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Not so morning links
Friday, August 15th, 2008These are almost morning links in the way that Upper Peninsula island internet access is almost reliable. I’m catching up after 18 hours of downtime.
Spirits writer Paul Clarke tells you what you need to know about vermouth
Latte art makes the WSJ front page
Michael Siegel debunks Los Angeles’ proposed outdoor smoking ban
NYC may ban texting while driving
Banning beer pong. And why not water pong, while we’re at it?
Seattle police say that patrolling world’s largest pro-pot rally not stressful. Well, duh.
Virginia Postrel and Kate Coe launch Deep Glamour blog
“It is now clear that this is part of a new agenda (one that I never thought was part of the movement) to extend smoking bans beyond workplaces, restaurants, bars, and other places where there is substantial exposure. The movement is now to virtually ban all smoking outside of the home, so that no nonsmoker ever has to even see a smoker in public.”
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And this is when people open their eyes. Activists of all manner, but specifically the ones who want to control the lives of others, take it by baby steps. Anti-smoking crusaders and animal rights activists all share the same boat.
Step 1: Determine that something is bad for you. Smoking as an example.
Step 2: Protect others by wanting legislation (enforcement at the point of a gun) that bans smoking worldwide.
Step 3: Banning smoking worldwide will never pass at this point. Let’s go for a workplace ban.
Step 4: Workplace ban successful. Let’s move it now to government controlled buildings and areas. I.e., public areas.
Step 5: We have control over the government areas. Now lets move into the private sector like restaurants and bars. It’s okay to stomp on property rights as long as they aren’t my property rights.
Step 6: And now finally, every area belongs to the public. The goal of banning smoking worldwide is almost complete.
You know here in Wisconsin, there are a couple of cities that have banned smoking from restaurants and bars. Some of these establishments have closed their doors because they cannot compete with taverns and restaurants outside the city limits. Now the state is looking at banning smoking in these establishments state-wide to “level the playing field”.
Listen up, you anti-smoking fucktards. If you want to go to partake of an establishment that doesn’t allow smoking and you cannot find one, that means there is a viable market for YOU TO START SUCH A BUSINESS!
But you would prefer to hold a gun to the property owner’s head (not you personally, you’re too cowardly, you’d rather send in the jackbooted thug enforcers of the state) and force them to adhere to your dictates even though you have no risk or investment in the business.
Oh yeah, and I cook my foods in animal fat.
Lying is the is the cornerstone of all health and safety groups.Whether it’s GM foods,trans fat,smoking,DUI laws,obesity,’organic foods’,oil drilling,atomic energy,the war on drugs,ect the bigger the lie the better.Repeat the lies over and always accuse your detractors of being evil.Always stick to the taking points and never admit error.Even good news should be treated as one step on the road to perfection.Take outrageous acts by one or a few and shape an all expansive law around it.If the victim is cute ,pretty or a child,all the better.
Whatever happened to the bad driver? There are now only “impaired” or “influenced” drivers. It seems we can support bans on just about anything by blaming tragic car accidents on whatever the driver at fault was doing just prior to causing it. If I were an anti-gun nut looking to make an end run around the Constitution, I would pay people to slam into school buses while cleaning guns behind the wheel. Look at what “Think of the children” lobbying has done for MADD in their unending battle against alcohol and the Bill of Rights. “A vote against random sobriety checkpoints is a vote against the children!” It is only a matter of time before “Mothers Against Cell Driving” springs up and convinces Congress to allow random checkpoints where police can check your phone for signs of recent texting, all for the sake of the poor children.