Hmm, I can’t really understand the pride of being a Canadian, seems they haven’t really done much of anything. They kinda just sit North of us and criticize every decision we make. What’s so good about Canada?
Posts made by izcoder
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RE: Are you proud of your country ?
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RE: Registry entries?
Just download it off Kazaa or another P2P file-sharing system.
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RE: We should not attack Iraq
@cystic:
To me it just seems like America on occassion acts like the master of a dog. He regularly beats the dog, disciplines it with no rational pattern, trains it poorly, and starves it off and on. Then when the dog snaps, the master has it killed.
Bombing and invading - the classic American kneejerk reaction (unless it’s, say, WWII in which case the reflex takes a while).That might make sense is somewhere else. But here in reality, Saddam is not a product of us, didn’t belong to us, and his actions are not a result of us.
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RE: War on Drugs
Yes, I completely agree with you that we need more appropriate measures. But we don’t need to legalize marijuana to implement the more appropriate measures. Rehabilitation and such can be implemented while still keeping pot illegal.
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RE: We should not attack Iraq
Saddam got into power somehow; he has support. Somebody (and I’ll bet it wasn’t us) wanted him in power, who are we to say that he shouldn’t? And moreover, who is to say that we are more right than Saddam is? I’m not saying I agree with the little dictator’s ideas, beliefs, or actions, but we cannot judge Iraq becuase it doesn’t conform. If Saddam was truely terrible then there would be a revolution (they aren’t terribly hard to come by in the last century, they can’t be that difficult) and a new government would be put in it’s place. Why are we so quick to replace other people’s governments? We aren’t the ones that should be doing that, the oppressed themselves have that honor.
OMG. You gonna say the same thing about Osama Bin Laden? He doesn’t conform, but we should leave him alone right? Who are we to judge his actions? Pleeeeease. Wake up and smell the coffee….
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RE: War on Drugs
Ok, first of all, I’m not really concerned with those pot-heads who light it up in their house. The ones that really concern (and affect me) are those OUTSIDE of the home. The pro-legalization folks here seem to be forgetting that people actually DO pot, and then walk outside. GASP! :o
Yb wasn’t commenting on the amendment portion of your argument, I think he was commenting about the fact that you seem to think you can do whatever you want, as long as it’s inside your home. Please explain this to me.
Why do we have to legalize marijuana to have a better affect on society? There are other more effective alternatives besides giving up on the problem.
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RE: We should not attack Iraq
I just learned that Saddam is going to be supplying Palestinian terrorist (eg. Hamas, Hezbala) with biological weapons to use in their bombings against Israeli citizens. Why are so many people playing devil’s advocate with this topic? Bomb the mofo and reinstate a stable and less threatening government!
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RE: We should not attack Iraq
Yanni, so now we can only attack terrorists if they attack us first? What the hell kinda sense does that make?
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RE: War on Drugs
Crypt, he was asking me, IZ, if I was in JSA (Junior Statesmen of America). The answer is no YB.
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RE: War on Drugs
That’s right, you know what they say…
“If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”Ok, so maybe I have no heart. But I’m sure as hell not gonna waste my time being a liberal! :lol:
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RE: We should not attack Iraq
Agreed YB.
America’s in the toughest position out of any country, becuase on one hand they say we shouldn’t be the world’s policeman. But then when something terrible happens, somehow as the world’s only superpower, we were expected to do something. Bush will face immense criticism regardless of what decision he makes.
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RE: War on Drugs
LOL! I never thought I’d hear the day when somebody compared marijuana to fast food. Can anyone say “Bill Mahr”…?
Marijuana affects you negatively regardless of how much you take. You are affected if one way or another. Fast food leads to long term illness, and eating a hamburger will not necessarily make you more dangerous! C’mon Crypt…let’s be realistic here…
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RE: Your World View
Although we are still considered a relatively young country, our capitalistic society has worked well thus far. I agree with YB in that private institutions are far more efficient then those run by the government.
This is my main point in the argument against managed health care. You’re sacrificing quality for quantity. (I guess that’s a topic for a different threat though :D) -
RE: War on Drugs
Just becuase people do marijuana doesn’t mean you can use that as an excuse to legalize it! I don’t care who is doing it, it doesn’t make it any less dangerous!
Here are some interesting facts about marijuana that I picked up, take a look:
1.) The illegal drug industry ranks in size with Mobil Oil as our second largest business – only Exxon is larger.
2.) Cocaine is now the leading cash flow drug a 26-32 billion a year.
