There is no explanation, dear. They are gonna fuck with us no matter what we do. Keep your pitchfork sharpened. You’ll need it.

And fois gras is delicious.

And Obama’s assault on marijuana is, I suppose, a gift to PhARMA … until they can figure out how to frisk us for whatever we have left.

Reasons? We don’t need no stinkin’ reasons.

Plus, we gotta keep the for-profit prisons full. It’s all so simple, really.

Lisa!

Looking for consistency in government policies is a sure route to madness.

I think Dearie has a lot of it figured out – and in addition to feeding the profit prisons, it feeds the surveillance state and its attendant industries. Letting gays get married just doesn’t have the profit and power motives attached to it.

Rational behavior on the part of politicians does not exist. Weed is illegal because, damn it, they said so. There is NO other reason except for the ignorant factor.

oh and what Dearie said, too.

I said it once, and I’m gonna say it again: Sugar is the gateway drug. Live with it!

I do think the prison-industrial complex drives far too much of our policy regarding law and justice. In the case of marijuana, however, I think is mostly that Obama has a bit of a moderate puritanical streak, sort of like an uptight maiden aunt. It shows up a lot in how he frames things.

No, oxygen is the ultimate gateway drug. Once you have tried it you can’t stop until it kills you like 85 years later.

I think it is that middle class puritanism that insists that drugs are bad and the general tendency to make personal life and health morality plays.

I love oxygen bars. One good reason to go to Vegas. One of the few actually. I wonder if I can find one here in LA?

Oh, I had yak today at lunch.

I so agree! He is definitely the uptight maiden aunt. My sister and I were recently regaling each other with tales of the horrendous….
the most abusive person in our childhood was the righteous, uptight, aggrieved, Nurse Rached, maiden aunt. I shudder still. And Obama brings it all back, in spades, as it were.

Sugar Sugar … to be exact … *g*

Lisa !

How is it?

Heh!

My daughter is a nurse in Vegas. She said you can get a nurse to come to your room to give you an IV to cure a hangover.

Oh here’s some news: Sugar can make people dumb.

If you’ve got the money!

Jeebus … you had Lunch in Nepal ? Tibet ?

*Ducks and runs*

I don;t drink enough to ever get hung over, thankfully.

Bleah! I hate liver, goose or otherwise. Evil flavor.

If you drive in New Hampshire, can you get a license plate without the ‘Live Free Or Die’ motto? I know I can’t get a New Hampshire license plate for my car here in North Carolina. My plate says ‘First In Flight’, which isn’t exactly the same as Ohio’s plates that say ‘Birthplace Of Aviation”.

Thought experiment: Would you smoke weed if it was legal but only as Monsanto’s GMO pot?

Makes me glad I do not drink sweetened drinks and eat very little else with added sweeteners in it.

Tibet Nepal House, a restaurant in Pasadena.

No. I have no interest in smoking weed anyway; I just think weed prohibition is a waste of resources and a gateway to a police state.

One of our grad students spent last year in Nepal. I will have to ask her if she ate any yak. I know she is not a big fan of butter tea.

You can have it in a cookie. /*g

God will punish Monsanto big time if they fuck up his weed. oh wait, I’m a non-believer.

No, but I am violently allergic to weed and can only imagine what that might do to me. Smoked a whole lot of it in my youth, but not so much for the last couple of decades and nothing for the last decade.

I hate mollusks and bivalves. And I am unanimous in that.

Boy, you hate all the good stuff. Just leaves more of it for me, I guess.

And, really, how is fois gras any worse than shucking and oyster and sucking it down? (And I am NOT giving up oysters! Delish!) But the oysters shuck easily….it’s the clams that fight back. Is it ethically okay to eat raw oysters because they don’t fight back?

The Tibetans and Nepalese are the most serene people I’ve ever met … really wonderful and most of them are Vegetarians.

Yep. Before Reagan, there was always a urine test for every drug except cannabis, and drug testing was never required except in extreme circumstances. Once a urine test for cannabis had been developed, testing entered the society everywhere. And why is that?

They are obviously giving themselves to you gratefully. ;-)

There is more Persian-origin cuisine there than anything else …

Having said that, cooking any meat with those spices and yogurt would make it very tasty.

