Posted on 10/27/2023 6:48:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This is what a bankrupt collapsing society looks like.
Nice to know voters are simply stupid. We get what we voted for. If you don’t know about who you’re voting for, you’re an idiot who shouldn’t be allowed to vote. I would love to see a current events test before you’re allowed to vote. The Dems would absolutely hemorrhage over that!
America...turning into one giant “progressive” cesspool.
Biden is proof that 90 % of people are caused by accident.
It’s Go Time!! 😂🤪🤣😀😆
Is it feasible and would it be helpful to tecommission those Iowa class battleships that are still capable of it? Or are they truly too vulnerable to missile/drone attacks to be viable?
“There has been an escalation of the amount of violence. We have had numerous shootings related to marijuana fields”
I’m fine with this.
Here’s a partial answer: “The United States Navy has approximately 480 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet, with approximately 90 more in either the planning and ordering stages or under construction, according to the Naval Vessel Register and published reports.”
I used to go around and around with the marijuana advocates on this forum. My wife and I live in Washington as well. Politicians and law enforcement had a very permissive attitude towards marijuana even before legalization, but consumption skyrocketed resulting in all sorts of social problems. My wife and I make a 60 mile round trip commute nearly every day. We have gotten so used to smelling marijuana from the cars ahead of us that we hardly think of it anymore. But the bad driving associated with people intoxicated with marijuana is harder to ignore. And of course, the exploding “homelessness” issue and associated crime is a very visible result as well.
Somehow people who do not work with the public as I did do not realize that marijuana use also has a direct relationship with an increased rate of mental illness. This is to the point that nearly every psychotic individual that we had repeated contact with was a heavy marijuana user and most of those who somehow gave it up somehow were miraculously cured.
The state collected $515.2 million in taxes in 2022 from legal marijuana with a 50% “smuggling rate”. They collected $325 million from tobacco with a 41.6% “smuggling rate”. They collected $480 million from alcohol with a smuggling rate that I could not find. The legal marijuana business in Washington State was $1.4 Billion
“How many warships does the US Navy have now?”
If the US has enough weaponry to destroy the world more than 10 times what difference does it make? It only takes one of those. 1>340.
wy69
Did I hear wrong?
Weren’t we supposed to get up to a 600 ship navy?
"The city of Denver approved a $4.7 million settlement to more than 300 Black Lives Matter protesters over accusations that local law enforcement used excessive force and violated their First Amendment rights."
The joke is that the DPD coddled BLM and protected them as BLM assaulted conservatives holding a "Back the Blue" rally.
BLM pretended to have a 'canned food drive', when in fact the canned food was used to assault the conservatives.
The "excessive force" was the pitiful effort made to hold back BLM from a more aggressive assault of the conservatives.
Guess how the $4.7 Million will be used.....
https://www.military.com/navy/us-navy-ships.html
Aircraft Carriers: 11
Surface Combatants: 115
Submarines: 68
Amphibious Warfare Ships: 31
Mine Warfare Ships: 8
Combat Logistics Ships: 29
Fleet Support: 33
Auxiliary Support: 1
Combatant Craft: 0
Other: 0
Total Battle-Force Ships in Inventory: 296
Total Active Ships in Commission: 251
And this will go down over the next two years as the Navy removes LCS’s from active duty (due to horrible design, no real mission, and poor wartime survivability).
Two year-olds should never die by gunfire. Children should never suffer or fear.
Street justice, fast and total justice is the only way.
That was Reagan. Its been going in the crapper ever since.
Number of times I will read the linked article: 0
“crime is a very visible result as well.
Somehow people who do not work with the public as I did do not realize that marijuana use also has a direct relationship with an increased rate of mental illness. This is to the point that nearly every psychotic individual that we had repeated contact with was a heavy marijuana user and most of those who somehow gave it up somehow were miraculously cured.”
Mental illness accounts for much of today’s crime.
Use of Marijuana before age 26 changes one’s brain—often to schizophrenia.
https://www.verywellmind.com/can-marijuana-cause-psychosis-5200547
“Guess how the $4.7 Million will be used.....”
To buy fentanym-laced Marijuana?;
From personal experience dealing with people with mental health issues... it also causes problems for people who do not start using it until long after the age of 26. I believe that it can cause changes in the brains of people of any age.
If you will recall Maureen Dowd went to Colorado to give legalized marijuana edibles and wrote a column about her experience.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27704837
She was mocked mercilessly at the time and blamed for her own difficulties, but what happened to her was not an unusual experience in the least. And the dosage may or may not have had much if anything to do with her reaction.
There is a definite relationship between marijuana and mental illness and doctors and authorities have been aware of it for years. It is the mental illness that wrecks relationships. Remember when people used to laugh about paranoia caused by marijuana, well paranoia is a type of schizophrenia and it is no joke.
It isn’t just a relationship between marijuana and mental illness, it is also connected to violence. The parents around here used to say that they would rather have their kids high on marijuana than drunk on beer. Then they were surprised when the kid ended up a heroin addict.
My son knew five kids who were arrested for cross border marijuana smuggling. One of them served time in a federal prison and his parents, who were teachers at the school, were named unidicted coconspirators.
We used smell the marijuana on people just walking around Costco, but since vaping became popular, we don’t smell it much any more. People seem to realize that it stinks. I guess part of it was the lock down. People confined their smoking to their houses.
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