Category: News and Views

Shock: Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson favors marijuana legalization | Raw Story

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“I’m … I’m not exactly for the use of drugs, don’t get me wrong, but I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot, that kinda thing it’s just, it’s costing us a fortune and it’s ruining  young people. Young people go into prisons, they go in as youths and come out as hardened criminals. That’s not a good thing.”

He still believes God smote us on 9/11 for being anti-Christian and immoral. We do welcome the kinder, gentler Pat Robertson, but can’t help but wonder if it isn’t being inspired by some Bubba Kush (see photo).

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Tricare Investigation: Pentagon Plan Won’t Cover Brain-Damage Therapy | NPR

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I have been privileged to be a panelist a number of times for grant panels at the CSUSB’s Office of Technology Transfer. Many of the grant applications focused on limiting or treating traumatic brain injury. It has been the armed forces top priority since the start of the Iraq war. How now is it that an ‘insurance style’ bureaucracy is denying care? Cost?

…reviewers called the Tricare study “deeply flawed,” “unacceptable” and “dismaying.” One top scientist called the assessment a “misuse” of science designed to deny treatment for service members.

Supporting the troops is more than saying thank you. WRITE YOUR LEGISLATORS ABOUT THIS OUTRAGE.

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CHOCOLATE!

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Pam Dirickson and Kim Larsen – CPBS Clients!

Pam and Kim were displaced by the banking crisis. Rather than despairing, they took their love of chocolate and developed PK’s Chocolates, which is both a brick and mortar and on line business. Having participated in their taste testing sessions this spring, we can tell you that they are at once the most unusual and delicious treats you can imagine.

While they are a month or so away from opening their store in Canyon Country, they are taking orders on line for their delightful confections. Below is an article they published. Click on the photos below to see their brochure in a more readable size.

Check them out at www.pkschocolates.com.

Dolce and Gabbana accused of tax evasion (Vogue.com UK)

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A spokesperson for Italy’s excise and revenue police confirmed yesterday that it had recommended the designers be charged with tax evasion and abuse of rights – and that they should be fined €800 million. The allegations levelled at the designers surround the sale of the Dolce & Gabbana and D&G brands to the designers’ Luxembourg-based holding company Gado Srl.

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Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American

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A great piece by Tim Berners-Lee, who, unlike Al Gore, actually did invent the internet. It’s an extended reading piece, but worth it as it explores the importance of net neutrality, freedom of expression and the importance of the internet to all of us.

Why should you care? Because the Web is yours. It is a public resource on which you, your business, your community and your government depend. The Web is also vital to democracy, a communications channel that makes possible a continuous worldwide conversation. The Web is now more critical to free speech than any other medium. It brings principles established in the U.S. Constitution, the British Magna Carta and other important documents into the network age: freedom from being snooped on, filtered, censored and disconnected.

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Office Parties: Breeding Grounds For Bad Behavior, Flings, and Unemployment | Fast Company

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Ah, the holiday office party. A time for employees to wind down, loosen their ties, drink some bubbly, and enjoy a night of much-earned revelry with co-workers. That is, until they wake up hungover and half-naked on top of the copy machine, covered in Post-it notes and crumpled Four Loko cans, and realize their reputation is ruined.

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