Fractured Definition

High jinks —  curses applied when one is strung out on marijuana

Old Gateway Drug Poster

Found on reddit Pics

Is this supposed to be a turn-off?

Fractured Definition

Cockroach — a marijuana cigarette for a rooster

Headlines

‘The answer is yes’: Sondland affirms ‘quid pro quo’ in Ukraine dealings

Why Ican is making $400 million bet against malls: Record store closures this year

Republican witnesses aren’t helping Trump ...

New York to free suspects accused of manslaughter, negligent manslaughter

Senate passes bill in support of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters

Pompeo was ‘in the loop’ on Trump’s Ukraine pressure plan, Sondland says

Ken Starr: Republican Senators may push Trump to resign ...

Huckabee on Chick-Fil-A ‘cave’: They bowed down to bullies

Documents reveal massive ‘dark money’ group boosted Democrats in 2018

House committee approves bill legalizing marijuana at the federal level

Doctors freeze and revive human for first time ... Suspended animation ...

Report: FBI wants to interview CIA whistleblower

Fractured Definition

Malarkey — a 2.2 lb. bag of marijuana for the mother of a flying songbird.

Cause du Jour

Why is it that only liberals seem to have causes that they will stage emotive protests for: legalize marijuana, "women's reproductive rights," equal pay, transgender bathrooms, black lives matter, dump Trump Women's March, safe spaces, #MeToo, down with Civil War monuments, save the planet, bam guns, no tax cuts, open borders, same sex marriage, evil white privilege, eliminate ICE? The list goes on and on and on. As soon as the emotion drains out of one cause, another one steps in to take it's place. Do not these fulminaters have anything else to do with their empty lives? Must our media always have a weekend protest or boycott or diatribe to headline? It all seems very artificial and superficial to this observer.

Are these real grassroots protests or is this a lot of AstroTurf ... ginned-up crowds comprised mostly of many Soros-paid actors ... or  rent-a-mobs? (There are agencies which will actually rent you a spittle-flecked mob for any cause you want. How cynical can you get?)

The free-speech, save the whales and free-love activists of our youth seem so much more tame and naive than the cause du jour gauntlets we are forced to endure these days. What's next? "Green cards  for all the jihadists'  children?" Spare me!

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Drudge?

Aides give up on trying to control Trump's tweets

Doctors are turning to marijuana to treat opioid addiction

Argentine sub missing with 44 sailors ...

Mika latest Clinton ally to suggest Bill should have resigned

Trump reverses hunting trophy decision, says he will review

Tesla is 'going out of business' says former GM exec Bob Lutz

I trump to pay staff legal bills ...

Hungary PM: 'Silent majority' will prevail over 'Soros empire' ...

Jesse Jackson diagnosed with Parkinson's

WalMart says it has pre-ordered 16 of Tesla's new tractor-trailers

10,744 more JFK records released ...

LOL: After covering for Weinstein, Clinton, NYTimes says Franken should go

Headlines

The following headlines were all found on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

White House orders agencies to ignore Democrats' oversight requests

Dozens dead after gunman torches Philippine resort

Uber declares $708 million loss as finance head leaves company

More colleges holding separate 'commencements' [blackalaureates] for minority students

Google faces $9 billion fine for rigging search results ...

De Blasio sez NYC will uphold Paris deal

Trump claims that tax bill that doesn't yet exist is 'moving along' in Congress

Bernie Sanders finds long lost love for Paris deal after Trump dumps it

Hungary leader say criticism by Soros 'war decularation'

Secret Service relaxes marijuana policy in order to swell ranks ...

Macron trolls Trump again

Obama Library will not contain original documents, only digital copies

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. 

Guess which ones came from Huffington Post?

Stock's rise and rise and rise ...

Bad Bet: [Mexico's Carlos] Slim down $16B since Trump ...

Islam set to overtake Christianity as world's most popular religion ...

Scary state of volcano monitoring in U,S.: 169 active ...

Trump's policies contradict his joint session speech

Chris Wallace: 'I feel like tonight Trump became President of the United States'

Schumer: Dems are done with Trump

Study: Subway's chicken sandwich is only 50% chicken

Oprah rethinking whether she could be president ...

Yemen raid yielded no significant intelligence, officials say

Antarctic record 63.5 degrees F ...

Marijuana industry claims it could be nation's top job creator

Checking the Checker

Snopes is one of the more famous Internet fact-checker sites which has been chosen by Facebook to aid in its designations of "fake news" stories. However, it's objectivity has come under question recently as it always seems to pooh-pooh stories critical of liberals. However, recent revelations cast a long shadow on the moral turpitude of the operators and checkers on this "arbiter of truth" ... see: Daily Caller Revelations. Knowing that many of you readers don't follow hyperlinks, I have reproduced some of the juicier passages below:

The founder of mythbusting website Snopes, which was recently tapped by Facebook as one of four “fact-check” organizations patrolling the site for “fake news,” embezzled $98,000 in company funds before spending it on “himself and the prostitutes he hired,” according to legal documents filed by his ex-wife reviewed by the Daily Mail. 

