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Avengers, biodiversity, extinction, Green New Deal, impeachment, insects, marijuana, Nancy Pelosi, Ron Wyden
Tune in, turn on, go broke – Citing failed historical efforts at prohibition of alcohol, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon (of course), has proposed a Senate bill to make recreational marijuana legal for all.
Specifically, the bill – if it ever goes far enough to be signed into law – would remove cannabis from the federal Controlled Substances Act, create a permit system to regulate who could sell grass, and establish a federal excise tax on legal sales – which would be separate from what the individual states would charge in sales taxes.
So, the nation is going to pot in a cannabis wrapper. And that’s the Democrats’ answer to funding the $93 trillion cost of the proposed New Green Deal to neutralize so-called climate change?
Say Wyden’s bill becomes law. Recreational pot smokers will be happy to perpetually get high – well, at least until they die of starvation or get killed trying to steal anything in an effort to keep smoking despite the high price of weed, the runaway taxes on the product, and the associated costs business will pass along just to stay in business.
One question: How does exhaling all that pot smoke fit in with the New Green Deal? Perhaps the MaryJane recreationalists believe it will benignly neutralize cow farts?
When is a House like a cemetery? — Interesting headline Tuesday (4/23) on Drudge. It was over the top story, and it read: “Pelosi: Keep Digging.”
The CBS News story quoted U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as saying that the lower chamber of Congress should continue committee investigations into President Donald Trump’s past before deciding on future steps. In other words, keep digging for dirt so there’s some kind of basis for filing articles of impeachment against the federal government’s chief executive.
Of course, there’s always a chance that the impeachment zealots will be digging their own political graves. We can only hope.
Here we go again – If you believe the climate-change hand-wringing is a political hoax rooted in the potential for redistribution of global wealth, get ready to survive another wolf cry about Mother Nature in peril.
Agence France-Presse reports that a pending 44-page United Nations assessment will show we humans and our bad habits will lead to the inglorious extinction “within decades” of as many as 1 million other species on planet Earth.
Many experts think a so-called “mass extinction event” — only the sixth in the last half-a-billion years — already is under way, according to Yahoo!news.
How about some perspective? Scientists estimate that some eight million distinct species today call Earth home. Most of those species are insects. No harm, no foul – we could stand to lose a few insects.
The UN summary by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (say THAT quickly three times in a row without stuttering) is set to go public on May 6.
Why fantasy rules — Our unrequited search for real-life political heroes these days probably helps explain the predicted box-office success of “Avengers Endgame,” which opens this coming weekend in 4,600 theaters across North America alone.
By some accounts, the Marvel Studios/Disney movie is expected to earn a record-shattering $850 million as it opens in theaters around the planet, up to $300 million of which will come from North America. In its first week of release, “Avengers Endgame” could earn $1 billion.
But if you’re planning to go, pay heed: You might want to take your own seat cushion along, perhaps your personal catheter as well, and you might want have some extra jingle in your pocket for repeat visits to the snack counter. That’s because “Avengers Endgame” is a really long movie — about a minute longer than three hours.