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TERRY’S TIDBITS

By Terry Gray

GOVERNMENT BUTTS

Rutland Town bans smoking in parks - Vermont

"By banning smoking in these outside venues where kids are, they eliminate the adult role-modeling," said Moira Cook, Tobacco Control Chief.
http://www.projo.com/ap/ne/1085397204.htm

Suggestion to Ms. Cook:  Go here - http://russia.forces.org/

This is the biggest big-brother Nazi statement that I’ve read to date concerning smoking bans.  I guess comrade Cook would like the government to set all the examples for our kids, removing parents and other adults completely from kids’ upbringings.

This is what happens when the antis get just a little of their agenda accepted.  They become much more aggressive, much like a wild animal tasting blood.  They see any legislation as a portal to more regulation.  Banning smoking in bars and/or restaurants is only the beginning for them.  Bars and restaurants became targets after bans were legislated in other venues.  Initially they went after establishments that were child specific.  This garnered public support which created the popularity wave.  However, the antis overstate the amount of public support for banning smoking in venues frequented by adults.  Most semi-intelligent patriots see through the garbage that the antis publish, and understand that smoking bans are a direct assault on the freedoms of Americans.

At the city council meeting last week, Councilman Hawkin’s proposal for a ban was voted upon.  Four of 26 of the council voted to remove the freedoms of our Louisville businesses from them.  In doing so they also voted to remove the freedoms of the citizens of this community.  These 4 must be removed from office.

Tom Owen (D) – District 8, Tina-Ward Pugh (D) – District 9, George Melton (D) – District 15, and Dan Johnson (D) – District 21 bucked their oath to uphold the constitution and represent the people.

I will be in contact with businesses in those districts, letting them know that traitors represent them in city government; traitors that would sell them out to a group of anti tobacco fanatics – Smoke Free Louisville.  Look at that name again, Smoke Free Louisville.  If this group was only intent on protecting us against second-hand smoke, they would call themselves Second Hand Smoke Free Louisville.  Their actual agenda is to remove tobacco from our community.

There is another ban ordinance on the council’s agenda.  This one is sponsored by George Melton (D) – District 15.  This one wants to remove smoking from child care centers.  I guess that isn’t too bad, we must protect the children you know.  But aren’t most if not all child care centers already smoke free?  So what’s the point?  The point is that Melton’s ordinance also bans smoking in restaurants.  See how this works?  Let’s protect the children and while we are at it let’s attack free enterprise.  Ah, I found a liberal agenda, using kids to walk all over the rights of responsible adults. 

Kids don’t pay the bills, Melton.  Kids don’t keep restaurants in business, unless you consider McDonald’s a restaurant.  Kids don’t make decisions about where the family goes to eat, at least not in a functional family that recognizes parental control.  Kids will likely choose McDonald’s over Joe’s Dine and Drink.  But if a kid should make the decision to go to Joe’s D&D, the parents, in their wisdom should steer the kid to a healthier venue.  Of course if the kid is telling the parents where to go for dinner, the kid must have the upper hand.  Maybe he prefers cigarette smoke and great burgers to Mickie D’s.

Melton’s ordinance would also forever banish innocent ashtrays from public places.  Beware of ashtrays!  This little tidbit has been struck down all over the country as ridiculous.  Melton must not read the papers.

It is interesting that Melton, a city employee, wants to ban smoking from private businesses when the city has ordinances protecting the rights of city employees to smoke in city buildings.

City Ordinance 39.101 allows city department directors to develop smoking directives in their city departments.

City Ordinance 39.100 allows smoking areas with ventilation in city buildings.

City Ordinance 39.103 calls for signage in areas that allow smoking and for there to be no less than one smoking area per building.

Not only does the city protect the right to smoke in city buildings, it lays guidelines for the minimum that can be accepted in terms of smoking venues.  Not only does the city afford this protection; it condones ventilation as a viable clean-air tool.  The city doesn’t recognize ventilation for private businesses.  The city condones signage for smoking areas in city buildings.  I’ve been calling for signage for private businesses for quite some time.  The city doesn’t recognize signage as a viable option for private businesses.  The city allows its department heads to make smoking policies in city buildings, without the option of banning smoking.  It does not allow private business owners to make their own decisions.

