Thursday, April 18, 2019
Trump is guilty
President Donald John Trump has violated numerous decrees from the deep state (Royal Deep State Decrees). Willfully denying Hillary her coronation is a criminal act according to the RDS. He then colluded with an group that the Deep State despises called "the American people" to act as his co conspirators in denying Queen Hillary I the presidency. Since he did not get out of Hillary's way and kiss her ass he is guilty of obstruction according to RDS standards.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
The dinosaur and the little crying girl
On Monday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 79, took yet another shot at socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29, over the young congresswoman’s increasingly radical agenda.
Speaking during an on-stage interview at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Democrat Party’s veritable matriarch reminded the audience that politics “is about winning,” and to win the party must temper its positions to appeal to America’s mostly moderate population.
“What we’re saying is to have a message that appeals to people in a way that does not menace them — that really does address their concerns,” she said. “When we win and we have the White House and we have that, then we can expand our exuberances to some other things.”
Her point appeared to be that Democrats need to focus their agenda on sensible ideas and solutions for the time being instead of pushing radical plans like AOC’s “Green New Deal.” Why? Because most districts aren’t as far-left as either hers or that of the socialist congresswoman.
“When we won this election, it wasn’t in districts like mine or Alexandria’s,” Pelosi explained, referring to the 2018 midterms. “She’s a wonderful member of Congress, as I think all of our colleagues will attest, but those are districts that are solidly Democratic.”
To drive home the point, she picked up a glass of water and stated, “This glass of water would win with a ‘D’ next to its name in those districts. … Not to diminish the personality and the exuberance of the rest of Alexandria and the members, but …”
The House speaker’s direct but gentle jab at Ocasio-Cortez marked the third time in less than seven days that she’d chided her younger peer and dismissed her alleged influence on the party.
In a “60 Minutes” interview over the weekend, she pushed back against concerns by host Lesley Stahl that AOC’s radical wing of the party is slowly but surely taking over.
“So you are contending with a group in Congress: Over here on the left flank are these self-described socialists, on the right, these moderates,” Stahl said. “And you yourself said that you’re the only one who can unify everybody. And the question is, can you?”
“By and large, whatever orientation they came to Congress with, they know that we have to hold the center,” Pelosi replied. “That we have to go down the mainstream.”
“You have these wings — AOC, and her group on one side …, ” the host pressed later in the interview.
“That’s like five people,” the House speaker snapped back.
Now flash back to April 8. During an interview at the time with USA Today, the House speaker took her first shot at Ocasio-Cortez. Unlike the two shots that would follow afterward, however, this one was designed to be stealthy, in that Pelosi didn’t mention AOC by name.
“While there are people who have a large number of Twitter followers, what’s important is that we have large numbers of votes on the floor of the House,” she said when asked about the difficulties of pushing a moderate agenda while dealing with the background noise of radicals.
The underlying theme that seemed to be present in all three attacks was that Ocasio-Cortez is a relative nobody who, despite her social media following and incessant media spotlight, allegedly isn’t driving the Democrat Party’s agenda, and for good reason: Because politics is about winning.
Of course, this doesn’t mean AOC isn’t entitled to a little play time at the kid’s table.
“It doesn’t mean we curb those enthusiasms. Reach for the moon. Put out there what you want, go for it, talk about it,” Pelosi said at her London School of Economics and Political interview.
“But when we have to go into the districts that we have to win, we have to cull that with which we have most in common with these people,” she added.
The point was that while it’s OK for AOC to have her fun and her Twitter followers and her radical little ideas, the party’s overall focus can’t be on her and her childish agenda.
“This is about winning. This is about winning because so much is at stake,” Pelosi concluded.
Though Pelosi was clearly loathe to admit it Monday, the fact remains that Ocasio-Cortez and her freshmen peers, including anti-Semitic Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib continue to have an effect on the American people’s perception of the Democrat Party.
As of Tuesday, for instance, one of the top stories regarding congressional Democrats was still the dismissive way in which Omar had recently spoken about the Sept. 11 attacks.
