I’ve probably posted this before. Alpine Valley ’89. I was there. Maybe not this night.
Something to howl to. Especially “their walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is “Don’t Tread On Me”.
Their Motto Is “Don’t Tread On Me”
Something to howl to. Especially “their walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is “Don’t Tread On Me”.
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“Where does the time go?”
One of my favorites of their songs. Glad you post music – it usually gives me a good reason to go wander through old (good) music for a while.
A couple of observations which I’m sure have nothing to do with the political situation.
I bought some sort of bottled Starbucks drink in a convenience store recently; the I got to see a trainee clerk being taught which drinks were taxable and which weren’t; It’s not taxable if the first ingredient on the label is milk, anything else is taxed. Makes perfect sense, you wouldn’t want some filthy rich 1%er Republican oligarch getting away with avoiding tax on tomato juice.
This state has also been ratcheting up the restrictions on pain medicine. A few years ago doctors could pretty much prescribe pain relief as they saw fit. It started with restrictions on quantity, 28 day supply max, patient had to see the doctor monthly. No refills. Needs a written prescription form, no phone orders, and so on. The next level is a picture ID is now needed. I saw a woman in a drug store the other day with a prescription for dilaudid (hydromorphone) She was well over 60, walked with a cane, clearly not a recreational drug user. Her doctors office had screwed up and entered a name and address from someone with a similar name, so the ID didn’t match and they can’t fill it, sorry, no, we can’t call the office. You need to get the prescription form corrected.
As she said, normally she’d go back to the doctor’s office, but she was leaving on a cruise ship the next morning.
Exactly what legitimate function of state government is served by all these restrictions?
I’m standing there thinking this is how it goes, find a small, defenseless minority, isolate and stigmatize them. Subject them to humiliating rules. Make them wear identifiable markings like yellow stars or pink triangles or find other ways to stigmatize them. Next, take away their civil rights, seize their property and guns. It’s just a bunch of Jews/drug addicts/homos/whatever, they probably deserve it. Pack them off to the ghetto. No, the labor camp. No, the gas chamber.
Or just jail, doesn’t matter much which.
By the time the people start to realize what’s happening nobody has any rights.
Exact details vary from one time to the next, but that’s how they take over, incrementally. Might start with Jews, drug users, Huguenots, climate deniers, wharever, doesn’t really matter, it’s all the same totalitarianism in a new, improved formula.
Civil asset forfeiture, anyone?
O’bimbo smoked a lot of choom, W. snorted a lot of coke, drank heavily and god nose what else, Clinton says he didn’t inhale.
JFK was whacked out his skull on pain killers. I don’t have any information for Nixon, (heavy drinker), Ford,Carter or Reagan, but overall, what a bunch of hypocrites and sleazebags. Who the eff are these jerkoffs to be making and enforcing drug policy? Where in the constitution does the federal government have any of these powers to criminalize some drugs?
Breakfast cereal;
Lucky Government Charms!!!
With yellow stars!
Pink triangles!
Red hammers and sickles!
And brown swastikas!
Don’t bother with milk, for a real taste of government serve with the blood of innocents.
Thanks! And here’s something else to howl about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf4iqxpja0M
Dear 3M,
To add to your rage, I was at the checkout stand when the fellow in front of me was trying to buy a can of Krylon spray paint. He had to prove he was over 18 before he could do so. Apparently Sharpies, Magic Markers, Whiteout, and a host of other products have the same legal strictures on them.
I remember the days when I could go into a sporting goods store at age 14 and buy my own 12 ga shotgun shells. And now they’re criminalizing Magic Markers?
Fucktard Prohibitionists.
This is a good one – you need to show ID to buy glassware.
The Police State tentacles are everywhere
http://www.samizdata.net/2015/05/the-police-state-tentacles-are-everywhere/
A convenience store in a suburb of Boston had me show ID, and sign for a copy of High Times.