Posted on 08/11/2008 5:06:10 AM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
Could the frenzy of puritanical edicts from California's politicians - banning everything from trans fats to plastic bags - be a foretaste of what Barack Obama's America will be like?
It was one o'clock in the morning. John Lutz had just left the Grand Palace Stadium cinema complex in the wealthy LA suburb of Calabasas and was standing next to his Mini, smoking a cigarette. As he did so, a massive SUV - the kind that does 10mpg - pulled up alongside him. The driver opened his window, leant out, and said: “Hey, buddy, you can't smoke here.” John, a staff writer for a popular American TV show, was unaware that an hour earlier, at midnight, the Calabasas Comprehensive Secondhand Smoke Control Ordinance - the most restrictive anti-smoking policy anywhere in the world-had gone into effect.
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Well, a RINO.
Well, you can call anything Republican if you want, but that doesn’t make it so.
Is it something in the air or water in Kalifornia, that gives people the RIGHT to Stick their NOSE Into Business that IT DOES NOT BELONG?
Here in Patches of NY, it’s almost as bad, but not quite .. YET! So to those WHINERS, my usual statement is ...
“Thank you, COMRADE, for Showing me, Error of my Ways.” (i’ve only been slapped once)
“Could the frenzy of puritanical edicts from California’s politicians - banning everything from trans fats to plastic bags - be a foretaste of what Barack Obama’s America will be like?”
Correction: “IS the frenzy of puritanical edicts from California’s politicians - banning everything from trans fats to plastic bags - a foretaste of what Barack Obama’s America will be like?”
And the answer is.... YES!!
Arnold’s no Republican. Or else he’s so preoccupied with maintaining his industry relationships with Hollywood liberals, he’s been usurped.
His only use, is he’s not a communist. So he vetoes the most over-the-top nonsense the democrats come up with.
You forgot the quotation marks around Republican.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Flicking the lit cigarette into the back seats of the SUV would have been a GREAT idea.
I can’t stand these control freaks.
It’s only a small taste of what we can expect from comrade obama.
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