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RealMagnetic

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  1. Stupid cancer patients, wanting to get relief from their symptoms. Jail is too good for them, they should be tortured and killed. Oh wait......
    That's it? Torture is letting them off easy. First we will have to put them in town square in those wooden clasp things from the colonial days, where their arms and head are stuck... and have people stand around and laugh at them. That will teach them to want relief from their pain, those freakin tools.
  2. I don't think it is the worst idea in the universe. Hopefully if this does end up happening he will tweak it: make it less hours, or voluntary or some credit for college, or something like that. I think the idea is to get more people involved in their communities. Yeah, I know, I also don't like being told what to do. Maybe if they made it totally voluntary but had incentives for getting involved in the community then it could work? This is America, where the government isn't supposed to tell you what you have to do etc.

  3. Funny, I had a friend say to me today the difference between republicans and democrats is that republicans are sorry Obama won, but hope he succeeds because that's good for the countryDemocrats were sorry Bush won, and hoped that he would fail because that would be good for their party
    That is ridiculous. Why don't you phrase it better, like this:The difference between good people and bad people is that good people are sorry Obama won, but hope he succeeds because that's good for the countryBad people were sorry Bush won, and hoped that he would fail because that would be good for showing others how stupid the good people are
  4. What happened to daniel's last blog, it was posted the other night about how he gambled a bunch with ivey and some others, losing about 200k after winning a side-bet with hellmuth for 153k. Now that i think about it....He might have removed it because he basically told the world that he won 153k from hellmuth, and he doesnt usually refer to the wins and loses of others specifically. But come on, hellmuth deserves it. Someone confirm for me.
    I noticed it disappeared too... He must have pulled it, like you said.
  5. I was just reading about the Bradley Effect. It is based on an election that happened in 1982. In all likelihood they have improved the polling methods since then to minimize of even eliminate any errors. You know how quickly things evolve in this country! So the effect may be minimal.

  6. Good points Sheiky,I just down't want the governemnt acting like my parents or something. People need to self-actualize. This whole idea of having the government handle everything for us is making us a retarded country. (IMHO)For example, WHY are those kids doing dumb shit like that? (drugs smoking etc???) What about their parents? Why are parents so stupid as to see the signs and ignore them?

  7. Sheiky,I think eduction is the key to drug prevention. Like you said, the addicts would likely say "I wish these weren't available when I was young" but what they mean is "I wish I knew these suck, and never tried them" And the thing is, some people are just stupid. They just can't resist. My cousin went to jail for 2 years from things he did when he was addicted to heroin. And he should have known better. He DID technically know better. Why should all of this be burdening our prison system? We have to PAY for them to be in prison! I dunno. I guess I just think we should be putting responsibility into the hands of the people. Putting it in the hands of the government is dumbing us down, and making us less self-reliant.Don't you think there would be community groups informing people about drug abuse if the government wasn't??? Of course there would be.

  8. You know what dismays me here? It is that somehow many of us have convinced ourselves that our government is the answer to all our woes. And now the big government has it's hands in everything, and it's all a giant cluster-funk of inefficiency sailing its way into insane debt. What the heck is going on here? The government is not infinitely capable. It cannot eliminate all pain and suffering from every human's life. And the more we put it on the government to do so, the more we become a pathetic country of disempowered victims. And I don't like it.

  9. The government makes huge sums of money keeping marijuana and other drugs illegal.
    How do you factor in things like court costs, policemen wasting time arresting dealers, or the effect on our country of imprisoning dealers?Maybe you're right and we wouldn't save money, but we sure as hell would save time and stop wasting our efforts on stupid stuff.
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