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Smoking ban proves Legislature can get things done
Post Bulletin ^ | 5/17/07 | Editorial:

Posted on 05/17/2007 4:47:06 PM PDT by Wheee The People

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To: SheLion; Wheee The People

Just like social conservatives have been alienated by Rudy Giuliani’s GOP candidacy for POTUS nomination...

It’s only a two party system in the USA when it should really be a 16 party parliamentary system like Europeans and Israel where you have to choose alliances and garner a governing coalition... OH WAIT THAT’S WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE whether people know it or not... it’s called Frank Meyer’s Fusionism circa 1960. Somebody should tell the Wheeezer to read a history book. None of the 3 segments of the GOP Big Tent can win an election on their own.

The only person who can win on his own is Sen. Jesus Christ (R-Nazareth) The rest of us have to work with each other. That means you too Wheee Wheee on the Sheeple.


61 posted on 05/17/2007 10:14:28 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: mysterio
Used to be that the nanny state was the territory of the dems. Not any more, apparently. Plenty of Republicans have jumped right on board. Some Freepers have, as well.

SOME??? You would not believe, but I keep a list of the anti-smokers that live among us here in FRee Republic.\

It's sickening!

We are all supposed to be on the same side here, but to the FReeper anti-smokers, their "own kind that smoke" are nothing but pond scum!

62 posted on 05/17/2007 10:15:46 PM PDT by SheLion (When you're right, take up the fight!!!!!)
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To: Wheee The People
"??? I own a pistol, and am NRA trained to handle... but I'm not sure how this applies to a smoking thread? (Did you really just ask me about my feelings?)"

Try this, just to see if you can wrap your mind around it. I don't like that you have a gun. It's been PROVEN that guns are dangerous and kill people. Both republicans and democrats agree with banning them. Therefore since we can have a referendum signed by the legislatures and the governor banning your guns and your private ownership you have until October 1 to give it up. Maybe it will encourage you to quit your NRA membership or to take up knives or perhaps knitting. I'm sympathetic that you feel it is your right to own a gun, but you don't have the right to shoot me with it. The people have spoken and it's getting more popular by the day so get used to it.

63 posted on 05/17/2007 10:15:56 PM PDT by boop (Now Greg, you know I don't like that WORD!)
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To: timydnuc
The County Sheriff is a Nam Vet and that’s his favorite place to have a few beers. Oh yes, He’s a cigar smoker. I met the guy.

You'll have to declare the VFW a "sanctuary" lodge that doesn't enforce state smoking laws, just like the "sanctuary" cities of St Paul & Mpls that don't enforce federal immigration laws.

64 posted on 05/17/2007 10:17:43 PM PDT by RJL
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65 posted on 05/17/2007 10:19:27 PM PDT by SheLion (When you're right, take up the fight!!!!!)
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To: Not just another dumb blonde
I’m a conservative christian republican and a (oh my God!) smoker. I didn’t vote for the smoking ban here in CA. What this ban does is discriminate against a minority. One day it will be your toes that are being stepped on, and then you’ll feel what it’s like to be persecuted. Why don’t they put a ban on drinking alcohol? There might not be any second-hand smoke involved in it, but it kills alot more people than smoking does. I know, you’re not a smoker, right? But I did just make a liar out of you saying conservatives vote for smoking bans. I don’t need the government to tell me how to live.

Here's some for you.......


66 posted on 05/17/2007 10:23:37 PM PDT by SheLion (When you're right, take up the fight!!!!!)
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To: boop

Damn it. You gave the Wheenie of the Sheeple the Cliff Notes version of the right answer. I wanted to see if he oculd figure it out for himself.


67 posted on 05/17/2007 10:26:14 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: MissouriConservative
Hey SheLion, ain’t seen ya in forever. Not many anti smoking threads that I’ve seen worth posting on lately, read them, but just never posted. But this one deserves a classic quote that seems to fit the person who posted this article and is gleeful that rights are being taken away (and they have the nerve to call themselves conservative?).

Hey you!

I'm late tonight. LOL

Oh yes, Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee is one of our biggest Anti-smokers.  And to think he is a Conservative.  ~tisk ~tisk

No wonder our party is going down the toilet.

68 posted on 05/17/2007 10:27:55 PM PDT by SheLion (When you're right, take up the fight!!!!!)
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To: Wheee The People
Maybe some customers will use the next four and a half months to complete smoking cessation programs, or cut back on their tobacco use.

