Letters to the Editor
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Cannabis Science
Yesterday we had the anti-Circumcision Revolutionaries... now we have the 'Cannabis Science' Fanatics. I don't know if it is something to do with Salon or whether it is the election cycle but 'round here has really become the province of the insane...
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Jeez, people are touchy
Joan,
I thought that your piece was excellent--good reporting, and fair to both sides.
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Oh Jesus H. Christ, Silenced, is that all you care about is your
goddamn fucking Marijuana?
Go smoke your shit all day and all night. Get some black gooey hash and stick it up your bunghole. Get some THC and shoot it. Grind up some sensimilla and snort it.
You are too baked to notice, you mush-headed freak, that there are other issues at stake in America besides getting your freakin' dope.
You don't like Democrats because they ignore you? Listen up, you whiny self-centered idiot, if McCain or Romney become president, you are going to have a hell of a lot more to worry about than legalizing medical cannabis, you're going to have to worry about how you're going to get your dope in a federal prison.
So STFU about the Democrats.
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Good grief
The article itself has Joan Walsh's standard pro-Clinton slant, which I've grown used to, but could the editors stir themselves to at least put both candidates in the photo illustration? Because right now, it's pretty much:
Photo:"Hillary Clinton is Awesome."
Article text: "Obama hates Latinos and Californians in general did we mention Clinton is awesome?"
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I won't live to see it but eventually this racial quantification will cease to be a factor
The great thing about that photo leading this article is that from an anthropological standpoint, the country will eventually become non-melanin specific as races inter-marry and reproduce to the point where there is just "us."
I'm sorry I won't live to see that day because all this racial bullshit has been continuing to drag our country down since its inception.
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"nonwhite Latino, Asian, black majority"???
Seems a little like saying a nontall Short Medium majority--i.e., throw enough categories together, you'll always get a majority. They probably also have a white/Asian majority, and a white/Latino majority, and maybe a white/black majority too!
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We Have The Perfect Ticket Here
Clinton cut-throat and Obama idealism. Let's get started, shall we?
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Go Hillary
Hillary supporters in CA and everywhere: Get out and vote! Don't let the MSM make you think that Obama has already won. He can only win if they depress Hillary's vote. That's a fact. So get out and vote!
Hillary 08!
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The photo changed my mind ... I was all ready to sit this out, but now I plan to attend my caucus
and, if possible vote for Edwards, and if not to proudly stand with Ron Dellums and Dolores Huerta and others and vote for Hillary -- who I don't like much but who I do think is infinitely more worthy of a my vote for president than Obama ...
Assuming I can get out of my driveway (we got 5-6 inches of snow yesterday).
Thanks!
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I live in San Francisco...
and this morning I saw kids holding Obama 08 signs up in traffic (by kids I mean 18-27 year olds). My coworkers report kids in the Bart Station holding Obama signs. On the doors near my apartment I could see Obama stickers and signs, but no signs of Clinton.
I don't expect Obama to win California, especially given that half the voters here are absentee and have already mailed in their votes, before the Obama "surge" really got started--but the excitement in the election is palpable and I think its good for the country. I love the fact that the next generation cares who is president--and that so many more people are voting in this election than usually do.
It's sunny here. I feel optimistic. I've already voted and it made me feel like a lucky citizen to have that opportunity--to have more than one person on my ballot who I respect is a privilege.
Here's to a good day for Democracy.
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How about Austrian and Italian?
Hitler was an Austrian with a mission, a mesmerising speaker - so they say - and the German crowds at his rallies went wild for hm. Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian anarchists who met a sticky end. The way this election is going, anarchy will be the result. Another thought, why is it that when a politician has an unconvincing message that he pads the flimsiness with references to popolist heroes of the past? Why "if the past is another country; they do things differently there" (L.P. Hartley?), did Obama think it necessary to enlist the nonentities of the Kennedy clan to prop him up in California? Why not go the whole hog and invoke Huey P. Long of Louisiana. He was a populist, I'm fairly sure. A ragtag collection of politicians, people and pundits is just what America needs now. Karl, don't forget I want cream with my coffee and not too much sugar, dearest.
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Obama is very calculating and the news is slow to trickle out
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/05/BAM5US1B5.DTL
Does, anyone know what "Civil Rights" cases he worked on?
I am sure it wasn't Gay Rights!
I also listened as he said on a live radio show on Monday that his Health Plan was 90% the same as Hillary's! Edwards would disagree with him on this latest claim (just as he did during the debate) and we can rule out Al Gore as a running mate, but Kerry is waiting in the wings for the opportunity to serve with the DEMREP.
Hillary has a proven record of service but all this is over looked by the Making of Candidate.
Oh, and let us not forget; you only get this one chance to vote for him because as his wife said they are not going to do this again. John Edwards is willing to fight for justice, even if it takes years, but like he said he is an adult. Adults know it takes years and threats of not trying again just don't cut it in the "Real World".
Where was Mr. YES WE CAN OBAMA during the 187 proposition? Was he filing briefs, was he walking in protests...I guess back then it was "NO WE CAN"T", just as in 2004 the RAINBOW was too bright for him to take a photo with Gavin Newsom in San Francisco. As someone that had an open gay couple (tux and all) at my wedding in the early 90s I am shocked. Friends are those that stand next to you during hard times and that take you along as family because you are without testing the wind conditions. Now we are beginning to see why early on the Black Community was reticent to endorse him.
YES WE CAN (United Farm Workers and Dolores Huerta), endorses Hillary. http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=news_press&b_no=3485&page=1&field=&key=&n=507
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%AD_se_puede
Sí se puede (Spanish for "Yes, It can be done!") is the motto of the United Farm Workers. In 1972, during Cesar Chavez's 25 day fast in Phoenix, Arizona, he and UFW's co-founder, Dolores Huerta came up with the slogan.
Registration Date December 22, 1998
Owner (REGISTRANT) United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO LABOR UNION CALIFORNIA P.O. Box 62, La Paz Keene CALIFORNIA 93531
Attorney of Record BROOKE OLIVER
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
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Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR).
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