it's cartoon villains all the way down

just published:

Ben Carson’s HUD, Planning Cuts, Spends $31,000 on Dining Set for His Office

Department of Housing and Urban Development officials spent $31,000 on a new dining room set for Secretary Ben Carson’s office in late 2017 — just as the White House circulated its plans to slash HUD’s programs for the homeless, elderly and poor, according to federal procurement records.

The purchase of the custom hardwood table, chairs and hutch came a month after a top agency staff member filed a whistle-blower complaint charging Mr. Carson’s wife, Candy Carson, with pressuring department officials to find money for the expensive redecoration of his offices, even if it meant circumventing the law.

What a piece of ****. Here's how Ben Carson feels about compassion when it's about him and not some nameless poor person: Carson's HUD skirts the law, spends $31,000 on a new dining set for his office

Good job of disguising what is surely an article from the Onion!

This Georgia state senator is claiming that “members” of Planned Parenthood get discounts from Delta and he knows because he googled it. These people are literally creating their own reality



https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/968585581499428865

And well over 90% of Planned Parenthood's activity is performing abortions

I recently read some of the old threads on this forum about how libertarians make friends with their civil war takes (forgot the exact thread name but it was hilarious) and today I see this article. LOL



https://twitter.com/catoinstitute/st...11024497602560

cbs reporting on new med marijuana study that says it neither prompts teens to try the drug, nor does it help reduce opioid deaths

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I think both those numbers are way off. More like 50/30.

I would like to see that study because I don’t believe it.

Some of the recreational states have seen opioid deaths drop significantly.

We all know that providing people aw refuge where they might feel a little safe and comfortable a few hours a day spells doom for them contributing to society.

It is why I am demanding Carson be forced to sleep in a drawer in his new desk while a street artist attempts to run swords through the desk without stabbing him.

I would argue that providing people with a small refugee for people to escape and relax for a short time every day pretty much dooms them to failure.

^ This is good.

The study in question is on medical, not recreational, marijuana. There's a review here from the journal Addiction. Briefly, the evidence that medical marijuana has helped is all from ecological studies, which often have problems with confounding variables. For instance, one thing that apparently no study controls for is the political environment. States without medical marijuana are also more likely to jail opioid users, which previous studies show sharply increases overdose risk after release. There are also studies showing that medical marijuana doesn't by itself reduce opioid usage:

The recent study is summarized here. Medical marijuana did appear to cause a reduction in overdose deaths immediately, but the effect seems to have disappeared over time. The study authors speculate that tighter regulation of dispensaries may have caused this, but they don't know. It's possible that recreational marijuana will bring the effect back by making it easier to access, or maybe what's required is a substitute recreational drug, rather than a substitute painkiller, and recreational weed will help via that avenue. For the moment nobody knows.

former medical grower weighing in here:

somebody who is controlling chronic pain via opiates might be incentivized to give up the pills for some legal weed instead, but this is also NOT the kind of person who is likely to ever overdose on opiates. the hardcore addicts are the ones who are at risk of suffering overdose deaths, and basically all of them aren't using to control pain anymore, they're just using to get high/numb. it seems like quite a stretch to me that they're going to swap out their opiates for some legal weed because...reasons. the drugs aren't really in the same ballpark wrt the psychoactive effect.

tl;dr- i doubt that legal weed anywhere is going to significantly reduce opiate overdose deaths.

There is some evidence that marijuana can relieve symptoms of opiate withdrawal.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/875431

marijuana can provide tremendous gastrointestinal relief and can be a mild to moderate pain reliever so yea, makes sense. some strains would for sure work better than others (heavy indicas/afghanicas like granddaddy purple and various types of kush come to mind).

Yeah, like we have weed here in Ohio. People with serious chronic pain aren't gonna choose weed over street opioids.

It's just impossible to keep up with all the scumbaggery.

Carson: $31k table for his office while telling poors to **** off and die
Mnuchin: private air travel for he and his skank wife to watch the eclipse after making millions on foreclosures and making people homeless
Pruitt: private air travel and a custom phone booth in his office so he doesn't have to talk to actual people or have anyone hear him plot to destroy the environment
Tom Price (rest in misery): private air travel while trying to take away health insurance and kill people

Jeff Session!
Wilbur Ross!
Betsy DeVos!
Rick Perry!!!!!!

It has to be a simulation

I wonder if the people alive during the previous most corrupt administration in US history thought they were living in a simulation on a frequent basis

From Chiefsplanet:

JFC I could not imagine living my life being so disconnected from reality.

Great article today on The Intercept* about how American poors routinely get thrown in prison for being in debt. Even though debtor's prisons were ostensibly banned in 1833. Not just for Dickens any more!

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/28/...t-aclu-report/

*sponsored by PUTIN

Maybe think about whether you can afford it before taking a joy ride in an ambulance?

Rara informed us he'd turn down life-saving care if he didn't have the money. It's called personal responsibility people. Wake up and sniff it.

Ha ha yeah just like how Trump would have run in unarmed and confronted the HS shooter.

Cowardly and untruthful chicken **** chicken hawks.

next time call Lyft