Republicans On Rape
Posted by Michelle Moquin on November 8th, 2012
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November 8th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYONE!
While the Republican ticket may not have won the election Tuesday night, there’s still much that we as conservatives need – and can – do to help move this country’s economy in the right direction. Andy Puzder, CEO of Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s Restaurants offers a letter to the president, urging him to consider the importance of the private sector, and the urgent need for job creation, reduced regulation, and a more common sense tax plan.
Also, please don’t miss our interactive election 2012 results map powered by Google. It’s a fantastic way to dig down into the returns from Tuesday – to the county – for president, governor, Senate, and House.
Stay tuned to Human Events all day for breaking news and solid conservative analysis.
Stay calm and carry on,
– Adam Tragone, Managing Editor
November 8th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Carl Jung
November 8th, 2012 at 1:22 pm
A white man asked his black friend, “Are you voting for Barack Obama just because he’s black? The black man responded by saying, “Why not? In this country men are pulled over every day just because they’re black; passed over for promotions just because they’re black; considered to be criminals just because they’re black; and there are going to be thousands of you who won’t be voting for him just because he’s black!
However, you do not seem to have a problem with that! This country was built on the sweat and whip of the black slaves’ back, and now a descendant of those same slaves has a chance to lead the same country, where we weren’t even considered to be people, where we weren’t allowed to be educated, drink from the same fountains, eat in the same restaurants, or even vote.
So yes! I’m going to vote for him! But it’s not just because he’s black, but because he is hope, he is change, and he now allows me to understand when my grandson says that he wants to be president when he grows up, it is not a fairy tale but a short term goal.
He now sees, understands and knows that he can achieve withstand and do anything, just because he’s black.”..”
November 8th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Human Events, still butthurt are we? Your party is finished.
November 8th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
You a hater? Or just ugly?
November 8th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Helenna
You a hater? Or just ugly?
November 8th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Michelle, Madaline gave us the heads up before the networks got the news. I was ecstatic when she posted it would be over in an hour. I think the networks waited as long as they could, when President Obama was leading in FL, VA, NV, OH, NH, and WI – it was over.
I know we could pull our election tabulation into the 21st century with huge data warehouses, we can crunch numbers on the fly with laptops, tablets, and Smartphones OR we could just as Madaline.
Those reading your blog got the news before the nation did as usual. You are the BOMB!
Ruth,SM
November 8th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Michelle, I was monitoring Intrade and Obama started around 60% chance of winning but was steadily rising as the results came in. I think he hit 90% around 10 p.m. long before the networks called it. I got my bet in right after Madaline posted it would be over in an hour and it would be a landslide.
I bet on all 9 swing states going to Obama at 500 to one. I won BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Madaline. And of course to you too Michelle. Your blog is the most informative on the net.
Ed
November 8th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Are you, like me, disappointed in Prop 37 not passing? Do you believe as citizens of the US we have a right to know what’s in our food (just like 50+ other countries, world-wide? Please take a moment to sign the below change.org petition addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture asking him to mandate our right to know what’s in our food:
http://www.change.org/petitions/federal-government-insist-on-the-labeling-of-gmo-food-products-for-the-u-s
Won’t you please sign? Thank you.
/SB
November 8th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Wow! This site is almost completely bagger free after that BS by “Human Events”. It’s like a breath of fresh air. No more Romney landslide guarantees, no more benghazi, birth certificate, college transcript or Kenya rants, it’s like a fever broke. More likely it’s just that the penny posters aren’t getting paid anymore.
You do have the best blog on the world wide web.
Scott
November 8th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
The networks probably read Madaline’s post and were just waiting until the polls closed on the west coast to call it. They knew Madaline was a Bitch not to be fucked with. So they knew an hour before hand that it was over.
Once Madaline called it. That was it, and they delayed the call.
Patty
November 8th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Yes, bagger free! I notice too and I’m loving it!
November 8th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
On the downside, his jump shot will never be as good as election team is.
November 8th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
If you have a moment, check out Tara Hardy’s poem, For the Red States. She performed this at the Vancouver Poetry Slam earlier this year. I found it to be powerful commentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3OjqkbZgMF4
/SB
November 8th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
The talk is that Romney was astonished when the election was called for Obama a little after 11. I think he believed in that divine gift of the presidency being his.
