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Katashi_itto
Katashi_itto's Journal
Katashi_itto's Journal
June 12, 2015

When Governor Bobby Jindal signs HB 149 into law sometime this week (perhaps today), Louisiana will officially become Americas 19th state with decriminalized marijuana possession.
Just two weeks after the states Senate gave the bill its overwhelming blessing, Louisianas House too agreed that weed and those that inhale the stuff should be unchained, voting 74-19 in favor of the new legislation.
And heres exactly what the bill will do:
The bill proposes the following changes:
It carves out a new penalty section for possession of less than 14 grams of marijuana, making it punishable by maximum sentence of 15 days in jail and a $300 fine.
It does not change penalties for first-offense possession of marijuana involving amounts between 14 grams and 2.5 pounds, keeping the penalty for the misdemeanor charge at six months in jail and a $500 fine for a first offense.
Second offenses are a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $1,000 fine and six months in jail.
Third offenses are a felony punishable by up to a $2,500 fine and two years in prison.
Fourth and subsequent offenses are a felony punishable by up to a $5,000 fine and eight years in prison.
The proposal also allows offenders one chance to apply to have their record expunged if they arent convicted of a marijuana violation within two years of the first offense. [NOLA.com]
http://www.thesmokersclub.com/news/louisiana-officially-decriminalizes-cannabis-possession/
Louisiana Officially Decriminalizes Cannabis Possession
(I DIDNT WRITE THE HEADLINE PEOPLE)
When Governor Bobby Jindal signs HB 149 into law sometime this week (perhaps today), Louisiana will officially become Americas 19th state with decriminalized marijuana possession.
Just two weeks after the states Senate gave the bill its overwhelming blessing, Louisianas House too agreed that weed and those that inhale the stuff should be unchained, voting 74-19 in favor of the new legislation.
And heres exactly what the bill will do:
The bill proposes the following changes:
It carves out a new penalty section for possession of less than 14 grams of marijuana, making it punishable by maximum sentence of 15 days in jail and a $300 fine.
It does not change penalties for first-offense possession of marijuana involving amounts between 14 grams and 2.5 pounds, keeping the penalty for the misdemeanor charge at six months in jail and a $500 fine for a first offense.
Second offenses are a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $1,000 fine and six months in jail.
Third offenses are a felony punishable by up to a $2,500 fine and two years in prison.
Fourth and subsequent offenses are a felony punishable by up to a $5,000 fine and eight years in prison.
The proposal also allows offenders one chance to apply to have their record expunged if they arent convicted of a marijuana violation within two years of the first offense. [NOLA.com]
http://www.thesmokersclub.com/news/louisiana-officially-decriminalizes-cannabis-possession/
June 11, 2015
Heres video footage from a GoPro attached to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets recent trip to space. The clip offers stunning views of our fabulous planet as the rocket falls back to earth.
Video footage from a GoPro attached to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s recent trip to space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=16&v=4_sLTe6-7SEHeres video footage from a GoPro attached to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets recent trip to space. The clip offers stunning views of our fabulous planet as the rocket falls back to earth.
June 9, 2015
Loudness Equals Power - Onion Talks
May 31, 2015
Hillary Clinton participated in their weekly women's prayer and bible reading group. Men and women are segregated. Women interns serve as cooks and maids. Men interns do yard work.
All members are sworn to secrecy about their affiliation.
Sharlet's book, 'The Family' was published in 2009 but I only caught up with it last year and I was horrified. Particularly with their worst of the worst mass murderers as organizational models to emulate Mao, Hitler, and Stalin, and their currying favor with modern mass murdering and oppressive despots.
What they seek is access to power and affirm the powerful that their power is biblically justified.
When George Bush rejected "The Fellowship" brand of Christianity, Doug Coe, the head of The Fellowship, called up Bill Clinton to complain. And Bill assured Coe that George would 'get it' i.e. that George would ultimately understand.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6755730
From HRC's own Book:
Hillary's Prayer: Hillary Clinton's Religion and Politics
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/09/hillarys-prayer-hillary-clintons-religion-and-politics?page=3
Rachel Maddow Exposes the Secretive Right-Wing Republican Cult "The Family" HRC attended
Prayer meetings.
Hillary Clinton participated in their weekly women's prayer and bible reading group. Men and women are segregated. Women interns serve as cooks and maids. Men interns do yard work.
All members are sworn to secrecy about their affiliation.
Sharlet's book, 'The Family' was published in 2009 but I only caught up with it last year and I was horrified. Particularly with their worst of the worst mass murderers as organizational models to emulate Mao, Hitler, and Stalin, and their currying favor with modern mass murdering and oppressive despots.
What they seek is access to power and affirm the powerful that their power is biblically justified.
When George Bush rejected "The Fellowship" brand of Christianity, Doug Coe, the head of The Fellowship, called up Bill Clinton to complain. And Bill assured Coe that George would 'get it' i.e. that George would ultimately understand.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6755730
From HRC's own Book:
Hillary's Prayer: Hillary Clinton's Religion and Politics
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/09/hillarys-prayer-hillary-clintons-religion-and-politics?page=3
May 30, 2015
Maybe snorted several lines of crack too.
Ps. Just kidding about Michael Bay Directing this. It was someone Channeling Michael Bay.
Director Michael Bay Drops Acid and Directs 1st Rand Paul ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=35&v=Q7qy-4CBBZoMaybe snorted several lines of crack too.
Ps. Just kidding about Michael Bay Directing this. It was someone Channeling Michael Bay.
May 30, 2015
A DUer's Indie Movie Update. Product Placement Part II
Well things continue to progress.
As we are a Sci fI indie movie comedy. I was shocked by the response from companies.
We now have:
Hormel
Arm & Hammer
Heinz
Abita Beer
Very grateful to the companies for being so supportive.
and several other companies that we are waiting on a response from too.
Also working out details with my lawyer/partner to contribute a percentage of our profits to the homeless.
We are still doing script reads and set building.
May 30, 2015

