It is hell when I agree with the Democrats. We traded video poker for the “SC Education” Lottery. So then we got scratch offs, which the morality police call the crack of gambling, because the state could sell the lottery as long as it attached the word education to it. Then the Lottery Commission appointments became a political plum for politicians and bureaucrats seeking high salaries with little real oversight. The Lottery Commission then functions as its own entity with its own rules. Hemp products opened the door to smaller entrepreneurs with no evil intent other than to participate in a free market. The SC Republican Party, especially its leadership, has anointed itself as the arbiter of morals for the people. The Retirement System has an unfunded liability, roads are deteriorating, our tax structure needs a total overhaul, the judiciary has its problems, but the Republicans whistle past the graveyard and look for their morals issue. Lord help us.
For me, even smoking cigarettes is a an issue of morality: harming your and others’ lungs while burning money and misusing the land on which tobacco is grown instead of growing food.
But those who pretend that marijuana and all pot products are pure medicinal benefits with little side effect are wrong, very wrong.
I don’t want to be driving on a highway on which the other drivers are figuratively high.
Science and medicine should not be partisan issues disguised as morality issues.
Its funny that it easier to pass a 40 page law that does almost nothing than explain federal pre-emption to the average south carolinian. The federal farm bill comprehensively regulates it so the states cannot further restrict or contradict the federal rules. We can all buy thc forever now. Suck it, Mark Keel.
FITS, it is unseemly and suspicious of you to gloat every time Shane Massey fails in a battle even is he ultimately wins the was.
You should update this story with the compromised reached.
Libertarianism, which you claim but are not a purist about, does NOT mean open access to pot even by minors.
(corrected for typos)
FITS, it is unseemly and suspicious of you to gloat every time Shane Massey fails in a battle even if he ultimately wins the war.
You should update this story with the compromise reached.
Libertarianism, which you claim but are not a purist about, does NOT mean open access to pot even by minors.
(corrected for typos)
FITS, it is unseemly and suspicious of you to gloat every time Shane Massey fails in a battle even if he ultimately wins the war.
You should update this story with the compromise reached.
Libertarianism, which you claim but are not a purist about, does NOT mean open access to pot even by minors.
Please note the corrected typos:
FITS, it is unseemly and suspicious of you to gloat every time Shane Massey fails in a battle even if he ultimately wins the war.
You should update this story with the compromise reached.
Libertarianism, which you claim but are not a purist about, does NOT mean open access to pot even by minors.
FITS, if it is true that both Dylan Nolan and Andy Fancher abruptly quit on you, after Callie Lyons went to the Malicious Mandy Matney side, who had few years ago bolted from you and taken her “work wife” Liz Farrell with her, too, I have some comments and ideas for you.
First, be grateful you still have Jenn Wood and Erin Parrot [whose name sounded like “heir apparent” when you said it in your (now-discontinued?) week/month/year-in-review. They are both very talented; and I don’t think Jenn Wood plans to relocate again, at least not before her daughter graduates Clemson.
Next, start training your older kids to help in your mom-and-pop operation. That is how the Murdock (that is Murdock of Fox News, etc. not Murdaugh of you-know-what) empire started and grew.
Third, shift to topics with a wider-base interest. You may have a 0.01% of your subscribers interested in the partisan/racist red meat (beware alpha-gal) you throw at them; but probably a majority of the other 99.99% are not uninterested in affordability of insurance (health and otherwise), gasoline, AND rent.
Yes, rent.
Have you ever investigated how mega malevolent (supercilious for “big bad”) companies oligopolize the market and conspire to raise the rent while depressing the quality of rental housing?
Yes! Affordability.
Perhaps your former employees who went to greener gardens (meaning more stuffed with green dollars) no longer worry about affordability; but perhaps your readers do.
“The rent is darn high!”
A previously repeat candidate for NYC mayor could not ride that slogan to victory; but a younger, fresher face did on a repackaged version.
Perhaps Rom Reddy or Jermaine Johnson can; and perhaps YOU can return to your Mark Sanford days with a different governor.
Just early morning thoughts as Easter is the season for new life.
I open parentheses/brackets but forget to close them.
Also, it should be “99.99% are more uninterested,” not “99.99% are not uninterested”; what can I say?
