Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.
The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were dependent on information supplied by those who had a specific agenda to deceive lawmakers. You’ll see below that the very first federal vote to prohibit marijuana was based entirely on a documented lie on the floor of the Senate.
You’ll also see that the history of marijuana’s criminalization is filled with:
All cartoons are posted with the artists’ express permission to TPZoo. Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle Editorial Cartoonist and Animation Artist.
For Nick’s animations, visit Nick Anderson: Animation Archives.
For Nick’s cartoons, visit Nick Anderson.
All cartoons are posted with the artists’ express permission to TPZoo. Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle Editorial Cartoonist and Animation Artist.
For Nick’s animations, visit Nick Anderson: Animation Archives.
For Nick’s cartoons, visit Nick Anderson.
Popular throughout the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland, Sunday Roast is a lovely tradition going back to the inventions of meat and Sundays.
The Sunday roast isn’t necessarily beef; it can be chicken, turkey, pork, lamb, or even some vegetarian atrocity. Heh, no offense to vegetarians. Srsly…
The above Sunday Roast is beef, served with roasted potatoes and carrots, broccoli, salad, and a cute individual Yorkshire pudding. I must learn how to make those.
What’s for Sunday Roast at your house?
This is our daily open thread — stop drooling, your keyboard will short out.
Yesterday was a little observed day of national importance: Constitution Day. On September 17, 1787 thirty-nine white males signed the foundational document of the United States Government. It was a compromise document, most notably for its three-fifths solution which gave southern states more representatives in the House of Represenatatives based on their slave population, while agreeing not to address the slavery issue for 20 more years. Given the typical lifespan in those days, they basically expected their children to have to deal with the problem; i.e. they passed a major contentious issue to the next generation to decide. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
For all the Teabagging hoopala over upholding the Constitution, this writer was not aware of a single Teabag Rally in honor of Constitution Day.
The Constitution, like the bible, is subject to interpretation. Unfortunately, those who are hollering the most about upholding the Constitution derive their understanding of it from radio and tv talk-show hosts. They then believe they know more about the Constitution than a Constitutional Law Professor. That this is absurd on its face is beyond their grasp: fear, hatred, prejudice and racism trump reason.
I love Fee Waybill! And this allows me to post one of the greatest music videos of all time: Fee and The Tubes performing White Punks on Dope. And more Fee below the fold. And Fee Waybill can still rock.
During late Miocene and early Plioceneepochs, one of the largest flood basalts ever to appear on the Earth’s surface engulfed about 163,700 km² (63,000 mile²) of the Pacific Northwest, forming a large igneous province with an estimated volume of 174,300 km³. Eruptions were most vigorous from 17–14 million years ago, when over 99% of the basalt was released. Less extensive eruptions continued from 14–6 million years ago.
Duodecimal numbering systems arose for a reason. First, the duodecimal numbering system has four common denominators (2, 3, 4 and 6) while a decimal system, which seems more natural, has only 2 (2 and 5,) both primes. This made the subdivision of goods more efficient. We know that this became a popular system because Germanic languages carry the vestiges of this numbering system because of the existence of of verbal values for the numbers 11 and 12 (in decimal terms.) Also we still carry the concept of this system in the measurements for a dozen, the gross (12 dozen dozen) and the great gross (12 dozen gross.) We also have 12 months in the year and 12 signs of the Zodiac.
Base 12 numbers are also a basis in the measurement of time during the day.
If you are into self-punishment and want to know more on this subject and other number systems, you can start here
I hope that this all shows up correctly. This is the first time that I tried out what I tried to present something using material from the blurb on tables.
This is our open thread. Please feel free to offer your own comments on this or any other topic.
Ostraca (pieces of broken pottery as voting tokens) bearing the names of Pericles, Cimon, and Aristides (top to bottom). Ancient Agora Museum in Athens.
In ancient Greece, politics was far different from the current election system in the United States. It would be really nice if we could ostracize the likes of Limbaugh, Boehner and Palin.
Who would you pick for Ostracism? This is our open thread. Please feel free to offer your own comments on this or any other topic.
Help us restore the values that founded this great nation. On August, 28th, come join us in our pledge to restore honor at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
