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To: GOP_Lady

“You can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular.”

—Martin Behrman, then-mayor of New Orleans, when the city was finally forced to close the Storyville red-light district


5 posted on 02/10/2008 5:14:52 PM PST by RichInOC ("There is no sex in the champagne room. Oh, there's champagne, but you don't want champagne...")
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To: RichInOC

Ohhhh, but it is popular, except for the paid enforcers. They will get the glory for a little while. Shoot outs, car races and the whole sheebang, but the “speakeasies” will condintue. Democrat.....socialists in action....bolsheviks in Amerika. No smokee, No fattie in foods...we will take care of you...yep...


39 posted on 02/10/2008 6:12:26 PM PST by tillacum (The only way to vote is REPUBLICAN, no matter what. We've got to win.)
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To: RichInOC
“You can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular.”

Well put.

114 posted on 02/12/2008 9:10:20 AM PST by secretagent (When cooking frogs - don't bring to a boil too rapidly.)
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