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Terry’s Tidbits

By Terry Gray

Like Freedom?  Make Noise.

April 25, 2005

Appleton Wisconsin

          A new ordinance in this sleepy little town will make it illegal to carry tobacco paraphernalia in restaurants, bars, and etc.  Carrying matches will cost a “criminal” $125.00.  How’s that for constitutional America?

Papal Color Commentators

          The media was all over it immediately. 

          Doug:  “Roger, why do you think the bells malfunctioned when the smoke was working fine?”

          Roger:  “Doug I can only tell you this for sure, I imagine that an excited Bell Ringer was scrambling to get to the bells as fast as he could.  We don’t really know which Bell Ringer was responsible for ringing the bell or which Bell Ringer actually rang it.  We don’t even know for sure that it was a Bell Ringer.”

          Doug:  “Roger that sure puts a different twist on things doesn’t it?  Will they attribute this sideline error to the Cardinals on the field or do you think they will put it right back in the laps of the Vatican Bell Ringer Union?”

          Roger:  “Well Doug, there has been some weakening of the Vatican Bell Ringer Union this year after Cardinals went on strike in support of free Cardinal agency.  Hey, here’s our Vatican analyst now…”

          I was dumbfounded.  For a moment I thought that the Pope might have died.

Lost and… Found?

          I don’t get it.  This is the first time that I’ve ever considered that Mayor Jerry was telling the truth and he tries to get out of it by lying.

          He was caught red-handed telling WHAS radio that Councilman Dan Johnson is between lost and found.  Mayor Jerry insists that he didn’t mean it the way it came out and he wasn’t talking about Johnson.

          As we all know, Mayor Jerry is the smooth talking politician who probably can’t check his own oil.  He is useless in all but the gift of gab so how did this snafu happen?  HE WAS CAUGHT.  He said it.  Lying about it won’t erase what we heard, Jer.  It just makes us that much more certain that you are lying to us on a regular basis and talking behind our backs.

I think that the great politician is losing his political edge.  Who wouldn’t agree that Dan Johnson is between lost and found, closer to lost?  Mayor Jer is missing a golden opportunity to say what he means and not hurt his political aspirations.  So just own up Jer, and while you’re at it, tell us more about your feelings for Rooster Dan.

West Virginia Tough on Fat

West Virginia has made a decision.  “The Legislature finds that the state must take action to assist West Virginia citizens in engaging in healthful eating and regular physical activity.”  So to answer this tragedy they have formed a new state position of “Office of Healthy Lifestyles.” 

With a simple, innocent "Act" the Clean Indoor Air Act was done.... and we now see the results of that against our personal freedoms and civil rights and more.....  Just imagine what this little baby is going to do in years to come...  and you wonder where your tax dollars are going??  You may want to check your State's recent legislation to see if you already have this sour pill.

Prepare for the Smoking Ban

Mike Kuntz has the Nazis crawling out of the woodwork.  Of course he bribed them to join Smoke Free Louisville.

At the Council meeting on Thursday night there were a bunch of yellow shirts saying, “Say yes to the ban.”  There were also a lot of kids, overbearing soccer moms, and whipped dads.  Why do people insist on using future tobacco smugglers to do their dirty work?  Your kids will be selling tobacco for Guido in a couple of years.  What will you do?  I’ve been chastised for calling you all Nazis before so what the hell, you talk like Nazis, look like Nazis, and act like Nazis – in any American book you’d be called Nazis.

There was a guy telling us about his mother dying of cancer and how he even hated the word smoke.  He told us about how she had 7 kids.  I guess we were supposed to cry.  I just wanted to tell him to shut up.

There was a girl telling us that she was really happy for places like the Jazz Factory where she could go, get drunk, and not smell like tobacco smoke.  Then go to the Jazz Factory and places like it but don’t demand that other places run the same kind of operation because you want to go there.  Why don’t you just buy a bottle of whiskey and stay home?  No guys?  Then invite them to your place.  Guys come running for a ditzy broad with a bottle of whiskey.

Another woman told us that smoking is a privilege, not a right.  I wonder if she can tell us where it is spelled out that she has a right to be a mother, or is that just a privilege too?  I don’t like kids, lady, and I want them banned.  Do you think I enjoy the socially engineered brats screaming and picking their noses in my presence?    I also don’t appreciate it when you send them up to me while I’m enjoying a cigarette outside, away from them and you, and they tell me that I’m going to die.  They have no manners and obviously don’t know how to mind their own business.  Not minding one’s own business is more likely to cause death than smoking.

And yet another nanny took us on a bandwagon ride through the countryside.  She informed us that 1700 communities across the country have banned smoking and of course we must too.  Lady, those 1700 communities likely house child molesters too; should we make sure to get our share of those folks? 

This woman’s statement is very typical of how the Nazis operate.  Several cities have banned smoking.  Within each of those cities there are communities that must abide by the city ordinances.  Just like Louisville.  If Louisville bans smoking, then all of our communities under the Louisville flagship will be smoke free as well.  Middletown, St. Mathews, Lyndon, Fairdale, Fern Creek, Brook, Portland, and etc. will also suffer the consequences of a ban.  How many communities will the Nazis add to their list if Louisville falls?  The state of Florida has banned smoking.  Florida alone has well over 1700 communities.  What does all of this mean? 

