They all want the drug war to end, but none of them favors a free-for-all drug market. Wonder why that is?

So what *do* they want?

Even with the threat of prison the drug trade goes on.

Perhaps alcohol should be available only by prescription.

Why were the nineteenth and twenty first amendments only thirteen years apart?

There must have been some powerful reason for the public to change its mind so thoroughly and so quickly.

Why was a Constitutional amendment necessary in the first place to make the production and sales of alcohol illegal? (note that possession and consumption were not illegal, just as in dry counties today)

When you are around, my milspec cowardice detector explodes and sprays molten metal and burning plastic all over the room.

If you take an acre of fertile land and stop water to it, and take an acre of sand and start watering it, do you get as much food? People don't live in geologic time, they live a few decades. And our food supplies are totally dependent on the current climate continuing, not to mention that they are stretched several billion people over their natural limit. The last time the climate shifted there were less than a billion people on the planet. We can't use that as a model.

California is arid and yet when watered very fertile. That's why water is brought in from literally hundreds of miles away.

During the last major climate shift humanity had virtually no technology. I don't claim that technology can fix anything but there are plants that are much more resistant to drought than others.

The Aral sea is drying up and blowing away due largely to trying to grow cotton in the desert. The flag of Lebanon has a cedar tree while Lebanon is close to being a desert. A desert created largely by human actions without even the benefit of technology beyond the ax.

You live in Atlanta, you know forests that are cleared for development don't come back by letting scraped red dirt just sit there.

You ought to see the sweetgum tree behind my driveway, it's about thirty feet tall and has only been there about ten years.. And no, I didn't plant it.

We are losing topsoil at a prodigious rate anyway.

People do talk about global warming, but not about this aspect of it. People don't like thinking they are in trouble if they can't personally feel it. They act like if you don't live at sea level or in a hurricane area they won't see it. You think the prejudice and hate are bad now? How will it be when the fights are over water and food?

We are less than a week away from food riots any place in America.

There is a major water war going on in the Southeast right now, Florida, Georgia and Alabama all want a share of the Chattahoochee and there isn't enough to go around.

Private companies are buying up water sources all over the world. Think of what that means.

If the methane clathrate at the bottom of the Arctic ocean ever lets go we'll see global warming like nothing anyone can imagine.

when you are the one making that against each and eveyone here

Not entirely true, Thrasher has not attacked me.

Although that may be simply because I have not addressed him.

It's my contention that liberals really don't care all that much about blacks. If they did then they would be speaking out en masse against one in three black men going to prison in this country.

What we actually hear is a deafening silence from liberals on this subject.

An arguable case can be made that the incredible incarceration rate among black men lost the Democrats the 2000 election.

Are you ready to pay lower taxes to close down two thirds of the prisons in America?

Which is more expensive per person, prison or counseling?

You are implying that legalizing drugs other than alcohol will increase the addiction and overdose rate.

Please provide evidence for that claim

And that's only one of the major threats facing civilization. The others are at least as serious, and are probably no more preventable.

The Arctic ocean is warming, clathrate is a form of ice.. Ice can melt and when it does thousands of cubic kilometers of methane will be released.

Methane is a considerably more effective greenhouse gas than is CO2.. No one really has a clue what that amount of methane will do to the climate but I think it safe to say that it will not be felicitous for humankind.

Given sufficiently warm tropical ocean temperatures, just how large can a hurricane get?

I used en masse as a figure of speech..

It's worse than that though

Look at the ad hominems that are thrown my way for speaking up..

Not only are liberals not speaking up, they don't even want to hear about it and become agitated and angry when someone raises the issue. It's happened to me far more than enough times for me to detect a pattern.

I can remember when the black community was at least as law abiding and self policing as the white one. Look at the marches MLK led, you don't see a bunch of hoodlums.

What happened, and just as importantly, when did it happen?

I know what I think, I'm interested in your thoughts on the matter.