Pics of Zero the Dope-Head, (aren't you proud?)
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Our fearless leader, (aren't you proud?)!
Barry The Dope Dealer; one reason Obama's school files are SEALED.
Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana addicted enthusiast back in
high school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama:
The Story "Barry the Dope dealer" with the elaborate drug culture
surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in
Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles . He definitely
inhaled, a hell of a lot of smoke.
1. The Choom Gang
Description: 1. The Choom Gang
A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball
and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb,
meaning "to smoke marijuana."
2. Total Absorption
Description: 2. Total Absorption
As a member of the Choom Gang, Barry Obama was known for starting a few
pot-smoking trends. The first was called "TA," short for "total
absorption." To place this in the physical and political context of
another young man who would grow up to be president, TA was the
antithesis of Bill Clinton's claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford
he smoked dope but never inhaled.
3. Roof Hits
Description: 3. Roof Hits
Along with TA, Barry popularized the concept of "roof hits": when they
were chooming in the car all the windows had to be rolled up so no
smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted
their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.
4. Penalties
Description: 4. Penalties
When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo
(Hawaiian slang for marijuana, meaning "numbing tobacco") instead of
absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were assessed a penalty and
your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around. "Wasting
good bud smoke was not tolerated," explained one member of the Choom
Gang, Tom Topolinski, the Chinese-looking kid with a Polish name who answered to Topo.
5. The Choomwagon
Description: 5.. The Choomwagon
[Choom Gang member] Mark Bendix's Volkswagen bus, also known as the
Choomwagon. … The other members connsidered Mark Bendix the glue, he
was funny, creative, and uninhibited, with a penchant for Marvel
Comics. He also had that VW bus and a house with a pool, a bong, and a
Nerf basketball, all enticements for them to slip off midday for a few
unauthorized hours of recreation...
6. Interceptions
Description: 6. Interceptions
Barry also had a knack for interceptions. When a joint was making the
rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted "Intercepted!,"
and took an extra hit. No one seemed to mind.
7. Slippers
Description: 7. Slippers
Choom Gang members often made their way to Aku Ponds at the end of
Manoa Stream, where they slipped past the liliko'i vines and the KAPU
(keep out) signs, waded into waist-high cool mountain water, stood near
the rock where water rushed overhead, and held up a slipper (what
flip-flops are called in Hawaii) to create an air pocket canopy. It was
a natural high, they said, stoned or not.
8. Ray The Dealer
Description: 8.. Ray The Dealer
He was a long-haired haole hippie who worked at the Mama Mia Pizza
Parlor not far from Punahou and lived in a dilapidated bus in an
abandoned warehouse. … According to Topolinskii, Ray the dealer was "freakin'
scary." Many years later they learned that he had been killed with a
ball-peen hammer by a scorned gay lover. But at the time he was useful
because of his ability to "score quality weed."
...
In another section of the [senior] yearbook, students were given a
block of space to express thanks and define their high school
experience. รข€¦ Nestled below [Obama's] photographs was one odd line of
gratitude: "Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good
times." … A hippie drug-dealer made his acknowledgments; his own mother did not.
9. Pumping Stations
Description: 9. Pumping Stations
Their favorite hangout was a place they called Pumping Stations, a lush
hideaway off an unmarked, roughly paved road partway up Mount Tantalus .
They parked single file on the grassy edge, turned up their stereos
playing Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult, and Stevie Wonder, lit up some
"sweet-sticky Hawaiian buds" and washed it down with "green bottle beer"
(the Choom Gang preferred Heineken, Becks, and St. Pauli Girl).
10. Veto
Description: 10. Veto
One of the favorite words in their subculture revealed their democratic
nature. The word was veto. Whenever an idea was broached, someone could
hold up his hand in the V sign (a backward peace sign of that era) and
indicate that the motion wash not approved. They later shortened the
process so that you could just shout "V" to get the point across.. In
the Choom Gang, all V's were created equal.
11. Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud And Kona Gold:
Description: 11. Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric,
Puna Bud
In the Honolulu of Barry's teenage years marijuana was flourishing up
in the hills, out in the countryside, in covert greenhouses everywhere.
It was sold and smoked right there in front of your nose; Maui Wowie,
Kauai Electric, Puna Bud, Kona Gold, and other local variations of
pakololo were readily available.
12. The Barf Couch
Description: 12. The Barf Couch
The Barf Couch earned its name early in the first trimester when a
freshman across the hall from Obama [in the Haines Hall Annex dorm
at Occidental College ] drank himself into a stupor and threw up all
over himself and the couch. In the manner of pallbearers hoisting a
coffin, a line of Annexers lifted the tainted sofa with the freshman
aboard and toted it out the back door and down four steps to the first
concrete landing on the way to the parking lot. A day later, the couch
remained outside in the sun, resting on its side with cushions off
(someone had hosed it clean), and soon it was back in the hallway nook.
13. The Annex Olympics
Description: 13. The Annex Olympics
(The main hallway at Haines Hall was called the Annex,) home to the
impromptu Annex Olympics: long-jumping onto a pile of mattresses,
wrestling in underwear, hacking golf balls down the hallway toward the
open back door, boxing while drunk. There were the non-Olympic sports
of lighting farts and judging them by color, tipping over the Coke
machine, breaking the glass fire extinguisher case, putting out
cigarettes on the carpet, falling asleep on the carpet, flinging
Frisbees at the ceiling-mounted alarm bell, tasting pizza boxes to the
floor, and smoking pot from a three-foot crimson opaque bong, a two-man
event involving the smoker and an accomplice standing ready to respond
to the order "Hey, dude, light the bowl!
Resources:
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/the-choom-gang-
president-obamas-pot-smoking-high-school-days-detailed-in-maraniss-book
/2012/05/25/gJQAwFqEqU_blog.HTML http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/el
ection-2012/post/the-choom-gang-president-obamas-pot-smoking-high-schoo
l-days-detailed-in-maraniss-book/2012/05/25/gJQAwFqEqU_blog.HTML
2. http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/10218-for-choom-the-bell-tolls
3. http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/politics-raising-
children/2012/may/29/lessons-choom-gang-dont-air-your-dirty-laundry/
4. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-and-his-pot-smoking-
choom-gang/
5. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/27/the_choom_gang_obama039s_p
ot-smoking_days_280927.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/27
/the_choom_gang_obama039s_pot-smoking_days_280927.html
6. http://theweek.com/article/index/228490/the-choom-gang-9-juiciest-detai
ls-from-barack-obamas-days-as-a-pothead
7. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the-top-headlines-about-barack-obamas-
pot-smoking-high-school-choom-gang/http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the
-top-headlines-about-barack-obamas-pot-smoking-high-school-choom-gang/
8. http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-
obama
WHY WASN'T THIS ALL ON THE NEWS IN 2008 WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR
OFFICE ?????
and WHY ISN'T THE NEWS TALKING ABOUT IT TODAY ?????
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that you can
quickly understand them. This quote came from the CzechRepublic .
Someone over there has it figured out. It was translated into English
from an article in the Prague newspaper Prager Zeitungon on 04.28.2010.
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of
entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to
limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the
necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate
willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much
deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America .
Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast
confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can
survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, 'merely a fool'. It is less
likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President."
Send this to anyone who votes
h/t DJ
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