Random Politics & Religion #00

are you saying that if I get caught with weed as a teenager I am too stupid to start my own business? or save money? or work more than one job?

Do you not have a grasp of object permanence? Closing your eyes doesn't make things not real.

Because lemme tell you, starting a business is for everyone and minimum wage jobs allow you plenty of room to save money!

And people love hiring hardened felons! Especially brown skinned felons!

When in doubt, have a famous dad.

Get caught with pot as a teenager and get decades in prison. More if you're a certain skin tone.

or just make keep making excuses which is a hell of a lot easier.

Bull. Crap.

Getting decades in prison for smoking pot as a teenager is the norm? Were you smoking pot when you typed this?

We're talking about selling/distributing pot, not using it...

Also getting caught with pot on you has only become a 'eh, not a big deal offense'. Go back 25 years and you were in some deep ***. Not surprisingly, many of those people jailed have seen their lives rekt by the stigma of being jailed.

Or deny reality and statistics .

wait... stop the presses, hold the phone, just wait one minute...

are you trying to tell me that someone in prison didn't enjoy their time there?

/gasp

then certainly it is time to gut the whole system...

someone get the president on his phone....

in other news....
this story has happy ending written all over it....

special forces deployed to syria

Especially if they accidentally get killed by Russian bombs.

Yeah, still not the norm, especially for a teenager. Find me teenagers that were recently sentenced to decades in prison for selling/distributing pot. Good luck finding one, and even better luck finding one without a huge rap sheet to go with it.

Lavoro's case made national headlines this summer as people learned that a Texan with an otherwise clean record could be sentenced to life in prison for the act of baking pot brownies. Possession of hashish or concentrates – in this case, the brownies and cookies – amounting to anywhere between 4 and 400 grams (of entire weight) carries a Texas prison sentence of 5-99 years. And the possession and intent to distribute charges could have added four more.

I was curious, so I spent a few minutes searching.


He ended up taking a plea deal. So he was not sentenced, but he was charged at age 19 with crimes that could have ended with decades in prison because of how the law is worded. He still may get a decade of prison + probation because other charges are still pending/not pleaded down yet.

Groovy, you may have found our outlier in the very unlikely condition that he get decades in prison for it. And look, he's not even "of a certain skin tone"!

I found the outlier in the statistics that you haven't bothered to look into?

What amazing statistical powers you have. The ability to know the outcome without bothering to do any research.Y

Edit:
To be clear, I'm not claiming this is within the normal distribution or not. I've done no research into drug convictions that meet your requirements beyond one google search

I found the outlier in the statistics that you haven't bothered to look into?

What amazing statistical powers you have. The ability to know the outcome without bothering to do any research.Y

Edit:
To be clear, I'm not claiming this is within the normal distribution or not. I've done no research into drug convictions that meet your requirements beyond one google search

LOL. I've seen lame personal attacks in here, but that one was quite a stretch. No wonder Jassik liked it.

You didn't find what I asked for to begin with, and if there isn't an easy example to be found then it supports my point anyway. You'll have to excuse me for not doing a full-scale statistical analysis in the time from when the topic was brought up until now, though. I get paid to do that kind of stuff, so if you want to discuss a fee system I would be glad to research random P&R topics more in depth to suit your needs.

As Republican candidate Jeb Bush's favorability ratings continue to sink, the campaign's chief operating officer has decamped. COO Christine Ciccone is the highest-ranking employee on the campaign to depart so far, reported the Wall Street Journal.

The news comes as the Bush campaign announced plans to cut salaries by 40 percent. Ciccone was paid around $12,000 a month, or about a $144,000 yearly salary.

“We are grateful to have had Christine on the team, we respect her immensely,” Bush spokesman Tim Miller told the Journal.

Ciccone has a long relationship with the Bush family. She previously worked in the President George W. Bush administration as a liaison to the Senate.

“I’ve got no comment," Ciconne told the Journal Friday. "I’ve just got to go."

Bush's favorability rating has plummeted since June. No other candidate's favorability among Republicans has fallen as sharply in that time frame, reported Five Thirty Eight.

Referring to Bush's campaign logo, the Daily Wire wrote "the exclamation point is gone."

The conventional wisdom was that Bush needed a strong performance in the third GOP primary debate Wednesday in Boulder, Colorado -- and failed to deliver. Now political observers are questioning how long the former front-runner can stay in the race.

"Jeb Bush's presidential campaign is facing a full-blown existential crisis," wrote CNN's Stephen Collinson. "The former Florida governor's attempt to revive his White House hopes during Wednesday's Republican debate by taking on his former protege, Sen. Marco Rubio, backfired badly. Instead, he delivered a performance drained of passion, fire and inspiration followed by a testy post-game interview that added up to a disastrous night for Bush."

Pundits described the campaign as terminal.

"The most significant story from last night is that Jeb Bush's campaign now finds itself on life support, especially after Bush swung and missed when trying to hit Rubio over his Senate voting record," wrote NBC News. "As one Republican operative told NBC's Peter Alexander, Bush had to demonstrate to his supporters and donors — after a rough last few weeks — that the former Florida governor could land a punch, particularly after telegraphing to the political world that it was coming. But Bush missed. Badly."

The Weekly Standard's headline went even further: "Jeb's Dead."

I think he can hold out until the next GOP debate on Nov 10, which should be more focused on policy for a few reasons, namely its on Fox....