Posted on 01/18/2006 6:04:21 PM PST by elkfersupper
Next to you, I was just a wannabe piker!
Any casualties?
*world class eye roll*
I guess they don't have anything better to do.
Like look for ways to cut costs, improve service, improve the accounting so the books are transparent....
One of my favorites.
Agreed. (takes sip from homebrewed 5 gallon keg of Octoberfest)
Here we go. Remember the Marlboro Man commercials? They stopped those, and look where we are now with the nanny state cigarette bans.
How long do you think it will be before someone tries to use cigarette ban precedent to try to push "bad foods" bans?
We're already there, sug! Try to find a Coke or candy machine in a school these days!
I hope I live to see it.
My mind keeps going back to that 30-0 vote tally, though, so I doubt it.
Will the state reimburse me for the expense of converting my tap system to a refrig to cool cans? Seems to me that if, as an adult, I bought a 'legal' tap system to cool a legally purchased keg of beer, then the state ought to reimburse me for losses if they outlaw my home tap system? Next they will be outlawing my condom tree? No wait, that's ok with the libs, now isn't it? Guess I just have to worry about the tap!!!!
Personally, I don't think those should have ever been put in the schools to begin with.
And now that most districts have done away with required P.E. (which is completely retarded, but that is a different discussion), the schools need to do something to get the lard of the kids.
To me, it is a different thing if a school district decides to get rid of vending machines (which I support), vs. some gubmint wack job deciding for everyone that they are not allowed to have vending machines (which I do not support). I do not know which is more prevalent.
Teeny, nice to see you on these threads. Welcome aboard!
Gee, do you suppose that's going to stop Auburn students from driving over to Columbus , Ga for a keg?
And therein lies the problem. We do NOT need the government raising our kids!
Here's a novel idea: Parents raise their children as they see fit; schools educate them in reading, writing and 'rithmetic.
You can't have it both ways. That's how we got where we are.
I'll be 36 on Friday, BTW.
No, I don't think the gubmint has the right to tell anyone that they cannot buy a keg. It's legal, therefore I can buy a thousand of them if I want.
It pisses me off that gov't thinks that non-smokers have more rights than I do as a property owner.
If my state gov't decided to ban vending machines, I would fight it tooth and nail. But if my children's school district decided that they were not going to renew their vending machine contracts, I would support that.
But, the people behind the smoking bans are the people behind the vending machines in schools bans, are the people behind the keg bans, are the people behind the sweetened-cereal advertising bans, are the people behind MADD, are the people fighting "urban sprawl".
They need to be fought at every turn.
"A keg party is a rite of passage, I am rather sick of people saying what is good....and what is bad. Where did freedom of choice go ?"
No doubt it's gone from freedom of choice to the right of a minority to dictate to all.
The ole parable of the frog comes to mind. Drop a frog directly into boiling water and it'll jump right out. But, if you drop him into cool water and gradually turn up the heat, it'll boil to death.
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