Not around the corner

I am hoping all of my serious depression is behind me. It's better to be chipper than have another 9/11.

If you get to happy and secure, the Bushitarians will put you on a regimen of depressants and paranoia inducing substances.

Like bad news and fear. It's the new normal.

...or use it to make something to get you high, they want you to sign away your first born child and all your rights to get it. If it's Sudafed it can be used to make crank. If it's baking soda, it can be used to make crack.

There is a guy in Missouri who wants to restrict the sale of baking soda. Sadly, he is a Democrat.

Balko: Reductio creep strikes again

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/119518.html

Baking Soda, the new illegal drug?

http://kmox.com/pages/338486.php?contentType=4&contentId=398985

The comments on this thread are hilarious.

"Let's just stop fucking around. You all know what we really need to do. This piece-meal bullshit has got to stop.

I propose that the government enact legislation forbidding you from leaving your home without the express permission of your local block captain. When attempting to leave your gated block, you are required to explain the purpose of your trip and why it is necessary. The block captain will then determine whether or not you are allowed to leave. This way, we can always make sure you really need to do whatever you're doing. This is America, why stop at mother fucking baking soda?"

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/119518.html

One thing I can say is that your local pharmacist(they go to school for six years) may have more extensive knowledge about drugs and of drug interactions than your average physician, unless you have several professors of pharmacology in the family. Physicians often have deals with pharmaceutical reps. The word is kickback. What's the difference, Shooter? Limbaugh, and the pill pushers who filled his scrips, both knew his back problems had subsided. These pills were not to treat back pain. The rich white patient get's his top quality heroin from a dealer with an address in a nice part of town and insurance companiies (all of us) pay for it. When they both get busted, they both get a slaps on the wrist. The poor folks who buy the crap in the street at 200 times the price, get poisoned, beat, overdosed, bled dry, shot, stabbed, robbed, and if they are lucky, drug diversion. If not, they lose their job, if they still have one, and serious jail time.

Any questions?

Introvertgirl... My thoughts were, and are, so incoherent right now. Reading Glenn's great dissections has me grinding my teeth, but the chipping away of abortion rights today added to the surveilance information has my head exploding.

That's nonsense. If you want to see incoherent, wait for one of the amateur trolls top show up. But if you are a bit less razor sharp than usual, you have a legitimate and justifiable reason for it. In fact, I wanted to link to your posts about your experiences with "the new little guest" in the debate over Gonzales v. Carhart at Jack Balkin's. I found them to be quite a good description of what it must be like to be "stoppered". And you communicated the confusing and contradictory hormonally induced emotions perfectly. I didn't because you are an introvert and I didn't want to impose on your space.

;-)

Good grief. Glenn, I'm a big fan of your political writings but this is the one they are going to dig up if you ever ran for public office.

You hit on some key points that I would make, (I did mention problematic drug interactions on the previous thread, but it's the pharmacist that more often catches that, not the prescribing doctor), but you are bit heavy on the hyperbole. Still your one point about running for office... Glenn would get my vote and that of many Americans, I think, for having the intestinal fortitude and political courage to pose the question. This type of "nanny statism" is abhorrent to all. We don't want parents, someone already has the job. Social safety nets like Social Security or healthcare for the poor and uninsured are another matter. The people we need to get out of politics are this fool from Missouri who wants to restrict the sale of Baking Soda, for Chrissake! That is just absurd.

"First they came for my semi-sweet morsels, and I didn't say anything..."

"They'll have to pry my biscuits out of my cold dead fingers."

Beyond absurd, and this moron was elected and he a Democrat (even if he is from Missouri). How embarassing is that?

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/119518.html

I hope the right jumps all over this clown and takes him down.

Perhaps we can all work together on thiis picking these morons off from the center. They can take down our idiots and we can take down theirs.