The regime and electoral machine of Barack Hussein Obama is gearing up for re-election. As we saw in his budget speech, Obama will use demagogic language. The theme will be a us vs. them campaign with Obama as the champion of the oppressed. With rising oil prices, Obama demagogues the oil companies and indirectly blamed Bush. That will be another feature of their battle plan, they will pin our current problems on Bush. It will be one of the most ruthless campaigns in American history!
Jim Messina, who is running Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, told supporters in an Internet video released yesterday that they will have to “scratch and claw” to get the U.S. president re-elected.
“We have to act like an insurgent campaign that wakes up every single day trying to get every single vote we can,” Messina said in the video, which was described as a “sneak peek at 2012 strategy.”
Messina, who earlier this year resigned his position as deputy White House chief of staff to manage the campaign, laid out tactics that he said had worked in 2008, including expanding the electorate to register more voters than Republicans. He said campaign workers should reconnect with past supporters through social media sites, along with using more traditional methods such as calling voters on the telephone and knocking on their doors.
Read the rest: Messina Gives ‘Sneak Peek’ at Obama’s 2012 Re-Election Strategy
The Obama team has a formidable war machine at it’s disposal. They have the media, entertainment and big corporations like GE at their disposal. Obama’s machine will show Republicans no mercy. They will attack and smear. Luckily for them, the GOP, as usual, will not fight. The establishment Republicans would rather attack one of their own than touch Obama.
If the GOP runs a candidate in the BushI/Dole/Bush II/McCain mold, they will lose. The gloves need to be taken off with Obama. He will use 3rd World Liberation rhetoric. Obama will demagogue his opponent with a compliant press. This is political war and I hope the GOP is up to the task. Seeing the Republican Party’s recent and past history, I have my doubts they have what it takes to fight the Obama machine.
Obama is preparing for total political war.
union goons, democrate cheters, half the country is statistically below average intelligence, Soros $
add that to a healthy crop of weak kneed RINOS and Barry is the odds on favorite to win reelection, even if he’s the most vulnerable presidential candidate in recent history
The Republicans need a woman like Michelle Bachmann to get the nomination. The men fight like pussies or worse, like John McCain – actually campaign FOR the other side. Only a woman will be able to get away with calling a spade a spade (and not tolerate “spade” being a hate crime). Call Obama a racist, he is. Call Obama a Marxist, he is. Call him a liar, he is. Do not relent. Go after his secrecy. Go after the people he has always surrounded himself with. Go after his allies in the media. Go negative 24/7. Take the Republican party with you if you lose. They don’t deserve a seat at the next election if they won’t fight for their standard bearer. Give up the goddam abortion thing on the platform. It’s a wedge issue. Just say you’re pro-choice. Have an abortion. Own a gun. Smoke. Drive an SUV. It’s all your choice baby. Don’t let the left have anything. Hell, agree with what they say, yeah man – I believe in global warming, but Obama is still a racist, hiding his ENTIRE past, his administration is filled with tax cheats, criminals and liars.
@ common_sense:
HEAR HEAR!
(‘cept the have an abortion thing ~:)
@ Doppelganger:
The GOP Establishmnet will sabotage anyone who doesn’t conform to their tasts. They want Romney, Daniels or Pawlenty.
@ common_sense:
ACtually, there’s one Republican male who is willing to fight: Donald Trump. Look at how the GOP establishment has gone after him. Funny, they never go after Obama like that.
The GOP elites are scared of Obama.
@ Rodan:
Yeah, but you have to admit with the exception of Trump the rest of the male GOPers are acting like pussies.
GIRLZ RAWK
@ m:
That’s why I call them Eunuchs, they have no balls.
@ m:
*chuckle* You said the “p” word. lol
Rodan wrote:
all losers to Obama
Pawlenty–zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Newt : kind of a scumbag, and the left will demonize him to the point he will be on the defensive and can’t win
Romney– did healthcare. mormon
we need a man on a white horse!!
preferably a rather large man from Jersey!
