I don't know. Samsung is known to throw shit at the wall to see if something sticks w/ phones, maybe they doing it w/ TVs now.

All the makers were kinda let down that no one gave a shit about 3d TVs, so they could be trying again.

Stop it.

He's right.

Police and prison employee unions have lobbies to fight for stricter penalties to minor crimes across the board.

Why can't we outsource prisons to countries where they are cheaper to run, like we do with manufacturing and call centers? Why house 25-lifers here, if we could set up prisons to our standards in Asia, Africa or South America.

Say a guy is sentenced to 40yrs for a couple rapes. Tell him he can serve 30yrs in China, or 20 if he stays there when he is released.

Fuck this cocksucking, motherfucking, bullshit baseball instant replay. You just overturned the best catch I've ever seen for no reason whatsoever other than the ball was hit by Albert Pujols so it must be a base hit reasoning. Fuck you in the ass with a broken Alex Gordon baseball bat whichever one of you blind, incompetent bozos in New York that overturned that. To make it worse your bullshit call just gave the Angels a run. I'm a goddamned Royals fan. My life is hard enough without you pricks making calls like that.

16 year old girl goes off on mom for fucking her 16 y/o boyfriend.

I know. I just don't care. It's not working. I get it. But I don't care. It's no worse than any other government program. So who cares?

Sob sisters would be on the news daily wailing about how terrible it is. 24/ 7 coverage. I'd love to see it.

Awesome. So when they come for you, I can have whatever they don't confiscate, yes?

Thanks, Brah.

I agree. I like watching baseball but games are already three hours long. Stop the play reviews.

I'm sure "they" are just chomping at the bit to come for me. Bummer that folks can't wrangle up the same passion for protecting school kids or the eldery as they do for cons.

Oh, man, that's Tritone-level lazy.

Because I'm not storming the walls with a broken bourbon bottle over privatized prison not working? Please.

Even lazier. (Also a waste of good booze).

not taking a side because i think the respective states should be able to use the incarcerated as slave labor and relieve the tax burden. privatized prisons serve no purpose other than boosting some equation on the stock market and/or benefiting senator so and so in their next run for office.

at the same time there's a ton of people serving ridiculous sentences for drug crimes. see the real rick ross for a fucken mind bomb. either vice or rogan..they're both good.

@barry. it's a fucken pisser we can't manage decent healthcare or education at this point on the curve. it really is. maybe next time.

Exactly. Nobody's putting the rights of criminals above the elderly and nobody's storming the Bastille with bourbon bottles over it and to inject those bugaboos into the mix is a lazy way to avoid defending a weak argument.

The only right that needs protecting here is the right to not be locked up for something that shouldn't be illegal in the first place so some connected cocksucker can make a buck and bill the taxpayer more for the privilege to boot.

I don't disagree with any of that, except to say that I think we give too much credence to this idea that prisons are full of dudes busted for smoking pot. If that were the case I figure there'd be fewer shankings and rapes.

I guess my thing is it's hard to get outraged over everything that's fucked up. For whatever reason, this is low on my radar. That's lazy life.

I just ordered a Lebanese cafe. It's empty and twenty minutes later, I'm still sitting here. How long does it take to make a salad, people?

Jesus fuck. They spent all that time heating up pita bread and over cooking my falafel though I told them no bread please.

^ Yup. Which brings us to the next point:



This assumes that there's enough pot in prison, public or private, to mellow them out. Clearly, there's not. Too hard to smuggle inside in sufficient quantity and too easily detected.




You keep going on about folks being outraged and brandishing broken booze bottles and the like, and no one's doing any of these things. It's like you've become so used to saying "Yes Sir", or "Jawowl", or "Da, Tovarich" to the plutocrats that you conflate even the simplest disagreement with the inane crap Cheesypoofs spews.

Intentionally or not, you've XPT's de facto Minister of Marijuana. You can't seriously expect people not to give you shit when you say that folks blocking legalization for their own profit is low on your radar. That's like a Black fellow (not Tritone, an actual Black fellow) saying the same about racial profiling.

