COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Can an Employer in Colorado Test Employees for Being Stoned?



What is the speed limit on Colorado highways?

Since pot is now legal, how will the worker compensation laws work if someone hurts themselves while working around machinery while being stoned?

If I have a beer or two at lunch, I have a pretty good idea how it will effect me. What happens if someone fires up a joint with some new hybrid grass; how will that work after lunch?

What about truck drivers, nurses, machinery operators?

107 comments:

  1. lol

    great thread.

    should be interesting.....

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  2. Answer should be yes.

    Big long toke or two on some of this new stuff -- I have read --- puts one away for two or three hours.

    Employees will be taking siestas in the mornings, afternoons, late shifts......

    You want a stoned worker checking the rivets on an airplane manufactured in Seattle.......?


    And, what about the cops? What's to keep them from getting stoned too? On the job.

    What's that old song......everybody should get stoned.....:)

    Teachers stoned, students stoned.......SAT scores sink like stones......

    Borrowers and lenders all stoned.......barbers stoned....cabbies stoned.......bakers stoned......the box boy stoned....bricklayers stoned.......no end to it.......

    Miss T stoned....? Fely stoned....? Old man Redinger stoned......?

    WOW

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    1. Seattle Seahawks and Denver both lose the Super Bowl cause.......all the players are stoned, the coaches stoned, the officials all stoned......and nobody notices cause the crowds are all stoned......

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    2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASQ-yHWKSQk

      Everybody Must Get Stoned

      Maybe Quirk will move to the land of rocky mountain high and forget the vodka forever.....

      ;)

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  3. Speeding tickets will go down. :) :)

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    1. You haven't lived until you've driven into Aspen, in a snow storm, stoned. :)

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    2. "What is the speed limit on Colorado highways?"

      Quirk says he drives better drunk than sober.......which I doubt.......stoned he will at least drive slower......

      :)

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    3. You haven't really skied until you've skied stoned either.....

      ;)

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    4. People will be falling asleep on the chair lifts......

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    5. A Dense Santa Barbara fog at night is quite a trip, Rufus.

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  4. “a friend with weed is a friend indeed...”
    ― Pops O'Donnell

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  5. “That is awesome Meltema, I just need a couple more things, six bottles of Coca-Cola and a spliff.”

    This brings an even bigger grin from Meltema than when we had first met.

    “We do have the ganga,” she said. “I will be right back”

    With that she went into the back of the building, returning in just a couple of minutes with a pail, ice, six Cokes and a small cigar.

    “This should do you for the main course, Mr Dessert, enjoy yourselves.”

    “Thank you Meltema, I do appreciate the service.”

    I took the supplies and headed back to 'Honeymooner Heaven', taking a seat on the porch I then propped my feet on the handrail and opened a Coke. The sun had set and a gentle breeze was coming off the water, Over at Maxi’s the lights were on, with people coming out onto the veranda, the night was young.

    It was not ten minutes later when Jean came out through the door, rubbing her auburn hair with an orange towel. She was wearing a baby blue t-shirt, long enough it covered her ass, provocatively.

    “You don’t happen to have a lighter in your pocket, do you?”

    She ran her hands down her sides, back then across her butt and forward over her hips

    “No pockets.” she said with a smile “There are matches on the table, let me grab ‘em.”

    No bra or panties, either I thought.She walked into the room, gone for just a moment. When she returned to the doorway she tossed the book of matches into my lap. I torched the spliff, the sweet, pungent aroma wafting across the night air.

    “Get that from Meltema, or did you pack it in from the States?”

    “Meltema is my Costa Rican connection,” I said after exhaling a lungful of smoke,
    “Bringing smoke to the topics would be like hauling sand to Yuma.”

    “Well, cowboy, don’t bogart that joint, pass it over to me.”

    I surely did.

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  6. The answer is keep your mouth shut and get rid of the bastard in one of the standard, time tested ways.