I think Trump could win, if he doesn’t peak too soon. I worry he will go down like Ross Perot. After a while the schtick gets old
but the guy has experience in the business world, and he is of the mindset that America can and will KICK SOME ASSES, and he’s always been proud of his country unlike a certain wookie and her man in mom jeans
m wrote:
I’d vote for Bachmann in a heartbeat. I love that woman. I hope she runs for president
@ NoThreat2U:
LOL! sssshhhh maybe nobody noticed ~:}
{NoThreat}
@ Rodan:
No balls. No clue.
@ Doppelganger:
Christie has a soft spot for the Muzz and is not a fan of the 2nd Amendemnt. He’s good for NJ, but would get no traction nationally.
I like that Donald Trump is saying what the real problems are. However, I can’t help thinking that Trump is just pulling another Ross Perot to get Obama re-elected. I can’t think of any specific examples off the top of my head, but hasn’t Trump shown left-leaning political sympathies in the past?
@ m:
The GOP is useless. Look at how they surrender and bow to Obama. They are pathetic.
I hope a new Rightwing party arises and the GOP will go the way of the Whigs.
@ m:
{{{M}}}
LOL Yer bad….that’s a good thing
@ Escovado:
I think Obama cured a LOT of people of that notion.
(hey good to see you!)
@ Escovado:
Trump’s only Left leaning views were Universal Healthcare and a tax increase on the Rich. This was in 2000. He voted for McCain against Obama in 2008. However, he’s now in our camp and he has no respect for Obama.
He also called Islam violent and claims the Koran is violent. That wins me over!
As for Left leaning views: See Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee, Daniels and Gingrich.
@ Rodan:
And the Demo☭rats need to go the same way too.
m wrote:
One would hope (no pun intended).
I’ve been lurking. Just haven’t been commenting.
Rodan wrote:
Q: What do you do with a elephant with 3 balls?
A: Walk him and pitch to the giraffe.
@ Doppelganger:
He called Islam and the Koran violent.
@ BuddyG:
Good one!
How are things up on LI?
Rodan wrote:
I agree with you there: Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee, Daniels and Gingrich are RINOs all.
Better start writing that book Rodan…because the way I see it, if Обама is re-elected, then the USA doesn’t deserve to exist anymore.
@ Escovado:
Is Bill Mumy your avatar?
@ m:
I noticed it. Watch yer fuckin’ language, missy…
@ Rodan:
L.I. is okay. The weather is finally getting warmer. But we’d all like to see the cops nab the scumbag serial killer who’s been dumping bodies along Ocean Parkway. Heard about that one?
Scratch and claw! It would appear they have concerns for the ones electability. I agree and have said it many times, we must stop attacking our own, give up on one issue litmus tests and stop cowering before the MSM everytime they ask a stupid question. If the Rev Graham can state the obvious regarding Barry’s BC then why the hell can’t the Republicans? I agree we must attack him on all levels, of his failed policies,especially his destruction of the US natural resource development.
Macker wrote:
Bill Mumy as Anthony Fremont from the Twilight Zone: He wished people into the cornfield if he thought they didn’t like him. Just like a certain existentially-confused blogger we all know.
Macker wrote:
If we get another Republcian Presidnet in the mold of the last 2, I will still write that book. The last 2 Post Reagan Republican presidents were horrible.
Iron Fist wrote:
ROFLMAO********************
@ Buffalobob:
I agree 100%
If Coldwarrior was here, you get an award!
@ BuddyG:
Yes, I dead a Headline post on the LI serial killer. I saw the bodies kept turning up on the Southshore towns.
Rodan wrote:
He was busy chasing ghosts last nite. Freaky shit.
@ Escovado:
If it didn’t they haven’t been paying attention!!
@ BuddyG:
Hey BUDDYG! ! !
We have the user submitted links link back up in the sidebar ~ right at the top!
And don’t forget y’all ~ there is a weekly email sent to hot links users with the top links. GET SOME LINKS IN!
