October 1, 2008 by Lance Bugle.

Temecula, Ca - In the days of people knocking down your door to steal your weed under the guise of ‘the law’ here are some tips from our friends at OC Normal.

They have some good ideas. Kinda simple things like don’t sticker your car with ‘legalize it!’ stickers and roll around town smoking fat blunts.

Also bringing weed to a high school is about as dumb a thing to do as I can imagine. If your under 18 you shouldn’t be smokin’ weed anyways. Get a clue, get out of school with a diploma before you start smoking weed. You have your whole long life to puff tuff, be a kid and enjoy school with a clear head.

Hey College Kids, here is the real deal - weed and school don’t mix! Keep your stash at home and keep your mind clear and on the studies so you don’t look like a lazy stereotype druggie. That stereotype is what kills it for the rest of us. I know lots of herb smokers who take care of business and THEN they burn one down. The same deal goes for college.

Anyways, thats my deal for the day. Take it for what it is and learn from this informative guide. In order to read the pic you need to click on the pic.

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October 1, 2008 by Bill Gould, Publisher.

Hey, Hey, Hey-

Sorry this is a bit long. I promise to stop writing about politics when we have intelligent leadership in the US.

A Different Understanding

(I woke up in the middle of the night dreaming I was Barack Obama debating John McCain. During the debate last week, McCain played the elder statesman (very well, actually) and continued to say how (the young) Obama didn’t understand the topics they were discussing. He said, “you don’t understand” 8 or 10 times. These are Obama’s replies I (he) spoke in the dream):

John-

You keep saying I don’t understand.  It’s not that I don’t understand, John.  It’s that I understand it differently than you, and a lot of other Americans understand it differently from you. Let’s just say I have a different understanding. 

You were the first swiftboat victim in the 2000 primary, before it was even called swiftboating. It made me very angry at the time, and gave us all a glimpse of the nastiness to come. Now, some of the people that engineered those lying attacks are working for you. You actually saw this machine work against you in the 2000 primaries because you dared to run against their chosen one.  Still, you associate with them and have taken on most of their ideology since 2000.

Your party has a rotten element that’s been running things for a long time now, and they are taking the party and America over a cliff.  They stand for greed, ruthlessness, and divisiveness. You had a chance to say ‘enough’ in 2004, but you didn’t.  Now you’ve modified your independent ‘maverick’ nature, that we all admired so much, to capitulate to the party line.

Your party has presided over an unprecedented migration of wealth from the middle class to the very wealthy, and now, you agree with the party line that the very wealthy need more tax breaks and welfare.  Look where it’s led us in eight years.  Why should we believe it would lead us to a better place in the next four? Enough welfare for corporations and the wealthiest Americans, already.  We need health care, education, and infrastructure repair.  Why is it that welfare for corporations and the wealthy is good, and health care for all Americans is socialism? How could the John McCain that we love, capitulate to the rotten core of this party? There are moneylenders in the temple, John, and they have been running your party. We can’t fathom a John McCain that has given in to, and supports these influences. We were hoping that the John McCain we used to know would throw the moneylenders out of the Republican Temple.

Your party has cynically and successfully exploited divisive issues again and again to manipulate many decent religious Americans to vote against their better interests.  These folks know in their hearts that there’s a better path for America.  With a new and better understanding, we can work with these people, instead of exploiting and robbing them.

What used to be the party of fiscal responsibility has become the party of greed, divisiveness, and corruption. We are in desperate need of an administration that cares about America and the world and not just about its own interests and power. Thanks to the Republican Party, we are now neither wealthy enough, nor strong enough to control the rest of the world anymore.  That may be a blessing in disguise, though.  I think it’s time we started to work with the rest of the world and treat all people like we would treat ourselves (isn’t there something in the Bible about that?), there is a reason why the rest of the world dislikes us, and most Americans and most good Republicans know it and are ashamed.  It’s time to move over and let some new understanding take the reins and lead us out of this horrible mess the diseased faction of your party has created.

Al Qaeda attacked the country while the president and the Cabinet were meeting to figure out how to attack Iraq without upsetting the public too much.  They had their own agenda and couldn’t be bothered by the warnings coming in.  This was not your fault, but you have supported them, when a word from you might have stopped the madness.  Many of us have looked to you as the conscience of the party.  What happened?  You had your chance before the 2004 election.  You could’ve saved the country; a word from you might have changed the course of that election and given us intelligent leadership instead of the tragedy we have suffered through. I know how bad you want the presidency, but we don’t deserve any more of your diseased party’s vanity, stupidity and greed.  You gave in to your ambition instead of doing what’s right. You made a deal with the devil.  You had your chance to be a real maverick in 2004. You blew it.

George Bush is just starting to sound like a president now that the evil tentacles of the Cheney and Rove party are no longer interested in him. I don’t believe they can control you the way they controlled him, but you haven’t denounced them and driven them out, either. I think George Bush is a decent man, but I think he’ll come to deeply regret allowing certain people with devious agendas to influence his decisions. Now they’ve got their claws around John McCain.  You have sure changed your tune in the last eight years. America, and the rest of the world, can’t take another four years of Republican divisiveness and bullying. We need to start to work with the rest of the world. We need to become the leaders of the world again, not the pariahs of the earth. It’s an ambitious undertaking, but we can do it. Once we get back on our feet financially we need to rebuild our own infrastructure, even more, we need to rebuild our standing in the world.  Contrary to right wing thought, it matters very much.

Now, I know the party line is to label anyone who talks like I’ve been talking unpatriotic.  Actually just the opposite is the truth.  It has been appalling over the last eight years to hear the bereft mothers, retired generals, war heroes, and anyone else who spoke out against the madness called unpatriotic.  I suppose you would have called the signers of the declaration of independence unpatriotic, they were going against their king.  It’s time to change, John.  Your party has been turning the truth upside down for many years now, and most Americans can see through it.

Re: Iraq-

No one has ever stood up to say oops, we screwed it up, sorry.  Getting out of Iraq isn’t admitting defeat; pride has no place in war.  War is nothing more than an unfortunate way to solve a difficult problem.  Ideology has no place.  Ego and bravado has no place, you are playing with people’s lives, John! We need to salvage what dignity we still have and let the Iraqi people vote on whether they want us in there, and abide by the vote.  We may not have got our bad guy, but we got rid of their bad guy.  Now, let ‘em vote on how long we stay.  If they vote go- we are gone.  If they vote stay- we stay a little while longer to help them get control of things better.  However, they’ve got their oil flowing and can afford to fix their own country.  It’s too hard for us to do it with them shooting at us and blowing us up.  What was it you guys said about meeting us with flowers and hugs? Anyway, we need our money at home.

Re: meetings with abrasive world leaders-

Regarding these leaders I propose to meet with and talk to, and causes your campaign to claim I am naïve, I believe we need to know our enemies, if they are enemies indeed.  The Cold War is over; we need to talk to people. It’s time for America to be a part of the world, not the 800-pound gorilla that folks hate and fear. I think a lot of our problems with our neighbors in the world are due to the insensitivity and the bullying of our leaders.  I think that with intelligent leadership, a lot of our problems will look different.  Some of these leaders that are giving the current administration such a hard time might be people you can actually talk to, just responding to our bad leadership and manners in a predictable way. I seem to remember the old John McCain talking to power in a similar way. It’s pretty obvious that your party’s hard line to the rest of the world hasn’t been successful. Hard-line responses are easy enough to do if they’re necessary as a last resort. It’s time for a new understanding.

Re: Georgia and Russia-

I’ll get the most knowledgeable people on the subject to help me decide what to do.  I’ll approach the problem as an honest problem and not decide it with bluster and idiotic sound bites.  I’ll get intelligent and nonpartisan people to look at the problem with me, including Russians and Georgians- duh!  It won’t be decided the way your party has made decisions the last eight years, in back rooms by party ideologues who have no clue, or interest in, what the facts are.  The rest of the world understands how stupid and self-centered many of the last eight years’ decisions have been.  America needs to gain back the higher ground, John.  You and I have a different understanding of how to do that.  We’ve tried yours. We need a new understanding

Re: energy-

These other countries, especially the ones with oil, are going to become world powers. We are going to have to deal with them.  We don’t live in a Cold War vacuum anymore.  They are laughing at our silly threats and saber rattling.  The time is coming when we may not be able to threaten and bully the people that are giving us oil and credit. It may already be here.  America has to change our whole focus on energy if we want to survive as a world leader.  Drilling is fine for a few years to help us get by, but we have to put our American ingenuity to work and develop alternative energy.  Nuclear energy may be another stop-gap measure, but its use creates dangerous toxic material that even after all these years, we have not found a fully secure way to dispose of, not to mention that it can be used to blow us up.  The sun and wind don’t create toxic material that is deadly for 25,000 years, or that can be used as a weapon. Yup, new understanding

How can it be that anywhere you go in the world, even in Canada, when you say you’re an American, people roll their eyes back and sigh. How could you let this happen?  Shame.  America is in trouble.  Self-serving and ideological leadership has caused it.  It’d be nice if you could take over and fix all these problems; these deep, deep problems are in the core of the party.  Over the last eight years, though, you’ve abandoned virtually all of your resistance to the party line.  The party is diseased; it needs the John McCain of eight years ago, before he changed his tune.  There are a lot of good people in the party, but right now it needs to be relieved from service; it needs surgery; it needs rehabilitation; it needs someone to exorcise the Cheneys and Roves and their ilk so it can become a useful part of government again.  If you don’t see the sickness in the party, you couldn’t possibly lead America.  We have watched you go over to the dark side in order to get elected.  How could we possibly trust you to change things?

Your campaign loves to ridicule the way I speak and the fact that I write books.  Are you saying that folks that don’t speak clearly and write and think should run America?  Hasn’t the last eight years been a reasonably decent experiment on that premise?  I’m not saying that I know everything; I just know that America has been on the wrong track and I know that you might’ve been able to change the tide in 2004 and you didn’t do it, you toed the party line. You had your chance; your ambition overcame your good judgment.  You left your credibility back with your integrity somewhere in the last 8 years. So much for the maverick, it’s time for a new understanding.

Steve Lester

JAMS newsletter

9/30/2008

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