I can understrand the reason for not smoking indoors cause of the issue of being in an enclosed space, the chance of breathing the 2nd hand smoke is probable. but come on, being outdoors there is very little chance of breathing 2nd hand smoke since it is dispersed in the air. the likelyhood of breathing in the carcengins of car exhaust or the pollution that is in the air all the time is more unhealthy than 2nd hand cigerette smoke. when one sits in traffic on a hot day and the window rolled down, you are breathing in some pretty nasty stuff, or go to Acadia State park on a hot summer day and see all the smog that is hanging in the air, and know that you are breathing in all that. and we worry about a very small % of the population that might light up outdoors?
Everyone who drives their car to that trail is contributing to the global problem of pollution and global warming, and that is something to really worry about than a few people that smoke outside. So I think that this new law for State Parks and the land trust is going a bit overboard.
My past dealings with the state on any level has shown me that the State dosen't like to cross train any one. but if they at least cross train the workers they already have then hire new people and while the new ones are getting trained the cross trained workers can at least be trying to pick up the slack till the new hires get finished trained.
there is absolutly no reason that the taxpayers that have worked all their lives and paid into the state all these taxes should have to wait more than a couple of weeks at most for their money. like it was said, most of the ones trying to get benefits have never before asked for it, and probally had to do a lot of soul searching to even ask in the first place and then made to wait is just plain wrong and unexceptably. but yet a family that is from another country can get it in no time because the State doesn't want to be accused of being predudice.
I agree that someone that is a repeat offender no matter what the crime is should certainly seek out professional help and do the time. for this guy though the title of the article says he violated probation due to drinking not because he reoffended with the same kind of crime. The majority of sex offenders do not reoffend with another sex crime but usually end up back in jail due to violating probation because of drinking or doing drugs, or because they can't get a job because of their crime, and then can't pay rent so they are put back in jail for not registering.
There is a higher % of alcoholics and drug addicts, and women beaters, that are in an out of jail for repeating their crimes or are involved in deadly accidents that kill innocent people every day, or beating up their wives or girlfriends because of being drunk, but we don't hear too many that complain about them, or saying we need to change the laws for them. too many times someone says "oh he was drunk so he didn't know what he was doing" etc. well thats no excuse for anything.
quote from mimil: [We are way to lenient on these people and they continue to offend over and over again, and nothing gets resolved. Time for a change in our laws]
OK mimil that's all well and good, If that's the case, than how about trying to change the laws for the repeat drug user's, the drug dealers that have a meth lab in an apartment building where there are family's and kids living that can blow up a whole block, or the drunk who runs into a car load of people and kills them and gets out of jail in less than 5 yrs to do it all over again, or the dealer who sells drugs to a pregnet woman, and the baby either dies or grows up to also be an addict? and the list goes on and on. why are you picking on just one kind of criime?
and to end on one note, Not all of "those people" are always guilty either. but thats a whole nother can of worms.
thats just my opinion, and u have yours.
zoltac50's Comments
I can understrand the reason
I can understrand the reason for not smoking indoors cause of the issue of being in an enclosed space, the chance of breathing the 2nd hand smoke is probable. but come on, being outdoors there is very little chance of breathing 2nd hand smoke since it is dispersed in the air. the likelyhood of breathing in the carcengins of car exhaust or the pollution that is in the air all the time is more unhealthy than 2nd hand cigerette smoke. when one sits in traffic on a hot day and the window rolled down, you are breathing in some pretty nasty stuff, or go to Acadia State park on a hot summer day and see all the smog that is hanging in the air, and know that you are breathing in all that. and we worry about a very small % of the population that might light up outdoors?
Everyone who drives their car to that trail is contributing to the global problem of pollution and global warming, and that is something to really worry about than a few people that smoke outside. So I think that this new law for State Parks and the land trust is going a bit overboard.
My past dealings with the
My past dealings with the state on any level has shown me that the State dosen't like to cross train any one. but if they at least cross train the workers they already have then hire new people and while the new ones are getting trained the cross trained workers can at least be trying to pick up the slack till the new hires get finished trained.
there is absolutly no reason that the taxpayers that have worked all their lives and paid into the state all these taxes should have to wait more than a couple of weeks at most for their money. like it was said, most of the ones trying to get benefits have never before asked for it, and probally had to do a lot of soul searching to even ask in the first place and then made to wait is just plain wrong and unexceptably. but yet a family that is from another country can get it in no time because the State doesn't want to be accused of being predudice.
I agree that someone that is
I agree that someone that is a repeat offender no matter what the crime is should certainly seek out professional help and do the time. for this guy though the title of the article says he violated probation due to drinking not because he reoffended with the same kind of crime. The majority of sex offenders do not reoffend with another sex crime but usually end up back in jail due to violating probation because of drinking or doing drugs, or because they can't get a job because of their crime, and then can't pay rent so they are put back in jail for not registering.
There is a higher % of alcoholics and drug addicts, and women beaters, that are in an out of jail for repeating their crimes or are involved in deadly accidents that kill innocent people every day, or beating up their wives or girlfriends because of being drunk, but we don't hear too many that complain about them, or saying we need to change the laws for them. too many times someone says "oh he was drunk so he didn't know what he was doing" etc. well thats no excuse for anything.
quote from mimil: [We are way to lenient on these people and they continue to offend over and over again, and nothing gets resolved. Time for a change in our laws]
OK mimil that's all well and good, If that's the case, than how about trying to change the laws for the repeat drug user's, the drug dealers that have a meth lab in an apartment building where there are family's and kids living that can blow up a whole block, or the drunk who runs into a car load of people and kills them and gets out of jail in less than 5 yrs to do it all over again, or the dealer who sells drugs to a pregnet woman, and the baby either dies or grows up to also be an addict? and the list goes on and on. why are you picking on just one kind of criime?
and to end on one note, Not all of "those people" are always guilty either. but thats a whole nother can of worms.
thats just my opinion, and u have yours.