Is it time for the airing of the grievances yet? Did I miss it?

George Bush
(1. You breathe

Dick Cheney
(1. You have ever inhabitated the same planet I do

Rumsfailed
(1. You kill people, a lot of people

Rice
(1. Bad imitation of one cold, incompetant, female bitch

Sanitarium
(1. You're an idiot. I hate idiots.

Frist
(1. You're a quack on or off the TV

Fox Snooze
(1. I pay for you to use my airwaves and you suck

Your turn.....

They're good ones.
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If I recall correctly Festivus, and the airing of grievances is celebrated on Dec. 23.

Btw, you forgot Ann Coulter, who would easily win the 'Feats of Strength.' :)

Ann Coulter
(1. Bad, bad, bad, dye job Ann...an over-rated ice princess looking to set the lowest bar possible for aging woman trying desperately to look like a teen ager hoping to seduce the local fresh faced pastor. Sick.

Fucking draconian.

But if you're rich you go on TV and radio and brag you're going to "rehab"....the new Jesus

There's no practical difference between that and throwing your ass in the slammer for having a 12-pack of Bud in the fridge.

We've got to change these fucking outdated laws.

Big money in drugs among the poor. And then we pay for the pleasure of locking people up as enforced and hardly effective "treatment".

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Succinctly put! Just don't mind if I elaborate--albeit in a superficial way.

I think you are spot on. Not only are they draconian, they are evil and hypocritical. Hundreds of thousands of lives, probably more in the millions, have been ruined as a result and zillions of dollars have been made by those many who support and carry out the draconian laws to which you refer.

Before someone climbs all over me, I'm not suggesting for a minute that drugs should be made easily available to youngsters. What I am saying is that much can be done on any number of fronts to ease the demand and decriminalize the user. Current laws are punitive beyond measure and steeped in political and bureaucratic skullduggery. The War on Drugs is a farce that the majority have bought into without thinking it through.

One day when I'm up to it and have the time to dig up a heap of evidence including figures, I just might take this on as a cause (this one just might be worth the effort). But, I'm sure there are scores of others on this board including you who might like to preempt me. I'm becoming embarrassingly lazy of late.

who'd come out for decriminalization of marijuana, even if they believe in it, because they're afraid it would cost them votes and possibly their political careers.

What's needed is a mass, non-partisan education campaign about the real effects of drugs, positive and negative (none of this DARE bullshit) as well as about the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 and the subsequent outlandish reasons marijuana was criminalized (basically, it was an anti-immigration deal). If more people saw the laws for the jokes that they are, some things might — might — get changed.

Edit to add link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Tax_Act