While in the military I was given a collateral duty. I was to be one of a few people who would be a Drug and Alcohol Education Specialists (DAES). I spent two months in school – about 320 hours – learning the pharmacology of all the drugs known at the time, as well as everything possible to understand about the effects of alcohol. It was, to say the least, a very enlightening two months. Once that school was over, I was then the identified specialist at every command where I was serving. I’ve heard every excuse for using drugs and abusing alcohol that can be manufactured. I have also worked as a volunteer inside two state prisons, and one paid position as a computer instructor in a federal prison. In the state prisons I worded for a prison ministry, assisting convicts who had proven that they wanted to turn their lives around. Between the one-on-one sessions, and general interaction with about 80 convicts, about 75 of them were in prison for offenses that involved drugs and alcohol. I also worked as a volunteer, serving on a Foster Care Review Board for two years, and four years as a court-appointed advocate for kids in foster care. Between the prison experiences and the foster care experiences, I again heard just about every excuse possible for using meth, alcohol, crack, heroin, marijuana, PCP, you name it.

Anyone who tells you that marijuana is “medicine” is lying to you. There is absolutely no scientific evidence that marijuana contains any medicinal qualities. Arizona passed the Medical Marijuana initiative in 2010, though it still hasn’t started operating in any meaningful way. There are questions about whether the vote was somehow rigged since it took so long for the final vote was released, but that’s another story. What I’m suggesting to you is that you ask anyone who wants medical marijuana the following questions.

1. If medical marijuana is medicine, why hasn’t it been submitted to the FDA for approval?

2. If medical marijuana is medicine, why aren’t doctors prescribing its use? What we see are some doctors who sell recommendations for use, for a hefty fee.

3. California has had medical marijuana as a lawful enterprise for some time, and it’s a nightmare. In general, the users of medical marijuana are in the 18-30 age group. Why is that?

4. Medical marijuana dispensaries sell marijuana under literally dozens of names. If medical marijuana is medicine, why are there so many names for medical marijuana? If different kinds of medical marijuana contains varying levels of “medicine,” shouldn’t the doctor “recommended” that I take medical marijuana tell me which brand to use, how often, and how much per dose? Wouldn’t medical marijuana be the same for all? Help, I’m confused.

5. What is the name of the so-called medicine in medical marijuana? It can’t be THC. THC is an acknowledged hallucinogen – it gets you stoned. So what is the medical ingredient in medical marijuana, and how much of it do I need?

6. When someone buys medical marijuana, do they receive a label on the container that tells them what the proper dose is, how many doses to take each day, and any possible side effects, like hallucinations, urge to eat snacks, sleepiness?

7. If I roll my own marijuana cigarettes, how much medical marijuana should I put into each marijuana cigarette? If I eat marijuana cupcakes or cookies, how much marijuana should be contained in each cupcake or cookie?

8. If I am smoking medical marijuana, is it legal for me to drive a car or operate machinery? If so, since it’s medicine, if I have an accident and destroy property, or kill someone, is the taking of medical marijuana a legitimate defense?

9. If I take marijuana and go to work, and while there I cause an accident because my judgment is impaired, and people get hurt or killed, is the use of medical marijuana a legitimate defense?

10. If I have a medical marijuana card, can I smoke my medicine at work or on company property, even though cigarette smokers cannot?

11. If I were somehow arrested for a crime and sent to jail or prison, and I possess a medical marijuana card, does the jail or prison have to give me my medical marijuana since it’s medical marijuana?

12. If I’m at home, consuming my medical marijuana, and somehow cause a fire that destroys my apartment building, is my possession of a medical marijuana card a legitimate defense?

13. If I’m a student attending college, and I need my “medicine,” can I light up a marijuana cigarette and smoke it inside a building or classroom, or outside? I know smoking of cigarettes is illegal on college campuses, but how about the smoking of medical marijuana?

14. If I’m a police officer, member of the FBI, DEA, CIA, a Congressman, or President, can I take my medical marijuana while on the job? I mean, after all, it is medicine, isn’t it?

