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January 11, 2016 at 6:56 PM in reply to: How will unfunded “pensions” affect the local economy? #793143
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ParticipantAfter you see the doctor he signs a letter recommending MMJ for you. No need to deal with the county, just take the letter to the dispensary. The doctors’ offices will sell you a photo id card for $10, but only the letter passes muster with the cops and the dispensaries (so I’m told).
Letter and driver’s license in hand you can go to a dispensary and are good to go. If you chose a delivery service they will have you email or fax the letter and lics before they arrange to stop by.
It used to be that without some type of medical record the letter was only good for a month or two.
ParticipantOops, right over my head.
ParticipantYes, no suprises there. I liked the bit in the article about Swedes who returned to Sweden after living in the US and couldn’t take the class-rigid society they found.
As best I know, no nordic countries ever directly compelled their poor to come to the US, which is what I took Jazzman to be saying.
ParticipantJazzman-
Can you give more details about the Nordic explusion of their poor to the US. I always had this idea that they were people seeking a better deal in a new land. At least it sounds like that is the way it was for Swedes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_emigration_to_the_United_StatesMarch 10, 2013 at 3:30 PM in reply to: OT: Public Employee Unions Attack the City of San Diego/Prop B #760530ParticipantThe Post Office is required by legislation passed by Republicans in Congress to pre-fund health care cost for retirees over the next 75 years. The payments are $5.5 billion per year until 2016. This level of pre-funding is unknown in the public or private sectors. The Post Office also operates mostly over what it can make, relying mostly on postage, thanks to the Post Office Reorganization Act of 1971.
It is obvious that the Post Office is mainly the victim of unprecendented legislation specifically designed to bring around its demise.
ParticipantIn October I was hit by a van that had tried to pass me on the right. The main problem was that the road was one lane in each direction, and I was in the lane. He had driven through a turn-only lane, then pulled into me, impacting my right rear fender.
The guy was not about to own up to it, but kept asking me why I had pulled out in front of him. The fact that he was speeding, that I hadn’t pulled out in front of him, and that he was driving in a non-existent lane was immaterial to him. Despite causing the accident, he was totally convinced of his innocence. I knew that his life was filled with failures, all of which were caused by other people.
As we talked, another car pulled up and stopped ahead of us. I walked up to speak to the driver, and found a lady who was quite agitated. She told me that she had seen the whole thing, and that he had just tried to run her off the road before he came to me. She couldn’t stay around, but let me get a video of her testimony on my phone, including her contact info. My insurance company talked to her, and found that I was not responsible for the accident.
The guy was a person who sucked- totally incapable of seeing himself as anything but a victim. The lady was a champ!
I was unhappy that, lacking injury or major damage, the police wouldn’t come to the accident. Instead, the other driver is contesting his responsibility and the case is in arbitration between our two insurance companies.
ParticipantIt was on Netflix a few months ago.
“Prohibition” made the case that a lot of the reaction against alcohol was based on distilled liquor rather than wine or beer. Sort of like your average working stiff, who would down a few beers with meals, started hitting the harder stuff and ended up in the gutter. Also, it highlighted the anti-immigrant aspect, since all those foreigners who traditionally drank beer and wine needed to be kept under control.
ParticipantTwo years ago, I took a prescription for glasses to LensCrafters in Mission Valley. All was going well. I had selected expensive frames, and the salesman was going through all of the options regarding lenses. As it happened, this same person had sold glasses to my wife some months earlier, and I found it very difficult to get him to accept that she did not want polarized lenses.
I was ready for him, though, and when it came to the question of polarized or not, I told him that I did not even want to discuss the option. He would not let it rest, asking again and again why I didn’t want it, and even tried to take me to a poster showing a driver about to run down a child because he was wearing non-polarized lenses.
Growing angry, I told him that I didn’t like the upsell, and stormed out. They must get one heck of a commission on polarized lenses to throw away what would have been a sale of almost $1,000 (two pairs of glasses).
I ordered glasses from Zenni ( http://www.zennioptical.com/ ) for less than $90. Titanium wire rims, they were fairly easy to adjust. Quality of lenses was decent, and at least as good as LensCrafters.
I wore them for a year, then ordered glasses from Shuron ( http://www.shuron.com/ ) because I liked the style. More expensive at about $400, but very good quality frames and lenses. Although they Shurons have not required adjustment, I expect that I’ll go to Costco for that when required.
ParticipantKSM-
Interesting that the two cites you give are old, coming from the time Bush was still in office. If you have been reading a newspaper or watching the news on tv since Obama took office, you cannot have helped but notice that reports and memos that Bush suppressed on the subject of torture are coming to light almost daily.I’m not detecting any awareness of current events in your posts. Can you give us some 2009 citations that back up your claims?
