Today is Repeal Day, the anniversary of the 21st amendment – the repeal of Prohibition.
Here is a short (less than 1-and-a-half minutes) video about the spirit of Prohibition that lives on.
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The video was made by Bureaucrash. You can find out more about them here.
In the same spirit, there was a my turn in today’s Burlington Free Press from a woman upset by the recent attempt to ban smoking outside on Church Street.
Stop imposing your elitist sensitivities on everyone and everything that rubs you the wrong way. I’m tired of the “for the good of all” answer. That to me is just a “Stepford wife” way of imposing the pseudo-elite’s control over anything or anyone that does not meet their idea of what we all need to be like.
Just for the record, no, I don’t smoke. I just like freedom.
December 5th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
I’m all for banning smoking in public, indoor places as a health hazard, but I always laugh when municipalities try to ban smoking outdoors. Didn’t Rutland do that in some public parks a while ago? Those kind of laws seem unfair and unenforceable to me. You can’t blog from high school in Rutland as well?? Wow, what’s going on down there? I thought that was a Republican-type town…
Didn’t Ephedra kill people (or do something particularily nasty to them) a while back? I would hope that the days of us wasting a massive amount of water and electricity with “full-sized” toilets and incandescent light bulbs would be coming to a close pretty soon.
The silicone implant thing is pretty much a farse. Saline implants are usually cheaper, and the big thing is that you pretty much have to sign on to get regular mamograms every few years after getting silicone implants these days. The catch is that those mamograms cost a fair amount of money and are almost never covered by health insurance. I had an ex-gf go through that decision process a while back. The govt. pretty much bent under pressure from the silicone implant lobby and, in the process IMO, started using women as guinea pigs again.
I would bet that some of the only people against banning styrofoam and plastic bags would be the same people behind those TV commercials telling us how great “chemistry” and plastic are. Our ancestors thousands of years from now will be picking that stuff out of landfills and wondering what the heck was wrong with us.
I guess we’ll see what the Supreme Court thinks of the D.C. handgun ban. I didn’t know that lawn darts were banned, but I haven’t missed them myself. I guess I should go have a drink…cheers…