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Obama Admin Does Something Right!

LA Times:

The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors today.

Two Justice Department officials described the policy to the Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state laws.

Good boy. *patpat*

Stick It

Von is sad about the slow demise of manual transmissions. I am, too. But only a little.

My first car was a manual. My father bought it for me when i came home from college on a t-giving break. He picked me up at the Albany train station, and said "This [this beetle-green Hyundai Excel] is your car! I'll drive to the Northway (aka I87), and then you can take it from there". I'd driven motorcycles before, so I knew what I had to do, but I'd never driven a stick-shift car. Still, here's no better teacher than necessity, so, I learned how to drive manual in 70mph traffic - to make it even more challenging, I wasn't allowed to go more than 55mph because this was the car's first day out, and we Had To Obey The Manual which explicitly said we shouldn't exceed 55mph for the first 500 miles.

While I was there, I took my brother for a drive and, embarrassingly, stalled many times at stop signs and such. Ugh. But after a week of driving around my home town, it was time to go back to school.

It was on the way, so I stopped in Syracuse to see my mother and sisters. She was living up near S.U., at the time. S.U. is on a hill. Because it's Syracuse, there was snow the night before, which melted, and then refroze by the time I got into town. And when I started up the hill to her place, I caught a red light on a steep, black-icy, side street. Of course there was a car behind me. And of course the ice was so slick I was sliding backwards just waiting for the light. And when that light changed. I stepped on the gas, popped the clutch, and that little Hyundai screamed it's skinny little tires on the ice - and the car in back of me eased back away from me - until they dug through and caught pavement and we went rocketing up the hill like a cheap teal demon - bug-eyed and white-knuckled, screaming and trembling.

Good times!

Also, Animals is better than The Final Cut.

Armageddon Days Are Here Again

This song came out 88ish.

The words haven't yet stopped being topical.

They're 5 miles high as the crow flies
leavin' vapour trails against a blood red sky
Movin' in from the East toward the West
with Balaclava helmets over their heads, yes!

But if you think that Jesus Christ is coming
Honey you've got another thing coming
If he ever finds out who's hi-jacked his name
He'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave

Islam is rising
The Christians mobilising
The world is on its elbows and knees
It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

It's war, she cried, It's war, she cried, this is war
Drop your possessions, all you simple folk
You will fight them on the beaches in your underclothes
You will thank the good lord for raising the union jack
You'll watch the ships sail out of harbour
and the bodies come floating back

If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today
He'd be gunned down cold by the C.I.A.
Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass
Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart
But God didn't build himself that throne
God doesn't live in Israel or Rome
God doesn’t belong to the Yankee dollar
God doesn't plant the bombs for Hezbollah
God doesn't even go to church
And God won't send us down to Allah to burn
No, God will remind us what we already know
That the human race is about to reap what it's sown

The world is on its elbows and knees
It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds
Armageddon days are here again

Good times! Forever!