Completely safe is what I’m told. Um, maybe not so much? Emphasis mine, reformatted:
Mysterious illness tied to marijuana use on the rise in states with legal weed
For more than two years, Lance Crowder was having severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and no local doctor could figure out why. Finally, an emergency room physician in Indianapolis had an idea. “The first question he asked was if I was taking hot showers to find relief. When he asked me that question, I basically fell into tears because I knew he had an answer,” Crowder said.
The answer was cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS. It’s caused by heavy, long-term use of various forms of marijuana. For unclear reasons, the nausea and vomiting are relieved by hot showers or baths.
The entire purpose of Government is providing services to its citizens. We can quibble or argue over what services and in what quantity but they must be paid for. It is becoming increasingly clear that services must be paid for in the now but that past services are ALSO being paid for now and in the future. Which as many towns, cities and States are coming to grips that those past services are very expensive indeed. Especially out in California, services for the present are being drastically in many places due to the high price, via pensions, of those past services.
And now Nashua is feeling the price of former politicians giving too much to former government employees as they are seeing the cost of kicking that can down the road – only a snippet from the Telegraph (pay wall):
NASHUA – With the city facing a likely budget crunch in fiscal 2017-18, caused in large part by increasing pension costs, lifting the spending cap is seen as an unlikely way out of trouble.
The city’s spending cap can be lifted with a vote of 10 of the 15 members of the Board of Aldermen. That figure is out of reach given the current makeup of the board, said Brian McCarthy, president of the board…
But there is one thing I hope all my students remember forever—the role of prices and private property. In particular, I want them to remember how these mechanisms are vital for a free and prosperous society. I make it clear to them that I think this material is of the utmost importance. In fact, prior to beginning our discussion of prices, I tell them I will be thrilled if the price system is one thing they remember from the class fifteen years from now.
Prices and private property rights are fundamentally important. Failure to grasp how these forces work leads to positively detrimental outcomes.
-Abigal Hall Blanco, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa
Ben Garrison is an excellent cartoonist with an eye for detail that keeps on giving, rather like the best kids’ books have detail that keeps the grown-ups smiling even as they read a story for the 100th time.
Since he punctures liberals and statists so well, trolls have gone to great lengths to sully his reputation, but I think you’ll like his stuff, and may wish to support his efforts.
Draining the Swamp, Mourning (for Dems) in America, Sweeping DC clean, Dem Bitter Clingers, and a Happy Trump New Year (All click-expand to show more detail) See them all….
Four costly years for me AND the taxpayer, wasted. A very expensive exercise in English composition!
This is a “property rights” issue. I wish it were as simple as “it’s your property and you can do what you like on it.” Well, that’s not exactly true. As we relinquish control to our elected/consented land use boards, hourly planning consultants and/or full-time planners, and lack of citizen’s involvement in the laws that are passed, the property owners end up in court fighting for the plain, ordinary and literal meaning of a statute.
Portsmouth wants to rehab Prescott Park at a proposed cost of $14 million dollars, $10-12 million of which will be needed to protect the park from…sea-level rise.
What’s with Democrats and facial tics? I mean Hillary had those rogue eye wanderings when she was trying to fool the American public into voting for a lying sociopath under two FBI investigations. And now John Kerry can’t stop licking his bottom lip when he’s trying to cloud the fact that Oblunder just screwed Israel. Below is a montage of Kerry yesterday giving his deplorable FU speech on Israel and his tongue is flicking out of his mouth more than a viper sensing its way to a mouse nest. My theory is that he’s had botched plastic surgery and no longer has feeling in parts of his Frankensteinian face (Good!), including his bottom lip, so he has no idea that he’s the realization of Barty Crouch Junior. Check it out. (I tried to keep count but failed to do so… it’s pretty disgusting.)
Barack Obama refused to veto a Security Council resolution condemning settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. This resolution effectively turns over the Old City to Palestinian groups. The Palestinians are led by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and Fatah Islamists in the West Bank. Obama thought this was a good move.
Refused to Veto? Refused to VETO??
The Troublemaker in Chief Instigated the resolution, and Bibi is calling him out on it. If Obama wasn’t about to leave office, Israel would be severing all ties with the USA about now. Read the whole thing!
Attorney Daniel Goldstein, of Brooklyn, New York, accosted Ivanka on a JetBlue flight from New York to San Francisco on Thursday, reportedly screaming: ‘Why is she on our flight? She should be flying private.’
His husband Matthew Lasner, who was also on the plane, claims Goldstein simply ‘expressed his displeasure in a calm tone’, but the couple and their child were asked to leave the aircraft.
