Posted on 11/15/2002 1:46:24 AM PST by The Raven
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
There's a lot to think about this week--the rise of Nancy Pelosi, the meaning of the Republican triumph--but my thoughts keep tugging toward a group of people who are abused, ostracized and facing a cold winter. It's not right what we do to them, and we should pay attention.
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A feeble attempt at muddying the waters doesn't pass for a counter argument.
I gave my accounting of observed truths, from personal observation.
I don't recall the recounting of your presence.
What are you, thick?
Or a 3-year old child?
Saying the same things over and over again, ignoring the response, doesn't constitute an "argument."
The true mark of a coward.
A simple train conductor, just doing his job on the Auschwitz run, sympathetic perhaps, maybe whispering a little in the locker room, but the public face is bureaucratically neutral.
A dyed-in-the-wool, sniveling, cowardly bureaucrat never makes "a single negative comment."
He just makes the wink and nod, and moves the line along.
Would that include the English Muffins?
After all, there are principles involved here.
Take a number and stand in line, I think they are going after the obese next, guess you will just have to wait your turn. :-}
ROTF......... No doubt she would have lived to 120 had she not smoked.
Now this has got me thiking. What FR needs is a place of ever diminishing size "relegated" to these sniveling busybodies and meddlers. Perhaps they can be assigned to a place outside of the comfort and congeniality of the regular forums. A special, little, well ventilated, forum, set appart just for them to post their mental vomit. Then my tender eyes wouldn't be subjected to reading the trash I find offessive. I think I might start a crusade.
This is a lie. I was born and bred in NYC, and rode the LIRR for years. The smoking car was packed each and every day with people. We were as tightly packed as you were, I assure you. When they banished us from our one little car they claimed "the smoke SEEPS into the other cars." What a crock of BS, especially when you consider what other interesting odors were eminating all over the place.
I never liked living in NYC anyway, and have moved out to the Island. But I'm not far enough away quite yet.
Regards,
An observed truth; You are just as dead if you die at 120 as if you died at 84. And, nobody will rememeber you even existed in 50 years.
It wasn't funny then and it isn't funny now, I am sure you can come up with something better.
I live in Northern Virginia, where we get to view Maryland's public service announcements and saw a very unsettling commercial that aired a few months ago:
A bunch of kids are playing soccer at a park. Outdoors. A man on the sidelines lights up a cigarette. The game stops abruptly. One by one, kids on the field, the referee, people in the stands, turn to stare at him in shock and disgust as if he just murdered his mother with a hatchet. The man looks down in shame, puts out his cigarette, and the soccer game resumes with great joy. Then we hear an announcer tell us to keep Maryland's parks smoke-free.
I felt like I was living in Mao's China!
I see this more and more. It's not enough to just force smokers outside. Now, we have increasingly limited areas where people are allowed to smoke outdoors. Slowly but surely these will become more and more sparse until it's a crime to light up anywhere outside. In Maryland they tried to make it an offense to smoke in your own home if your neighbors decided it bothered them and reported you like good little socialists. Fortunately, people were rightfully outraged, and the law wasn't passed, but I'm sure it's still on a shelf somewhere just waiting to be dusted off and enacted.
I did witness a minor smokers' revolt in Virginia outside an office building. It occurred when the sniper was still on the loose. A few employees were standing outside, smoking between the office building and a couple of pillars they were using as "cover". A security guard informed them that they were supposed to smoke in the designated outdoor area (which was wide out in the open). They told him politely yet firmly to basically go to h3ll, because they weren't interested in becoming sitting duck targets. The security guard understood and agreed with them that they should be allowed to smoke behind the pillars as long as the sniper was still at large, and he left them alone.
First, he didn't equate you to a concentration camp guard, he equated you to the conductor on the train to the camp. The difference is significant but probably lost on you.
Second, what is the "indisputable fact" you stated. I have looked over your posts and find dispute with each. Did I miss a post?
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