Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

"In this week’s Nanny State Update, not even the most trivial matters are too mundane to escape the attention of lawmakers, from sofas on citizens’ private porches to the songs played at your local kindergarten graduation ceremony..."

Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at Digg and at Reddit and in Stumbleupon and Delicious

1 posted on 06/19/2012 7:21:49 AM PDT by 92nina
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: 92nina

The first thing that I thought after reading this article is that the HOA Grass-measurer’s have taken over.

For some reason this also brought back a memory of a Cartoon. It had this businessman walking into the large office area of his business yelling at the employee’s for making too many long distance phone calls. One of his employees said “But Sir, we spend millions of dollar’s every week here.” The businessman got a reflective look on his face and said “I really don’t understand millions of dollars” And then he yelled “But I DO UNDERSTAND a $45 phone charge!”

The point is, that many people in charge just don’t get the big picture and what their actions do within it. But they DO understand the little piddling things that annoy them so much.


2 posted on 06/19/2012 7:41:00 AM PDT by The Working Man
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina
St. Louis Bans Local Brews from Festivals: Home brewers in St. Louis who made hundreds of gallons of beer for this past weekend’s St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival are going to have a lot of extra brew on their hands after the city banned them from participating on Monday. Home brews have been a staple at local festivals for years, but new city licensing requirements make it illegal for them to participate in the time-honored tradition of tapping the keg.

I'm suspecting Budweiser might have had a hand in this
3 posted on 06/19/2012 7:43:46 AM PDT by slumber1 (Don't taze me bro!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

Can I still keep my washing machine on the front porch?


4 posted on 06/19/2012 7:49:36 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

No surprise here. After decades of communist union teachers in K-12, followed by Marxist professors in our universities, why would we not expect an all powerful, all interfering, all intrusive government? After all government is good, private enterprise bad.

What is amazing though, is anyone with a few functioning brain cells can easily look through what history has not yet been washed by the communist at how many people are DEAD thanks to governments.

The stronger the government the more people dead. There is a direct connection yet again, thanks to the brainwashing in public schools, we are still cranking out kids who think government is the solution to every problem. Ah, you commie union teachers have done a great job pushing the agenda of the communist manifesto.


5 posted on 06/19/2012 7:50:04 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

When we visited my grandmother, one of my duties was to invert the cushions on the porch chairs & couch if a thunderstorm was approaching.

Maybe the nannies are afraid of killer mold spores growing out of wet outdoor upholstery.


7 posted on 06/19/2012 7:56:42 AM PDT by elcid1970 (Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

Wow, pretty pathetic to ban local brewed beers in STL. Gee I wonder who may have pushed that ? Budweiser ? Big brand beers taste like crap and all I do are the small breweries.


8 posted on 06/19/2012 7:56:55 AM PDT by CORedneck
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina
“After 9-year-old Martha Payne posted photos of her pitiful student lunches that went viral, local officials (in Scottland) cracked down on her blogging by preventing her from photographing the school’s lunch offerings”

That is the socialist solution. Not to improve their socialist culinary offerings - but to crack down on any that spread the information that they are substandard.

It would be of interest to me to see how much is spent per meal per student - it is probably something absolutely outrageous! The Scottish taxpayer probably pays a pretty penny for a lunch so abhorrent that they want to make it a crime to photograph it.

9 posted on 06/19/2012 8:04:53 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

Come on Durham! Toilets aren’t upholstered! Give them something to really worry about!


10 posted on 06/19/2012 8:06:09 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

Come on Middleburough! Do like Ralphie’s father and say “Butterfinger” instead.


12 posted on 06/19/2012 8:18:26 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

seems to me there was an article not long ago where some peaceful demonstrators—maybe Chicago—were arrested for possession of beer making equipment...beware homebrewers...


13 posted on 06/19/2012 8:40:54 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

Too many things to comment on, so I’ll pick one. Kids should bring their own damn lunch to school.


16 posted on 06/19/2012 9:11:16 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

If your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture...!


17 posted on 06/19/2012 9:15:28 AM PDT by Edward Teach
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

What a few have noted @ Anheiser Busch’s likely involvement - it’s not new:

http://www.newser.com/story/142953/flailing-anheuser-busch-tries-new-beers-intimidation.html


18 posted on 06/19/2012 9:55:31 AM PDT by spankalib (The Marx-in-the-Parks crowd is a basement skunkworks operation of the AFL-CIO)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 92nina

Those complaining about a furniture ban have obviously never seen Morgantown after a big win. Or a big loss.


19 posted on 06/19/2012 12:22:07 PM PDT by SoothingDave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson