Posted on 08/11/2005 6:18:28 PM PDT by elkfersupper
"You can smoke -- with limitations. You can drink -- with limitations. You just can't go wild,"
I love your attitude problem as well!!!!!!!!!!
Cool!!!! the antis are always looking to BLAME someone.....so now we can blame her for more smoking bans :)
BTW, is whatever-town-this-is, under discussion, going to paint a series of lines on the sidewalk - smoke|STOP|smoke - because if they don't, I will clean their clock.
The original language in the Delaware smoking ban included 50feet from entrance language, which was initially dropped to 25feet and then dropped altogether when it was explained to the idiot legislator this was a clean "INDOOR" act and he was basically banning smoking in the downtown area of any town in the state.....either that or he was going to be responsible for a bunch of traffic problems because smoking would only be permitted in the middle of the street........
Idiots one and all.
Yep. See, as a rube from out of town, no way I can be expected to know that. So a law so complicated is just about guaranteed to get the city sued for entrapment...which the city will lose.
Wonder how many of the council members are D's and how many are R's.
Protecting the unborn is one of the arguments of the antis........they claim smoking mothers hurt the baby and smoking around a pregnant woman hurts the baby.........yet many of them are in favor of abortion, at all stages.
Choice for them, but not for others.........interesting.
I have more than once been told that my (now 7yo) daughter would have been better off if I had an abortion instead of being born to a smoking mother. (this did not occur on FR)
HMMMMM....never thought about it that way. But you've got a really good point.
It doesn't matter anymore.....when it comes to the issue of tobacco - they are all the same.
When I was fighting the statewide ban in Delaware, it was the D's more than the R's fighting it.....and the biggest proponents of it we both R's.
Earlier this year they tried it in Virginia, it died an ignoble 2-1 death, but it was a Republican sponsored piece f legislation.
What if somebody told her:
Yeah, "what if?" It never ceases to amaze me that people do not rise up and fight this crap.
LOL - I was going to borrow your "give a damn" since you weren't using it. ;*)
Go right ahead!!!!!!!!!
;*) Maybe just for a couple of "special" posts. LOL
I "borrowed" it myself - it's a song title :)
Akkk - that's right. You told me about that some time ago.
I still love that song.......but I haven't heard it in a while. I haven't been in the car of late, and most of that has been on Friday afternoon when we go out, and that is time for Rush and and then Hannity. Radio reception is really bad in this house, except upstairs, and I still can't get up there :(
I "saw" you talking about that the other day. It must be the state. I get one station in the house or car. Thankfully, it is Rush.
Did you here about the meteor shower that's due between now and dawn? Since we are up I thought I might go take a peak.
I don't know about it being the state, I can get al kinds of stations in the car. I think it has something to do with the lightening rods on the roof, and that is why the stereo upstairs does better than the one down here.
*SIGH* on the meteor shower. Hubby has long gone to bed, and getting outside is a major production for me. Hopefully tonight is not the last night of them.....and with any luck I will have this stupid cast off my leg on tuesday.
On the local level in our neck o' the woods, you'd be hard pressed to see any party indentification until you're actually in the voting booth.
OTOH, at the state level just as many Rs as Ds bring up this kind of legislation. One R state rep wanted to have a $.05 a filter deposit, like on bottles, so that bums would patrol and clean up the roadsides. What a maroon...
Or, as they did in my county, the hearing notices are buried in fine print in some third-tier rag (that few read) to meet the Letter-of-the-Law regarding "Public Notice" of such hearings.
It IS interesting that whether Environmental Wacko's, Anti-smokers, Abortionists, or Gun-grabbers, or _________ (fill in the blank), these people seem to have all the time in the world to attend such gatherings, no?
Rent-A-Mob
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