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Happy 4th

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Happy 4th From The Axis of Stevil Show

Happy 4th

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16
Mar

~Stimulus Money Spent On Marijuana Since Obama Took Office~

Written by Heather.

~On Saturdays Show Steve Mentioned A Story We Heard That Put The Increase Of  Marijuana Use Blame On Actors & The Media~I Don't Remember The Womens Name But She Said If You Believe It's Obama's Fault You're Crazy~Well I Decided To Do A Little Research~Not Only Does Obama Mention His Drug Use In His Book And Has Mentioned It In Some Of His Speeches But~The Stimulus Money That Has Been Spent On  Marijuana Since He Took Office Has Been Outrageous~Below I Have Included A Few Articles I've Found~

 

Stimulus Dollars Fund Local Study on Marijuana

Tue, Jun 02, 2009

 

VANCOUVER, Wash. - A Southwest Washington psychology professor has received federal stimulus money to study marijuana and pain management.

 

WSU Vancouver Professor Michael Morgan qualified to receive $148,438 for his two-year study, which aims to determine whether the use of marijuana along with other anti-pain medications such as morphine provides better pain relief than either drug alone.

 

The grant from the National Institutes of Health is part of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the economic stimulus package enacted by Congress and signed by the president in February.

 

"This research is innovative in the field," Morgan said in a news release. "Currently there are no other projects that are studying this chemical relationship using these parameters."

 

His project was picked because of "its potential to stimulate the economy and create or retain jobs within the community" as well as its likelihood of making scientific progress in two years, school officials said in a news release.

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Zipline Conservative

February 12, 2010

Your Confiscated Money at Work

“Some of the close to seven billion dollars in projects in Stimulus Checkup create few jobs; benefit private interests over the public good; or make improvements where they are not necessary,” the report says. “Some send money to companies facing fraud charges. Others take millions of dollars to do work local officials and experts admit are not needed or will not help.” Tax Dollars

Buffalo Residents Paid to Keep Daily Journal of Malt Liquor and Marijuana Use ($389,357)
Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo will receive nearly $390,000 to study young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke marijuana. Malt liquor consumption is an understudied topic, according to the researchers‘ application, making it an obvious choice for economic stimulus funding. The study will reportedly pay 100 Buffalo-area residents $45 each to record their daily malt liquor drinking and marijuana smoking usage through an automated phone hotline.

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MIAMI, FL

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Grant: $648,737 - National Institutes of Health - Aug. 11, 2009

 

Award Description: 'Brief Intervention for Marijuana Use among Latino Youth' is a two-year research project designed to develop and test a school-based, brief intervention for marijuana using, Hispanic/Latino 10th & 11th graders. Clinical trials support the effectiveness of brief intervention with adult and older adolescent marijuana users, but these studies have been limited by insufficient ethnic/racial diversity of samples, lack of attention to non-treatment–seeking populations, no direct examination of putative mechanisms of change, and failure to account for possible reactivity-to-assessment effects. 10th & 11th grade marijuana users, more than their younger or older counterparts, are at especially high risk for developing problems with marijuana use. Hispanic/Latino adolescents report the highest prevalence of early onset marijuana use, which makes them particularly susceptible to the development of marijuana use problems. The primary goal of the study is to conduct a randomized clinical trial evaluating a school-based motivational interviewing intervention targeting marijuana use among Latino 10th & 11th graders. Participants (n = 240) will be randomly assigned to two treatment conditions: (1) brief advice and a personalized feedback report alone (BA+PFR) or (2) brief advice, a personalized feedback report, and motivational interviewing (BA+PFR+MI). Participants will be evaluated at study entry, and at 3- and 6-month follow-ups. At the 6-month follow-up assessment, 15% of participants will be randomly selected for urinalysis in order to examine the correspondence between self-report and biochemical indices of substance use. We hypothesize adolescents assigned to motivational interviewing will demonstrate significantly greater reductions in marijuana use and marijuana-related negative consequences than adolescents assigned to brief advice plus personalized feedback. Additional aims are to examine (a) mechanisms of change associated with intervention response, (b) how gender, nativity, generational status, and language preference might moderate intervention response. We believe our proposed study is both significant and innovative, and represents an important next step in the development of effective, brief, and school-based interventions for adolescent marijuana users.

Project Description: Our 2-year study will focus on examining the efficacy of brief motivational intervention for reducing marijuana use and marijuana-related negative consequences among Hispanic adolescent marijuana users (n=240). Study participants will be recruited from the Miami-Dade public schools. The study has four specific aims: Aim #1. Evaluate the efficacy of a motivational interviewing intervention for Hispanic/Latino, marijuana using, public school youth. We hypothesize adolescents assigned to motivational interviewing will demonstrate significantly greater reductions in marijuana use and marijuana-related negative consequences than adolescents assigned to brief advice. Aim #2. Examine mechanisms of change (i.e., mediators) associated with response to our motivational interviewing intervention. We hypothesize changes in these variables will predict participants’ response to the motivational interviewing. Aim #3. Explore gender, nativity, generational status, and language preference as moderators of intervention response. This exploratory aim represents a preliminary evaluation of the gender and cultural invariance of our motivational interviewing intervention for adolescent marijuana users.

Jobs Summary: This 0.66 FTE consists of two new hires. One is a Research Interventionist and one is a Research Assistant. This also includes the retention of one Professor. (Total jobs reported: 1)

Project Status: Less Than 50% Completed

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~{NOW-I'm Not The Best At All This Researching Thing Or Blogging But Just From What I Have Found It's Like We're Telling Children Go Smoke The Stuff & This Is All Happening Under Obama!!~I Put A Lot Of Blame On Him So Call Me Crazy!!~

 

 

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27
Jan

What the Teleprompter Will Say tonight…

Written by JLancaster.

More of the Same, Really

 

obama playing with scary faced kid What the Teleprompter Will Say tonight...

"I'm Gonna Build You a Debt Mountain!"

(TTfD) As many Americans huddle around old oil barrels now serving as their central heat, they wait patiently for more of that Obama Magic that got him elected.  They await more promises, and plenty of them.

Of course, the major promises from the campaign have all been thrown away, right along with the promise that if Congress passed his Stimulus, the unemployment rate would not go above 8%.  The “real” unemployment rate now is more than twice that.

The media expects a big audience for tonight’s performance as very few people have a job to wake up for anyway so why not wallow along with Obama?  Plus, he’s on every channel so there are limited selections.

If you are one of the lucky few that actually can afford to anything else, keep on reading.

According to the Drudge Report, here are the highlights of the speech to be delivered by SEIU Union Organizer Obama.

"...By the time I’m finished speaking tonight, more Americans will have lost their health insurance. Millions will lose it this year. Our deficit will grow. Premiums will go up. Co-pays will go up. Patients will be denied the care they need. Small business owners will continue to drop coverage altogether. I will not walk away from these Americans. And neither should the people in this chamber..."

A reasonable person would say that if the cost of everything is just going to go up while he is speaking, he probably should just be quiet.

"...Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it’s time for something new. Let’s try common sense. Let’s invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let’s meet our responsibility to the people who sent us here..."

Had he been listening and fulfilling his promise to govern from the middle and listen to the voices of us “little people,” we would have already done this. The failed Stimulus would never have been voted on, and he would have owned up to a bit of responsibility instead of simply blaming the previous administration for all his woes.

The simple point Obama — a Constitutional attorney? — misses here is that “gridlock” is built into the system to preserve the voice of everyone, not just Democrats and Union Presidents and non-repentant terrorists.

"...To do that, we have to recognize that we face more than a deficit of dollars right now. We face a deficit of trust – deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years. To close that credibility gap we must take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to end the outsized influence of lobbyists; to do our work openly; and to give our people the government they deserve..."

Smarter people than I have said the people, in the end, get the government they deserve. I must agree, how else can one explain the re-elections of so many corrupt politicians? On that note, though, Americans who voted for Obama probably feel they actually deserve to see at least seome of his promises to eventually show they were based in truth. I am not among those people.

"...But we cannot stop there. It’s time to require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my Administration or Congress. And it’s time to put strict limits on the contributions that lobbyists give to candidates for federal office. Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign companies – to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, and worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong..."

This again was one of the President’s own promises to the American people. He has since made the White House little more than a brothel for left-wing lobbyists. It has gotten so bad a whole White House wing is now the “Barney Frank” suite.

