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Active Duty Cop: "The war on drugs is a war on people. I did not get in law enforcement to destroy a person’s future because that person had marijuana or a pill in their pocket. Why would you want to destroy that person’s future and cause them great harm because of that? It’s not worth it.”’ (rawstory.com)
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Active Duty Cop: "The war on drugs is a war on people. I did not get in law enforcement to destroy a person’s future because that person had marijuana or a pill in their pocket. Why would you want to destroy that person’s future and cause them great harm because of that? It’s not worth it.”’ (self.autotldr)
submitted ago by autotldr to autotldr
Active Duty Cop: "The war on drugs is a war on people. I did not get in law enforcement to destroy a person’s future because that person had marijuana or a pill in their pocket. Why would you want to destroy that person’s future and cause them great harm because of that? It’s not worth it.” (rawstory.com)
submitted ago by Orangutan to occupywallstreet
Active Duty Cop: "The war on drugs is a war on people. I did not get in law enforcement to destroy a person’s future because that person had marijuana or a pill in their pocket. Why would you want to destroy that person’s future and cause them great harm because of that? It’s not worth it.”’ (rawstory.com)
submitted ago by GonzoVeritas to politics
Active Duty Cop: "The war on drugs is a war on people. I did not get in law enforcement to destroy a person’s future. I got into law enforcement to shoot kittens and kill atheists." (self.circlejerk)
submitted ago by bean183 to circlejerk
What's new in Newsweek, etc.: Time and Newsweek, Dec. 11The Newsweek cover story predicts that the Bush administration may be reluctant to heed Iraq Study Group recommendations. Bush is notoriously stubborn and his aides take a "dismissive, even condescending" tone toward the Baker commission. In their minds, the commission "is just one of three ongoing reviews of Iraq policy … and not the most important one at that." As for James Baker, the former secretary of state has assumed a low profile since the invasion. "I used to get asked why I didn't want to push on to Baghdad [in the 1991 gulf war]," Baker likes to say. "I don't get asked that question much anymore." … Time's cover piece, meanwhile, speculates that President Bush will listen to the commission's advice. But given his obstinacy, to call the change a "reversal is a misnomer; it would be more like a personality transplant." The report isn't expected to set a timetable for withdrawal, but may recommend leveraging the threat of withdrawal in return for Iraqi cooperation. News that Donald Rumsfeld had suggested a "major adjustment" in Iraq strategy before resigning suggests Bush is considering a tactical shift. Of course, circumstances may quickly render any plan obsolete: "What we have produced is a plan for December," says a commission official. "We have no idea what things are going to look like in February."[more ...] (slate.com)
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning. Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-- woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study. He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes. "Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving a dinner on glass tables, and the tables sang, _Il mio tesoro_--not _Il mio tesoro_ though, but something better, and there were some sort of little decanters on the table, and they were women, too," he remembered. Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile. "Yes, it was nice, very nice. There was a great deal more that was delightful, only there's no putting it into words, or even expressing it in one's thoughts awake." And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco. And, as he had done every day for the last nine years, he stretched out his hand, without getting up, towards the place where his dressing-gown always hung in his bedroom. And thereupon he suddenly remembered that he was not sleeping in his wife's room, but in his study, and why: the smile vanished from his face, he knitted his brows. (gutenberg.org)
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