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Government Knows Best: Smoking Bans

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Posted by PunkJohnnyCash on Sep 23, 2009 in Corporatism, Senate | 0 comments

no-smokingDespite the absence of evidence to support many claims and actions in the bill as seen here, we have gone forth with the massive control of tobacco.  It is simply a massive assault on your liberties.  Those out there that believe they should force others to live in the manner they wish them to live are not going to agree with anything here because they feel that the world should be re-shaped in their image.   These are often the tyrants that try to use outrageous claims of children dropping dead to support their bigotry.   So to those left wing bigots out there, I have little interest in your hatred and demented desire to dominate.  I am not going to claim that smoking is healthy or good for you.  I will say that the first time we have a child dying of second hand smoke he’ll be all over Oprah & truth.com commercials.

Here is what is going on around the web today about all this:

The FDA is practically threatening people who want to find ways around this. Click here to read The Wall Street Journal Article.  It’s almost childish.  Don’t do it! No! I’ll get you if you do! Mom! tell him to stop!

The Baltimore sun has an article about it. Click here to read.

The Webster Report has a nice sensible article about the issue titled Fear and Loathing of the FDA’s new tobacco regulations Click here to read.

And as the FDA regulates and forces companies to commit suicide in marketing and advertising, the same bill that gave them power also prohibits them from telling that they have been regulated to do what they are doing by the FDA.  Read this Article from Reason Magazine : Covering Their Butts: Why it’s misleading to say the FDA is regulating cigarettes.

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Okay, it’s time we threw off the chains of tyranny people.  They will not stop.  Years ago when the assaults on smoking first started we were screaming that they will just use this as a stepping stone as they come for more and more personal liberties.  Unless you have been living under a rock you have seen this.  It was never more apparent than with the passing of the Patriot Act.  It is a snowball effect.  When will we take a stand?

Happy Fathers Day

New Straits Times June 19, 2011

New Straits Times 06-19-2011 Happy Fathers Day Edition: New Sunday Times Section: Main Section this web site fathers day crafts

TODAY, good fathers around the world will be feted by their families for their contribution to good parenting and a happy family life. Some of them are married, some are divorced, some are single, some are actually grandfathers; some are biologically related to their families and some are not. But what they will all most likely have in common with all the men who will be celebrating Fathers Day today is that they are loved. They will be feted with hugs and kisses (or perhaps respectful bows in conservative cultures), with humble yet lovingly home-cooked meals, or lavish restaurant spreads, or picnics, and special attempts by the whole family to get together for this special day.

But, although in paternalistic societies fathers are seen as the leader of the household, mostly, fathers don’t get nearly as much accolades for parenting as do mothers. Even in this 21st century, gender stereotypes still exist. If one were to mention the adage “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world” (originally from the poem by William Ross Wallace), the hand that would immediately come to mind is that of the mother. And, in the old days, like when Wallace wrote the poem, that was true. In the old days, when fathers were the only ones who worked, it was excusable for them to be absent from the home, relegating the responsibility of bringing up the children to the mother. But these days, with mothers working as many hours as fathers and pitching in with the income, it no longer becomes tenable for fathers not to pitch in with the housework and child-rearing.

Fathers are very important to the family, in taking the lead in setting the example of a good family life that will be referenced by their children in the future. Fathers have to set a good example for their sons to be good, faithful husbands; and for their daughters to know that there are good men in the world so that little girls don’t have to grow up thinking that they have to be prostitutes to have a happy married life. this web site fathers day crafts

And if one were to compare the sacrifices that some single fathers have had to make in order to bring up their children well, it would be obvious to all that there is very little difference between that and what single mothers have had to do. And that is why some men and women are feted on Fathers Day and Mothers Day, and some aren’t. Fathers, like mothers, are “parents” because they care for their children. Otherwise, they’re just “people”.

Fathers Day presents have to be earned. To all good fathers out there, Happy Fathers Day. With love.

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