done in by the comedians. Today's newspaper section on "Smart Mouths" quoting Letterman,...
View ArticleCA Legislature Told Pot IS Good Medicine
Researchers at the UC San Diego in a report to the California Legislature confirmed that marijuana consistently provides relief for neuropathic pain and for muscle spasms. The researchers followed 200...
View ArticleMajority in CA Supports Legalizing Pot
Survey USA released a new poll on April 20, 2010, showing support for November initiative legalizing pot in California continues at 56%. Support by those 18-34 is a not surprising 74%. But there is a...
View ArticleGALLUP: Obama Approval Now Over 50%
The Gallup Poll of Obama Job Approval went up another point again yesterday to 51% (versus 42% disapproval). Job Approval has been tracking upward for a week. That's the good news. Gallup also...
View ArticleL.A. Times Poll: California Smokes Pot, May Legalize It
The L.A. Times reported today that its own Pot Poll showed 37% of Californians had tried pot, and 11% had smoked pot in the last year. No surprise, 82% of those who had tried marijuana in the past...
View ArticlePot Goes Mobile in California
If you are a California resident, you can now have medical marijuana delivered directly to your door, by prescription-drug courier services, and more cheaply than by purchasing your medicine at a...
View ArticleHeat Waves: Stanford Study Says Many More Coming
Remember last winter when blizzards hit Washington D.C. and the East Coast? Climate change deniers had a field day asking, "What global warming?" Now, in the midst of a 100 year heat wave on the East...
View ArticleBreaking: Jerry Brown DOUBLES his lead over Whitman in CA
The L.A. Times reports today that its L.A. Times/USC Poll shows Jerry Brown's lead in the California governor's race against Meg Whitman has DOUBLED IN A MONTH TO 52% TO 39% among likely voters. The...
View ArticleA Stroll Down Memory Lane. Here's What I Remember.
My wife has been increasingly shooting steam from her ears as she has listened to the Republican Presidential candidates and their surrogates (an appropriately ironic term in the midst of the...
View ArticleBIG NEWS! Japan to end nuclear power use by 2030s
The L.A. Times (and Daily Beast) reported today that the Japanese government announced "a dramatic turn in its energy policy Friday," vowing to free Japan from all nuclear-power reliance by the...
View ArticleArctic Ice Melt Bigger Than U.S.!
The World Meteorological Organization just released a report at the U.N. climate conference in Doha with the staggering fact that the areas of arctic sea ice that melted this year was bigger than the...
View Article"Gun Experiment" Produces Amazing Memoir - and Exploding Minds in GunLand
The Daily Beast is running an amazing memoir by Heidi Yewman about her "gun experiment" -- after listening to the NRA's Wayne LaPierre say, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy...
View ArticleGUNFAIL: Washington Student Accidentally Kills Himself
This GUNFAIL is as heartbreaking as all others, but it is made worse by the stupidity of it. The Seattle Times reported today that Justin Small, 22, a student at Western Washington University died...
View ArticleACA in WA: First Week Signup Success!
Washington state has a state-run health benefit exchange. The Seattle Times reported today that in the exchange's first week of operation, 9,452 people have signed up for insurance for themselves or...
View ArticleSocialist Sawant Now Ahead in Seattle City Council Race!
Kshama Sawant ran for election to Seattle's City Counsel as a SOCIALIST - and today's updated count of votes puts her ahead of a 16-year Democratic incumbent! This is a real shock to the system....
View ArticleBig Electric Trucks Coming Your Way in 2014!
Bob Lutz, former head of the team at General Motors that developed the Chevy Volt, is now pursuing electrification of trucks. In an interview just published in the Seattle Times, he explains why he...
View ArticleWA State - More Bad Demographic News for Republican Party
Add to the demographic debacle the Republican party is facing over the next ten years the urbanization debacle the Repugs are also facing. The Seattle Times reported today that U.S. Census Bureau...
View ArticleWater Problem for Folks at Forks!
In a small irony that illuminates the GIANT problem of climate change, the Seattle Times reported today that Forks, Washington, the setting for the Stephanie Meyers'"Twilight" vampire and teen angst...
View ArticleNew Frank Rich Essay on Trump a Must Read!
Frank Rich has just published a lengthy essay in New York Magazine that really captures what is going on with Donald Trump. Rich does not praise Trump the person, but in bold strokes praises Trump's...
View ArticleBadass Idaho Woman Turns Tables on Creep
A 27-year-old Idaho woman was working alone in the office of the Coeur d’Alene Press last Sunday morning when a subcontractor for the paper came into the building and told her a friend was waiting...
View ArticleTrump World Aflame With Misogyny: See DAILY BEAST Today
DAILY BEAST is running two news blurbs today about Trump World so disturbing it will make almost anyone not Trumpified gag. First blurb: “Trump Hotel Exec Cuffed for Hitting Woman”:“An executive who...
View ArticleMy Son's Brilliant Sci-Fi Novel Just E-Pubbed on Amazon
My son has just published a brilliant near-future sci-fi novel on Amazon entitled “Genesis,” and proud as I am of my son, the novel IS REALLY BRILLIANT. The action is set in and around Seattle, in a...
View ArticleUPDATE: My Son's Brilliant Sci-Fi Novel Now a Best-Seller on Amazon!
Last week I posted a diary about my son, who is successfully staking out a career in film and TV screenwriting, having also just e-published a brilliant sci-fi novel on Amazon entitled “Genesis,” and I...
View ArticleSci-Fi Novel "GENESIS" (written by my son) -- Now a Best-Seller on Amazon!
My son, who is successfully staking out a career in film and TV screenwriting, has e-published a brilliant debut sci-fi novel on Amazon entitled “GENESIS” and as proud as I am of my son, I can honestly...
View ArticleParting words of 101-year-old Activist - You will want to hear.
Teresa Kazaris died on June 26. She was 101 years old. The Seattle Times published a short obituary today, saying she died with her family at her side. She was quite a lady. Her parting words were...
View ArticleLooking to China for Big Change in Number of Electric Vehicles on our roads!
NPR today features a report on China moving strongly to increase the number of electric vehicles on its roads to 70% by 2025! Currently, the Auto Shanghai automotive expo “is filled with SUVs and...
View ArticleLIKE SCI-FI? OPPORTUNITY TO GET TERRIFIC TECHNO-THRILLER FROM AMAZON FOR FREE!
My son writes. He’s been doing it for 15 years now, and is on the verge of making a living at it. He’s had a film script made into a great Indie dramedy (“Family Weekend”), he’s was one of 8 writers...
View Article$15.1 Million Jury Verdict against City and Police Officers Upheld in Killing...
A U.S. District Court Judge here in Washington just made a ruling that police departments around the U.S. should heed. The Seattle Times reported that the judge upheld a $15.1 million jury verdict...
View ArticleAfrican-American Teen Assaulted at the Mall by Trump Flag Wavers. Teen...
Mykel Mosley, an African-American teen, walked out of a mall in Vancouver, Washington, on May 11, 2018, and saw a pickup truck flying a Donald Trump flag. He reacted uncivilly and shouted an obscenity...
View ArticleWTF is going on with all these goddamn ads here!
What is going on at the Daily Kos website with dozens of clickbait ads separating diaries from comments? As soon as I scroll down to comments, more and more ads pop in and when I get to comments, the...
View ArticleElectric Cars are Coming, Gas Engines are Going
A great website for all transport news electric is Electrek.co. They’ve just posted a thought provoking report on a big change coming at Volkswagen, which is restructuring a gas engine producing...
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