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Strayhorn: Shut down the topless bars (Texas)
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF ^
| Thursday, April 22, 2004
| By Ken Herman and Michelle M. Martinez
Posted on 04/22/2004 5:59:52 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952
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To: Vision
There was a advertisement in today's Wash Post sports page for a Hustler club in B-More, never heard of it before...
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posted on
04/22/2004 12:29:41 PM PDT
by
dakine
To: hopespringseternal
"Wrong. That is what the manager of the strip club claims will happen. If it does, where are all the rich strippers? Why limit it to one night a week if it is such a wholesome activity?"
Actually strippers can make quite a bit of money. Why do you think they do it? It isn't because they enjoy taking off their clothes. There are rich strippers, if by rich you mean, own their own homes, etc. Of course there are also strippers who spend all their money on drugs.
I didn't say stripping was a wholesome activity. I don't buy your premise that all strippers become prostitutes and die young either though. Personally I wouldn't do it unless I had no other options.
Finally, the reason to limit it to one night a week in the case of the widowed mother, is so that she could spend more time with her child.
122
posted on
04/22/2004 12:30:58 PM PDT
by
monday
To: King Prout
And that it does
123
posted on
04/22/2004 12:35:01 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Always Faithful)
To: dakine
I assume it's Larry Flint's new club. Fantastic cultural addition to a crumbling city.
124
posted on
04/22/2004 12:36:12 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Always Faithful)
To: monday
"Sexual feelings and a loving relationship are two different things." Correct.
"It takes both to produce children."
Incorrect.
125
posted on
04/22/2004 12:39:02 PM PDT
by
Hat-Trick
(Do you trust a government that does not trust you with guns?)
To: Arrowhead1952
I don't know if she knows that in Texas if you run an all nude bar you cannot sell alchohol. Thats why they sell ice and Cokes and allow people to BYOB. No booze in the toppless bars will probably boost attendence.
I just heard on WBAP that she is challenging Perry on allowing video slots at Lone Star Park. You can bet on the horses and bet on races in other cities but no video slots? It doesn't make sense, this gambling in this building is ok, but this gambling in the same building is not.
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posted on
04/22/2004 12:43:28 PM PDT
by
normy
("I also want the Americans out of Iraq." John Kerry)
To: Hat-Trick
"Incorrect."
Vision meant raise and nurture, not just conceive children.
127
posted on
04/22/2004 12:47:41 PM PDT
by
monday
To: monday
Thats what the Taliban say too. So you equate "Don't get involved with a self-destructive lifestyle" with a regime that supported killing three thousand people?
And you call me unreasonable?
To: Just another Joe
My experience versus your reading. I'll take my experience, with these particular women, over your reading. Anecdotes are nice, but when they fly in the face of overwhelming evidence and basic human psychology...
To: Freebird Forever
Last time I was in Dallas I was amazed that we had to walk 3 blocks to buy a bottle, but it was fine to bring it back to the hotel. I wonder if "wholly dry" includes bars and pool halls.
130
posted on
04/22/2004 12:52:56 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(This is how one should do a sarcasm tag: </sarcasm>)
To: monday
Finally, the reason to limit it to one night a week in the case of the widowed mother, is so that she could spend more time with her child. I guess "widowed" just sounds a lot better than "single"?
I just love it when people provide anecdotes strait off the TV or a movie.
To: hopespringseternal
Anecdotes are nice, but when they fly in the face of overwhelming evidence and basic human psychology...Like I said, with these particular women I'll go with my experience and not your reading.
I've known several of them for 15 years and more. I met a couple of them when they were still stripping more than 15 years ago.
You can say what you will but I know better with these particular women.
132
posted on
04/22/2004 12:58:10 PM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: hopespringseternal
"So you equate "Don't get involved with a self-destructive lifestyle" with a regime that supported killing three thousand people?"
Your tag-line is ironic since your argument is sophistic. I equated your "moralistic self-rightousness" to the "moralistic self-rightousness" of the Taliban. Nowhere did I suggest you had supported killing three thousand people.
133
posted on
04/22/2004 1:03:08 PM PDT
by
monday
To: Vision
"You all believe topless bars are good for a culture. They produce positive rolls for young men and women and their relationships?"They have about the same negative effect on culture as politicians, lawyers and corporate executives!
To: Arrowhead1952
What kind of state, Strayhorn said, would depend on that kind of money to pay for schools? What kind of governor, Strayhorn asked, would propose such a thing? Here's an idea. Why don't we let people keep their own money and educate their own kids? Then there'd be no stupid issues like this one and big mouth politicians would have to find some other way to steal from us.
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posted on
04/22/2004 1:06:49 PM PDT
by
timm22
To: monday
I equated your "moralistic self-rightousness" to the "moralistic self-rightousness" of the Taliban. Leaving unspoken the convenient fact that the Taliban were a bunch of murdering thugs? Meaning that anyone who believes in moral absolutes is 1) self-righteous and 2) a murdering thug?
And you claim that I am engaging in sophistry?
To: BJClinton
I wonder if "wholly dry" includes bars and pool halls. Feel free to do the reconnaissance and then report back to us.
: )
To: hopespringseternal
"Meaning that anyone who believes in moral absolutes is 1) self-righteous and 2) a murdering thug? "
No. I simply pointed out that you have in common with the Taliban, the conviction that your moral beliefs are the absolute truth.
Your morals are, I expect, somewhat different from the Taliban, so it would not follow that you would also be a murdering thug.
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posted on
04/22/2004 1:17:28 PM PDT
by
monday
To: talleyman
Should I decide to go to one, will my wife believe me when I tell her "it's for the children".
To: Freebird Forever
You mean..actually research something myself? Puh-lease.
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posted on
04/22/2004 1:21:42 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(This is how one should do a sarcasm tag: </sarcasm>)
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