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Re: Criminal justice reform law being considered.
Nov 15, 2018, 3:21 PM
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What's being proposed?
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Re: Criminal justice reform law being considered.
Nov 15, 2018, 3:34 PM
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IDK, but imogene coca is playing shag.
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Oculus Spirit [93650]
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You could not possible be old enough to remember...
Nov 15, 2018, 3:48 PM
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that TV show.
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Re: You could not possible be old enough to remember...
Nov 15, 2018, 5:58 PM
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and I thank my lucky stars for that every morning I wake up.
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Need it and... wait for it...
Nov 15, 2018, 3:37 PM
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..... hold on.... it's coming........................................
Almost there......
............I applaud Pres. Trump for supporting it.
Whew.
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Damit,
Nov 15, 2018, 3:45 PM
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I almost died from the drama.
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Next up on my longtime wish list....ETHANOL
Nov 15, 2018, 3:50 PM
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Aside from screwing up lawnmower and other small engines, creating a corn field to fuel a vehicle is not exactly environmentally friendly considering the acreage it takes to grow enough corn to replace 10% of our gasoline. PLUS it drops gas mileage (fuel efficiency). Take 8-10 acres of pristine woodlands and put in an oil well that will fuel thousands of vehicles for a year, or clearcut thousands acres of pristine woodlands and plant corn to do the same. Squirrels and every other animal that likes natural habitat votes AGAINST ethanol. While a corn field is pretty and green, it's not a natural habitat.
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Yo, I'm down.
Nov 15, 2018, 4:01 PM
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Will be surprised if Trump supports that, but this other thing surprised me, so hey.
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It's a winner issue.
Nov 15, 2018, 4:35 PM
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After Ethanol I would have a much more challenging issue, but probably more beneficial than most people will ever know. Agricultural subsidies. Yep, I'd screw the farmer. They're already screwed anyway because of subsidies depleting the profitability of the market. But specifically carbohydrate subsidies, which are most of our agricultural subsidies. Something like $20 billion a year is given to farmers to subsidize sugar-rich crops. Corn is #1. Wheat is #3. In your stomach, those are both sugar. One is slower acting and one is faster acting. Want to know why obesity is so common among the "poor" in the US? That's because the foods highest carbohydrates are the cheapest to produce, because they are the most heavily subsidized. Take that $20 billion and spend it on making vegetables cheaper, or meat. Or just pay a few weeks of interest on our national debt. Whatever. We spend $327 billion yearly treating diabetes in the US. And that's because we have too much sugars, and especially complex carbohydrates in our diet, because that's our cheapest food source because it's subsidized.
Again, this won't be popular making soft drinks, bread, Twinkies, doughnuts, cookies, and all the other crap we subsidize more expensive. But maybe Coke can do what I've always wanted and have a coke with 15 grams of sugar instead of 39. Pepsi did that and I loved it. Then they stopped selling them.
Anyway, that would be next on my list. You save $20 billion in subsidies, or if you reallocate them to healthier foods, you will still save perhaps $100 billion on treating diabetes.
PS, the food pyramid needs to be fixed also. And the history of this is deep, flawed, and very political. See, in the 1950's there was a consensus (see, there's that word again) in the medical and scientific community that fats, especially cholesterol, caused heart attacks. The thinking was, limit fat in the diet, increase carbohydrate intake, and cure heart disease. After all, it's fat clogging your arteries that causes heart attacks. After almost 70 years, this experiment has failed miserably. But the big food economic and political machine has been in place so long it's impossible to change. On the drug topic, fwiw, sugar is the number one physically addictive drug people in the US are physically addicted to. Your body is designed to naturally turn fat into sugars sufficient to fuel your energy needs. You can survive and thrive on zero carbohydrates. You can not live without fats. Period. Research now shows, and is ignored, that with increased carb intake, fat is stored, making us fat. Years of high carb intake damages the insulin making ability of the pancreas. ALSO, sugar is a natural inflammatory substance in the body. It causes and promotes inflammation. Inflammation is what causes fat to stick inside your arteries. It also causes a myriad of other medical problems over time. The inflammation caused by excessive sugar, damages your arteries much the same way smoking does by causing inflammation. We all know smoking and diabetes are risk factors for heart disease. Carbohydrate intake is right up there too but never associated.
This would be a hard sell and would take a long press conference ignoring stupid questions about #### stars and Russian collusion to get the point across. But anyway, that's #3.
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Re: Criminal justice reform law being considered.
Nov 15, 2018, 3:53 PM
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They should also forgive and erase all felony possession of weed convictions too.
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Weed is perhaps the only drug I support dropping from
Nov 15, 2018, 4:06 PM
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federal law. How the heck it gets to a schedule 1 drug is beyond me. Heroin and weed are in the same category. And that's harsher than cocaine for crying out loud.
Pot falls somewhere between chocolate and coffee in its addictive qualities. Ever recall that first cigarette? You got one heck of a buzz. But what about that 2,000th cigarette? I recalled my fist nicotine buzz. I wondered how the heck people could drive and function like this. Alas, it doesn't last, like that first line of coke.
Pot is psychoactive, but so is alcohol, nicotine, and chocolate. But you don't see people robbing the 7-11 for money to get a pot fix. Doesn't happen. THC is stored in fat cells, and then SLOWLY released form the body. As such, it does not have physical withdrawal symptoms generally associated with "addictive" substances. It is psychologically addictive. It's fun getting high and you will want to get high again. But there's no PHYSICAL addiction or dangerous withdrawal like from opoids, heroine, cocaine, or nicotine. Take a daily heroin user and a daily pot user and put them on a deserted island with no pot or heroin. One will likely die. One will be fine.
Then you have the gateway drug argument. Well, it's a gateway drug because you have to go to a DRUG DEALER to get it. Eventually, that DRUG DEALER is going to want to introduce you to something more addictive and lucrative for the dealer.
Point is nicotine and especially alcohol are FAR worse than pot. I'd place it somewhere around caffeine, which is the most used drug on Earth. It needs to be sold just like cigarettes and alcohol, in a controlled, heavily taxed, and regulated system.
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Agree.
Nov 15, 2018, 4:14 PM
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When people say weed is a gateway drug they are correct but completely miss the reason behind it. Drug dealers are the gate. When someone who wants to party calls on a dealer who has not pot the trust established between them opens the gate.
The dealer doesn't need to expand his clientele he just expands the clientele selection to whatever he has. It all gets you high. Legalizing pot is the cure if the law makes it clear that sales to underage buyers is going to cause real legal issues for the seller.
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Re: Criminal justice reform law being considered.
Nov 15, 2018, 5:56 PM
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Imogene Coca...what a saucy vixen.
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