Saginaw Escapade

I’m excited for my first festival of the season. The Quarry Breakdown: See here

The best part about the Midwest is festival season, those two-day music and booze benders, perhaps sprinkled with other illicit activities. Michigan is beautiful in the summer and we have some of the best music and festivals in the land. Sure, there are a the biggies, like Rothbury Festival and Bonnaroo, but don’t forget about some of the smaller gems across the state:

Hoxeyville

Dunegrass

Michigan Peace Fest

The Harvest Festival

Blissfest

Rock-N-Reggae
I don’t have time to list them all right now, so reply with others in driving distance of Saginaw, Mich.

This weekend is going to be a perfect mix of some of the best bluegrass and jam music around. Plus, The Quarry as a nice lake for me to wash my grendel in. Hippies might not always be the most motivated folks on Earth, but they’re certainly fun to hang out with.

You should have jumped on this one early. I think prices were originally under $50 for only Saturday and Sunday. Bands kept being added including my favorites, Sprout and UV Hippo, and the early bird price in creased to $70 and they added a night, Friday. So if you were early you got a 3-day fest for pretty cheap.

helmets turn kids into nancies.

Why are parents and politicians adamant that we need to become a country of nancies. Kids are durable.
The use of helmets is relatively new, and I think it needs to go away.
**The same goes for motorcycle riders who wish not to wear one**
I don’t care if you wear a helmet on a bike or have your kid wear one, but I will think the little one, if it is a boy, is probably a little light in his loafers, perhaps a “tender foot.” The girl will probably turn out to be a princess who hates to camp.
People baby their kids way too much and I think it’s obnoxious.
I don’t have kids, but I always resent it when at a house where there is a toddler and the adults invariably sit around the room laughing, smiling, playing and generally devoting all of the attention to the baby; it feels like a zoo exhibit.
That’s really going to help them turn out nice and centered later in life.
Don’t adults have anything worth talking about?
I just don’t get the importance people put on kids. I don’t think it’s healthy for the parents or the kid.
You have a life even if you have a kid. Take care of your kid but don’t obsess over it. It’ll be better and healthier for all.

Someone on a chat boars said – or wrote- something profound, genious perhaps. What creates energy, or more appropriately, releases it? friction and differene enacts energy release, the origins we do not know. Electrons with electrons merge in docility; alternate atoms – protons and neutrons – tickle out the energy, and they laugh their heat away. So all energy is bipolar, opposites. Those who don’t ligh dormant together. Does that mean that bipolars have equal numbers of protons and electrons, and perhaps less neutrons; they are like Switzerland and get along with everybody.

i wonder if electrons and protons and neutrons really exist. What are the unique characteristics? How can you break down a moleule that low? Maybe science is just another religions. MAybe you need to wipe your brain clean and really think, by not thinking. A man who was born and spent 50 years in a closet came out upon light and the world. That man knows mor than the rest of us untaught ourselves.

The knowledge that there is something to gain from compliance renders the same.

I did what my mother wanted because she compenated me with companionship and love. I care about people so that they will care about me. Penalties are necessary, but don’t overdo it. If your dog runs away and you beat the ever-loving God out of her/him upon his/her capture/return, you teach them not to return. A soft swat will register and momentify the instance, then you hug the animal to let her/him know the reason you care is not entirely selfish – even though it is – and that way you mutually improve the lives of the interaction.

To put people in jail without compassion is contradictory. You put people in jail because you care, about yourself, and therefore, them too. If You care about yourself, you care about them, so punishment should be a soft swat to their snout in order to awaken their senses, and the rest, an attempt to improve their vision of mutuality. Let them thrive, or else they will drown, and upon surfacing, they’ll only be that much more angry and detremental. Think through your societal cloud. Find truth. Answers start from the bottom.

Medical Marijuana:
I’m for legalization — or more accurately, decriminalization — of drugs, which includes marijuana. Michigan supported proposal 1. On its face, this law was written with holes, but the more I think about it, I like it the way it is.

The law basically says: Here’s a car, keys are totally illegal, but if you somehow get a key, you can drive the car and we won’t arrest you.
The law says if you fit the criteria, you may possess up to 2.5 ounces, grow up to 12 plants, and your caretaker may do the same. Plants must be locked up.
The Michigan Department of Community Health will have 120 days, until April 4, to outline the law within the parameters established by the proposal, an initiative of the Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care. I spoke to the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) and they are a little confused themselves. They are working on establishing the rules in order for a patient to get a medical marijuana card. That is it. Once you have a card you can legally possess, but no one is going to help you possess, so ultimately you have to go to a drug dealer or someone willing to illegally sell you seeds.

It just seems weird that they would write the law this way. In essence, with the knowledge that the patient may only obtain seeds or cannabis from someone who is selling it illegally, they are promoting the illegal act of the dealer. I actually have no problem that they haven’t made it officially “legal,” I just wish they would make it not illegal to sell marijuana.

Because it was passed as a citizen proposal, it must be put into legislation, and legislators would have to go through the normal voting and legislation process to amend it.

Unless patients already have a means to obtain marijuana on their own, they are going to leave the MDCH pretty confused, when they are given a card and a prescription by a doctor, but no where to fill it.

The reason the government cannot offer seeds or marijuana is because they cannot participate in an act that is illegal, which possession of a schedule 1 substance, marijuana, is. So the only way to create legal dealers is to incorporate that into the law, stating that certain people may possess certain quantities for the purpose of providing it to patients, or else the presumption is that the medicine will be obtained on the black market.

I actually like the black-market better; it’s true capitalism without government getting it all muddled. There’s enough pot out there from safe sources. Ask around and you’ll find it. We don’t need clinics that distribute it.

California has Co-ops. A Co-op is allowed to keep 8 ounces on hand for each patient in their registry. They will service anyone that has a doctor’s letter or prescription, even without the card. The card is only good to the patient in the case that they are caught by the police, and then the card would allow them to have 8 ounces on their persons.

If California, the distributors allow patients to get as much or as little as they want at a time, up to 8 ounces as allowed by law. They claim to sell their product for higher prices than on the black market, so they say that takes away any opportunity for the patient to sell it and make profit, though it also means they make more, even though they also have more overhead business expenses.

Distributors in California have been raided by the DEA, because even though they comply with state law, they do not comply with federal. Some of these people are doing decent amounts of time in federal penitentiaries for it, so it’s risky for them even though the state government mandates them. I expect DEA raids will perpetually diminish, however.

Anyway, in a perfect world, marijuana would be legal to possess or sell by anyone without government intervention, but I supposed I like this law better than California’s.

sidenote: In the language for the proposal they spelled marijuana “marihuana”. What’s that about

I can’t say that I like any of the presidential candidates. I think Barr or McCain would do the least to hurt our society. I think the socialism that Obama is going to push for will hurt Americans in the long-run, even if some middle-class people get temporary financial releif. Socializing medine is not the answer for health care. Barr is an ultra social-conservative, even if he is running Libertarian. MCain is nothing new, just run-of-the-mill Washington insider, but until we can get people to think Libertarian – and get an actual Libertarian on the ballot – he might be the best hoice for Ameria over the next four years.

Vote for Libertarian Scotty Boman – not the Red Wings coach – for U.S. senator. I’m for both proposals, thought I’d prefer marijuana to not be regulated by government at all, hence making it technically legal without governmental endorsement.

It’ll be interesting to see what heppens tomorrow.