I dont smoke pot—

I don’t partake of the holy weed, but after reading about how it helps with MS, if I ever got MS, I’d, for sure!, get me a supplier. And if I get old and inflamed, then I’d like to have access. Get off my porch!

Howdy folks.

I prefer decapods to cephalopods to bivalves. What’s yak like, Lisa?

yes.

Petro!

Do Canadians beat Tofu pups?

It’s like beef, only shaggier.

I have never really asked her about the food, but I sort of got the impression that there was not much meat involved. As to serene, not so much. Her area was heavily influenced by the Maoist revolutionaries and most families had members conscripted by them. It is also very impoverished region, which does not promote serenity.

Merlot and steak works for me a couple’a times a year. Not a vegetarian (used to be) but you can’t drink a V-8 without a percentage of aphids and grub worms. Protein bonuses, I figure.

Neither do I because I don’t have any.

Drug testing is really just for weed. You can quit your drug of choice and in 24 hours it will be out of your system. Weed lasts for weeks. So, when you go in for a job interview you only get in trouble for dope if you have any brains.

The Ducks’ Bills are kept open while they get force fed constantly, to fatten and expand the Liver – the people who protest against animal testing/cruelty are also behind the effort to ban Fois Gras …

You do not even want to think about what goes into canned and frozen food. I worked in a canning factory for a while in Oklahoma in the frozen food section.

I had occasion a few years ago to escort a group of Tibetan monks around Our Fair City. They were definitely not vegetarians, and left me with the impression that animal products were important in the Tibetan diet.

AitchD !

Sorry but that went over my Head … please explain

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair.

“I aimed for the Nation’s heart and hit it in the stomach,” U. Sinclar about his novel.

I worked for a judge once who said they wanted it………

They are also looking for amphetamines, which causes a lot of false positives from people taking cold medicines (pseudoephedrine is a precursor and tests positive).

amphetamines are nasty, nasty, nasty.

Geese, non?

At least no one ever implied that the oysters wanted it……..

It all scares me, DrDick, even the better restaurants. I guess I prefer not to know….

A lot of South Asian Buddhists are vegetarians, but not vegans (they eat a lot of dairy products). Most Buddhist monks I have known, however, ate no meat or eggs.

I used to see films and photos of Maritimers beating seal pups.

It is better than it was back then, but still not for the squeamish.

Sacre bleu !

How are you, BCT ?

No one was looking for anything until they had a test for pot.

“That don’t make sense, now, do it?”–Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow

I was definitely surprised. I’ve known a few Nichiren monks and one Zen monk: all were vegetarians toward vegan.

Tibetan Buddhism differs from the East Asian versions I was familiar with.

Very much so and I have to admit that all the Buddhist monks I have known (not very many) were East and Southeast Asian.

Sadly, this still goes on but there is a global effort to ban it.

Hangin’ in, Petro.

No joy yet on a job in SW oHIo, but I’ll keep looking. I hit my Department Head up today for an all on-line teaching assignment for next spring. He didn’t rule it out immediately.

Best of Luck, Buddy !

I read The Jungle for background when I was working for a state public health department. Before reading it, I was only familiar with its effects (formation of the FDA and USDA food inspection). After reading it, I understood the effects but I was stunned by how little of the book took place in the Chicago stockyards and packing plants.

Thankee kindly.

Heh. I had the opportunity to get one of my classes that I normally teach online in the classroom and pushed for it this past semester. I am glad I did, but in retrospect, it is a lot less demanding having one of my classes online. Prepping and lecturing in 4 different classes every week is pretty damned demanding.

Yeah. Sinclair wrote the book to highlight the wretched lives of the workers, but what people took away was the horrific conditions in the packing houses.

I’m dubious about on-line courses. I think it might be possible to do a decent job teaching Statistics on-line, but I’m not sure.

On the other hand, it would be really nice to see my wife every night. If it turns out to be a wash pedagogically (or better), I’ll propose modifying my schedule along that line permanently. Spend the Fall term here and Spring term there. My research I can conduct here or there — if I can arrange a courtesy affiliation with UC I could actually do better research there. Our library’s holdings in my field suck and are getting worse. When I was hired, part of my start-up funding went to expand the library holdings slightly. That stuff evaporated in the first round of library budget cuts.

