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Tacitus' Realm / Bush on Dr. Phil on drinking
« on: September 30, 2004, 10:53:00 AM »
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_pag ... 7,10926414^13780,00.html

Bush on Dr Phil on drinking
September 30, 2004

US President George W. Bush has told daytime TV viewers it's "awfully difficult" for parents to urge their children not to drink and drive if they do it themselves.

"The parents have got to understand that when they tell their child something they have to be willing to live it in order for the child to be able to absorb the truth of what the parent is trying to say," Mr Bush said on advice show Dr Phil.

The interview with Mr Bush and first lady Laura Bush by host Phil McGraw was taped on July 29 at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and broadcast in the US today.

Days before the 2000 presidential election, Mr Bush was caught withholding information about a drink-driving arrest in Maine in 1976.

He said at the time he had not been specific about the incident earlier because he wanted to keep the information from his twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna.

"It's awfully difficult for a parent to tell a child not to drink and drive when the parent drinks and drives," Mr Bush said in the TV interview.

Mr Bush, now 58, gave up alcohol at 40 after concluding he was drinking too much. He often refers to the power of faith in that process and once referred to his youthful drinking as a "young and irresponsible" stage of his life.

Though they have largely remained out of the media spotlight, the Bushes' 22-year-old daughters have at times drawn headlines for alcohol-related episodes.

In May 2001, police in Austin, Texas, cited both for violating state alcoholic beverage laws.

Police accused Barbara Bush of being a minor in possession of alcohol and Jenna Bush of misrepresenting her age for allegedly trying to use false identification to buy alcohol.

The charges were dismissed after the twins, then 19, performed community service, attended alcohol awareness classes and paid $US100 (about $140) in fines.

The month before, Jenna Bush had pleaded no contest to charges of underage drinking. She was ordered to take alcohol counselling and perform community service. A judge fined her $US500 ($700) and suspended her licence for 30 days.

The Associated Press



In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war who can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
--Sun Tzu (author of The Art of War


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Tacitus' Realm / Stewart v. O'Reilly
« on: September 28, 2004, 05:09:00 PM »
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/20 ... n_stewart/

So who are the "Stoned Slackers" watching Jon Stewart?
By David Bauder, Associated Press  |  September 27, 2004

NEW YORK -- The folks at Comedy Central were annoyed when Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly kept referring to "The Daily Show" audience as "stoned slackers."

So they did a little research. And guess whose audience is more educated?

Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research.

O'Reilly's teasing came when Stewart appeared on his show earlier this month.

"You know what's really frightening?" O'Reilly said. "You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's true. You've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night and they can vote."

Comedy Central executives realized, and O'Reilly acknowledged, that he was poking fun. But they said they didn't want a misconception to persist.

"If the head of General Motors was watching O'Reilly's show, that could be very important to us," said Doug Herzog, Comedy Central president.

"If you listen to O'Reilly, you get the sense that it was crazy longhairs behind the show," he said. "And it's not. It's great, smart television that attracts a well-compensated audience, most of whom are voting age."

Relax, said Fox News Channel spokesman Rob Zimmerman.

"Comedy Central must have lost their sense of humor," Zimmerman said. "Without Jon Stewart, Comedy Central would turn into the Great American Country Channel."

Comedy Central also touted a recent study by the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey, which said young viewers of "The Daily Show" were more likely to answer questions about politics correctly than those who don't.

Comedy Central had no statistics on how many people watch "The Daily Show" stoned.

Although seemingly taken aback by repeated "stoned slackers" references while talking with O'Reilly, Stewart was ready with a joke.

"This election is going to rely on the undecided," he said. "And who is more undecided than stoned slackers? Ice cream or pretzels? Ice cream or pretzels? What's it going to be?

Whether it's the slacker or no-slacker zone, O'Reilly is entering it Oct. 7, when he's scheduled to appear on "The Daily Show."

So if Stewart's audience is comprised of stoned slackers, how would Herzog describe O'Reilly's audience?

"I'm not getting into that game," he said.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The limit of oppression is determined by the extent of the endurance of the oppressed.
--Frederick Douglas


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Tacitus' Realm / Wizard of Idiot
« on: September 09, 2004, 08:09:00 PM »

You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot
easier.
--GW Büsh, Governor of Texas. Governing Magazine, 7/98


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / 60 Minutes video
« on: July 29, 2004, 12:39:00 PM »
I will hopefully be receiving a copy of the 60 Minutes piece that was done on St. Pete Straight around 1983 or so.  My intention is to make a bunch of DVD copies and make them available.  Please PM or email me if you'd like one.

