Dying for daddy
Submitted by James on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 9:05am
The smoking battle in the Senate generated some nominations for Quote of the Week. First, a good one from Mark Binker, reacting to pro-smoking lunacy from a market extremist who's dumber than a stump.
Says Binker:
Right. Because if you smoke and get a disease and it kills you, you're not a strain in the entitlement system. (Coming next week, a bill to require all those with chronic diseases to take up bear wrestling, sky diving and live porcupine swallowing.)
Then this from that oh-so-good Democratic stalwart Doug Berger, who voted against a strong smoking bill in honor of his daddy. That's a good one Doug. Honor thy father by making sure that lots of people get sick and die in his name.
From
PhilorDougBerger:
(Pardon my confusion. It's getting hard to tell the two apart.)My daddy worked hard, but he also played hard. He wasn't a member of the country club. In the country club, folks are going to be able to smoke. He went down, Sen. Rucho, to the 'Little Brown Jug' after he did a hard days work. When this bill passes, he wouldn't be able to smoke there, while the folks who were over there in the bank, and they go to the country club up there in Johnston County, they'll be able to able to smoke and I just don't think that's right.
I like it when Binker gets snarky, and I wish more reporters would let loose with what they really think. He shows that a journalist can report honestly about anything, and still have critical opinions.
At least on a blog.
My own daddy
was a lifelong smoker. I wish I could have passed a bill making it harder for him to kill himself. At least mama made him smoke outside.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
Don't understand why legislators are so quick to
protect cigarette smoking but still are against the legalization of Marijuana. Although since President Obama's online town hall meeting where he only half-ass addressed the marijuana question there has been lots of conversation about it. Makes me hopeful.
Cigarette smoking kills, marijuana has medicinal properties....is up really down now?
Up really is Down
This is the United States, remember? We don't have rule by reason, we have rule by brute force. Whatever you can get 50% of voters to believe about your puppet candidate - bam - pass whatever laws you want!
I recall something about the passage of a constitutional amendment with respect to alcohol prohibition - so why wasn't the Constitution amended to permit the federal government from banning other substances? Duh! Because they could care less about the "legal" (i.e. mythical) limits on their power. They'll simply do whatever they want to because the American public will just take it. Yes, we'll continue to take it. The state, run by the ruling class oligarchs, will continue to treat you like serf. Don't worry, they know what's best for you, and they will use force if necessary to ensure compliance. It's like insane people - we're allowed to use force against them in order to protect themselves. Except now, we (the peasants) all carry a presumption of incompetence.
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"The natural wage of labor is its product." -- Benjamin R. Tucker
A liberal is someone who thinks the system is broken and needs to be fixed, whereas a radical understands it’s working the way it’s supposed to.
So Dr. Q.....
are you out on a weekend pass?
Very funny.
LOL
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
no comprende
Are you making reference to military service? I hope not! If you are talking about mental institutions - trust me - they don't give out weekend passes. At least not for those of us with "paranoid delusions" that the government is intercepting all of our electronic communications, poisoning our water, and permitting the harmful genetic modification of our food supply.
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"The natural wage of labor is its product." -- Benjamin R. Tucker
A liberal is someone who thinks the system is broken and needs to be fixed, whereas a radical understands it’s working the way it’s supposed to.
Well, they won't be able to smoke there for long ...
at the Johnston Country Club, that is. Not close to the situation but I heard it's going public ....
"They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum Then they charged the people a dollar 'n a half just to see 'em. Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."