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Maybe all the smokers dying in tobacco studies were actually burger eaters.

Reminds me of a book I read:

“How many times can thirteen go into forty two?

- Why teachers sleep with their students”.

Does the right to display something offensive end at someone else’s eyes, much like some folks tout that the right to smoke ends at their nose?

“Wellness”, touted by health-nazis (anti-obesity, anti-smoking) is just Eugenics-Lite.

Hitler’s Germany was the first to institute bans on public smoking.

Where’s the Ukranian military in all of this?

Why jump immediately to NATO involvement when the first step would actually be to have Ukraine make a move to defend their own territory.

They don’t have to go to the UN for that.

Do you think they’d mind if we block the Bosphorus?

“costs four times as much as regular fuel”

All part of Putin’s plan.

“Schumer on the right side of an issue for a change”

I doubt it. AIPAC = American Israel Public Affairs Committee which is a pro-israel lobby.

So Schumer is likely just pandering to the crowd for cash and votes.

“Citizens of the planet will be able to educate themselves on any topic at no cost, exchange billions of ideas at the speed of light and organize to overthrow oppressive governing regimes should the need arise.”

Actually, they’ll be too busy passing around pics of ass to worry about that stuff.

Yes, an act of war, from the Indian perspective, is a better characterization.

However, congress was in with Jackson in continually changing treaties and laws in what was effectively a one-sided contract change.

That’s why congress didn’t impeach him after the supreme court ruling.

“What’s next?”

It’s actually worse depending on where you are in the country. There have been efforts w/varying degrees of success to:

-allow employers not hire smokers, even if not smoking on the job

-have condominiums where smokers cannot smoke within their own units

-disallow parents from smoking in the car if children are present.

So let’s see, it’s not just keeping smoking confined to smaller and smaller areas, it’s about denying them employment, housing, and the right to a family.

Sounds pretty nazi to me. I’m just surprised they haven’t started bulldozing the bodies of smokers into mass graves yet.

THAT’s what would be next.

Smoking outside is the happy medium, but that’s not good enough for smoke nazis claiming that that bit of exposure is going to harm them.

An expectation of never smelling it is unreasonable just like an expectation of being exposed to speech you find offensive is.

And folks right to say something does NOT end at your ears.

“Can we all use our drug of choice whenever we want?”

As long as it doesn’t impact your operation of a motor vehicle, which nicotine does not.

Blut und Boden!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_and_Soil

Eco nazis are just that - nazis.

But, if you haven’t noticed, there is no call to remove Roosevelt from the dime.

Yet there is one for a president who performed actions disagreeable to the left, based on what is basically political correctness.

But the indians were part of sovereign nations, not citizens of any of the united states. Had AJs actions been against citizens the unconstitutional argument would have better muster. His actions in regards the indians, in a legal sense, were more like treaty violations, if anything.

How’s that “Reset Button” working for you dumb-asses.

It’s not an excuse, it’s an attempt to establish context.

Do you think that Roosevelt should be taken off the dime because of Japanese Internment camps?

Should Lincoln come off the 5 for his suspension of habeus corpus?

Like the european colonialization, U.S. expansion in this time period was a run for resources.

That’s what the “modern” countries did back then. In this instance, the Cherokee lost. They had prior sovereignty agreements, which were violated. I don’t dispute that.

What I dispute is making some type of moral judgement against the victor for coming out on top of the conflict.
That somehow, just because they “lost”, the Indians were somehow more human than human.

Had roles been reversed, meaning, Europeans living in the stone age w/Indians being the colonizers, do you think it would’ve gone differently for the weaker side? I doubt it.

Quibbling over the treatment of the defeated by the victor in conflicts of the past seems to me to be just a way of modern propagandists to claim the U.S. is “bad” and therefore must change, which always seems to be in a direction of communism strangely enough.

I’m not buying it.

Throughout history, crappy things have happened to all sorts of folks.

AJ is on the bill for his positive contributions to U.S. history (maybe because it’s U.S, currency), not for his contribution to Cherokee history. If the Cherokee come up w/their own currency, they can put who they want on it.

Even if it’s someone who was mean to white folks.

How tall is the chick who wrote the story?

“V9733XA
(Sucked into jet engine, INITIAL ENCOUNTER), “

What’s left after the first time? I’d hate to be see the guy that gets sucked into a jet engine twice. Turned from juice to vapor?

I agree he was no saint. I don’t relish in any brutality or injustice. My point is basically is, in the period of history, his actions did not appear so severe as they do from the vantage of OUR point in history.

I don’t know a lot about Santa Anna, but I do know that in those days, when a battle was over either by outright victory or surrender, it wasn’t the habit of the victor to summarily execute officers.

Officers surviving a defeated battle always had the chance to come back another day.

I have.

Evne though close in history, the early to mid 19th century was quite a different world than today. You need to keep that in context.

Also keep in mind that indians weren’t particularly nice to people either. Before “whitey” showed up, indians abused each other just as much, if not more.

Jackson was not the first to execute such a forced transplant.

The Acadian French in Louisiana were forced out of Canada by the brits in the French and Indian war.

Different time. Definitely more brutal than today.

Andrew Jackson was a product of the time, not vice-versa.

Jackson is on the 20 because he was a great president.

Those who have bad things to say about him only speak of the politically correct indian situation.

Ignoring that, there’s nothing wrong w/him. He was a no-nonsense man of the people and probably would’ve been a TEA party candidate were he alive today.

He got on the bill, I think, because he did a lot to expand the territory.

If you have a problem w/the U.S. existing because the indians were “here first”, I can see why you wouldn’t like him.

I, however, was never the sap for such propaganda.

In addition to phone records, I wonder if they also spy on credit card and bank transactions. Maybe even tracing those serial numbers on bills you get out from your ATM.

We let them get away with it at the airport so it’s no surprise these search and seizure violations are moving into the street. Welcome to the USPSA.

What’s dehumanizing is the modern airport experience.

Maybe we could just declare Detroit as organ retrieval center.

It’s unfortunate how news stories report more drama than they do actual information.

To make a decision about this story, you first have to know how the condition was diagnosed, to which the story says nothing. This is the first logical question.

From googling I find this:

“Diagnosis of mitochondrial disease can be made through a combination of clinical observations, laboratory evaluation, brain imaging, and muscle biopsies. And an experienced integrated approach is necessary – not just one test. Referral to a specialist in mitochondrial medicine is often needed for diagnosis. Rarely is genetic testing sufficient for the diagnosis of mitochondrial disease. Even with the advent of new gene sequencing techniques like Next Generation sequencing, many of the identified changes in genes require the information obtained from a muscle biopsy for interpretation.”

“an effort to destroy the will of a population to resist tyranny through denial of the most essential substances necessary to maintain life and strength. “

And when U.S. foodstamp use is up to 100%, the gate will begin to close...

How many calories are burned during an armed insurrection against tyrants?

I can’t get over how folks like Boehner decide to stop fighting democrats instead of deciding to stop fighting the tea party.

“let the private sector price and sell all flood insurance on their own.”

Correct. Need the added constraint that folks don’t get “bailed out” by the government if they buy in an area that insurance companies don’t insure.

I thought smokes helped soldiers deal w/stress of the battlefield.

I wonder what the smoking/non-smoking stats are for PTSD patients vs the rest of the military population.

When something gets subsidized, the price goes up.

How many folks on food stamps now?

“Economics is a profession, now?”

That’s right, climatology is the only TRUE science.

If it’s genetic or “in born”, why would it be more likely that boys abused as children by men have a better chance of being gay?

If gays are born that way, you wouldn’t be able to “turn” gay would you?

And how exactly would you be able to tell the difference between someone who was “born gay” vs “turned gay”?

You can’t because it’s a behavior, not trait.

So, how exactly do they measure “lonliness”? No indication of that in the article. Is it self professed, or do they automatically call single folks lonely?

Living by yourself can be dangerous simply because there’s no one else there to call 911. That’s a matter of logistics, not psychology.

Actually, trolling is what most of the press does every day.

When they put up a headline that grabs your attention but either leaves relevant facts out or only provide a critical reversing fact at the end of the story, it’s doing the same thing.

Same goes for second hand smoke.

I’m seeing ads by the gov now that show a kid in his 20s as a quadruple amputee due to smoking.

Captilism relies on freedom.

Communism takes it away.

“Vern barked and ran toward the officer, prompting the shooting”

Yet, George Zimmerman had to have his head beaten on concrete before he was even considered to be allowed to draw.

If you injure a K-9, it’s considered an assault on an officer.

Apparently, the cop’s dogs have more rights than people.

I guess checking all those phone records finally paid off...

“One constitutional expert said cities are within their rights to ban travel on city streets during emergencies.”

But what’s an emergency? I’ve seen such “emergencies” declared for what is typical weather, i.e., the type of snow storm you get EVERY year.

“Driving is not a right, it is a privilege.

But we do have freedom of movement. The more states abuse the “emergency” declaration, I think this will be heading to court.

The Navajo Treaty of 1868 would’ve never been signed were it to be followed by a smoking of the skin pipe.

A socialist is just a communist with an iPhone.

And the Janet Jackson thing resulted in a fine?