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Pat for pot??? - 3/9/2012 8:35:14 PM   
TheHeretic


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Status: offline 		Considering the kind of shit that commonly comes from this source, it's easy to be a little conflicted about Pat Robertson getting on board for marijuana legalization.

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Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader — including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing — his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate.

“I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,” Mr. Robertson said in an interview on Wednesday. “I’ve never used marijuana and I don’t intend to, but it’s just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn’t succeeded.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/pat-robertson-backs-legalizing-marijuana.html?_r=1

If he can get the little old Christian ladies talking at their luncheons, and at the senior center, I'll call it another step in the right direction.
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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/9/2012 11:02:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Zounds! He will verily be Cast Out by the Righteous, and wind up in Liberal Hell!

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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/9/2012 11:30:12 PM   
TheHeretic


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Status: offline 		Actually, he got in a pretty good shot at the liberals, DNAV.

He said part of the problem was a “liberal mindset to have an all-encompassing government.”

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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 12:49:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		The wacky old fuck prolly just bought a little retirement place in Humboldt County. WHO CARES why the hypocrite changed his story?
If he finds out the gay neighbor is willing, guess what's next.....

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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 12:57:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		Good on him. While I don't agree that marijuana is a drug (it's a flowering plant) I agree with him that it should be treated the same way as alcohol and have no problem with seeing it become legal and taxed and all those people in jail for marijuana possession/dealing can be let out and become tax paying members of society instead of tax burdens.. well, if there were actually jobs out here for them.

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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 3:44:41 AM   
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

He said part of the problem was a “liberal mindset to have an all-encompassing government.”


Weird. That's Libertarian, to have few laws regulating personal activity. I suspect that his overall stance would be "outlaw it if the Bible spoke against it and legalize it otherwise." Either that or he's getting flaky in old age.

His justification of his pro-pot stance is actually reasoned out well. I'm impressed.


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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 3:49:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Or, possibly, he's come to realize that people have to be drunk, high, or in some way chemically altered to buy the shit he's selling?



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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 4:19:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		Of course there is a danger to the Right in this stance.
Let out all the pot "addicts," and "dealers," in California from the state prisons, and the state budget would just about be balanced.
And if California has a balanced budget, the Republicans wouldn't be able to point at it and say that liberals can't balance a budget (never mind that CA has a republican law that prevents raising taxes to cover spending...)

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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 4:33:40 AM   
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I don't know if its the storm on the sun making shit crazy, but Pat Robertson wants to legalize pot! See you in church on Sunday!

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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 5:28:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

Or, possibly, he's come to realize that people have to be drunk, high, or in some way chemically altered to buy the shit he's selling?



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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 7:34:41 AM   
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ORIGINAL: SoftBonds

Of course there is a danger to the Right in this stance.
Let out all the pot "addicts," and "dealers," in California from the state prisons, and the state budget would just about be balanced.
And if California has a balanced budget, the Republicans wouldn't be able to point at it and say that liberals can't balance a budget (never mind that CA has a republican law that prevents raising taxes to cover spending...)



Collect the taxes on legal sales of marijuana, encourage manufacturing and industry with the rest of the plant, we might be able to meet the pension obligations to the prison guards.

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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 7:57:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yep, they (the prison guards) were big supporters of the "three strikes, you're out" legislation.

I haveta admit, Pat was the last person I figured would associated with legalization. But I still ding him for the liberal crack, since he'd have no problem with government interference with a woman's uterus, or people trying to make decisions about folks in comas/vegetative states.

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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 8:07:16 AM   
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Collect the taxes on legal sales of marijuana, encourage manufacturing and industry with the rest of the plant, we might be able to meet the pension obligations to the prison guards.


Not to mention saving on the resources dedicated to fighting mj.



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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 8:14:58 AM   
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Like so many other psychotrolling narcissopaths (some of them operate in much bigger ponds than kink-sites), when Paddy-boy sees too much decline in his social capital/status/leverage/etc, he concocts (or recycles) some 'new' mentally-twisted scheme to incite attention to himself. Oh, sure, he might have other more mundane motives too, and (as elsewhere) much of his sheeplick herds will fawn over his reversal as enlightened.ss

Blah. As much as I'd agree that the drug laws need radical changes, I've seen too much of Robertson's blather over the years to classify his latest as anything but cynical pragmatism.

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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 10:23:23 AM   
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quote:

Of course there is a danger to the Right in this stance.
Let out all the pot "addicts," and "dealers," in California from the state prisons, and the state budget would just about be balanced.
And if California has a balanced budget, the Republicans wouldn't be able to point at it and say that liberals can't balance a budget (never mind that CA has a republican law that prevents raising taxes to cover spending...)


Now You Listen Pal! California needs now more than ever to get back to it's FUNDAMENTAL VALUES!
And don't you fucking forget it!


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RE: Pat for pot??? - 3/10/2012 11:37:34 AM   
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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

I don't know if its the storm on the sun making shit crazy, but Pat Robertson wants to legalize pot! See you in church on Sunday!


::nominates this for Sunny's Quote of the Day given full due credit to Maher!:: lol

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