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Hook
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Baja Bruno, I keep seeing these references to "Hook" in a couple of your posts and I have not responded to this thread until now. Fact is, I've been
in Colorado where the mountains and/or the in-laws pathetic excuses for computers (OMG, some people still use win95 and dial-up!) have prevented me
from logging on from before Labor Day until today.
What gives?????
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BajaBruno
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Hook, you have my sincerest apologies. Somehow my foggy brain got Skeet and Hook transposed. I'll change all references immediately.
I think I got them all. Sorry again, Hook.
Bruno
[Edited on 9-10-2007 by BajaBruno]
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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Hook
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Thanks, BB.
Man, this thread is "outing" more people than a closet in San Francisco.
I'm guilty as charged, too, and remember all of the strains Lee referenced......but that was long ago. I think the stuff should be legalized due to
the hypocrisy of the effects of alcohol but it is NOT good for proper brain function. Also feel the sie-effects are pretty long-lasting.
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toneart
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This debate could go on forever and people will continue to think what they think. My only request at this point is for the people who are still
lumping all drugs together, stop it and think! Haven't you learned anything?
Skeet---I like all the things in your life that gives you natural highs. That's the best way! 
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oldhippie
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"My only request at this point is for the people who are still lumping all drugs together, stop it"
Why? It's a good buzz.
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toneart
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| Quote: | Originally posted by oldhippie
"My only request at this point is for the people who are still lumping all drugs together, stop it"
Why? It's a good buzz. |
Bon Voyage!
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BajaBruno
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I'm starting to agree with Dennis.  
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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Bajafun777
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Ok, Bajabus now you want me to believe what the Netherlands stats are but wait shall we talk about their child pornography acceptance too??? I think
not and what their stats are and what they really are would probably more than over take our stats. We have a tendency to be more show me everything
before our survey for stats are complete and the Netherlands does not do the same thing. Just a back choice to try and convince me with here on this
subject I definately have first hand knowledge of and Comitan I have 3 youngmen that are all adults and are doing fine thank you. I trusted them but
I did my job as a parent and demonstrated the right way to do things. Trusting is one thing but never ever trust that kids can start getting into the
wrong crowd and everything will turn out all right, as it won't. What can go wrong will, so prevention at least gives you a chance to stop something
from going wrong. I trusted my sons but I still checked on them and always knew who their friends were. I made my house the meeting place where they
came after the sporting events or social events. My food costs were definately high as well as my car's gas taking their friends home at night.
Their parents knew my wife and me and we made it a to do thing to know the kids parents that came to our house. As I have stated in earlier posts I
have worked over 34 years with kids and families, so you do not need to put blinders on and make mistakes others have made but instead learn from
them. My sons were all different in school, sports, outside activities and later in career choices. You have got to Love them enough to do whatever
and I mean whatever it takes to have them do the right things as kids. I am still involved in their lives but sort of as an outside adviser but they
still think my suggestions over before they make their choices. Now, they will come to me with a problem or a life choice because they want to. I do
not jump in now unless they ask, however they do still ask for my input as they trust me which is something that you earn.
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toneart
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBruno
I'm starting to agree with Dennis. |
Me too!  Everybody........good night and good luck!
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Sharksbaja
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True Story
Because he is dead this can't harm him. My dad. A brilliant enginee/inventor. Invented such thangs like the "wawa pedal" , wet bike and held patents
for dozens of other before-their-time inventions. Excelled at physics, metallurgy, pneumatics and hydraulics. Never killed anything but fish.
Prior to WWII he attended Perdue where he garnered a degree. To make money for college he played big-band alto--sax. He smoked joints with Billy
Holiday and friends. They made sweet music. After the war he simply forgot about pot and it never really bothered him. Till the day he died he had a
martini every night and never condemmed others tending to their own private buzz. A great man indeed.
Thanks for a rehash of much we already know. Boring as it was.
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
Nomads\' Sunsets
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajafun777
I think not and what their stats are and what they really are would probably more than over take our stats. We have a tendency to be more show me
everything before our survey for stats are complete and the Netherlands does not do the same thing. . |
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Sharksbaja
Because he is dead this can't harm him. My dad. A brilliant enginee/inventor. Invented such thangs like the "wawa pedal" , wet bike and held patents
for dozens of other before-their-time inventions. Excelled at physics, metallurgy, pneumatics and hydraulics. Never killed anything but fish.
