Smokers stink.. Plain and simple. Smoking cigarettes is expensive and the only people who actually support it are smokers themselves, and their brains are addled by their addiction. Come join us in the 21st century, and quit ingesting this crap and subjecting the rest of us to your stink, your added health care costs, and the sounds of your coughing and wheezing.
It is really hard to believe that there are still intelligent people in this world (and I know that some intelligent people still smoke, but their ranks are few) that want to fight for the right to smoke in public places. Go outside, like we all did in high school, or is it now too far to walk now that the emphysema has settled in?
Your right to smoke "wherever" ends when I, or my kids, end up breathing your second hand smoke.
It doesn't end "when the people of this country figure out" anything. It'll end when our currency is so debased so that whatever the average American worker's wage is at that time, it will make economic (or political) sense on a global scale to employ that worker. Politicians need to restructure tax laws to provide incentives to American-based employers to hire or keep American based workers. National healthcare would free U.S. businesses from that costs. Otherwise, we will have lost the econo-war we are currently in to the Chinese. I can't believe how stupidly we have marched to our consumerist destruction. Like lemmings. If we had to answer to the previous generations of Americans, what would we say....?
We ( Christians ) should say Merry Christmas ( or Feliz Navidad, or Crăciun Fericit, or the myriad other ways of celebrating the birth of Christ ) because that is what WE are celebrating, and we are the ones doing the salutations. Do away with this political correctness. You could also wish the person Happy Hannukah, or Gong xi fa chai for Chinese New Year.
If a person of another faith expressed hopes that I would enjoy their holiday, I would be pleased and view it as an opportunity to learn more about their culture.
And if we all learned a little more about each other, would that be a bad thing?
This guy WILL get what he deserves. He won't be in solitary and that will lead to the punishment that has been alluded to in the other posts. Hopefully worse. As far as the dog thing goes, what links the two together in your minds? One thing about people who mistreat helpless creatures, man or beast, is that if they do it to one, they will do it to others. Its a character flaw, personality defect, sociopathic illness, whatever you want to call it. Anyone who mistreats helpless animals needs to be punished and monitored to ensure they don't get another opportunity. Anyone who rapes a child should just be eliminated, because they can't be reformed.
Check again there, Georgie Boy. McCain WROTE the last bill that was trying to give amnesty to the illegals, and he was HEAVILY backed by BUSH. He got his butt handed to him on a plate for his trouble. Who was the last U.S. President to actually give amnesty to the illegals? ... Oh Yeah, Ronald Reagan. Hmmm. No big corporate ties there. Ever BEEN to the Reagan Library? I live 10 miles away from it. Big bucks, big donors, big influence.
Big Agribusiness and Construction business gets the money from exploiting the illegals. They use that money and more to buy influence and political power. Open your eyes. These Illegals are just like everyone else when they first get to the U.S. Hardworking, family oriented, live 2-3 families to a house, just like my Steelworker Grandfather and Uncles, and Rosie the Riveter Aunts did back in the 40's during WWII. Don't demonize them or use them as scapegoats.
I'm an Independent. I don't think either party has the answer. Too much money chasing politicians. Political courage is a rarity these days.
However, Barack Obama is a guy that worked his way up from being a poor black kid in America, educated himself, pulled himself up by his bootstraps, and made a career for himself by dint of his own efforts.
John McCain is the son and grandson of admirals who ALWAYS traded on his family ties and connections for advantage. In that respect, he is exactly like George Bush. He cheated constantly on his first wife, except for that 5 years in Hanoi, and finally dumped her when the heiress hit the scene. His congressional record already shows that he worked to stop regulators from moving in to investigate Keating, sadly with John Glenn's help. I respect McCain's service to the country, but no way does that earn him my vote.
I'll go with the guy who has, in true American tradition, met all the challenges and did so on his own merit. He will meet the huge challenges that lie ahead. I see McCain as a man looking backward trying to function in a world where the rules are changing. I see Obama as a man who will help to write the new rules.
When did Obama get to be a Socialist all of a sudden? Did I miss some stupid Rush SLimbaugh / Sean Fannyty Nazi propaganda session? These guys would have been Hitler henchmen in an earlier life. Goering or Goebbels.
GarySarko - Illegal aliens are here because they can make more money busting their asses in the U.S. Republicans want them here because they can exploit them, just like the mills did to non-union labor in Y-town in my grandfather's day. The Hispanic illegals I've seen will work a labor job all day for half what you'll accept, and do 2x as much work. Then they'll go to their night time job.
Simple fact. Half the people in the world have below average intelligence. Those dumb bastards are the people who can be swayed by the likes of the sleazy bastards on talk radio. If you find yourselves listening to these neo-nazi mouthpieces, YOU are in the BELOW AVERAGE category. Talk Radio's sole purpose in life is manipulating YOU !! Not informing you, but programming you in the direction they want you to go. (they get a ton of money for what they do, paid by big corporations that want to make sure YOU are kept stupid and in debt) Much of the media is now that way.
So, Think it through. Use your head. It's that lump that's 3 feet above your ass.
Posted on March 10 at 12:41 p.m.