We know his wife had said several times that it “is Mitt’s turn” to be president, that he was “entitled” to be president .And clearly Rove was in total denial and demonstrated how surprised he was live on Fox. Anyone paying attention to Michelle, and Madaline knew Obama was going to win and win clearly.
And that he did.
Undoubtedly Michelle, you know of what you speak. You told us way before the election that Obama would win in a landslide. He took it with 332 Electoral Votes and the Senate not only didn’t lose any of the seats the republicans knew they would take, they lost two seats.
I am loving it and looking forward to watching this spot when the 2014 elections take place. My station will most certainly give your pronouncements the proper respect it deserves.
You have the best kept secrete in the news business.
November 8th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Jeremy, maybe si maybe no, but his three pointer well past the line, is ;-)
November 8th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Great fine Social Butterfly.
November 8th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
I love this quote from Michelle Moore. “Congratulations everyone!! This country has truly changed, and I believe there will be no going back. Hate lost yesterday. That is amazing in and of itself. And all the women who were elected last night! A total rebuke of Neanderthal attitudes.”
November 8th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Conservatives thought they were entitled to leadership because in some world, it is ‘their’ country. But you have to earn it. Obama had plenty of problems that he didn’t handle very well. But it didn’t matter. He did enough for people to believe in him. Conservatives alienated a majority of voters, they have only themselves to blame.
November 8th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
When I read this from Mark Cuban owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Chairman of HDNet, could understand why the Right gets away with their lies. People like this idiot pretend the reporting of both networks are the same, only the side taken is different.
What a calculating LSOS Mark Cuban is. The difference is that MSNBC was telling the truth about the conduct of Mitt Romney and their campaign tactics. Mark knew that because he couldn’t name a blatant lie that Rachael, Ed, Chris Matthews, and Lawrence O”Donnell told about Mitt Romney.
Here is his spin.
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I have to be honest, I watch Fox News more often than any of the other cable news nets. I watch CNN next, then MSNBC. So let’s get that out of the way.
I watched Fox and MSNBC during the election cycle because they told me the worst possible elements that could be found about President Obama and Governor Romney. Both networks work so hard at branding every possible negative issue about the other side that it’s very interesting to look at it as an exercise in branding and marketing.
Neither truly was reporting the news. They were telling us how they believed a negative brand could be built. And not only did they tell us how negative the other brand was, they were relentless in trying to create confirmation of that negative brand by bringing in “experts” to confirm their brand bias.
You know who both networks reminded me of ? All of their shows, with the exception of Bill OReilly reminded me of the old Coast to Coast with Art Bell radio show.
Every night Art Bell would bring in what were essentially crackpots talking about life on Mars, alien abductions (except for the true ones of course), Black Helicopter operations, pretty much crazy thinking across the board.
What made Art Bell masterful was that he interviewed them and talked to them like there was absolutely no doubt in his and his listeners mind that everything the interviewee said was true.
Of course there is life on Mars. Of course there are aliens living among us who can shift change to different animals. Of course the government has been working with Planet X for years. Callers would call in and give their personal experiences with all the above.
He confirmed for his listeners, callers and the crackpots he interviewed that it was all true. Just because Art Bell made you believe he believed it was true. Whether or not he actually did, I have no idea. His show had a huge radio audience nationwide.
Both MSNBC and Fox News do the same thing with their branding efforts. No matter what the story, true or not, they were going to pull out every stop to make you think its true. Facts be damned. Governor Romney lies about everything.
Here are three people to confirm it. President Obama is running the dirtiest campaign ever, here are three people to confirm it. For every attempt to create a negative brand association for the other side, there were three experts confirming it multiple times a day.
When we got to the last week before the election, I noticed a subtle change in the branding of this election by Fox. Maybe MSNBC did it and I just didn’t see it.
But Fox started branding hard the notion that Romney had all the momentum and was on his way to a win. Dick Morris predicted a landslide over and over. Karl Rove would tell stories about Romney momentum and Obama being on the run.
Which ever poll showed Romney in the best light, that was the focus. Charles Krauthammer was relentless in talking about the imminent disaster for Obama and win for Romney.