…and insist that the debates be moderated by FOX personell. Call the incumbent on his fear of Fox. Call the left entirely on it’s iraational fear of them. When asked a confrontational question by a MSM interviewer, attack them personally for asking such a question. Sarah Palin did herself a huge disservice(I personally like her, for the record) by not bitch-slapping Katie Couric down for the way she treated her with not just disrepect, but outright contempt. Do not get drawn into long elaborate answers. Short, factual answers and stick to them. Any request at elaboration in an attempt to trip the candidate should be met forcefully with an attack on the asker for uneven-handedness in that “their” candidate does not get the same treatment. Goddam it folks, it’s not that hard. He’s got a terrible set of misery indices he has caused. Harp on them. Every answer to a debate question should include a swipe at his and his people’s integrity. Every question about global warming, for example should be met with, it’s terrible what we’ve done to our environment, but the President’s choices to help, like RADICAL Van Jones – have been such bad choices that they have worsened the situation and the earth is worse off for it. Throw it all back in their faces for cripes sake. And compare him to Carter ! Last of all, act like you are the likely winner and the public will have faith in you and vote for you. Be a wimp and you’ll lose.
Ann Barnhardt is now confirmed for this Saturday at 8:30 PM Eastern LIVE on my new blog talk radio show! Woot!
I also have an extra ticket for tomorrow afternoon’s in-studio taping for Glenn Beck’s Show at FOX News if anyone wants to join me….
WOw what a piece of Pro Arabic crap!
As the Middle East burns, I wonder if obama knows how to play the fiddle?
@ Nevergiveup:
Didn’t you get the memo…there isn’t anything His Brilliance can’t do.
I even have a slogan for the candidate.
“I am the people’s candidate, not the media’s candidate.”
@ Iron Fist:
LOL! Shit! *head down*
NoThreat2U wrote:
And if not, it was booosh’s fault anyway.
Quick drive-by
Nevergiveup wrote:
If you mean fiddling with this stuff, then yes:
@ citizen_q:
Well of course…that’s a given. lol
@ Macker:
Hey! Jow’d you do that??? Wow, such behavior unbecoming of a POTUS. I am embarassed.
Nevergiveup wrote:
No, he has a Jazz Guitarist for that!
@ Rodan:
*snort* Good one.
@ Macker:
Obama is more likely to do Coke than smoke weed.
@ NoThreat2U:
The Sage of Culver City is hurt Obama didn’t pay him a visit to hear his great knowledge.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I used the img src tag. Yes, you can do this here! If you do, limit the maximum width to 400 pixels [width="400"]
Rodan wrote:
Well historical records do indicate that he has engages in the use of both substances more than once.
@ Rodan:
I crack up every time I read The Sage of Culver City. Bwahahahahahahahahaha
@ Macker:
I didn;t think we could post pix here. That is so cool
doriangrey wrote:
I don’t really care if he did or he didn’t, but has he ever told the truth about that or anything
@ Nevergiveup:
Obama and truth don’t equate!
Enormous statue of powerful pharaoh unearthed
Published: 04.26.11, 18:58 / Israel News
Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country’s antiquities authority announced Tuesday.
The 42-feet tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of a pair that flanked the northern entrance to the grand funerary temple on the west bank of the Nile that is currently the focus of a major excavation. (AP)
Palestinians claim credit yet?
He can sit back and be Barack Obama and let the media carry water for him.
@ Nevergiveup:
The mUslim Brotherhodo will destroy it.
@ Speranza:
@ Nevergiveup:
Check out the link in my #43.
Unreal!
@ Nevergiveup:
Are you in any way familiar with coke or people who use it? It is a terrible thing….causes paranoia, anxiety. We really don’t need a president who uses coke. Very dangerous.
@ NoThreat2U:
It explains Obama’s mood swings and Us vs them mentality!
Gary Johnson, former Gov of NM, is running. He’s fairly unknown outside of NM, but is very popular here and has a good track record for his two terms. He does have some baggage that will cause problems, but I’m sure he will answer critique of it with conviction and be believable. He endorsed Ron Paul in 08 and champions the legalization of marijuana.
