Posted on 01/19/2006 4:34:38 PM PST by qam1
Here is a thumbs-down to the Smokefree D.C. do-gooders and the D.C. Council, which voted 11-1 in favor of a smoking ban that begins next year.
I am thinking of starting a Do-Gooder-free D.C. because of the scientifically proven study that shows freedom-hating do-gooders cause high blood pressure in others.
There is nothing like a smug, arrogant, condescending know-it-all to get the eyes rolling up in the back of your head. The city, unfortunately, is awash in this character type.
These self-important nitwits seem to think they know what is best for the masses and then pat themselves on the head after they have achieved their mission.
"It is a great day for everyone who works in or patronizes a bar or restaurant in the District of Columbia," said one of the co-founders of the nut-job group after 11 morally superior council members imposed legislation that mocks the celebrated individual liberties of a nation.
Sorry. It did not come across as a great day. It came across as just another amusing day in the bluest of blue precincts.
Really, I would prefer to have a Carbon Monoxide-Free D.C.
Or a Rat-Free D.C.
Or a Gang-Free D.C.
Or a Lead-Free D.C.
Or a Cholesterol-Free D.C.
Or a Body Odor-Free D.C.
Or an Ice Cream-Free D.C.
Or a Starbucks-Free D.C.
I can think of all kinds of practices and things that could be eliminated before I would be concerned with a smoky bar stuffed with drunks at midnight.
I would argue it is the right of the smoking town drunk to be a smoking town drunk, just as it is the right of servers to work in an establishment that caters to smoking town drunks.
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I guess you've never had to wait for a bus on a busy road. Get to suck in a lot of fumes then.
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Oh I've been in that situation...on many ocassions. One of the reasons I don't need to "suck" it in unecessarily.
And your "allowance" trumps property rights, huh?
Smokers are too late to the property rights argument.
Where were they when ADA was forced upon all restaurant owners? Silent....
When you drive by people on the street they are forced to suck your fumes,
Meanwhile, nobody is forceing you to go to a restaurant/bar where smoking is going on
The Liberal Left and spineless Republicans have destroyed NYS in my lifetime.
Yes you have
What are we going to do about it?
The smart ones leave, you stay there and enjoy your Liberal Nanny State Utopia
Property rights? Go smoke your brains out on your own property...just don't let that exhaust waft over to my side of the fence.
What you said! Good job.
What you said! Good job.
I'm personally offended by carbon dioxide. Stop breathing when you're around me.
You support initiating force/harm on people that are minding their own business -- they forced no one into their business. Every person entered of their own free will/choice.
Free association. The right to associate with whomever you chose so long as they too agree to associate with you.
You support initiating harm/force against innocent people.
You are one of two things:
1) Ignorant.
2) A parasite.
Which are you? You chose.
Meanwhile, nobody is forceing you to go to a restaurant/bar where smoking is going on
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And that is how it should be.
As for the rest of your smart alecky response...smokers' rights is not at the top of my priorities. Infanticide, extorrtionist taxes, homo marriage, etc are.
I really don't care about the smokers out there...as long as their exhaust stays away from me.
Meanwhile, nobody is forceing you to go to a restaurant/bar where smoking is going on
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And that is how it should be.
As for the rest of your smart alecky response...smokers' rights is not at the top of my priorities. Infanticide, extorrtionist taxes, homo marriage, etc are.
I really don't care about the smokers out there...as long as their exhaust stays away from me.
I would say both but that's just me. LOL
My I suggest that you are both: ignorant and a parasite.
Bull. If that were the case, why didn't cancer rates skyrocket back in the day when everyone smoked?
My parents smoked all over the place when I was a kid. People even smoked in grocery stores.
And shockingly enough, there are no epidemic lung cancer scenarios from second hand smoke.
Curious.
FWIW, all the restaurants I have been in here in SE Michigan have smoking sections which successfully accomodate smokers with excellent ventilation systems. I have NEVER been able to detect smoke in the non smoking sections.
But yet you Fers are never satisfied. Got news for you sport, your favorite bar that ultimately succumbs to a smoking ban will be destined to going out of business.
For some reason I suspect that you really don't care because it doesn't concern you. You will merely try to find another bar to drop into once in a while not really giving a ratsass for the neighborhood bars that will also go out of business and that you would never ever think of dropping into.
Kinda like Democraps and their love of flyover country.........Not!
FWIW, all the restaurants I have been in here in SE Michigan have smoking sections which successfully accomodate smokers with excellent ventilation systems. I have NEVER been able to detect smoke in the non smoking sections.
But yet you Fers are never satisfied. Got news for you sport, your favorite bar that ultimately succumbs to a smoking ban will be destined to going out of business.
For some reason I suspect that you really don't care because it doesn't concern you. You will merely try to find another bar to drop into once in a while not really giving a ratsass for the neighborhood bars that will also go out of business and that you would never ever think of dropping into.
Kinda like Democraps and their love of flyover country.........Not!
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