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Will you regret not acting on March 23rd ? Free Charle Lynch

To most Americans March 23rd will be just another day. To Charle Lynch it will determine the rest of his life. Charle is due to be sentenced on March 23rd for 5 Marijuana only, non-violent Federal...

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 AG Holder Expands Pot Policy, But Not Enough

Let me first tell you about some of the news in the last 24 hours. 1st we have the following News,"The New Mexico Department of Health has licensed a nonprofit business to produce medical marijuana"....

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Lynch-ing Sentence Postponed Over New US Drug Policy

Today in Los Angeles Charles Lynch went before Judge Wu to be sentenced for 5 Federal Marijuana charges. AG Holder changed US Drug Policy recently and Judge Wu told the US Atty that he wanted to know...

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 Eric Holder Lied To Us or His Dept. Is Out of Control

Yesterday the DEA raided Emmalyn's California Cannabis Clinic. There is at least one report of a couple arrests, but they aren't confirmed yet. The DEA did clean out the dispensary of Grow Lights,...

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Yoo, Gonzales, Haynes,Addington Subject to EU Arrest If They Travel

I'm not one of those people that loves to say I told you so, well maybe I am... Anyway Scott Horton has a short piece up over at Harpers announcing that Spain has opened their investigation of the...

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4 US Attys in Ca. Decide to Ignore AG Holders New MMJ Policy

 This diary is about the games the US Attys in Calif. are playing with Pres. Obama and AG Holder. You will remember that Pres. Obama promised to stop the DEA from wasting money by going after those...

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Marilyn Chambers, Behind the Green Door Star, Dead at 56

The AP and LATimes is reporting the Marilyn was found dead last night by her daughter. This news hit me harder than I would of thought.  As I think back to the times when Behind the Green Door was...

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Obamas Headfake on MedicalMJ Dispensaries

There are several articles out about the way the DOJ has decided to not look to the future but to look backwards and hammer Charles Lynch. There is growing unrest about a DOJ and Pres. that will...

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Charles Lynch Sentencing Postponed !

I hope by now everyone knows Charles Kafkaesque dealings with the DEA and US Attys. The short story is Charles owned a Medical Marijuana Dispensary in a small town in Central Ca. Charles is the kind...

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How Would You Vote If Obama Pardons Bush ? W/ Poll

The Wall Street Journal has begun the movement to get Bush and Cheney pardoned. They aren't even being honest about it at this point in time. In a piece talking about what Pres. Ford faced and how he...

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A Scared Bolton Says Torture Is "Policy" Difference

In a Washington Post OpEd Former UN Ambassador and Neocon John Bolton writes with brash attitude he's become known for. Bolton starts off by claiming that Pres. Obamas "passivity" toward...

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JOE the Plumber Quits the GOP !!!

Time Magazine has dropped this bomb on the GOP. Well, more elections. Big Government is never popular in theory, but the disaster aid, school lunches and prescription drugs that make up Big Government...

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 Jesusita Fire & Santa Barbara Kossacks Please Check In

The City of Santa Barbara is still burning and it looks to get worse before it gets better. High Winds are dues again tonight and will fans the growing flames. Last night officals had thought they...

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The Real Reason Gen.McKiernan Is Out, IMHO

Back in Jan. I wrote a small diary about what some saw as a scandal. The issue got very little coverage in the US but that is nothing new is it ? Gen. McKiernan was in the middle of this issue but not...

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Gonzales Approved Torture Months Before Memos Written

NPR is reporting that Alberto Gonzales while the White House Atty, not the Atty Gen, was approving the Torture of Abu Zubaydah months before the Aug. Torture Memos were even written. It appears the...

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Bailing Out Warrantless Wiretapping, What Could Be More Pragmatic ?

In what could be our last chance for at least a decade to find out exactly what went on with the Warrantless Wiretaps Judge Walker issued the DOJ a warning. This from Law.com, Walker, bringing to a...

