The late, great comedian Bill Hicks once asked something along the lines of “If you see obnoxious assholes making idiots of themselves at a football game, are they drunk or high?” I just think it’s amazing something as detrimental as alcohol is perfectly legal while marijuana is a federal crime. Not saying I don’t sometimes drink alcohol - but if I had my choice it would be weed all the time!

I don’t currently smoke, but only because I don’t like dealing with black market drug dealers. The trusted friends I knew and bought grass from are now in jail, and may well be there for over five years just because they were selling dope! Everyday I hear about growhouses being busted, raids being executed, and pot smokers arrested, all the while police are bitching about being underfunded and overworked. How about not enforcing these stupid, outdated marijuana laws?

More and more studies come in talking about the positive effects of marijuana, it gains medical uses with almost every new study. It is already being used to encourage AIDS patients to eat and to treat the painful symptoms of MS. Not to mention the causal potsmoker, who experiences a general euphoria upon smoking. It is a non-addictive experience that harms no one. What difference does it make if one smokes some weed and watches cartoons?

The notion it is a gateway drug is also false. There is this stat that ~80% of cocaine users also use marijuana. That is misleading, and the DEA won’t tell you that ~80% of marijuana users DO NOT use cocaine. Cocaine users are just more apt to smoking marijuana, possibly too help them come down from the cocaine. Most marijuana smokers are useful, productive members of society. The fact is, most prominent people have smoked marijuana at one point in their lives - Bush, Clinton, everyone. It unites people of all backgrounds and all political affiliations.

You’ve heard a million times about how legalization would curb the black market for other drugs, how we could tax it and safely regulate its use. When I was a teen, it was a thousand times easier to acquire pot than it was liquor, only because one was black market and the other supermarket! I say just do it already - it’s no worse for you than any other smoke, it has health benefits, and its peaceful users are filling our jails and wasting so much money and police resources. This 4/20, instead of observing Hitler’s birthday or the anniversary of the Columbine Shootings, celebrate weed. Light up a big spliff. Maybe if Eric, Dylan and Adolf had a blunt or two, they wouldn’t have stained the world as they did. LEGALIZE MARIJUANA NOW!

Hey! How many of you caught my last post? The one where I said the rich never work? Yeah, well that is something called satire. If Republicans stopped underfunding education by giving corporations tax loopholes, you might be able to understand the concept. You see, it’s advanced. A little too advanced for the feeble conservative mind….

Think about it. Conservatives are generally the people who adhere to every last word of the Bible, taking every word literally. You can look some Christians in the face and they will tell you the Earth is 3000 years old. I can’t help but laugh at these morons. Are all Conservatives Christians that believe this? No, but generally all Christians are conservatives. There are economic conservatives that distance themselves from fundamentalism and the police state advocated by Republicans - They are called Libertarians.

These twisted Conservative Christians follow Leviticus to the T on homosexuals, yet conveniently omit the parts of the Bible where Christ talks about fellowship of man and helping the poor. Jesus was the biggest liberal ever, yet most of his followers are a bunch of self-righteous pricks who identify with at least one concept of Darwin - survival of the fittest and fuck everyone else.

I also find it funny that rich, suburban Christian assholes with Bush/Cheney stickers and Pro-Life bumper stickers are so concerned with material things. I thought Heaven was the ultimate and it was what you are living to obtain. Well, I don’t believe in God, believe in no afterlife and am damn comfortable in that fact. Weirdly enough, I STILL don’t concern myself with worldly pleasures. I guess it’s just because I have the inconvenience of having a brain - something a conservative generally doesn’t have.

That being said, if people actually reflected for a few moments, most would find they are deep down LIBERAL with concern for their fellow man. There are some that are hopeless, so tax them highly before they give it to Jerry Falwell.

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Many authors have attempted to define just exactly what the American Dream is. Horatio Alger wrote many a dime novel talking about poor people lifting themselves out of misery to find their place in America.

If you ask me, though, America is becoming two different countries. One is a great deal larger, but holds almost no power. This is the nation of the Have Nots. Your typical Joes working the 40 hour workweek, living paycheck to paycheck. They may be getting paid techinically, but in all reality they are wage slaves tied to their jobs for survival. No matter how pointless and unsatisfying someone’s life may be, they are stuck in these crap jobs. It isn’t as easy as going to college or learning a new trade. There are a few greedy fuckers running around sucking blood from the poor in order to get just one more mouthful.

What do we see popping up as a result? The rich neighborhoods, where everyone drives a Lexus or BMW. Everyone who lives to serve them in the retail or food service industry are forced to live in crappy apartments with high rent, if they can even afford to do that. If they are really lucky and stick out the bullshit long enough to become the manager at 7-11, these people could buy a parcel of swamp land in Florida to build a cookie cutter home they get to mortgage about 8 times until they die, leaving their debt to the kids.

