Comments on: Tennessee Senate Votes To Undermine Property Rights

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Fri, 25 May 2007 04:38:35 +0000

Too damn bad the sissies were protected by all the new laws, such as seatbelt, child labor, etc. etc. In my day the stupid ones died and didn’t breed . The sissys ran away and didn’t breed. Now all the defectives and sissys do.

Oh yeah give me some more of that enlightenment.

By: Ravenwood

Ravenwood — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:40:13 +0000

Smoking in restaurants in my area is so rare that we ask to be seated in the smoking section wo we can have privacy.

I usually ask for smoking or first available. I find that even in the smoking section, hardly anyone is smoking.

A good percentage of NoVa restaurants are already non-smoking. Even then, I expect to see a state-wide smoking ban in Virginia within the next two years.

It’s neo-temperance. We’re too far gone down the anti-smoking path to do anything about it.

By: Retro

Retro — Thu, 24 May 2007 23:18:54 +0000

And this coming from the same gov that subsidizes the tobacco industry.

Surely, the Gods must be crazy…

By: triticale

triticale — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:55:39 +0000

Smoking in restaurants in my area is so rare that we ask to be seated in the smoking section wo we can have privacy. I remember only one such occasion that the smoke was even noticable.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:42:08 +0000

Where does it stop?

It doesn’t.

By: t3rrible

t3rrible — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:16:58 +0000

I hate smoking and can’t stand the smell. I have never been in a restaurant that I couldn’t smell the smoke in my “non-smoking” area. All of that being said, I don’t like the .gov telling a person what he or she can or can’t do with their own property. Where does it stop? What seems unreasonable now might be OK in ten years.

I want smaller, less obtrusive .gov. Where is that lever in the voters booth?

By: Hemlock

Hemlock — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:09:15 +0000

Pathetic, but not surprising. I particularly like that it�s coming on the heels of a cigarette tax increase that�s supposed to fund schools. Brilliant idea there.

Maybe they have a funding plan like the seatbelt plan, only
with a spiffy slogan like;

You light up, we light you up.

I’m waitin on it.

By: gattsuru

gattsuru — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:26:36 +0000

Ohio did the same. Don’t worry, it’s not creeping, pointless, nanny-statism — it’s for the safety of non-smokers. That’s why restaurants can’t even build smoker-only buildings outside of their main one.

Pathetic, but not surprising. I particularly like that it’s coming on the heels of a cigarette tax increase that’s supposed to fund schools. Brilliant idea there.

By: #9

#9 — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:12:14 +0000

When the .gov comes after peoples beer it will be too late. H. Ross Bloomberg already dictates whether you can eat a hot dog that contains trans-fat. No French fries for you. It is only a matter of time before they come for beer and hot dogs. In the end they will probably tax fat people. 30 pounds overweight, pay the tax. Reminds me of the Space Aliens from the Simpson's. Does H. Ross Bloomberg look like Kodos.

By: nk

nk — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:33:53 +0000

They’re doing it in Illinois right now, as well. The reason here is that municipalites which had banned smoking under home rule found that 40% of their restaurants and bar business had gone to the next town over which still allowed it. Along with the tax revenue. So they lobbied to spread the hurt to everybody.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:16:38 +0000

they�re going to tell me I can�t expose my employees to toxic levels of mercury at work.

Not an apt comparison. Is such exposure an otherwise lawful activity?

But they do allow that at Oak Ridge.

By: smijer

smijer — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:14:16 +0000

Next thing you know, they’re going to tell me I can’t expose my employees to toxic levels of mercury at work. Dammit, I own the building, I should be able to poison anybody who comes inside it!

By: Robb Allen

Robb Allen — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:44:23 +0000

Alas, this is an albatross that shall weigh heavily against my neck for the remainder of my living days (and possibly then some).

When this came to Florida, I just about broke my finger voting YES on the bill. The scent of smoke nauseates me, especially being an ex-smoker. Back then, I wasn’t politically anything, I just saw a way for me to go to restaurants without having to smell smoke.

Little did I realize what I was doing.

Now, I realize my error. Too late. I gave the state more power, and the state does not give up power easily, if at all. It’s too easy to use the government to bludgeon others into submission and we all forget that the very tool we allow them to wield against others can be used against us.