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Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot believes that candidates will benefit if primaries and caucuses get pushed into 2007. A loophole in campaign finance regulation appears to allow an extra $2,300 per donor for candidates if those elections are held this year. Be sure to check out Jim's analysis, and the surprising candidate that may benefit the most.
When Tom Met Jeralyn
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Joe Lieberman A Right-Wing Nut?
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Broadband Homelessness
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Found My Law Firm
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Don't Click That YouTube E-mail
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Rick Moran Escapes The Floods
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Rule 1: Drag The Corpse On Over First
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Hobbs Choice
Volunteer Voters is holding its annual "Best of Nashville" on-line polls, and one of the categories is for the best political writer. Our friend Bill Hobbs, now posting at Newsbusters, and he'd like his on-line fans to cast their votes. Drop by and put one in for Bill if you get a chance!
Murtha Getting Backlogged On Apologies
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No Such Thing As 'Moderate' Islam?
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan told a television interviewer that he finds the label "moderate Islam" offensive. Shrink Wrapped has a lot more on this, but at least in the same interview Erdogan acknowledged that "radical Islam" exists, and that it's been a catastrophe. Be sure to read the whole post.
MS-NBC Gets Punk'd
Power Line has a great post on a lack of journalistic effort on the part of MS-NBC. In covering the Michael Vick story, they reported on what they thought was Al Sharpton's website proclaiming Vick's innocence. I guess Alex Johnson and two other MS-NBC reporters couldn't bother to read the title bar of the site, which proudly proclaims it as a "parody site".
New Instapundit Podcast On Pharmaceuticals
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A Shameless Bit Of Sel-Promotion
Gateway Pundit and Val at Babalu Blog note a crass PR move by Hugo Chavez. Venezuela has responded to Peru's eathquake disaster with food shipments -- and with Hugo's smiling picture on the cans. He also uses the tuna-can label to undermine President Garcia of Peru, who narrowly defeated Chavez' pal Ollanto Humalla, whom the labels extol for his "solidarity" with Chavez.
Tacky beyond belief.
Comments (18)
Posted by dave rywall | July 31, 2007 8:06 AM
That's hilarious.
But - "Pot has a distinctive aroma, one which notoriously lingers" - uhh, actually, no. They must have just caught him shortly after smoking up, because pot smoke aroma goes away much quicker than cigarette smoke.
Posted by Dale Michaud aka TexasDude | July 31, 2007 8:09 AM
Does it?
That must be why cops can smell pot smoke coming from a car while driving behind it.
Posted by unclegrant | July 31, 2007 8:21 AM
Funny and sad at the same time.
I do think that smokers can hide it pretty well, I didn't know about a friend's "use" for years.
Or maybe that just makes me stupid.
Posted by rusty wilson | July 31, 2007 8:51 AM
Let’s put them in jail for life....you know cause they hurt someone..errrr stole from someone...errrr.....I mean for their own good. Everyone knows sending someone to jail is good for them.
Posted by rusty wilson | July 31, 2007 8:53 AM
Legalize it, tax it, and our children will never have access to it. Unless of course their parents give it to them.
Posted by Steffan | July 31, 2007 8:56 AM
Well, you don't necessarily have to smoke it. Remember all the stories about pot brownies?
Maybe he was treating it like a wad of Skoal. Did he have a spit cup?
Posted by cirby | July 31, 2007 8:56 AM
Dave:
Not so. If you have a good nose, you can smell it for at least an hour on someone's clothes and hair, and for a lot longer than that in an enclosed space. The ash is also pretty pungent.
Posted by Not me, I didn' t do nuthin | July 31, 2007 9:16 AM
Single hit. Cap the pipe with a coin. Since you're inhaling it, no smoke escapes.
Exhale into a sports drink bottle. Bubble the smoke through the water like a hooka in reverse.
Very little escapes. None on your clothes. None in your hair.
Drink the water in the sports bottle.
Rinse.
Repeat as necessary or desired.
This hypothesis is exactly that. I didn't do nuthin. Nobody saw me. You can't prove anything.
So it's not that hard. Just sayin'
Posted by Scott Pinkerton | July 31, 2007 9:32 AM
He could also just be ingesting it.
Posted by SkyWatch | July 31, 2007 10:03 AM
In my very younger days I was into pot and other things. Ended up in a Texas county jail where we regularly smoked pot in the showers not 20 ft away from a guard behind a chicken wire fence. With the large exhaust fans running to provide descent air for a room full of men to a little precaution taken it was no problem.
Posted by filistro | July 31, 2007 10:26 AM
Jokes aside, this is really a sad story.
Enablers do great harm at any point in one's life. But when you're a kid and the enablers are your parents, it can be tragic.
I watched a TV show a while ago about obese kids at a summer "fat camp." They were eating healthy and keeping active, losing weight and feeling so good about themselves. But everybody knew, with almost fatalistic resignation, that all this progress would be erased as soon as the kids went back home to their "loving" families, who were loving them to death with food and video games.
And I'll bet there was more than one parent smuggling Ho-Ho's and Little Debbies past the eagle eyes of the camp wardens, too.
Posted by unclesmrgol | July 31, 2007 10:34 AM
He couldn't hide it at all, regardless of the way he was ingesting. That's the reason for the drug tests. No matter how smart you are (not that pot smokers are very smart to begin with), the authorities are smarter and have a lot more resources at their disposal.
When my son was arrested for pot possession, the police used an electronic nose to find his stash. According to him, they circled a couple of times and then went straight to it. They even found the pot plants he and his friends had started growing -- but they didn't need the nose for that, they just followed the electric cord powering the biolights into the closet. He was expelled from college for that -- a fitting punishment in my mind.
My roommate smoked. And the smell does linger.
Posted by Frantic Freddie | July 31, 2007 10:44 AM
If you cook pot first then it's easily digestible.It can be ground into a fine powder & put in gelatin capsules & swallowed.
No,you may not ask me how I know.
Posted by mark | July 31, 2007 11:46 AM
In military school we would use one hitters. You put just enough pot in for one hit....ie inhale everything.
Then you have a rolled up towel and slowly blow into that. If done right there is no smell. It worked very well in military school where they were very strict about stuff like that. 1 strike and you were done.
Posted by dave rywall | July 31, 2007 12:05 PM
Some excellent tips here.
Good thing normal everyday citizens aren't smoking up.
Posted by georgejmyers | July 31, 2007 8:24 PM
I once hired a "vet" who had been dishonourably discharged over the same thing. He said it was in the air. Finally the military-industrial complex agreed also the test can be fallible, poppy seeds and all and from the looks of it here maybe "not like you plots" slipped a "mickey" possible. They owed him back pay. Nice guy. Pre-Gulf.
The head of the US German service narco squad was a transfer from Navy at Gitmo. These days officers can leave one for the other apparently. Reminds me of the Luftwaffe transferred to the U-boat corps however...scary in "Operatiion Drumbeat" the WWII battle of the Atlantic by the historian Michael Gannon. Granddaddy's brother was captain of the "City of Atlanta" early on Jan. '42 torpedoed.
Posted by Kevin | July 31, 2007 8:40 PM
Anyone that has lived in a college dorm knows how insanely easy it is to conceal the smell of marijuana. Not surprising nobody noticed. Where there is a will, there is always a way.
Posted by Clyde | July 31, 2007 9:24 PM
I always wondered about whatever happened to Augustus Gloop. Now I know.