Prior to WWII he attended Perdue where he garnered a degree. To make money for college he played big-band alto--sax. He smoked joints with Billy
Holiday and friends. They made sweet music. After the war he simply forgot about pot and it never really bothered him. Till the day he died he had a
martini every night and never condemmed others tending to their own private buzz. A great man indeed.
Thanks for a rehash of much we already know. Boring as it was.
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Thanks for sharing this story about your dad.
CaboRon
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Skeet/Loreto
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Bruno and Others
Education and Rehab. has not been that sucessful, why would Legalization make any changes!
My position on those that use Drugs is that is their "Own Free Will and Accord", The result of the use of Drugs i.e. Drunk Drivers killing people.
crazed Druggies killing People, Dealers enticing Kids into Drugs, Parents even using Drugs with their Children is the Problem.
I found that you cannot Change People- People have to change within themselves.
Skeet
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oldhippie
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comitan
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Make USA infrastructure instead of war, then the young people will have jobs and not be interested in mind bending drugs.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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backninedan
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Sorry Comitan, but a good job has nothing to do with drug use. Who do you thing buys the most cocaine?? It's sure not the guy behind the counter at
7/11. It,s the person with a decent job that can afford it
Make it legal, tax the hell out of it. Take the profit away from drug cartels!!
OK, I'm done with my rant.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by backninedan
Sorry Comitan, but a good job has nothing to do with drug use. Who do you thing buys the most cocaine?? It's sure not the guy behind the counter at
7/11. It,s the person with a decent job that can afford it
Make it legal, tax the hell out of it. Take the profit away from drug cartels!!
OK, I'm done with my rant. |
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Hook
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| Quote: | Originally posted by backninedan
Sorry Comitan, but a good job has nothing to do with drug use. Who do you thing buys the most cocaine?? It's sure not the guy behind the counter at
7/11. It,s the person with a decent job that can afford it
Make it legal, tax the hell out of it. Take the profit away from drug cartels!!
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And throw some money into an anti-drug ad campaign.
Here's my regular contention............if we can go from a country with 80% cigarette smokers to one with less than 20% smokers in 50 years, we can
convince people that drugs are not the answer, too. Most of that drop was from education.
It's the profit margin on the black market that causes 95% of the problems with drugs. But that isnt to say that regularly taking drugs isnt bad, IMO.
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Gnome-ad
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Just so we get this straight ... in reference to being "outed" ... I am going to confess to my ultimate drug of choice, right here on
BajaNomad. It is one I did not mention in my rants (shame? guilt?). I have had an addiction to this substance since my teenage years and have used it
in almost every form it is available. I have passed this addiction to my children. It has always been available easily and affordably from “the man” -
at the grocery store, the gas station, the convenience store, restaurants. The only place I used to be safe from it was at school, now in their great
wisdom many school districts have allowed it to be, not only sold in public schools, but to help sponsor our sorely under-funded educational system.
I have kicked it numerous times in my life only to return to its clutches. I think, oh, I can just have a little, but before I know it I am hooked
again from the moment I wake up. When I quit, I go through shakes, headaches, aggressive behavior, apathy, lethargy, practically anarchy!! Most of you
have probably guessed my drug of choice now and forever … caffeine! I’d like to have printed that reeeeally big in wiggly letter, but then it might
not have been a surprise to those of you who need a mirror. A harmless drug? A drug with no cost to society??? No way. Heart attack, stroke, gall
bladder, kidney and liver problems as well as unwarranted feelings of superiority are only a few of the negative impacts on society. But, hey, it’s
acceptable socially, practically unacceptable to NOT use it.
I’m so hard core I even like it with additives. The last two weeks before leaving Oregon, when there was more work to do than me to do it, I had two
RED BULLs a day(!) to get me through – that is AFTER my double soy vanilla latte in the morning. I fit the “I know it’s bad for me” category, too. I
had emergency gall bladder surgery in March after passing five gall stones into my central bile duct and still I like my buzz. And in the hospital
they served it to me with my “clear liquid” diet until I reminded them I wasn’t supposed to have it. I’ll bet caffeine has caused more
expense to society than marijuana can ever hope to – not that a plant has hopes. But don’t worry, your insurance rates will not climb because of my
little foray into the hospital. Without health insurance we had to pay for that ourselves out of our little nest egg. It’s a smaller egg now, but in
the long run we still saved money, would have paid more for insurance in the last 20 years than it cost.
I was raised on caffeine and sarcasm. I try and keep my sarcasm under control, but it’s a daily battle. The caffeine? Well, right now I say, “Baby,
let the good times roll!”
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Ancis
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Cypress
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This old highway goes on forever and the party never ends.
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