The Liquor Talking

1. I don’t need dumbasses.

   
   Yeah, I know. Who does?

   Someone must because we seem to be up to our collective armpits with them.

   Specifically, I can do without the people who are arguing this medical marijuana debate without any sense of compassion or enough IQ points to reach double digits.

   Yep, Montana’s present medical marijuana law is a joke. There’s just about no “medical” part to it. A doctor can simply give you a note (without even laying eyes on you or your records) that’s good for a weed license.

   That’s not what I had in mind when I voted for the thing.

   My intention was a system by which people with legitimate, chronic/terminal ailments could legally obtain and use the stuff to abate or mitigate their condition.

   Particularly those who could not afford pharmaceutical medicines. Some of that stuff is damned expensive. My compassion was for people whose choices were buying pharmaceutical drugs for their pain or buying food.

   These people exist.

   I’d hoped to see businesses, businesses with taxable revenues rise up to meet the demand and at least that part came to pass. At least until the feds finally got their backs up and swept in to put us in our place.

   When it all settled out to where pret’near anybody could get a license to toke, I hoped for a fix from our legislature/governor.

   
   Instead of fixing it, the Montana legislature (yeah, controlled by republicans) produced what I can only describe as a childish, facile, passive-aggressive piece of legislation that effectively threw out the baby with the bathwater.

   Now it’s back to the drawing board, via the ballot initiative process to try to get something workable and to show the elected ones that we want this.

2. I can do without the rocket scientists who try to spam the comments section of my blog:

   I apologise, but, in my opinion, you are not right. Talent, you will tell nothing.. You are not right. I can defend the position. Write to me in PM, we will communicate. Dismiss me from it. I think, that you commit an error. I suggest it to discuss. Write to me in PM, we will communicate.

   Okay, you are dismissed from it.

3. I can do without whatever it is that’s blooming right now and playing hobb with my histamine production.

   

   Plus, I got a sty in my eyelid that stings something fierce. I can do without that too.

4. I can do without 90+ degrees.
   
   If these people are to be believed (I may have to make some calls) it looks like we’ll catch a break, but the past couple of days were like Africa hot!

   Other than the people, I think the thing I miss most about my last gig was the parking garage.

   Ah, but I have a remote starter and the AC is cranked up.

   Best Christmas present ever!
   

5. I’ve about had it with this debt limit crazy train.
   

   I don’t get this at all. There are three ways to decrease our national debt:
   

   
   
   1. Spend less
      
   2. Tax more
      
   3. Both
      

   How is this hard? The only trick is that with raising taxes, even if it’s “just on the wealthy” is that you gottah realize who really is gonna be footing the bill. If you raise taxes (take away loopholes/incentives – you say “tomato”) that tax burder is gonna get passed down to the consumer, faster than grain through a goose. Don’t kid yourself into thinking you’re sticking it to The Man because The Man don’t roll that way. They’re just gonna be collecting the taxes and passing them on (for a nominal fee) to the government.

   But the republicans got their heels dug in on tax increases. Any kind of tax increases.

   Wasteful, bullshit spending has got to stop. Not get pared back, but stopped cold. Trouble is, there’s a bit of contention over what’s waste and what’s necessary.

   You could argue this until you’re blue in the face and not change any-body’s mind.

   But it was actually His Obamaness who helped me make up my mind. In his press conference yesterday, he talked about people not getting their social security checks and veterans not getting their disability checks.

   

   Yay! Fear, uncertainty and doubt!

   So you know what? I say let it crash. This “too big to fail” crap has got to end somewhere, why not our artificially maintained economy? Not going further into debt is gonna crater the economy?

   Bring it.
   

I’m off tomorrow, so we’ll be a bit tardy, but be sure to tune in because our panel of experts will render their final judgment on the mayo vs miracle whip controversy!