News The March of Reason
posted by on June 19 at 11:06 AM
Is this yet another indication that we are nearing the end of the terrible Bush era?
In the way that the Bush administration cooked up a link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda, Homeland Security cooked up a link between the small American khat market and international terrorism. Before November 7, 2006 (soon to be recognized as the most important day in this decade), this wholly imaginary link would have been sufficient to send a few of our local khat chewers to Guantanamo Bay. This seems no longer to be the case; some amount of reason has returned to the justice system. The absolute fantasies of Bush and his kind must now meet the resistance of hard reality. If Khat is something at all to worry about, then it is one of the least of our worries.
One day before five Seattle-area residents were to stand trial on charges that they took part in a conspiracy to import and distribute khat, a leafy plant chewed like tobacco in parts of eastern Africa, a federal judge dismissed all charges against them.U.S. District Court Judge James Robart dismissed the case Monday at the request of the same government prosecutors who initiated the prosecution nearly a year ago.
Cab drivers need to learn to shut the fuck up. That's about all I got out of this.
They also need to learn to bathe.
Tru' dat, fo' shizzle.
They also need to figure out what paying with a credit card means. That way, I don't have to remind them a thousand times that I said that's how I was paying. You are not getting cash, you pathetic pile of shit. We discussed this before I got in the fucking cab. Oh, okay, go ahead and make some 'calls' on your cell phone to make it seem like I've complicated this entire process. Yeah, here you go. Here's my card. And here's your tip. Oh, I wrote zero? Imagine that.
Two things:
1) Most of my cab rides in Seattle have been pleasant.
2) I don't understand how people can not have any sort of cash on them. I'm not a luddite, I love my debit card, but damn... having alternative sources to cover all monetary transactions just seems like a simple and smart thing to do. I mean, not even having a $20 in your wallet? Crazy.
I never need cash. I'm either using my company card, my card, or my debit card. This way I constantly have my every-financial move recorded online for my record. Then I can import that information into whatever .xls I use to monitor the statistics of how I spend my money, when I spend my money, and where I should to reduce my spending.
Makes sense to me.
Fair enough, but it seems like the time savings difference for adding in a cash item vs scanning, processing, signing would be relatively neutral. But that would also mean you'd have to keep track of those purchases through receipts which is a pain in it's own right.
I've just had too many situations where, for whatever reason, cash has been my very good friend when my cards just didn't work. For me, it's all about convenience and piece of mind.
I'll go back to my cave now, lol.
good article... if only ppl would have gotten beyond the first paragraphs about the cabbie...
I read the entire thing, no name.
Are you ready to explain why you think I did not?
Guess not. Go figure.
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