Local Stuff
My local newspaper charges a full print subscription rate for the online version which seems kinda damn outrageous to me.
So, I freely hand out clips from it since I paid so damn much for a newspaper that you can skim in 10 minutes and it generally just pisses me off anyway.
For example ….
Here’s an article about how my tax dollars are being spent. (Click it for a better copy.)
Here’s a guy who has a wicked sense of humor, strong convictions, and a clear – or at least semi-clear – plan. Now I gotta pay for his upkeep in the county jail for six months which the $2,000 fine doesn’t come close to covering, and his lawyer.
They say he’s going to jail not for the weed, but because he didn’t respect the law. Damn, you fools, this is exactly why people don’t respect the law. Some guy walks away with probation for wife beating but this dude gets six months in jail.
Hey, I am not comparing this guy to Rosa Parks, but holy crap, it’s gonna cost the taxpayers about $22,000 to keep him in jail. I can think of a thing or two better to do with $22,000.
Yeah, I live in a red Texas county. It sucks.
I like how the “jurors reached the verdict by joint decision.” Too perfect not to be intentional. At least Wes Gardner has a sense of humor.
1I am so :o( <— [sad face] for you JJ … a red county and a paper that sucks … sounds like where I am in CO. Have to admit, however, the article is chuckle-worthy!!
2Not that I am an expert or aficionado, but day job experience says his 180 day stay in your county’s detention facility will set your taxpayers back a bit more than $8,000. Not counting the costs of building the facility etc. Did he do 8000 or more dollars damage to the body politic with his scraggly pi$$ant Cannabis sativa plant? I’m bettin’ not. Better that he be fined like crap put on easy monthly payments and kept in the labor force and living at home.
3What? The cops didn’t… plant… the evidence?
4Wes Gardner was obviously having fun that day. He ended it with “…stirring the pot” in addition to the “joint decision,” “high point,” and “the seeds had been planted.”
5The law is for the protection of the people, a rule is a rule as any fool can see. We don’t need a long haired hippie scaring decent folks like you and me.
6I believe Kris nailed it with those lines.
Wes Gardner could fill in for you when you have to be away from the salon.
7@Rick
8If police do plant the evidence and take care of it, it will grow from a misdemeanor to a felony in just a few weeks. In northeast Texas at least.
Hey, SusanF, you missed “up in smoke” (Cheech an Chong, for those unitiated).
9@JaneE
10@SusanF
“harsh hit”
If it had only been a gun, no law would be broken.
11@Cole – Gosh, that was a long time ago and I plumb forgot the lyrics!
Now here’s a guy who is a lot scarier than a fellow carrying around a marijuana plant!
http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/House-approves-panic-buttons-in-wake-of-open-6015078.php
12I was wondering who was going to find all the puns! Thank you, guys, you didn’t let me down!
13I was thinking the same thing JJ! So many puns, so little time. Keeping the world secure from potted plants. I feel so much safer now. Ahhhhh…
14Such a small world! Needleville, TX could be the sister town to Needles, CA. I’d never consider a hair shirt, but hemp sounds pleasant.
15Sounds like the county made a hash of it to me…
16Hash, Liz? Looks like you’re writing your OWN puns!
17Well done!
Here’s Lizzie blowing kisses Charles ;*
18Rick-planting evidence of wmds in Iraq was brought up by SOS Condomeater Rice,but dumbass dubya shot that idea down saying everyone knows you can’t grow stuff in the desert.
The gentleman pictured sure looks like he could benefit from a visit to TWMDBS for a shave and shearing.
19This a case where the stupid law is the law so you have to follow it or else! The State has the POWER and you can’t really fight it. But I disagree, in that he is like Rosa but unfortunately no one really cares in this case. Too many people are terrified of drugs and so the dumbassd war on drugs will continue, especially when the cops & politicians are getting rich or high off it.
20PKM-Needles.Calif. made it into a song by Three Dog Night called Never Been to Spain. Suck on that Needleville.
21If Islamaphobic Trump buys California can he rename it his personal Calif-Hate?
22It’s a stupid law. It’s a stupid decision. And no, I don’t approve of the war on drugs, and strongly suspect a financial flow between private prisons, law enforcement, and the drug cartels…and I’d like to include the Texas lege in that, too.
But it’s not as bad a law as segregation or the new voter suppression laws, or Abbott’s threat to punish nonprofits for helping Syrian immigrants. You’ve got a right to go to jail to stand up for whatever you want, but it seems a waste to do it for pot.
23Stupid law, no doubt, but great news writing. Kind of a shame it wasn’t in a better circulation paper (but then, editors at the bigger papers have no sense of humor).
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