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Re: Commentary: Legalize drugs to stop violence

Which thread should be the weed thread?

Senator Kenedy begins second day of decomposition process

Teddy is NOT improving!

Kenedy is so decomposing that he is now totaly unsuitable for use as a crash test dummy. That happened at about 3 AM this morning.

Re: Kenedy is Dead as a lizard in a muffler

Kenedy is so dead that if you poured rum down his gullet it would leak out of his back.

Re: Argentina rules on marijuana use ...

I'm talking about getting fucked up on sensimilla at the Apple campus and drooling at tube videos.

Re: Kenedy is Dead as a lizard in a muffler

Kenedsy is so dead, if you pitched a coin at him it would stick for a second, then drop off. No coin pitch bounce. Doornail dead.

Re: Argentina rules on marijuana use ...

Right on. Legalize the herb, and way cool tech jobs for us at Apple.

Now somebody post some bikini lesbians.

Re: Kenedy is Dead as a lizard in a muffler

Damn, totaly fucking dead. Dead like Dead Ethyl. Could not get any deader, fresh dead, but still dead.
 
Super Dead.
 
I'm talking, head tilted all the way back, mouth wide open, glazed eyes rolled up, arms stretched into space, rigor mortis, call the cops or something, go to your room don't look at this kids, what should we do, dead.

Re: And it begins

FUUUUCK LOCAL GOVERNMENT- worse kind of government.

Re: Kenedy is Dead as a lizard in a muffler

Ted Kenedy is deader than you even want to know. If you shake him his head rattles like a ragdoll and there is no sound except his dentures clacking. He's friggin Catholic dead, like he's there but he's not.

Kenedy is Dead as a lizard in a muffler

Stone cold, shriveled up, stiff and dead- fit for a wax museum dead. So dead he could crumble like burnt toast if you shook him hard enough. Not responding to any questions at all.

Re: Scottish Crown: Oyal Deals for Terrorist swap

Only the rich odour of sweet smelly wonderful crude could have enticed the salavating Scottsmen to free the mad bomber of Lockerbee. That delicous gooyey crude done went to their heads

Re: This morning's surf report...

I surfed the cliffs at HB Friday evening. It was Ok.

Scottish Crown: Oyal Deals for Terrorist swap

Scottland has free'd the Lockerbee bomber in exchange for oyal contracts with Libia.

Can't say I blame them, oyal is king. That wonderful tarry smelling substance that oozes up from the hot earth to fill our refineries is enough to make ones heart skip a beat. Wonderful, rich, gooey, smelly crude.

Re: Another Tyrade from the Town Hall Disruptor Crowd of Beer Hall Brown Shirts

In a nutshell they want privatized gains and socialized losses.

I say fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all, and fuck 'em hard.

Re: Another Tyrade from the Town Hall Disruptor Crowd of Beer Hall Brown Shirts

I gotta fucking wood chipper
I just fed to it the goddamn Gipper

I gotta friend from San Quinton
Who can't wait to mutilate Bill Clinton

I gotta flaming spear to push
into the skull of George W Fuckin' Bush

I gotta gotta slaughta
the Rat they call Obama

Re: Another Tyrade from the Town Hall Disruptor Crowd of Beer Hall Brown Shirts

This country is not in a health care crisis. It is in an unemployment and up to your ears in debt crisis. And the crisis was caused by the same assholes hosting these townhall meetings. The outrage at these meetings isn't really about health care. It is about wanting to fucking kill all politicians.

Another Tyrade from the Town Hall Disruptor Crowd of Beer Hall Brown Shirts

By JOHN MACKEY
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people’s money.”
—Margaret Thatcher

