On cannabis, mental illness, and (fears of) random crime - Part 2

On cannabis, mental illness, and (fears of) random crime - Alex Berenson

Big cities, particularly on the West Coast, have seen a massive rise in homelessness, psychosis, and public drug use. 

Yes, they’ve cracked down some since 2023, but the public health establishment still is focused on “harm reduction” and “meeting addicts where they are” and generally facilitating drug use and antisocial public behavior, whatever the consequences.

• And the primary preventable cause of psychosis is drug use — particularly cannabis and stimulant use.
• Cannabis, especially the high-THC cannabis available at a retailer near you in legalized states, has become a significant national driver of mental illness and psychosis. 
• Stimulants, including both prescription drugs like Adderall and illicit substances like methamphetamine and cocaine, run second.

As long as we continue to allow for-profit companies and drug legalizers to profit from and encourage the use of chemicals that drive mental illness, psychosis and its attendant violence will rise...

Lunch video-----Victor Davis Hanson On The Real Reason People Hate Donald Trump

Noon-toon

 

Trump Tariffs Nearly Quadruple Biden's Pitiful 2024 Tariff Revenue - Will Bring in Trillions

Trump Tariffs Nearly Quadruple Biden's Pitiful 2024 Tariff Revenue - Will Bring in Trillions: 

President Donald Trump is proving all the naysayers and globalists wrong, months into his tariff regime, as revenue to the federal treasury spikes and inflation remains low.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget reported that in July alone, Trump’s tariffs brought in approximately $25 billion to the federal treasury, up from $7 billion during the same month under former President Joe Biden in 2024.

Dems been cheating in MI for YEARS!

 

On cannabis, mental illness, and (fears of) random crime

Psychosis-driven violence is scarier than other crime - and it seems to be rising.. - Alex Berenson

In their daily lives, most ordinary people are at very low risk from violent crime... 

• But there’s another kind of crime.

It’s not purposeful. 

It’s episodic and psychosis-driven and it almost always targets the truly innocent — the family members of the perpetrator, often including children, and random strangers. 

• The seminal domestic version is the mother who kills her kids. 
• The seminal public version is the man who without a word pushes someone in front of an oncoming subway.3

Unlike ordinary crime, psychosis-driven violence is essentially impossible to stop or even defend against. 

It cannot be predicted, because it is fundamentally irrational. 

And it targets the weak.

• Psychotic crime is terrifying. 
• It’s the most terrifying kind of crime — more terrifying than terrorism itself... 

"Graditude"????

 

AR-15 are not automatic rifles!-----This Blue City Mayor Just Gave a Ridiculous Suggestion on How Trump Can Reduce Crime

Scott continued, arguing that more gun control is the solution for high crime rates... - Jeff Charles 

• “The president can say, no one will no longer be able to go into a store and buy a AR-15...

the notion that banning AR-15s and other “assault” rifles will reduce homicides is laughable when one looks at the numbers.

• Between 2007 and 2017, rifles of all types accounted for only 3.2 percent of total homicides...

The mayor responded, explaining that the city has a “comprehensive violence prevention plan” where it does “all of the above.”

...we have our group violence reduction strategy or focus deterrence, where we actually go to the very small group of people who are the most likely to be a victim or perpetrator of gun violence and say, choose, change your life. They actually get a letter directly from me as the mayor that says, change your life. We’ll help you do that. But if you don’t, we will remove you.

#1 This day 1960-----elvis presley - its now or never (1960)

What does this say about W. Michigan's labor market?-----Michigan's biggest amusement park, Michigan's Adventure ending 2025 season earlier than planned on Sept. 1

The amusement park was originally scheduled to be open through October and host the traditional Tricks and Treats weekends. - Zac Harmon 

• Instead, Michigan's Adventure passholders will get a free ticket to Cedar Point, another Six Flags property, which will be good for any day through the end of that park's season...
• The decision to close Michigan's Adventure on Labor Day is being explained as a way to keep the quality of the spring and summer seasons up, according to a company spokesperson.

Un-freakin'-believable! "Never forget"??

 

West Point Goes Full Anti-Woke Following DOJ Lawsuit, Drops Race-Based Policies

West Point Goes Full Anti-Woke Following DOJ Lawsuit, Drops Race-Based Policies: 

Officials at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Air Force Academy settled litigation with the Justice Department regarding their race-driven admissions practices. Students for Fair Admissions, a group suing the schools for their policies of assigning greater weight to student applications from certain racial groups, therefore nixed their lawsuits, according to a Tuesday report from CNN.

