For a lack of better words… This really pissed me off.

Watch this video. Warning it is very very disturbing.
Columbia Mo. police shoots family pets

There’s not really much that i can say about how horrible this video is.

This video is from 2/11/2010. In the video you can very clearly hear the cops fire several shots at the family dogs a corgi and a pitt bull that was in a cage when it was shot (the police claimed the dogs were a threat to the officers). This poor family seems just like any other family they seem very non-violent probably have normal jobs and are probably great parents to their child. It’s very unfortunate that this family was forced to go under this kind of treatment for what what they do in the privacy of their own home. The police raided this place bacause they believed that they were taking out one of the top drug dealers in Columbia Mo. In the end they only found enough MJ to charge the guy with a misdemeanor for possesion of maurijuana and also charged him with child endangerment. From the video it seems like the police have endangered this child by firing weapons in their house more than the parents could have ever endangered their child by smoking pot after he went to sleep for the night.

My entire life i’ve always heard claims that the US is the freest country in the world and Americans have more rights than any other people in the world. This video just shows how wrong all of those statement are. This kind of treatment of American citizens (any citizen of any nation because this is a basic human rights issue) has to end.

A Chinese-Turkish evangelical group Noah’s Ark Ministries International has claimed to have found Noah’s ark on the Turkish Mt. Ararat. The evangelical group who is leading the expedition have claimed that they are 99.99% sure that this is the real ark that housed Noah his family and a wide range of animals (dinosaurs included according to the Answers in Genesis’ Creation Museum).

Researchers who have studied this region for decades are saying that we need to have extremely cautious skepticism about this claim.

“You have to take everything out of context except the Bible to get something tolerable, and they’re not even working much with the Bible,” say’s Paul Zimansky. Paul is an an archaeologist at Stony Brook university who specializes in the area around Mt. Ararat.

The team leading the expedition Noah’s Ark Ministries International found wood compartments in a cave at the 14,700 foot level of Mt. Ararat. Along with the wood compartments they found straw inside these compartments. This is being shown as evidence that the compartments had housed animals at one point in time. Could it be possible that what the team found was nothing more than dwelling unit for just a regular person who just happened to reside on Mt Ararat about 1400 years ago? Paul Zimansky has shown that he is doubtful about this discovery. “It’s not inconceivable to me that they’ve found pieces of wood at that level, but that doesn’t mean they’ve found an ark,”.

The team has said that carbon dating done on the wood found at the site have dated it to being from 4,800 years ago, the approximate time that Noah is said to have built the ark. However, there has been doubt about how accurate the carbon dating process was since the team has not released who did the dating or any other relevant info. Recent dating on wood found in the area around where the “ark” was found have dated the wood to 1400 years ago. Much more recent than the 4800 years needed to show that it is from the same time period as the ark.

There is also a lack of evidence for there ever being a flood that could possibly get the ark to the 14,700 level where the wood was found. In fact there is not enough water on the surface of the planet to get an ark to this level.

The biggest problem with this is that the people who are claiming to have found the ark already have an anwer and they are now looking for the evidence to support it. This will often times lead to research teams making the evidence fit their claim with out proper testing and data. The truth is these researcher have made an extraordinary discovery in the fact they have possibly found a part in our history. The sad part about this is that they are trying to immediatly decide what they have found is Noah’s ark. Had an indepented researcher strolled upon this before NAMI we would have seen that they would have searched through the evidence and then found out exactly what they had found before making the press release. Most likely what we have here is simply an old dwelling on the mountain side since this is a very common discovery. Hopefully a real research team can take over this site to do their own research and give us the truth about what this is.

Thought i would share a response that i recieved from my congressman regarding my support for HR 2943.

The bill still shows to be in committee even after almost a year. It’s time that our elected officials start taking action on this issue!

You can read the text of the bill here. HR 2943

If you too would like to share your support of this bill or any future reform bills then click here and send a message to you elected officials!

“Thank you for contacting me regarding the legalization of marijuana. I appreciate hearing from you on this important matter.

The United States is fighting a costly war against drugs, in terms of dollars and lives that are irrevocably changed by this modern day scourge. It is my opinion that any legalization of substances such as marijuana will undermine the ongoing efforts by the drug enforcement community to curb this epidemic that has consumed so many Americans. Marijuana is a controlled substance and legalizing or relaxing criminal penalties will only open the doors for further illegal activities.

I will continue to support efforts on the part of the federal government to interdict drug shipments into the United States, pursue individuals that violate U.S. drug laws, provide adequate treatment to individuals addicted to drugs, and support public education campaigns that warn against the perils of illegal drug use. The federal, state, and local governments must work together on all these fronts to slow the flow of drugs into the U.S. and to lower the demand in this country for illegal substances.

Again, thank you for taking time to contact me. I appreciate having the opportunity to represent you in the U.S. House of Representatives. Please feel free to visit my website (www.house.gov/XXXXXXX) or contact me with any future concerns.

Sincerely,

XXXXX XXXXX.
Member of Congress”

Thought i would share my response to a blog posted by Paul Armentno of NORML.org that was posted at thehill.com you can find it here

Please leave comments on the blog at thehill.com to tell lawmakers how you feel about this issue.

Here it is…

It almost seems as though the US government likes to keep putting billions of US dollars in the hands of foreign and violent drug cartels because the government has taken absolutely no action to do otherwise. If we were to have a system in place to tax and regulate marijuana use by responsible adults we would effectively put the drug cartels out of business and we would keep the billions of dollars that are spent in the drug trade in the US market. This would effectively add another billion dollar industry to the US economy and help get our national debt back down to a manageable level via a sales tax on the purchase of marijuana (not to mention the tax money that we would save from not placing non violent offenders in prisons and arresting 1 marijuana smoker every 18 seconds in the US keep in mind that it cost $25,000 to keep 1 person in prison for year).This would create more revenue to help pay for better parks, better education systems, better health care for all Americans, and better homeland security and a better overall economy and job market, we could even begin to lower that 14 trillion dollar national debt.

It’s time that the US gov learns that most (if not all) of the problems with marijuana use stems from prohibition itself. The violence that we are told marijuana creates… Prohibition is the cause. The dangers of not knowing what chemicals could be added to marijuana… Prohibition is the cause since there are no federal mandates on what can go in/on marijuana. Minors having easier access to marijuana than tobacco and alcohol… Prohibition is the cause there again there are no federal mandates regulating the sale of marijuana to responsible adults drug dealers don’t check ID’s except in the states that allow medical use of marijuana. If we were to have federal regulation on marijuana we would effectively eliminate all of these problems and more.

Marijuana is essentially harmless to the user and there have been thousands of peer reviewed scientific research paper written on the subject. Marijuana does not kill, it does not cause addiction, and there are relatively few negative impacts that it’s use can have on the human body. Compare this to the result of tobacco use and alcohol use and you’ll wonder why this nation allows the legal consumption of these products. Tobacco use is responsible for over 400,000 death every year and alcohol comes in at 50,000. Why is our government so set on keeping this illegal and telling the public that “marijuana is dangerous” while we can go to the gas station and buy a product that has been proven to be extremely lethal?

It is truly amazing to me from reading the comments on this page to see such a huge agreement on this issue i believe i only saw 1 negative comment about the legalization of marijuana out of the almost 300 comments posted! This goes to show that our government has that support of the people to legalize marijuana use and will not have any political backlash from doing so.

There is really no point to continue 73 years of failed public policy. End this prohibition it’s what the American public wants.