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The other day I wrote a little post about California and the expectation they will soon be voting for a big step towards de-criminalizing marijuana. As usual, in my post I rant and rave about what a backasswards place Kansas is and how they could never, ever do something like that. As far as I am concerned, it is just too beat into people in this part of the US that ALL DRUGS ARE BAD. However, it's ok to drink copious amounts of alcohol even if you are a teenager, especially if you plan on driving.The attitude, generally speaking that I have come across is this ( from the article ):See, they see marijuana in the light of Reefer Madness, not for the benefits that it has. What's more, I highly believe that any legislator will avoid this bill as if it were the Black Plague.

All I can say is, "It's about stinking time." Finally, someone gets the backbone to take these people to court and kick their stinking butts across the floor. In case you're not familiar, this is the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS that likes to go to the funerals of dead soldiers to protest homosexuality. Since I live in Topeka, I have to see these people all the time. It sickens me. Why KS has never really taken a stand against them, I couldn't answer. I haven't lived here all my life. I heard that Westboro handed Topeka's ass to them in a court case quite some time ago, but I don't know the details. However, here's the meat of what happened today:

A Baltimore federal jury awarded nearly $11 million Wednesday to the father of a Marine killed in Iraq, deciding that the family's privacy had been invaded by a Kansas church whose members waved anti-gay signs at the funeral.

Good on ya' Maryland.

This case has lots of people talking. The opinion handed down from the Supreme Court is, quite simply, this:

"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties."