Posted on 06/23/2025 5:33:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
You sure do love to hear yourself talk. Must be all that estrogen.
“Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Ft Worth”
You worship these liberal cities?
I supplied the URL in the post that you referenced. Put down the weed and look again.
It’s a bigger play. The would rats would use it as a ballot prop and it brings out a lot every lefty voter many whom would not bother to show up otherwise.
* we don’t care about gays, weed, abortion or DEI.
The out.of.control debt and spending on entitlements is what we care about.
They sample. They don’t test every plant. There is natural variability. Buy enough, and you inevitably will get some good stuff.
As mentioned earlier, coming from a former botanist who understands plant taxonomy and variability.
What part of I don’t smoke you not get? It’s not about smoking it’s about a government dictating morals over the will of its majority of its citizens. Freedom man just that.
The out.of.control debt and spending on entitlements is what we care about.
In other words, you are a Libertarian.
Remind me what percentage of the vote that the Libertarian Party got in the last election. The way that you talk, it must have been close to 90%.
“You sure do love to hear yourself talk. Must be all that THC.
“Our analysis of the collected samples found that THC use was associated with significant adverse impacts to the animals’ reproductive hormones, including decreased levels of testosterone and severe testicular shrinkage. Specifically, we observed a greater than 50% decrease in testicular size,
I would be interested to see how it was worded in that poll. I have 130+ young people four times a year in my direct sphere of influence at university. The vast majority of them are not social conservatives at all. We have active debates regularly.
I think that we just found out a lot.
Libertarian is a throw away vote, that’s why in a two party system you have to choose one of those two parties. The primary and electoral college system is designed to be a two party system. Only idiots go outside that fact. Lessor of two evils is the reality of the system as designed here. I vote for those who do not try to take my wealth it is that simple. I am under 50 and retired well semi I choose to do research in academia and also give back in the lecture hall making new scientists. If there was a third party of , low taxes , no illegal criminal aliens, and keep the damn government out of any aspect of our lives other than basic criminality, the obvious stuff(murder,arson,contract law) without the crazy religious types they would grab a huge chunk.of the middle..
There are many reasons. Jay Pea on X has much information on this topic, as does Save Standard Time. They too can be found on X.
For me personally, it's all about my health. Since developing Long Covid one of the main things I suffer from is insomnia. I have a difficult time getting to sleep at nights. When DST comes and goes, it take me, on average, 1-2 months to get my sleep patterns back on track. It's a grueling ordeal making for very bad days.
On a national level, it's bad is because if the nation implements full year DST, it would mean sunrises in the winter between 8:30 - 9:00 AM in the morning. That's dangerous because more accidents happen as a result, and kids have been killed at school bus stops because drivers aren't fully awake.
Full year DST was tried once, in 1973/4, and the outcry was so loud that President Nixon canceled it and put it back to the summer months, 6 months total. Then Congress changed it to 8 months. But Arizona and Hawaii don't observe DST, and other states are now considering doing the same.
President Trump said he would do everything he could to eliminate DST, then he went back on his promise. No surprise, the golf lobby got to him. About the only people who endorse DST are corporations, dining venues, golfing organizations and special interest groups. And all the talk about DST saving on energy costs doesn't hold water because it really doesn't. In fact, it makes energy costs higher.
On the whole though, Standard Time is better in that it keeps a person's body on a more natural circadian rhythm. It's healthier for you, and it's safer. Check the following links for more information.
I don’t hide that I am, a research scientist. I made a killing in the Industry for those not in it that’s oil industry we just call it The Industry as all other industries depend on it. Fiscal policy is my primary concern it will make or break this nation. We are 37 trillion in debt and climbing. Really 200+ trillion if you include entitlements. Clearly not sustainable..
I could care less what people think especially those with one foot in the grave who will not see the consequences of what the government and the Fed Reserve are doing. The message and the action must be to the people who it will affect. That’s why the 400+ under 30s I have in my charge is the key. No one cares what 70+ think y’all have single digit years left we have decades.
Runoff elections would fix that.
TX has runoff elections all the time, but few voters even bother to participate.
I bet you accepted Abbott’s determination of you being “Non-Essential” in the same vein......
I bet you are a whack job who says something totally unrelated, perhaps too stoned to hold a coherent train of thought?
You are governed by a religion, specifically by the religion of a ruling class. At the country's foundation, the religion of the merchants and plantation owners who were the first American elite was Protestant Christianity. By 1945 or so, America had broadened to becoming a Judeo-Christian nation, as Catholics and Jews became part of the ruling elite. In the 80 years since that time, our rulers became secular humanists for the most part, even if Clinton, Obama, and Biden sometimes went to church on Sunday. But what was the effect of their beliefs? Southern Baptists and the Catholic Church are pro-life and anti-homosexual "marriage". Yet Clinton and Biden did not abide by the teachings of their denominations. Effectively, these leaders are atheist or agnostic.
Secular humanism is a religion as much as Christianity or Judaism with the basis not Bible or tradition but "science", in other words, what concepts please the ruling class. At this time, that elite believes in hedonism, situation ethics, and the nonexistence or irrelevance of God.
American laws were at the beginning tied to English common law, which was partially Biblically based. The underlying concepts of legal prohibitions of adultery, sodomy, abortion, and socially destructive behaviors were in part based on the Bible, specifically the Ten Commandments, and part on natural law, which states that proper behavior promotes the health of a society.
Do such prohibitions end bad behavior? Obviously, no. However, such laws set standards and do influence popular behavior. If states reverted to the divorce laws of a century ago, allowing divorce only in the cases of adultery or desertion and if the family courts were not so anti-male, we would have more intact marriages.
THC should be banned from all products sold to the public to many kids end up in ER’s as it is with their older siblings giving it to them or finding the folks stash.
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