Obama: Worse Than Bush on Bullshit Gambling Moralizing, Too

[Marcus Bryant]

http://reason.com/blog/2011/04/15/obama-worse-than-bush-on-bulls

[jack sommerset]

2012 dems have one choice, that's it. America has many. Think about it.

[TE]

Oh god.

[ManuBalboa]

Gambling with personal money that becomes more worthless by the day is far worse than gambling with the future of a country you are responsbile for running. Too bad for Full Tilt it can't print its own income.

[boutons_deux]

http://reason.com/blog/2011/04/15/obama-worse-than-bush-on-bulls

Same "legislating/enforcing morality" here:

Obama's Broken Promise: Why Are the Feds Still Meddling with States’ Medical Marijuana Laws

It was just three years ago when President Obama (then candidate Obama) famously pledged to no longer use federal “Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws” regulating the physician authorized use of medical cannabis. And it was in the fall of 2009 that the administration issued the Ogden memorandum to federal prosecutors directing them to not “focus federal resources … on individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana.”

In an April 14, 2011 letter to Gov. Gregoire from the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorneys Jenny Durkan of Seattle and Michael Ormsby of Spokane wrote, “[W]e maintain the authority to enforce the Controlled Substances Act vigorously against individuals and manufacturing and distribution activity involving marijuana, even if such activities are permitted under state law.”

The letter continues: “The Washington legislative proposals will create a licensing scheme that permits large-scale marijuana cultivation and distribution. This would authorize conduct contrary to federal law. … Accordingly, the Department [of Justice] could consider civil and criminal legal remedies who set up marijuana growing facilities … or who knowingly facilitate the actions of the licensees. … [S]tate employees who conducted activities mandated by the Washington legislative proposals would not be immune from liability under the Controlled Substances Act.”

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/150636

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If the police/enforcers had less to enforce/arrest/convict/imprison, they'd have less jobs. As with EVERYTHING in UCA, it's all about the/my Benjamins.

In other (non)enforcement news:

SEC Delays Corporate Anti-Corruption Measure

WASHINGTON -- Oil and mining interests are fighting back against an anti-corruption measure included in last summer's financial reform package that was supposed to go into effect at the end of this week.

Despite a statutory April 15 deadline, the Securities and Exchange Commission has delayed its final rulemaking on the measure, which calls for publicly traded companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to disclose how much they pay foreign governments to acquire drilling and mining rights in their countries.

The new requirement is intended to make it more difficult for foreign leaders to hide and pocket the funds that energy and mining companies pay them. Oil and mining interests -- which have historically turned a blind eye to where their money went once it left their hands -- are complaining that the new rule will endanger contracts and give an advantage to competitors unburdened by such requirements.

The American Petroleum Institute -- the tip of the formidable spear that is Washington's oil and gas industry lobby -- has led the fight against the measure.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/sec-delays-corporate-anti_n_849230.html?view=print

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Medical marijuana users, gamblers, and other Human-Americans don't have enough $100Ms to buy legislators/regulators/rule-makers.

Human-Americans are totally disenfranchised.

Only VRWC's votes count.