Smokers stink.. Plain and simple. Smoking cigarettes is expensive and the only people who actually support it are smokers themselves, and their brains are addled by their addiction. Come join us in the 21st century, and quit ingesting this crap and subjecting the rest of us to your stink, your added health care costs, and the sounds of your coughing and wheezing.
It is really hard to believe that there are still intelligent people in this world (and I know that some intelligent people still smoke, but their ranks are few) that want to fight for the right to smoke in public places. Go outside, like we all did in high school, or is it now too far to walk now that the emphysema has settled in?
Your right to smoke "wherever" ends when I, or my kids, end up breathing your second hand smoke.
Posted on February 2 at 4:07 p.m.
It doesn't end "when the people of this country figure out" anything. It'll end when our currency is so debased so that whatever the average American worker's wage is at that time, it will make economic (or political) sense on a global scale to employ that worker. Politicians need to restructure tax laws to provide incentives to American-based employers to hire or keep American based workers. National healthcare would free U.S. businesses from that costs.
Otherwise, we will have lost the econo-war we are currently in to the Chinese. I can't believe how stupidly we have marched to our consumerist destruction. Like lemmings. If we had to answer to the previous generations of Americans, what would we say....?
Posted on December 25 at 3:10 a.m.
We ( Christians ) should say Merry Christmas ( or Feliz Navidad, or Crăciun Fericit, or the myriad other ways of celebrating the birth of Christ ) because that is what WE are celebrating, and we are the ones doing the salutations. Do away with this political correctness. You could also wish the person Happy Hannukah, or Gong xi fa chai for Chinese New Year.
If a person of another faith expressed hopes that I would enjoy their holiday, I would be pleased and view it as an opportunity to learn more about their culture.
And if we all learned a little more about each other, would that be a bad thing?
Merry Christmas.
Posted on December 25 at 2:56 a.m.
This guy WILL get what he deserves. He won't be in solitary and that will lead to the punishment that has been alluded to in the other posts. Hopefully worse. As far as the dog thing goes, what links the two together in your minds? One thing about people who mistreat helpless creatures, man or beast, is that if they do it to one, they will do it to others. Its a character flaw, personality defect, sociopathic illness, whatever you want to call it. Anyone who mistreats helpless animals needs to be punished and monitored to ensure they don't get another opportunity. Anyone who rapes a child should just be eliminated, because they can't be reformed.
Posted on October 25 at 1:21 a.m.
Check again there, Georgie Boy. McCain WROTE the last bill that was trying to give amnesty to the illegals, and he was HEAVILY backed by BUSH. He got his butt handed to him on a plate for his trouble. Who was the last U.S. President to actually give amnesty to the illegals? ... Oh Yeah, Ronald Reagan. Hmmm. No big corporate ties there. Ever BEEN to the Reagan Library? I live 10 miles away from it. Big bucks, big donors, big influence.
Big Agribusiness and Construction business gets the money from exploiting the illegals. They use that money and more to buy influence and political power. Open your eyes. These Illegals are just like everyone else when they first get to the U.S. Hardworking, family oriented, live 2-3 families to a house, just like my Steelworker Grandfather and Uncles, and Rosie the Riveter Aunts did back in the 40's during WWII. Don't demonize them or use them as scapegoats.
I'm an Independent. I don't think either party has the answer. Too much money chasing politicians. Political courage is a rarity these days.
However, Barack Obama is a guy that worked his way up from being a poor black kid in America, educated himself, pulled himself up by his bootstraps, and made a career for himself by dint of his own efforts.
John McCain is the son and grandson of admirals who ALWAYS traded on his family ties and connections for advantage.
In that respect, he is exactly like George Bush. He cheated constantly on his first wife, except for that 5 years in Hanoi, and finally dumped her when the heiress hit the scene. His congressional record already shows that he worked to stop regulators from moving in to investigate Keating, sadly with John Glenn's help. I respect McCain's service to the country, but no way does that earn him my vote.
I'll go with the guy who has, in true American tradition, met all the challenges and did so on his own merit. He will meet the huge challenges that lie ahead. I see McCain as a man looking backward trying to function in a world where the rules are changing. I see Obama as a man who will help to write the new rules.
Posted on October 23 at 10:02 p.m.
When did Obama get to be a Socialist all of a sudden? Did I miss some stupid Rush SLimbaugh / Sean Fannyty Nazi propaganda session? These guys would have been Hitler henchmen in an earlier life. Goering or Goebbels.
GarySarko - Illegal aliens are here because they can make more money busting their asses in the U.S. Republicans want them here because they can exploit them, just like the mills did to non-union labor in Y-town in my grandfather's day. The Hispanic illegals I've seen will work a labor job all day for half what you'll accept, and do 2x as much work. Then they'll go to their night time job.
Simple fact. Half the people in the world have below average intelligence. Those dumb bastards are the people who can be swayed by the likes of the sleazy bastards on talk radio. If you find yourselves listening to these neo-nazi mouthpieces, YOU are in the BELOW AVERAGE category. Talk Radio's sole purpose in life is manipulating YOU !! Not informing you, but programming you in the direction they want you to go. (they get a ton of money for what they do, paid by big corporations that want to make sure YOU are kept stupid and in debt) Much of the media is now that way.
So, Think it through. Use your head. It's that lump that's 3 feet above your ass.