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TERRY’S TIDBITS

By Terry Gray

BULLITT COUNTY’S WOES

Bullitt County is growing in leaps and bounds.  Population increase is generally looked upon by those in power as a good thing because of the increase in the tax base.  But Bullitt County says that education is suffering because of lack of money so the government voted to raise property taxes.  EXCUSE!  As people move in and buy property, the tax base automatically increases.  But they have decided that even with more people paying taxes to support the schools, that isn’t enough.  Everybody must pay more.  How many people moving to Bullitt County have kids?  I guarantee you that not everyone does.  This means that the tax base increases in support of a service that not everyone will use.  And of course there are the current residents that don’t have any kids and are shouldering the burden.  Makes one want to go out and breed, doesn’t it?  After all, we want what we pay for.

MARIJUANA AND CANADA

Canada is thinking about decriminalizing Marijuana.  Good for them.  It isn’t nearly as bad for you as alcohol and tobacco.  I never did understand the distinction when it came to legalities.  I really haven’t heard of too many weed smokers with serious health problems.  I have seen drinkers with liver damage, cancer, high blood pressure, ruined homes and families, and a myriad of other terrible problems associated with drinking.  I’ve seen tobacco users with cancer, emphysema, and more.  Yet with only a few stats pointing fingers at Marijuana being “The devil weed”, we accept the law and condone two much worse drugs.  Remember, lying politicians make our laws.

The two stats used against Marijuana are: 

Most Marijuana users go on to other, harder drugs.  WRONG.  Marijuana is like beer when compared for loyalties.  Beer drinkers for the most part will stick with beer as their drug of choice.  Weed smokers do the same.  The stat became skewed for propaganda reasons.  The actual stat is that most hard drug users started with Marijuana, not the other way around.  (Hey, we all have to start somewhere.)  This is kind of like saying that all petty thieves will turn to murder when the actual stat should read that most murderers started out as petty thieves.  There is a big difference.

The second stat is that a Marijuana joint has 4 times the tar as a cigarette.  Frankly, I don’t know if that is true.  However, if it were true, a guy smoking Marijuana would have to smoke 5 joints a day to equal a pack of cigarettes.  That’s quite a bit of weed to inhale in a day.  And if so, he is still only getting the tar of a pack of cigarettes.  So what?

I’ve also heard the argument that we have alcohol so why do we need marijuana?  Hmm.  We have dogs so why do we need cats.  We have Levi’s so why do we need Jordache?  We have potato chips so why do we need popcorn?   

Canada is still only looking at decriminalizing the weed.  A user will get a ticket.  What upset me was the proposal to go with decriminalization.  Distributing it or growing it would still be heavily punished.  That, folks, is just plain stupid.

The bottom line is that smoking weed is victimless and far less dangerous than using tobacco or alcohol.  So what’s the deal?  It’s the freedom of personal choice.

WMD

I’ve been saying for some time now that Weapons of Mass Destruction will NOT be found in Iraq.  Now I’m not so sure.  The U.N. is no longer welcome, and the military, under the Commander and Chief, President Bush, is taking over. It will take some time for them to ensure that the weapons are authentic in their origin, are found where no one has looked, and can’t be traced.  Getting them in there without being caught is the hardest part of the whole operation.

The spin machine is also working on an “out” should the operation to plant them fail.  “Classified” is the operative word.  “We have found Weapons of Mass Destruction, but we can’t disclose any information at this time.  In the interest of National Security, we must study what we have found, and until we fully understand the situation, our findings will remain classified.”  Uh-huh.  This also leaves an “out” to blame another country for the weapons should a “crisis” arise and there is the need to “Liberate” another nation.

CRAZY “LEADERS”

I was watching 20/20 on Friday night and a “Beautification” group in New York City was being interviewed about the business signs and the fines being dished out for violations.  The main problem is that code enforcers can’t say exactly what the ordinances are; they just write tickets. 

The thing that really struck me though was a statement made by one of the “Beautification” people.  When asked why the city and people in general just don’t mind their own business and live and let live she said, “What kind of world would this be if everyone minded his own business?”  I couldn’t believe that she was serious.  She really believed that meddling in other people’s affairs was saving the world.  IT SICKENS ME.

