Clinton: US Addicted to Mexico Addicted to US

How refreshing plain and direct speech is!

"Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians" (Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton).

She has a very strong point. It is very hypocritical for the US to bitch about "all those damn Mexican drug cartels" when in fact we're the ones buying and giving them every opportunity to increase their profit margin.

The day we take real responsibility for our growing addiction—to the big name drugs (cocaine) AND the small name ones (marijuana)—and the day we take real steps to solve these issues, is the day there will be real progress.

Until then, they'll keep selling, we'll keep buying, and everyone will continue to blame everyone else but themselves.

13 year old student strip search in the name of War on Drugs

At what point do adults, serving their community as school principals, nurses, and administrators, think that strip searching a 13 year old is remotely close to being a good idea?!

This seriously has me thinking of making a new blog label called: WTF?! Or something like that...

Anyway, it's true. A 13 year old girl (A) was strip searched after another student (B) was found to be in possession of prescription strength Ibuprofen and said she obtained the pills from someone else (A).

Basing their invasive and thoroughly unnecessary and unwarnetted search on this flimsy "evidence," school officials required the student to submit to a search, which, as you can guess, resulted in no pills.

The child's mother wasn't call. The police weren't called. And the school seems to think they did the right thing.

Seriously! WTF?!?