Slashdot Mirror

Try voting for something worthwhile on OGD: http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/5814-4049

It's true, but the choice won't be all that meaningful in the US until we can vote for multiple candidates, which we never will (follow the money). People with great honest ideas who are outsiders, such as Ron Paul or Ross Perot or Ralph Nadir will never be serious contenders for holding power.

The actual #1 idea, with almost two thousand net votes, is about how annoying all the posts demanding to see Obama's birth certificate are.

http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/4387-4049

Feel free to vote to ban this user:
http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/5326-4049
Also, feel free to tell him to stop.
His email address is davecreacrea@gmail.com
(see http://davecreacrea.newsvine.com/ and
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/28707/ )

I posted an actual, serious idea:

http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/5316-4049

That idea might take a Constitutional Amendment to enact however... although since it deal with only the internal rules of conduct in Congress it could probably get by on just a bill.

I used to think that all drugs were bad, and all that stuff. But after reading the second linked thread, the Schedule I thread, specifically the bits about

* marijuana not killing people as much as tobacco and alcohol;
* pure THC being ranked as a Schedule III drug and marijuana as a Schedule I drug (see comment by user pbrigando13);
* Oxycontin et al., more damaging and causing more of a dependency than marijuana (which creates none), not being on the Controlled Substances List altogether;
* (taking this one with a grain of salt) the advantages of marijuana, rarer use of violence and driving accidents from users than alcoholics, etc. (see comment by user onegod1world)

, I'm reconsidering that stance.

Also, I'd like to point out that #1 is End Imperial Presidency -- with 755 votes against #2's 351 --, heavily criticizing Bush's presidency and calling out what happened in Iraq as war crimes, as they should be called. That is a serious one, and I for one am glad that it got voted up top.

I used to think that all drugs were bad, and all that stuff. But after reading the second linked thread, the Schedule I thread, specifically the bits about

* marijuana not killing people as much as tobacco and alcohol;
* pure THC being ranked as a Schedule III drug and marijuana as a Schedule I drug (see comment by user pbrigando13);
* Oxycontin et al., more damaging and causing more of a dependency than marijuana (which creates none), not being on the Controlled Substances List altogether;
* (taking this one with a grain of salt) the advantages of marijuana, rarer use of violence and driving accidents from users than alcoholics, etc. (see comment by user onegod1world)

, I'm reconsidering that stance.

Also, I'd like to point out that #1 is End Imperial Presidency -- with 755 votes against #2's 351 --, heavily criticizing Bush's presidency and calling out what happened in Iraq as war crimes, as they should be called. That is a serious one, and I for one am glad that it got voted up top.