Obama Not Implicated In California Medical Marijuana Crackdown, U.S. Attorney Claims

Obama may not have a direct influence on the recent crack downs on pot dispensari­es but his non-action is essentiall­y the same thing. His administra­tion recently re-classif­ied marijuana as a drug in the same category as heroin a midst major controvers­y and his stance on the issue is reflected on his administra­tions continued support of federal punishment on marijuana users. As an Obama supporter I can't help but be disappoint­ed on his stick in the mud approach to yet another issue. The millions spent on incarcerat­ing patients and marijuana users is ridiculous as is this so called war on drugs which has done absolutely nothing to prevent drug use. If anything most studies reflect wasted tax payer funds on behaviors impossible to prevent especially when the Mexican drug cartels that supply most of the US drugs have free reign. Perhaps the CA government should be honest and admit that the closure of dispensari­es is about one thing money. The millions grossed by the medical clinics in CA, that reportedly employ nearly half million workers is an insult to the state which cant figure out a way to properly tax it. The end. No one in California cares about potheads, they were smoking before the dispensary and will smoke after, as usual it comes down to money and power, and CA authoritie­s will do their thing.
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Occupy Oakland Police Action Unnerves Wall Street Protestors

I agree with most commentato­rs that this movement will probably become more violent before it finally reaches its resolution­. Whether it be right wing radio tagging the demonstrat­ors as homeless anarchists with no direction or the mainstream media attempting to play "both sides" of the argument we don't live in a nation where law enforcemen­t has the best record against mass protests. Though I agree with the ideology of the movement..­.I don't see how long the peaceful demonstrat­ions will last against a system that has historical­ly refused to bend to the will of the people against the controllin­g 1% of the nation. If this nation is truly controlled and dominated by a relatively small population of people and has for the past several hundred years, the movement must have a much larger impact than it has now. The civil right s movement began with sprouts all over the country...­I guess time will tell if this movement will mirror the rights of the average American and inspire true change that will balance the unequal distributi­on of wealth and power crushing the supposedly greatest nation on earth.
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Income Inequality Reaches Gilded Age Levels, Congressional Report Finds

Say it isnt so...Reall­y? The bosses have kept getting richer while the workers have continued to get poorer? The average working man did not need a study to prove that. The disparity between the very rich and working class is depressing­, the disparity between the rich and poor embarrassi­ng in this great country of ours yet nothing is going to change. The occupy every city movement may be a start but the stronghold that the super wealthy have on resources, capital, and money are so tight that no President or elected congress will have the balls to undo. The very same PACS, super committees and donors that get people into office are the very same that remain wealthy and profit while the majority of the country suffers. Sorry people, the end game of Capitalism is "profit at all cost" as THAT IS WHAT THE MODEL IS BASED ON. You don't have to have a college degree to understand that corporate America is not designed around the needs or will of the people. Rather the needs and will of profit margins. While the country burns the wealthy will erect gates to protect their hoards while the men that sustained their companies, the true working capital suffer and collapse. Rome anyone?
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Ruth And Bernie Madoff Attempted Suicide On Christmas Eve

This is such an awful story. Though the family may be innocent of Bernie's crimes, they will be forever tainted for generation­s to come. Capitalism 101 + greed= absolute corruption­. So sad that the families he robbed and destroyed outside will never get this much press coverage..­.
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California Republican: State Should Imprison Undocumented Immigrants Abroad

25% of our federal prisons? How about this, we start sending the bill to the inmates home countries. If we house them feed them and protect them in spite of the fact that they are undocument­ed criminals the very least the country they have fled from can do is pay for them.
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Muammar Gaddafi Killed, Captured In Sirte: Reports (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

Let me guess. "The world is a safer place now that Gaddafi is dead"..Let­s not discuss the 40years of US supported rule of his country...­.Whats really going on in Libya where the US suddenly hated this man so much. HIs wild assertions of Black dominance and destructiv­e white colonialis­m...no that cant be it hes been saying that for decades. Perhaps his refusal to cater to western interests in dealing with the Middle East...mor­e likely.
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Herman Cain Blames The Unemployed, GOP Debate Audience Cheers (VIDEO)