But alas, there is more…

“…I’m also calling on Congress to continue down the path of earmark reform. You have trimmed some of this spending and embraced some meaningful change. But restoring the public trust demands more. For example, some members of Congress post some earmark requests online. Tonight, I’m calling on Congress to publish all earmark requests on a single website before there’s a vote so that the American people can see how their money is being spent…”

Earmarks and pork are the weapons of choice for Obama. He used them — in closed door meetings — to buy off Democrats to support his Health Care plan. In the end, Scott Brown was elected. In that regard, maybe he did learn a lesson.

So, it is believed, those are the words the Teleprompter of the United States will be spewing tonight. Pop up that corn and grab a soda if you can afford the associated taxes.

Tonight, America, is just another night in the Barack Obama campaign. You will be talked down to, in simple terms, because we are but children in eyes the great reader of teleprompters, Barry Obama.

While MSNBC is sure to find even more messianic comparisons of Obama to Jesus, I have found at least one difference…Jesus loved the little children.  Obama does not think that much of us.

God Bless.

-30-

TTfD on twitter

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05
Mar

Hartford Connecticut

Written by Administrator.

Just a few pics I snapped while going through Hartford Ct. These are from I84 and I291.

From A Distance

Close Up

The Dome

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27
Jan

~A Worthy Vessel~

Written by Heather.

~I'm On The Road With My Boyfriend Steve Because He's A Truck Driver~When We Go  To TA Truck Stop I Usually Pick Up The Newest RoadKing Magazine~I Found This Article In The Latest Edition~I Wanted To Share It With Everyone Because I Think This Is A Great Way To Remember 9/11 And Also My Brother Is In The Navy~He Was Stationed Where The USS New York Will Based At~

A Worthy Vessel

The inspiring first journey of the USS New York

by Tim Ghianni

When the USS New York’s bow stem, made from 7.5 tons of steel retrieved from Ground Zero, broke through the waves en route from New Orleans to New York City, Julius Williams and some of his fellow shipbuilders took a break from their jobs and watched.

Williams, a shipbuilder for 43 of his 61 years, has no doubt that this amphibious assault ship is the most important job he and his colleagues have ever completed.

“From one to 10, I’d rank it a 10,” says the welder one day after the 684-foot-long, 105-foot-wide ship sailed from the Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding’s Avondale Shipyard, near New Orleans, bound for Navy commissioning ceremonies in New York City.

“My thoughts were it was history in the making,” he says of the four years spent building the ship. “My patriotism was high.”

He notes that the shipbuilders all felt blessed to be building the USS New York LPD 21 (Landing Platform Dock) which will serve as a working monument to the victims of 9/11 by delivering Marines and their equipment into the heart of the war on terror.

Using hallowed remains of the World Trade Center in the ship’s construction was a soul-stirring experience for the shipbuilders.

“Embedded in the core of this mighty ship are the souls of mighty heroes, never to be forgotten,” said Ron Parker, a retired Brooklyn Ladder Company 148 firefighter, at the March 2008 christening ceremonies, according to the U.S. Navy’s account of the event. He joined many of New York’s first responders in bearing witness to the repurposed metal.

As workers in New Orleans were building the USS New York, they coped with devastation in their own city after Hurricane Katrina hit. The ship’s motto, “Strength Forged Through Sacrifice. Never Forget,” served as inspiration as they had to rebuild their own lives from the wreckage left behind by the storm.

Katrina united the cities as sisters in catastrophe. “Families ripped apart,” says Ed Winter, shipyard spokesman, of the similarity. “In New York it was all unexpected. Friends were looking for people who never came home from work.”

There were similar scenes in Williams’ East New Orleans neighborhood. “It hit me a lot just being a part of the USS New York and tying it in with New Orleans,” Williams says. “It was so heart-touching just to have the opportunity to do what we were doing.

“Even before Katrina, when we found out the ship was being named New York in honor of the victims and the heroes of 9/11, that made it special in itself,” he says. “Then we found out the World Trade Center steel was being donated to be incorporated in its bow, and that made it even more special, because it is considered sacred steel, like a relic.”

The ship, which will be based in Norfolk, Va., was greeted with cheers and tears on arrival in New York.

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 ~Below Are A Few More Pics I Found Of The Uss New York~

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