Excuse me, Newbie.......but if your going to be on our Threads in Free Republic you had better learn that we are for the rights of the Business Owners. This should be up to the business owner and NOT the Government.
Just why ARE you a VET?!
Exactly, so don't stick your nose where you are not wanted! Bars and restaurants are PRIVATE BUSINESSES that you have the right to patronize or refuse to patronize.
The fact that their are nanny-staters like yourself on this site siding with the likes of Henry Waxman and Michael Bloomberg makes me sicker than any second hand smoke and yes, I am a nonsmoker.
Pointing out the similarities between the anti-smoker cartel of today and the Nazi anti-smokers is valid. I realize the truth hurts, but you'll just have to deal with it.
Sadly, you have to deal with a bunch of angry addicts who see their perceived "right" to inflict misery and suffering on others in places open to the public being taken away from them and who are very grumpy about it. Their natural reaction is to hurl insults, because in their world it's all about them - and only them - and they think it's somehow okay for them to be able to pollute the air and injure the health of others anywhere they want to go.
"hurl insults," indeed. I suppose you think it's perfectly okay to call people who CHOOSE to use a LEGAL product "addicts," to claim we "injure the health of others," to imply or actually claim we're child abusers or murderers? We don't consider that okay, so if you "hurl insults," expect to get them back. In spades. When you learn how to speak respectfully to your betters, you'll get respect in return.
Although allegedely conservative, they never learned the basic conservative adage: all of your rights end at another person's nose.
Typical closet leftie--you twist a perfectly good adage to your own ends. A TRUE conservative realizes it depends on WHERE that other person's nose is. But if you believe it as you stated it, fine. You step into a ring with Mike Tyson and tell HIM where his rights end.
Idiot.