For me it was a little of both. I don’t even like hockey all that much, but that’s about as big a David and Goliath upset scenario ever. And I have no love lost for the Russian government. They don’t particularly like us, nor us them.
And mhendo’s turn of phrase “Cold War penis measuring” was pretty damn funny.
Marijuana is a big deal because the government makes it so. It’s not physically addictive, only pyschologically. Maybe there’s something to the “gateway” theory, but I don’t think that applies to everyone.
Marijuana use is less dangerous than alcohol, which is legal. I just don’t get the government hysteria surrounding it. Maybe it’s because it’s often been associated in their minds with subversives, like hippies and such.
I just think pot abusers/dealers get way too heavy penalties for what they are doing.
Huh? Calling for a military coup? Sorry, I have a hard time keeping up with the latest in wingnuttery. Who’s saying that?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/30/miltary-coup-newsmax/
For reasons of mental hygiene, I am reluctant to post a direct link to News Muck. This lefty site has sanitized it for your protection…
Dude! You are, like, old!
Ok, thanks. Hunh, John L. Perry, was it? I’ll be sure to remember that name, and whether it turns up on NewsMax again.
The preposterous justifications for a “bloodless coup” by the person in question are surely worthy of a separate thread, but I had to laugh at this response from the organization that originally posted Mr. Perry’s (fifth) column:
Except you just did, didn’t you?
After Mogadishu shows the world how an Olympics should be done, then maybe Detroit. It will take that long.
Please try to find the time to get out of town more often.
No, it’s a big deal because it’s an overwhelmingly huge volume of drugs. Heroin? Please. Cocaine? Little goes a long way. Pot? Not very concentrated, and a… well, a lot of people use it. I don’t partake myself, but I know all of my friends except maybe one or two have, all of their friends, and so on. (This is not a personal purity issue, but more of a medical issue on my end.) Legalize it, and you cut the amount of illegal drugs in this country by something like 95%.
Now that bit left? That, you can do something about.
Youi may think that the War on Drugs is a failure, but last year emergency room admissions for marijuana overdose was near zero! Now that’s success!
And Pepperidge Farm cookie sales at 7-11 were booming, too.
Hey! Stimulus!
Cue the Simpsons Pepperidge farm parody commercial.
“Do you remember when blacks weren’t allowed to sit at the front of the bus? Pepperidge Farm remembers.”
[Durn those Fox lawyers who make it their duty to expunge all Simpsons videos they find on Youtube or wherever…]
I like Roland Martin’stake on it.
Huh! Cecil has never been a prolific poster, but he stopped posting entirely … about the time the '08 primaries campaign started heating up. And Ed Zotti has denied that he himself is Cecil, and the handful of staff who know who he is, are very careful not to give anything away that would identify him.
You may just have something there! :eek:
Another day, another cup of blinding, seething hatred from the right. They don’t see it that way of course: they think that their love for the United States is what causes their apoplectic ecstasy at the failure of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s bid. It all makes sense to them. After all, Obama isn’t a real American, not like them.
I’ve been to 48 of the 50 states, Canada, Mexico and England. I love Chicago and it’s where I want to live (well, I can’t afford New York). Chicago, like any city anywhere, has problems, but it’s a great city, and I would be very sad indeed if I ever had to leave it. In Kansas City, I got mugged twice in the two years before we moved to Chicago. In 19 years of living in Chicago, I have never once felt unsafe. I love my neighborhood. It’s mainly all different flavors of Middle Eastern, Asian (mainly Vietnamese and Thai) and Hispanic. Eclectic, cheap and decent. We haven’t owned a car since we moved here, by choice, because we don’t need one. We have a large 3-bedroom apartment a half block in one direction from a train line, and a half block in the other direction to a 24-hr bus line. There are tons of ethnic restaurants and markets around, and across the ally from our back door is a large supermarket (not a chain) that carries foods from all over the world. I could keep going about how wonderful Chicago is, but obviously your experience (and I assume you’ve lived here) is of a different nature.
Still, fuck you from me too.
Indeed.
Me too. Especially this part:
Even Joe Scarborough thinks the celebrations of the right-wing is moronic. Joe’s an idiot a lot of the time, but at least he’s not a rabid winger.
I like the Olympics and all, but BEJEEZUS—it’s friggin SPORTS!. What a nitwit.
Prior to this week, how many of you even knew Chicago was trying to get the 2016 Olympics? Be honest.