For the medical marijuana users out there, this has gotta be cool news. The good folks over at Weedmaps.com, that already put together a great service that will help patients find their medicine, have taken things to that next level with a daily deal offering. Now you can head over to legalmarijuanadispensary.com/daily-deals/, put in your preferred location, and enter your email address. After that, you’ll be chillin with an email inbox that supplies you with weed coupons for your local area.
Wait. Is this shit real? You bet your ass it is. Times have definitely changed. It is now possible to not only locate a dispensary at any given moment via the computer in your pocket (aka cell), but also to hook those herbals at a discounted rate.

God bless America.

Let us know how it goes…

zOnk.oNe
Thx @D-rok

Sitting in the jury room today, I noticed an issue of Rolling Stone magazine (Oct. 2010) next to me with the cover story tagline “The Truth About the Tea Party”…and of course, I couldn’t resist. Sure enough, it was a great read. The problem is, that I, nor most folks that actually would read through it, are the one(s) that need to read it. Anyway, I figured I’d share. Some very good points made about the mess that is the Tea Party Movement:

Matt Taibbi takes down the far-right monster and the corporate insiders who created it. It’s taken three trips to Kentucky, but I’m finally getting my Tea Party epiphany exactly where you’d expect: at a Sarah Palin rally. The red-hot mama of American exceptionalism has flown in to speak at something called the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, a gospel-music hoedown in a giant convention center filled with thousands of elderly white Southerners. Palin — who earlier this morning held a closed-door fundraiser for Rand Paul, the Tea Party champion running for the U.S. Senate — is railing against a GOP establishment that has just seen Tea Partiers oust entrenched Republican hacks in Delaware and New York. The dingbat revolution, it seems, is nigh.
Continue reading at RollingStone.com

Peace,
zOnk.oNe

Check out this dude from Oakland, helping to make a positive difference:

Scraper bikes…how big will it get?

zOnk.oNe
Vid: 7hz

With over 5 million views on YouTube, I doubt you haven’t seen this, but if not, peep this crazy footage of the Toowoomba Flood:

There’s a comment on YouTube where the dude says he’s surprised that nobody from that building ran out and moved their car before the river decided to gobble them up. I was thinking the same thing. Even though the folks whose cars those are might not be sitting next to a window with a view of their car, it seems like you’d hear about by the time shit hit the fan. Anyway, here’s some more info from the video’s owner:
Amazing footage of East Creek near Chalk Drive / Chalk Lane rising and washing away lots of cars during Flash Flood in Toowoomba on Monday 10 January 2011. This is some of the best footage I have seen of the Flood and was taken from the second floor of our office which backs onto Chalk Lane.

It shows just how fast the creek turned into a torrent and quickly flooded Chalk Drive and Chalk Lane.

I also got some video of where the creek crosses Neil Street and some video of the aftermath and the huge amount of cars damaged and piled on top of one another in the Chalk Drive car park.

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With the incredible exposure that my video is receiving all over the internet and media worldwide I would like to encourage you to donate to the relief appeals.

You can donate to the Queensland Government Appeal at: http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html

Or the Churches of Christ Care Queensland Flood Appeal here: PDF

peace,
zOnker
Vid: 7hz

Well folks, the latest polls show that drinking alcohol in the United States is at a 25 year high. For years I rallied for us to set a new record and finally, it looks like we’re on track. The housing market is in the shitter, the economy is a steamy terd, and unemployment is still hopelessly high. What better time could there be to grab your drink of choice and get your buzz on? -zOnk

The unstable economy hasn’t seemed to put a dent in Americans’ penchant for partying.

The number of adults in the United States who drink spiked to 67 percent, a modest increase over last year and the highest rate on record since 1985, a Gallup poll has found.

Though wine has gained popularity points and beer has lost some, a tall, frosty glass of barley and hops is still the favorite alcoholic beverage, with wine coming in second and liquor third.

