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Wislon hasn't posted since BEFORE the $75 million was stolen in UK? Hm.
Was Wislon busy planning the heist and is now in hiding? (Wislon -- tell us where the money is stashed and we won't tell a soul. I promise.)
posted by
blogflogger
on February 23, 2006 at 5:49 PM
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wislon - In the U.S. we're constantly trying to legislate common sense...
... and individual responsibility. It makes me crazy(er). We're drowning in stupidity and over-control. Good luck on your side of the pond.
posted by
blogflogger
on February 16, 2006 at 4:49 PM
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I totally agree. America is on its way to becoming a controlled police state ruled by political dynasty. Or maybe it already is but nobody wants to admit it.
posted by
WhiteJedi
on February 16, 2006 at 10:26 AM
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blagging
I haven't had a cigarette in ten years, visit pubs rarely and only use non-smoking restaurants. But I don't believe it is the role of government to intrude so far into the lives of its citizens. I also cannot see why, for instance, that they feel able to limit smoking but allow people to drink freely. A couple of years ago we went to an ice hockey match in Nottingham and at ten o'clock on Friday night I had to steer my family around crowds of drunks (some of them aggressive), discarded bottles and piles of vomit on the way back to the car.
Which is worse, being unable to walk through the centre of town with your family or making the decision to go into a pub and finding (horror of horrors!) that people are smoking in there?
My concern isn't over smoking, but about the way that governments jump on the bandwagon to control certain things and not others. There are worse things than people smoking in pubs.
posted by
wislon
on February 15, 2006 at 4:35 PM
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I read that Nottingham
is one of the gun capitals of England now?
posted by
malcolm
on February 15, 2006 at 11:03 AM
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I take it you're a smoker....
Personally, I welcome the ban fully. And as for all your others points, the government is working on all these issues and raising awareness of their dangers. But in terms of smoking, I think that a total ban was the right decision.
30 people every day die of passive smoking! That is huge!! The right to smoke in public, and the right not to breath in other people's cigarette smoke are incompatable, and a ban was the only solution. You can still smoke, but now I don't have to too!
posted by
blagging
on February 15, 2006 at 9:58 AM
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It's a crazy world.
You've obviously thought a lot about things.
posted by
Trevor_Cunnington
on February 15, 2006 at 9:46 AM
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