FDA The Despot Of Death & The Despot Of Living

Ann Althouse led me to this page on the FDA website:

How about we post photographs and other imagery on different government sites warning of what too much government means to the people. Oh, there are the usual images from Russia, Germany, China, North Korea, Iran and others, but then there are also images of desolation, despondency and other results of desperate lives resulting from over regulation from over powerful governments.

But then some freak from the bureaucratically engineered society known as government will weep as they explain it is all for the children. At least for those children that survived government encouraged and paid for abortions. Logic only shows that those children won't need such warnings.

Second Hand Scent

They got the smokers.

Now.

Detroit Clamping Down on Employee Scents
City officials in Detroit say workers at three city buildings will soon have to monitor their scents or face possible warnings.
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The new regulations are the result of the city's settlement of a 2008 lawsuit filed by a city planner, who claimed she had breathing sensitivity due to a co-worker's perfume.

Whatever you like is next.

Must Be An Episcopal

Bishop says people should be able to have sex, smoke in their private office

No word on Clinton endorsement. Yet.

Nicotine Addiction Will Fuel Democrat Addiction To Spending

Congress today passed a bill expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, allocating an additional $32.8 billion in funding for the program over the next four and a half years. President Barack Obama plans to sign the bill into law in a White House ceremony later this afternoon.
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The measure, which passed the House by a vote of 290-135, including 40 Republicans supporting it, calls for a 62-cent increase in the federal tax on cigarettes, bringing the total tax to $1 per pack.

As with most addictions, like blue dress babies in the Oval Office, Obama could just not wait to get his fix. And I am not talking about smoking in the boys room even though I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that boy could hot box a butt in one drag.

Obama's five-day rule: Broken again
Yet one of Obama's campaign promises -- the "Sunlight Before Signing" pledge -- was that he would not sign any non-emergency bills without offering the public five days to review and comment on the legislation.

Just tell the children that the addictions of others will pay for them. Isn't that like the drug dealer on the corner who justifies his trade by saying that the people need it and he's just filling a need?. Now there's a message we should all give our kids. What's next, government pimping to stop global warming?

Does that make Obama the 'sunlight' messiah or the main man, the pusher?

If you can't lie no better.........

Low Fuel Cost Bad. Who The Hell Is This Putz Talking To?

Ah, the greenies who love rumor, fake science and scare tactics that will make a profit for them.

Lutz: Cheap gas would be bad
Lutz was pretty clear-eyed about what the recent dip in gas prices could mean: "We may hate high fuel prices, but they've been driving us in the right direction when it comes to fuel economy. If we suddenly went to $1 or $1.50 a gallon, that would be really bad."

Damn, if their formula is correct all we have to do is triple the cost of food to cure obesity. They're trying it with tobacco. Well, triple costs mixed with draconian restrictions have produced stinky airplanes and restaurants where one can smell the grease better which thankfully covers up the really stinky perfumes and colognes.

Those chicken littles are always thinking of us.

Smoking Kills Gays Who Kill Free Speech?

From Terry Frank

Ryan Sorba has authored a book called the Born Gay Hoax. He was invited by the Smith College Republicans to deliver a speech that was promptly interrupted by gay activists who climbed through the windows. They eventually overtook the podium and college officials called off the speech.

While the medical consensus is that smoking knocks from two to
10 years off an individual’s life expectancy, the IJE study found that
homosexual conduct shortens the lifespan of “gays” by an astounding “8 to 20
years” — more than twice that of smoking.

“[U]nder even the most liberal assumptions,” concluded the study,
“gay and bisexual men in this urban centre are now experiencing a life
expectancy similar to that experienced by all men in Canada in the year 1871. …
[L]ife expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less
than for all men.”

I don't smoke anymore, but I will not deny that I enjoyed smoking immensely and I am happily married. Does that mean I get to add 10 to 30 years onto my life?

Epidemiological studies are scientific plastic surgery. One gets what one wants, but it's obvious to others.

Smoke, 2nd Hand Smoke And Self Rightous Smugness Kills Truth

Smoking Ban Hits French Cafe Culture

France Consigns Smoky Cafes to History Under Broadening Smoking Ban

But many bartenders and restaurant staffers are looking forward to breathing easier and to clothes that don't stink of seeped-in odors from the clouds of smoke where they work.

Who ever wrote this crap either has never worked in a restaurant or is more than willing to bend the truth to make a point they believe worth making. Either way, well meaning or not, they are a liar.

As one who has worked in many restaurants it is with no effort I can re-smell garlic, yeast, oregano, fish, burned butter, oil and meat or the incredible mix of foods smashed onto the floor that needs to be scrapped up, hosed out and disposed of at the end of the working night. These are the smells, mixed with smoke, spilled beer and booze, one goes home with after a night working in a restaurant. Well, these things mixed with B.O., perfume, cheap cologne and bad breath.

“Seeped-in odors from clouds of smoke”? Yeah, right.