After divorcing from his first wife, Barbara Mikkelson, David Mikkelson married Elyssa Young, a former porn star and current escort who now works for Snopes as an administrator, according to the Daily Mail. 

The Daily Mail also revealed that top Snopes “fact-checker” Kim LaCapria claimed on her personal blog that she has “posted to Snopes” after smoking marijuana. As TheDC previously revealed, LaCapria describes herself as “openly left-leaning” and once claimed that Republicans fear “female agency.” 

As originally reported by TheDC, Snopes almost exclusively employs leftists as fact-checkers, many of whom have exhibited a clear distaste for Republican voters. TheDC could not identify a single Snopes fact-checker who comes from a conservative background.

Also, I thought it might be fair and interesting to see what Snopes has to say about these disclosures. Unfortunately, as of this publication time, I can find no comment. But you can check for yourself ... see: Snopes.

Capitalism

Yesterday at a block party, I was talking to the parents of a neighbor. They told me that they had just returned from a short trip to Colorado. In kidding, I asked them if they had "indulged" in a Rocky Mountain high while they were there? They relayed two interesting facts about Denver doobies ... 1) A single marijuana cigarette there costs $15 ... Wow! and, 2) When they were in the airport leaving Colorado ... by the check-in gate was a big trash bin with a sign saying, "Don't even think about it!"

I am encouraged ... apparently capitalism and the free market is still at work ...

Modern Nutrition

Our children are once again under assault in the guise of helping them. Despite the constant liberal echo chamber that says it's always about "the children," it is really more often about the nanny state. My eleven-year old granddaughter who is in the sixth grade here in Massachusettes is soon to be surveyed about her nutritional habits .. good intentions, no? But like most things here in this road-to-hell state of a fake-Indian Senator and Indian pudding, this survey from the Massachusetts Office of Food and Nutrition took a left turn in its design ... and now deals with many non-nutritional issues in its daunting 99 questions. For instance, what do the following sample questions from the last survey have to do with food and nutrition?

- A transgender person is someone whose biological sex at birth does not match the way they think or feel about themselves. Are you transgender?

- During the last 30 days, on how many days did you carry a weapon such as a gun, knife or club?

- Has anyone ever had sexual contact with you against your will?

- Have you ever tried smoking cigarettes, even one or two puffs?

- During your life, on how many days have you had at least one drink of alcohol?

- During your life, how many times have you used marijuana?

And on and on ... This state agency has used its authority and good intentions to take a can opener to the private lives of Massachusetts families. Yes, this survey says that respondents will remain anonymous and will suffer no repercussions ... but dollars to donuts they are lying and some poor six-grade schlub who believed that his/her parents allowing a sip of wine on a special occasion was OK will now find a posse of do-gooder state-ists putting their family in the parental-abuse docks. And does anyone truly believe that any heads-up gang-banger-to-be is going to answer the weapons question in the affermative? The naïveté of these survey designers is mind-boggling.

For those of you, who are as incensed as my son and I are at this state intrusiveness, please spend some time viewing what my granddaughter is likely to be asked to fess up to about her family life ... see: Youth Risk Behavior Survey. There are many other ways for dealing with the social problems that this survey is trying to address. I suggest that the Massachusetts Office of Food and Nutrition investigate some of these alternatives. And I have also suggested that my granddaughter decline answering any of these neb-nose questions.

Anti-Big Bird

The Republicans' anti-abortion stance has now wrapped this party even further around the axel ... and this should cause them to lose the 2016 presidential election. Their denouncing of Planned Parenthood's selling of baby body parts has clearly inspired Robert L. Dear to shoot up the Planned Parenthood's clinic in Colorado Springs ... killing three, wounding nine and casting a pall on this altruistic national provider of women's health care ... and forcing this fine organization to have to justify these widely-needed services ... see: Daily Kos Story.

Clearly every Republican candidate for president has jumped on the anti-Planned Parenthood bandwagon as a result of those doctored interview tapes besmirching these fine clinic people. This places all of these Republican turkeys on the wrong side of this history and shows that they are soldiers in the war on women. They thus deserve to be denounced and voted against.

And Republicans are also obviously anti-blacks, anti-gays, anti-transgender, anti-marijuana, anti-unions, anti-immigrants, anti-disabled people, anti-infrastructure, anti-poor people, anti-gun control, anti-socialism, anti-Hispanics, anti-middle class, anti-global warming, anti-Native Americans, anti-senior citizens, anti-Muslims, anti-women, anti-media, and anti-Big Bird. (Did I forget any?) Are these not enough reasons to pull the lever for Hillary?

It Had to Happen

Berkeley, California’s City Council has voted unanimously that medical marijuana clinics there must give indigent pot users free drugs … amounting to 2% of their annual sales ... see: CBS Local News. Clearly this is a harbinger of things to come. Obamacare next? And then some goofy court (San Francisco District?) will declare free Mary Jane is a right guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.

