Club Blue
by Chicher • Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 - 7:49 pm
Utah Saints – Something Good 08
Jack Cafferty apparently isn’t alone in thinking that the war on drugs is a waste of good money.
A Billion Dollars a Year Spent on Jailing Pot Offenders
NORML’s Paul Armentano has an op-ed in today’s Examiner pointing out that the U.S. is…

In this photo released Tuesday, March 31, 2009, by the Newark (Ohio) Police Department, a motorized bar stool is shown. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries…
Estimated amount of money spent in Iraq every MINUTE.

Our friend, The government:
Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens
FLORENCE, Ariz. — Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held Warziniack for weeks in…
According to investigative journalist Sy Hersh, in his waning days of the vice presidency Dick Cheney tried to sabotage Obama by telling the Israelis that then president-elect Obama was “pro Palestinian” and would not support Israel. Keith Olbermann discusses with…
I was just wondering what the latest is with the Franken(winner)/Coleman(loser) race. Seems a three-judge panel in Minnesota will rule on Norm Coleman’s lawsuit to overturn the results of the state’s Senate election recount soon. But this won’t end anytime…

MICROSOFT BRIDGE SEEN AS STIMULUS WASTE
JACK CAFFERTY: WAR ON DRUGS IS INSANE
CHICAGO SUN TIMES FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
ISRAEL CLOSES PROBE OF GAZA INCIDENTS, DENIES THEY HAPPENED
This time it’s Merrill Lynch. Truthout has the scoop:
Merrill Lynch Bonus Payments Dwarf A.I.G.
[...] A larger and potentially far more explosive powder keg of bonus payments – this time to top executives at now defunct Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.…
Jack Cafferty makes a damn fine argument for the legalization of drugs.
No matter what we do, curtailing illegal drug use is simply impossible. But the cost of the war on drugs is too expensive. People are going to have their drugs,…