The old argument I’ve heard is “well, they must be rich for a reason! They must have worked very hard!” Bullshit. No rich person has ever put in an honest day’s work. What was so stressful about the 18 million they pulled in? Did they have to talk to their stock broker to dump their Enron shares? It’s not like they got rich by managing their $7.15 an hour wage wisely. Their either inherited the money or fucked many little people on the way up.

I say tax the rich. Eliminate the sales tax, it only hurts the poor. We need income tax rates of above 50% for these fat cats pulling in more than half a million dollars a year. There is no excuse why America’s schools should be failing. There is no excuse why the deficit should be getting infinitely larger every second. I would not feel bad one bit to rob these fuckers on everything they do - take half their income. Take half of their dividends.

The way that it stands, the wealthy few will continue to shape policy for the entire nation for years to come. We have to do something to take America back for the middle class, which becomes smaller and smaller every day. It is inexcusable that anyone should starve in America. It is inexcusable that millions go around without healthcare. It is inexcusable for low income housing to be built around health hazards while the rich get to chill on the beach. It s time we took back the country from corporate puppets like George Bush and Dick Cheney and let a farmer from Nebraska run the show - he’s the one forced to live on nothing. He knows how to balance a checkbook, wheras Mr. Bush has always had the convenience of infinite cash. Do you know how many businesses he ran into the ground before he became president? Daddy and the Saudis kept bailing him out… Only now he has ran a whole country into the ground with his wreckless spending. Bush is a criminal of the worst kind - a profiteer who stands to gain from destroying the image of America forever.

This isn’t the best country in the world anymore. There are now cleaner places to live because of the Bush administration’s wreckless stance on Global Warming, taking the corporate way and masking it as the will of Jesus Christ. There are now poor nations offering free health care, and America can’t even offer cheap medicine to its citizens. I suggest a universal “Poorman’s Strike” Just imagine the lines of Jaguars outside of Starbucks when all wage workers refuse to come in for a day. Whenever someone suggests to me that the POOR are lazy, I laugh. The poor people of this country are the hardest workers you will ever meet, especially immigrants. I say FUCK the rich, THEY are the lazy ones who offer nothing to society but their tendency to waste money on luxury. Tax the hell out of them. I won’t feel sorry.

Wow, what a slow news day. There have been nearly 3,500 US soldiers killed in Iraq, we are under the control of a deceitful president, and our country goes into deeper debt every second. It is no wonder this isn’t on mainstream news media, I guess it’s just too depressing. Therefore, they have to hammer away at non-issues like Anna Nicole’s baby or comments made by Imus about the Rutgers woman’s basketball team. I am so tired of hearing about both of them - I want people to see the disaster they have wrought by voting in President Bush in 2004. Most of you did! At least 51% elected this clown, so I don’t think you should be able to sit back and ponder the parentity of the Anna Nicole kid, you should be subjected to seeing war footage and streaming video from poor communities.

Now about Imus. I never liked his radio show, which I never once heard on the radio. I saw it on TV. It was very compelling, an old man whispering into a microphone with his eyes barely open, usually wearing a cowboy hat. Apparently he called the Rutgers womens basketball team a bunch of “nappy headed hos” or something. Now all of a sudden we have Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton coming out of the woodwork for the free publicity as they do every time someone isn’t praising the black community as much as they should. Hey, don’t get me wrong, I’m a Democrat and I agree with many views of Sharpton, but this is senseless headline grabbing on his part. Everyone involved in this is an idiot. Imus is an idiot for his comment. Sharpton is an idiot for directing the spotlight his way, and even the Rutgers coach is an idiot! On TV right now it’s saying she cried for days over his comment. Please, get a life! Things may not be perfect for the black community, but I guarantee you some old man on the radio calling a basketball team nappy headed isn’t the biggest among their problems. How about Sharpton talk about fighting poverty, low income housing in black communities, and crime? Instead he takes the easy way out by attacking an old fool on the radio.

This brings up an ever bigger problems for us liberals, umbrage. A lot of people think of us as sissys for this very reason, someone like Sharpton coming out to call for heads to roll every time someone says a hurtful comment. I say, let’s stop worrying about these little soundbites and get to brass tacks on issues that matter most. Kerry lost because he let Bush attack him into the ground without firing back. It is time for liberals in general to get back to basics, stop going into uproars over every little media quote, and actually present our ideas to the people! I think we would find that most people are progressive…. Now, if only there was airtime for actual issues instead of some drug addict’s kid…

Allow me to introduce myself… I am Mr. Blue. I am very pleased to be able to bring you my inane liberal rants as often as I please! I am one who will often find fault in the world and look to expose it… Some call me a pessimist, some call me a misanthrope. The truth is, I feel sorrier and sorrier for the human race every day. I find I can do very little myself to personally prevent further deterioration of the human condition. It is a hopeless feeling.

That is why I have always turned to the pen… or in this case, a blog, to release my frustrations. I always hope maybe just one person will participate in a little soul searching on a topic I bitch about… I may be a pacifist who idolizes Gandhi, but I never back down from confrontation. I welcome debate and dissent because I love to make the right look foolish. Hopefully I will have amble opportunity to do this here…