Joe Conason has a good piece in Salon about the war on drugs. Want to cut waste and abuse? How about starting with the $50 billion we spend every year on the war on drugs. And why aren’t either McCain or Obama talking it?
Tag: Obama
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For the record…
John McCain will lose. Obama will win. Sarah Palin is a horrible choice for running mate. She is not fit to be president. On the plus side I’m sure she knows how many homes she has and that rich is a less than $5 million a year.
Is it too much to ask for candidates to respect the responsibilities of vice president by actually picking people who are smarter and moreexperienced than average? No doubt, unlike McCain, she is “real.” Keep on keeping it real, sister!
And by the way, if your chief qualifications for office are moral righteousness and being a good mom (and being governor of state with a huge problem of sexual abuse, particularly incestuous sexual abuse), your teenage kid getting knocked up is kind of an issue. I’m not opposed to 17-year-olds having consensual sex (and they wouldn’t stop, even if I were). I just don’t want them having kids. Not in Baltimore. Not in Alaska.
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Hate mail (2.4)
The latest from my conservative friend:
Prof Moskos;
Lets get real. Legalize drugs? Just look at alcohol. 21 years olds buy it give it to younger friends, who give it to even younger friends and now we have many 12 year old alcoholics in this country. Multiply that with narcotic addiction and see what the fabric of this country looks like then. Who will be trainable to fly the F22 raptor? Some coke head like Obama….. And lets be realistic.. What is so bad about drug dealers killing each other..?
As far as I’m concerned that is a win-win situation.
Now to your premise about liberals not ruining Police Depts…. In the past Baltimore had one of the best Homicide squads in the Nation. Their clearance rate was over 90%.
Then came the downfall ” Affirmative Action” every liberals dream.
Good street smart homicide detectives were unceremoniously removed from homicide and put back in uniform. They were replaced with rookie, black, officers with little or no experience, just to appease the Gods of P.C.
Now the clearance rate is somewhere around 40% and homicides are up.
Please explain how this liberal move has made Baltimore a safer place to live.
Baltimore now has a new nickname which is known all over the East coast: ” The City that Bleeds”.
When I was a kid in the 40’s and 50’s you could sleep in Patterson Park on hot nights.
Try it now… if you dare….
Again about education. I have a daughter-in-law with a masters my son had 3 years college, and my family is conservative. Mostly because of family values and the fact that my son and his wife went to a Moderate school. There were no Ward Churchills teaching there. I myself have some credits from a community college. I am not against education, I am against educators brainwashing students to be little socialists.
Kruschev once said “we will destroy you from within”. That destruction starts with biased education.
Mark DeRosa Sgt ( ret) Balto P D