Oh, there it is

Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive purposes,”

This, of course, leads to the inevitable question......How high was this guy when he stashed his weed?

2,700 years to find it? Damn, that's a good hiding spot. The story says they found 789 grams. I did the math. That's almost 2 pounds of reefer. You know that guy was pissed for a long, long time.

"Sonofabich, where did I put my big bag of weed?????"

Actually they say it was a giant stash that was buried next to a caucasion man, a shaman or maybe a guru Which only goes to prove how racist things are. I mean, here's a white guy with two pounds of marijuana, and it takes the authorities how long to find him? 2,700 years !

Pity the Fool

My best friend asked me to explain the democratic party nominating disaster. I tried but she said it was taking too long, and to sum it up. Here is a story from the AP by NEDRA PICKLER about a party leader switching sides to Obama. Towards the end of the piece, we find a pretty good rundown of the DNC's "process"

Obama now trails her by just 16 superdelegates, 247-263. This week, he picked up 11 superdelegates, including three add-on delegates named by the Illinois Democratic Party, while she netted three.

Superdelegates are nearly 800 elected leaders and Democratic Party
officials who aren't bound by the outcome of state contests and can cast their ballot for any candidate at the national convention. They are especially valuable in this race since neither Clinton nor Obama can win enough pledged delegates to secure the nomination through state-by-state elections.

Obama now leads in the delegate count overall 1735.5 to 1597.5 for
Clinton. A candidate needs 2,025 delegates to win the nomination. About 230 superdelegates remain undecided, and about 60 more will be selected at state party conventions and meetings throughout the spring. Other party leaders are encouraging superdelegates to pick a side by late June to prevent the fight from going to the national convention in August.

Don't feel bad if it still sounds ridiculous. It is ridiculous. But it is even more pathetic than it is ridiculous. Further it should be noted that this onus on the position of the Superdelegates was created by the Superdelegates themselves, when they designed the system of apportioning the plain delegates in each state rather than a winner take all plan. You know, a winner take all vote, like the Electoral Votes in the actual Presidentail election? The problem with a system like that, is that there is less chance for a tight race. Sure the 2000 election was super close and there have been a few like that over our 200+ years but for the most part, our Presidential elections have been fairly decisive and conclusive. We have the idea of the Electoral College and the Electoral votes to thank for that.

Can you imagine if the President was elected the way the Democrats are trying to decide their candidate? How does the concept of a Presidential Superdelegate sound to you? You know, someone who is smarter than you and can make these big decisions better than you. Sounds like a nightmare to me.

Could a Party be more condescending, down to its very core? My God, the Democratic leaders freely admit that the idea of the Superdelegate is a brilliant plan. They defend it openly; because they fear and freely admit that if left to a simple vote, their children, the people who consider themselves Democrats, the followers of Dean and Co., might choose a circuis clown or a comdedian as the candidate.
THEY THINK YOU ARE STUPID / THEY THINK YOU ARE STUPID / THEY THINK YOU ARE STUPID They think you are an idiot and they are willing to stand up in front of God and everybody and say it outloud. You almost have to admire their gall, and pity those so feeble as to follow these leaders.

In a Better World

Think back, about a decade ago; President Bill Clinton is enduring the impeachment hearings, lying under oath--but just about sex, and introducing the world to the new term "presidue". The same Democratic Party could have taken the high road and booted their wayward dress-stainer in chief from office.

Republicans would have cheered and pranced a dandy prance, but Independents would have been very impressed with the Democrats, and guess who would have been our President for about a year? Yup, Al Gore. Now imagine, if you can, America gets the chance to see what a President Gore could do, and come the election in 2000, we would have been able to make a more informed decision. Maybe Gore would have been a disaster as President, maybe he would have been incredible; but either way we would have had a larger body of work with which to judge the then incumbant President Al Gore. Whether you believe he is a genius or just another grunt serving the planetary masters, the outcome in 2000 would have been anything but the tie that it was, and America would have been better for it.

Maybe Gore still would have lost in 2000. Maybe he wouldn't have picked Lieberman as his Veep following Clinton's impeachment and removal. but if he had...how does a Democratic Ticket of Lieberman / Obama sound about right now? Remember, Lieberman would be running as the "incumbant" following 16 dreamy years of Democratic Presidents. Maybe Gore would have won 2000 and lost to either W. Bush or McCain in 2004. Or maybe he would have beaten them both and now who would the Republicans have left to run?