STAY-AT-HOME MOMS

I’m one of strongest supporters of kids and family.  I think that most of the problems we have with kids today is the lack of parental guidance.  It seems to me that most parents are too busy to be parents and they want the government or the schools to do the job.  Realistically, though, I know that in this day of high taxation, due mostly to the Liberals wanting to give away everybody else’s money, it is hard for a parent to take on that job full time.  So I can sympathize to a certain degree.

Something scary occurred to me that inspired this piece.  What if the problems that we have with our kids aren’t due to lack of parental supervision?  What if those problems are BECAUSE of parental supervision?  What if most stay-at-home moms are Liberal Demon-crats instilling those values on their kids?  Man, I have to think about this one.  Do we want kids running free, falling in with the wrong crowd and possibly becoming a blight on society or do we want them influenced by Demon-crat Liberals that instill the values that will definitely make them a blight on society?  Hmm, food for thought.

MANDATORY THIS!

I’ve recently gone off about seat belts and motorcycle helmets and the stupidity surrounding their mandatory use.  Now there comes an issue of mandatory life jackets on boats.

A recent boating accident that involved several adults and resulted in the deaths of some of them has brought this issue to light.  The people in the accident had the option of wearing life jackets but chose not to.  That is the right of free adults isn’t it?

This boat was in rough seas in 50-degree water.  I am a strong swimmer, but my butt would have been in a life jacket. One man couldn’t swim.  He wasn’t wearing a life jacket.  The genes that affected his judgment in this life-and-death matter are now forever lost at sea.  WHAT WAS THIS MAN THINKING?

In a televised interview with some of the survivors, one of them said that he believed that a mandatory life jacket law should be enacted.  Yes, we all need the government to tell us that things are dangerous and how we should prepare for that danger.  I guess that in the next WMD scare we should look forward to mandatory plastic and duct tape.  These people are nuts, plain and simple.

I think that if we are going to mandate anything it should be that Ice Cream vendors in their ugly trucks change their music every other day.

SOCIAL SECURITY – Again

There are many, many people concerned about Social Security.  I’m concerned as well simply because I pay into that TAX system.  I don’t do it because I want to but because it is ripped from me and gone from my control.  Who controls it?  The folks that don’t pay the TAX themselves.  Why don’t they pay?  The reason given is that they make enough money that they won’t have to use the system when they retire.  Who are these people?  They are political office holders and their supporters.  This Social Security TAX thing and benefit system is for the little people.  It is the special system just for the little people.  The big people run it for us because we are incapable of doing it ourselves.  We are also incapable of planning for our own futures and financial responsibility.  Thank you big people.

So what is the real reason for the big people not paying into the Social Security System?  Because they don’t want to pay it, it is below them.  No one has challenged the fact that this TAX is a Socialist TAX and as such should be paid by all people.  It, by its own definition, is a support tax for society.  Social Security reform, shy of getting rid of the system, should be a TAX for everyone.

When we utilize a Socialist program in this Republic that we call a Democracy we must abide by the Socialist rules that would govern any Socialist program.  After all, we have socialized education.  Are neutered people exempt?  “Hey Joe, I’m getting my testicles clipped this week, how I look forward to spending the extra money that I’ll save on school tax.”

“Hey Sally, got my tubes tied last week.  Come on, lunch is on me?”

Wouldn’t that be a hoot?

FORMER GOVERNOR HOWARD DEAN

This man, this little big man made a statement on Meet The Press that he is “Happy to apologize for his mistakes.”  That is a lie.  No one is “happy” to apologize about a mistake.  I know of no one that says, “I GET to apologize for that screw up.  What a glorious day.”  Instead, people say, “I HAVE to apologize for that blunder.  I really screwed up.”

He is against gun control yet he maintains the idea of Federal Laws on guns.  He supports state’s rights to fine-tune those laws.  Our constitution says that the right to bear arms “shall not be abridged.”  Any law outside of that constitutional right is in violation of our constitutional rights.  It is very simple.

I speak of this man because he is a possible candidate for President.  He wants to raise taxes as a way of balancing the budget.  I believe that he should be happy to apologize for being alive.

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