I’ve asked Melton to step down; he is old and out of touch.  How many of you in District 15 feel that he represents your values?  What will he take from you next?  Leave him in office or exercise your right to vote and let this man rest in peace.

Next week the city council will probably vote on Melton’s ordinance. (Note:  The vote on Melton’s ordinance has been postponed until June 16^th at 4:00.)  Stay home if you don’t mind oppression in this community or come to the council meeting and express your disgust at a flagrant disregard for the freedoms that we are due, deserve, and expect.

I thought I was done with this piece.  But in the words of my daughter when she was 8, “Gosh Darn it Dad.”

Some cities in this country have outlawed smoking in public parks and on beaches.  They have two primary reasons for doing this.  One is the example that smoking in public sets for kids.  The other is litter.  Cigarettes butts are everywhere.  We can’t have that.

How are we setting bad examples for children by smoking?  A better question is, why is smoking considered so bad as to warrant a frenzy of obnoxious, unethical, and fanatical behavior on the part of groups of little busy bees?  Drinking can send a negative message.  Living beyond one’s means is devastating to future generations.  Butting into someone else’s business go against our 4^th amendment.  War is no picnic.  Smoking is an easy target and profitable for those fighting tobacco.  It boils down to the simple statement, “Follow the money.”

Singapore is known as one of the cleanest cities in the world.  There is little litter.  Cigarette butts and chewing gum wrappers are almost non-existent.  Later this year it will once again be legal to buy chewing gum in Singapore.  Hey American gum lovers, hold on to your Beechnuts.

   “No one will ever question if the winner told the truth.”  Adolph Hitler  

FIFTY MILLION GUN OWNERS DIDN’T MURDER ANYONE TODAY!

That isn’t a headline that one hears every day.  The press doesn’t like the truth when it butts heads with liberal values.  What is a liberal value?  I partially answered that in the above piece.

We seldom hear about how many families were saved by the use of firearms.  We seldom hear about the fact that most police officers support our right to arm ourselves.  We seldom hear about the store owner that defends himself and takes out armed robbers.  We do hear about the jerk with an automatic weapon going on a rampage. 

Our “armed” services have guns.  Our soldiers are average Americans that took on the role of defending us.  Defense is the operative word here.  I will use whatever means at my disposal to defend myself and my family.  Our police are armed to defend us.

          “…the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be abridged,” second amendment of the Bill of Rights.

Below is a link that has a few stories of average citizens letting the 2^nd amendment work for them.  They are alive today, as are their families, because they defended themselves with guns.  I think liberals should remain unarmed, robbers and murderers like easy pickings.  Their jobs are much easier when the victim is an unarmed victim.  Personally I prefer a smoking gun in my hand to a shallow grave.

NRA – Armed Citizen

http://www.nrapublications.org/armed%20citizen/index.asp

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW – The movie.

I haven’t seen it, and I won’t see it.  It is propaganda using terror as a force to support tree huggers.  Well, basically.  It uses junk science in order to promote social engineering.  Where have we heard that one before?  I’m sick to death of liberals.  No, I’m more than sick to death of liberals.  They are a threat to my country.  Hang ‘em.

In the movie, the laws of physics are ignored.  I’ll just mention one.  Hail the size of canned hams rains down on us humans.  The reason hail falls is because of its weight.  Severe storms with upper level tornadic winds will support a hail stone of softball size proportions, sometimes.  Gravity takes over after that.  No wind known will suspend ice formations long enough to allow them to become the size of canned hams.  I guess if one did away with the can it is possible that Mother Nature would allow a very small unprotected ham to form.  But who wants a ham that has crashed through a neighbor’s house without any kind of wrapping?  I guess we could trade them to Iraq for oil.