It seemed to me in hindsight that only Bill O’Reilly (whose show I like and who is a master of asking questions that are pre-spun so that the answers fit his needs, and disengaging when he knows he is beat, like he says, “Its my show.
I can do what I want”), and Chris Wallace really tried to temper the branding blitz. (I like Chris as well. He asked questions the others seemed afraid to ask.) Outside of these two, Fox was relentless in sending the message that a Romney win was imminent.
There was no doubt about it and if you didn’t believe it, it was because you either followed the mainstream media too much or you were just stupid.
Like Art Bell, Fox made you believe that a Romney win was all but assured. In the last couple days it was all they focused on. We got this. Here is the proof. Here are people you trust telling you that its the truth.
But Fox had two huge problems. The first was that there audience was far, far bigger than MSNBC or the other networks. They were the biggest during the debates. They were the biggest time and again leading up to election day. You would think that was great for Governor Romney. Right ?
Wrong.
The second huge problem for Fox and as a result Governor Romney is that they didn’t know the Dancing with the Stars bottom two principle. You would think that when one of the couples on DWTS is in the bottom two, thats a horrible sign.
It must mean they are close to elimination. Not for couples with a large voting base. When you have a large voting base and find yourself in the bottom two, your voting base recognizes that you are at risk of losing.
Because they want you to stay on the show and voting counts as much as the dancing, they will step up and vote and keep you on the show until you find yourself up against couples that have a bigger voting base than you.
So what does this have to do with Fox and the presidential election ?
I truly believe that supporters of Romney that watched Fox News thought it was a no-brainer and that Governor Romney would win. Living in Texas I was around a lot of Romney supporters on Tuesday night who had no doubt that Governor Romney would win. None.
On the flipside, MSNBC doesn’t have the audience or do as good a job at branding issues as Fox News. Fox News viewers take to heart what MSNBC viewers don’t.
When President Obama’s team reached out to minorities, women and others who felt threatened, it was easy to convey to them that they were the underdog. That no one thinks they can win. That they could make a difference.
And they did.
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The fact that he said that he preferred Fox news , you know the station that independent analysis says misleads it viewers so much that they end up knowing less about the truth than those who watching no news at all.
That says most of what any intelligent person would want to know about this idiot.
November 8th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Here is a little something about Romney that most will not know. The media was misinforming their viewers that Romney was emotionally suffering for his loss and writing a loser’s speech.
In reality, Romney and family were on the phones cutting their financial losses. They were shifting expenses and future charges to the accounts of their donors.
They were canceling the credit cards of their campaign supporters as of the night. Many couldn’t use their cards to get back home because they found out when they tried that they had been closed.
Romney was stalling making people believe he was going to protest to give him more time to close down the money spigot. It was back to cutthroat Bain business again.
Mike, TM
November 8th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
The baggers are still crying and peeing in their pants over their boy’s loss!
November 8th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
“Living in Texas I was around a lot of Romney supporters on Tuesday night who had no doubt that Governor Romney would win. None.”
If I could ask Mark a question it would be “Mark, ask yourself this question, How many Texas Rangers are people of color?”
Your answer is the reason for why Texas has a lot of issues in this day and age.
My second question would be, “are you serious, Fox is where you get your news?”
Trudy
November 8th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Someone should tell Mark, MSNBC’s prediction was based on math and science and not wishful thinking.
November 8th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Kevin I wonder if Mark knows Canada has regulations preventing the dissemination of false or misleading information. There is MSNBC in Canada, but no Fox.
Mark if you are reading this, please try an argument that doesn’t rely on a false equivalence.
November 8th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
After reading the comments here, I have been convinced that Fox is composed entirely of baby eating heffalumps and woozles from the 9th circle of hell, while MSNBC is the pinnacle of objectivity and intelligence in today’s news lineup.
I mean have you SEEN Chris Matthews’ show? That guy should be curing cancer instead of talking on cable television. How about ‘Politics Nation’ – what a fair handed, thoughtful, and (above all) elegantly presented discourse on todays political happenings.
I do have one question for you MSNBC fans though – why does Rachel Maddow host a show called ‘Up with Chris Hayes’? Shouldn’t the show be called ‘Up with Rachel Maddow’? What am I missing here??