Fish Bones

I think most of us have encountered a few bones in a delicious piece of fish … not enough to spoil the meal, but still a small blot on our prandial perfection.  This irritation also occurs in politics. Often, someone running for political office, who espouses views that are mostly congruent with our value system, still may have a few quirks that cause us to think twice.  He doesn’t believe in evolution.  She, on religious grounds, opposes abortion or gay marriage.  He once smoked marijuana or used cocaine.

The question then becomes … do we let perfection become the enemy of the good?  I believe too often we do … particularly if this political-office aspirant's quirk is belittled in the media. Isn’t it funny?  Pope Francis can be against abortion but he is for income redistribution … so he is an OK fellow.  Whereas a Tea Party member, who wants to rein in big government, yet mimics Pope Francis on this social issue, is castigated by the national media and then by the voters.

It constantly amazes me how much influence the media can have in public opinion formation.  We are witnessing this dynamic at work today in the brouhaha surrounding Governor Chris Christie.  He has a very strong personality and likes to have his political way … often the conservative way.  And yet he still won an overwhelming re-election victory in a deep blue state, New Jersey.  But, as soon as he starts edging out Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential polls, these assets are suddenly turned into liabilities.  I am fascinated watching how the media is trying to pull off this legerdemain.

We voters certainly are a fickled bunch … that’s why we too often stick with fish-fillet candidates.

Afterthought: Actually there are people who won't eat fish at all because of the bones.  The analog in this context is the single-issue voter.  ("if you don't pay for my birth control, you won'y get my vote!")  Such are the bane of the democratic process.

Dope

It’s fortuitous that many states have now legalized marijuana because our nation is now on a drug jag that is bound to destroy our psyche and our future.  Last night the House passed the Senate’s “solution” to our fiscal-cliff crisis which adds $3.9 trillion more to our already-crushing national debt of $16.4 trillion (see: The Hill Story) … and in the process gives additional tax breaks to Hollywood and NASCAR … and extends unemployment insurance for another 12 months.  

Yes, President Obama looks like a hero to the takers in this country in that he tucked it to the millionaires and billionaires (and the Republicans) … but, in truth, he really punished very few people (except the Republican party) since this “compromise” is allowing the carried-interest tax break to survive for hedge-fund managers … and Warren Buffet.

But since, to the majority of Americans, perception is reality, the stock market is poised to soar … and our former dope-smoking jamoke, Barack Obama, is soaring back to Hawaii to finish his vacation on a high.  I think maybe I might just be tempted to take a toke myself … since this could be the only way I can alleviate the crushing angst I now feel for our country’s future.

Yes, We Cannabis

Every generation seems to have its own cherished vices. For my parents it was booze and cigarettes. For my generation, we added cigars, marijuana, LSD, and free love. For our children, it is still marijuana and free love ... only they have also added cocaine, methamphetamines, designer drugs, and even freer and more bizarre sex.

And, just to prove that they are open-minded toward their elders, they are dissing alcohol and destroying tobacco use. They want us to put our alcohol instead in our gas tanks so we can drive to some remote, unpopulated location to smoke our cigars and cigarettes. They have done this with extremely effective public relations campaigns that demonize our sins while lauding theirs ... marijuana, cocaine, etc. are drugs that inspire creativity and cause no harm (except, maybe, to Charlie Sheen.)

Well, surprise, surprise. This may not be the case. I have long suspected that designer drugs, cocaine, LSD, etc. may be the source of much of our grandchildren's myriad learning disabilities. Now we are also finding out that legalized marijuana is becoming a major source of greenhouse gasses and is an electricity hog. See: Bad Marijuana.  I just hope that I live long enough to witness our great-grandchildren performing the same form of rabid social ostracism on their parents and grandparents for their vices as are being foisted on us today for some of ours.

"The Surgeon General has determined that Acapulco Gold causes serious damage to the environment and grave injury to your genetic material."

Unhappy Meals

San Francisco has banned toys in fast-food meals which are considered by the nabobs there as being unhealthy … specifically the McDonald's “Happy Meal.” See: No No McDonald's 

Now, if the powers-to-be at Baghdad by the Bay can intrude on the lives of their citizens to this extent to keep them healthy, why could they not drop a pall over the myriad of other unhealthy social practices there … such as sodomy, marijuana usage, panhandling, designer drugs, street gangs, sea-lion invasions, and re-electing Nancy Pelosi?

Me thinks that those on the San Francisco's Board of Supervisors who voted for this ukase are all, as they say, "a toy short of a Happy Meal"

Extra comments:
- In China they let their citizens eat bugs, cats, shark fins, bird's nests, and rotten eggs ... and we call ourselves a free society!

- Someone on talk radio suggested today that McDonalds put condoms in their Happy Meals if it wants to pass San Francisco muster.