The other top story was AOC’s decision to quit Facebook …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the most prolific and powerful politicians on social media, with millions of followers who hang on her every post and tweet. She's said goodbye to Facebook, though. https://cnn.it/2UFMJlm pic.twitter.com/u5v6bdS2cG
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed she had completely stopped using her Facebook account and is scaling back on social media use in general, arguing online platforms can cause “isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism.”https://trib.al/eqbqBDU
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.@AOC is done with Facebook http://bit.ly/2KK5Iqq
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says there are health risks associated with Facebook—and that's why she's decided to stop using her account. https://abcn.ws/2UANZq1 pic.twitter.com/mMJi18YuPi
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces she is quitting Facebook because it is a ‘public health risk’ https://trib.al/i1plBsP
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains why she quit Facebook http://hill.cm/azkRVlj pic.twitter.com/L4DTKQB6jQ
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Many young Americans have stopped using Facebook in the numbers they used to, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Rep. @AOC, who personally gave up Facebook, says "social media poses a public health risk to everybody."
“I've started to kind of impose little rules on myself..."
Once again the world’s attention seems to be focused on AOC, and again it seems there’s not much Pelosi can do about it.
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Joe Biden Applauds Anti-Marijuana Speech At Opioid Forum
As former Vice President Joe Biden mulls a 2020 presidential run, marijuana reform advocates are following closely to see if the long-running drug warrior is going to change his tune. But at a forum on the opioid epidemic on Thursday, that didn’t seem to be the case.
When the mayor of Philadelphia asked the panel at the University of Pennsylvania event about whether cannabis can be used as an alternative to opioids, psychobiology professor Bertha Madras claimed that patients who consume marijuana experience the same levels of pain and don’t decrease their opioid use, and she also characterized legislative efforts to allow patients with opioid use disorder to access medical marijuana as “disrespectful”—a rant that Biden enthusiastically applauded.
“At this point there are two conclusions. Number one, the data does not show that cannabis is a substitute, because if you actually do longitudinal studies on an individual basis, you find that people are suffering as much pain if they’re taking marijuana, and their opioid use is not decreasing in most cases,” Madras, who served as the deputy director of demand reduction for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, argued. “In fact, they’re getting more and more in trouble, in terms of developing opioid use disorder and they’re misusing opioids.”
“Every single disease that is treated in this country—like diabetes, like infections, like cancer—is evidence-based and undergoes randomized controlled clinical trials,” she continued. “And to say that this is by legislative support or by fiat from a governor’s office, that this is how you can treat opioid use disorder without the clinical trials, without longitudinal studies, to me is purely disrespectful of patients.”
There are numerous studies that raise questions about the doctor’s broad dismissal of the notion that cannabis can substitute opioids, but Biden seemed satisfied. He applauded the doctor and later seemed to tell the guest next to him that “she’s right.”
The tacit endorsement of the panelist’s anti-cannabis speech appears to signal that Biden—who as a senator championed the enactment of harsh, punitive drug laws—remains opposed, or at least skeptical about, changing marijuana policies. That will put him at odds with every other major Democratic candidate currently in the race—all of whom have backed legalization for both medical and adult use.
Also at the forum, Biden commented on the addictiveness of opioid-based painkillers and said that “a little pain is not bad,” a remark that could be interpreted as insulting to pain patients, who have increasingly faced stigmatization and scrutiny as they’ve sought relief amidst the opioid crisis.
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Joe Biden, asked what one thing he wishes people knew, says people should recognize how addictive pain killers are. "A little pain is not bad," he says.
It’s unclear how seriously Biden is weighing a 2020 run at this stage, with many speaking out about his history of touching women in ways that made them feel uncomfortable. But if he does take the plunge, drug policy will undoubtedly be a sticking point for many voters.
The current field of Democratic candidates is already competing to go beyond simply supporting legalization and either musing broader decriminalization of other drugs or, in the case of Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), insisting that support for ending prohibition is contingent on the inclusion of social equity provisions to repair the damages of the war on drugs, which has been carried out in a racially disproportionate manner.
As far as Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) is concerned, the U.S. will never have another “anti-cannabis’ president. Asked specifically about Biden’s prospects, the congressman told Marijuana Moment in a recent interview that nobody “is going to survive the nominating process who doesn’t have a reasonable position on cannabis.”
“They will not be nominated. I say that unequivocally,” Blumenauer said.
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When the mayor of Philadelphia asked the panel at the University of Pennsylvania event about whether cannabis can be used as an alternative to opioids, psychobiology professor Bertha Madras claimed that patients who consume marijuana experience the same levels of pain and don’t decrease their opioid use, and she also characterized legislative efforts to allow patients with opioid use disorder to access medical marijuana as “disrespectful”—a rant that Biden enthusiastically applauded.
