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Who did the police beat? A Man With Downs Syndrome. “The family is very upset and really shocked, to be honest,” attorney Philip Gold said Wednesday. “They can’t believe that this could have happened, let alone to their their son who is an innocent, sweet individual with Down syndrome.” Gilberto Powell, 22, was stopped by…

A Mark Farber video tells the story of the current economic situation. He says he expects the dollar to strengthen. Not because it is any good, but because all the rest are worse. Interesting headline: Shares slump on US, Chinese, German weakness A grim outlook for the US economy from the Federal Reserve and signs…

First off – we are not running out of copper any time soon – what are we running out of? Economic headway. We all know the old saying: “Copper is the only commodity with a Ph.D. in economics”, or words to the effect. The ongoing price collapse of copper signals that the markets have collectively…

The band is Spirit. Uncle Jack is the drummer.

I added a comment to Eric’s post Another day, another boring post on an irritating peripheral issue. I think it deserves a wider audience So here it is amended with some links added. ****************************************************************************** Part of a comment I made on another thread: I am going to pit brother against brother. Fathers against sons. Mothers…

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Citizens Opposing Prohibition Drug Policy Forum Of Texas Dark Alliance Drug War History “What is the biggest impediment to moving forward? It is the moral and ideological issue.” Modern Prohibition/The War on Drugs is the most destructive, dysfunctional & immoral domestic policy since slavery & Jim Crow

Commenter Frank is discussing a certain Republican candidate. I think it applies to almost all of them: I don’t care if the country goes to utter hell. I will never, under any circumstances vote for him. I am so sick of this shit of voting for the lesser of two evils. What does it get…

Retired Police Detective Howard Wooldridge says: Modern Prohibition/The War on Drugs is the most destructive, dysfunctional & immoral domestic policy since slavery & Jim Crow. He ought to know. Now you know. Cross Posted at Power and Control

H/T No Quarter. I got the title from the comments there.

H/T Weasel Zippers

H/T Uppity Woman

A couple of commenters have complained that I devote too much time to the war on drugs. Maybe so. I am the first to admit that anything gets boring after a while. I often wonder which is more boring: to hear something I disagree with repeated endlessly or to hear something I agree with repeated…

I have often said we have a one Party (statist) system in America with two factions. Commenter rustbelt makes the same point in a different way: I noticed recently that the argument “Marijuana is a threat to the moral fiber of our people” sounds very much like a (turn of the century) Progressive argument. They…

The New York Times reports. Drugs widely prescribed to treat severe post-traumatic stress symptoms for veterans are no more effective than placebos and come with serious side effects, including weight gain and fatigue, researchers reported on Tuesday. The surprising finding, from the largest study of its kind in veterans, challenges current treatment standards so directly…

From So… What About Those Next 20 Days? Cross Posted at Power and Control

Can we get along?  

I spent all morning trying to get online with my regular (main) computer, to no avail. No connection, and when I went to the command prompt, I was able to ping no sites at all. Even a loopback (127.0.0.1) yielded an annoying error code (which seems to have frustrated many a techie): IP Driver Error…

The Book Of Esther From Chapter 4: 11 “The servants of the king and the people of the provinces all know that any man or woman who comes to the king in the inner court without being summoned is sentenced to death by the law, unless the king extends his royal scepter to him, granting…

Forbes Magazine has an interview with Progressive Insurance chairman Peter Lewis. Our marijuana laws are outdated, ineffective and stupid. I’m not alone in thinking this: Half of Americans believe we should stop punishing people for using marijuana. And not coincidentally, more than half of Americans have used marijuana themselves. I am one of those Americans,…

To all those who say that it is not the mission of the Churches to end the injustice of the War On Drugs I have a question/answer. Abortion