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Rep Retirement Lodge 118: BoredboredboredBORED

Rep Retirement Lodge 118: BoredboredboredBORED

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It's a good thing "I'm too cheap to go to them" was added to the "no good movies out" poll option. I can think of two excellent movies in the theater right now (though one I haven't seen yet).

So, the move is going well. 'Ewe's brother was a huge help, as was my buddy and his pickup truck. Feels good to not be doing anything for a moment, but I should get some more work done.
 
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40 minutes left to work... gotta not burn that vacation time :rolleyes:
 
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Good Evening, Lodge!

The flyer/brochure that has only taken 2 and a half weeks to finish is complete. If people would get their * together,it would have been done in a week. Next project: company website. That is just a disaster in the making. Sorry legal, this beer is well deserved. :o
 
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Still 16 work-hours until my "weekend". :o

Evening, Lodge. We could do some tasty stuff with Gonzo's stewing birds, I think (chicken pot pie, chicken & dumplings, chicken noodle soup)... and heck, they'd probably make some decent Buffalo wings. :D
 
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Coq au vin, if he's feeling fancy-schmancy. :p

Technically it calls for a tough old rooster, but usually you can sub a stewing hen.
 
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Left work at 8... Had to wait 25 minutes for a train... Still not home... Is it Friday?
 
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Painted_Bandit said:
For how much my a55 is dragging right now, it sure doesnt feel like it.
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This.

It was a 2 Monster day, and I'm still dragging arse. At least some of us at work had a Team Building Exercise at the local Broadway Pizza (who still don't have Premo on tap; that's blasphemy for a Broadway Pizza).
 
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One pizza down... could eat another... wish it had more toppings... should have thrown a whole pig on the thing for god sakes but the pizza place sucks.
 
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Gonzo said:
ASaaG - Saw this link from the Denver Post on another web site and wanted to send kudo's to your home town news.

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

Anyone with an old soul (like me) will enjoy these images.
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Definitely an awesome site.

Even an old young'n (like me) enjoys photos of Americana. One of my favorite books I have is: Life: A Century Of Change. Pretty thick book of pictures of Americana from 1900-2000, obviously with summaries and such. Awesome to see the changes in this 100 year period.
 
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Gonzo said:
I mostly agree with what you have listed, but you didn't touch on the reduction in law enforcement, courts and incarceration costs due to nobody getting thrown in the stony lonesome for smoking weed (unless they were operating a motor vehicle or other activities where you need to be alert)
Still, it's a step in the right direction IMO.
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Lower incarceration rates/judicial costs would be offset by the costs necessary to regulate its production (don't want the producers putting bad things in their products just like with anything else). FDA would almost certainly be the regulatory agency watching over that process. The point in all of this is that no tax is pure profit for the government as long as there's administrative/regulatory issues to deal with in regard to its implementation/enforcement. Legalizing and taxing weed would be a net gain in revenue for sure, but it wouldn't be substantial enough to offset our idiotic overspending at the national level.

I think where it would make the biggest difference is at the local level - cities such as Oakland are looking to rake in tens of millions of dollars annually by taxing medical marijuana production and consumption. That number will certainly climb should the state legalize it this fall for recreational use.

As somebody with a bit of a libertarian slant, I fully agree with legalizing and taxing it. If we have alcohol and tobacco legal with all the associated health problems and societal costs involved with those things, there's no reason whatsoever not to have weed legal as well. The long-term concern with that however is we could end up with future lawsuits filed by users who develop lung cancer / other ailments from chronic use. Should it be legalized, hopefully steps are taken to insulate producers from that so lawyers don't get another payday in 20 years.
 
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Bakunin said:
Lower incarceration rates/judicial costs would be offset by the costs necessary to regulate its production (don't want the producers putting bad things in their products just like with anything else). FDA would almost certainly be the regulatory agency watching over that process. The point in all of this is that no tax is pure profit for the government as long as there's administrative/regulatory issues to deal with in regard to its implementation/enforcement. Legalizing and taxing weed would be a net gain in revenue for sure, but it wouldn't be substantial enough to offset our idiotic overspending at the national level.

I think where it would make the biggest difference is at the local level - cities such as Oakland are looking to rake in tens of millions of dollars annually by taxing medical marijuana production and consumption. That number will certainly climb should the state legalize it this fall for recreational use.

As somebody with a bit of a libertarian slant, I fully agree with legalizing and taxing it. If we have alcohol and tobacco legal with all the associated health problems and societal costs involved with those things, there's no reason whatsoever not to have weed legal as well. The long-term concern with that however is we could end up with future lawsuits filed by users who develop lung cancer / other ailments from chronic use. Should it be legalized, hopefully steps are taken to insulate producers from that so lawyers don't get another payday in 20 years.
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That would be pretty difficult to prove in court, given the massive "War Against Drugs" effort and such. It wasn't like the cig companies or booze companies hiding things. The drug business has been hammered on for the past 3+ decades. The risks are known.
 
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Brenthoven said:
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That would be pretty difficult to prove in court, given the massive "War Against Drugs" effort and such. It wasn't like the cig companies or booze companies hiding things. The drug business has been hammered on for the past 3+ decades. The risks are known.
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Weren't at least some of the smokers involved in the class action suits people who started *after* the surgeon general warning was slapped on all tobacco products in the '60s? I think a good lawyer could still find a sympathetic jury somewhere to slap a judgment against a weed producer for selling an addictive harmful product - which is why it's up to legislators - should this become legal - to specifically protect the industry from liability *unless* something else happens that is proven in court to be harmful (i.e. some additive in the manufacturing process causes problems).

BTW, Sharapova and Dementieva are playing on the deuce. :D
 
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Bakunin said:
Weren't at least some of the smokers involved in the class action suits people who started *after* the surgeon general warning was slapped on all tobacco products in the '60s? I think a good lawyer could still find a sympathetic jury somewhere to slap a judgment against a weed producer for selling an addictive harmful product - which is why it's up to legislators - should this become legal - to specifically protect the industry from liability *unless* something else happens that is proven in court to be harmful (i.e. some additive in the manufacturing process causes problems).

BTW, Sharapova and Dementieva are playing on the deuce. :D
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You can slap warnings on there, but unless it's proven in court, it is worthless.

And FTR, I think the suers of tobacco should burn in hell. They knew. C'mon. You inhaled the smoke of something that was on fire. How can that not be unhealthy? I'm just sayin'.
 
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