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September 30, 2009

links for 2009-09-30

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  • FUCK TRUCKS: Truckers group says texting while driving is safe, necessary
    Yes, they also hit & run, give false information to police, and generally drive dangerously because they are paid to. And now we’re supposed to let them text while driving? FUCK TRUCKS.

    Oh, look at them whine. It costs $1.50 per minute if they have to pull over. When you die in a truck accident, you will die to save some corporation $1.50.

    Truck accidents are now 12% of all highway fatalities. Remove the drunk drivers and that would be much higher.

    4,777 deaths in 1997, 4808 deaths in 2007. Way more than 911 — a truck is a far greater threat to your life than Al Queda or Terrorists.

    (tags: vehicles safety trucks truckers texting bullshit NewYorkTimes deaths corporations capitalism greed)
  • WAR ON DRUGS: Wabash Valley woman didn’t realize second cold medicine purchase violated drug laws
    She bought Zyrtec-D at a pharmacy for her husband.
    Then she bought Mucinex-D at a pharmacy for her daughter.

    And in the war-on-drugs prohibitionist madness, she was arrested for daring to purchase more than 3 grams of psuedoephidrine products within a 7 day period.

    ‘Cause, y’know, you COULD make meth or cat with that. And her picture was on the front page of her local paper, under the headline “17 Arrested In Drug Sweep”. Nice.

    It’s pretty funny that we give amphetamine to our soldiers, but then put people in jail when they give it to themselves. And the establishment pulls out no stops — they talk about meth babies. Remember crack babies? Turns out, those babies were just fine, and were not measurably any different. It’s just a way to demonize a drug for a few years. Alcohol and nicotine mess up babies more, but we allow those!

    (tags: politics WarOnDrugs OverlyHarshPunishments freedom drugs psuedoephidrine ephidrine medical medicines prescriptions bulshit arrests Indiana PSE meth methamphetamine amphetamine Tribstar news articles methBabies legal laws stupid)
  • JEWELRY: Glass Heart Designs by GlassHeartDesigns on Etsy
    Parthena’s Etsy store!
    (tags: friends Parthena jewelry etsy stores store)
  • QUIZ: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz
    This really tested me hard!
    Round 1: I got 11/20, Carolyn got 13/20.
    Round 2: I got 17/20, Carolyn got 16/20.
    I learned some things.
    (tags: quizzes surveys fonts Arial Helvetica fromArloGuthrie)
  • CORPORATIONS/POLICE STATE: American Police Force, a private security company, starts patrolling Billings, Montana with no authority.
    This is super-scary stuff that would be ignored or shrugged off by most people. The local sheriff has no idea why they are patrolling — in cars stating “police department” on them. They are not the police there. They are patrolling a city with no jurisdiction, arresting people as they see fit — and likely filling them in a private jail that they are running.

    Police & Sheriff’s departments should be manned by neighbors, not mercenaries.

    (tags: politics corporations AmericanPoliceForce police private security APF Billings Montana noJurisdiction legal rights Hardin mercenaries KULR8 policeState news articles)
  • ART: The Rape Tunnel
    Wow.
    (tags: art installations rape tunnels RapeTunnel YesButNoButYes)
  • COMICS: RELIGION: Subversive cartoonist R. Crumb zaps the Biblein his new “Robert Crumb’s Book Of Genesis”.
    He’s done with his grueling 4-year project!
    (tags: religion cartoonists comics media R.Crumb RobertCrumb TheBible HolyBible Genesis Christianity God)
  • BANNED BOOKS WEEK: BOOKS: 40 Books About Sexuality That You Have to Read
    Too bad we can’t read books as fast as in The Matrix.
    (tags: media books sex sexuality banned bannedBooks BannedBooksWeek)
  • SEX OFFENDERS: Sex Offenders Thrown Out of Woods Hours After yesterday’s recent news story about them
    The men were told they had 24 hours to get off the property or be arrested. Within another 72 hours they must be registered with a new address. The problem is — there’s no place compliant. It was their probation officers who told them the woods was the only compliant place for them.

    Murderers get out of prison all the time and aren’t subjected to conditions like this. It’s like we value our crotches more than our lives. One of these men was 15 when placed on the list.

    Now what? Back to jail? It’s almost like double jeopardy. You serve your time, but we make new laws that you can’t follow that put you back in jail a 2nd time.

    (tags: politics SexOffenders Megan’sLaw sex offenders registries homeless woods camps removed 11Alive news articles CobbCounty)

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