Posted on 03/29/2008 4:08:53 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
hmm. Insurance pool must have sent out a fax.
Too much beer, cheese, and bratwurst.
But, Dude! We can win a BIKE! ;)
Just try to pry the brat and Leine’s from my cold, dead hand!
Also the fried cheese curds!
And frozen custard!
At the high cost of living that exists in Wisconsin, most people there are working long hours just to pay their Wis income taxes, the property taxes- which Gov tried to raise 8% recently, and all the other costs of “living” there.
Born and raised there. Couldn’t move back there is I wanted to...
First, Doyle ripped off the idea from President Bush (see http://www.presidentschallenge.org) This isn’t nanny statism, that would be the health care proposal. There’s no force involved in this.
Same here. I would love to retire to northern Wisconsin, but it would be financial suicide!
I consider it nannyism. Nannyism doesn’t have to be forced with the weight of law. Nannyism can be an image and culture, and this fits it...and it was nannyism when Bush pushed it.
“Too much beer, cheese, and bratwurst.”
No-such-thing.
It’s more Socialist Pap related to Socialized Medicine coming down the pipeline that WILL be mandated in the future. See you at 5am at the Public Gymnasium, Comrade! *Rolleyes*
Get back to me in a few years and tell me I’m wrong. It’s called “laying the groundwork.”
It’s worked very well for smoking bans, helmet laws, gun grabbers, drunk driving laws, the food police, global warming hoaxers, etc. ;)
And on that note, don’t forget to turn out your lights tonight, lest a migrating bird fly into your porch light!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/alightout
Yeah, I'd like to think the Gov. is just using the power of the bully pulpit, but it's never that simple in this day and age. Everything is part of the conditioning process.
I'd like to start a pool where we can bet on how long it takes to reach each new landmark in the nanny state. For example, you would guess the month and year when a state first puts a limit on fast food consumption, first restricts the amount of tv one can watch, and -*shudder*- first makes exercise mandatory for its citizens. The winners, of course, would pitch in a chunk of their prize towards a party with plenty of illegal booze, illegal chocolate/fried treats, and other forbidden forms of harmless amusement.
Good evening, timm22! I’m going to turn on all my lights in the house now! :-)
Trek is involved in this? No more Treks (and Lemonds, since I have a Lemond cyclocross bike), unless it’s a warranty replacement. Any new hardware will be Bianchi.
Good evening, timm22! I’m going to turn on all my lights in the house now! :-)
“Everything is part of the conditioning process.”
I don’t know WHY that concept is so hard for even some Freepers to “get” but it is!
Keep fighting The Good Fight; I’m looking forward to the Revolution. I think it will come within my lifetime. People are fed up with this infringement on their personal and property rights. I know I am.
A prelude to a food police force perhaps?
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