Creative Endeavors

Now for all you “nit pickers” out there, the shot above is of the Rockies in Wyoming.  The post is about Denver, but I like the shot from Wyoming better and it is after all … My blog.  It doesn’t seem to matter all that much, whether I am in the mountains outside of Denver or Jackson Hole, just as long as I am there.  Just something about the mountains ……

City fathers in Denver announced this past week, that pot smoking during the Democratic Convention will not be tolerated, and tickets will be issued and fines levied if you are caught toting up.  What are all these Democratic Liberals going to do now?

We cannot have a bunch of pot smoking representatives going around all zonked out, first thing you know, they will be doing something stupid, like “legalizing freedom.”  And we cannot have that.

Our moral leadership doesn’t want to get rid of drugs because, in their own sick way, they think drugs are good for the economy.  After all, drugs get more people in jail.  And then the corrections officers sell drugs to the inmates in order to help them while away the time.  It is not a good deal, but in this day and age, it is good to have “two jobs” because that is what it takes to get by anymore.

I got pulled over back in the seventies, me and another dude had just finished a doobie and things were a little bit out of whack you might say.  The cop walks up to the car and he says to me, “Where is your license?” and I say “It aint on the back of the truck?”

Yeah, like that dog would hunt.

The war on drugs is a huge waste of money, evidently something the city patriarchs in Denver are unaware of.  Basically what we have is this dog and pony show that tells everyone that they are going to eradicate this menace on the land (something they have failed at for over thirty years that I know of) and it makes all the respectable voting folks think something is actually happening, when it is not.  They have to pander to this majority of people who still vote, because most pot smokers do not.

They just show up at the local polling place, Twinkies in hand and lament  ….  “What?  It was yesterday?”

People who smoke hooter get messed up will make all these wild promises.  Say dumb stuff like:  I am from Arizona, which is basically a minimum-security prison with golf courses and undocumented workers.  And my dream for America is for your children to have everything that my children never had. Which is pretty unrealistic.  They already have.  Because of lousy government policies in the past (or rather lack of policies would be more realistic) they already have what YOUR kids didn’t have.

Global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps because we burn to much “Clean Coal.”  Holes in the Ozone because we love spray on deodorant, no retirement security plans, no health insurance, AIDS, 62 STD’s (sexually transmitted diseases), a dollar that is basically worthless (worth at best about 16 cents), gasoline at $4 a gallon ….

Because of past policies, their dream has already been realized.  You don’t have to be loaded to understand that, but it might help you deal with it in the end.

Personally I no longer do drugs.  I had my fair share of them in the sixties, “the sixties were really good to me, a large part of those years are now just a gentle wind blowing in the cavities of my mind” (or some other suitable Glenn Campbell tune) but I don’t do that now, I have moved on.

I got tired of waking up on someone’s living room floor, or surfing the coffee table at parties, and the police cars, all the racket, well, it just wasn’t cool.  So I stopped, as I tired of doing weird stuff all the time.  If you don’t think drugs will mess you up?  Then consider this, The Beatles had to be pretty spaced out … They let Ringo sing on two of their albums!

So that is the sad news, “No Rocky Mountain High” in Denver.  If you want to twist one up in your hotel room I guess that is okay, but don’t take it down on the convention floor.  You will get busted.  If you are still somewhat confused and uncertain, we have for you a quick little update … How you know you are in Colorado.

Click here.

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