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  7. “Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”

    ― Bob Marley

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  8. William F. Buckley Jr.Wed Jan 01, 08:09:00 PM EST



    “The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it.

    A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage,
    an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.”

    ― William F. Buckley Jr.

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    1. Been pretty effective at destroying Mexico, tho.

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  9. “Is marijuana addictive?
    Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.”

    ― Richard Neville

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  10. Rat wouldn't remember or care why he threatened to kill people in the first place. It would now be 'peace and socialism my brothers and sisters, I love you all. Pass the pipe'.

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    1. “Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe.

      In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb.
      But in America Democracy was always something anti-life.

      The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln,
      had always a sacrificial, self-murdering note in their voices.

      American Democracy was a form of self-murder, always.
      Or of murdering somebody else...

      The love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play.

      The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

      ― D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

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  11. Sebastian MarincoloWed Jan 01, 08:12:00 PM EST



    “The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment –
    the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world.”

    ― Sebastian Marincolo

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  12. “The drug war is a total scam,
    prescription drugs kill 300K a year, while marijuana kills no one,
    but they spend billions/year 'fighting' it, because pot heads make for good little slaves to put into private prisons,
    owned by the banks who launder the drug money, and it's ALL DOCUMENTED.”

    ― Alex E. Jones

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    1. From what Dr says, it just keeps gettin worse.

      Three Hundred K a year is hard to imagine, but certainly not impossible.

      Hell, if I have 'em available, maybe that's how I'll do it when I can't take anymore of this Widower Shit.

      Don't let Rufus LOL!

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  13. Either that or he'd go Charlie Manson on us all, anon.

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  14. What is the speed limit on Colorado highways?

    I have no clue

    Since pot is now legal, how will the worker compensation laws work if someone hurts themselves while working around machinery while being stoned?

    How do they work if you are high on legal substances such as alcohol, pain killers and benzos? Or does being denied benefits only apply to illegal substances. The way I see it, being under the influence doesn't always refer to illegal drugs.

    If I have a beer or two at lunch, I have a pretty good idea how it will effect me. What happens if someone fires up a joint with some new hybrid grass; how will that work after lunch?

    You shouldn't have a beer or two at lunch before going back to any job. Just like you shouldn't smoke weed, snort a line of coke, shoot heroin or take few extra percocets to get high.

    What about truck drivers, nurses, machinery operators?

    What about them? The legalization of marijuana is not going to change their smoking habits.



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    1. Let me guess:

      Those two beers make you type "effect" when you should type "affect"

      :-)

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    2. Melody doesn't sound like any fun at all.

      :(

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    3. Lord knows I don't need to be under the influence of anything to make that mistake. LOL

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    4. moral principles alone you shouldn't drink during work hours.

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    5. Moral Principals are few and far between in this crowd.

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    6. (I rote "Principal" just to even my score with the Gurl)

      I'm nothing, if not chivalrous.

      Much

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    7. You try, but you bin smokin' Mowy Wowy again cause if you look close it wasn't da gurl that made the miss take but Deuce his very own self.

      But I agree with Melody, one shouldn't drink with moral principles, if one is going to get ripped one should drink with a guy like Quirk, and at all hours too.

      Work is the curse of the drinking man and woman.

      Effort is most hated of all things to da weed smokin' folk.

      Melody, some music pleeeeze !

      ;)

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  15. George Bernard ShawWed Jan 01, 08:20:00 PM EST




    “Whiskey is liquid sunshine.”

    ― George Bernard Shaw

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    1. “Love makes the world go round?
      Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”

      ― Compton Mackenzie

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    2. Liquid Sunshine is why I sit here on a beautiful bright sunshiny day and type.

      That and being more of a moron now than I was when she was here.

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  16. It's a domotivational drug, especially for the young.

    Get your demotivational posters here -

    http://www.blog.joelx.com/de-motivational-posters/730/

    DemotivationRUs

    Quirk Enterprises

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    1. P.O. Box 10000001
      Detroit, Michigan

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    2. Our slogan is:

      "What Me Worry? Why Should You?"

      Q

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    3. Farmer Bob becomes Official White House Garden Farmer

      Farmer Bob's Medical Marijuana Delivery Services

      - Detroit Marijuana Delivery - Call Now!

      Farmer Bob's Medical Marijuana Delivery Services
      - Denver Delivery Services. Call now!

      http://www.potlocator.com/detroit-marijuana-delivery/farmer-bobs-medical-marijuana-delivery-services

      Farmer Bob decided to legally change his name to Farmer O-Bob-ma



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    4. Quirk is unconscious.

      He drank himself that way watching MSU win the Rose Bowl.

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    5. Farmer Bob's Medical Marijuana Delivery Services

      - Detroit Marijuana Delivery - Call Now!
      "What Me Worry? Why Should You?"

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  17. *Stamped self addressed return envelope required.*

    You can't expect us to do it all, or even much of anything really.

    Q

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    1. Farmer Bob's Medical Marijuana Delivery Services
      - Denver Delivery Services - Call now!
      "What Me Worry? Why Should You?"


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    2. AND They wiped out Oakland's "Raiders" 34 - 10

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    3. "Raiders" but a shadow of the Madden Days.

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    4. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova should get the Peace Prize.

      "Nadezhda Tolokonnikova from Russian protest band Pussy Riot says her release by Vladimir Putin was a 'disgusting and cynical act.'

      She criticizes the country's prison system and says there are others behind bars that should have been released before her. Tolokonnikova and bandmate Maria Alyokhina were freed on Monday after Putin signed an amnesty"

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    5. 2 Months left to serve.

      Thanks, Pootie, for nuthin.

      She championed through it quite well.

      Good on Nadezhda.

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  18. Oregon eases up on marijuana, cracks down on cigarettes

    Mom will be able to take placenta home too

    Even eat it

    The Legislature is stoned

    Want to get together and eat a placenta sack with fries and a coke?

    If 'some cultures' do it by all means we should too !!

    *****
    Oregon Law Lets Mothers Keep Placentas in 2014

    by Robert Wilde 31 Dec 2013 610 post a comment



    On January 1, a new Oregon law provides that Oregon mothers will be able to bring home their placentas from the hospital after childbirth.

    Not everyone knows that in some cultures eating the placenta sac may be nutritional for the mother and the baby. Moreover, memorializing or burying the placenta is an activity shared by some.

    Alissia Keny-Guyer (D-Portland) was the prominent sponsor of the new bill that was overwhelmingly passed by the Oregon 2013 Legislature 56-0. She insists that, “many women do want to take home their placenta for various cultural reasons." Some birthing centers had already allowed for the rare mother to carry her placenta home if she was determined to so. However, up until the new law takes effect, technically medical facilities are prohibited from releasing medical waste, with the exception of veterinary practices.

    Some other laws that go into effect for Oregon in 2014:

    Cigarette tax: The state's cigarette tax will rise 13 cents to $1.31 a pack.

    Driving: Texting or talking on a cell phone while driving will fetch higher fines—at least $142 and up to $500. New on the books: smoking in a car while a child is present. The new violation will fetch a maximum fine of $250 for the first offense and $500 for repeat offenses.

    Animals: Oregonians will be cited for unlawful tethering if they use a leash that is “not a reasonable length” for more than 10 hours in a 24-hour period.

    Medical marijuana: Oregonians with post-traumatic stress disorder will be able to participate in the state’s medical marijuana program

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    1. Just make sure you don't eat the baby, that's still illegal.

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    2. “The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries
      but between authoritarians and libertarians.”

      ― George Orwell

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  19. Steve Austin on Technology Issues From The Broken Skull Ranch

    Hilarious, but a sad way for poor Steve to spend his last two days at The Ranch.

    Stone Cold Motivation for a lazy ass 25 year old.

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  20. Someone said marijuana has never caused any deaths. This is not true. Traffic deaths among others.

