[Investors.com] Who says President Champ doesn't promote bipartisanship? His complicity in Iran's moving toward nuclear bombs has alarmed some top Senate Democrats enough to get them to join Republicans in opposition to the Champ administration's potentially suicidal foreign policy.
Before the current measles outbreak, measles was once almost wiped out in the U.S. But an article in a medical journal more than a decade ago had many parents afraid to have their children vaccinated, for fear that the vaccine causes autism. After scientific studies refuted that claim, the medical journal repudiated the article, and the doctor who wrote it had his license revoked.
If not a single policeman killed a single black individual anywhere in the U.S. for this entire year, that would not reduce the number of black homicide victims by 1%. When the mobs of protesters declare "Black lives matter," does that mean ALL black lives matter -- or only the less than 1% of black lives lost in conflicts with police?
In politics, never assume that because something is insane, it will not be done. The Holocaust was as insane as it was a moral horror. But it was done. Even after the tide of war turned against Germany and it faced invasion and devastation, Hitler continued to pour scarce resources into the mass killing of people who were no threat.
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I like the writing style TS had adopted in recent years. I don't need 750 words to grasp most ideas, and the fluff many use to get there is off-putting. His encapsulated wisdom is welcome both in content and in form.
#4
I agree, I like his style. Next President should tap him as economic advisor, he can explain complex issue very clearly which would be a nice change of pace.
#2
Of course we don't need to honest about it. The number of DUI deaths since prohibition repeal exceeds the number of deaths in wars from the same date. You're just shifting numbers in the columns in the bookkeeping. Just be honest that it isn't clean and simple, that life is just a series of trade offs.
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Personally I think this.
DECRIMINALISE EVERYTHING.
But license it, treat it akin to temporary voluntary mental illness.
The guy selling the pills is responsible for you and your actions until you are free of the influence of the drug.
#4
One of the things you get to miss in the UK is the constant barrage of tort lawyer commercials soliciting clients for all sorts of ills, perceived or otherwise. I suspect pot (et al) dealers in legal recreational drugs are going to be among the next targets of opportunity. Even with the Surgeon's General warning on tobacco for generations, they still got their 'pound of flesh' from that industry.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Investors.com] Who says President Champ doesn't promote bipartisanship? His complicity in Iran's moving toward nuclear bombs has alarmed some top Senate Democrats enough to get them to join Republicans in opposition to the Champ administration's potentially suicidal foreign policy.