The Democrats are still wearing the stain from the Clinton years. Their inability to elevate the Office of President and the Character of the Nation above their thirst for power and the immediate desires of their party cost us all; in unimaginable, and sometimes-like this little day dream "fun-imaginable" ways. But the Democrats stuck with President Bill Clinton and now they are stuck with his wife.

Hillary Clinches Democratic Nomination

Party time in Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton completed her sweep of large states last night. Putting the grand prize of 158 delegates from the Keystone State into her win column. Coming on the heels of victories in Ohio, Texas, California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, the big double digit win in this key battle ground state pushed the Senator from New York over the top. She now has 1745 delegates, well over 100 more than the 1628 needed to win her party's nomination; and almost 500 more than her rival Senator Barack Obama.

Hillary took advantage of the remake of the Democratic primary. She designed her campaign to showcase her strength in November against the Republicans. Hillary focused her campaign on the large, battle ground states, like Ohio, and Florida; two states which decided the last two presidential elections. She went "all in" in the big states a Democrat must win this November, and won 8 out of 9 states with more than 90 delegates. losing only Senator Obama's home state of Illinois.

After Super Tuesday she held a commanding lead in delegates over Senator Obama, but she cautioned that the immediate road ahead was full of small assured victories for her opponent. Sure enough Senator Obama made a game of the race, pulling within a dozen or so delegates with victories in fairly large states like Wisconsin, Maryland and Virginia coupled with numerous wins in smaller states. But Senator Clinton's strong wins in Ohio and Texas broke Obama's momentum, gave her separation and got her close. Last night, Pennsylvania put her over the top.

Howard Dean, head of the Democrat Party, called Senator Clinton and congratulated her on a strong campaign and assured her the the entire party would be ready, come the fall, to back her one hundred percent against John "McCheney". Dean should be remembered as the man who saved the Democrats from themselves.

Presiding over what could have been a maelstrom of discord in his party the last year, Howard Dean, showed courage and wisdom when he struck down the party's rules of apportioning delegates in each state in favor of the winner take all standard that holds sway in November. Last fall, Dean argued successfully that the primary should reflect the general election, so that their party would be assured of having a winning candidate in the onrushing November contest.

"Have we learned nothing from the last two Presidential elections?" Dean asked the Demorcratic luminaries in 2007. "We need a system that assuers we will win the Electoral College. The future of this country is too important to continue making the same mistakes as we did in 2000 and 2004. The popular vote? We should win that easily, but we must be sure we win the necessary Electoral votes. Changing our method of delegate allocation to a system that better reflects the general election and the Electoral landscape will mean we field the best candidate for the race we must win."

Dean also bruised a lot of egos, almost 800, among the elite Democrats this January when he eliminated the position of "Super Delegate" at the convention. "The very idea of a super delegate goes against everything this country and this party stand for. To think one should have as much say as tens of thousands of voters is simply egotistical at the least, and tyranical in the end. We shall have a vote, everyone who wishes to vote will get one vote, we will count the votes and the winner will beat the Republican in November." With that Dean launched himself into the stratosphere of his party's history.

The Democrats tried once again to sabatoge themselves when many in the party wanted to penalize Michigan and Florida for moving their primaries in front of the big Super Tuesday show-down. Dean held party elders at bay for months and then, with whisps of white smoke, following the voting on Super Tuesday, Dean stepped in and brokered a deal, allowing the Florida election to stand, since both candidates' names appeared on the ballot in the Sunshine state. As Dean put it, "Florida held an election in which both candidates were on the ballot. Neither campaigned in the state, but for goodness sakes, we've got television, the interenet, the voters can find information on the cadidates and make up their own minds; and in Florida, we see almost one and a half million Democrats, a record number, did just that. In Michigan, we did not have such an election, basically Senator Clinton ran against "undecided". She actually won, and any political junkie worth his salt knows it is not always the easiest campaign--when you are running against "none of the above". However, we can not penalize Senator Obama by allowing Senator Clinton to add to her delegate count from a vote in which his name was not on the ballot. We can not also penalize the people of Michigan and remove all of their representation in the party, therefore we will spilt the Michigan delegates 50/50, that's 59 delegates for both Senators Clinton and Obama. These 118 delegates from Michigan will be allowed to vote in all except the first ballot at the convention. This way, if a candidate has things sown up. we have elevated ourselves above the storm, and those 118 folks from Michigan still get to go to Denver. Should the race turn into a fight to the finish with multiple ballots the people of Michigan will have their say." Howard Dean became the pope of the Democrats that night.

Last night the second state to ratify the Constitution, became the first state to ensure a place in history for Senator Hillary Clinton.