“At this point there are two conclusions. Number one, the data does not show that cannabis is a substitute, because if you actually do longitudinal studies on an individual basis, you find that people are suffering as much pain if they’re taking marijuana, and their opioid use is not decreasing in most cases,” Madras, who served as the deputy director of demand reduction for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, argued. “In fact, they’re getting more and more in trouble, in terms of developing opioid use disorder and they’re misusing opioids.”
“Every single disease that is treated in this country—like diabetes, like infections, like cancer—is evidence-based and undergoes randomized controlled clinical trials,” she continued. “And to say that this is by legislative support or by fiat from a governor’s office, that this is how you can treat opioid use disorder without the clinical trials, without longitudinal studies, to me is purely disrespectful of patients.”
There are numerous studies that raise questions about the doctor’s broad dismissal of the notion that cannabis can substitute opioids, but Biden seemed satisfied. He applauded the doctor and later seemed to tell the guest next to him that “she’s right.”
The tacit endorsement of the panelist’s anti-cannabis speech appears to signal that Biden—who as a senator championed the enactment of harsh, punitive drug laws—remains opposed, or at least skeptical about, changing marijuana policies. That will put him at odds with every other major Democratic candidate currently in the race—all of whom have backed legalization for both medical and adult use.
Also at the forum, Biden commented on the addictiveness of opioid-based painkillers and said that “a little pain is not bad,” a remark that could be interpreted as insulting to pain patients, who have increasingly faced stigmatization and scrutiny as they’ve sought relief amidst the opioid crisis.
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Joe Biden, asked what one thing he wishes people knew, says people should recognize how addictive pain killers are. "A little pain is not bad," he says.
It’s unclear how seriously Biden is weighing a 2020 run at this stage, with many speaking out about his history of touching women in ways that made them feel uncomfortable. But if he does take the plunge, drug policy will undoubtedly be a sticking point for many voters.
The current field of Democratic candidates is already competing to go beyond simply supporting legalization and either musing broader decriminalization of other drugs or, in the case of Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), insisting that support for ending prohibition is contingent on the inclusion of social equity provisions to repair the damages of the war on drugs, which has been carried out in a racially disproportionate manner.
As far as Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) is concerned, the U.S. will never have another “anti-cannabis’ president. Asked specifically about Biden’s prospects, the congressman told Marijuana Moment in a recent interview that nobody “is going to survive the nominating process who doesn’t have a reasonable position on cannabis.”
“They will not be nominated. I say that unequivocally,” Blumenauer said.
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Saturday, April 6, 2019
The politicization of cannabis legalization
The pro-legalization of cannabis nationwide is gathering momentum.That is great. What is not-so-great is the left wing politics that are permeating the movement. Specifically in this case racism. Race is a bad indicator to go on because not every black or brown person is cited for marijuana possession. Not only that but Caucasians,specifically men who are cited,will go uncounted due to race and especially gender. The best way the powers that be can make this up is to expunge convictions and overturn ridiculous judgements (being barred from the marijuana industry by judges due to prohibition and other ridiculous conditions.) Regardless of race and/or gender. Also allow market forces dictate the supply and demand when it comes to cannabis,ease up on taxing it to death.
Monday, April 1, 2019
The estate of Big Daddy founder sues Bruce Springsteen for copyright infringement.
The estate of Big Daddy founder Big Daddy Ding Dong has filed suit against Bruce Springsteen for copyright infringement in the court building downtown. Springsteen denies this and is represented by the law firm Crosby,Stills,Nash and Young. More to come. Stay tuned.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
FDA is seeking the public's input on marijuana rescheduling
In the last few days, nearly 700 people have submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) supporting the rescheduling of marijuana.
The FDA opened the public comment period on Friday to gather input ahead of a United Nations meeting on global drug policy, where the U.S. representative will have the opportunity to cast a vote on World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations to reschedule cannabis, THC and CBD under international drug treaties.
So far, the federal agency has been flooded with comments that overwhelmingly endorse a cannabis reclassification. Support for the policy change has been nearly unanimous, but the reasoning behind those sentiments varied.
Dozens of submissions came from patients, many of whom complained about pharmaceuticals they’d been prescribed and felt cannabis was a more effective treatment option. One person who said he or she is a registered nurse sided with those patients and wrote “in my professional opinion, it is both harmful and unethical to prohibit patients access to this medicinal plant.”
