The T-zone

So the truth comes out:
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Google AdSense is back on my list of Things That Don't Bug Me Too Much.

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T-ZONE'S CHALLENGE TO GOOGLE:
Show me ONE SINGLE SENTENCE anywhere in the entire directory of /tzone on ln3ix.com where I condone the use of illicit drugs and I will respect that. I don't condone their use anywhere; I simply state reasons why they should be legalized. That is NOT condoning their use. In fact, I highly recommend AGAINST using them as they're all Schedule 1 substances in the US and carry some heavy penalties if you get caught. Plus, lots of them will fuck you up pretty badly.

Rest assured, adsense-support@google.com shall be hearing from me.

T-ZONE'S RESPONSE TO GOOGLE:
Hello Google,

Thank you for informing me about content on my website
(http://www.ln3ix.com/tzone) violating your policies. Nowhere on my
site do I actually condone or promote the use of illicit drugs; I have
simply stated reasons to legalize them.

If the problem is simply that my site MENTIONS illicit drugs and
reasons they should be legalized, feel free to reject my application
for that. I do not promote any illegal substances anywhere on my site.

Let's see how this turns out.

Online for less than a month and already causing controversy. Rock on.

Here's the foolproof T-zone plan for FIXING THE ECONOMY. Read on.

1. Legalize drugs
I have already given my arguments for drug legalization, but think about it this way. Drugs = expensive, that's a given. Hardcore crackheads or heroin addicts spend every penny they can get on the drug. You'd think that if they were spending that much they wouldn't have to buy it so frequently, but it's damn expensive. No, I don't know the street price for an eightball of crack, and no I'm not going to find a dealer to tell me. You can figure out that if we legalize drugs, the government makes the money, not street dealers, and that means BIG bucks on our part. Our great-grandchildren might not have to be paying off Bush's debt after all.

2. Get rid of legal tender
Legal tender was a mistake. It basically makes it legal for the government to write "$100" on a slip of paper and have it be $100. That's right, your dollars are worth no more than the paper they're printed on.

It used to be that one dollar was equal to a one-ounce ingot of silver in the National Treasury. At any time, you could march down there with, say, a $10 bill in your hand and they'd give you 10 oz. of pure silver. That's what the deal is with those "old" dollars that have red ink on them. They're actually silver certificates.

Want to know something? Good money = good economy. Switzerland uses the gold standard. Look at their economy. I know that you can apply just about every logical fallacy in the world to that argument, but good money means a good economy. Let's go back to the silver standard. We have enough silver to do it.

3. Get rid of social security
Social security is a mistake. The government shouldn't be paying people's salaries for them. The company you work for before you retire should pay your retirement, not everybody else in the US.

I realize that plenty of people have built their lives around social security. Phase it out. Everyone who has it now keeps it for the rest of their lives and it continues to work in the exact same manner it does now. Anyone who doesn't have it can't get it. That way by the time the next century rolls around, it will have been entirely eliminated, and nobody has to be homeless because they counted on social security which was suddenly taken away.

More to come.

I hate Goths.

Sound familiar?

Yeah, maybe it's got something to do with the fact that Goths are stupid, trendy losers who are "non-conformist" and write depressing poetry because it's hip.

So basically what they're saying is, "if you want to become Gothic, you have to be non-conformist, just like us."

Wait wait wait, back up for a bit there, did that read "just like us"?

Let's be honest, kids. Goths like to be "different" and hate "the system" and think they're original, right? That's the basis of their "I'm-a-tortured-soul-trapped-on-the-physical-plane" shindig: originality.

So why the hell are they all the same?

Hmmm, that's a good question. Maybe it's because being Gothic is a stupid trend that's going to pass eventually, and when it does the losers who followed it will realise that it's time to fucking grow up.

"Non-conformist"? I'll give you non-conformist, bitch. Non-conformist is doing what you feel like and doing things YOUR way, not doing what's "Goth" and doing things other people's way. I don't know anyone else (anyone else in real life at least) who codes in C or Perl. If I was a stupid trendy asshole I would probably call it "nerdy" and listen to trendy music like Avril Lavigne and Sum 41.

See, my life is better off without trends. And now, for a limited time only, YOU TOO can be trend-free! Throwing out those stupid spiked chokers and that stupid "indigo" hair gel is the first step. What the hell kind of a color is indigo, anyway? It sounds like something a stupid trendy latté-sipping, iMac-using loser would name her kid that she had at 17 because she was "free-spirited" (read: a pseudointellectual slut).

By the way, the spikes you wear aren't cool, and they don't symbolize the pain in your life, they symbolize my desire to take a nice piece of piano wire to your neck.

Originality: it's not just for breakfast anymore!

Well, let's look at what he's done first. Dragged us into 3 trillion dollars of debt, created pointless chaos in Iraq, didn't find Osama Bin Laden... yeah, I know, it goes on.