3.) The U.S. Spends almost as much money on marijuana – 18-26 billion a year – as its spends on import oil. Marijuana is California’s largest cash crop.
4.) The drug paraphernalia business was a 3 billion a year industry in 1979.
5.) This year, among American high school seniors, one in 11 is a daily user of marijuana.
6.) Today’s cultivated marijuana has an average potency of 4% THC – the major psychoactive ingredient – as compared to the marijuana of the 60’s which had an average potency of .25% THC. Today’s marijuana is 10 to 15 times stronger than that of the 60’s.
7.) THC remains in the fatty tissues of body cells, especially in the brain and the reproductive organs. Even a week after marijuana joint is smoked, 30-50% of the THC is still in the body in active form. It takes 3 to 6 weeks to eliminate all THC from the body. More frequent use means that the user is never drug-free, in fact, there is a gradual accumulation of the drug in the fatty tissues of the body.
8.)There are over 7,000 published scientific and medical studies documenting the damage that marijuana does to the various systems of the body. Not one study give marijuana a clean bill of health.
9.) Marijuana is a complex material containing 421 chemicals, 60 of which are found only in marijuana.
10.) Five typical marijuana cigarettes have the same cancer-causing capability as 112 tobacco cigarettes. Marijuana tar has more carcinogens than tobacco tar, and the smoke is inhaled more deeply, further aggravating the lungs and the respiratory system.
11.) Reaction time for the motor skills, such as driving, is reduced by 41% after smoking one joint and by 63% after smoking 2 joints.
Marijuana use reduces or alters the fundamental cellular defense against disease. White blood cell count is reduced 41% from normal levels with regular use of the drug.12.) THC has been found to interfere with the transmission of brain messages; EEG’s of regular users exhibit abnormal brain wave patterns.
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL IN THE WORKPLACE
1.) 10% of all workers have an alcohol problem2.) 6% of all workers have a drug problem
3.) 5,000 work related fatalities yearly are due to drugs and alcohol
4.) 1 million work related serious injuries are due to drugs and alcohol yearly
5.) Cost to industries due to alcohol abuse is $77 billion per year
6.) Cost to industries due to drug abuse is $27 billion per year
7.) Lost productivity due to drugs and alcohol is $44 billion per year
Alcohol and Drug Abusers:
are late 3 times more than other employees
are 2 1/2 times more likely to leave work early, take time oft, be absent
use 3 times more sick days
have 4 times as many on the job accidents
use 8 times as many hospital days
Assisting an employee who has a drug probem is more cost effective than hiring a new employee. The firing/hiring process is expensive and there is no guarantee that the new employee will not suffer a similar problem.
60% of all employees can be successfully rehabilitated if they seek treatment. This reduces the absentee rate from 8% down to 3%. -
RE: War on Drugs
@cystic:
I dare say that more Americans than you know do have a problem.
Where are you getting this information from?
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RE: War on Drugs
You seem to be confusing “less lethal” with “completely harmless”. Are you forgetting the effects that legalizing marijauna for the entire country will have? So far, I’ve only heard three things repeated over and over again.
1.) Alcohol is way worse than marijuana, therefore marijuana should be legalized.
2.) We’re wasting money fighting this battle.
3.) I have a right to do marijuana as long as I don’t harm anyone else.Here’s my problem with these arguments.
1.) Legalizing marijuana will do nothing to solve the problems we have today concerning alcohol, it will only add to it.
Making marijuana legal=more widespread use=more fatalities resulting from increased usage.
2.) The majority of American people (so far) have no problem with this.
3.) Need I remind everyone here that you have NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to get high. Regardless of if you feel like you’re hurting anyone or not, the drug is illegal for a reason. -
RE: War on Drugs
Oh, pleeeeeease. Don’t even begin to compare prescription drugs to marijauna. Prescription drugs are for people who are suffering from some medical ailement. The way I understand it (and correct me if I’m wrong) you’re talking about legalizing marijauana for recreational use. Now, I’ve all ready said that I don’t have has much a problem with legalizing marijauna for those folks who are in so much pain that nothing else will help them, but legalizing one more deadly drug for purely “recreational” use is absurd.
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RE: Prostitution
I’ll agree with you there, our justice system does have way too many people in jail that would be better suited to other types of punishment (or rehabilitation, if you prefer :wink:) What I’m against however, is the legalization of prostitution, and the reprocussions that would come with that.
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RE: We should not attack Iraq
Israel won’t support us becuase they all ready have their hands full with Palestine. We don’t necessarily need the support of them either. I mean, c’mon, YB was right on the mark when he said that Saddam’s army will virtually liquify when the fighting commences.