John McCain dead at 81

[thebeave]

The clip of McCain telling that idiotic hate-filled woman in his crowd that no, Obama isn't a Muslim, he's a good man that I disagree with, should be run juxtaposed with any of Helsinki Don's Birther pronouncements. If we don't flip the House in November, we deserve what we get.

Yeah, that was a very honorable thing for McCain to say about Obama, but the one thing that he missed is that he didn't correct the woman about how being Arab is not a pejorative. I'm sure it was just an oversight on his part, but by not addressing that it does seem like McCain implicity equates being an Arab with being a bad guy.

Being a Muslim, not an Arab.

Maybe we're talking about different incidents, but the one I'm referring to, the woman calls him an Arab. Check the clip below, starting at about the 27 second mark:

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjenjANqAk[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

There is evidence that medicinal marijuana can not only ease cancer symptoms but might even be able to treat certain cancers. It is hard to get the evidence considering that the federal government refuses to acknowledge any evidence on this topic. It has already been determined by the DEA that marijuana has no medicinal use, so studies that show otherwise aren't included in the DEA analysis of the drug.

And Indian chemists were able to get gold superconductive at room temperature. Therefore truth!

Glad you're here to defend the DEA, Jimmy. Someone has to I guess.

FFS, extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence!

 

[Worldtraveller]

Glad you're here to defend the DEA, Jimmy. Someone has to I guess.

FFS, extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence!

Cannabis in some forms can treat or mitigate some of the side effects of cancer and cancer treatments. That's not really in much dispute anywhere. I haven't seen anything showing it can actually be used to directly treat any serious diseases, but I'm not exactly well researched on the topic.

McCain went through hell in Vietnam, I'm sure. Unfortunately, the experience didn't leave him with much, if any, empathy for others who were suffering. He still grew and lived a life of privilege, before and after his stint in the service. He had a few principles, which makes him stand out amongst the thugs and toadies of the GOP, but that's not saying much.

He voted consistently against the greater good, and with the special interests. Three years ago, McCain and Flake both voted with the GOP to hand over 'sovereign' Dinae (Apache) land that is considered sacred to them, to an Australian mining firm. That's one of an ongoing pattern of voting of a basically shit candidate who only seemed 'mavericky' when it wouldn't really cost him anything personally or politically.

Good riddance.

For my perspective: I spent more than half my life in AZ. I even voted for McCain a few times, given the shit candidates we tend to get there. He was no Goldwater.

 

[J842P]

Glad you're here to defend the DEA, Jimmy. Someone has to I guess.

FFS, extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence!

I've posted some evidence right here in this thread. The claims are hardly extraordinary, indeed, the body of evidence is over a decade old. Also, Jason's description of the state of affairs vis a vis the DEA and marijuana scheduling is very much true. Do you really need evidence for that?

 

[J842P]

Cannabis in some forms can treat or mitigate some of the side effects of cancer and cancer treatments. That's not really in much dispute anywhere. I haven't seen anything showing it can actually be used to directly treat any serious diseases, but I'm not exactly well researched on the topic.

Marijuana is an effective treatment for the rare but devastating seizure disorder, Dravet syndrome. Without it, many children would be doomed to what is essentially a life-sentence of suffering, coupled with retarded motor, mental, and social development, because this seizure disorder is notoriously resistant to treatments that do exist. The GABAergic anticonvulsents that are used to treat it (ineffectively) are hardly a walk in the park.

As for cancer, it depends what you mean by "directly treat", but I posted a couple of reviews about cannabiniods and cancer, and indeed, John McCain's specific cancer. At the very least, the cannabiniod system will likely become one avenue of treatment. In the world of cancer therapy, there really isn't a single drug, but it is a combination of therapeutic approaches geared towards specific cancers that has brought up survival rates so significantly in the past 50 years.

An extra anti-angiogenic and pro-apoptotic in the toolbox is certainly useful. Especially one that is so well tolerated with such a low risk-profile, especially compared to most other anti-cancer therapeutics.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Glad you're here to defend the DEA, Jimmy. Someone has to I guess.

FFS, extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence!

I've posted some evidence right here in this thread. The claims are hardly extraordinary, indeed, the body of evidence is over a decade old. Also, Jason's description of the state of affairs vis a vis the DEA and marijuana scheduling is very much true. Do you really need evidence for that?

That was evidence in line with that proposed for the Indian chemists who made gold superconductive at room temperatures. Not extraordinary evidence at all.