November 8th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
I agree with Mark Cuban on the concept and branding differences of Fox and MSNBC. I don’t think they are the same as Mark indicated. MSNBC is more inclusive as others have mentioned, and in addition to conservative contributors such as Michael Steele, I have frequently seen Mark McKinnon on with Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell.
MSNBC conversations have focused on the issues, facts and opinion, but there has also been mutual respect even with opposing viewpoints.
Fox on the other hand will typically invite liberal or democratic guests to demean their opinions in a more antagonistic, demeaning and disrespectful way. Fox tends to be light on facts and heavy on attacks to provide “red meat” for their audience.
In real world advertising, branding and statements that brands make have limitations and guidelines. There are acceptable codes of conduct in making claims and legal action can ensue if the brand steps outside of product claims.
Unfortunately if Fox was held to the same standards of most brands, it would be in on-going trouble. Lucky for them.
November 8th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
We The People, women, minorities, LGBTs, union workers, and the middle class were fighting for our lives. So we did what whatever it took, from the millions of $5.00 donations, to long hours phone banking, to standing in line for 9 hours to vote.
We bested the party that wanted to replace our democracy with a plutocratic theocracy, and ensured the American revolution was not defeated.
November 8th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
First, trying to draw some sort of equivalency between Fox and MSNBC is absurd. Second, watching Fox and expecting to be accurately informed about ANYTHNG is likewise absurd.
November 8th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I can always tell when FOX is on when I walk into the lounge at work. The news reporting is so slanted that it really strikes me as hired lobbying from the American right, rather than a news station.
I can not help but feel embarrassed at how journalism at that channel has deteriorated from the days of journalist giants such as Walter Cronkite who worked hard to present the news without bias, rather than present only some of the news, and in a biased way so as to achieve a targeted point of view among the viewers.
November 8th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Romney and the republican brand were simply rejected by the majority. To read the cause of this to be Fox’s responsibility trivializes the issues.
More to the point the republicans and Fox underestimated the enthusiasm among Democrats. That befuddles me.
The sharp contrast between the candidates/parties in Equal pay, women’s rights, tax equality, immigration reform, marriage equality, etc etc surely made this an election of importance to all democrats. Why couldn’t they see this?
November 8th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
So let’s see, you conflate MSNBC being 100% right about the election and FOX being 100% wrong about the election, as ‘both sides doing the same thing? Really?
P.S. MSNBC didn’t need to convince me that Romney would be bad for the American middle class. It was obvious from the get go.
November 8th, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Asia, I had thought that just voting for Obama because he is black is not completely reasonable, but your reporting this incident is fodder for consideration.
I’m glad Obama won because he is the best choice between the 2 and proud that the country chose someone my kids can look up to because he looks like them.
November 8th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
I made a few euros on the election. I was surprised to see a post on it. I often frequent this blog to get betting odds. I keep it a secret just because of that.
Many of my mates were surprised at the killing I made. I made a tidy sum on your advice Michelle and tripled up on that post by Madaline.
November 8th, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Okay republicans, just an observation, but it might help if they stop lying and cheating.
November 8th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
We here in China have been following very closely your presidential election. I have to say that we are very impressed by your declaration that Obama would win and win big.
The fact checkers of our group say that your prediction will end up being even more powerful after the final popular vote count. Obama will probably according to their calculations win it by more than 3,000,000 votes.
It seems that your assurance of a landslide has given him just that with a huge mandate to govern with conviction.
You have commanded our respect. We will be watching you and your blog intently from now on.
Wang
November 9th, 2012 at 3:23 am
As for the states making weed legal, it will be fought tooth and nail by the pharmaceuticals because they can’t make a profit off it. I say no way, America IS the land of the free. that means free from meddling pharmaceutical giants who know full well, it is only that they can not “patent cannabis” that stops the show, they know how much cash is at stake and sure as hell won’t let it go easily…..
weeds free baby weeds free..and you can that amen that.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:26 am
Has anybody checked our Rush’s latest rant. Rush Limbaugh is a great asset to the Democratic Party as he drives many moderates there through his irrational and bigoted representation of the GOP. With Rush on its side, the GOP brand forever emits a foul stench. More power to him, I say!
