Pot Poses Real Danger to Society

Recent study shows "scientific data and the actual dangers of marijuana, and the negative stories coming out of Colorado and Washington State since those states legalized marijuana."  The article continued:

"The science is clear and unambiguous – pot is a dangerous substance. It is not like alcohol at all. There is a reason it is classified as a Schedule Icontrolled dangerous substance, right along with heroin, LSD and ecstasy. The American Medical Association, the American Lung Association and other reputable doctors and scientists all reject legalization.  

As Dr. Kevin Sabet, former senior advisor to President Obama’s drug policy office, states in his book “Reefer Sanity ‘Seven Great Myths About Marijuana,” the average strength of today’s marijuana is five to six times what it was in the 1960s and 1970s, and upwards of 10 to 20 times stronger than in the past.

Even the liberal editorial pages of The Washington Post urged voters not to legalize pot in the ballot initiative this past Nov. 4. The Post noted that “the rush to legalize marijuana gives us – and we hope voters – serious pause.”

The data coming out of Colorado is exhibit A on why voters should reject legalization efforts. Even the Democratic governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, said that legalizing marijuana in Colorado was “reckless.” As I have written at Heritage, pot-positive traffic fatalities have gone up100 percent since voters legalized pot in Colorado. This is true despite the fact that overall traffic fatalities in Colorado have gone down since 2007.

A report by a federal grant-funded agency in Colorado found seven specific negative side effects that pot legalization has caused in Colorado:

1) the majority of DUI drug arrests involve marijuana;

2) youth consumption of marijuana has increased;

3) drug-related suspensions/expulsions increased 32 percent over a 5-year period and a majority was for marijuana;

4) an increase in college users;

5) almost 50 percent of Denver arrestees tested positive for marijuana;

6) marijuana-related emergency room visits increased 57 percent from 2011-2013; and

7) marijuana-related hospitalizations has increased 82 percent since 2008.

Perhaps people are also aware of new scientific studies pointing to the inherent dangers of marijuana. For example, the British health research journal The Lancet Psychiatry recently concluded that teens who smoke marijuana are “also 60 percent less likely to graduate college and seven times more likely to attempt suicide.”

Others have picked up on the recent findings by the Journal of Addiction from Kings College London that found that marijuana is highly addictive, causes mental health problems and is a gateway drug to other illegal and dangerous drugs. That report found that regular adolescent marijuana users have lower educational attainment than non-using peers, that they were more likely to use other illegal drugs, the use produced intellectual impairment, that use doubled the risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, and increased the risk of heart attacks in middle-aged adults."

Calamities Befall Oklahoma After Black Mass

A series of bad events have befallen Oklahoma following its black mass which is not a religious practice, but rather a MOCKERY of the Roman Catholic form of worship - the source and summit of the Christian life.  Their act of provocation shoves a finger into the eye of Christ and to His Church - the Mass is EXCLUSIVELY Catholic.  The stunt, pulled on public property at the Oklahoma City Civic Center, attracted 40 attendees while hundreds gathered outside to protest.  Now that the evil deed was done we will begin to see the calamities that befall Oklahoma, just as we saw in Oregon after its gay marriage ruling HERE, already starting with a beheading from a disgruntled muslim.  More is sure to come.

September 21: Black mass is held in the Oklahoma City Civic Center despite the widespread outcry.

September 25: Moore, OK: Islamist beheads coworker and attacks another.


September 26: Tragedy on Oklahoma freeway.  Prayers and condolences to the families of this terrible accident.  A portion of I-35's southbound direction was closed for several hours following the accident, which Hampton said was one of the most severe he's seen in his career.

UPDATE

September 28: Just 3 hours away from black mass ground zero, Oklahoma City, the deadly disease ebola suddenly appears causing widespread scare around the region.

UPDATE

October 15: Ebola sickens 3, killing one just 3 hours away from the black mass.  Fears of this high mortality disease (>70%) spreading into a pandemic grows. 

On a Lighter Note: Boy Gives Foul Ball to Girl

Love the commentary from the announcers:

Modern Country Music Has Become Country-Sleaze

From sleazy "songs" like "I'm here for the party" to "My Eyes", country music has gone raunchy white trash on us.  Getting tired of the garbage coming out of Nashville of late?  You're not alone.  Country legend Merle Haggard had this to say:

“I've gotta be honest, I don't really listen to the radio at all anymore,” Haggard explained to News Observer. “Once in a while, I'll scan it and I don't understand what they're doing. I can't find the entertainment in it.” 

Haggard furthers that modern country music lacks “substance,” something he’s valued since he got started. “I know these guys, occasionally play shows with them and they're all good people. But I wonder if that record they're making is something they can actually do,” the legend says. “Too much boogie boogie wham-bam and not enough substance.”

Just take the lyrics from the first three lines of the No. 1 country hit right now: "Burnin' It Down":

You slip your finger through the tear in my t-shirtYou stirrin' up dirty in the back of my mindYou keep on flirtin' cause you know that it's workin'

. . . then it only gets worse from there.

Or how about the No. 2 country hit right now: "That's My Kind of Night" with these lyrics:

You got that sun tan skirt and boots,Waiting on you to look my way and scoot,Your little hot self over here,Girl hand me another beer, yeah!

Or No. 3:

Damn pretty girl,You went and done it again.Ya gone and turned your sexy all the way up to 10.I never seen a ride seat,Looking so hot.Baby you rock,Hit the spot,Like a Fireball shot.