The law in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread - the rich as well as the poor

--Anatole France


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Boston - National Geographic
« on: July 28, 2004, 09:26:00 AM »
My husband went to get his oil changed this morning. He was flipping
through magazines while waiting, National Geographic specifically.
Guess what he found??? The 1989 article on Straight. Do I remember
someone asking for a copy of that? It may have been quite a while
back. Hubby swiped the magazine. I"m sitting here reading it now.

Nice, sweet picture of someone being restrained.  Sure doesn't look like the restraints I remember.

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
--  ALAN BARTH, The Loyalty of Free Men, 1951.


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / More good press for Baywalk
« on: July 27, 2004, 11:56:00 PM »
http://www.local6.com/news/3581522/detail.html


They're making friends all over the place.   :rofl:  :rofl:   :lol:

The sadist cannot stand the separation of the public and the private; nor can he grant to others the mystery of their personality, the validity of their inner self...in order for him to feel his maximum power, he wants the world to be peopled with concrete manipulatable objects...
-- ERNEST BECKER, The Structure of Evil, 1968.


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / THIS is why I'm over this...
« on: July 23, 2004, 12:05:00 PM »
This morning I got an IM and a phone call completely cussing me out accusing me of attacking Kpickle....for the record I DID NOT. I also do not believe the fucking moron who posted that he is "on their side"....ROFLMFAO  :rofl:  :rofl:  Pleeeeeeeze.  Anyone who knows this person knows what's REALLY up.  I was also screamed at for being associated with one survivor group or the other.  I'M NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ANY GROUP!!!!!!!!!!!  I've got a family and don't need this shit so whoever called and IMed me...GROW SOME BALLS AND IDENTIFY YOURSELF OR CUT IT THE FUCK OUT  This is exactly the reason that I, speaking only for myself, am reluctant to "get involved" in any more of this shit.

The government is much more interested in preserving the purity of its ideology than it is in allowing patients to get effective medicine.
-- Ethan B. Russo, neurologist at Western Montana Clinic


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Tacitus' Realm / hostage freed?
« on: July 08, 2004, 02:37:00 PM »
I'm curious to see what everyone thinks about this Muslim American that was just released.  Something isn't sitting right with me about this one.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;

He who would search for perls must dive below.

Prolougue (from preface to
the Panther Book)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0510337112/circlofmiamithem' target='_new'>John Dryden, All for Love, Prolougue


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / DFAF survey
« on: June 29, 2004, 11:09:00 AM »
http://dfaf.org

Look at the survey and the results about student drug testing on the right hand side.  Funny stuff!

In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war who can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
--Sun Tzu (author of The Art of War


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Tacitus' Realm / How Do We End The War On Drugs?
« on: June 28, 2004, 01:13:00 PM »
http://www.drugactionnetwork.com/essay/ ... =endthewar


Once we understand that the War on Drugs is an abject failure, the question arises, what can we do? What is the solution for ending the drug war?

The answer is very simple. The core issues of crime and other social ills of the drug war come directly from the black market, not the drugs themselves. The black market is created by, and in fact encouraged by, the socio-economic effects of prohibition (called the "War On Drugs").

As a result, the cure can only come by ending prohibition. But ending prohibition does not mean a sudden "free for all" of "legalization".

When alcohol prohibition was repealed, it was replaced by regulations and tax statutes that restricted distribution and maintained purity and dose (alcohol content by percentage). It also placed the methods of regulation for sale to the public largely in the hands of local and state governments, where it rightly belongs.

As a nation we are a very diverse culture. The values and cultural heritage of the east are different from the south and are quite different from the values of the west. The result is that federal level recreational substance laws fail in their ignorance of underlying social issues that are highly variable across the nation.

In other words, each state and locality should be afforded their own means of dealing with issues relating to drug abuse.

Thus, ending drug prohibition will be handled much like the end of alcohol prohibition - with the strict regulation and taxation of the manufacture, distribution, and sale of recreational substances.

The model of alcohol

For instance, comparative analysis of even the most pessimistic studies of marijuana show it to be safer and more benign than alcohol. Therefore it's easy to see marijuana regulations mirroring those for beer and wine.

Hard alcohol is regulated more strictly than beer and wine, and certainly there are substances that should receive stricter regulation than marijuana. Soft drugs such as MDMA (Ecstasy), Psilocybin (Mushrooms), and Peyote, would need stricter regulation - along the lines of hard alcohol, which has significant restrictions on public use and distribution.

The very hardest of recreational substances, (i.e. the drugs with the highest physiological addiction rates, such as cocaine and heroin), would be regulated and distributed only by the government and directly to users. This distribution would seriously undercut, and virtually end, the black market for these drugs. This would greatly discourage the creation of new drug addicts.