Others pointed out that marijuana is not as harmful as other legal substances like alcohol and tobacco. Several people argued that prohibition is an infringement on civil liberties.
Military veterans were also strongly represented in the comments, with some saying cannabis has helped treat conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.
“I am a 59 y/o military veteran. I know first hand how effective a pain reliever cannabis can be,” one person wrote. “It is my strong opinion cannabis should be legal and regulated.”
Some brought a political angle to their comment. A self-described straight ticket Republican voter said he voted for Donald Trump in the last election, but that he will “endorse the next candidate who supports marijuana legalization.” Another person suggested that the president should legalize cannabis to troll liberals, delivering on an issue that is increasingly popular on a bipartisan basis.
“It’s draconian that you’re allowing states to arrest and charge people with felonies for a product that’s readily available in stores in other states,” someone wrote. “It also makes the federal government look completely inept because states have fully legalized starting in 2012. It’s been nearly a decade and there’s yet to be any sort of federal action.”
One of the only comments expressing opposition to loosening marijuana laws under international treaties relied on stoner stereotypes: “Cannabis makes you Dumb, Lazy, & Hungry !”
Taken as a whole, though, it’s clear that the public wants the U.S. to back marijuana reform when the issue comes up for a vote, which could happen later this month but might be delayed until a later UN meeting.
If adopted, the WHO recommendations wouldn’t change U.S. law—which classifies marijuana under the most restrictive category of Schedule I—or allow UN member states to legalize the sale of cannabis without violating international treaties. But approving WHO’s recommended changes would likely embolden more countries follow in the footsteps of Canada and Uruguay, which have legalized marijuana regardless of UN policy.
Expect more comments to flow in as the deadline, March 14, approaches. The last time the FDA solicited public input on cannabis rescheduling, more than 20,000 people made their voices heard.
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The FDA opened the public comment period on Friday to gather input ahead of a United Nations meeting on global drug policy, where the U.S. representative will have the opportunity to cast a vote on World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations to reschedule cannabis, THC and CBD under international drug treaties.
So far, the federal agency has been flooded with comments that overwhelmingly endorse a cannabis reclassification. Support for the policy change has been nearly unanimous, but the reasoning behind those sentiments varied.
Dozens of submissions came from patients, many of whom complained about pharmaceuticals they’d been prescribed and felt cannabis was a more effective treatment option. One person who said he or she is a registered nurse sided with those patients and wrote “in my professional opinion, it is both harmful and unethical to prohibit patients access to this medicinal plant.”
Others pointed out that marijuana is not as harmful as other legal substances like alcohol and tobacco. Several people argued that prohibition is an infringement on civil liberties.
Military veterans were also strongly represented in the comments, with some saying cannabis has helped treat conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.
“I am a 59 y/o military veteran. I know first hand how effective a pain reliever cannabis can be,” one person wrote. “It is my strong opinion cannabis should be legal and regulated.”
Some brought a political angle to their comment. A self-described straight ticket Republican voter said he voted for Donald Trump in the last election, but that he will “endorse the next candidate who supports marijuana legalization.” Another person suggested that the president should legalize cannabis to troll liberals, delivering on an issue that is increasingly popular on a bipartisan basis.
“It’s draconian that you’re allowing states to arrest and charge people with felonies for a product that’s readily available in stores in other states,” someone wrote. “It also makes the federal government look completely inept because states have fully legalized starting in 2012. It’s been nearly a decade and there’s yet to be any sort of federal action.”
One of the only comments expressing opposition to loosening marijuana laws under international treaties relied on stoner stereotypes: “Cannabis makes you Dumb, Lazy, & Hungry !”
Taken as a whole, though, it’s clear that the public wants the U.S. to back marijuana reform when the issue comes up for a vote, which could happen later this month but might be delayed until a later UN meeting.
If adopted, the WHO recommendations wouldn’t change U.S. law—which classifies marijuana under the most restrictive category of Schedule I—or allow UN member states to legalize the sale of cannabis without violating international treaties. But approving WHO’s recommended changes would likely embolden more countries follow in the footsteps of Canada and Uruguay, which have legalized marijuana regardless of UN policy.
Expect more comments to flow in as the deadline, March 14, approaches. The last time the FDA solicited public input on cannabis rescheduling, more than 20,000 people made their voices heard.
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