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Well, I'm now thinking that there might be a pretty simple explanation for Jerry's remarks. Since Calderon has now placed himself on paid LOA, the Democrats no longer have a 2/3 majority in the Senate. God damn it.

This is not a good time for the gov to be particularly flamboyantly liberal looking. Getting anything done between now and November (at least) will depend on whether or not some of the Republicans' constituents and owners lean on them to be a little flexible, because Moonbeam has been pretty restrained.

God damn those fucks (and by that I mean Wright and Calderon). God damn it.

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See: no more supermajority.

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In California, we pretty well do need supermajorities to do much of anything that involves revenue, which is, you know, most things.

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<i>Soon I will be President</i>

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I didn't get a "harrumph" out of that guy!

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The other thing is, alcohol is legal, and people drink it, but relatively few people drink it <i>while they are at work</i>. Because they lose their jobs. Jer seems to be buying the myth that if it's legal, stoners will be stoned all the time. Some may be, I suppose, but mostly those folks already are.

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I've waited for stop signs to turn green... because I forgot to take my legal Rx of Adderall. So there's that.

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You JUST got Trader Joe's?! We've had them in of all non-hippy cool places, wait for it... Georgia for several years now.

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I did sound for a band at a Russian wedding- they insisted on feeding me (wonderful food) and they also insisted that I do some Vodka shots with them. I had one every fifth or sixth of theirs and I could barely stand. Yet they played music for 4 hours like it was nothing. Apparently, Vodka does for Russians what spinach does for Popeye

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Thai stick has been known to do that also too

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Is he still sore about Linda Ronstadt?

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But it's still OK to get up in the morning and drop a tab of Orange Sunshine, right?

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Ummm... usually until someone honked or I got impatient & snapped out of it. Pretty bad when you drive away completely embarrassed of yourself when no one is around.

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In terms of % of the state economy, the pot industry is on a par with Apple and Google.

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House brands must be fun . . . do they carry Trader Joe-Bob's grits and biscuits?

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The ghost of Howard Jarvis would like to murder you, with his ghostly Prop 13 murder-penis, for even suggesting this.

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