It's important to consider this last aspect of ending prohibition most thoroughly. It is the demonized "hard drug" user that the prohibitionists point to when declaring that the drug war must be continued.

In reality, that demonization is no more warranted than that attributed to those that abuse alcohol. About 10% of the people that use alcohol use it abusively. This minority of abusive users is echoed by other substances as well. Depending on the substance, only 5% to 15% of the users develop abusive use habits. This means that 85% to 95% of users use recreationally, responsibly, and without developing abuse problems. (as a side note, marijuana and soft drugs see the lower, 5% abuse issues, while substances like heroin and cocaine tend toward the 15% abuse rates).

Ultimately, demonizing persons with abuse problems is faulty logic. These negative stereotypes do not assist the problem user, regardless of if the drug is alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. The fact that the vast majority of users are responsible, recreational users is a clear indication that the problems of drug abuse are not due to the drugs themselves, but due to individual problems with a small minority of people.

What is most telling though is that the RAND corporation's studies have show that education and treatment is 7 times more effective than criminal interdiction (and demonizing) at reducing the problems associated with drug use and abuse.

7 times.

That's a savings of 700% over our current expenditures, and for a more effective program. Yet we do not spend our drug war money on education and treatment - we spend it on law enforcement and prisons - to the tune of 100 billion a year.

It's illustrative to show the results of policies in Amsterdam and Switzerland, where heroin addicts are given heroin virtually free. The result is that the heroin black market has ceased. A further result is that the addict population has stopped growing - in fact they have a 3rd the percentage of addicts as we do in the U.S. And perhaps most important, the other social ills - related crime, spread of AIDS, and health issues from tainted supply - have vanished, making their society safer and healthier overall.

In closing then, the answer is straight forward, but with variations to accommodate the significant differences in various substance use and abuse potentials.


End the black market by ending prohibition.


Regulate the manufacture, sale, and distribution of soft substances using the alcohol model.


Use taxation, and spread the revenues so generated to education and treatment efforts.


Provide addicts with clean supplies to demolish the black market, and greatly increase the availability of treatment options for them in a non-criminal setting.


This is the common sense, humanistic, and moral approach to dealing with our nation's drug problems. And until we accept this approach, our entire society will continue to suffer the failures of this war against our own people.

Sincerely,


Andrew Somers
President
Drug Action Network

If you think about why you hate me, you might find that it's not me.
--Antigen


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The Troubled Teen Industry / what is child abuse?
« on: June 27, 2004, 12:44:00 PM »
http://www.indianchild.com/child_abuse.htm


excerpt:

What Is Child Abuse?

"Child abuse" can be defined as causing or permitting any harmful or offensive contact on a child's body; and, any communication or transaction of any kind which humiliates, shames, or frightens the child. Some child development experts go a bit further, and define child abuse as any act or omission, which fails to nurture or in the upbringing of the children.

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act defines child abuse and neglect as: ?at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.?

A child of any age, sex, race, religion, and socioeconomic background can fall victim to child abuse and neglect.

There are many factors that may contribute to the occurrence of child abuse and neglect. Parents may be more likely to maltreat their children if they abuse drugs or alcohol. Some parents may not be able to cope with the stress resulting from the changes and may experience difficulty in caring for their children.

 

Major types of child abuse are : Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, & Sexual child Abuse, Neglect.( Physical neglect, educational neglect, emotional neglect)

Emotional Abuse: (also known as: verbal abuse, mental abuse, and psychological maltreatment) Includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause, serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders. This can include parents/caretakers using extreme and/or bizarre forms of punishment, such as confinement in a closet or dark room or being tied to a chair for long periods of time or threatening or terrorizing a child. Less severe acts, but no less damaging are belittling or rejecting treatment, using derogatory terms to describe the child, habitual scapegoating or blaming.

Neglect: The failure to provide for the child?s basic needs. Neglect can be physical, educational, or emotional. Physical neglect can include not providing adequate food or clothing, appropriate medical care, supervision, or proper weather protection (heat or coats). It may include abandonment. Educational neglect includes failure to provide appropriate schooling or special educational needs, allowing excessive truancies. Psychological neglect includes the lack of any emotional support and love, never attending to the child, spousal abuse, drug and alcohol abuse including allowing the child to participate in drug and alcohol use.

Physical Abuse: The inflicting of physical injury upon a child. This may include, burning, hitting, punching, shaking, kicking, beating, or otherwise harming a child. The parent or caretaker may not have intended to hurt the child, the injury is not an accident. It may, however, been the result of over-discipline or physical punishment that is inappropriate to the child?s age.