Also, the number of people you believe were tortured (“3”) seems acceptable to you. Is there any number of tortured prisoners that would concern you?
From your view of US conduct in our military and secret prisons (that nothing that was done constituted torture), does that mean that you would feel no outrage if captured US soldiers or civilians were subjected to the same treatment? It would be acceptable to you. That conclusion seems inescapable going by what you have written.
ParticipantKSM-
Interesting that the two cites you give are old, coming from the time Bush was still in office. If you have been reading a newspaper or watching the news on tv since Obama took office, you cannot have helped but notice that reports and memos that Bush suppressed on the subject of torture are coming to light almost daily.I’m not detecting any awareness of current events in your posts. Can you give us some 2009 citations that back up your claims?
Also, the number of people you believe were tortured (“3”) seems acceptable to you. Is there any number of tortured prisoners that would concern you?
From your view of US conduct in our military and secret prisons (that nothing that was done constituted torture), does that mean that you would feel no outrage if captured US soldiers or civilians were subjected to the same treatment? It would be acceptable to you. That conclusion seems inescapable going by what you have written.
ParticipantKSM-
Interesting that the two cites you give are old, coming from the time Bush was still in office. If you have been reading a newspaper or watching the news on tv since Obama took office, you cannot have helped but notice that reports and memos that Bush suppressed on the subject of torture are coming to light almost daily.I’m not detecting any awareness of current events in your posts. Can you give us some 2009 citations that back up your claims?
Also, the number of people you believe were tortured (“3”) seems acceptable to you. Is there any number of tortured prisoners that would concern you?
From your view of US conduct in our military and secret prisons (that nothing that was done constituted torture), does that mean that you would feel no outrage if captured US soldiers or civilians were subjected to the same treatment? It would be acceptable to you. That conclusion seems inescapable going by what you have written.
ParticipantKSM-
Interesting that the two cites you give are old, coming from the time Bush was still in office. If you have been reading a newspaper or watching the news on tv since Obama took office, you cannot have helped but notice that reports and memos that Bush suppressed on the subject of torture are coming to light almost daily.I’m not detecting any awareness of current events in your posts. Can you give us some 2009 citations that back up your claims?
Also, the number of people you believe were tortured (“3”) seems acceptable to you. Is there any number of tortured prisoners that would concern you?
From your view of US conduct in our military and secret prisons (that nothing that was done constituted torture), does that mean that you would feel no outrage if captured US soldiers or civilians were subjected to the same treatment? It would be acceptable to you. That conclusion seems inescapable going by what you have written.
ParticipantKSM-
Interesting that the two cites you give are old, coming from the time Bush was still in office. If you have been reading a newspaper or watching the news on tv since Obama took office, you cannot have helped but notice that reports and memos that Bush suppressed on the subject of torture are coming to light almost daily.I’m not detecting any awareness of current events in your posts. Can you give us some 2009 citations that back up your claims?
Also, the number of people you believe were tortured (“3”) seems acceptable to you. Is there any number of tortured prisoners that would concern you?
From your view of US conduct in our military and secret prisons (that nothing that was done constituted torture), does that mean that you would feel no outrage if captured US soldiers or civilians were subjected to the same treatment? It would be acceptable to you. That conclusion seems inescapable going by what you have written.
ParticipantKSM-
Can you provide a citation to your assertion that only 3 prisoners were tortured? As a followup, I’m curious about where you usually get your sources of information, if you don’t mind telling me. Nothing that I’m seeing in print, online, or television media lines up with your views about the number of people tortured, or the effficacy of torture, and I’d like to know how you come by your ideas.I believe that reports by the Red Cross, the Pentagon, and a Congressional committee indicate that torture was employed systematically across military prisons and secret prisons. Also, that this torture was approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration. Just yesterday, documents were produced that Cheney and Condi approved torture. “Pretty small program”?
I’ve got to run now, but here is a quick cite to the Red Cross reference.
The Red Cross report says that torture, including waterboarding, was practiced systematically in our secret prisons.
“It discusses elements of the CIA rendition and detention program, in which prisoners were transported – shackled and blindfolded – to secret “black sites” where they faced interrogation using what President Bush, in a September 6, 2006 speech publicly revealing the program, termed “an alternative set of procedures.”
These techniques, the Red Cross states, included suffocation by water, beatings, confinement in a box, sleep deprivation, forced nudity, exposure to cold temperatures or cold water, starvation and prolonged stress positions.
According to the report’s authors, “in many cases, the ill-treatment to which they were subjected while held in the CIA program … constituted torture.”
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