[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BUMP

[Clemenza]

I was in Chi-Town visiting my alma mater (a certain school on the South Side) on Friday. Such a shame that a great city where the "smoke filled" jazz club reached its apogee has become almost as annoyingly granola as Seattle.

[martin_fierro]

Come to Kalifornia.

This Workers' Paradise has extended the smoking ban to certain outdoor public parks and beaches.

[Onelifetogive]

I am conflicted about this issue. We live under a Federal system of government. While I think the laws they are passing are stupid, and should be unconstitutional if passed by Congress, I think states (and by extension, counties and cities, etc) should be allowed to pass things like this, as long as its kosher within the state Constitution. Anyone who objects, can find another state.

[snarks_when_bored]

Men and women whose sole occupation it is to make rules and laws are going to make rules and laws until the rule-bestridden, law-bestridden populace says, "Enough!"

[sargon]

Fabian (creeping) socialism bump...

I don't care whether the Marxists who support such Tyrannical law are well-meaning or not.

Ultimately, they, like their authoritarian counterparts on the poltical right, are about the task of minimizing human freedom, not maximizing it.

And that is as unAmerican as it gets: with majority Tyranny (unrestrained democracy), Freedom is inevitable reduced. And this is something the Founders warned about aand despised, as well as 19th century visitors like de Tocqueville.

Marxist authoritarianism was truly the scourge of the 20th century, and will become a bigger threat than Islamic extremism in the 21st century.

Long after the Islamofascists have been obliterated (and they will be, at a terrible cost), Socialism (which is inherently Marxist, and which Karl Marx himself said is "the road to Communism") will continue to be the same collective, murderous threat that it was in the last century...

[decimon]

The truth is that holding a conversation on a cellphone while driving is no more distracting than talking to a passenger, tuning the radio or adjusting the rear-view mirror.

I disagree with that part. The cellphone conversation demands your immediate and continued attention as the other activities do not.

[Gabz]

Nanny State Ping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blackirish]

making it illegal to smoke cigarettes — a legal substance — in any bar or restaurant within city limits

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You can still smoke in a lot of bars.

[KeyLargo]

King Daley decided to skip out on the illegal alien march and instead is vacationing in Israel with Maggie (Ms Petunia)of Meigs Airport destruction fame.

[DMZFrank]

Chicago and Cook County is a one party Soviet State, just like the old evil empire. To make matters worse, the GOP here is non existant or supine.

[nightdriver]

I couldn't agree with Mr. Hoenig more.

BTTT!