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Pres. Obama Stripping CIA Powers Away

I have yet to read about anyone putting all the details together yet. I could be all wrong to boot, but reading between the lines does not a conspiracy theory make. ( at least that's not my intention...

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Right Wing SCOTUS Activists Immunizes Ashcroft, Mueller, and Every Other Damn...

Over at the ACSBlog is a really disturbing look at what damage Activist Wingnut Supreme Court Judges, all 5 of them, has done to the Rights of the Public. The title is dead on, A Law-Free Zone for All...

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Judge Sotomayor Breaks Ankle At LaGuardia Airport, Right Jokes About It

The Judge was on her way to DC to meet with the GOP Senators today when she broke her ankle before boarding the Shuttle to DC. New is sketchy at this time. I first heard the news about 45 mins ago on...

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Lynch Sentenced To 1 year & 1 Day

A few months ago supposedly following up on a promise Pres. Obamas new Atty. Gen. announced to the World a New Policy when it comes to the raiding of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries. This new policy,...

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Opium Eradication Ends As Pot Eradication Escalates

Finally our policy of slashing and burning the Opium crops the Afghani farmers grew to survive is coming to a end. At the same time the DEA, ATF, Sheriffs, and anyone else that can roundup a...

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 Rahm Shoots Public Option For Already Rejected Trigger

This from tomorrows Wall Street Journal,"The goal is to have a means and a mechanism to keep the private insurers honest," he said in an interview. "The goal is non-negotiable; the path is"...

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UK Mp Makes Torture Info Public w/Pentagon Papers Type Move

During the Viet Nam War Daniel Ellsberg got his hands on what became known as the Pentagon Papers.The NY Times published parts of the report but took tremendous flack because of their Top Secret...

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Palin, 227 Deaths By Governors Incompetence

Senator Kerry has a diary up about Sarah Palin now but his diary is about Palins ridiculous OpEd. This issue is way beyond that. As FireDogLake and the Anchorage Daily News have a real bombshell of a...

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Medicaid Slashes Pain Meds To Save Money

Welcome to Rationed Health Care as it exists today. My Dr. informed my wife today that Medicaid was forcing him to cut every patients Pain Meds to save money. I am a Chronic Pain Patient, actually...

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Mohammed Jawad, Child Soldier POW Going Home ?

Mohammed Jawad by many accounts was 12 or 13 yrs old when he was first tortured by the Afghans and told his family would be murdered if he didn't "confess" that he had thrown a grenade while he had a...

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Obama Asks SCOTUS to Kill Transparency

and to reverse the ruling of the Court of Appeals that Obama had said he would abide by. I think most of us knew it would come to this sooner or later. From the ACLU.   NEW YORK – The government today...

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Chamber of Commerce Gives Ensign Standing Ovation For Affair

Of course Ensigns real statement is where he make the claim that what he did was not as bad as Bill Clinton because he didn't lie about it. I guess that means his Wife knew about his affair from the...

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Prison For Drug Use Declared Unconstitutional, In Argentina

In a ruling that many Americans believe the US Supreme Court should of made yrs ago, the Argentine Supreme Court ruled that prison for personal drug use is Unconstitutional. No Prison for Pot Use,...

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House Liberals Bloc "Isn't Bluffing" Per Darcy Burner

Remember Darcy ? Many of us has tried to help and get her elected in the past. Unlike some, on her defeat she didn't just fold up her tent and fade away. No, she got more involved and is helping the...

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Politico or The Public Option ? Who Do You Believe In ?

Politico has a story out that is raising the hackles of many groups, while others are just going Huh ? Using they favorite unnamed sources the story goes like this...     Obama is considering...

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Sen. Bernie Sanders Exposes Sen Hatch After All His Kennedy Talk

I quit watching Lou Dobbs a couple yrs ago but every once in a while I stop while channel surfing. Damn was I glad I did. Dobbs was playing a rerun from late July. This was mainly between Bernie and...

