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Both sides are guilty of this. Red states usually have strict alcohol laws and the majority of dry counties. The only really non restrictive places are Nevada and a few cities like New Orleans.
Yeah my home state of Nevada rules. land of free, home of the brave...
So its illegal in parts of Minnesota to get a little mud on your tires like Brad Paisley sings??? And banning Happy Meals. This is the kind of stuff liberals come up with while they refuse to crack down on illegal immigration and sentence violent murderers and drug dealers to death or life in prison!
Speaking of Nanny State - what's your opinion of forced vaginal ultrasounds in say . . Texas?
Seems like there is a quota for lawmaking for every January and July each year in most states. More of the time more new laws in the lockstep of favoring nanny/police state had been made than laws modified or removed to fit common sense. Obviously someone is profiting from this. Obviously it increases revenue and the likelyhood of police citizen encounters. And politicians vote pass them if it fits someone’s agenda rather than based on common sense. While they may flame politicians on the other party for doing the same just in a different fashion they hypocritically do it themselves. Just maybe in a different manner.
Though one thing is for certain, they will continuously refuse to govern their own behavior or that of their own personnel.
OK, if we're all opposed to "nanny states," I assume everyone on the far-right is fine with the following:
Gays getting married and living their lives among everyone else like everyone else
Transgender people using whatever bathroom matches their sexual identity
A mosque being built in your neighborhood
People NOT praying in school on command or standing during the anthem on command
Somebody smoking a joint instead of a cigarette or downing a few beers
A woman getting an abortion
Oh, but of course not! No, no - it's the evil "nanny state" when somebody wants to cut down on the amount of crappy food kids eat, but it's American patriotism when people want to use the government to monitor the bedrooms and temples for the "wrong" kind of sex and religion.
Until the far-right quits trying to use the government to force their theocracy on everyone, they are in NO position to whine about the "nanny state" or the abuse of government powers.
So its illegal in parts of Minnesota to get a little mud on your tires like Brad Paisley sings??? And banning Happy Meals. This is the kind of stuff liberals come up with while they refuse to crack down on illegal immigration and sentence violent murderers and drug dealers to death or life in prison!
How about Oklahoma where any alcoholic beverage cannot be in excess of 3.2% ABV if sold in a grocery store? Beer stronger than 3.2% ABV has to be sold room temperature in a liquor store and liquor stores must be closed on Sunday and cannot be open later than 9PM on weekdays. How about the fact that you cannot buy a car on Sunday because it's the Lord's day? How about some of the strictest laws against cannabis in the nation (minor possession gets you a felony and 10 years in prison)?
You don't know "nanny state" until you've lived in the fundamentalist Baptist theocracy called Oklahoma.
OK, if we're all opposed to "nanny states," I assume everyone on the far-right is fine with the following:
Gays getting married and living their lives among everyone else like everyone else
Transgender people using whatever bathroom matches their sexual identity
A mosque being built in your neighborhood
People NOT praying in school on command or standing during the anthem on command
Somebody smoking a joint instead of a cigarette or downing a few beers
A woman getting an abortion
Oh, but of course not! No, no - it's the evil "nanny state" when somebody wants to cut down on the amount of crappy food kids eat, but it's American patriotism when people want to use the government to monitor the bedrooms and temples for the "wrong" kind of sex and religion.
Until the far-right quits trying to use the government to force their theocracy on everyone, they are in NO position to whine about the "nanny state" or the abuse of government powers.
This exactly. Conservatives complain about "nanny statists" yet they want the state to enforce their religious dogma and treat everyone who doesn't adhere to it like second class citizens. Before conservatives can complain about nanny states, they need to look in the mirror.
Mississippi does that too. Plus many counties here are either dry, or you can't buy a beer on Sunday.
Strangely enough in my county, you can buy liquor by the drink on Sunday but not on days when it's a holiday. Nobody seems interested in allowing it on holidays as well.
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