DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: THE ALCOHOL LOBBY

We have yet another week where it was actually kind of hard to nail down who was the worst offender for screwing things up. Republicans and the tea party are almost always in the running every week, this week being no exception, and the Muslims of the world are also just shy of winning again for the continued effort to end the world. But a new contender just today came about easily winning douchebag of the week. Let's recap the runner ups. Again.

1) Republicans and the Tea Party- proving without a shadow of a doubt that the Republicans party is the party of no ideas, these losers paraded their dog and pony show out in front of the American people to talk about their Pledge to America, otherwise known as 1994's Contract With America. It's the same freaking thing. As a matter a fact, if you take tape from 94 and intercut it with this week's speech its a word for word revision. And none of what they stated in that happened. We didn't become fiscally responsible. We didn't help the economy. We lost more jobs than gained with it. It was in every sense of the word, a disaster. So what do Republicans want to do? The exact same crap. And I do mean exact. With the moronic tea party running the show, this country is headed down a rabbit hole that we are not going to come back from.

2)Muslims- Yes my distrust of religion, any religion, is well documented. But this week took another weird turn as Iran was attacked in cyberspace and the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians reached their inevitable conclusion. A new cybervirus has crippled Iran's nuclear program with a highly sophisticated Malware virus called Stuxnet, one that only could have come from a well funded source such as a government like Israel or the US. This would not be unexpected as this is exactly the kind of attack we should be doing. Peace talks have also basically ended between Abbas and Netanyahu after secret discussions between Abbas and Hamas (hey they rhyme) have been discovered, angering all outside parties. This will be the last peace talks, perhaps forever. Abbas wanted Netanyahu to recognize the same deal that Olmert offered a few years back. That deal was considered dead before arrival. If they wanted that deal, Abbas should have taken it when he had the chance. The deal will be significantly less, just because peace between the two have diminished since the building of the wall that has kept out all suicide bombers for the past three years. Containment has worked. Rockets fired are treated different as an act of war. Sooner or later this area is going to explode.

3) And the winner this week is the alcohol lobby who are giving large sums money to help defeat the proposition in California to legalize weed. Worse they are siding with the police union who don't want to lose the amount of power they are gong to. Subscribing to worthless fear tactics that aren't true, these two unholy bastards are trying to deceive the public before the vote. Legalization won't lead to stoned bus drivers, pilots or any other profession. And even if it does, statistics show pot doesn;t impair judgement like alcohol and in some cases makes safer drivers. It also won't lead to the loss of billions in dollars in federal funding. The loss of money is pure invention. Here's the weird part. Alcohol causes a huge statistical problem when it comes to drunk driving, aggression, crime, domestic and sexual assault and properly damage. On the other hand, weed is associated with less aggression, less chance of injury or health problems and a tiny fraction of car accidents, so nominal in fact that the feds don't even compile it. In California alone, alcohol costs taxpayers up to 38$ billion per year in social costs, 109,000 related injuries and 70,000 emergency room visits. In contrast, fewer than 200 users sought treatment for the more than 400,000 smokers in that state. Which statistic seems more dangerous to you? Yet the cops are all up arms about this. The right wing Heritage foundation has realised an idiotic paper on the legalization of pot which basically paints all pot users as terrorists and alcohol as a safe substance that will never ever cause any harm no matter how much you drink. It really said that. It is identical to the crap that came out of Portugal when they decriminalized all drugs. And what happened there? Nothing. What will happen here? The same. The end of war of drugs in a necessary especially considering how broke we are. Let's hope this proposition is not shot down come November.