In These Times

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• • 30 Aug 07
  • 5:27 am

  The more I learn, the stronger I feel about drug abuse. I recently read that >61% people currently imprisoned in the United States are there for drug related crimes. I think the estimate was low. I believe that all drugs should be decriminalized. I've thought about this for many years. I was 19 in 1979. I tried many things that are now considered controlled substances or are completely banned from our country. As I lost friends to drugs and jails and a sister to an overdose, I would have to be either deaf, dumb, blind or an out and out liar …

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• • 08 Sep 07
  • 1:26 am

  Wickeddog, What makes you think the first group are above murder and bribery? Throughout history, many a brother/sister killed for money, power, love, etc. I profess no religious beliefs but I am familiar with the story of Cain and Abel. Perhaps god rejected the one son's offering because he was burning hemp but passing it through his lungs first. I mean no disrespect to any belief system but am trying to inject a little humor into a sad situation. I see the drug situation as a reflection of our society as a whole, a bunch of power hungry, rich people trying …

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• • 08 Oct 07
  • 3:35 pm

  dear daney, I too get a kick out of these polls and I could never afford a Volvo but would probably have liked one. Life is too short for me to expend my energy hating people. I don't hate you, Republicans or anyone else. What I try to do is make sense of things. I am a mother. I do not want my children nor anyone else's children to ever go to war. I have been watching Ken Burn's new documentary, "The War", on PBS. Somehow, member's of my immediate family were born at times that let them miss the war …

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• • 13 Aug 07
  • 12:23 am

  I am 56 years old. When I was in elementary school we had weekly air raid drills. At 12:00 PM on Wednesdays the alarm would sound in Philadelphia, PA. We all had to kneel under our desks, Crouch into almost a fetal position and wrap our hands around our heads as if this would do anything to save us in the event of a nuclear war. I think the idea really was that we would be calm until we blew up so the nuns didn’t have to worry about leaving us alone while they were hiding in the bomb shelter under …

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• • 13 Aug 07
  • 12:13 am

  I am 56 years old. When I was in elementary school we had weekly air raid drills. At 12:00 PM on Wednesdays the alarm would sound in Philadelphia, PA. We all had to kneel under our desks, Crouch into almost a fetal position and wrap our hands around our heads as if this would do anything to save us in the event of a nuclear war. I think the idea really was that we would be calm until we blew up so the nuns didn't have to worry about leaving us alone while they were hiding in the bomb shelter under …

  Posted to How worried are you about current nuclear developments?