Sexual Abuse: The inappropriate sexual behavior with a child. It includes fondling a child?s genitals, making the child fondle the adult?s genitals, intercourse, incest, rape, sodomy, exhibitionism and sexual exploitation. To be considered child abuse these acts have to be committed by a person responsible for the care of a child (for example a baby-sitter, a parent, or a daycare provider) or related to the child. If a stranger commits these acts, it would be considered sexual assault and handled solely be the police and criminal courts.

Commercial or other exploitation of a child refers to use of the child in work or other activities for the benefit of others.  This includes, but is not limited to, child labour and child prostitution.  These activities are to the detriment of the child?s physical or mental health, education, or spiritual, moral or social-emotional development.  

 



Child abuse can have the following consequences :

It will encourage your child to lie, resent, fear, and retaliate, instead of loving, trusting,  and listening
 
It will alienate your child from you and the rest of your family & make him a recluse.
 
It will lower your child's self esteem, and affect your child's psychological development and ability to behave normally outside his home.
 
When your child grows up, your child could probably carry on the family tradition, and abuse your grandchildren.
 
Your child may exclude you from his adult life. For example, you might not be invited to your child's wedding, or not be allowed any contact or relationship with your grandchildren.

Instead of giving money to fund colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
--Will Rogers


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Tacitus' Realm / Panel: Religion not a political strategy
« on: June 25, 2004, 11:53:00 AM »
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.s ... nal%20News


Panel: Religion not a political strategy


LOS ANGELES, June 24 (UPI) -- Panelists at a Los Angeles forum, sponsored by the Interfaith Alliance, Thursday asked candidates for office to eschew religion as a political strategy.

Instead, they urged candidates to stress the proper role of religions in public life.

"No matter who is elected to the Oval Office and to Congress on November 2, the nation could be even more polarized on November 3 than we are today," the group's president, the Rev. Dr. Welton Gaddy, said.

Political consultant Bill Smith said for the Republicans "religion is not just a part of the strategy in the campaign; it is the strategy," a new release issued by the group said.

Continuing division among the electorate "represents a failure of imagination," Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein, who also appeared on the panel, said.

"With the nation split 46 percent to 46 percent, with not many undecided, Bush is ignoring the middle, trying to deepen his base support rather than broadening his strength."

The alliance, formed to counter the influence of Christian Coalition on U.S. politics, said additional forums are planned in Chicago and Atlanta.





Copyright 2004 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.







"One commentator pointed out that when the mafia commits violence, no
one suggests we bomb Sicily.  Today it seems we are, in a symbolic way, not only bombing "Sicily," but are thinking about bombing "Athens" (Iraq)."

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr112901.htm' target='_new'>Ron Paul, 11/29/01 Speech before Congress


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Tacitus' Realm / Korean reported killed
« on: June 22, 2004, 12:56:00 PM »
BREAKING NEWS Al-Jazeera TV reports Iraqi militant group has killed South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il. CNN working to confirm.  

http://www.cnn.com

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
--John Buchan


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Tacitus' Realm / Media Bias and the Drudge Report
« on: June 22, 2004, 10:30:00 AM »
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:tC ... e%3F&hl=en

If All it takes is an infinite number of monkeys with type writers, then how come there's no Shakespeare coming out of AOL?
-- Anonymous


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Tacitus' Realm / BUSH-WHACKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« on: June 16, 2004, 09:30:00 AM »
We have done this race every year since it started.  Now they've arrested a bunch of pleasure boaters for conspiring with the enemy?!?!?!?!?!  Puleeeeeeeze!!

http://www.stpetetimes.com/2004/06/11/S ... st_t.shtml

U.S. indicts Key West-to-Cuba sailboat racers
By Associated Press
Published June 11, 2004

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

KEY WEST - The organizers of a sailboat race from Key West to Cuba have been indicted on two counts of providing unlicensed travel services to the Communist island nation, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Thursday.

Peter Goldsmith and Michele Geslin ran the race in violation of the Trading With The Enemy Act, federal officials said. The first count of the indictment could carry as much as a five-year prison term and $250,000 fine; the second count has a maximum sentence of 10 years and possible fine of $100,000.

Crews competing in the Key West Sailing Club Conch Republic Cup departed May 22, 2003, for Havana and several Cuban shore communities after receiving pre-race warnings they would be violating U.S. Department of Commerce licensing regulations.

A call placed to the sailing club Thursday evening rang unanswered. Sailors in the race brought humanitarian aid, including medicine and food for the Cuban people.

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We must create an atmosphere where the crooked cop fears the honest cop, and not the other way around.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006JU7T/circlofmiamithem' target='_new'>Frank Serpico


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