rougy
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Real Name: The Rogue Poet
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Programmer, poet, progressive, pot advocate, pugnacious liberal.
Living in America is like being trapped on an island half-filled with crazy people.
Trying very hard to get out of America and move to a free country.
Reading: Fuck Yes!--Wing F. Fing; Sayonara--Michener; Notes from the Underground--Dostoyevsky; Living, Loving, & Learning--Buscaglia; Moby Dick--Melville; Confessions of Nat Turner--Styron; Influence--Cialdini.
Remember: 9/11 was an inside job.
Remember: Republicans make rich people richer.
Slower, calmer, wiser
Strong, be strong
Say “I love me,” Say “I can”
Spread a smile on your face
And face the day
With a tread-lightly foot, and the
heart of a child
Living in America is like being trapped on an island half-filled with crazy people.
Trying very hard to get out of America and move to a free country.
Reading: Fuck Yes!--Wing F. Fing; Sayonara--Michener; Notes from the Underground--Dostoyevsky; Living, Loving, & Learning--Buscaglia; Moby Dick--Melville; Confessions of Nat Turner--Styron; Influence--Cialdini.
Remember: 9/11 was an inside job.
Remember: Republicans make rich people richer.
Slower, calmer, wiser
Strong, be strong
Say “I love me,” Say “I can”
Spread a smile on your face
And face the day
With a tread-lightly foot, and the
heart of a child
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Amsterdam's a great place to visit. But be sure when you go to also visit some other cities in the Netherlands. Amsterdam is really touristy. Other nice cities are Leiden, Delft and Utrecht. Much less crowded and very historical. Oh and they all have coffeeshops too, so don't worry
In reply to this comment by rougy:
I didn't know you were from the Netherlands.
I dearly want to move to Amsterdam and have been keeping an eye on the news there for a while.
The shroom thing bugs me; I'm sorry the French girl died, but for heaven's sake how can anybody be sure it was the shrooms? Young woman commits suicide for no apparent reason - not exactly ground shaking news I'm sorry to say. Sadly it happens every day and shrooms have nothing to do with it most of the time.
And another thing, if Britain would own up to their own prevalent drug problems, half of the problems in Amsterdam would disappear, since most of the problems are from the English treating Amsterdam the way Texans treat Juarez Mexico.
In short, I love your country and I love Amsterdam and I hope the right-wing Bible-beating assholes don't ruin it before I have a chance to move there.
Cheers.
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Though the Netherlands is a good example of how decriminalization has worked and is effective, my country seems to be heading in the wrong direction again. The Christian right wing of our coalition would like to see marijuana made illegal again. They are trying to make it as hard as possible for coffeeshops to operate and are clamping down hard on the production of marijuana and the supply to the coffeeshops which is not decriminalized. This all while the mayors representing the big cities who actually deal with the marijuana issues want to start experimenting with regulating the production of marijuana.
The Christian right wing has also succeeded in making magic mushrooms illegal. All this was based on a media hype involving a few tragic incidents with magic mushrooms. One french girl committed suicide while she was under the influence and a few British tourists flipped out while combining alcohol with mushrooms. Something like 95% of the problems were with tourists. This is not strange because many of them come to the Netherlands to try them out, and often times do it without proper education and in a bad environment. While the government was passing these laws the public health and drug institutions were issuing reports that criminalizing mushrooms would not be productive and would actually harm public health. This seems so similar to how American prohibition and drug laws were undertaken.
I hope my government will change soon and seek the road of progress. We should be further legalizing and regulating the drug trade not the opposite. But even if our government would like this international pressure has always been hard on our drug laws.
Arctic melt 20 years ahead of climate models
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16307-arctic-melt-20-years-ahead-of-climate-models.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
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Thanks for saying so. I appreciate it. See you around!
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thanks for being so diligent about examining and debunking those false talking points
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>> ^quantumushroom:
19) 31,000 scientist have signed a petition against AGW!
"So what does it take to be included among the 31,000 "experts" on the petition? Well, according to the OISM criteria, any undergraduate science degree will do just fine.
OISM also wants to let you know that 9,021 of the signers hold PhDs. They don't specify what the doctorates are in, but they repeat that figure quite a bit, as if it means something. Since the group was nice enough to list all 31,000 signers, including the dead people, let's take a look at the qualifications of three randomly-selected "climate experts."
Source
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Football
Football fans
Willing to fight for a team
That doesn't know their name
Triumphantly abreast
of all the stats
that might be
half as important
as a hill of beans
Simple minds
The glue of a nation
Yet I love it, too
In my own simple way
The illusory warfare
The vicarious triumph
The dramatic agony
of a meaningless loss
The occasional ballet
Of a miracle play
So dubious, so innocent, so corrupt...so earnest.
So American.
*****
(wrote this a few weeks ago, wanted to share)
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San Diego has some of the best Mexican food I've ever had.
Fish Tacos. Gotta try one. Sounds gross, but man it's good.
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Best find of the day.
THE JESTER
http://parody.videosift.com/talk/ROAST-X-ITS-XTREME