- From the “Sauce for the Goose” Department – A man in New York has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiring to provide military-grade weapons to the Taliban. Apparently the gentleman thought that the DEA agent they were talking to was actually a representative of the Taliban and planned to provide small arms, anti-tank missiles, and possibly also anti-aircraft missiles. If I were this guys lawyer, I’d be appealing. If the United States government is going to be equipping terrorists, then why should it be illegal for a private citizen to also do it?
- From the “About Damned Time” Department – Members of the Senate are moving to reign in abuses by the National Security Agency. A new piece of legislation will be wending its way down the yellow brick road of Congress in the next few months, where I’m sure all of the guardians of the republic that make up that august body will not taint it with pork, carve-outs, and poison pills. They will vouchsafe this restoration of freedom and rights, and will bring back a renaissance of the human spirit and condition through it. Or they’ll botch the work, find some excuse to let it die, and say “Hey, I tried, didn’t I?” when one of us plebs has the temerity to call them on it.
- From the “Truth Will Out” Department – The EPA has pretty much proven that greenhouse gas regulation is what you do when you don’t want to do something productive. I cannot imagine how something that says that the regulations they are proposing will do nothing toward their stated goal of reducing global warning got through the review process. Honesty like that normally gets filtered out and watered down long before we see it. Of course, if the real goal is to destroy the coal industry, destroying the livelihoods of thousands of people and raising the energy prices of millions more, then this regulation is just peachy.
- From the “Get A Rope” Department – In yet another move in the ever evolving arms race between drug users and people who want drug users to obey, a new, macabre way of getting yourself into an altered state has reared its ugly head in the United States. Krokodil, a mix of codeine and gasoline, paint thinner, or alcohol, causes a cheap high and gruesome tissue necrosis around the injection site. (Please make a sanity role before googling up pictures. If you fail, don’t do it.) It’s been the fix of last resort for a while in Russia, and apparently is making an appearance here. I don’t mean to beat the dead horse, but is the damage from the War on Drugs better or worse than the damage we would incur if we just left adults alone to get high and possibly ruin their own lives? Now, instead of little Johnny going to the corner package store to pick up some safe, regulated chemical intoxicant, we run the risk of him mixing his cough syrup with lighter fluid and shooting up, then turning into something from a Romero picture.
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 26, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/09/26/news-roundup-204/
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