Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Record Smoking Ban Complaints Lead To Increased Fines
newsnet5 Cleveland ^ | 12/24/2007 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/24/2007 6:40:14 AM PST by mmichaels1970

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-102 next last
To: GOP_Lady

Funny to hear them wonder on the radio about why Cleveland is dying.


21 posted on 12/24/2007 6:55:20 AM PST by mmichaels1970
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: RetiredArmy

Hear! Hear! Thank you for your service! God bless and Merry Christmas to you and yours. I ran into an official in Florida who oversees business regulation here on FR in an article about smoking bans several months ago, who said he/she was proud to vote against smoking bans time after time. I posted what you said about losing a little freedom with every law that is passed. He/she wanted me to take it back and couldn’t grasp this. This is who is elected? (Shaking my head.)


22 posted on 12/24/2007 6:56:34 AM PST by GOP_Lady
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Kryn-Man
Since when is a Private club, a public place?
Comrade, don't you know there is no "private" in Amerika.
We are now the land where "eminent domain" and DWI road blocks are the law of the land.
Please to show me your papers.
23 posted on 12/24/2007 6:57:44 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: mmichaels1970

Yes, Cleveland is dying. I wish hubby and I didn’t have to go downtown to work every day. My hubby keeps the rabid transit running for everyone here in town, which is an extremely, extremely stressful job with many, many hours of O/T. He likes to relax every few months by enjoying a cigar. The people of Cleveland, for his service, have told him that he cannot do that.


24 posted on 12/24/2007 6:59:07 AM PST by GOP_Lady
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: patton

Some are pretty nasty comments. They got 100% of what they wanted and they’re still complaining like children. God help us.


25 posted on 12/24/2007 7:00:28 AM PST by GOP_Lady
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: GOP_Lady

Some people just don’t get it.


26 posted on 12/24/2007 7:00:49 AM PST by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: patton

Interestingly enough, when the subject of going smoke free comes up in our Lodge, the most vocal opponents tend to be the non-smokers.


27 posted on 12/24/2007 7:01:53 AM PST by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Gabz
Merry Christmas, dear gabz!!! Enjoy your holiday. :-)
28 posted on 12/24/2007 7:03:22 AM PST by GOP_Lady
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: mmichaels1970

SEZ:

You vill noot shmoke here, you vill noot shmoke zer!
Zee Reich hass eyess! Zey are everyvere!
Mein life sucks! Zat much iss true!
I vill noot shtop until yours sucks, too!

29 posted on 12/24/2007 7:03:41 AM PST by uglybiker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GOP_Lady

Merry Christmas to you as well my friend.


30 posted on 12/24/2007 7:04:33 AM PST by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: RetiredArmy

Yup, and the worst part is that so many of our fellow citizens vote these type laws into effect.
I have come to the conclusion that a majority of americans want to be led by the nose, and have their butts wiped by mommy and daddy govt.


31 posted on 12/24/2007 7:06:47 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Gabz

Your lodge would probably survive, because it is so rural.

Our legion hall would go bust.


32 posted on 12/24/2007 7:08:39 AM PST by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: uglybiker

AWESOME!! Thanks for giving my wife and I a good laugh just as our kids start getting out of bed.


33 posted on 12/24/2007 7:09:10 AM PST by mmichaels1970
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Scotsman will be Free
and the worst part is that so many of our fellow citizens vote these type laws into effect.

Like I said, many of these private Vets groups actually SUPPORTED the ban when they didn't think it was going to apply to them. After the issues passed, it was "you didn't mean us as well did you?" They vets groups took it to court and lost because they hire employees. I believe any private location that hires employees is considered public.
34 posted on 12/24/2007 7:11:39 AM PST by mmichaels1970
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: mmichaels1970

I used to believe that the anti-smokers were basically well-intended people who didn’t see the dangers of govt oppression of personal beahvior.

No longer.

After reading feedback and articles from anti-smokers I’ve come to believe that they are without exception hateful little would-be tyrants. Those of us who actually believe in freedom who aren’t abject cowards were foolish to ever cave in to these people and history will prove that going to full blown civil war over this issue would have been justified.

The anti-smokers are the sort of people who look through their shades into their neighbors’ homes with binoculars. They are the people who marched down the strasses with the words “Heil Hitler” on their lips. Don’t believe all their complex excuses for their totalitarian beliefs. They are dangerous people... the sort who practice tyranny over everyone who makes them feel nervous. They hate freedom. They love oppressing their neighbors all the while spewing their self-righteous claptrap.

They should be recognized as what they are. Enemies. Without exception. They are murdering freedom with thunderous applause.


35 posted on 12/24/2007 7:11:41 AM PST by Seruzawa (Attila the Hun... wasn't he a liberal?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: uglybiker

Nanny uber alles


36 posted on 12/24/2007 7:12:27 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: mmichaels1970
The law calls for a graduated series of punishments

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Joseph Stalin

37 posted on 12/24/2007 7:13:10 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (Global Warming : A perpetuation of Lies Levied onto sheep to give up their Fleece)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GOP_Lady

Your husband can’t smoke a cigar in his own home?????? Now that IS going too far!


38 posted on 12/24/2007 7:16:04 AM PST by Ditter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: GOP_Lady
"Where has common sense gone?

What we refer to as Common Sense really isn't all that common. I think we need a new name for it.

39 posted on 12/24/2007 7:17:45 AM PST by hometoroost (TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Ditter

HOME is the ONLY PLACE in this ENTIRE STATE where one can smoke. My apologies for not making that clear. Merry Christmas.


40 posted on 12/24/2007 7:18:04 AM PST by GOP_Lady
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-102 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

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