Sunday, February 19, 2012

Polish Parliament Smokes Pot

Is that what makes them so stoo-pid?

And before you get all riled up regarding the stereotype, I'm of Polish ancestry with a very uncommon name. That's why I'm Rocker.

"Joint session of Parliament toned down" Associated Press, January 21, 2012

WARSAW, Poland - The leader of a new left-wing party in Poland threatened to light up a marijuana in Parliament yesterday - but just burned incense instead.

Chickens***!

Janusz Palikot is campaigning to get soft drugs legalized and to liberalize the conservative country.

Related: New Poland

“We’re trying to get into room 143 to burn some grass, in accordance with our announcement,’’ Palikot told reporters in a news conference held in his Parliament office.

Palikot’s plan, however, put him on a collision course with the speaker, Ewa Kopacz, who vowed not to let him break the law in Parliament.

She reported him to prosecutors, and in the end, Palikot simply lit incense sticks containing a tiny amount of cannabis. They emitted a scent of burning marijuana, but Palikot said they were purchased legally in a shop.

Palikot is introducing a draft law that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.

His proposal has little chance of passing. His party, Palikot’s Movement, won 10 percent of votes in October elections, becoming the third largest party in the lower house of the Parliament, the Sejm, but still lacking the votes needed to change laws.  

I must be smoking marijuana to keep reading this nothing but agenda-pushing article.

The largest party, the center-right Civic Platform of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, opposes the legalization of drugs.

Palikot’s party has also vowed to support gay rights. 

I didn't see that ulterior motive through the smoke, cough.

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"Army prosecutor shoots self over work" Associated Press, January 10, 2012

A military prosecutor in western Poland shot himself in the head yesterday after defending the work of his office and rejecting planned overhauls, officials said....  

???

Don't military men usually stand and fight?

The investigations primarily concern suspicions of corruption in buying equipment for Poland’s troops on missions in Afghanistan and Iraq.  

So who killed him?

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