@ Nevergiveup:
I’m waiting for the BFEgyptians to blow it up for being not only UNIslamic, but PREIslamic. Sound familiar?
@ Rodan:
Been there….done that. It is easy to spot a cokehead.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I didn’t say uses but used
@ song_and_dance_man:
That’s actually the real Conservative position.
@ Nevergiveup:
I think he still sniffs. It explains why hes so skinny.
Either that, or he has cancer.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Obama is one. I see the traits.
@ Nevergiveup:
I think I came across a little harsh with my comment. I was just saying that if he is still using, it cannot bode well for us. Coke use causes unstable personality problems. Hell, that might explain a lot about him though, now that I think about it.
Rodan wrote:
Sasquatch won’t let him eat. She might not make a good poster child for her pet project, but he will damn it!
@ Rodan:
I might start watching him when he gives a speech. Imma look for the clenching of the jaws and the grinding of the teeth. Classic examples of a cokehead.
NoThreat2U wrote:
If you are looking for personality disorders, baroke is a target rich environment.
@ citizen_q:
Oh he is a classic narcissist. It is sooooo obvious. He may even be bordering on psychopath actually. And I mean that in all seriousness.
@ NoThreat2U:
I don’t think you can. Just admins and editors.
@ citizen_q:
Heaven help us all if we lose a city and he votes “Present.”
@ m:
OK…who do you have to sleep with around here to post pictures dammmit?? LOL j/k LOL LOL
NoThreat2U wrote:
I’ve already told you before, that is not a classic cokehead characteristic, it a classic meth freak characteristic.
@ Rodan:
Eating disorder is my semi professional guess. The way those two horrors are soooo obsessed with diet and exercise. Plus coke use past or present can cause brain damage of one sort or another.
@ Urban Infidel:
Oh dang,one of the few times I wish we lived in Fairfield County. Enjoy!
@ doriangrey:
I repeat….been there, done that. I know cokehead behavior.
@ NoThreat2U:
I swear I saw him do it once.
@ vagabond trader:
He clearly has brain damage.
@ m:
Cute pic!
@ doriangrey:
If the Coke is cut, then that’s a side effect.
All you guys know way more about illegal drugs than I do. I guess that’s a good thing
BHO has too many teeth and clear skin…no way is he a meth head. He is just too….intense. He is a cokehead.
@ Nevergiveup:
lol
Just wait until we overrun your office and steal your laughing gas
Rodan wrote:
Only when it’s been cut with meth (which really doesn’t happen very often), otherwise jaw clenching and teeth grinding is absolutely not something associated with cocaine usage.
@ Rodan:
He has what is called a very strange affect at times – “the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion”.Often inappropriate and he gives me the creeps quite frankly.Plus a pathological.
@ vagabond trader:
liar.
@ NoThreat2U:
See my Top Headline post.
@ NoThreat2U:
BWA HA HA HA HA HA!
@ doriangrey:
No, when it’s cut with Baking Soda or Creatine, you get that effect.
Signs of inside job in Afghan jailbreak
Published: 04.26.11, 20:31 / Israel News
There are signs that a huge Afghan prison break in which hundreds of Taliban inmates escaped through a kilometre-long tunnel was an inside job, the office of President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday.
Separately, international military officials in Afghanistan announced that they had killed a Saudi described as an “Al-Qaeda senior leader” who was their second most-wanted insurgent in the country. (AFP
“Inside Job”? In a place like afgansitan, what does that mean?
@ Macker:
ththththththtp….well don’t you know…that’s the sound of Obama, a tokin’ on The Choom…Gaaaaannnng!
@ doriangrey:
Dude, you are so wrong.
@ doriangrey:
Isotol(?) does it too.
@ vagabond trader:
Something is not right with the man.