No. 4:

Hey girl, you make me wanna drive you home,Get you outta here and get you all alone.

. . . and blah, blah, blah . . . one more mention of 'girl' or 'baby', and, well "I guess I'll just go all country-crazy."  When noble principles of traditional family values get eschewed for the zeitgeist, it can only go downhill.  And since "Friends in Low Places", country music has done exactly that.

Obama: The Grinch Who Stole America

Obama has been likened to an imperialist, an oligarch, or just a communist.  I like to call him the Grinch.  The facial resemblance of Obama to the Grinch is uncanny.  But even more so is Obama's behavior.  Promise after promise, statement after statement, lie after lie, Obama is covering his true colors with a masquerade of words.  He couldn't have possibly won in 2008 revealing his true identity or his agenda. Obama was so vague in his positions, that he appeared to Americans as a blank canvas that Americans painted their own personal portrayal of him, all different, that looked appealing to the beholder with the paintbrush.  Obama knew better than to reveal the true portrait of himself to Americans so he made up the vague persona of the candidate who would be America's fix-all.  Obama needed to masquerade as this because he is part of a repulsive radical left charade to dismantle the final fibers of America that is keeping it united and recognizable - to itself and to the world.  Would America have voted for this repulsiveness?  Absolutely not.  Does America deserve better?  Yes and no.  One thing is for certain: for America's crimes against the moral fabric of our nation, beginning with the family, beginning with the destruction of human life in the womb and ending with gay marriage, in a way America does deserve punishment - and Obama is God's punishment to America.

"The Grinch had been caught by this little Who daughter
Who'd got out of bed for a cup of cold water.  She stared at the Grinch and said, "Santy Claus, why,

"Why are you taking our Christmas tree? WHY?" 

But, you know, that old Grinch was so smart and so slick
He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!

"Why, my sweet little tot," the fake Santy Claus lied,
"There's a light on this tree that won't light on one side.
"So I'm taking it home to my workshop, my dear.
"I'll fix it up there. Then I'll bring it back here." 

And his fib fooled the child. Then he patted her head
And he got her a drink and he sent her to bed.
And when Cindy-Lou-Who went to bed with her cup,
HE went to the chimney and stuffed the tree up!

Then the last thing he took
Was the log for their fire.
Then he went up the chimney himself, the old liar.
On their walls he left nothing but hooks, and some wire."

- Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Notre Dame's Delusional Popularity Contest

Today, Tuesday, July 22, 2014, a Rasmussen Poll found

that voters strongly believe the United States is a more divided nation these days.  Most are also ready to do something about it at the ballot box in November.

Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Likely U.S. Voters say America is a more divided nation than it was four years ago. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just seven percent (7%) think the country is less divided now

Notre Dame should take note, since they were the ones most deluded into the "healing" magic of Obama.  It appears that the luck of the Irish is not with Father Jenkins.  Father Jenkins needs to be crawling to the American Catholic Church on hands and knees begging forgiveness for attempting to delude Americans into his twisted way of thinking.

"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you" (Matt. 7:6)

FLASHBACK:

May 2009

Father Jenkins, President of Notre Dame University, believes in the enchanting magic of Obama. We look no further than his recent aggrandizing statements exalting the President with great bows of glowing praise. Entranced by Obama, Father Jenkins made these lofty statements on Obama's lucky "rainbow magic" without citing proof of even one accomplishment as evidence:

"inspiring this nation to heal its divisions of religion, culture, race and politics in the audacious hope for a brighter tomorrow." (1) 

"Mr. Obama has been a healer" (4)

Where is the evidence that earns Obama such words of adulation? This, and Fr. Jenkins' intent to dignify Obama with the tribute of an honorary degree (making Obama only the 9th President in the university's 164 year old history to be elevated with such an honor) you'd think Fr. Jenkins and his staff believe that Obama is "changing the marshmallows into magical shapes and colors" - the resemblance is even there:




Fr. Jenkins stated in a letter to graduates of 2009: "The President’s visit to Notre Dame can help lead to broader engagement on issues". Not if all you're doing is enchanting pro-abortion politicians by handing out rare honorary degrees willy-nilly. And without even once publicly challenging Obama on abortion - not once! Perhaps Obama has converted Father Jenkins into believing that he too can change marshmallow orchards into magical shapes and colors. Studying Obama's 100 day track record, it's going to take more than "rainbow magic" to change Obama's view on abortion.

Hint to Fr. Jenkins: There are no leprechauns with pots of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Calamities Befall Oregon After Gay Marriage Ruling

It's no coincidence that Oregon is feeling the negative effects of Judge Michael McShane's ruling overturning the will of Oregon voters who voted to uphold marriage as between one man and one woman.  The judge is a Catholic and the first openly gay judge to serve on the bench in Oregon.  This timeline of events presents the calamities that have since plagued Oregon:

May 19, 2014:

Catholic and first openly gay Judge Michael McShane strikes down voter referendum defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

May 23, 2014:

The Portland Water Bureau on Friday urged about 670,000 people in its region to boil water they drink, use to prepare food or make ice, or brush their teeth with after three tests came back positive for E. coli bacteria.


June 10, 2014:

A student opens fire at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon, a city of 16,400 people 12 miles east of Portland killing a student, wounding a teacher before apparently taking his own life.

June 11, 2014: 

A mysterious disease that is turning sea stars to goo has taken off along the Oregon coast, with up to half or more of the creatures being infected in just the last few weeks, scientists say.

Until now, Oregon was the one state along the U.S. West Coast essentially spared from the disease.