And maybe this person could keel over from a brain hemorrage.

And we could debate which wold be a greater benefeit to society.

69 posted on 05/17/2007 10:32:17 PM PDT by uglybiker (relaxing in a cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Not bloody likely that this person will be able to grasp the concept. If the government can take away the rights of a hated minority because it is popular they can take away ANYBODYS freedoms. It seems like a lot of “conservatives” think that it’s ok just this once, to take away freedoms for the “common good”. But of course they don’t support taking away OTHER freedoms, just this one. For now. I can see the glazed eyes whenever I talk about this to a smoke Nazi. It is just a concept they are willfully able to ignore. I am almost at the Kubler-Ross stage of “acceptance”. Not of the bans, but that there are enough citizens who just can never be reached with reason. Bill Richardson is going to run on a platform of a nation-wide ban. And he will get votes because of it.


70 posted on 05/17/2007 10:34:31 PM PDT by boop (Now Greg, you know I don't like that WORD!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084; Whee The People

Thanks for the ping.

I think wheep for the sheeple started this thread because this person has an overwhelming need/desire/habit to aggravate folks. Sounds just like someone else we know, eh?

However, the only thing he/she has accomplished was once again making themselves out to be a laughingstock tool.

/JRS, is that you?/


71 posted on 05/17/2007 10:37:24 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTOL=SLAVERY)
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To: SheLion

“No wonder our party is going down the toilet.”

That’s right. And it’s not one of those water saver toilets, either.

It’s the old kind of super flush john that could suck down a small child. (or a political party)

What the hell are people thinking?


72 posted on 05/17/2007 10:40:40 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTOL=SLAVERY)
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To: Wheee The People; mysterio; traviskicks

I've got $200 that says Wheenie won't come back here and take his beating like a man. (OMG I just made a bet...anybody who thought about taking me up on the offer is going to Hell) He doesn't need to. The liberal progressives in the anti tobacco movement will do his dirty work for him. The liberals will call on him and the Fundamantilists when they can't find enough libs and use the "religious right" to accomplish their egalitarian goals when it suits them. They'll play him like a violin. I'll just abuse him for our amusement. If he doesn't come back to this thread...which wouldn't be a shock since he ran from the last 4...I will be there with this post for him every time I log on to FR>>>

Just admit it Wheenie of the Sheeple...YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS!!


73 posted on 05/17/2007 10:41:17 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Wheee The People

Social Conservatives applaud this

Please go back to DU you big TROLL!!!! Yes you are a disgrace to conservatives. Why would you want government controlling people’s lives. BTW, I don’t smoke, but I don’t want government getting in people’s lives. You are obviously a big lover of government bennies which is why you want big government.


74 posted on 05/17/2007 10:43:33 PM PDT by napscoordinator (.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
I've got $200 that says...

I got $200 that says at least 3 more states will limit the addicts this year.

75 posted on 05/17/2007 10:44:36 PM PDT by Wheee The People (Go FRed)
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To: Wheee The People

Hey, are you going to tell Fred he can’t have a stogie, LOL.


76 posted on 05/17/2007 10:45:44 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTOL=SLAVERY)
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To: Wheee The People

Here’s a good tagline fer ya;

(nO (smoking) FRed)


77 posted on 05/17/2007 10:46:58 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTOL=SLAVERY)
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To: 383rr; TheKidster; Wheee The People

JRS never invoked God’s name to rationalize Fascism. He was just a loser.

What we have here is a very serious situation:

Liberals believe that GOVERNMENT IS GOD

Some right wing religious extremists believe that GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR THEIR GOD

Bottom Line: GOD HELP US ALL. We’re going to need it.


78 posted on 05/17/2007 10:48:31 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Wheee The People
I got $200 that says at least 3 more states will limit the addicts this year.

You just gambled! SINNER!!!!!!!!! You're going to Hell!

If not, than you are at least going to go to Newark, NJ...or Cleveland.

79 posted on 05/17/2007 10:54:49 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: SheLion

I agree. It’s hard to believe that anyone that states such crap can call themselves a conservative with a straight face.


80 posted on 05/17/2007 10:55:26 PM PDT by MissouriConservative (We accommodate other cultures at the expense of ours.)
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