BTW: Not picking on Barry. Privatization's a bad idea in other areas as well. It's not limited to prisons, and Democrats aren't immune, either:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/26/opinion/mr-schumer-backs-a-bad-old-idea.html

Only mentioned the broken bourbon bottle once this decade. I feel the way I feel and it's a shoot. And I'm sure you're right. I've gotten way too used to saying "yes, sir". Maybe that's why I can't conjure up outrage, or even anything beyond barely caring...if you prefer. I'm not clinging desperately to some deeply held belief in privitization of prisons, other than the state run system isn't working either.

As for them fighting the weed legalization thing, again, I just don't care. There are bigger fish to fry in my own back yard as far as that goes. If that means I get shit from you for not thinking globally, that's what it means.

i knew what you meant and where you come from. rapists and murderers deserve what they get. in my world they get shipped to china, china sends us the bill for the bullet. fair enough, yes?.

however.. federal drug sentencing laws are questionable at best. excluding pot dealers(or any dealers) most of these people are addicts and that makes them no different than alcoholics. and that's a disease where a judge sends you to a 12 step program on your first and second offense that makes you bend your will to god or a higher power. so basically, the federal gov't endorses Christianity and/or the belief in aliens to fix yourself or else. this might just be me though.

I'm down with sending them to China or wherever the fuck. Or going back to the days when Angola meant hot, wet and a shit ton of work.

If you're addiction is to the point that the Feds are looking at you, you're way the fuck off the rails.

Not all rehab is 12 Step based. Actually, there seems to be quite a cottage industry that doesn't subscribe to the whole "junkie forever" philosophy of 12 Step. I'm sure at the end of the day where the judge sends you to has less to do with a Higher Power thing than it does to a higher kickback thing. Yeah, I saw that Swoosie Kurtz ep of Law and Order: SVU.

missed the swoosie ep. All I'm saying. You get a dui, you get sentenced to counseling. That's aa. aa is all about the higher power.

so in effect the state has sentenced you to religion or a version thereof. Wrong wrong wrong. Burn it down dude. down to the ground.

we'll move on to hemp laws soon. Stay tuned.

I didn't get sent to AA when I got a DUI. It was 20yrs ago though. I knew people who got sent, but they didn't lie during the Itoxicated Driver Resource Center classes.

just catching up with this... the cottage industry is called ibogaine.
that shit will fix whatever you got going on.

you probably didn't get sent to an asseaters anonymous class either.

Heaven forbid.

There's a place down in Seattle that runs ads for their clinic on the local radio up here. The Schick Shadel clinic. They do a counter conditioning type treatment which is designed to create an aversion to your favorite vice.

For alcohol, they give you syrup of Ipecac and some IV injection to make your body reject alcohol. Then they make you drink a number of drinks and puke everything back up. Each session, they make you drink more alcohol to make you throw up more and more.

The current train wreck I've been seeing has been to this clinic, so I need to ask her what it was like for her. I think she went for a coke addiction. My problem with the ads for the place is that the owner/spokesperson is some former musician guy named Pat O'Day and he sounds like he's still drunk in the radio ads.

I've often wondered at what point in an alcoholics life do they pass the threshold to where they sound drunk even when they're sober. And do they know they sound drunk? Because drunk people usually can't tell when they start to slur their words.

Schick Shadel has been around forever in Seattle. They used to run ads on KSTW when I was little. Pat O'Day sounds really familiar. For some reason I remember him an old Seattle radio staple. Googled him. He was Seattle's version of Rick Dees. Big drunk.

Sounds like a division of Upstairs Medical College.

Not sure if Ibogaine is the cure-all it's proponents claim it to be, but it has to be better than the twelve step shit. Those fuckers thrive on replacing substance with shame and in doing so they miss the point. Nobody drinks or does drugs to feel bad about themselves.

boom. that's truth.

ibogaine and it's close friend ayahuasca(Dimethyltryptamine..dmt) seem to offer a reset for those with issues and or addictions. will you or should you kick pot or booze?. that's up to you. if smack is your thing and you're living in refrigerator box then maybe suck enough dicks to go to peru and get right with the jungle god.

hunter s thompson drop at the start here..

Dmt sounds scary. No thanks.

Depends on the person. 12 Step works for people. Does it replace one addiction? I suppose so. That doesn't mean that it doesn't work. There's no such thing as a cure all because everyone's different.

exactly. and forget the cure. that's not really what its about.

it's about giving up control to an actual higher power which is the basis for every half assed religion and program. [1]god is inside you. how could god not be inside you when you're the most advanced species?. it's too easy. use the organic chemicals of the environment we're bound to. then expand. beyond that, don't be a cunt and ruin it for everyone else.

