Smokers are constantly being discriminated against and it really needs to stop.

I will probably be voting for McCain now.

And you could be right — I wasn’t able to find any information on what industrial hemp could yield per acre.

One obstacle that would have to be dealt with is the illegality of it. Growing industrial hemp is still not permitted in North Carolina, but we’re making slow — no, make that glacial — progress. In 2006, our state legislature authorized the formation of a committee to “study” the issue.

Now my question is why won’t they let the McChurian candidate see the legislation. I would have thought that Congress would have some sort of mechanism for getting the current versions of bills to the good Congressmen.

After all, senate.gov has a whole section to let the general public see the histories and various versions of Bills. So I’d certainly think the good Congress could find such a system for itself.

Maybe a system of tubes ? We could call it some sort of catchy phrase. I think Network is already taken.

While I agree with you concerning McCain, Republicans, and the stone age, you state a popular misconception about tobacco farmers, and that is — “why can’t they just grow something else?”

Here in North Carolina, the average tobacco farm is only 40 acres. Why so small? Tobacco is one of the most labor-intensive crops there is, and most of these farms are family-owned and run. Even with every family member pitching in the the tobacco leaf harvest, outside help is still needed (and many teens in the tobacco-growing areas still get their summer spending money by tying tobacco).

Even with the hard work, what is grown on 40 acres can sustain the family. No other crop can do that with so little acreage. To plant corn or another food crop on a small farm is like setting up a Wal-Mart in the space formerly occupied by a jewelry store.

As far as the FDA regulating tobacco, the biggest problem I see is how the FDA will justify its being kept a legal product. The FDA isn’t likely to approve a drug with no medicinal or therapeutic benefit. But what happens when tobacco is banned? Probably about the same thing that happened with alcohol in the 1920’s.

After a solid month of Rev. Wright, no one I’ve heard in the MSM is asking or reporting about this.

Hypocrisy? Yes

Denial? Yes

Marching ‘Orders’? Perhaps

Ralph Reed is the poster boy for religious corruption. He & James Dobson are on a mission to put God in the White House.

Again.

Is McCain’s religion like his policies? Day by day, or whichever way the wind blows?

Here we go again. Boy George was/is the sock puppet for Cheney, who has his hand up McCain’s ass?

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…que a hot wooden fishing pier, pan down to find a flounder, flip-floppin’ all over the dock, crossfade to multiple cuts of McCain contradicting himself and fumbling with the English language on very hot topics…

(Pretty sure the majority of the Walmart crowd loves fishing.)

As we saw with the new G.I. Bill, when McCain says this, it really means, “I haven’t gotten my marching orders on this issue yet, but stay tuned for another flip-flop.”

It doesn’t really matter that much whether McCain supports it or not, since he won’t be in Washington to vote on it. But if he gets pinned to the wall on what his position is, he will just utter the words that his neocon handlers want him to say.

Is a “promise” you don’t intend to keep really a promise or just a lie? Now that, My Dear Lady, is a rhetorical question if there ever was a Repukican.

He has to raise buku bucks, but his supporters epitomize those he’s always ‘been against’.

This dilemma causes McFlipper to flop aimlessly on issues. He doesn’t REALLY know where he stand on anything.

Americans should realize the ‘Pander Bear’ is not a man of principle, but rather of convenience.

Which direction are the political winds blowing today, John?