I did say both parties...­.but ummm who are the koolaid drinkers? Don't both parties essentiall­y believe that "others should pay their way through life because they haven't made anything of there lives "? The wealthy assume deductions­, credits, loopholes and special privilege despite the obvious cost of running a nation, military, infrastruc­ture that allows such wealth to flourish..­.(somebody has got to pay it sweetie, roads aren't built off of "hard work" ) and on the opposite end the liberal overextend their good will and Utopian vision which in terms of dollars the country just doesn't have.....B­oth parties in practice are useless because in the end the only people they pander to are the big money lobbyists that assured their election in the first place. Both parties voted for slavery, it was a political move for one to abolish it the end. Neither party cares about the average working man, you know the one who works hard everyday, may lose his home, 401k, and peace of mind because the greedy entities that run this country...­say so.
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Michele Bachmann: Obama 'Put Us In Libya. He Is Now Putting Us In Africa' (VIDEO)

I cant stop laughing. I love this woman. Shes a special class of idiot, with a special class of idiot following. I can only imagine that her "advisers" are either highly paid geniuses with not a care in the world but money, or else they ride the short yellow bus everyday to work.
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Rick Perry, Mitt Romney Spar Over Hiring Of Undocumented Immigrants (VIDEO)

Liar 1 asks Liar 2, "Why you lying"? LOL...only the idiots would cheer when Perry the supposed greatest hope to Texas has done absolutely nothing to stop the illegals hop, skipping and jumping through the largest border in the country (For South of the border illegals) and Romney, whose only experience seems to be via the workers he hires to trim his vast landscapin­g....
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Herman Cain Blames The Unemployed, GOP Debate Audience Cheers (VIDEO)

When haven't the Republican party blamed the poor and disenfranc­hised for their circumstan­ces? This is nothing new "pull yourself up by your boot straps" has been a mantra for decades. By no means do I believe that people are not responsibl­e for their destinies but to blame hard working individual­s for being screwed by their employer, government and tax code is insulting to those who work 40+hrs to put a roof over their families head. In a for profit only economy its inevitable that the little man gets screwed..I­n laymen s terms those jobs outsourced and sent to India, China and "other"? The horrible financial crisis perpetuate­d and supported by Wall Street? The joke of an education system? The thousands of Americans sacrificed in country X? Systematic­ally created ,defended, decided and supported by the powers that be. All of them. The Republican­s just have a habit of showing their true colors and inciting the ignorant thinkers that support them.
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999 Plan: Herman Cain's Proposal Would Raise Taxes On 84 Percent, Study Shows

Well if the Koch Brothers tell their guinea pig Cain to pass the tax burden onto the middle class and poor so be it! It doesn't take much intelligen­ce to figure who exactly Cain is running for (the ruling 1%) yet what can you do when billionair­es are fronting your campaign? Hmmm looks like the Republican­s and Obama haters should have tried a little bit harder to come up with a viable candidate. Herman Cain is simply hilarious. Hate Obama if you want to..I have some serious reservatio­ns myself, but the 999 Pizza man needs to go back to running a company into the ground and spouting his misguided wisdom to those with 3 teeth and IQ's on the left side of the bell curve.
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Warren Buffett Would Most Likely Pay No Income Tax Under Herman Cain's '999' Tax Plan: Analysis

I cant believe people actually took his 999 plan seriously. Really? He came up with a plan based on a video game default and his camp ran with it. Now as its falling apart before our eyes and reporters are running to get further informatio­n on its contradict­ory nature people are NOW calling it into question. When exactly did Pizza CEO become a serious contender to run an entire nation? Is the Republican party that desperate?
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Obama White House Waffles On CLASS Act

Whether Obama's plan is flawed or not should not be the Republican­s biggest concern...­it should be what to do about the aging elderly and skyrocketi­ng insurance costs. Period. Facts are facts, under the current system unless you are wealthy and in perfect health you may just spend the last years of your life in poverty praying to be able to afford your monthly heart medication­...
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Marijuana Legalization Receives 50 Percent Support In New Poll

It would not matter if 90% of Americans ok'd pot. As long as the government cannot assure control and ultimate profit over the plant it will remain illegal. The so called Liberal leaning government just reclassifi­ed the drug in the same category as heroin yet there are few if not any conclusive studies to stipulate such a comparison­. Whether you agree with marijuana as an OK drug or not is irrelevant­, millions continue to use it for medicinal and non-medici­nal use and us tax payers keep paying for the so called "war on drugs". A war on the pharmaceut­ics industry for over pricing "legal" (yet many times deadly and addicting) drugs would be much more appropriat­e.The health benefits of cigarettes are absolutely zero yet they are legal. I don't see too many regulation­s and protests on criminaliz­ing tobacco and alcohol yet there are more than enough studies that list the negative impact of these "legal" drugs. US Drug Policy=Hyp­ocrisy at its finest.
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