No Fun League

The topic I chose to talk about for the midterm was that the NFL no longer allows celebrations after scoring a touchdown. I thought this applied a lot to the exercise of freedom and allowing the pursuit of happiness since regulating what you can and cant do directly affects those things. Granted this isnt a serious life issue or anything like that but its still a perfect example of peoples freedom of expression being regulated. I agree with some of what the nfl has said that it shouldn't get out of hand or anything like that but I know as a fan I thought it was really cool to see what crazy celebration could Chad Johnson or Owens come up with. One thing I think is funny is that they almost are biased about enforcing the rule, I'm a huge packers fan and we have something at the stadium called the "lambeau leap" in which whenever a player scores a touchdown they jump into the crowd. This is illegal under the new rules yet its never been penalized ever since it went into effect.

Former fed says lets legalize drugs

Terry Nelson a 32 yr veteran of border patrol, customs, and homeland security is now the face of legalizing and controling illegal drugs. This man dedicated his career to fighting the war on drugs and through experience realizes the harm it causes in our country and worldwide. He believes this has been a total policy failure and that drugs are too dangerous too be contoled by criminals. Feds need to step in and take control of this dangerous market. It is in his opinion that " A system of regulation, rather than prohibition is a less harmful,more ethical, and more reasonable public policy approach." The regulation will create an annual revenue of $76 billion and spare thousands of lives globally. This money is more than enough to pay for medical care of people with addictions. " Drugs dont cause crimes prohibition causes crimes." This is deffinately a federal issue and the governments approach to this issue has deffinately been a failure and must be revised. Check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwWHtmNha-o

Settlement Reached in Georgian’s Death

I'm pretty sure that everyone has heard about the terrifying luge accident that happened during the Vancouver Olympics. The Vancouver organizing committee decided that the family of the Luger receive a death benefit. The committee took out insurance on the approximately 5,000 members of the Olympic family, including athletes, for the games. For me i believe it is a private issue between the committee and the family. I'm glad that the family received something for what happened but no amount of money can buy a person back.

John FRICKIN Wayne

You most definitely have to live without James Stewart in this particular movie during this time period. Nowadays its probably a different story because were harsher on laws and have a justice system a little better set up than it was back then. In this particular movie John Wayne basically was the law of the city, without him guys like Liberty Valance could come through the town and destroy everything and do whatever they wanted and no one would blink an eye. John Wayne's character made it so the town could live peacefully most of the time as you saw the sheriff of the town did absolutely nothing so he was needed to keep order. Plus I mean come on its John Wayne, how can you say he isnt needed in a western movie?

Law and Power

If one of the characters from the movie was chosen to not be in the movie I would choose James Stewart to leave. He would be a great choice to leave because he didn't have the power to overthrow Liberty Valance. Without the help of John Wayne he would not have lived and the town would still be in chaos. The town would still be overrun without the power that John Wayne had. Even though James Stewart brought new ideas to the town he couldn't stop the power of Liberty Valance.

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Law VS Order

In the movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", one of the main characters portrayed by James Stewart played a big part in the movie. However, if you were to remove him from the script, the movie would have taken a completely different route. If Stewart's character were to not have shown up in the small town, they would have never seen democracy. Liberty would have continued his reign of terror, and eventually the big cattle ranchers who employed him would gain huge amounts of power in the territory. If Jame's portrayal of the sense of Law and Order had not been present in the movie, it would undoubtedly have turned out different.

Only Democracy, Only the finest

"The capability of people for good makes democracy desirable; the capability for evil makes democracy necessary." This statement could not be any truer than it is. The idea of democracy has always been a desirable choice of government that most societies have wanted to have. The thing about democracy is that there is always going to be countries/people who have a dictator who despise democracy and thats what makes it so neccessary for the rest of the world. Most good people desire democracy and the evil people is what makes democracy neccessary to help those people. One thing that most people dont mention is most countries ruled by a dictator completely fail, Stalin in Russia... Hitler in Germany... Mussolini in Italy... Napoleon in France, they all eventually failed. Democracy for the win, thats whats up.