Comments on: ONDCP director Kerlikowske and UNODC director Costa stinking up Vienna

By: kaptinemo

kaptinemo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:48:28 +0000

Cliff, as I pointed out once on a comment last year, he had to know that mendacity is required of the position, if only in general, as he bloody well knows from his own experience that the drug laws are not only ineffective but fallacious.

Yet…he took it anyway. Which means that he’s little more than a low-level opportunist. What we once called in the military a ‘ticket-puncher’ and what the military now refers to as a “Massengale”.

But no matter. The way things are going, he may very well be the Last DrugCzar. And, as I once said, I can’t help but think that’s also part of the reason why he took the position. This is his last chance at a cushy job before it’s eliminated. As they used to say (very cynically) “Nice work if you can get it.”

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By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:56:08 +0000

I’m convinced that there are liars, damn liars, statistics and people like Kerlikowske who would tell a lie if the truth would do.

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By: ezrydn

ezrydn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:31:00 +0000

It keeps being said that this is Costa’s last year. When, exactly, does he “leave the building?” And, is there any idea as to whom his replacement will be?

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By: Just me

Just me — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:50:28 +0000

LOL Thanks duncan. Needed a laugh.

Thanks for the link tip Pete, I will do my best to help out.

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By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:47:31 +0000

“Is costas bullshitting or what? Is he backtracking or blowing our own smoke up our asses?”

Always cracks me up. Blowing smoke that way was actually a fad and thought to be the cure for drowning near the turn of the 19th century. Anyway just thought you’d like to know where the phrase originated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema

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By: denmark

denmark — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:11:54 +0000

There are days I’m unable to stomach all the news concerning the ongoing and broken record rants of prohibitionists.
They are beyond stupid.
Would be so wonderful to have their stupidity fully revealed once and for all.
We all know they’d fall off the radar screen real fast.

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By: joc

joc — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:01:09 +0000

If I did the math right the NH house wouldn’t be able to override a veto unless the bill can pick up 19 votes.

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By: joc

joc — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:42:41 +0000

Link

NH House passes decrim bill

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By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:01:52 +0000

Drug drving laws are already here in B.C. The reason for my rants. Twice now have had my vehicle impounded on spurious trumped up nonsense regarding ‘consideration’ and alleged impairment. How is it I can do first class workmanship even recieving tips from my happy flooring customers then be paraded around at a checkpoint on my way home forced into all manner of contortions and gymnastics on based the sole evidence; an ‘odor’
Laffable Nazism

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By: DdC

DdC — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:59:03 +0000

Good info site Douglas… Now if we can only teach the politicians how to read. Coca wine and many other products. I heard Costa Rica has an open warrant on George Boosh sr. for smuggling Contra dope to Arkansas via Bary Seal. Klintoon as governor and Asa Hutchinson as the DA, convenient. Reminds me of Alfred E. Newman; What Me Worry? I still wonder how Coca Cola grows coca?

Coca, Bolivia, and Law 1008

George Bush: Chapter -XV- CIA DIRECTOR

CIA Involvement in Drug Smuggling Part 4

INSIDE THE OCTOPUS

Kill the Messenger
Editor’s note: It’s not easy when a colleague, let alone a journalist you hold in the highest regard, commits suicide. When Gary Webb took his own life two years ago, he and I had both been working at the Sacramento News & Review. In the days that followed, I fielded numerous phone calls from well-meaning folks who were convinced that he had been shot by the agency he went after in his famed “Dark Alliance” series. My personal belief is that the CIA didn’t need to kill Gary; they’d already set his demise in motion by employing “unnamed sources” to discredit him in the nation’s major print media. To the very end, Gary complained that no one had ever disproved a single fact in his series. The fact that so many respected newspapers so eagerly took this bait, and that one of our nation’s last true investigative reporters had been driven to such desperation, is something I could not reconcile then or now.

Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage

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