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Adult Stores, Threatened With Huge Fines, Vow to Remain Open
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| November 19, 2001
| Rick Sarlat
Posted on 11/19/2001 12:38:13 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Dataman
Man has a higher nature and a lower brutish nature. I'm terribly sorry that you have given yourself, body and soul, to the latter in order to indulge your desire to control others.
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posted on
11/20/2001 7:30:49 AM PST
by
steve-b
To: joathome
And yet, my community has decided to allow casinos, only a few short blocks from my home, which pisses me off to no end - The easiest way for me to deal with it (no pun intended) is to avoid it. I don't go there and I don't patronize it, but apparently many people in my community do, so it's not my place to force my anti-gambling morality on the rest of my community. People have a choice - to go there or not - I choose not. Pretty simple.
To: joathome
Did they fall out of the sky? No. Who knows where they came from - probably leftists who didn't have a job, until someone appointed them to one...
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To: wirestripper
I was born and raised in South Arkansas and 40 yrs ago even Playboy was not easily available. Of course, my county was dry too (Ashley) so we had to go to the local bootleggers, across the Ouachita bridge or across the Louisiana border to Bastrop for booze. Ashley county is still dry though the Country Club does not lack for drink.
To: joathome
And there, again, a little gambling over a poker game in one's living room is not the same thing.And a little law violation is OK as long as you hide it from the nosey? Most gambling laws I know of cover all gambling including the "friendly" home game. Do you condone doing anything you want as long as you don't get caught? Sounds like it from your post.
To: All-American Medic
Just wanted to let you know I wholeheartedly agree with you comments in #173!!!
Hope you have a great holiday!!!
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posted on
11/20/2001 7:41:20 AM PST
by
Neets
To: Harrison Bergeron
I hereby volunteer for the position of Official Ladies Underwear Inspector. All in violation will have to accompany me to the back room for conference.
To: FreePaul
Two brothers gambling over a deck of cards was probably never against the law. (And certainly not for the amount they gambled over! LOL)
To: FreePaul
OK...well thats real nice. I still don't want to see the places near any neighborhood. I don't care who frequents them. Its just another thing that erodes morality in general and the more people don't have a problem with it the worse it gets. I don't condone pornography and never will.
To: joathome
Tell that to the Baptists... as a born and raised Baptist, I can tell you that playing cards was a no-no, as was dancing, swearing, smoking, and making love standing up (someone might see us, and think we were dancing)...
Most Gambling Laws covered just that - gambling, whether it was in the home or not...
To: Chad Fairbanks
Growing up in south Louisiana, I doubt that a little wager over a poker game or bridge was illegal. After all, bingo was legal. :)
To: joathome
Doesn't sound like you know for sure, though - it could have been, but people have a habit of flaunting laws they don't agree with... human nature... besides, bingo was overlooked because it was most likely a church function...
To: culpeper
As long as you know what constitutes pornography I guess you're safe from the evils in this mean old world.
To: joathome
Two brothers gambling over a deck of cards was probably never against the law.You might be surprised. In some places it is. I know of people who have been raided and arrested in their homes when they had friends over for regular poker games. Someone who looses or has some other grudge turns them in. If the local cops need some publicity they may get raided. Penalties for "maintaining a gambling establishment" can be pretty stiff.
To: OneidaM
Thanks...Great minds think alike!!!! LOL...Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well!!!!!!
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To: joathome
Would a community be entitled to ban a group of people watching someone dance lewdly for free, behind closed doors?
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posted on
11/20/2001 8:52:11 AM PST
by
slhill
To: slhill
If it's a regular, recurring event in town, I would say, probably, yes. On the other hand, if two couples decide to play strip poker for their own "enjoyment", no.
You know, you can all scream about "the moralists" all you want, but it was the strong family values, and yes, morals, that made this nation the great nation that it is. And we won't be the ones responsible for it's decline.
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