I don't mind sticking my neck out to receive a gold medal or anything else as appetizing on a ribbon. This is one of those times.
We can't win the war on drugs. Mostly because it's actually a war on human fallibility. Or as we call it at my local Think Tank, Human Foi-llability. Get it? Foibles combined with fallibililty? We Think Tank people get our biggest laughs out of messing around with words...the younger and more vulnerable, the better. Ancient, armored, crusty words, like "bratwurst" and "funicular" and "pagan" can maim the unsuspecting wordophile. (One of the guys once dated a woodaphobe.)
We had a 13 year experiment with banning a drug, alcohol. The wrong people got rich during Prohibition. Just as now the wrong people are getting rich off of proscribed drugs. And no matter how much we spend, or how many hours a day Dr. Phil is on TV, there are going to be people who want what they're not supposed to want.
I don't mind that there's a war on against drugs, I just mind that there are people out there who talk about 'winning' it.
Same goes for the war on poverty. And the war on ignorance, or the war on war.
One war I could vote to raise taxes for would be a war against people who want to kill me.
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I would support a war against melons. I hate melons. I'm talking of the large fruit here, incidentally not ladies' jahoobies.
Bert apparently loves bananas.
I am sick of those in power deciding how its citizens should behave when the behavior effects only them. And worse, when they 'twist' statistics and words for their cause.
Why is it that any man can pick up any woman in a bar and sex, but if that man pays that woman it is illegal? Why can porn actresses get paid to have sex on camera, but if Joe Bananas does it he goes to jail? Why can't that poor, sick woman in CA have her joint to ease the pain of dying? Why is it that Fred Thompson can smoke Cuban cigars ON YOUTUBE, but I just read that the govt just fined 2 others a lot of money for it?
I could go on and on...
...Back to the ladies jahoobies....
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