@ m:
You drive up to Jersey and I will drive down. We can jack the Doc and take his laughing gas. lol lol
NoThreat2U wrote:
OH please, former Rock Star here, remember? I’ve done more coke in a single sitting than you have ever seen in your entire life. I had to have my nose reconstructed to repair a hole in my septum. I realize that you “Think” you know, but what you think you know and reality are two separate things.
@ NoThreat2U:
He was only around the godo stuff. The steped on stuff gives you that effect.
Rodan wrote:
Nope. m wrote:
And also nope.
@ doriangrey:
You are talking about good Coke. Stepped on Coke gives you the side effects NT2U was talking about.
@ NoThreat2U:
We gotta plan! LOOKOUT DOC!
@ doriangrey:
I saw the side effects myself. I’ve been around good coke and stepped on coke. Whne cut with Creatine or Baking powder, you get a clentched Jaw or teethc grinding.
@ doriangrey:
Shoot, back in the day I could see my cousin’s jaw grinding at 100 paces, lol… So what does cause that Dorian?
@ doriangrey:
ROFLMAO @ former Rock Star. You kill me when you say that. lol lol
@ Rodan:
And yes, the stepped on shit does that to you. Think about this…watch the movie True Lies. That was when Tom Arnold was doing coke. Watch his jaw.
@ m:
Yep, its a plan!
Rodan wrote:
Na, I’ve had plenty of cut shit. It’s the cutting agents that burn holes in your septum.
@ Nevergiveup:
See my top headline post.
@ doriangrey:
Oh, and I dont have to “think” it when I have done it myself.
@ NoThreat2U:
He’s now the Sage of San Diego!
@ doriangrey:
Part of my family is Colombian. Trust me, I know more than what I’m letting on.
@ Rodan:
Bwahahahahahahahaha Sage of San Diego!!!! LMAO*******************
m wrote:
You all are welcome to come to my Office and I’ll take ya out for some food and drink but I don’t use Nitrous in my Office. I have magic hands and don’t really need it
@ Nevergiveup:
But but but….we want the gas!!! This is for you and your magic hands…..
Gee I’m hanging out with a bunch of ex-druggies here
m wrote:
It’s a ephedrine side affect. Ephedrine is the main component of meth, which is why meth freaks clench their jaws and grind their teeth. The whole point behind cutting coke it profit, so you don’t cut it with anything expensive.
Once upon a time people used to cut coke with livestock grade ephedrine, but that was way back in the late 70′s and early 80′s before the fed’s made it nearly impossible to obtain livestock grade ephedrine because of it’s use in the manufacture of meth.
Back then you used to be able to buy a 40 pound bag of livestock grade ephedrine for around 200 bucks. Ephedrine has the same physical characteristics as coke, same crystal structure, same light shift to the left on the crystals, same melting temp range, same color and same taste. It made it the perfect cut because of it’s extremely low price.
Other cutting agents like isotol or mannitol also have very similar chemical structure, but their cost is extremely high, only the amateurs ever used them.
@ Nevergiveup:
Not really. For about a year and only on the weekends. Just a little bit with some friends. I quit that shit before it got out of hand. Hell, I don’t even smoke weed.
Rodan wrote:
We have discussed this before, I have a really good idea of what you know…
@ Nevergiveup:
CURSES! FOILED AGAIN!
@ Nevergiveup:
Not me,just “supervised” and legally medicated them.
m wrote:
A couple of kids and adults puked and also my ex-partner was using it so I said the hell with this
@ Nevergiveup:
The only way to fly…
Nevergiveup wrote:
ROTFLMAO… Better than hanging out with a bunch of using druggies…
Being ex-druggies means we all eventually wised the phuck up and grew some brains. 
@ Nevergiveup:
That sh*t did not agree with me. Bleccchh.
@ doriangrey:
Whatever it is – there is definitely a grind. I could tell with one look whether my cousin was clean or not. She HATED that.
@ m:
Bummer. I think it’d be OK for pix, as long as they use the proper coding.
