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Comment Gary Johnson is for smart decriminalization (Score 1) 572

I've been following former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson's take on decriminalizing drugs and he has some sound thoughts on the whole matter from a fiscally conservative point of view.

For marijuana, legalize and tax it using the tax funds toward drug rehabilitation and education. Provide prescription access to heroin in ways that have been proven in other countries to cut down on use. For the harder drugs, take them by a case by case basis and approach it in an intelligent, non-kneejerk, manner that addresses the real issues.

There was some talk of him running for president as a Republican in 2012.

Check out:

http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/

Comment Guilty until proven guilty. (Score 1) 440

The idea of "if you didn't do anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about it" strikes me as...if you're not guilty, then prove your innocense.

Or as was brought up on The Obama Forum

"If people don't have anything to hide then they shouldn't be worried, prove that you're innocent by having a camera in your house."

http://www.theobamaforum.com/showthread.php?t=11257

Comment Re:not sure I get the controversy (Score 0, Redundant) 441

"Most actors are what (famous, popular) they are because they were at the right place at the right time."

This kind of statement is akin to the many people that come up to me and want me to teach them "programming" because they see that I can do a lot of cool stuff and get paid well. They don't consider the years of no social life in high school and college and the many many many nights of no sleep while studying for exams or finishing up a computer project. Along with the years after college making a name for myself in my field.

10 years after getting my degree working and some punk kid comes up and says..."hey, can you teach me Java?"

I don't claim to know that much about the acting industry, but most of the big names have been in the business for years and who knows what they did before that to get to where they were. Tom Hanks didn't start out as Forest Gump, even though every snot nosed kid would say "I could do that...life is like a box of choc-o-lates".

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