November 9th, 2012 at 3:27 am
Alcohol and Tobacco??? Sanctimonious Hypocrites! Again it is the WALL STREET getting their dirty, greedy fingers into people’s rights. Alcohol and Tobacco companies are trading on Wall Street if you are not aware of this fact.This NEW LEGALIZED American Enterprise will be taking a BIG cut out of their ” SIN ” products. Bottom line – who gets the profit.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:28 am
What happened to States rights?????????????
November 9th, 2012 at 3:28 am
The Federal government obviously doesn’t have THAT big of an issue with marijuana–as long as they see an opportunity for them to potentially control and make money off it themselves. Is this another “do as I say, not as I do” thing from Big Brother? Probably. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Want proof? Visit the US Patent Office Website at http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm and check out patent 6,630,507. It is titled, “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants ” and who is the assignee/owner? None other than “The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC).”
I’m not making this up, much to the GREAT disappointment of those of you that want to call me a conspiracy theorist. Marijuana is long overdue for legalization. It is positively ridiculous that it has been treated like a hard drug for so long, while alcohol and tobacco are readily available at every corner store and pit stop.
I am a proud Washingtonian that voted for I-502 and I look forward to seeing my state fight for our right to uphold our law. Often progress must start at the local level–even if things have to get ugly along the way. We voted this law in to effect and we will stand behind it 100%.
Washington is happy to lead the way with marijuana, gay marriage, technology, coffee, lack of an income tax, environment, wineries, music, apples, philanthropy, etc.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:29 am
This is the ONE subject that truly has bi-partisan support…nay, nearly universal support.. The old harem-scarem guys of the old/DEA ways are fading away… People have seen the results over the years of failures, and we will not tolerate any more strong arm tactics of our citizens..!
November 9th, 2012 at 3:29 am
If you compare the effects of marijuana to alcohol, marijuana is the clear winner. With marijuana, there are no black outs, passing out, hangovers or overdoses. Give me weed any day.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:30 am
Nina, It went the way of abortion rights, gay marriage, etc……
November 9th, 2012 at 3:31 am
This is one of those very rare occasions where I find myself agreeing with Rush. I could not have put it more succinctly. Conservatives lost the country. Absolutely. No argument. As long as they have Rush and guys like him as their spokesperson, the country is gonna stay lost to conservatives.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:32 am
Thor, people driving or even biking when high have caused crashes. A woman high on m-j here in Bellingham actually ran into an oncoming train where the tracks crossed the bike path. It didn’t end well. As with anything else, one needs to be prudent and responsible.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:33 am
Evidently taking the low road in a presidential campaign, lying and distortion, accusing your opponent of a felony and murdering a layed off workers wife is the way to win an election. This was the dirtiest campaign ever conducted by a political party. This was Chicago style politics.
Mitt Romney was the best qualified candidate to run for the presidency in a long time, but he didn’t anticipate the Obama smear machine and the multitude of simple minded people who would believe the lies that Obama and his henchmen were willing to spread in TV ads and speeches around the country. The mainstream media was complicit in this tragedy, covering up the Benghazi scandal and the ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal.
We can only hope that the good Lord will have mercy on the stupid people who sold out America and left our future in the hands of a bunch of bufoons.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:35 am
Rush and the rest of the right wing pundits view the election with blinders on.
The are reminders of Monte Python and the Holy Grail.
In one scene King Arthur is stopped by a knight from crossing a bridge and is challenged to a duel. King Arthur, cuts off one arm, applauds the knight and says,”OK let me pass”. The knight, seeing his arm on the ground, replies, “It’s only a scratch”.
Off comes a second arm, and then the knight is cut in half.
The Knight responds: OK. IT’S A DRAW.
Rush sees the election the same way and Senator John Boehner reiterated his same financial program, prior to the election, tax cuts for the top, 1% and elimination of “deductions”, state income tax, real estate tax, and other cuts to hurt the electorate that dealt the GOP a resounding defeat.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:37 am
Joyce, how do you know she was impaired by cannabis use? Who said she was high? The THC in some varieties of the cannabis genus of plants can cause some motor impairment but never to the level that alcohol impairs both judgement and motor coordination. THC heightens sensory perceptions, it doesn’t dull the senses like alcohol.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:37 am
Joyce, She could have been on perscription drugs also BUT NO ONE KNOWES..
November 9th, 2012 at 3:39 am
Padraig:
It’s a good thing Obama care covers enemas Pumpkin Nose. When you get yours have them put the nozzle in your ear. The lies came from Romney and Karl Rove’s super PAC. Now you can go back to your clavern, light your cross and your robe (while you are wearing it and pray to Jesus your imaginary friend.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:40 am
Padraig, Yea he was so good he lost..
November 9th, 2012 at 3:41 am
“Robert DuPont, who served as drug czar for former Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and opposes legalization, said he welcomed a confrontation.”
Yeah, let’s have some more “Prohitition”; worked well last time, didn’t it? …
November 9th, 2012 at 3:42 am
“Robert DuPont, who served as drug czar for former Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and opposes legalization, said he welcomed a confrontation.
“I think it’s time to resolve it,” he said.”
Of course he does, the Du Pont family were the ones who original had it outlawed. They are still making money off their stolen plastic patents.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:42 am
This is what I resent most about extreme conservatism: the idea that only people who agree with their views are really Americans. How unpatriotic.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:44 am
If Republicans, like Rush, insist on presenting as fact this fantasy world of their spin where Obama and the democrats are “socialists” who want to “make people dependent on government” and other such nonsense then they will continue to lose elections. Anyone outside their base can see that such rhetoric is beyond hyperbole and be simply turned off by it. And it’s even worse if the people saying such things actually believe it because it shows how out of touch with reality they are.
If the Republicans want to do what is good for them, they will drop the lunatic right-wing ranting and also move to the center as a whole. Drop the teabaggers guys. They’re an anchor around your collective necks.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:46 am
To clear up a common misconception: It was Randolph Hearst who campaigned to have Marijuana outlawed in the 1930′s because until then it was extensively grown as hemp to be used as paper in the news industry.
Hearst sought to have legislation passed to make all hemp crops (and therefore marijuana) illegal because he owned vast tracts of forested land that he wished to be solely used for paper production.
He and DuPont persuaded Harry Anslinger to create the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in order to criminalize hemp production.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:46 am
Its over folks, watch the dominoes fall, as the other states see the tax revenue created by Colorado and Washington. In any event the drug war has been a total failure with countless victims here and abroad, even the environment has suffered with people using land in National parks to grow.
All of the money spent and all of the people incarcerated for this has not put the slightest dent in its use, the folks in these 2 states voted for the right of adult recreational use, and their rights must be respected.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:47 am
So where are all the state’s rights republicans and tea party people on this one?
November 9th, 2012 at 3:47 am
On what possible grounds would the Federal government sue to block a legally passed piece of STATE legislation? The President would be a fool if he followed the advice of the people who have so much to lose now that this recreational drug is being legalized. Does he REALLY want to be the man behind imprisoning so many young men and women?
November 9th, 2012 at 3:48 am
The prohibition of pot makes even less sense than the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920′s and that was one of the stupidest laws in American history. All it does is make gangsters a greater threat to society than they would otherwise be.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:49 am
“that was one of the stupidest laws in American history.”
Tell that to the family of a victim of a drunk driver. Just sayin.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:57 am
Drink This to Sleep Soundly
My friend likes to have a drink before bed—a real drink.
It’s usually a beer.
He likes the fact that the alcohol seems to help him get to sleep.
What he doesn’t like is that he tends to wake up a few hours later and then has trouble falling back to sleep, leaving him groggy the next morning!
In fact, most experts agree that alcoholic beverages (along with caffeinated beverages and energy drinks) are among the worst drinks to have before bed.
So what should we all be sipping on instead that might help us get to sleep and stay asleep??
A new study points to an unusual choice—nonalcoholic beer.
SNOOZE NEWS
Before reading this study, I never thought that nonalcoholic beer might convey health benefits, but these findings are making me reconsider.
For the study, Spanish researchers evaluated subjects’ sleep amount and quality using actigraphy, a wrist sensor that detects motion during sleep/wake cycles. During the first week of the study (the control week), subjects drank whatever they normally drank at dinner (but keep in mind, in Spain, dinner is around 10:00 pm or 10:30 pm).
