With marijuana screening they test for a non-psychoactive metabolite that stays in the body for much longer than the active form of the drug, or most other illegal drugs for that matter. I find it hard to believe that someone who fails a marijuana screening a week after discontinuing use is still impaired. I would argue that marijuana screening has more to do with its legal status than its actual effects.

I agree. But you don't see anyone firing employees simply because they drink alcohol responsibly in their own time.

If you are spending 35% of your time not doing your job, what you were actually doing is irrelevant.

Marijuana would also be the only legal drug that is widely tested for and discriminated against in hiring/firing decisions without this exemption. I largely agree with you, I just think you are being pedantic. And again, we already have this situation in many states with tobacco, I don't see how this is any different.

While that may be the case, personally I think the greater harm in this situation is the drug law, not the clarity of the proposition repealing it.

I think that text is in Prop. 19 to address the question of drug testing, specifically the fact that so many companies will not hire someone that does not pass a marijuana screening. What is the point of making it legal if nobody that uses it can get a job? Would you support testing for alcohol and not hiring/firing anyone that failed the screening? I think if a big enough percentage of companies implemented nicotine or alcohol screening we would see the law changed to protect those people as well.

Also, it isn't legal in every state to deny employment based on tobacco use.

From your link:

It doesn't look like Rupert was telling him to sell his shares in this photo.

HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) met with Mr. Rupert Murdoch Chairman and CEO of News Corporation (News Corp.) at the company's headquarters in New York on Thursday 14th January, 2010.

The meeting began as Prince Alwaleed and Mr. Murdoch discussed economic and investment issues especially in the media sector and the two discussed Rotana and LBCSAT 90% owned by HRH. Moreover, the meetings touched upon future potential alliance with News Corp.

And I wonder about the motives of those who deliberately distort language to further a bigoted political agenda.

Really? Your fingers broken?

It usually isn't explicitly stated. Thomistic cosmological argument

1987 wasn't very long ago.

SN 1987A was a supernova in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy. It occurred approximately 51.4 kiloparsecs from Earth,[1] close enough that it was visible to the naked eye. It could be seen from the Southern Hemisphere. It was the closest observed supernova since SN 1604, which occurred in the Milky Way itself. The light from the supernova reached Earth on February 23, 1987. As the first supernova discovered in 1987, it was labeled "1987A". Its brightness peaked in May with an apparent magnitude of about 3 and slowly declined in the following months. It was the first opportunity for modern astronomers to see a supernova up close.

[...]

Approximately three hours before the visible light from SN 1987A reached the Earth, a burst of neutrinos was observed at three separate neutrino observatories. This is due to the neutrino emission (which occurs simultaneously with core collapse) preceding the emission of visible light (which occurs only after the shock wave reaches the stellar surface). At 7:35am Universal time, Kamiokande II detected 11 antineutrinos, IMB 8 antineutrinos and Baksan 5 antineutrinos, in a burst lasting less than 13 seconds.

The first rule of survival is to stay calm. If you can't stay calm enough to remember how to signal for help you already have bigger problems.

No, please don't.

The Hidden History of the Human Race is a frustrating book. The motivation of the authors, "members of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, a branch of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness" (p. xix), is to find support in the data of paleoanthropology and archaeology for the Vedic scriptures of India. Their methods are borrowed from fundamentalist Christian creationists (whom they assiduously avoid citing). They catalog odd "facts" which appear to conflict with the modern scientific understanding of human evolution and they take statements from the work of conventional scholars and cite them out of context to support some bizarre assertion which the original author would almost certainly not have advocated. Cremo and Thompson regard their collection of dubious facts as "anomalies" that the current paradigm of paleoanthropology cannot explain. Sadly, they offer no alternative paradigm which might accommodate both the existing data and the so-called anomalies they present; although they do indicate that a second volume is planned which will relate their "extensive research results" to their "Vedic source material" (p. xix). Kuhn noted that "To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself" (1970, p. 79); and that is precisely what Cremo and Thompson do. They claim that "mechanistic science" is a "militant ideology, skillfully promoted by the combined effort of scientists, educators, and wealthy industrialists, with a view towards establishing worldwide intellectual dominance" (p. 196).

[ ... ]

Cremo and Thompson's claim that anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens have been around for hundreds of millions of years is an outrageous notion. Accepting that there is a place in science for seemingly outrageous hypotheses (cf. Davis, 1926) there is no justification for the sort of sloppy rehashing of canards, hoaxes, red herrings, half-truths and fantasies Cremo and Thompson offer in the service of a religious ideology. Readers who are interested in a more credible presentation of the overwhelming evidence for human evolution should consult Ian Tattersall's wonderful recent book The Fossil Trail: how we know what we think we know about human evolution.

Why is that a bewildering number of people paint the world as black-and-white? ...

Choice == Freedom. Monopoly == Slavery.

You've got a mighty big brush there yourself.

First: You exaggerate. US healthcare is more costly, but only by 1.1x not 2x. Foreign healthcare like Canada is also costly, but most of the cost is hidden behind bureaucracy and taxes.

Total horseshit.

You are looking for "Table 1. Health Care Spending in OECD Countries, 2004"

In 2004, health care spending in the United States averaged $6,102 per person,
according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD). The OECD consists of 30 democracies (listed in Table 1), most of which
are considered to be the most economically advanced countries in the world.1
As shown in Figure 1 and Table 1, U.S. per capita health care spending was
well over double the average of OECD countries, which was $2,560 in 2004. Health
care made up 15.3% of the U.S. economy in 2004, as measured by Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) -- up from 5.1% of GDP in 1960. No other OECD country devotes
as much of its economy to health care, also shown in Table 1.

The table before that ("Table 1. Health Care Spending in OECD Countries, 2004") shows the breakdown between private and public funding for health care in industrialized countries. In case you didn't feel like doing the math, it works out to about $2,684 spent by the US government last year for your health care, which is more than the Canadian government spent on universal health care per capita ($2,183).

Please stop peddling this bullshit like you aren't going to get called out on it.

Not that we shouldn't build HDR plants where they make sense, but good luck building them in Florida (or anywhere in the lower 48 states of the US east of the Rockies). The rock just isn't hot enough, even at 6km.

You say that like you know anything at all about me. Maybe you would be less inclined to assume idiotic things about people if you watched less fox news?

So what do you call the pro-nuclear power hippies like me?