I’m fading here, I think I’m going to go remove my contacts and examine the inside of my eyelids closely.

Good night, folks.

Harry Anslinger is the explanation, at least originally. Why he still has influence has a lot to do with “law and order” and “soft on crime” political memes.

There’s no ‘splainin to be had, ma’am.

Unless you write the script, the kabuki continues unabated.

It’s kinda boring tho, as we all know what, why and the desired outcome ending of the show . . .

N we’re all grown ups here n know it’s not in our favor, that ending.

On we trudge.

Obama lies, they all lie, end of story.

Fully agreed.

Ferenghi as hell, ain’t it.

Only these fuckers aren’t HALF as friendly or interesting as Ferehghi.

Badges, badgers, reasons, it’s all the same.

It’s unsustainable.

*shrugs*

“Hey, I didn’t get a Harumph outta that guy! I’m watchin you buddy, I’m watchin you!”

*looselytranslated*

Night! Time for me to toddle off as well. Take care all.

Immediately flashed on a New Years Eve show at Winterland. Left side seats, someone had a tank of laffin gas, on top of the weed, red wine, hash, and such, by 3am many people had had a lot of fun . . . love is like oxygen, too, also, ya betcha. ;-)

And much feistier so that you never turn your back on one unless you want to be butted in the derrière.

I made this EXACT comparison tonight (comparing weed & marriage as ‘states rights’) during conversations at Occupy Austin.

Also, isn’t it remarkable how much the phrase ‘states rights’ has been meant so many different kinds of coded things over the years depending on who says it? Kind of like ‘diversity of tactics.’

*facepalm*

OMFG he cites the effing Archies.

*justshootme*

Ferenghi Theorem Of Acquisition #2.

Profit is everything.

Actually, THC lasts for 3 months depending on ingestion levels and body types . . . but the most broad interpretation is one toke might show up much later . . . a weekend at a fest will likely last 3 months given semi regular doses.

Brownies made with pot butter are really bad, testing wise.

Or at least that’s what all my fest pals tell me . . .

The Tibetan, Navajo and Hopi recognize each other. For those male and female monastics, the meat, eggs, garlic and onions are not advised as these may make it difficult for them to do their monastic thing. But, among the Tibetans, if one constitutionally can or should have the proteins, the Emchis (Tibetan doctors) will be OK with it including any medically necessary prescribed pharmaceuticals. Their medical system has similarities to the Chinese medical system except they don’t use needle acupuncture but do use moxa and employs the reading of the 27 pulses. The few Emchis I have worked with are *very* good.

IT’s cruel, disgusting and horrid.

N I’m a long time worker and foodie in the biz.

I was agin it then, I’m agin it now.

I’m lost in the ether here…………and oysters are still delicious.

Barry’s a pawn and there are alot of people relying on him

to keep the price of ganja high… ;p

I’ve driven up the 5 and seen the cattle standing in the mud. Do you eat beef?

The video is hilarious, Lisa, and I give it super duper comedy style points!

If you like foie gras, you might enjoy monkfish liver. Get it at a Japanese restaurant, they’ll do it right, and you can imagine you’re having your foie gras with caviar.

Try as I may, I can’t make either video play.

No organ meats!!

Baaaad Lisa…for reminding us of this little piece of cognitive dissonance about Obama and “states rights” re:

Pot and Gays. :o)

Shame on you for not joining up with the “WE SUCK LESS!” gang. :o)

Hillary was asked about ending the drug prohibition a few months ago and in a surprisingly candid moment she said it was because there was way too much money involved and that someone should try following the money. I’d bet money she had a small wry grin and was a bit tongue and cheek when she said it. I know it really hit me hard to hear her just come out and say something so plain and honest that the general public would never take it serious.

Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

So, what’s with the government? Nope. No votes. No donations. Nope. God’s law trumps Big Pharma and this little man of a President. He lied. As Michael Moore said…”you’ve been had”….