Mon, 14 May 2012 01:32:12 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/ Weird Harold's Aardvark en-us http://www.weird-harolds.com/images/logo.gif http://www.weird-harolds.com/ webmaster@weird-harolds.com http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1895.html Since I have been involved in extensive medical care, I have not been able to keep up with all the horrendous activity that our, "Drug War" has taken our country. I am going to direct my followers to this site Here you can read what some of the most brilliant minds in our country are saying about "Drug Prohibition". Then you do not have the need to listen to the poorly educated son of a tobacco farmer. Mon, 14 May 2012 01:32:12 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1894.html Here is A Drug Policy for the 21st Century Posted by Kathleen Sebelius, Eric Holder, and Gil Kerlikowske on the White House web house site Home • The Administration • Office of National Drug Control Policy. It was most likely written by a Harvard educated Chicago politician that always has in his mind, "Do not close the polls, I have 3 cemeteries that have not voted" Illegal drugs not only harm a user’s mind and body, they devastate families, communities, and neighborhoods. They jeopardize public safety, prevent too many Americans from reaching their full potential, and place obstacles in the way of raising a healthy generation of young people. This statement leads one to believe Interdiction solve all these problems. This problem will be solved when we stop all the addicts from using drugs ah haw. It has worked quite well the past 98 years. The politicians are hopping you will believe this and most will. It makes me makes me wanna cry. More to come later on this web post when I can get up the strength. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:32:01 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1893.html This article explains many of the problems with the Drug War. To end these destructive laws I believe more truths must be told. Many people have fears of those using alcohol and/or drugs and well they should if those users drive automobiles, operate heavy machinery or have guns. Some create public and/or domestic violence. Then there are the parents, grandparents and others that believe if one ever uses a drug or alcohol they will become addicted. These issues are not going away whatever laws we have in place. Our prohibition laws have taken on three functions to deal with all the above issues. They are: Interdiction Education Treatment Interdiction failed with alcohol and it has failed with drugs. So our lawmakers make more laws and increase punishment and more failures. The CATO institute has some example of these failures. The Education in place is the flat earth society idea. There is not enough known about addiction to be teaching anything. Teaching children about the harms of drugs when they are more informed than the teacher is bullshit. The Treatment: I am opposed to forcing people into treatment because they have committed a crime while under the influence. Having treatment available to those who wish to seek help I am for. If you do the crime you do the time. A crime by an addict is a crime. Of course, I am not talking about Drug Prohibition crimes. My thoughts come from this idea. Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:41:34 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1892.html Well, I am sure Hell has frozen over Pat Robertson and the Pope agree on something, however, they don't know it yet. I agree with both on this issue. Now, tell me who has changed their position on the, "War on Drugs". Pat talks about changing the marijuana prohibition laws. The Pope talks about the evil of, "The Drug Cartels". Both topics stem from, The "War on Drugs" problems. Both issues cover only two parts of the prohibition laws we have created to treat a spiritual malady with a STICK and not LOVE. From these laws unscrupulous entrepreneurs have developed ways to cultivate, transport, manufacture and place on a underground market products that have rule of safety to the consumer. Each step creates a unnecessary activity to stay out of the light of law enforcement and eliminate competition. The Pope calls it evil. I say the bird is in our hands for legislating drug prohibition laws. These laws have created a marketplace of violence not known in any of our history. It has destroyed the 4th Amendment rights and established a police state. We have given the authority to create a prohibited list to the agency that has the authority to enforce these laws. We have convinced the populous the enforcement of these prohibition laws will completely eradicate this spiritual malady. Some religious leaders are beginning to doubt our methodology. The more these laws fail the more laws we make. Which are all domed to fail. Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:04:14 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1891.html Hell is freezing over I have never agreed with Pat Robertson on anything, until this. Ok Pat, sing your song about this one I hope some of your fans listen. Signed: Weirdharold Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:16:12 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1890.html This guy has been has been reading my blog Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:27:44 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1889.html The Drug War is just another Vietnam Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:16:48 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1888.html "-every irrationality has its own rationality" From the text:Silvano Arieti understanding and helping the schizophrenic Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:28:20 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1887.html We have reached the point when those who are supposed to, "Insure domestic tranquility" are creating the violence needed to sustain their existance via War on Terror and War on Drugs. The people with the guns SWAT Teams are making the rules. When are we going to question these rules or better when are going to put the laws back in place we started when this country was created. Here is just one example where police were out of order. And they were just following procedures Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:42:00 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1886.html California is spending more money on prisons than education. Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:23:42 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1885.html Why do the media allow the GOP hacks to keep repeating the " Frank Luntz"s factual misinformation (lie)". "46% of Americans do not pay any Federal Income Tax Fact: All People with (any) income up to $108,000 pay FICA an acronym that stands for Federal Insurance Contributions Act is a payroll tax imposed on employees and employers to fund Social Security and Medicare @ the rate of 15.3%. Consider the above while the same people call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement. Ain't this a manner of stealing a widow's house. Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:15:27 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1882.html The whole story from Onion here Though Romney has apologized profusely, Beltway insiders said he would need to distance himself from his I-tried-to-help-sickpeople image. Sources noted that Romney's current promise to take away health care from anyone who can't afford it is a step in the right direction, but might not be enough. "The major strike against Mitt Romney is that he not only tried to help people get medical care, he actually did help people get medical care," conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg said. "No other Republican in the field has that type of baggage. And in the end, in order to defeat President Obama, the GOP needs someone who has a track record of never wanting to help sick people." Thus far, Romney is polling strongly in early primary states like New Hampshire and Iowa, but Republican strategists and voters agree that even in a general election, his sordid past would continue to dog him. "I don't think I can vote for someone like that," Pennsylvania Republican Eric Tolbert said. "He says he's sorry, but how do I know that's the real Mitt Romney? What happens if he gets elected and tries to help sick people again?" "I like Michele Bachmann now," Tolbert added. "Because what this country needs is a president who doesn't give a fuck about helping people." Sat, 14 May 2011 13:35:08 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1881.html When I hear pundits talking about drug addiction and the solutions for addiction, it reminds me of the old saying I heard many years ago about addiction, "There are those who do not know, and there those who do not know they do not know" I am positive these pundits are those of the latter group. They are doing nothing more than spreading lies to parents. Pride in the family is the greatest symptom that creates difficulty in treating addiction. Those pundits spread this pride, making treating addiction very difficult. Then we have those promoting prohibition telling us about keeping these dangerous from children, while in fact they have created a violent marketplace where more dangerous drugs are put on sale on the street. I have one statement to make to these, Know it Alls. I am an alcoholic. Upon reflection I realize I had all the symptoms of alcoholism the first night I drank. On March 24th 1960, I was 19 years of age. After a romantic event did not go my way, I picked up a friend and we went to a bootlegger in Horse Cave, KY and purchased I/2 pint of some forgotten brand of Kentucky Bourbon. I started drinking. My friend was Type I Diabetic and did not drink. So I had it all to myself. Now, take the pundits point of view. If the DEA had arrested this bootlegger before I purchased the 1/2 pint and sent him to prison with 2.3 million others, I would NOT be an alcoholic. Also had my mother and father been sent to school and learned all about addiction, I would have gotten better sooner. Tue, 3 May 2011 00:15:19 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1880.html Osama bin Laden is dead!! We are reacting to an old saying, "Revenge is best when served cold" Mon, 2 May 2011 23:03:35 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1879.html Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:20:38 -0400 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1878.html Obama was not born in USA, Obama was born and raised Kenya, Obama does not have our colonial ideas, Obama is a socialist. All these statements are nothing more than sanitized racism. Fri, 4 Mar 2011 00:07:29 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1877.html Many people say an addict could stop using drugs and/or alcohol if he wished. To me, that is like saying a schizophrenic does not have to dodge or run to get out of the way when he has an illusion that someone is shooting at him. Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:48:57 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1876.html All the talk about Budget Cutting, not one word about moneys going to the DEA and supporting the drug prohibition laws at the Federal, State and Local level. They have actually added another substance to the prohibited list. Let us throw the women and children along with the blacks and hispanics overboard first! Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:10:36 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1875.html a CEO, a Union worker, and a teabagger are sitting at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, and then tells the Teabagger, "He is trying to take your cookie" Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:21:04 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1874.html How does one determine the intent of the user after an overdose? If knowledge of the drug upon one's body was unknown to the user it is suicide. If he/she was intent on ending their life it was suicide. Suicide is a very common way of death among addicts. If the intent was to get loaded we can blame the drugs. If it is a suicide we must look at the addiction. Which we know nothing!!! There are many whom do not know, they do not know anything. Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:43:39 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1873.html Drugs and alcohol are accelerants to addiction. There MUST be a catalyst before an addiction will take place. Some catalysts are known, but MOST are not. Weirdharold Says. Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:13:10 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1871.html Studying drugs to end addiction is the same as studying concentrated sweets to end diabetes. Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:15:48 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1870.html Hi all, Weird Harold said it would be ok for me to plug my new blog here. My wife and I have set up a financial site that we hope can be used to help people with their personal finances. Come check us out at FiscallyFearless.com. We only have a couple of articles up at the moment, but will be adding content regularly. http://fiscallyfearless.com Thanks. Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:51:16 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1869.html The 2nd Amendment Argument and Methodology to deter crazies from going around shooting people can be corrected easily. The simple answer is: Leave the 2nd Amendment in place as is. Leave the the laws in place that say insane people cannot possess a gun. What must be changed is those who wish to own guns must prove to the State they are sane, not a harm to themselves or others. Proof must be presented before a purchase of gun can be made. Test via Psychiatric professionals must be paid for by the person desiring to purchase a gun. Those wanting to purchase a gun might be interested in this link, here. Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:00:37 -0500 http://www.weird-harolds.com/Article1868.html Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. Evan Esar American Humorist (1899 - 1995) Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:54:50 -0500