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It's good because most of the cops eat in restaurants
posted by
adventurer02
on July 3, 2015 at 12:45 AM
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how things are going?
posted by
star4sky5
on October 2, 2006 at 7:17 PM
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I'm for clear labelling in this instance. Much the same as with health
warnings on cigarette packets - though I don't know whether you have them in the US.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on September 28, 2006 at 4:20 AM
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Well, that's a most unusual way to divert a topic................From food police to rape? Hmmmm?
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on September 28, 2006 at 3:47 AM
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CD
Next could be welll......sex! YIKES!!!!
posted by
Offy
on September 27, 2006 at 3:57 PM
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Schatz has it right ...
... a Nanny Stater is a Nanny Stater, no matter which version of Utopia he/she seeks to implement via the use of coercion.
Trans fat is bad for you, but I wish you'd have a chat with my attorney wife on just how bad having an unwanted child is ... she deals with the human wreckage of such non-decisions every day in Juvenile and Domenstic Relations Court. Compared to the trauma and waste of an aboriton, what she has to untangle is infinitely more morbid, horrid, sad and mad. What would you like to hear about first? The baby with its lips pinned shut with a safety pin because its mother "just wanted it to quit crying" and figured that application of a common sewing device would do the trick? Or the infant repeatedly raped by its step-brother (later taken away by the state from the mother manifestly unqualified to care of him), who has rings of scar tissue around its anus?
If an when persons of good faith and wisdom on both sides of these debates quit slinging ad hominem slurs upon one another and start seeking points of consensus on the problems and travails of real people in the real world, all this will come right. At that time, and not before, government will go back to doing what it is supposed to do, as spelled out in the US Constitution, and will quit waging jihad on everyone with differing opinions on important life-choice issues.
A Nanny Stater of the Right is every bit as pernicious, foolish and wrong as a Nanny Stater of the Left. The only difference between the two is agenda-based. And I can pick my own agenda for living, as can most adults in this or any other nation.
posted by
Rarmcwa
on September 27, 2006 at 3:45 PM
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If I had to choose between the 'left' telling me what I can and can't eat
and the 'right' barricading a woman's ability to get birth control, the morning after pill and have an abortion, I guess I'll go with the folks who are just trying to make me eat better. I haven't ever had an abortion, but I have lots of friends who have and I've supported them through one of the hardest decisions a human being has to make: whether or not they're competent to be a parent.....I've taken birth control and had to pay for it out of pocket when I had a health insurance that thought that I shouldn't have it paid for (out of religious reasons), while Viagra is available to anyone who wants to give it a try......I've never known anyone who wanted the morning after pill, but I do know (unfortunately) a few women who have been raped and whose minds would have been eased by it being readily available.
I also have to say that I don't know anyone whose mental or emotional well being has been harmed by being denied trans fat in the form of partially hydrogenated oil. And frankly, I don't think people should be able to smoke just anywhere. I'm not saying there shouldn't be an area available, but seriously, second hand smoke is way more harmful than smoking is. (I smoke, btw)
LOL I bet you're sorry you left me that nice comment now, aren't you? I'm not trying to pick a fight, just to show you my perspective. No hard feelings if you don't agree. Thanks for stopping by, and I do hope you aren't put off by my opinionated nature. :)
posted by
Schatz
on September 27, 2006 at 12:10 PM
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Corbin
the totalitarian instinct is alive and kicking, especially on the left...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 27, 2006 at 7:04 AM
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At first glance I thought yes.......
But TV is our "electronic opium"......it keeps us occupied, amused and unconcerned about what goes on around us.......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on September 27, 2006 at 5:03 AM
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Maybe they'll regulate how much time we can spend in front of the TV
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on September 27, 2006 at 4:58 AM
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