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Sen. Harkin Stands Strong on Public Option

On a day where the News Sources are feeding us nothing but defeatist type news about the Public Option Sen. Harkin, the new chairman of HELP Comm.replacing Ted Kennedy has a different stronger stance....

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Can Jay Rockefeller Really Say "No Way" ?

By now most if not all of you have heard that Jello Jay Rockefeller has said there is no way he can vote for the Baucus Gift to the Ins. Companies. I wish I had a dime for every time the Sen. has said...

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Rick Sanchez to Fox News " You Lie ! "/ Video Now Up

Fox News took out a full page ad claiming CNN did not cover the Wingnut March on DC. What the ad says is "How did, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN miss this story?" Fox even used one of CNNs photos of...

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When You Hear a Liberal Ghost Whisper

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of my least favorite people and politicians. His time as Gov. of Calif. has been a total disaster. Even now we don't really have a budget tho Arnold has taken away...

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Helen Thomas Asks Gibbs the Question We All Want To Know

Ever ask yourself why Pres. Obama has never come straight and said he would Veto any bill that doesn't have the Public Option ? Hell, or at least put up some kind of flag so people knows where he...

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Bybees Final Fate In Conyers Hands Now

Believe it or not this past week Judge Bybee, aka the Torture Memos Author, was given a big pass by the Ninth Circuit’s Judicial Council. Apparently without even looking back at the entire Torture...

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UK’s Drugs Czar Fired For Marijuana Truths

David Nutt, the British chief drug adviser has been fired because of his giving of his opinion that Marijuana, LSD, and Ecstasy are much safer than the gov. is treating them under the British drug...

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Unionizing Budtenders, Budtrimmers, Growers, Etc

In San Jose the 26,000-member United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 has signed up a new classification of workers with a eye toward more. This is a major step for the unions and may well help...

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19 Is The New 420

In the last few days the news surrounding legalizing Marijuana in Ca. is beginning to build. It starts with the name being given and from here on out to be known as Prop.19. Immediately afterward came...

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Obamas DEA Still Busting Medical MJ Users

We have been told by AG Holder that unless people in Ca. were breaking local laws that the DEA would leave them alone. Over the last couple months the facts seem to say otherwise.The federal Drug...

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WTF is the Vienna Declaration and Why You Should Care

It has become normal for me to read something I think should of been spread across the Frontpages, buried in some back section of the paper or website. That this Vienna Declaration has to do with AIDs...

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Fed Acceptance of Medical MJ @ VA, what does it really mean ?

The recent decision by the Veterans Admin. to change the policy that barred VA Dr.s from prescribing pain killers if they knew the patient was smoking Medical Marijuana goes a long way to validate...

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Congress Allows Free Medical MJ In DC

Way back in 1998 69% the residents of DC voted to make Medical Marijuana legal. Up until last week Congress had blocked the referendum from becoming law. Because this year Congress failed to act the...

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Arnold Reduces Pot to Infraction with $100 Ticket

Toke of the Town is reporting that Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed SB1449, a bill that reduces Ca. penalties for possession of a oz of Cannabis or less from a misdemeanor to a infraction. No...

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My Shovel Ready HUD Housing Goes Solar

This week the Housing Authority where I moved into a few months ago is holding info meetings to inform all the tenants we are going Solar. I live Close to Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 50 miles...

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DOJ Walks Back Medical Cannabis Memo

I don't know how I missed this memo when it first came out but I did and maaybe you did also. It is known as the Haag Memo and it turns what people were lead to believe about the "New Obama Medical...

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Medi-Cal Cuts Waiver Granted

Our Gov. Moonbeam has lost his dreams it would seem. Gov. Jerry Brown scored a budget win Thursday as the Obama administration approved a major share of Medi-Cal cuts that health care providers and...

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Feds Seize Oregan Medical MJ Patient List

While most people believe their medical records are protected apparently that is not true. Federal agents have forced the Oregon Public Health Division to turn over an untold number of patients’...

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