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A good distraction for docile, obedient Republicans who didn't raise a peep about the law that the US military can arrest and hold anyone without a trial.\
Where do these Republican sheep get the idea that they are against 'big government'?
A good distraction for docile, obedient Republicans who didn't raise a peep about the law that the US military can arrest and hold anyone without a trial.\
Where do these Republican sheep get the idea that they are against 'big government'?
I'm not a Republican, but I have posted many times about that law and how bad it is.
On the other hand, why would you support these five idiot Dems just because the Reps support some idiots too?
These five Idiot Dem Senators remind me of the British Government in the movie "Pirate Radio".
If you haven't seen this movie, you should. It's a great lesson about the idiocy of Big Government and efforts to tell people how to live their lives. And, the music is wonderful!
Lefties. They want to legalize marijuana (in general) but they'll stand behind this for the most part. Am I wrong?
I see your point, but the sale of marijuana -like tobacco or alcohol- can be controlled. Using flavoring in any product is irrelevant as far as I can see.
fact the FIRST smoke I smoked was a Hav-a-tampa. As I recall they were heavily favored amd on the shelf next to candy.
I recall a time when drugstores kept candy and smokes on the same aisle. Any reason for that?????????
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Originally Posted by Roadking2003
The Dems have become the party leading the effort to squash freedom, the party of Big Government telling us how to live our lives. This is a good example of their nanny state mentality.
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A couple of weeks ago, I noted that if the FDA chooses to regulate cigars it could decide to follow New York City's asinine example by banning flavored varieties because they supposedly encourage kids to smoke. Last week five senators—Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)—urged the FDA to do just that:
The notion that adult products cannot be tolerated if they might appeal to children—which is also the premise underlying the statutory ban on flavored cigarettes and the agitation against sweet-tasting alcoholic beverages—is offensive to anyone who thinks the government should not treat adults like children. It is also an open-ended license to ban all potentially hazardous products, since adult things appeal to kids precisely because they are marks of adulthood. Even if we ignore these concerns, Durbin et al. offer zero evidence, aside from bald assertion, that flavored cigars are particularly popular among minors. Not that the lack of evidence will necessarily be an impediment: Congress banned flavored cigarettes even though they accounted for a tiny percentage of underage consumption. The one exception was menthol, which by some crazy coinicidence is the one flavor that remains legal, thanks to legislation that Durbin himself championed (as Michael Siegel points out), along with Philip Morris, which sells menthol varieties of several different brands.
The Dems have become the party leading the effort to squash freedom, the party of Big Government telling us how to live our lives. This is a good example of their nanny state mentality.
So I suppose banning abortions, marijuana, and prostitution, like many Christian Republicans advocate, isn't nanny state?
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