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREAAdmitting he was having difficulty concentrating on destroying his enemys nexus as he sat inside PC Zone internet café Monday, League Of Legends: Dominion player JuHo Lee complained that the guy who died at the adjacent computer station was really starting to ruin the game for him. I knew this was going to happen when he started losing consciousness and slumped forward on his keyboard, and I probably shouldve gone for help at that point, but I was just about to level upnow I have to sit next to this dead guy all night while I try to take all five capture points, Lee said as he scooted his chair away from the lifeless gamer, who he estimated had died about three or four hours earlier from deep vein thrombosis during a multiday gaming session. Someone should at least drape a cloth over him. I cant be looking back and forth between my screen and a dead body while Im trying to obtain a Storm Shield relic. Lee added that if no one removed the man by sunrise, he would take it upon himself to pause a minute and drag the body into the hallway.
http://www.theonion.com/article/guy-who-died-playing-league-legends-internet-cafe--50335
Guy Who Died Playing ‘League Of Legends’ In Internet Café Really Starting To Ruin Game For Others

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREAAdmitting he was having difficulty concentrating on destroying his enemys nexus as he sat inside PC Zone internet café Monday, League Of Legends: Dominion player JuHo Lee complained that the guy who died at the adjacent computer station was really starting to ruin the game for him. I knew this was going to happen when he started losing consciousness and slumped forward on his keyboard, and I probably shouldve gone for help at that point, but I was just about to level upnow I have to sit next to this dead guy all night while I try to take all five capture points, Lee said as he scooted his chair away from the lifeless gamer, who he estimated had died about three or four hours earlier from deep vein thrombosis during a multiday gaming session. Someone should at least drape a cloth over him. I cant be looking back and forth between my screen and a dead body while Im trying to obtain a Storm Shield relic. Lee added that if no one removed the man by sunrise, he would take it upon himself to pause a minute and drag the body into the hallway.
http://www.theonion.com/article/guy-who-died-playing-league-legends-internet-cafe--50335
May 30, 2015

IRVINE, CAAssuming that the many benefits he enjoys every day would not have been granted to him if he werent fully entitled to them, local man Brandon Naylor told reporters Wednesday he is willing to accept societys determination that he deserves his privilege.
If our culture has decided I get to live a life of ease and limitless opportunityand clearly it hastheres got to be a good reason for that, right? said the 29-year-old, who reportedly possesses such advantages as financial security, the routine deference of almost everyone he meets, and a general freedom from discomfort or want. As far back as I can remember, Ive been helped along by a social order that has smoothed the path in front of me, and I cant imagine that would continue to happen if it werent somehow justified.
Theres really no other explanation if you think about it, he added.
As a result, Naylor stated, he has full faith society has acted fairly in bestowing upon him a relatively privileged upbringing in a safe neighborhood, quickly approved loan applications, the ability to get a job interview just about anywhere with a few phone calls, and, generally speaking, the benefit of the doubt in almost every area of his life. The Orange County native reasoned that the hundreds of millions of people who compose society had made a conscious, collective decision to grant him such perks, and that it was not for him to question their judgment.
http://www.theonion.com/article/man-going-to-trust-societys-determination-that-he--37486
Man Going To Trust Society’s Determination That He Deserves His Privilege