Since then, both Goldstein and Lasner have been branded ‘scum of the earth’, ‘d*****bags,’ ‘political terrorists’ and ‘heterophobic bigots’, while Lasner’s book has been flooded with bad reviews on Amazon.
This is the conservatism of Bill Gavin who, in his 1975 book Street Corner Conservative, gave voice to the instinctual conservatism of the men and women who populated the Jersey City neighborhoods in which he was raised. “They do not want to overthrow the system,” Gavin wrote. “But they are not quite satisfied with the system either. They supported the United States efforts in Vietnam, but at the same time deplored the strategy of piecemeal escalation that led to such a disastrous state of affairs. They are sick unto death with the follies and the arrogance of liberal Democrats, but they have not quite snuggled up to the Republican Party.”
The Queens-born Trump, like other street corner conservatives, has never quite felt at home in either political party. And while he went to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate, he, like other street corner conservatives, lacks the graduate degrees and credentials that establish oneself in society as a professional or as an originator and exponent of ideas. “We were all, I am convinced, conservatives,” Gavin wrote of his family and friends. “We never intellectually knew that we were, but instinctively, it seems, we knew that certain people and institutions and places have claims upon our loyalties.”
Tolerance and pluralism are important values in a free society. So are choice and association. Your choices may not be mine; my preferred associations may not be yours. In a diverse, live-and-let-live culture, our differences are manageable — as long as government doesn’t interfere. The state can’t force Elton John to take a gig he doesn’t want. It shouldn’t be able to force anyone else to, either.
But, so it seems, if you are a Christian baker, florist, photographer, bed-and-breakfast owner, or wedding chapel operator, the State will, with the screams of the gay mafia, force the ordinary people to “take a gig” they do not want. And the Left is perfectly fine in have local, State, or Federal Government force Individuals to go against their conscience for deeply held religious beliefs. Don’t let me forget the coercion that Obama and his pack of Progressives have forced me to support (via my taxes) abortion against my religious beliefs via the HHS “regulation” (that comes with the force of law) by redefining the English word “access” to now mean abortifacients must be “free” to those that want it via Obamacare.
Yet, when the shoe is on the other foot, as we are seeing with their candidate having been kicked to the curb by the American “flyover” public in favor of Trump, all of a sudden that long neglected clause of the First Amendment has become very, very important. This tweet says it well:
I spent about an hour and a half at Hooksett District Court this morning hoping to meet a new friend, Michael LaSean Lewis. We haven’t met in person yet but I know so much about this vote thief, like his birth date 05/14/73.
Being a same-day registered voter since 7 pm on November 8, in Hooksett, Michael LaSean Lewis is as legitimate a NH voter as you or I, according to the asinine interpretations of our election laws the NH Secretary of State and NH AG’s Office use. His vote counted on November 8. 2016.
We’ve railed about the vivisection of what used to be the common morality of right and wrong, of duty and honor, of a shared work ethic. Since the 1960s, with the Free Love, If it Feels Right, God is Dead (or should be), we’ve seen the century long fight to unhook our Society from the traditional mores.
And have succeeded – out of wedlock births, binge drinking, drug abuse, higher mortality
Post reporters Kimberly Kindy and Dan Keating want to blame increased alcohol consumption by women on advertising. Using the left’s favorite new word, the Post argues that clever advertisers have used social media to “normalize” heavy drinking by women. This is hardly an unexpected line for a liberal newspaper to take.
An alternative view would connect the rise in alcohol abuse with the phenomena I pointed to at the beginning of this post — the increase in single-parent families, the rise in drug abuse, and a declining work ethic. The Post implicitly makes some of these connections by including its article on alcohol abuse in a series that also encompasses drug abuse. As noted, though, when it comes to drinking the Post elects to focus on advertising.
We here at GraniteGrok predicted this – while others have said that he’d be a failure of a President, we thought he’d be a most successful one. The problem is that “success” in Obama’s definition of the word was to not just make America’s stature in the world far less than before but to also decrease the American median standard of living:
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
To we normal Americans, why should we care what other countries think of how we heat our bigger homes and bigger cars? But Obama did, and does, and seeths that the ordinary American has more – the international version of Saul Alinsky’s “Have vs Have-Nots” on a global scale. Remember what he said in Germany back in 2007? Yeah “a fellow citizen of the world“.
“We feel the difference now. See, now, we are feeling what not having hope feels like,” she told Oprah Winfrey in an interview, a clip of which aired on CBS on Friday. “Hope is necessary. It’s a necessary concept and Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes.”
CHASER: Gosh, there’s a lot of hopelessness going on there….oh wait!
The effects of a profound change in national direction are already being felt in the American economy:
Consumer confidence climbed in December to the highest level since August 2001 as Americans were more upbeat about the outlook than at any time in the last 13 years, according to a report Tuesday from the New York-based Conference Board.
Confidence index increased to 113.7 (forecast was 109) from a revised 109.4 in November
Measure of consumer expectations for the next six months rose to 105.5, the highest since December 2003, from 94.4
American households are expecting a Donald Trump administration to deliver. They are more upbeat about the prospects for the economy, labor market and their incomes, according to the Conference Board’s report. The results corroborate surveys by the University of Michigan and the National Federation of Independent Business, which showed jumps in household and business sentiment on Trump’s pledges to boost jobs, cut taxes and ease regulations.
The marketplace’s animal spirits, so long kept in the socialist/Statist’s cage, are seeing the locks ready to drop. No more of the equivalent of Bernie Sanders railing against the Free Market (re: “Youdon’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers…”). And now it is starting to show.
“This meme proves that their desires have remained unchanged since the days of slavery. In fact, it’s gone national. Regardless of skin color, Democrats want you to be a slave to the government.”
After these last eight years, one thing stands out – Democrats still wish to rule YOUR roost by having Government make all of the large (ok, small ones too) decisions of how you should live your life. Why else has the Obama Administration put regulation making on steroids? Always ask youself – what part of your live does NOT have any type of intrusion by Government in it? Frankly, I can’t think of any. Always remember that:
It was the Democrats that created the KKK
It was the Democrats in the South that created Government enforced Jim Crow laws.
Carrie Fisher, who had a massive heart attack on a plane 15 minutes out from Los Angeles a few days ago, passed away this morning at 8:55am local time. Fisher is best known as Princess Leia from the Star Wars universe, and to many as an author.
Carrie Fisher, the iconic actress who portrayed Princess Leia in the Star Wars series, died Tuesday following a massive heart attack last week. She was 60.
“It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning,” Simon Halls, a spokesperson for Fisher’s family, said in a statement to People.
The Militant snowflake looks good on green shirts or brown.
(thepeoplescube) Your community organizers have succeeded in creating a spectacular movement of snowflakes who they hope will one day solidify into an impenetrable iceberg that will sink the Titanic of capitalism. And yet you’re still struggling to create an emblem you could put on your armbands, banners, and social media icons. We hope this design will stick. Your movement deserves an original catchy symbol.
To borrow from Skip, Shot: UNITY, N.H. (AP) – A historical society in a New Hampshire has preserved a collection of 19th century town voting records for future study. Chaser: Names that may also be on the November 2016 Checklist as same day voters who signed an affidavit, cast a vote, but can no longer […]
So let’s see what the Reality-in-Chief has to say about his reality: SHOT: “I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it,” Mr. Obama said, CNN reported Monday. “I know that […]
Could the reason the Left are so fearful of the resurgence of the Deplorables is because they expect us to treat them the way they had planned to treat us? I believe that is the case, something psychiatrists call projection. Too bad they don’t understand (or don’t care) that most of us just want to […]
The question is whether they realize that we already knew they agreed with Hillary? Finally, an admission from Jake Tapper about the whole flock of ’em (emphasis mine): BASH: Number one —you and I talked about this in the break —for sure, Hillary Clinton’s deplorables comment. TAPPER: Basket of deplorables, yeah. BASH: Baskets of deplorables […]
Back in early 2014 then Gov. Maggie Hassan violated her travel ban to go on a “very important” trade mission to Turkey. The results are in. Trade with Turkey has dropped off a cliff. Image Credit: Union Leader
The Fraser Institute has announced that in 2014, the last year for which data was available, New Hampshire was the most economically free state in the US. It was followed on the list by Florida, Texas, South Dakota and Tennessee. (Watchdog) New Hampshire leads the United States in economic freedom for the second consecutive year, […]
The Manchester paper has several pages inserted daily from USA Today. One of the articles in this morning’s edition is titled “Don’t let platform’s like Amazon own your soul.” My first thought was “Don’t let platforms like the Democrat Party’s own your soul.” This is, after all, USA Today.
Yea, I might be going out on a limb here but my guess is that since hardly one action that is regarded as standard in a presidential campaign holds true for Donald Trump. This brings us to “THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED DAYS!!!” malarkey. My bet is the first one hundred tweets will have more of […]
“The Caucasians among the tender young minds exposed to Professor George Ciccariello-Maher at Drexel University are on notice that their teacher wants them exterminated because of their race. Not exactly a welcoming atmosphere. I wonder if any of them might be “triggered” by this tweet the good professor offered in the spirit of the holiday?” […]
Retired Marine General James “Mad Dog” Mattis (and nominee as Trump’s DoD Secretary) is beloved by his former Marines – this is one anecdote why: A couple of months ago, when I told General Krulak, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, now the chair of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, that we were […]