With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people’s money. These deficits are simply not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us.
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:
•?Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). The combination of high-deductible health insurance and HSAs is one solution that could solve many of our health-care problems. For example, Whole Foods Market pays 100% of the premiums for all our team members who work 30 hours or more per week (about 89% of all team members) for our high-deductible health-insurance plan. We also provide up to $1,800 per year in additional health-care dollars through deposits into employees’ Personal Wellness Accounts to spend as they choose on their own health and wellness.
Money not spent in one year rolls over to the next and grows over time. Our team members therefore spend their own health-care dollars until the annual deductible is covered (about $2,500) and the insurance plan kicks in. This creates incentives to spend the first $2,500 more carefully. Our plan’s costs are much lower than typical health insurance, while providing a very high degree of worker satisfaction.
•?Equalize the tax laws so that that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but individual health insurance is not. This is unfair.
•?Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines. We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.
•?Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.
•?Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. These costs are passed back to us through much higher prices for health care.
•?Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last doctor’s visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us?
•?Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms that create greater patient empowerment, choice and responsibility.
•?Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren’t covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter?
Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That’s because there isn’t any. This “right” has never existed in America
Even in countries like Canada and the U.K., there is no intrinsic right to health care. Rather, citizens in these countries are told by government bureaucrats what health-care treatments they are eligible to receive and when they can receive them. All countries with socialized medicine ration health care by forcing their citizens to wait in lines to receive scarce treatments.
Although Canada has a population smaller than California, 830,000 Canadians are currently waiting to be admitted to a hospital or to get treatment, according to a report last month in Investor’s Business Daily. In England, the waiting list is 1.8 million.
At Whole Foods we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund. Our Canadian and British employees express their benefit preferences very clearly—they want supplemental health-care dollars that they can control and spend themselves without permission from their governments. Why would they want such additional health-care benefit dollars if they already have an “intrinsic right to health care”? The answer is clear—no such right truly exists in either Canada or the U.K.—or in any other country.
Rather than increase government spending and control, we need to address the root causes of poor health. This begins with the realization that every American adult is responsible for his or her own health.
Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are self-inflicted: two-thirds of Americans are now overweight and one-third are obese. Most of the diseases that kill us and account for about 70% of all health-care spending—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and obesity—are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not smoking, minimal alcohol consumption and other healthy lifestyle choices.

Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age.
Health-care reform is very important. Whatever reforms are enacted it is essential that they be financially responsible, and that we have the freedom to choose doctors and the health-care services that best suit our own unique set of lifestyle choices. We are all responsible for our own lives and our own health. We should take that responsibility very seriously and use our freedom to make wise lifestyle choices that will protect our health. Doing so will enrich our lives and will help create a vibrant and sustainable American society.
—Mr. Mackey is co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc.

Re: This morning's surf report...

Body Surfing is the Prefered Path to The World's Only True Religion.

Re: Ya ya ya I surfed somewhere else besides County Freakin' Line

The beach is so nasty..

Re: Ya ya ya I surfed somewhere else besides County Freakin' Line

My sunburn is friggin rad, it follows the contours of my springsuit. If I were gay I'd be turned on by this look, but I'm not gay so I'm just sayin..

Re: Ya ya ya I surfed somewhere else besides County Freakin' Line

Hey I have a pretty busy facebook page. Maybe I can hook you up.

I am a Liberal

I want you to start paying my health insurance premiums.

Or else you're a racist.

Ya ya ya I surfed somewhere else besides County Freakin' Line

I get off work at 10 AM Friday so I drive up to Surf Rider beach, fuggin Malibu pier and surf there. I actually took my twin fin out to the longboarder spot and did indeed get a couple of tiny waves. Saturday rolls around and I surfed 17 th street at Hunington Beach. Not only did I do that, but I went to the CVC drgstore in my gym shorts and T-shirt- used the head, and bought tuna and crackers and Arizona Tea and beelined over to the girls volleyball courts and stared at the butts for about 40 minutes while eating my noon breakfast. Then I walked back to my car which I parked in the neighborhood in front of some apartments and grabbed my board and went out again.

Oh, and I wore my sprinsuit, the one all the old ladies dig. And I got a real bad sunburn so I'm sitting in today.

Don't go to the beach, it's nasty.

Re: Is fighting Global Warming Insane

Normal Joe: There is a forest fire, it is threatening the entire town!

Obama: I urge everyone to quit smoking, as I have done.

Nancy Peloski: We should raise taxes on smokers.

Henry Reid: I want to go on record as being opposed to forest fires. Forest fires are bad, they not only threaten out tree's and pollute our air, but they also destroy our communities.

Normal Joe: The fire is at the edge of town!

Norma Joe: Hey, where did everybody go?

Is fighting Global Warming Insane

I think it is.
 
I think you have to be a complete nut job to think that you can halt it. Even if you quit burning fossil fuels by 100% it would not stop what has begun.
 
All his talk about taxing co2 and no funding and no discussion on what to actually do about the millions of people living on tiny islands or coastal zones that will be impacted. And no proof of the cause of global warming, just theories.
 
Global warming is an opportunity for the political elie to lay out a guilt trip on the working peasants, tax the hell out of them, and exploit the situation, like they always do about everything else that comes up.