Jacked

So if you watch the following you will be able to put two and two together.

You take the good with the bad, the sweet with the sour.

I'm looking for that moped

Puff Puff..Snort?

I have been kind of overwhelmed these days, trying to get myself organized, and admit having failed to get my normal daily reading on. A lot of newsworthy things on.

Some of the homies in the hood and maybe even in prison will be happy to know that The United States Sentencing Commission has finally reduced the sentencing guidelines for powder cocaine possession charges. Well, its about damn time. I still don't think the reduction is that much of a reduction though. Under current law, the minimum sentence for possession of 5,000 grams of powder cocaine is 10 years, the same as the minimum sentence for 50 grams of crack cocaine. This disparity never made sense to me. How can you get less time for having the stuff that actually makes crack? Oh. But......it appears that more folk busted for using crack are black while most powder sniffers tend to be white. So if you got crack on you, you doing more time, than the dude who has the powder that makes the crack. Now don't got there, no, I am not being racial, but that is the reality. Stats show that last year four-fifths of crack cocaine offenders in federal courts last year were black. The guideline was always dumb to me, it's like giving a person more time for possessing bullets to a gun, and less time to the dude with bullets and the gun.

Anyway, the new guidelines will reduce the average sentence for crack cocaine possession to 8 years 10 months from 10 years 1 month. I could not find the stats for the guidelines for powder cocaine. Somehow, I don't think it will be any closer. The issue posed now is whether whether to apply the guidelines retroactively to an estimated 19,500 crack cocaine offenders who were sentenced under the earlier, stricter guidelines??? We talking bout 19,500 crackheads getting out of jail early? That was wrong.....wasn't it. But you get my point. For more in depth analysis, have at it, http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1102/p01s02-usju.html, http://www.ussc.gov/,

While I am on drugs, that is, the subject of drugs....(see that's how rumors get started) isn't about time they legalize marijuana? No, seriously, there needs to be a debate on this. Sitting at 201 all day, and watching all these dudes in there on possession charges is a waste of time for the whole system. Dudes getting their probation revoked cause they tested positive for weed. It's just a waste. Jail space wasted to house weedheads while the cells could be used for more serious offenders. But you know what, its all about the green. Money that is. These weedheads making money for everybody, from the jails to law enforcement, to yes, attorneys. Damn, I forgot my next point....

I find it quite amusing that the State Department can't find nooooooooooobody that is willing to go staff our huge Embassy in Iraq. Yo, I'm loving it. So check it, Monday, 200 to 300 diplomats were notified they have been identified as prime candidates to fill 40 to 50 vacancies that will open next year at the embassy. The new policy is basically, go to Iraq or lose their jobs. Jack Croddy, a thirty-six year veteran of the State Department was like bullish. He put it out there like this, "It's one thing if someone believes in what's going on over there and volunteers, but it's another thing to send someone over there on a forced assignment. And I'm sorry, but basically that's a potential death sentence, and you know it. Who will take care of our children? Who will raise our children if we're dead or seriously wounded? Who will get our kids through life?" That's real talk though. http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Play/23075/1/CNN-Diplomats-revolt-Iraq.wmv/ This whole Iraq Occupation is slowing breaking this country down. And what happened to all the cheap oil we were gonna get as a result? Yo, where's my moped?