https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkalPSPLlUY
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Spinning out a theme noted earlier in another post.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qe7KB1AqhH4
Watch the video and you do not need to buy the book. Or is that cynical?
UPDATE:
And the Appocalypse can happen before we understand dark matter. While the space probes are still moving and sending back data.
https://minnesotareformer.com headline = Minnesota recreational cannabis sales hit $150M one year in
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/15/minnesota-recreational-cannabis-sales-hit-150m-one-year-in/
The $150 number suggests before the State legalized and taxed and regulated the trade, a hell of a lot of Minnesotans were breaking the law.
It is similar to the nation's experment with Constitutional prohibition of alcoholic drinks, during the early 20th Century. And the repeal because people kept drinking, only it was illegal then to do so.
What the good sign in things is, government nanny state stuff gets ignored, and citizen judgment that way is a solid thing for Libertarians in particular. There today are Flock camera concerns, where readers not familiar with the groundswell objection should search = flock camera unrest
The success in Minnesota of mj legalization is no surprise at Crabgrass, having lived through parallel but earlier legalization in Washington State, with Seattle going from a friendship network thing where someone knew a dealer, to having retail stores. Sanity replacing untaxed, men with guns stuff with licenses and tax income streams. If people do it, legalizing and taxing is best. Tabacco is taxed so high that many have ceased smoking it, with the lung cancer risk being a parallel information channel designed to discourage that practice.
Having in Seattle cleaned glass bongs with salt and rubbing alcohol to keep the tar down, and thinking that's what bubbles through the water is what you lungs get, was an incentive to quit. But there was a time * * *
One wonders about practices in nations still aggressive in regulating/criminalizing mj, which really is not a gateway drug as the disliking fraction of people may believe, having been propagandized into the belief.
What the propaganda did, is make a minor gateway effect boost, because people smoking mj said, "They're bullshitting us," and that led to experimentation which likely would have not happened absent propaganda mention of other drugs.
It is as if there was somebody (CIA or others) motivated to get people to transition to more dangerously addictive drugs, since the CIA in IndoChina and later Afghanistan needed the drug trade income to finance black-op shenanigans that no sane government financing mechanism would tolerate. MKULTRA and such. That being its own story where much is online about speculation where definitive admissions are absent and unpublished online.
Legalizing mj has been a sane thing, and, from government, no less. Tune time. Do note the date.
Monday, September 14, 2026
There are network TV news, there is FOX, but Crabgrass has gravitated to one outlet, and this is Sept. 14, 2026, on that outlet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOsQI8yKDFs
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! giving a daily news summary (beyond special feature programs too).
Sometimes it shows up on YouTube sidebars when other items are being watched, sometimes you do not see it, but a day or two later you might encounter the sidebar link and view it.
This particular item is offered now because of the opening AI segment, and they see beyond it how you like format, presentation and mood. Again, gravitating to it, nice news presenter mode.
It is there. If you like it, keep with it, and if not, you at least know it exists.
Gary, the St. Cloud blogger falls into the trap that a statement of goals, is not a plan. A plan has implementation detail. Aside from Lisa Demuth saying she'd opt into a tax credit voucher provision, no plan. Just hopes.
https://libertyprosperityblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/lisa-demuths-plan-for-education.html
Read all about it. Goals, stated as hoped for to somehow be reached, is not a plan. A plan includes actual steps to be taken to implement clearly stated steps that would be assured of reaching a particular result; as in steps stated that would be reaching the sought after goals. Nothing there - that way.
See: https://zaetsch.blogspot.com/2026/09/politics-in-local-sense-is-normal.html
There the Demuth "plan" was dissected to be shown as less than a real plan, and a reach for vouchers.
Gary in the posted body of opening link fuzzes unnecessarily about the $1700 voucher plan. By not mentioning it, in text. It only gets mentioned in a video he posts, and there, sorry, but it is fuzzed there too. No link, no explanation. Just a vague mention.
She has no plan. Saying she'd like safe schools, sure, everyone would, but what, put a cop in every classroom? Something more or less than that? Teachers armed with handguns? Or AR-15s? What? Perimeter razor wire fencing eighteen feet tall to where only student on student bullying is the concern?
It is an unfortunate fact of U.S. politics that a candidate can get away with empty sound bites, saying nothing concrete or binding. Both parties do it. Republicans more than Democrats.
AJ's latest post on the oil crisis = US says it’s clearing Hormuz traffic: Why are oil futures beyond $100? --- Brent crude crosses $107 as Hormuz disruptions and Saudi pipeline shutdown threaten global oil supply.. [UPDATED]
UPDATE: Latest, EmptyWheel has posted relevant to the Gulf and Red Sea activities = https://emptywheel.net/2026/09/13/the-iran-disaster-will-likely-be-job-one/
The focus there is speculation of Dem priorities should they win the midterm elections.
FURTHER: EmptyWheel embeds a podcast that's quite informative.
That troublesome $9 billion fraud speculation the Republicans love to tout as if fact, not the fictional guess of a single Republican DOJ figure, which is all the figure is.
local content - https://www.twincities.com/2026/09/14/man-accused-of-1-3-million-in-minnesota-medicaid-fraud-surrenders-to-feds/
$1.3 million is not $9 billion, keep that in mind.
The money paragraph in the item =
Last year, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson speculated total fraud in that period could top $9 billion in more than a dozen “high-risk programs” besides housing stabilization. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and administration officials have disputed this number.
Note the yellow highlighting Crabgrass inserted for clarity. That's it. $9 billion is a made-up number, no more, no less. Some single dude's guess. With every motivation to highball the number. Make it sing!
That is precisely what "speculated" in context means.
It is not a fact.
SO -- Stop the bullshit, or prove $9 billion, GOP folks. Otherwise STFU, please.
Especially GOP candidates for office, integrity and truth are important.
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