Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
by John Cole| 4 Comments
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After the Columbia disaster, I asked this question:
How long before the lunatic fringe is pointing out that this is a sign from God, as the crew with the first Israeli astronaut died over Palestine, Texas?
There are numerous examples all over the place, but this one is the most fitting what I thought would come from the real morons with an ax to grind:
THERE were renewed calls for the deportation of Abu Hamza al-Masri yesterday after he said that Allah had destroyed the shuttle because it was a
This post is in: The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Reader Ellen Roberts points out this link to the jury reaction in the Rosenthal conviction:
Jurors who convicted marijuana guru Ed Rosenthal of cultivation and other drug charges said Monday they would have acquitted him had they been told he was growing medical marijuana for the city of Oakland.
“I feel like I made the biggest mistake in my life,” said juror Marney Craig, a 58-year-old Novato property manager. “We convicted a man who is not a criminal. We unfortunately had no idea of who he was or what he did.”
Other jurors reached by The Associated Press agreed. They plan an unusual gesture: writing Rosenthal to apologize.
Rosenthal, 58, the self-described “Guru of Ganja,” faces up to an 85-year prison term when sentenced June 4. Prosecutors on Tuesday are scheduled to ask U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer to revoke Rosenthal’s bail.
After a two-week trial Friday, a 12-member federal jury unanimously concluded that Rosenthal, a world-renowned marijuana advocate, was growing more than 100 plants, conspired to cultivate marijuana and maintained an Oakland warehouse for a growing operation. He was painted as a major drug manufacturer and put on little, if any, defense.
The jury was not told that Rosenthal was acting as an agent of the city of Oakland’s medical marijuana program, which was an outgrowth of a 1996 medical marijuana initiative approved by California’s voters.
Disgusting. This just gets tiresome after a while. I wish people would get their act together and realize that the Patriot Act they areso hysterical about is nothing compared to what the War on Drugs has done to our civil liberties.
Go read the whole story.
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Looks like six more weeks of winter. The glorified rat saw his shadow.
by John Cole| 7 Comments
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Just an awful day for everyone in America and Israel.
Instapundit has all the relevant links.
How long before the lunatic fringe is pointing out that this is a sign from God, as the crew with the first Israeli astronaut died over Palestine, Texas?
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Heads up. Hawspipe and Matthew Yglesias have returned.
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“So we are looking for a band of midget lime thieves?”
from Monk.
by John Cole| 2 Comments
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Talkleft points to another disgraceful turn of events in the war on your neighbors:
We are very saddened tonight by the news of the conviction of author and medical marijuana activist Ed Rosenthal in San Francisco. He will be sentenced Tuesday to a mandatory minimum ten year sentence. The maximum sentence is life.