IRVINE, CAAssuming that the many benefits he enjoys every day would not have been granted to him if he werent fully entitled to them, local man Brandon Naylor told reporters Wednesday he is willing to accept societys determination that he deserves his privilege.
If our culture has decided I get to live a life of ease and limitless opportunityand clearly it hastheres got to be a good reason for that, right? said the 29-year-old, who reportedly possesses such advantages as financial security, the routine deference of almost everyone he meets, and a general freedom from discomfort or want. As far back as I can remember, Ive been helped along by a social order that has smoothed the path in front of me, and I cant imagine that would continue to happen if it werent somehow justified.
Theres really no other explanation if you think about it, he added.
As a result, Naylor stated, he has full faith society has acted fairly in bestowing upon him a relatively privileged upbringing in a safe neighborhood, quickly approved loan applications, the ability to get a job interview just about anywhere with a few phone calls, and, generally speaking, the benefit of the doubt in almost every area of his life. The Orange County native reasoned that the hundreds of millions of people who compose society had made a conscious, collective decision to grant him such perks, and that it was not for him to question their judgment.
http://www.theonion.com/article/man-going-to-trust-societys-determination-that-he--37486
May 30, 2015

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/fire-department-deploys-unmarked-trucks-50530
Fire Department Deploys Unmarked Trucks

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/fire-department-deploys-unmarked-trucks-50530
May 30, 2015

Were in this exciting moment where weve had 40 years of being tough on crime, and weve finally come to recognize that it really hasnt worked very well, says sociologist Alice Goffman bluntly. Scientists have shown in the past few years that the relationship between incarceration and crime is basically zip. The crime rate goes up and down, incarceration just continues to grow. Its not a good way of fighting crime.
When it comes to talking about jail, Goffman, a teeny tiny wisp of a woman with wide eyes and an open smile, does not mince her words. Sitting forward on a sofa in the Vancouver Convention Center, the day before she is due to give a TED Talk on the problem of using incarceration as a one-size-fits-all solution to crime, she is hopped up at what she sees as the injustice of it all. And she has seen it. As an ethnographer, she lived and breathed with the people in one particular neighborhood of Philadelphia for over a decade, young black men and their families who cannot escape a snakes-and-ladder system that seems like it has been designed to present them with one snake after another.
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Incarceration is targeted at poor African-American and Latino communities, she says. So what you have is not just young people going to prison and returning home, but people dealing with court fees, dealing with probation regulations, dealing with parole, living in halfway houses, on house arrest, going to court date after court date. Its a very corrosive system thats way bigger than just locking people up and returning them home with criminal records. It creates this culture of fear and suspicion where young people are looking over their shoulder, wondering when the police are going to come, wondering where theyre going to be seized or who around them is helping the police.
Young people like Tim, who was placed on probation because his brother, Chuck, drove him to school in a car that it transpired had been stolen in California. Tim was charged with being accessory to receiving stolen property and placed on three years of probation. He was eleven years old. And this is the point where Chuck starts teaching him how to run from the police, says Goffman.
http://ideas.ted.com/the-unintended-consequences-of-being-tough-on-crime/
THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF BEING “TOUGH ON CRIME”

Were in this exciting moment where weve had 40 years of being tough on crime, and weve finally come to recognize that it really hasnt worked very well, says sociologist Alice Goffman bluntly. Scientists have shown in the past few years that the relationship between incarceration and crime is basically zip. The crime rate goes up and down, incarceration just continues to grow. Its not a good way of fighting crime.
When it comes to talking about jail, Goffman, a teeny tiny wisp of a woman with wide eyes and an open smile, does not mince her words. Sitting forward on a sofa in the Vancouver Convention Center, the day before she is due to give a TED Talk on the problem of using incarceration as a one-size-fits-all solution to crime, she is hopped up at what she sees as the injustice of it all. And she has seen it. As an ethnographer, she lived and breathed with the people in one particular neighborhood of Philadelphia for over a decade, young black men and their families who cannot escape a snakes-and-ladder system that seems like it has been designed to present them with one snake after another.

Incarceration is targeted at poor African-American and Latino communities, she says. So what you have is not just young people going to prison and returning home, but people dealing with court fees, dealing with probation regulations, dealing with parole, living in halfway houses, on house arrest, going to court date after court date. Its a very corrosive system thats way bigger than just locking people up and returning them home with criminal records. It creates this culture of fear and suspicion where young people are looking over their shoulder, wondering when the police are going to come, wondering where theyre going to be seized or who around them is helping the police.
Young people like Tim, who was placed on probation because his brother, Chuck, drove him to school in a car that it transpired had been stolen in California. Tim was charged with being accessory to receiving stolen property and placed on three years of probation. He was eleven years old. And this is the point where Chuck starts teaching him how to run from the police, says Goffman.
http://ideas.ted.com/the-unintended-consequences-of-being-tough-on-crime/
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