So our current state of affairs is that we're in a huge economic sinkhole and we're trying to restore order in Iraq.

Wait, go back and zoom in on that Iraq bit. Ah! So there's chaos there!

Where's the best place to hide a needle? No, it's not a haystack.

In with a bunch of other needles. You can never pick out the right one.

The terrorists we're fighting against are all in Iraq right now. They're attracted to chaos like Oprah to a Christmas ham.

They're in there trying to blend in, and Osama probably sent us his latest video threat from there.

All Bush has to do is go through Iraq with a few hundred assault rifles and terrorism = gone.

Wow, it's almost like someone planned it that way!

Think about it. If every "enlightened" 12-year-old with AOL can realize, "OMFG IRAQ DIDNT HAVE WMDS WTF LOLZ!!!!!1", let's assume that Bush can, too. Come on, I know he's stupid, but let's at least give him this much intelligence, OK?

So he also must realize that Iraq doesn't really have WMD's. We know he didn't want to "free the Iraqi people", the US has never cared about the Iraqi people. It could have been for oil, but if he was going to waste that much money and piss off that many people, he could have just drilled in Texas or Alaska and saved us a few trillion in debt.

We know it wasn't just to take down Saddam. Even I can see that assassination would have been a much simpler, cost-effective move.

So what the hell? What was his REAL motive?

He goes into Iraq. Takes down Saddam, gets some oil. OK, cool, he accomplished this much and he hasn't even gotten into the real scheme yet.

So now everyone is pissed off at him. Alright, that's OK, I bet you that in this next term he totally wipes out the real terrorist threat.

It's so simple. I can't believe I didn't see this before. All the terrorists are in Iraq now instead of being spread out through the Middle East. If he goes through with it like I would, the man is a genius. Otherwise he's just as stupid as everyone says he is and not all he's cracked up to be, really.

Do it right this time, Georgie Boy.

Let's do it. Legalize them.

"But why," you ask. "Drugs are BAD."

Yeah, some of them will screw you up. Yeah, lots of them will kill you. Yeah, we have things that are legal already that do the same thing. Caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, kava kava, yerba maté, guarana, salvia divinorum... hell, herbal ecstasy is legal when you think about it.

So let's legalize at least SOME of the illegal ones and make some money that way, yeah?

Examples of things that are already legal that have the same effects? OK, you got it.

LSD - LSA, a close relative of LSD, is found in morning glory seeds and is currently legal. Also, magic mushrooms are perfectly legal as long as they haven't been dried out. Not to mention the hallucinogenic properties of nutmeg, and the dissociation you can experience from DXM. Then there's the incredibly powerful salvia trip. All of these are just as "dangerous" as LSD.

Heroin - nicotine is a substance whose addictive factor is on par with that of heroin. Yeah, that means that they're both equally addictive. Heroin is one hell of a drug, but it produces the same head change that nicotine does only its effect is more potent and it lasts longer.

Methamphetamine - Caffeine. 'Nuff said.

Cocaine - Caffeine could also apply here. The addictiveness factor with coke is definitely really high, and chemical dependency is possible, but the effects of coke are tame compared with the stimulant known as herbal ecstasy, comprised primarily of caffeine and ephedra with some other ingredients thrown in.

Other reasons to legalize drugs? K.

People are going to smoke the ganj whether you want them to or not. Legalize it and they can smoke it, YOUR tax dollars don't have to go to the $45,000/year it costs to keep them in jail, they don't have to worry about dealers lacing their weed with PCP, and your taxes go down as a result of the revenue pulled in from the legalization of marijuana. Everybody wins.

False claims about marijuana have been made in the past; here's the answers to a few:

"Marijuana smoke kills brain cells."
Yeah, hello, so does every other kind of smoke on the planet, and any gas that isn't the air in our atmosphere for that matter. Bottom line: your brain cells don't get oxygen for 4 minutes, they die. Don't worry, you'll pass out long before your brain cells die from lack of oxygen. Oh wait, does that mean that you aren't in any real danger from marijuana smoke? Hmmmm...

"Marijuana makes you bad at driving."
Yeah, I won't deny that it's bad for your motor skills, but this is only temporary. Lasts for a shorter period of time than the coordination impairment from a legal substance known as... ALCOHOL! Simply take the public drunkenness and DUI laws and apply them to marijuana and you've solved this problem.

"Marijuana causes cancer/acne/a lower sperm count."
Funny, I've heard these claims but I have never seen them backed up or proven in any way, shape, or form, so for now I will dismiss them as rubbish.

Also, just some food for thought: there are receptors in the brain for cannabinoids such as the two active ingredients in marijuana, THC and CBD. The high you get is caused by these cannabinoids binding to receptors for them which are all over your brain and body.

Just thought you'd like to know. :-)