Stupid piece, huh?  Well so is the movie.  But this country just loves those fictional reality shows that pop up everywhere.  Which reminds me, if I was on the show Survivor on the remote island of Makeebelievee and I was hungry, I would demand to know what the film crew and the rest of the staff were eating?  They would throw me off Makeebelievee in a heart beat for being a survivor.

WINNERS, WHINERS EVERYWHERE

Do you know the difference between a dead psychologist in the road and a dead skunk in the road?  The skunk has skid marks in front of it.

I truly believe that psychologists are a result of child abuse – every last one of them.  No one with a mind that thinks like theirs could have come from a functional family.

When, in the history of man, have both sides in a contest been winners?  It doesn’t happen.  What transpires may be beneficial to a degree and both sides may get something from the exchange, but one side is always ahead of the game.  It is the nature of the human beast.  In many cases, both sides lose.  I guess this can be equated with fairness.

I’m speaking of soccer etc. without scores.  The deal is never closed; the paperwork is never done.  The only winners are those given “boo-boo lollipops.”  It must be an S and M thingy. 

Competition is healthy and without a clear outcome, competition is hollow.  It is like building a house and the thing crashing down on you.  It is like voting and no one winning.  “What was my role in this activity?”

We used to call whining losers “bad losers”.  It was as simple as that.  Losing well is part of life, and good sportsmanship cannot be taught without a healthy, hefty dose of winning and losing.

What happened to a coach telling his team, “You played hard and I’m proud of you?  The other team just played better.  They practiced harder and wanted to win just a little more.  Now let’s LEARN from this and improve our skills by working harder.”  We were always taught that losing well was just as important as winning.  We were taught that losing well was more important than winning badly.

When we don’t have losers, we don’t know how to deal with life.  We don’t understand the true concept of fairness, contrary to what psychologists tell us.  We learn to believe that it is unfair if our perceived entitlement is not realized. 

New Jersey just passed a law against “Ladies Night.”  Some schmuck decided to sue for his equal entitlement.  He was paying full price for drinks while discount drinks for ladies lured them in.  This guy would complain if you sprayed him down with “freshly-killed-rabbit scent and turned him loose in a field of grizzly bears.  Hey, that isn’t a bad idea.  Frankly, I like “Ladies Night”.  It brings out the babes in droves.  This guy never scored a goal in soccer, so he never learned to score at all.  Sorry about your luck bud, but leave the field alone; the rest of us are quite content to play the game the way it was meant to be played.

ABE’S WORDS

I want all of you to remember that what pleasure of someone else’s you ban today can very easily open the door to banning a pleasure of yours.

“When men take it in their heads today, to hang gamblers, or burn murderers, they should recollect, that, in the confusion usually attending such transactions, they will be as likely to hang or burn someone, who is neither a gambler nor a murderer as one who is; and that, acting upon the example they set, the mob of tomorrow, may, and probably will, hang or burn some of them, by the very same mistake.”  Abraham Lincoln.    

DWARFING THE FDA

These folks now want to regulate tobacco.  Is there anyone else that would like to jump on the anti-tobacco bandwagon while it is still popular?  This is multi-billion dollar industry and as normal, the leeches follow the money.

Last time I wrote about the FDA not allowing the-morning-after pill to be sold over-the-counter.  That isn’t the job of the FDA.  They are not moral babysitters, or are they?  Do they have the authority?  Now they are in control of a drug that can make kids grow.  First of all, why are we worried about kids growing up to be short adults?  They take up less room on a crowded planet.  Smaller adults eat less.  Smaller adults are comfortable in smaller cars which consume less gas.  Hell, jockeys are little people.  What does the FDA have against jockeys?  Who will ride the horses?

The FDA is making guidelines for how short a kid must be before he may receive this growth drug.  I think this takes social engineering to a new level.  But more importantly, it empowers the FDA far beyond their authority.

Just think, without the FDA we’d have a bunch of very tall, promiscuous teen age girls running around the country, but no jockeys.

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