Gallup has followed Americans’ drinking habits for nearly three-quarters of a century, with the levels reaching an all-time high of 71 percent between 1976 and 1978. But “despite some yearly fluctuations, the percentage of Americans who say they drink alcohol has been remarkably stable over Gallup’s 71 years of tracking it,” the polling company says.

The low point came in 1958, when only 55 percent of U.S. adults said they drank. During the first year of polling in 1939, just as the Great Depression was ending, the drinking rate was 58 percent.

But the latest findings aren’t cause for mayhem, says Massachusetts psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Carlat, the mental health expert on AOL’s Medical Advisory board.

“I don’t really make a lot of it,” he said. “Sixty-seven percent say they don’t completely abstain. That certainly doesn’t make me alarmed as a psychiatrist. I’m most concerned about finding problem drinking … This data doesn’t really speak to that.”

Carlat defined problem drinkers as those who consume several drinks a day and are losing control of their lives as a result.

“Most people who are social drinkers are not problem drinkers,” he said.

Beer has been the top beverage of choice since 1992, except for the year 2005 when wine had the edge. This year, 41 percent of alcohol drinkers listed it as their favorite, compared to 47 percent in 1992 and 1994, the poll showed.

Most brewsky drinkers are men, Midwesterners and younger Americans, whereas wine is the favorite among women and older people.

Wine’s biggest drinkers are women over 50, with an equal number of women under 50 choosing wine and beer as the favorite. The biggest beer enthusiasts are men under 50, according to Gallup.

The poll showed that those who rarely or never go to church are significantly more likely to say they consume alcohol than regular churchgoers. Catholics, non-Christians and those who don’t identify with any religion were more inclined to say they drink than Protestants.

Those with lower income and education levels were less likely to drink than those who are more educated and make more money. But Americans who say they drink were found across all demographic groups.

Moderate and light drinking have been linked to various health benefits, including lower incidence of heart attacks, according to several medical studies on the subject. But only 59 percent of older people in the U.S. say they don’t abstain from alcohol.

The Gallup poll findings were based on phone interviews done from July 8 to 11, 2010 with a random sampling of 1,020 adults 18 and older living in the U.S.
Source: AOLHealth

I know…learning is boring, but go ahead and give it a try anyway. Your conscience and/or kids may thank you later:

The folks at StoryofStuff.com have put out a few videos along the same lines as this one. It’s kinda strange that so many folks need to be shown stuff like this for them to have any hope of noticing something that should be common knowledge. A lot of our problem is living with blinders on…believing it’s the individual’s world. “It’s my universe, and I can do to it whatever I want.” Just hop on any freeway and you’ll see plenty of proof that a lot of folks just don’t care about anyone, but number one.
We posted a while back about the bullshit in bottled water. Check it out for more info along these lines.

peace, enjoy you’re new found cheap and delicious, safe to drink tap water.
zOnk.oNe

Obviously the health-care issue is and has been in everyone’s faces for quite a while now…and for good reason. Check out this piece done by Frontline called ‘Sick Around The World’ to get your learn on. I keep hearing folks say things that sound so ignorant about this issue. I think watching this little diddy might help some folks see the ‘bigger picture’:

It’s amazing how sometimes the solutions to problems seem so simple and yet it’s almost impossible to get the solutions to be put in place. The United States is the ‘melting pot’. How hard is it to take a look around the world, find things that work for other countries, and adopt/restructure according to ‘proven methods’. There are plenty of examples around the world regarding health care systems and track records to see how well they work. It seems obvious that with the United States being the only developed country on the planet that doesn’t provide health care that there is a problem.
It’s amazing how many times I’ve heard people claim things like, ‘Canada? Their system doesn’t work though. They have waiting lists years long for treatments and people have to come to the USA to get proper care.”
It’s cool that Frontline decided to do a little investigating and spread some inside knowledge on this matter.

*Before you comment: Did you watch the video?

peace,
zOnk.oNe