@barry. the edibles/pot. fucken beautiful. better than booze. like booze it's easy to go too deep but when you hit that certain level...unstoppable.


[1] the god inside you would be a higher power. anything that inserted itself into a more basic society(example...spanish/aztecs)would be a god. there is no big man in the sky. jesus was a dick slinger but so is david blaine. as base level perverts we know this but this is the internet and some fucken dummy will come along and waste my time.

Sure, religion makes no sense. I don't think it's supposed to. Faith and all that. But what skin is it off my balls if someone believes? If it works for them, more power to them. Of course 12 step steals from it. Every self help movement does to some extent, because religion is powerful joojoo. And parts of it are going to conflict. Philosophies do that. It just is.

I couldn't think of a more republican thing you could say. "I don't care if it's true, I just don't believe it" Keep nurturing your inner fascist.

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You don't seem how to grasp how easy it is to get arrested in the United States. Or play false naivety, or it's more of your smirking bullshit. I hope you get locked up a long time for a little weed and end up with a robotic omni consumer products cock jammed firmly up your ass and down your throat.

Sushi shits: Terrible.

I got one of them FBI moneypak viruses. Hijacks computer, wont let me log into widows with normal profile, restricts access to files and apps, shuts down all the anti virus stuff. I tried to restore from Safe Mode and that got cock blocked. 2 days later and I dont even have restore points.

Got one scan to go all the way through, twice and both times it deleted the same 6 things, so that aint working.

Tech support from New Delhi got me to create a new admin profile for windows, but everytime I try to run, delete or access anything w/ that it asks for my original profile's PW and cock blocks it.

I got it in safe mode and trying to off load some files, mostly videos of the kid, to an external. 38gb of video going to take 16hrs. This sucks. What makes it worse is a 7 year old sitting next to me asking if it is fixed yet and whining that he cant use the computer.

Once this is all done, I think i'm gonna get a lil 120-200gb solid state drive, and just save stuff to externals.

Edit: oh and it either hijacked my wifi router or that happened to die at the same time. Can see the signal, then when phone tries to connect, it says that it is out of range. Gonna buy a router tonight or tomorrow and see what it up. If new router gets fucked, i'll just return it.

Joe Posnanski on Derek Jeter

(or the unknown pervert on why Posnanski is the best sports writer in the U.S. today)

LOL. "Jeterisation" over the top no doubt. But, hell, TUP, in a city like this, it's pretty hard to find legit heroes of any kind.

And, Posnanski's spot on with this




There's a shitload I could go on about, from the sins of the Steinbrenners, both father and sons, to that fucking A-Roid, to Giuliani and Bloombucks and whether we even needed a new stadium, to that fucking A-Roid,to the entire culture of NYC, to that fucking A-Roid, to sports in general, to that fucking A-Roid, and, well, to that fucking A-Roid. No matter.

In a town as corrupt as this, it's like Jimmy Stewart leaving the building, and, leftie though I am, I don't see anyone in the DeBlasio era filling his shoes. So I have no problem giving The Capitan his victory lap. None whatsoever.

I don't like Posnanski. I used to send him hate emails when he was on SI.com. Can't stand that Verducci either. SI had great football writers in Dr Z, Peter King and Don Banks. I hate the format of King's sub site, so I only read Banks anymore.

In my opinion, to be Captain you have to be the vocal and emotional leader. That was Paul O'Neil and then Jorge Posada.

missed this. don't write it off. you're the right kind of intelligent to go next level. just sayin.

he's straight ripping off john sterling. he's been using "jeterian" forever.

I wish Suzyn Waldman would suck Sterling's blood dry just before being impaled w/ the flying top 1/2 of a broken bat. Can't stand either of them.

I fucken hate her so much.

Lou, I couldn't agree more, but I've seen her try pot and she can't relax into that, so DMT's even less likely.

That's not a slam by any stretch, for whatever pipsqueaks may be perusing. It's just some folks react differently. To each their own.

If Obama wants a 15 point boost in his approval numbers, he hopefully implanted the 5 released Taliban leaders with GPS tracking devices and sends them straight to Allah with a drone strike.