15. If I’m a commercial pilot, can I take my medical marijuana while I flying an aircraft with 200 or 300 passengers onboard? I mean, after all, it is medicine.

Ladies and gentlemen, medical marijuana is an absolute lie. If you were to ask the questions I listed above to any of the advocates of medical marijuana, they would run away from you so fast you’d see a vapor trail. It’s nothing but a ruse to get marijuana into the mainstream, and it’s wrong. Marijuana consumption affects your memory, affects brain cells, can cause serious medical problems. They call it medicine because when you consume it, by whatever means, the THC gets you “high,” and you don’t feel the pain as much. That’s not medicine by any reasonable definition. People say that OxyCodone, Vicadin, Percocet, and other pain killers don’t work for them, but at least you know what’s in them. When you go into a medical marijuana dispensary, there are dozens of different kinds of marijuana in jars, all with catchy little names. You know what the difference is? The amount of THC they “think” they contain, and they sell for different prices to boot.

For those people who voted for medical marijuana in their state, you’ve been fooled, badly. It’s a lie.

After watching the press conference video, twice, I couldn’t believe my ears during the questions period following the presentation. Essentially, they had not one question about the facts, probably because the explanations presented were way over their head. No, what they demanded to know is whether the Sheriff was accusing the President of presenting a fraudulent birth certificate, and a fraudulent selective service card. Again and again, the reporters(?) and reporterettes(?) asked the same questions over and over. If you watched the video, listen to them. They were a bunch of cackling hens. This is the media in Arizona. It was clear from the questions that they were out to destroy facts; they wanted their man, Barack Obama, defended against truth. “You can’t handle the truth!”

The facts are these.

A group of over 200 Surprise, Arizona residents, signed a petition, and asked for a meeting with the County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio. At that meeting, they asked the Sheriff to conduct a law enforcement investigation into the eligibility of President Obama to serve in office.

The Sheriff cannot just tell these citizens to go away, and toss their request in the trash. So, not wanting to spend taxpayer money on such an investigation, he turned the request over to the Cold Case Posse. This posse is a group of volunteers who work for free. There are retired law enforcement people, lawyers, and others. The Cold Case Posse also enlisted the aid of graphics computer specialists, and forensic investigators, none of whom are associated with Sheriff Joe or law enforcement. The Sheriff’s charter was simple: see where the investigation takes you, and report back. And off the posse went. The Sheriff was not part of the investigation.

This posse spent approximately six months conducting an investigation of the “official” birth certificate posted on the White House web site, which President Obama said was his legitimate birth certificate, which then led the group to the President’s selective service card. It should be noted that the President’s birth certificate was not made available until late last year, despite demands from many, many people to see his birth certificate. After two and a half years, they finally posted it. (When I first looked at it, I spotted one fraudulent entry right away. Barack’s father’s birthplace is listed as Kenya, East Africa, and he was born in 1935. The President lists his birth month as August of 1961. Kenya wasn’t a country until 1963, so this document had to have been created in 1963 or later, which makes it fraudulent.)

There were several short videos, each one showing the tests that were conducted, how they were conducted, and comparing them against a known, good sample document. The results were absolutely clear. The birth certificate is not a paper document that was scanned. It is an electronic document, manufactured to look authentic. It failed every test.

Then they demonstrated through testing and comparisons the fraud committed on Mr. Obama’s selective service card. It was as clear as it could be that the date stamp on the card was a fraud, and couldn’t be real.

The presenters also stated, at the end, that they have numerous signed affidavits from people who are willing to testify in court should that occur.
The reporters didn’t care about any of the facts. They were intent on attacking the Sheriff who, as I stated, had nothing to do with the investigation. He, along with others, presented their evidence and findings, and gave their conclusion. The reporters didn’t care.

A lot of the questions were about whether Sheriff Joe did this in retaliation to the Department of Justices’s report assailing him for his treatment of citizens. They didn’t grasp the fact that the Cold Posse Investigation started almost five months before the DOJ’s report. It didn’t faze them.