Was it that rough scaling Iwo Jima to single handedly hunt down and kill that paper-hanging sonofabitch in Berlin?

I hate drama queens.

Paris Ain't Smokin Hot Anymore

The ban on smoking in cafés in France seems to signal a cultural
shift toward a more wholesome, modern and adaptable image.
(Richard Harbus for the International Herald Tribune)



Will the smoking ban in France mean the end of café society?

Having enjoyed their cafes for years and observing the unique culture of the cafes I would say, yes. Others will say, 'so what', and be happy that another menace to society has been stopped.

I do not look forward to the "perfect" world we are building toward. Nobody offended, nobody endangered and everyone healthy. The truly intriguing cities such as Prague, Shanghai, Paris, New Orleans, Rio and Hamburg, to name a very few, will cease to exist as they become just another cookie cutter rebranded product of our "new and better" society.

The old sad, sick, selfish cultures that brought us smoking also brought us great art, jazz, the Blues, rock and roll, poetry and great authors and playwrights will change as well. Will the next Edgar Allen Poe or Willie Dixon come from a starbuck environment? I doubt it. This new culture would turn a black chanteuse such as Ella Fitzgerald white and have her sing like a Joni Mitchell.

How incredibly sad and boring.

Liberal Polls Don't Lie

Only corporate and conservative polls lie, because liberals love the children, puppies and everything good in God's their world.

Want more programs, just find a down trodden group. Such as more programs for education even though with all the new programs children are falling behind in the three "R's". Sex education is going swimmingly and children know more about lesser figures in history because of the color of the figure's skin or their sex, not their deeds. To fit all this "important" information in just cut real history, english and the sciences including math. No matter, because now we'll have well-rounded children that can't balance a checkbook, fill out a job application or invent truly life enhancing products and processes. After all, a child that doesn't know the basics will be supported by the government, but a child that doesn't understand multiculturalism is down trodden.

Want to raise taxes, raise them for the children. If the current children's programs might appear a tad over financed to the voters then find a new program for the children. In this case, the liberals are getting two birds with one stone, possibly three. More money, more program and more government power. This is a liberal triple play.

Tax Increase on Tobacco Gains Support in Congress
Recently, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids presented to House
Democratic aides a survey it funded that showed substantial support -- even
among smokers -- for raising tobacco taxes.

Wow! Give the government and its bureaucracy more power to control save us from ourselves, more people on the public dole, grow a government program and take more taxes from us. All for the children!

This is where polling comes in. If a liberal special interest group funds a survey, it is gospel. Would a gospel lie about smokers wanting smokes taxed more? Of course not, it's gospel.

Who says liberals ain't got no religion?

New York Nannies Normalizing Denormalizing - Smoking

CIGGIES MAKE KIDS CARSICK: QNS. POL

"We want to continue to fight to
denormalize smoking," the Queens Democrat said yesterday.

Council Seeks New Ban on Smoking by Parents in Cars

If enacted, smoking in cars with riders under the age of 18 would join a growing list of activities barred by the city, including making too much noise at night, serving trans fats in restaurants, and allowing students to carry cell phones in school.

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Mr. Gennaro's proposal calls for fines of $200 to $400 for a first
smoking violation, $500 to $1,000 for a second violation in a single year, and
between $1,000 and $2,000 for a third violation in a year. The New York Police
Department would get the task of enforcing the law.

I know smoking is bad for one's health and I smoke. I also drive fast, eat what I like and drink, but the whole secondhand smoke danger is based on junk science.

Many people do not like the smell of cigarette smoke. With those people I sympathize because for years non-smokers had little option in public places to get away from cigarette smoke and this was wrong and unfair.

Today local, state and nations governments desperate to show their uncontained compassion enact overreaching laws that are unnecessary, wrong and based on crap science. Should the owner of a private enterprise be told that patrons are banned from smoking a legal product in their place of business? No. Should the owner of a private enterprise be allowed to ban smoking in their place of business? Absolutely.

The legislature here in Ohio working hand-in-hand with that great republican Bob Taft enacted a statewide ban on smoking in public places. My wife and I enjoyed going out to lunch and dinner, especially since our children were grown and we had a little extra money and time. Many times I would telephone my wife and ask her out for a drink before heading home for dinner. No more. You do the math, average 3 times a week that we would have a lunch together, a dinner out and stop for a drink or some combination. Now we stay home and have friends over, but for how much longer before our compassionate leaders step the ban up to include abodes such and such feet apart.

Now these people are going after soft drinks, how we cook our food, banning perfume and on and on. Maybe next they'll ban bowling in a bowling alley because the bowling balls are a potential danger. The good Lord knows they have denormalized religion.

One of my sisters, a professor, told me that she couldn't wait for tobacco products to be banned completely. When I agreed she was surprised. Her smug smile went away when I explained that when they tried that with booze our uncle made a fortune smuggling and selling booze which is how his children got to go to Princeton. All tuition prepaid.

Let's see, a small step van, 2 trips a week......