Just do it already

In the original 1936 "educational" movie, Reefer Madness taught high school students that, when smoking marijuana, all kinds of crazy happens. There's a hit and run accident, manslaughter, suicide, rape, and you just descent into madness. Personally that sounds A LOT like a drunk person than a high one.
Now our society might not have the same outlandish ideas of marijuana it had back then but I swear we might as well have. The big question is how marijuana is illegal when drinking, which causes all that above isn't. Back in the day when the government tried it best to making drinking illegal, people did what people do today with marijuana. They went under ground. Gangs and Mobs have a fun time with that and crime went up. In the end, people won and we got our lovely booze back. Happy days. If it's true what they say about history then I'll place my bets that's what going to happen to marijuana.

Crime would go down cause people would just be too high. It's hard doing stuff high. Plus when you're high, you're happy. I've never seen a high person want to kill some one.

Tax the hell out of it and the government would be less in the hole. It would give people jobs in factories and junk.

I've heard the argument that people would just go around all day high. Um no. See this is America, land of the freedom with rules. We can't go to work drunk, drive drunk or be publicly intoxicated. We can't even smoke freaking cigarettes freely in Austin anymore. So duh there would be rules that came with the freedom, just like with EVERY freedom.

Should I even go into the health part? I don't feel like I need to because frankly people don't give a rats ass about that. If people did then cigs and booze wouldn't be legal. So what if marijuana can help you. So what its less harmful than eating a burger at McDonald's. Looking around at our society, we obviously don't ban things that are bad for you.

Like I said before, history is going to repeat itself. Marijuana is going to be legal someday. Looking at our economic issues, I'd say now would be a mighty fine time to do so.

Religion in Public Schools

I don’t see how or why we are still debating this issue here in 2010 but I suppose there will always be people who feel that their job is to push their beliefs on others. I can understand wanting to have your child be in an environment which is based off and teaches a certain religion, but public school is not that place. My father was raised Catholic and his parents sent him to Catholic school. That’s what you do if you want religion in all parts of your child’s life. And I can understand if your family simply doesn’t have the money to send their child to a school that is of their religious practice but there are religious based home school courses. And as for things like the Pledge that have the association of God in it is something people shouldn’t HAVE to do. I don’t think they should take it out of schools but as long as the association of religion in it I don’t think that it should be forced.

If there is going to be any religion in schools it should be the teaching of Religions of the world, and what each religion practices so that the ignorance of religion of other countries can be sorted out.

In an article called "Austin more than staying afloat" on the Austin Stateman website, it is being said that "this part of Texas, from Austin all the way down to San Antonio, could lead the nation's economic recovery." This article is aimed and anyone who has lost a job or is about to.
The article is about how Austin is trying to get corporations to open up down here to create an estimated 850 jobs. Facebook is already opening a unit which will create 300 jobs. A far cry from the 2,300 jobs lost between December 2008 and December 2009, but a good start.
In order to get these companys to open up down here, the government is giving them tax breaks. Apparently this has called for some criticism about using incentives to lure business. Frankly I don't see what the problem is, its helping more than its hurting. Its creating jobs in a time where jobs are hard to come by. So I agree with the author in that I think that this is a good opportunity and that its gonna help out a lot. But I don't think we will "lead the nation's economic recovery with" this, I think it's going to take a lot more that tax breaks and such to bring America out if this recession.

Blog 2

I came across this article on the KVUE website about how Texas is giving Vets a $30 million homebuyer initiative. Its good to see the government helping out our vets more after they come home cause a know a few who struggled after returning.

See article here

I picked this article cause I think we need to give our vets more benefits than we do, they risk their lives in order to defend us this LEAST we could do is give them a bit more support.