    Also marijuana can cause lung cancer. It is a more potent carcinogen than cigarettes

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    1. Prove it has more carcinogens than tobacco!

      Can't do it, because it is not true!

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  21. Stone Cold Resolution:

    The Heisman Stiff Arm!

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    1. For the 25 yr old:

      Fuck Yourself To Fitness!

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  22. ✔ @jaketapper
    Follow


    Have you ever looked at your hand? I mean, REALLY LOOKED at your hand?

    -- New Colorado state motto


    11:54 AM - 1 Jan 2014

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    1. Wow!

      That Fucker Is Prime Meat for an IV.

      Thanks for the Tip.

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    2. Rufus:
      11:54 AM - 1 Jan 2014

      Doug
      11:31:00 PM EST

      WTF?

      Why am I on Eastern Standard, and he ain't?

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    3. Besides, IT CAN'T BE...

      My Bad,

      Damn Beer.

      I should resolve to Practice The The Heisman Stiff Arm!

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    4. I think he meant to say the "The Heineken Stiff Arm"

      Damn Beer

      Shoulda been a doper, I coulda been...

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  23. "Pussy is Low Calorie, You Can Eat As Much As You Want!"

    :-)

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    1. Steve has resolved to go from 270 to 240 and do some shit on TV.

      Whatta Guy!

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  24. The "Winner of the Year"

    The low-wage worker in Sea-Tac, Washington

    Got a 33% Raise to $15.00/hr.

    Got Guaranteed Issue, Subsidized Health Insurance, and

    Weed is Legal.


    Dayyum

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    1. And don't forget the government will pay for raising the kids.

      Biggest losers: highly paid workers if Boeing skips town

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  25. Just when we need some independent bright clear thinking minds, we have political cover for the herd to be stoned and toned down to an army of less than one.

    What a fucking exceptional country.

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    1. No Shit.
      Some young fuck from England just called in (in my mind) to report that Huntin in England ain't easy.

      Here, some shit killed two Antelope in AZ.

      Antelope in AZ?

      Probly the Beer on Doug's mind.

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    2. I don't know, Deuce. I have at one time, or another, engaged in just about every excess, and feel-good activity on the face of the planet. I don't think there's one that's caused me to do fewer stupid things than pot.

      :)

      jes sayin'

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    3. Now there is a great recommendation indeed !!

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    4. Remember this, Farmer Fudd . . .

      “You are who you are today because of the mistakes you made yesterday.”

      ― The Prolific Penman

      If you were to acknowledge some of the mistakes you have made, well . . .


      Who you will be tomorrow is dependent upon your actions today.

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    5. Yes, there a a lot of antelope in Arizona

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  26. "Women like to be asked out."

    Advice from the Stone Cold Wife to a Dumbshit Young Motherfucker.

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  27. The Soviets always had plenty of vodka, cheap, sold everywhere in bottles without close-able caps. You don’t thing there is a connection by any chance do you? Or is it just de facto good luck on the part of our rulers and masters?

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    1. At one time they were a third World Country w/a First World Space Program.

      Bet the Rocket Scientists weren't Tee Totalers.

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    2. That old Soviet booster is still what we, in our present condition, depend on.

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    3. The Soviet Economy?

      Not so much.

      Booze Kills!!!

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  28. I wish this i-phone would let me type for myself. THINK not T H I N G!

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    1. Thoughts are more dangerous than things.

      Thing about it.

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    2. Get one those new devices I saw advertised the other day that types out what you say......

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    3. I read that "they" were working on a device that types out what one thinks.

      The problem seems to be the internal censor is bypassed, and much trash, threats, pornography, non sense and cursing comes out........making most of it not fit to print......

      This is a problem Whack the Doodle has now.......

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    4. Random typist comes up with "Whack the Doodle"!

      Keep Computers out of Voice Recognition!

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  29. Rufus thinks it is beginning Paradise now.

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    1. All you got to do is flip burgers and smoke dope.

      How hard is that?

