Read this article from the drug policy alliance.
Then read a first hand account.
More accounts, and supposedly there’s video there, too…
Now, it doesn’t bother me that authorities are supposedly trying to uphold laws against drugs. (Though I have my thoughts on the legalization of drugs… more on that in minute.) What bothers me most is the obvious scare tactics, brutality, and absolute disregard for what amounts to a bunch of kids out trying to have a good time.
Maybe their idea of having a good time doesn’t quite go hand in hand with mine… but you know, promoters did everything they could to comply with law, the gathering wasn’t out of hand, there really was no reasonable basis for authorities to be there in the manner that they were. Ok, maybe a few undercover cops… but a helicopter? Dogs? Assault rifles?
Come ON… these kids aren’t terrorists. If your undercover cop witnesses drug activity, get a few guys, go over, and just take the perpetrators into custody. Don’t swoop in like the fascist regime our country is swiftly, frighteningly, coming to resemble.
Talk about a setup. This raid was OBVIOUSLY planned, even anticipated, from the time authorities knew about the event. They could have shut this thing down before it happened. They didn’t want to. One would think with so much time to make their plans that authorities would handle the situation with a bit more finesse. But they didn’t want to. They wanted to make a show of force, they wanted to terrorize, and they did just that.
Wait… isn’t our country trying to FIGHT people who do that terrorizing thing? Hm. What? Oh…it’s OK if it’s OUR authorities doing it, but not someone else’s?
From watching the video… it’s not a huge mental leap from what happened here to the sort of things we’ve seen in Hollywood scifi flicks where the government oppresses the masses into compliance with one way of thinking, one ideology, and one acceptable mode of behavior, where anything else is squashed through brute force. I had honestly thought that that sort of thing never happened in real life, it was just made up by writers with good imaginations. Apparently I was wrong. I get the impression this happens far too often.
Man, that’s just scary.
And as far as I’m concerned… if non-lethal drugs were legalized and regulated much the same way as alcohol is, not only would this bullshit be entirely unnecessary, but local, state, and federal governments would look to make a LOT of money off the luxury taxes that could be applied.
I weep for my country. Please…PLEASE… somebody in government get a clue.
Oh, and for the record: I’m not a raver. I’ve never done drugs in my life. I’m personally opposed to drug use, not least because I think people behave like absolute morons when under the influence. I just don’t see them as useful in the recreational sense. (Life is weird enough without altering perception. Just look at what happened as detailed above.) I just happen to be a proponent of common sense, a thing that does not seem to be common anymore.
tee hee
No Christopher Walken for president.
I should put up a website about my own candidacy for president. I’m of age… I’d make a good president…
Stop laughing. It hurts my feelings. 
It’s no-brainer issues like this, where the ACLU takes the anti-common-sense position.
Go old people!
Scare off those thugs!
Interesting. Nothing like the neighboring government encouraging people to cross the border illegally…
Yeah, yeah… they’re just trying to keep people from dying. How about saying, “Hey… stay home. You won’t die then.” ?
huh.
That’s all I can say.
It dawned, clear and bright, in my mind today… It’s called an epiphany
I no longer blame myself when something doesn’t work out. I no longer allow the bad things in my life to seep in and twist around my soul, making me think there’s something wrong with ME because of it. I can go about the business of my life. I’m not paralyzed with self-doubt.
Do I still feel sorrows? Of course. Do I still do what I can to fix a bad situation? Certainly. But I don’t own the bad. I simply own what I can do, without giving myself up to the bad. It doesn’t own ME.
I’m not sure this would make any sense to anyone but me… but it’s a cool thing to realize that I know what I deserve, and what I do not, and that I am certain of these things. It is a comfort and contentment that everyone should have.
In recent… erm… “discussions” over the past 3 months, I have even uttered those words, sometimes forcibly, vehemently, LOUDLY…
“I do NOT deserve that, and I WILL NOT tolerate it!”
At what point in my life have I ever done that before? Too long have I allowed myself to be berated, lectured, told how I should be, what I should do, what I’m not doing, what’s wrong with me…
I almost look with amusement on the fact that I have allowed that for so long. But not quite. Part of me laments the wasted time. I have accepted so much and not been accepted as myself in return.
That has stopped, and must never happen again. I will be as I am. I will accept what I can. But now I require … reciprocity.
The scenery is changing, my perspective is changing, the path I trod looks different than it did before.
I bristle at the idea of being “fixed”, or “rescued”. Keep your rescue. I don’t want it. I am as I am. I’ve always been this way within. You didn’t create it, and I’m not changing it if you don’t like it… But I might show it to you IF you’re worthy.
At WHAT point in recent years did the word “prolly” spring into existence?
When did it become an acceptable word (please note the sarcasm oozing through this sentence) to use?
There I was, blithely wandering through news articles, taking links to related stories, editorials, then found myself in someone’s blog. This otherwise articulate individual repeatedly used “prolly” instead of the word “probably”.
Why?
What’s wrong with “probably”?
“Probably” is a nice word. Perhaps it isn’t one of my favorites, but it’s not so bad. It’s related to “probable”, and even “probe”. What it means is a thing can be probed and found to be true. If you want to be absolute, you can say if something is probable, it is verifiable, it can bear further investigation… From a latin root, probare, which means to test. This implies that a thing that is probable can stand up to being tested and will most likely yield a positive result. One word to imply “This thing bears further investigation and testing, and is likely to end up being verified.”
“She is probably sick.” rather than “That she is ill is something that could be tested only to be found truth.”
What is “prolly”? It’s not a great leap from “trolly”, a word that evokes the frivolity of a trip to some destination with quaint transportation. It sounds suspiciously juvenile, like “dolly”, or… “golly”.
Or Paulie. As in Shore. And who takes THAT guy seriously? (I suspect he doesn’t want to be, in some ways…)
So use “prolly” and you sound frivolous, juvenile, a little lame.
I was unable to find it in authentic online dictionaries. (Alright, I didn’t look very hard, but to me it isn’t a real word if I can’t go to m-w.com or dictionary.com and get a hit.) It DID come up on urbandictionary.com. Several of the user entries seemed to refer to it in derogatory fashion. That gives me hope, but not much. That it’s being recognized, even as slang, irritates me.
Morons! Stop using this horror, this abomination of a perfectly good, useful word!
Please?
GAH!
You know…
Mammaries.
The part, on many women, that enters the room before she does.
Or in the slang… bazooms, headlights, hooters, jugs, rack… Those are some common ones. You can find more here. Or here.
My personal favorite, not on that list, is “cachongas”.
You may ask… WHY… oh, why is she talking about them? I will tell you. Normally, I don’t pay much attention to them. (Even my own regardless of the fact that they’re of considerable enough size.) No… normally, I don’t think of them at all.
But they have been brought to my attention today, and I am thinking of them, because they’re sore. They ache. And I’m thinking about them.
In keeping with that theme, here are some links to things dealing with this ever-so-interesting, and broad themed subject. (Or is that bra’d themed? Oh, I crack me up!)
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