Early morning blurriness of eyesight, but not of vision
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It is hell when I agree with the Democrats. We traded video poker for the “SC Education” Lottery. So then we got scratch offs, which the morality police call the crack of gambling, because the state could sell the lottery as long as it attached the word education to it. Then the Lottery Commission appointments became a political plum for politicians and bureaucrats seeking high salaries with little real oversight. The Lottery Commission then functions as its own entity with its own rules. Hemp products opened the door to smaller entrepreneurs with no evil intent other than to participate in a free market. The SC Republican Party, especially its leadership, has anointed itself as the arbiter of morals for the people. The Retirement System has an unfunded liability, roads are deteriorating, our tax structure needs a total overhaul, the judiciary has its problems, but the Republicans whistle past the graveyard and look for their morals issue. Lord help us.
For me, even smoking cigarettes is a an issue of morality: harming your and others’ lungs while burning money and misusing the land on which tobacco is grown instead of growing food.
But those who pretend that marijuana and all pot products are pure medicinal benefits with little side effect are wrong, very wrong.
I don’t want to be driving on a highway on which the other drivers are figuratively high.
Science and medicine should not be partisan issues disguised as morality issues.
Its funny that it easier to pass a 40 page law that does almost nothing than explain federal pre-emption to the average south carolinian. The federal farm bill comprehensively regulates it so the states cannot further restrict or contradict the federal rules. We can all buy thc forever now. Suck it, Mark Keel.
FITS, it is unseemly and suspicious of you to gloat every time Shane Massey fails in a battle even is he ultimately wins the was.
You should update this story with the compromised reached.
Libertarianism, which you claim but are not a purist about, does NOT mean open access to pot even by minors.
(corrected for typos)
FITS, it is unseemly and suspicious of you to gloat every time Shane Massey fails in a battle even if he ultimately wins the war.
You should update this story with the compromise reached.
Libertarianism, which you claim but are not a purist about, does NOT mean open access to pot even by minors.
(corrected for typos)
FITS, it is unseemly and suspicious of you to gloat every time Shane Massey fails in a battle even if he ultimately wins the war.
You should update this story with the compromise reached.
Libertarianism, which you claim but are not a purist about, does NOT mean open access to pot even by minors.
Please note the corrected typos:
FITS, it is unseemly and suspicious of you to gloat every time Shane Massey fails in a battle even if he ultimately wins the war.
You should update this story with the compromise reached.
Libertarianism, which you claim but are not a purist about, does NOT mean open access to pot even by minors.
FITS, if it is true that both Dylan Nolan and Andy Fancher abruptly quit on you, after Callie Lyons went to the Malicious Mandy Matney side, who had few years ago bolted from you and taken her “work wife” Liz Farrell with her, too, I have some comments and ideas for you.
First, be grateful you still have Jenn Wood and Erin Parrot [whose name sounded like “heir apparent” when you said it in your (now-discontinued?) week/month/year-in-review. They are both very talented; and I don’t think Jenn Wood plans to relocate again, at least not before her daughter graduates Clemson.
Next, start training your older kids to help in your mom-and-pop operation. That is how the Murdock (that is Murdock of Fox News, etc. not Murdaugh of you-know-what) empire started and grew.
Third, shift to topics with a wider-base interest. You may have a 0.01% of your subscribers interested in the partisan/racist red meat (beware alpha-gal) you throw at them; but probably a majority of the other 99.99% are not uninterested in affordability of insurance (health and otherwise), gasoline, AND rent.
Yes, rent.
Have you ever investigated how mega malevolent (supercilious for “big bad”) companies oligopolize the market and conspire to raise the rent while depressing the quality of rental housing?
Yes! Affordability.
Perhaps your former employees who went to greener gardens (meaning more stuffed with green dollars) no longer worry about affordability; but perhaps your readers do.
“The rent is darn high!”
A previously repeat candidate for NYC mayor could not ride that slogan to victory; but a younger, fresher face did on a repackaged version.
Perhaps Rom Reddy or Jermaine Johnson can; and perhaps YOU can return to your Mark Sanford days with a different governor.
Just early morning thoughts as Easter is the season for new life.
I open parentheses/brackets but forget to close them.
Also, it should be “99.99% are more uninterested,” not “99.99% are not uninterested”; what can I say?
Early morning blurriness of eyesight, but not of vision