@ Nevergiveup:
I have never had the gas. All I can think of though is the Lethal Weapon movie when they all used it. lol
@ Nevergiveup:
!
doriangrey wrote:
Well after I got my DEA Number I really started to be careful about what I did and then I joined the Navy and took up drinking?
@ Iron Fist:
Was a big fan of Hendrix
m wrote:
There is also the simple fact that a lot of people will admit to using coke but not meth and will claim to be using coke when they are in fact using meth. Somehow coke is still seen socially as not being as bad as meth. For most of the country admitting to using meth is the same as admitting to using heroin. But somehow admitting to using coke is seen as little more than admitting to smoking pot.
@ doriangrey:
Nah, she was on coke. There is no doubt. I was there.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Hey, one of my best connections back in the mid 80′s was a dentist. Not that I am saying anything here, just sayin…
For YEARS.
Idiot.
(er… my cousin is the idiot – just wanna be clear)
m wrote:
And you can tell the difference between coke and meth?
@ doriangrey:
I could tell when I knew her dealer. He dealt coke. Not meth.
@ doriangrey:
Yes.
@ NoThreat2U:
I couldn’t because I’ve never seen meth in person. It looks like coke?
* shrug *
Had no idea.
@ m:
White powder. How do you tell what your white powder is? I couldn’t tell them apart, but I was never one for coke.
@ m:
My sister in law picked up a meth head one night. Thank God I was in charge and taking care of her dumb ass. Meth heads lose their teeth and their skin gets all fucked up. It is quite obvious.
@ Iron Fist:
Me either ~
Hi, my name is Michelle and I am addicted to SHOPPING! LOL!
@ NoThreat2U:
Yeah they are quite obvious. I’ve seen meth heads but never the actual product.
@ m:
I basically saw it in how they do it. Smoke it. Not snorting it like coke. Plus coke has a ….smell to it, due to what they cut it with.
Bloomberg calls for Republicans to ‘stand behind’ Obama
Read more
Oh ya mean like the Dems stood behind President Bush?
Bleh.
STICK WITH THE GANJA PEOPLE!
@ Nevergiveup:
Say what?
Ok, THAT dude is on crack.
/
Screw that. This is war. I aint standing with Obama.
m wrote:
And he can afford the best!
@ m:
LSD or mushrooms, especially mushrooms. Only way to fly…
@ Nevergiveup:
I’m not standing behind a war for Islamic interests.
Fuck Obama.
New thread.
What a dick!
A Modest Proposal On Healthcare Costs
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/04/a-modest-proposal-on-healthcare-costs.html
m wrote:
Both meth and coke physically look identical, that’s why I asked. People who deal coke, deal coke for money, they are not what you would call honest or principled people. They are not people whose integrity can be trusted. An insane number of coke dealers switched from dealing coke to dealing meth over profit margins.
Coke and meth sell on the street for nearly identical prices. 1 dollar for every 1/100th of a gram. Their bulk prices on the other hand are totally different. In bulk, meth cost about 1/10th of coke. In other words, sell the exact same amount of meth as coke and make ten times as much money as on the coke.
The criminal charges are exactly the same, so it makes sense why so many coke dealers either sold both or switched to meth. A lot of coke dealers sold meth also because it’s more addictive than coke, which means addicts of meth are better more reliable customers.
I always laugh to myself when casual users of coke refer to their dealers as only selling coke, as if their coke dealer is some high society connoisseur of fine wines. They are not, they are low life scum who will sell anyone anything if they think they wont get arrested or killed for doing so.
Having once been a professional musician who toured all over the US I have met enough coke/meth dealers to know the personality type. Just because they tell you something doesn’t mean what they are telling you is even remotely close to the truth. It’s nearly always what they think you will believe or want to hear.
@ NoThreat2U:
Andrew Sullivan is worse than Chuckles the Clown. He had more of a following when he went over to the enemy. And then there is his assaults on Trig Palin. Far beyond the pale.
@ Iron Fist:
NoThreat2U wrote:
Only if you taste it or smell it burning, otherwise, no you cant.