These subjects usually drank a glass of milk because they were all teetotalers (and none drank nonalcoholic beer). During the next two weeks, subjects stopped drinking whatever they normally drank at dinner and instead each drank one 12-ounce bottle of nonalcoholic beer (San Miguel, a Spanish brand).
Results:
The subjects slept better during the weeks that they drank alcohol-free beer. Not only did they fall asleep an average of 12 minutes faster, but they experienced 27% fewer movements while sleeping—meaning less tossing and turning. As a bonus, they also reported feeling less anxious during those weeks—probably because they were sleeping better.
THE SLEEPY-TIME SECRET
Researchers believe that it’s the bitter resins in hop compounds, botanical ingredients (they’re from a flower, actually) used in brewing for their aroma, that do the trick. Hop compounds have sedative properties, soothing the central nervous system by raising levels of the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
This helps explain why nonalcoholic beer may help you not only get to sleep but sleep soundly and stay asleep—it has the hop compounds that make you drowsy, but not the alcohol that wakes you up later. (Technically speaking, nonalcoholic beers do have a tiny bit of alcohol in them—a bottle of O’Douls, for example, has 0.4%—but since a bottle of regular beer, such as Budweiser, has about 5%, it’s not much.)
Lead author and graduate researcher Lourdes Franco said that Americans would be best off drinking a nonalcoholic beer roughly an hour before bed to get the most effect, though she noted that hop compounds remain in your system all night.
She was surprised that it took only one nonalcoholic beer per night to impact sleep—and she’d recommend this habit to almost anyone needing help falling and/or staying asleep.
WHO SHOULD AVOID NONALCOHOLIC BEER?
There are a few groups of people that may want to stay away from nonalcoholic beer, Franco noted.
People with celiac disease—those who can’t properly digest gluten (the protein that is found in wheat, barley, and rye)—should keep their distance, since most nonalcoholic (and alcoholic) beers contain gluten.
Until Spain’s Ambar Green beer becomes widely available in the US, celiacs will have trouble finding a beer that’s both nonalcoholic and almost entirely gluten-free, unfortunately.
If you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes and you’re limiting carbs to keep your blood sugar in a healthy range, be aware that nonalcoholic beer has roughly 13 grams of carbs, which is about the same amount that you’d get in a regular (nonlight) beer. (For comparison, a 12-ounce can of Coke has about 41 grams of carbs and an eight-ounce glass of apple juice has about 29 grams of carbs.)
BREWING BENEFITS
For people who can safely drink nonalcoholic beer, there are lots of choices. Since it’s the hop compounds in the beer that you’re after, you’ll want to know which brands have the most—but when I called Keith Lemcke, vice president of Siebel Institute of Technology and marketing director of World Brewing Academy in Chicago, a school for the brewing sciences that’s been around for 130 years, he said that all nonalcoholic beers have approximately the same level of hop compounds.
In other words, it doesn’t matter which brand you choose—any is likely to help you get to dreamland!
Sources: Lourdes Franco, graduate researcher, laboratory of chrononutrition, department of physiology, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.
Her study was published in PLoS ONE.
Keith Lemcke, vice president, Siebel Institute of Technology, and marketing director, World Brewing Academy, both in Chicago.
November 9th, 2012 at 5:25 am
What is the theme of this blog? Where are the aliens? I was told that a Howie was a regular here giving out info on alien stuff?
Boomer.
November 9th, 2012 at 6:30 am
Miguel, rethugs feel this defeat is a mere flesh wound. They’re busily sending out chickemails thaare laughable at best. Stay tuned, Pretty soon someone will be chanting, bring out your dead.
Ruben, and anyone else, just an FYI, when thc is ingested in edible form, the high takes longer to come on but it is 8x’s stronger bc it flows throuthe bloodstream, don’t go driving while dosing on mj food products. How do I know this? I have a friend who is a med mj doc : )
Luv, Zen Lill
November 9th, 2012 at 6:32 am
Sorry fr typos, I’m blaming my ‘smart’ phone. – ZL
November 9th, 2012 at 8:13 am
Zen Lill I am still trying to understand your comment. But thanks for trying.
Mary