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What is the purpose of the War on Drugs?
Is it to reduce competition with Big Pharma and the tobacco and alcohol industries?
Perhaps it is so banksters can enrich themselves laundering drug money to decrease their dependency on taxpayer bailouts?
Or maybe it is an opportunity to provide jobs in the ever expanding police state, the military/mercenary industries and Homeland Security?
Could it be a creative way to intensify class war by creating a criminal class of the underfed and unwashed dependent on the drug trade for survival?

Many times I have compared my advocating enhancements of Bend's public transportation to that of eating soup with a fork.
BAT's fixed routes started out with unworkable schedules. It was not until nine months after my lone voice pointed out that fact before workable schedules were adopted. Not nine days. Not nine weeks. But nine months, three quarters of a year.
2010 has been proclaimed THE YEAR OF THE VOLUNTEER. But so far, my lone voice of advocating has not resulted in Sunday being recognized as important enough for fixed-route public transit.

Conservative doctrine has gotten this place, Earth, into one vat of trouble after another. Some believe humans are a crisis species. That's bullshit. Conservative policies are consistently to blame. Old-school religious, sociological, economic and political agendas advocate elitism, racial bigotry, sexual bias, a lack of education, the blatant disregard of science and the advancement of violence. There is a growing difference between the rich and the poor. Religion has taught not tolerance but open hostility between rival factions. Food, water and medicine shortages are the norm on this planet. The depletion of the ozone layer, a global warming spell, biodiversity losses, deforestation, habitat fragmentation, desertification – conservatives have led us into an ecological nightmare. Liberals have been put aside for too long.

[I] Read your diatribe about Goldman Sachs. In it, you failed to mention that G.S. contributed almost one million dollars to B.O.'s presidential election campaign and about $4.5 million to the Democrats. The only way I can figure that this slipped by you is that you choose to be very imbalanced in your reporting. Oh, B.O. has refused to return the money, as have the Dems.