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    3. My niece doesn't do drugs, nor drink, nor smoke. She studies. And got a paying job at Max Planck. Picked first out of 50.

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    4. Yeah?

      Well how'd The Injuns stack up against our Cowboys?

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    5. No, I don't think so. He was the originator of quantum theory.

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  30. This next Episode of Stone Cold from two weeks ago is powered by Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA.

    ...I've vowed to get a keg of that shit.

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    1. (India Pale Ale)

      9 percent, enough hops to last for years.

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    2. Plus, the Hops are good for aches and pains.

      ...or some shit like that.

      I think.

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  31. What this country needs to move forward to now is free dope, along with the 'free' medical care, and the free money for raising the kids. And free booze too !

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    1. I'm practicing imagining I'm livin in Rufus's Free Everything World.

      Always turns out to be a bummer.

      Suspension of Disbelief Goes Up in Smoke.

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  32. Steve is threatening to give his Deer Cialis.

    Damned blood-thirsty pervert.

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  33. Jeeze, Steve's Mom is still here.

    That would be nice.

    The Wife, Paradise.

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  34. I got 45 of the 94 comments.

    That beats the old days @ Belmont.

    I'm sure you all are transfixed and entertained to the max.

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    1. It's all true, give or take a lie or two.

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  35. Where's Ash? He needs to be heard on this topic. Also Quirk.....O that's right you said he was passed out...

    45 out of 94 isn't even 50%. You can do better.

    Whackyopath often does, and his are totally uninteresting and humorless and without any merit.

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    1. The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility:

      it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems
      which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.

      ― Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

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    2. Resolve:
      - decide firmly on a course of action.
      "Farmer Bob resolved to not feed the asshole!"
      synonyms:
      determine, decide, make up one's mind, make a decision
      "Farmer Bob resolved not to feed the asshole"

      Don't Feed the Asshole!

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    3. Farmer Bob decided to legally change his name to Farmer O-Bob-ma


      http://www.greatperformances.com/the-dish/farmer-bob-becomes-official-white-house-garden-farmer#sthash.aKk1XmNx.dpuf

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  36. More original and intellectual content from Whacky the Doodle.

    Time for bed.

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  37. ILLINOIS PASSES LAW TO BAN PETA DRONES FROM HARASSING HUNTERS/FISHERMEN

    :)


    Illinois passed a new state law that set back the efforts of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), making the use of drones to interfere with hunters and fishermen prohibited.

    The law was created in response to PETA’s plan to employ drones called “air angels” to monitor outdoors enthusiasts engaged in hunting and fishing nationwide. Of course, the motivation for many outdoorsman is to get away from technology and be in harmony with nature.

    But PETA has another plan for lovers of the wilderness. They want to spy on hunters as self appointed green police trying to trap them in violations. Surprisingly, these “hobbyists” are able to take home their personal drone for only $324.99.

    By creating a law to prohibit PETA from fulfilling its mission to harass hunters and fisherman in Illinois, it has averted problems that other states like Massachusetts has endured. PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk said in a press release in Boston, “PETA’s drones will help protect wildlife by letting hunters know that someone may be watching—and recording—them, so they should think twice before illegally killing or maiming any living being. Wildlife watchers outnumber wildlife killers five to one—and if even a fraction of these kind people use hobby drones, they’ll make a huge difference by exposing hunters’ dirty secrets.”

    Newkirk added, “PETA aims to collect video footage of any illegal activity, including drinking while in the possession of a firearm; using spotlights, feed lures, and other forbidden hunting tricks; and maiming animals and failing to pursue them.

    Doug Jeanneret of the U.S. Sportsman’s Alliance asserts that PETA using drones constitutes “hunter harassment.” He added , “Imagine drones running over your duck decoys or near your tree stand. It would certainly interfere with your hunt and break the law. They will definitely be using them against all hunters.”

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    1. PETA might be better off using drones to track Canadian wolves in Idaho and Montana.....PETA was against introducing these imported and foreign killers into new lands where they have raised hell with the elk, and the livestock too.

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