Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

california has no smoking laws. i loved being able to go to a bar or a club and not come home smelling like an ashtray. i hope new york keeps that law.

Lemme guess WD, you're from Berkeley right?

WD, fuckoff you fascist brownshirt. Here's some questions for New York: If smoking is illegal for businesses indoors, why would a business need to have a non-smoking policy? Murder is also illegal everywhere in New York, must a business post the company's non-murder policy? If ashtrays are illegal how did it get into New York? Was the store owner arrested for harboring ashtrays, who's to say that the little devils snuck in like the million illegal immigrants that live in New York? Ashtrays have never hijacked airplanes, would this investigators time be better served finding smoking guns rather than smoking trays?

There you go again Roger. Posting three seemly unrelated events and making your readers guess the connection between the three. Here is my entry.

Item 1
The majority of the members of the NAACP are upper income black bureaucrats who use the NAACP to make sure that affirmative action survives. They depend on affirmative action to guarantee continued promotions.

Bushes nominees might end affirmative action thus the NAACP is pressuring the Donks to block their nominations even though the nominees are minorities.

CONNECTION: THESE BUREAUCRATS ARE USING UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR TO INCREASE THEIR INCOMES.

Item 2
This story has nothing to do with smoking and everything to do with money. Prior bureaucrat shenanigans forced medium size businesses and their huge tax base to flee New York.

Even so the city still has 200,000 workers. The proper thing to do would be to lay off the 60,000 bureaucrats that do no work.

Instead they are digging up every obscure law passed since 1880 and are using these laws to fine unsuspecting small businesses. They are using these fines to fund their bloated bureaucracy.

CONNECTION: THESE BUREAUCRATS ARE USING UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR TO INCREASE THEIR INCOMES.

Item 3
These bureaucrats know their pay will rise if the average SAT scores in the county increases. They are gaming the system by not letting average students take the test.

CONNECTION: THESE BUREAUCRATS ARE USING UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR TO INCREASE THEIR INCOMES.

Good, Jake, except for 2.

"This story has nothing to do with smoking and everything to do with ...

... the utter certaintly that, when given power, liberals will always exercise their superior intelect and beneficence, and legislate for us a lifestyle suitable to themselves, and enforced by the gun. Past instances of this behavior have been known as Nazism, Fascism, Communism,and the Clinton White House.

Rog, don't I recall you writing something once to the effect that, no matter what, a good American would have a duty to oppose any effort to overthrow the gumm'int?

   Spoonsy, I have uttered similar sentiments many
times.  One, that you probably refer to, was directed at Democrats who were  maintaining that Bush seized power illegally, and was running an illegitimate overnment.  I said that, if they honestly felt that way, they had a duty to undo that government by all means possible, and to be willing to suffer execution when caught.  

   I also, more broadly, have stated that every American should sit down with pen and paper, and list exactly what line crossed, what freedom lost, would cause them to realize it was time to fight, and to follow through if that day ever arrived.  Without this exercise it's too easy to fall prey to the 'Frog in the pot" syndrome.  This assignment, believe it or not, was given to all us fourth graders in Sister Edna's class at Saint Francis Borgia, as part of our study of totalitarian government.  Why do you ask, and what in this particular rant prompted it?

For some reason it seems that I no longer care, but I used to find it odd that you can smoke a joint anywhere in the City of Santa Fe, but if you light a cigarette you will be viciously attacked by a mob, then held for the police.