The Arizona media proved, once again, that they do not report facts; they do not report unbiased news. They have an agenda, and that agenda is to bring down Sheriff Joe, and then Governor Jan Brewer. Completely lost on them were the facts brought to their attention. They don’t want to be confused with facts. They don’t want to report the news; they want to attack and villify Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Even the local TV news was 80% interviews with people opposed to the Sheriff, and not one of them addressed the facts uncovered, not by Sheriff Joe, but by the Cold Case Posse. They want to attack the messenger, don’t bother them with facts.

To be fair, some in the media, print and on-air, have done a reasonable job of trying to be objective. For the rest of them, they disgust me.

How can the Republican party leadership, and the Presidential candidates, be such fools when it comes to these seemingly endless debates? There have been 20 of them, 20 !

How many of those debates dealt with actual issues facing this nation now, like gas prices, Iran, North Korea, middle east wars, things like that? Oh, no, that’s not going to happen. What do we get from these debates? The class clown, George Stephanopolis, asking if states should have the right to ban contraceptives. George was a key member of the Clinton administration, a true left wing hack, and he gets to ask the questions of Republicans in a debate? Or Diane Sawyer, or John King, liberals all? What is wrong with the Republican party that they allow themselves to fall into the media trap?

Everyone knows that the media’s job in elections is to select the Republican candidate in order to ensure that the Democrat wins more easily. That’s their job. There’s no objectivity to it.

In the last debate, John King of CNN never brought up any of the hot topics. No, he wanted to manipulate the candidates into fighting with each other, over who voted for this, who wants contraceptives, who doesn’t, and on and on. Why didn’t the candidates just tell John King to take the next hour off, and the candidates would discuss the topics that needed discussion?

Three suggestions for the Republican party, and I’m assuming they can read and comprehend. First, only do three to four debates. Second, never agree to a debate on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, or CNN. They are all loyal liberals (Democrats), and will attempt to manipulate the debate questions. Third, get neutral or conservative organizations to host debates, and make the debate available to any network that wants to broadcast it. Those debates will be moderated by people known for neutrality and objectivity.

If the Republicans do those three things, they’ll be able to discuss really important things. If they don’t do those three things, they’ll demonstrate that they’re just too stupid to be doing any debates.

When America became a real country, with its Constitution, its Bill of Rights, people with a yearning to be free couldn’t get here fast enough. Ellis Island is New York screened and processed millions of immigrants. They arrived, presented identification papers, were screened to ensure they had no communicable diseases, and were welcomed. These people immediately went looking for work. They couldn’t wait to learn English, loved being free to worship as they pleased, to work as hard as they wanted and be rewarded for it. They invented new things, they worked in cities and on farms, they saved money, bought their homes, married, raised their kids, and loved America.

Now, let’s examine what college kids believe that American Dream is for them. A professor at Valencia college in Florida decided to conduct a little experiment. He asked each student in the rather large class of mostly Sophomores to write a short essay on what the American Dream is for them. When the professor received their essays, he took them home to read and analyze. What he found astounded him. Of all the essays he read, approximately 80% of them explained the American Dream as follows:

Free college tuition for as long as they were in school. If they wanted to stay in college until they received a Doctorate, it was all free. And included with that free tuition was free healthcare.

A guaranteed, well-paying job.

Plenty of money they could invest for their retirement.

Take money from rich people and give it to them so they would have enough.

THAT is the American Dream for many of our children today. Entitlements, guaranteed income, plenty of money to invest and retire on, and taking money from rich people so they have enough for what they want.

Where did they learn this? The answer is as true today as it has been for over 50 years; government schools. Our schools don’t teach the Bill of Rigfhts, don’t teach the Constitution, don’t teach the pursuit of happiness. No, they teach that everyone should be granted happiness, security, and a life of pleasure. The government school system, and the college system is long overdue for a major overhaul. It’s hard to believe that parents spend tens of thousands of dollars sending their children to college, only to find out that they are totally indoctrinated into the NEW American Dream when the come out.