thetragichippy

        You both basically asked me the same question, so here it goes.....   In my experience, you can drink a beer and not be drunk.....you smoke a joint, you are stoned.   People, including me for a couple years in my younger days tend to smoke daily or a few times a week.....it made me lazy and unproductive.......   Beer is something I do typically on a weekend.....or with a meal.   So, in my experience, I would rather my Son drink a few beers with me on a fishing trip, or by a campfire than smoke a joint with his friends.....and even though I don't consider it a horrible drug, even legal I would NEVER smoke a joint with my Son.....

  Tax revenue does not impress me.....   The lotto in Texas was supposed to do wonders for the school districts.......

  Absolutely.........   I'm not saying it's impossible, but think of this.....   If my Son and a friend were at my house right now.....they could....   1. Drink about 4 coors lights 2. Drink 2 bud lights 3. Drink about 8 of those Beer-rita things (girlfriends) 4. Drink 1/2 a bottle of JD 5. Drink an entire bottle of Crown (I would kill him) 6. Drink a couple bottles of wine (girlfriends)   But they would not get any weed........   Other houses may be different, but I would say more parents don't smoke weed than smoke.....

  So, you don't think it's harder to get weed than alcohol?   Cigarettes are legal and many parents and adults forget them at a bar, on a park bench, in someones car or leave them in plain view at their house. When/if weed becomes legal, the same thing will happen....human nature.....so it will be easier fro a kid to get.   Legal or not, people are going to murder.....I'm against making that legal to.

  Comments like below....     Yes I have....    What does that have to do with my opinion on legalizing drugs? 

  There is enougth stuff I don't like about Obama, so I don't need to make up anything.....

I'm not sure it has done any good, but it keeps it less available than beer.....When I was a kid it was much easier getting a 6 pack than a joint. At 18, I could get a friend(21) to go buy me a 6 pack......could do the same with a joint, but it had to be the right friend.....the difference is I could also hang outside the store and give a complete stranger 20 bucks for a 6-pack and end up getting it.....can't do that with weed.....   And that is the main reason I am against legalizing weed......I want it as tough as possible for my Son to get....   And since you go bt the New testament   "Envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God".   And I would think you want everyone to go to Heaven......

  Even the right uses propaganda......   The idea of providing low-income individuals with subsidized phone service was originated in the Reagan administration following the break-up of AT&T in 1984. (It was expanded and formalized by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.) The program is paid for by telecommunications companies through an independent non-profit, not through tax revenue.   [Hidden Content]

  Oh he's probably toast........He is convicted in the court of public opinion.

  I agree.......I think he murdered the guy.   There is an article that was posted on Fb, (and I just scanned through it, have not read it fully) that gives another perspective. They claim that it is very possible the guy actually tased the officer and that you can see the wire stuck in the officer and that the officer might have thought he still had the trigger when he shot.   Not sure if that is a legit news source, but going to follow up with it tonight.

  Funny, there was no video in Ferguson or Hemphill and it did not go down like that. It was reported in Hemphill that there was a coverup and in Ferguson that the guy was executed. It is pretty hard to justify shooting a guy in the back.....Once they autopsy report came out, charges would have been filed.

    It is the governments job to protect us.....   It is not their job to provide cell phones.....

  And that's a fact....   But currently there are 1305 Whites and 1267 blacks on death row......   [Hidden Content]

  He was for legalizing all drugs......   Thought you would have been against that

  I'm not against it, if done legally and by the same standards as previously executed people. 

  I have read in an article (or maybe comments on Facebook) that he ran because he owed child support and didn't want to go to jail.....   It is ALWAYS a stupid move to run from the cops.....you shouldn't get shot in the back, but you should never run either.....

That is written in the law And I do believe he can get death penalty in SC

  That is because we use facts and numbers.....   In South Carolina there are currently 26 blacks and 20 whites on death row.    Since 1976, the race of the victims of convicted killers on death row.....1,566 white victims....and 312 black victims.   Just throwing in a few facts

  Depends....   What do other crime victims get that kill people in cold blood?   I have no problem if he gets the death penalty because of the crime.......but not because he is a cop or because he is white.

  Actually I would be willing to bet money he gets close to max sentence.....   Will all the publicity this is going to get, he does not have a chance.....   Just like the poor officer in Ferguson.....he got a life sentence and was innocent. 

  Do you really believe that?   I hang around a lot of white people, a few are racist, some don't realize they are racist, and some are not at all.....but none of them would let a white guy off the hook for killing anyone because of their color. That is just crazy talk. It's 2015

  His stance on many issues has changed over the years.....His Dad is possibly clinically insane.....   I would like to hear him and Carson debate. I like what I have heard from Carson. I would like to hear more on his foreign policy. To me, we need someone strong in this area that can calm things down with or without force.

Happy Easter

That is a dang shame not one response back......   Happy Easter Smitty.....   Hope you enjoyed the day!

  Well your not going to be to popular with THAT opinion :D   But if you recall, I did the math in a previous post and the percent of racist emails was like .01 something......I believe I based it on 1 or 2 emails sent a day.