The news today is a pretty wild assortment on my Mozilla BBC feed. Everything from French oil blockades to prisoners in Iran who will be tried for espionage after they allegedly crossed the border whilst hiking in Iraq. Why were they hiking in Iraq in the first place? It's amazing how much comes up in a week that I never would hear about on my local news or CNN.
Drug war news in Mexico continue with the capture of the largest stash of marijuana yet confiscated in Mexico. Again I uphold that if we just legalized and then taxed it, prohibiting its use in vehicles or on the job, the capitalist market in the US would solve this problem on its own.
Also, there is a gene identified that allegedly contributes to faster drunkenness. My bet is that they found it in Asia, but what's more important is that they think it could be a possible preventative drug in the future to help people react badly to alcohol and thus prevent alcoholism. Crazy stuff and I think it's kinda like Scotland's proposed ban on smoking in cars. Isn't enough, enough? To me, a ban on smoking in cars would be a serious breach of freedom of choice but I also don't live in Scotland. I do think that's something we're headed to as we try to socialize medicine. Socialized medicine will turn our medical treatment into a kind of technology warranty. If you don't take care of things in proper order and let specific people help you then the warranty or in this case your medical coverage is void. We can't expect to be allowed to make our own choices if socialized medicine comes to pass because people will be furious about being taxed to pay for someone else's poor life choices.
All for now, I'm headed off to lunch.
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