@ NoThreat2U:
You mean this guy is still alive?
@ doriangrey:
He wasn’t my dealer just a dealer. I knew him from school and he was a coke head as far back as I can remember.
All of it is stupid. I’ve been through so much with my cousin trying to get her clean it’s not even funny. The rest of the family gave up on her years ago. I didn’t until last year.
Talk about hits bottom and digs… yeah that’s her. Cause she’s an IDIOT!
NoThreat2U wrote:
Ya, that would be a big ten no. Smoking meth is an offshoot of smoking coke/crack/free basing. Most people do not smoke meth just like most people do not smoke coke, they do lines just like people who do coke.
What you are smelling when you “smell” coke isn’t the coke, it’s the regent used to clean and process it. Coke and meth are both colorless and orderless in crystal form. They dont get their smell from their cut’s either, like I said, they get their smell from what they are “washed” with.
Their is a huge difference in their smells though, coke is washed in a ether derivative,(in other words alcohol soluble), while meth is washed in an acetone derivative.
When in it’s vaporous form coke smells kind of sweet, in a very overpowering kind of way, while meth has a tendency to smell like a synthetic rubber (really ad burning rubber or plastic) compound when in vapor form.
OT – Singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow dies at age 60
Nevergiveup wrote:
I doubt it. We already know the guy is tone deaf. He’ll just go play another round of golf or two…
m wrote:
That’s actually kind of odd, because unless the individual using cocaine is smoking crack becoming as addicted as you describe is not very common. Very few people can afford the amount required to produce an addiction like that.
That is why it is still considered almost socially acceptable to use or admit to using coke. It’s also the reason crack was invented, because just doing lines of coke was so expensive most people could never afford to become seriously addicted.
Using coke, because of it’s cost is still pretty much like going out to a fancy Rap club and ordering Kristol, you might do it once a month with your friends, but you aint doing it every day unless you got a shit load of money.
A half gram of coke is going to cost you $50.00 or more. It will get 4 people high for about 2 hours, 2 people high for about 3 hours or one person high for about 5 hours.
@ doriangrey:
She’s really pretty. That lasted her a good while. Now for the “digs” part – she moved on to crack.
Cocaine is a stimulant. eons ago the Inca used to chew the leaves to help them have the stamina to run miles and miles carrying messages. You can grind your teeth just fine on 92% (aka pure) coke just like meth. Not everyone grinds but it’s common enough that you can tell those predisposed to it, like Tom Arnold as mentioned earlier. In True Lies he was really going at it. You could not help but notice. If you want a cheap way to tell how pure it is, get a vile filled with CLorox. If you really want to test it get a thermometer and you can burn it to see what temp it pops at but Clorox is a good way to tell how much it is cut with. By the way, no one here mentioned mannitol as a cutting agent. When I invented cocaine trafficking in the 1970′s we used that (channeling Al Gore on the “invention” nonsense).
Only Trump will call OBama on his BS. Everyone else is under prepared or over scared.
@ 171 common_sense: Ah mannitol reminds of college days and high times magazine.
The coca leaf is a cultural positive in the Andes. It’s only perverse Americans that turn it into an evil by misusing it. This is another large drug war failure by narrow minded feds who have no real concerns for damage done in other countries. And have no real effect on rich kids snorting coke. Drug War FEDS= FAIL, one of the biggest failures in the history of mankind.
@ doriangrey: Cocaine was one of the safe drugs when I was growing up. Haven’t keep up with its abuse. But it did kill two of my friends in High School. One had a heart attach while high, another drowned in 3 inches of water while stoned.
My solution for the drug war is too legalize pot and make it uncool. Then put some drug dealers to death in the US like they do in Singapore. Our judges love to set examples to deter crime. This is about the best example one can set. Although at 17, I was immune to any thoughts of mortality or failure. Once I got the first serious girlfriend I started shaping up.
@ BuddyG:
I lived on LI for 40 years. Where do you live?