Some people brought their sickly kids to show off who have likely never been exposed to tobacco smoke or if they have been exposed it has been because mommy and daddy take them places where they know that people smoke so they can then complain.  The Nazis like to pull the “parental heartstrings” as long as they don’t have to be parents.

Councilwoman Ellen Call openly lied on camera on the local news.  She said that the council had seen every study on economics and not a one showed any negative effects associated with bans.  That is a bald-faced lie.  I personally sent her economic studies that showed that smoking bans hurt businesses.  I know some other folks that sent economic information too. A speaker from Maryland a week before had made a great economic presentation and given the study to Ms. Call.  I guess her idea of economic studies is only those that back up what she prefers.  This is not representation; this is oppressive socialism.  She is a plague on freedom.

This is one council member for sure that needs to go away.  I think that come the 2006 election, Louisville will have had time to digest what it has done in terms of a ban, and Ellen Call and others who sided with her will be looking for work.  Maybe Dan Johnson, Ellen Call and Mayor Jer can start their own company, “Nazis in Louisville.”

Drug Wars Again

The internet is splashed with many groups opposing marijuana laws as they stand now.  It is amazing to see tobacco bans popping up from time to time, with major bragging, while everyday people are sick of drug laws.  And still law enforcement, in their tiny minds, arrest ordinary working people for smoking a joint.

Most illegal drugs are easy to come by.  Just ask a neighborhood kid where you can get a joint or a 20 cent bag of pot and he can tell you without hesitation.  In fact, he’ll likely have a phone number handy.  Give him the $20 and he’ll be back in 10 minutes with weed. 

Pot has been illegal for years and law enforcement is always chasing it.  They just keep hounding marijuana hoping that each bust will be different from the last.  The problem is that it doesn’t accomplish anything.  Each pop is just a pop like a teaspoon of salt from a vast ocean.  Little difference is felt except to our judicial system and our community’s cop payrolls.  Oh, don’t forget the billions of tax dollars that go to fight illegal drugs.

Cops tend to target big dealers.  What they fail to realize is that most pot is dealt in small amounts.  So they nab a big dealer?  There is always pot and busts do not affect business as usual. 

Cops aren’t really very smart.  They really don’t have a proven record of nabbing the big guys.  They get lucky now and then but they can’t figure out how they were successful.  It is the little guys that the cops can’t deal with.  The little guys are who your kids are running to.  Maybe your kid is one of the little guys.  The cops do a round up and grab 20 little pot sellers.  That is the same as shooing off 20 mosquitoes in Panama.  While you are booking these people and bragging to the media that you got 20 out of 33, a failing grade by the way, 100 transactions have gone down within walking distance of the police station.

Liberal Educations

I’m about finished with this term at school.  One of my classes was a fiasco called Cultural Anthropology.  This will be my second degree and after more than 200 hours of college I have to say that this is the most liberal class that I have ever encountered.

When one thinks of Anthropology one typically thinks of those guys on television who travel around studying cultures and looking at mummies – at least I thought this was the case.  But nooooo, this was a course about how the United States is disgusting in its greed and how we owe it to the world to equalize wealth distribution because banana farmers in South America have to work too hard for too little.

Some nut job students have been so socially engineered that they can’t see past the socialist doctrines that their fine public educations have provided them.  They call for boycotting bananas to bring a fairer wage to the banana farmers.  My response was that boycotting bananas would just interfere with our breakfasts and put Jose out of work completely.  Jose and his family count on the wage that he receives from working bananas and his cost of living is far lower than ours.  He doesn’t need $10 an hour in order to live a relatively happy life.

The majority of students in class have no concept of earning what you get through hard work.  They feel that everything should be affordable to all people and that doctors should make the same wage as farmers.  I responded by saying using the old comparison of grades, something that most students understand.  If I have a “C” in class and someone else has and “A”, should the “A” student be required to give up his “A” and take a “B” so that I could have a “B” too?  Heads spun around completely, like a scene from the Exorcist.  Pea soup violently erupted from the mouths of the socialists who just moments before thought that all things should be equal, as long as it wasn’t their stuff that was being screwed with.

We had an assignment to colonize a new world.  A lot of the students’ ideas centered on equality, and equality is fine if everyone is equal; we are not.  One student wanted everyone to dress the same but later amended the clothing requirement to add a few colors.  I immediately got this picture of people walking around in gray jumpsuits with five buttons, eating tasteless vegetable sandwiches, and listening to mindless new wave music on overhead speakers.

Another girl wanted the world to be ruled by women.  There were many problems with her world model, but the biggest problem was that she asked if women could have a turn ruling.  If you have to ask, you aren’t in charge.

The depth of social engineering in this class was entirely too entrenched in these students to be the result of one class and one book.  The class and the book merely gave them a canvas upon which to paint their poison.  But even if that weren’t so, the book itself would make Thomas Paine puke or cross over to the other side.  It is a feat of social engineering that any socialist would take pride in.  I told the instructor that I had no use for the class or the book.  It presented such alien views of capitalism and did so with a huge socialist twist.  There was just too much information in this book that was garbage.  She responded that at least I was getting my money’s worth.  Lady, if I buy a load of garbage, for whatever reason, I have gotten my money’s worth- don’t give me more garbage to ensure its value to me.  It will be interesting to see if my grade will be affected by my opinion.

More interesting is that the book is brand new, a $60 paperback rip-off and I want to sell it back to the bookstore.  Their response to my query was that the book “has no value.”  I’ll second that.    

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