How you ATTRACT business AND GROW!-----Ohio builds on record of having cheaper electricity

New Ohio law puts Michigan at a further disadvantage, expert warms - Jamie A. Hope
The law makes it easier for utilities to acquire the permits required to establish a generating plant, as noted by observers as diverse as The Nature Conservancy and the State Policy Network...

• Michigan’s residential electricity rates are 20% higher than Ohio’s, Bolema said, and Michigan’s industrial rates are more than 10% higher than those in Ohio.
• ”This gap will grow even wider as Ohio goes forward with its new policies, while Michigan regulators keep allowing rate increases by its monopoly utilities,” Bolema added...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 15

History for August 15 - On-This-Day.com 

Napoleon Bonaparte 1769

• 1877 - Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone.
• 1914 - The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic.
• 1939 - "The Wizard of Oz" premiered in Hollywood, CA. Judy Garland became famous for the movie's song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
• 1947 - India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British about 200 years.
• 1997 - The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho. The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up.

'Reputational risk': Report reveals Joe Biden pressured corporations to debank Donald Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Reputational risk': Report reveals Joe Biden pressured corporations to debank Donald Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

A new report reveals that Joe Biden, while in the White House, pressured a dozen corporations to debank Donald Trump, sending regulators to harass and investigate banks, even fining them, until they cooperated. And a report in the Washington Stand reveals they used the concept of "reputational risk" in their threats against the banks.

The way we were-----Responding to Somalia's 1992 Food Crisis

Scammers all over

Next target for arrogant, ignorant 'experts': organ donors

After an alarming federal report, you'd think transplant doctors would work hard to increase public confidence in their methods. Instead, they're going the other way. - Glenn H. Reynolds

Of all America’s problems, waning trust in our institutions — and our institutions’ lack of trustworthiness — is among the biggest.

• Case in point: organ donation.

Some have always worried that doctors might be a little too quick to declare them dead, in order to strip them of organs that might save other patients...
Turns out they weren’t being paranoid.

Last month The New York Times reported that under existing guidelines, “a growing number of patients” — some of them “gasping, crying or showing other signs of life” — are facing “premature or bungled attempts to retrieve their organs.”...

My brush with death in DC - The Spectator World

The city has been a model of corrupt, complacent governance – a national embarrassment - Isaac Schorr

The last thing I heard before my ears started ringing was my left turn signal clicking.
I was stopped at a red light on a Saturday afternoon, waiting to glide into my parking lot near the Waterfront Metro stop in Washington, DC when a loud crack suddenly deafened me. 

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a bullet-sized wound in my windshield.
It wasn’t a windy day, and no cars had been passing by to kick a loose stone up at my beloved Camry, so it only took me only a half-second to realize what had happened...
The two Metropolitan Police Department officers my 911 call summoned didn’t show up until a half-hour later, even though the nearest station was only a two-minute walk away...Yes, my car had probably been shot with me in it, they agreed before informing me that all they could do was record the incident.
If I wanted, they said, I could ask nearby apartment buildings and businesses for security footage and report back to them. And then they were off; my ears were still ringing...

Mexico hands over 26 high-ranking alleged drug cartel figures to US for prosecution | Blaze Media

Mexico hands over 26 high-ranking alleged drug cartel figures to US for prosecution | Blaze Media: 

The agreement is a part of President Donald Trump's promise to dismantle Mexican drug cartels in order to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.

"These 26 men have all played a role in bringing violence and drugs to American shores — under this Department of Justice, they will face severe consequences for their crimes against this country," reads a statement from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Two Court Rulings to Let You Use Your Property As You Wish

Climate Lawyers Try a New Approach - WSJ

Heatstroke killed Julie Leon on a 108-degree day. A lawsuit blames oil companies. - Mike Toth

Stung by a recent losing streak in state courts, the foundations, academics and trial lawyers behind the climate lawfare movement are now trying a new tactic: wrongful-death lawsuits against oil and gas companies based on the alleged connection between carbon emissions and weather-related deaths...

• The leading such case, Leon v. Exxon Mobil, seeks to hold energy companies liable for the death of Julie Leon, who suffered heatstroke in her car in June 2021 after driving almost 100 miles without air conditioning on a day when temperatures hit a record-breaking 108 degrees in western Washington state...

Lunch video-----Mamdani’s Bad Ideas, Part 2: Free Buses, $30 Minimum Wage & Rent Freezes