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To: i-node who wrote (781063)	4/22/2014 12:05:27 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1579897

Practiced by every developed country in the world. Yet. somehow, Republicans want to deny it to Americans.

To: i-node who wrote (781063)	4/22/2014 12:15:01 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By joseffy PKRBKR Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1579897

No doubt. Between the government making decisions on your healthcare and the IRS going after you for your beliefs, we have achieved a fascist state in our country. The famous fascists of history would be very proud. "Hope and change" turned out to be we will control you.

To: i-node who wrote (781063)	4/22/2014 12:18:03 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1579897

Chris Christie vows not to legalize pot: New Jersey doesn’t want Colorado’s ‘quality of life’ By David Edwards rawstory.com Tuesday, April 22, 2014 10:05 EDT New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Monday said that marijuana legalization would not happen while he was in office because he did not want the Colorado “quality of life” in New Jersey. A caller on New Jersey 101.5 radio pointed out to Christie that legalization seemed inevitable because of the revenue advantages for the state. “You say it’s going to come down the road. You know it may come down the road when I’m gone,” Christie replied. “It’s not going to come while I’m here.” Later in the interview, Christie singled out Colorado, which recently legalized weed. “For the people who are enamored with the idea with the income, the tax revenue from this, go to Colorado and see if you want to live there,” the governor opined. “See if you want to live in a major city in Colorado where there’s head shops popping up on every corner and people flying into your airport just to come and get high.” “To me, it’s just not the quality of life we want to have here in the state of New Jersey and there’s no tax revenue that’s worth that.” Watch the video below from New Jersey 101.5, broadcast April 21, 2014.

To: i-node who wrote (781063)	4/22/2014 12:55:15 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579897

Wage Theft Across the Board By THE EDITORIAL BOARD APRIL 21, 2014 nytimes.com

To: i-node who wrote (781063)	4/22/2014 2:30:15 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1579897

Obama plans clemency for hundreds of drug offenders Barbara Scrivner's long quest for mercy tests a president's will — and her own faith Liz Goodwin, Yahoo News By Liz Goodwin, Yahoo News news.yahoo.com Barbara Scrivner with her daughter and grandson. (Courtesy of Barbara Scrivner) DUBLIN, Calif—Scrawled on the inside of Barbara Scrivner's left arm is a primitive prison tattoo that says "Time Flies." If only that were the case. For Scrivner, time has crawled, it's dawdled, and on bad days, it's felt like it's stood completely still. She was 27 years old when she started serving a 30-year sentence in federal prison for selling a few ounces of methamphetamine. Now, 20 years later, she feels like she's still living in the early '90s—she's never seen or touched a cellphone, she still listens to her favorite band, the Scorpions, and she carefully coats her eyelids in electric blue eye shadow in the morning. It's out there, outside of prison, where time flies. On a sunny afternoon at a federal prison outside San Francisco last month, Scrivner nervously clutched a manila envelope full of photos of herself and her daughter that she keeps in her cell. As she displays the pictures, Scrivner’s daughter Alannah, who was just 2 years old when her mom was put away, changes from a redheaded, freckled young kid to a sullen teen to a struggling young mom. Scrivner changes in the photos, too. At first she's a plump-cheeked beauty with chestnut-brown hair, then she’s a bleached-blonde woman in her early 30s, before becoming increasingly gaunt as the years grind on....<MORE @ link>