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QUOTE(Mercy! @ Dec 8, 2005 -> 05:14 PM) I rarely use the word “elitist,” but I really consider all those folks who tell the millions of employees who have to suffer the health and just plain quality-of-life consequences due to environmental tobacco smoke that they should either quit or organize to be an elitist position. (what a badly-constructed sentence, but you get my drift, I hope). Very few of the people who advocate the quit or organize position, I suspect, have to spend every hour of their work days under similar conditions. They are already protected. This is a public health issue, plain and simple. Yeah, I grew up in a second hand smoke cloud. My parents smoked like chimneys. It's how I spent the first 20 years of my life. I've worked in smoking offices. I haven't had a problem with it. I also worked in offices where there were policies that were immoral, unethical or that I violently disagreed with. I found new work, or I just quit. I generally am not on the side of business. BUT, private property is private property and I don't understand why it should be illegal to use legal products in private property with the consent of the owner. That I don't get.

Yes, but then you have the right to organize and demand a smoke free workplace from your supervisor.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Dec 8, 2005 -> 04:52 PM) You're just teasing, right? Please tell us you understand the difference. Not everyone who consumes alcohol does so to excess. EVERYONE who smokes, pollutes the surrounding airspace. And you have a right to not patronize the establishment that allows that airspace to exist.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 04:28 PM) We jumped a lot due to the part that they did not rank NHL teams this year. They didn't last year either.

Before this gets into a pissing match, I'm locking this thread.

I didn't say anything about blaming anyone. I get the impression that when anyone here who happens to be from the other side of the aisle mentions the President, its an automatic assumption of blame. But the truth is, if you talk about our foreign policy in any sense over the last five years, you can't avoid talking about the President. Because its HIS policy. Saying we can't intervene in Darfur because our troops are elsewhere is not inferring blame on anyone. It's stating an opinion regarding the mobility of our military structure.

Ann Coulter is notorious for having a thin skin when people are being ruthless. I saw her in a debate type interview with that Van Den Heuvel chick from The Nation on CNN International. Coulter has a tendency to make s*** up and Van Den Heuvel called her on it every time. She got so upset and defensive, she walked off in the middle of the segment.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 8, 2005 -> 03:41 PM) It's an interesting point and I can see that side of the argument. Just easier to see the direct effect of 2nd hand smoke in my case, than those effects since I don't drink and weigh 170 pounds. I just think the right to healthy air and making a smoker go outside holds more water than letting people just smoke wherever they choose and ruin the breating air for everybody else. And I REALLY don't buy the "don't go there" argument, since it's pretty hard to find a place to go out to eat at that is smoke free. McDonalds. Burger King. Wendy's. The Chat and Nibble - Asbury Park Panera Bread Kaya's Kitchen - Belmar Camille's Sidewalk Cafe Atlanta Bread Company

I don't get it. Discussing current political events involving the US without having it come back to involve the Bush administration would seem, well, rather pointless?

Well a lot of states in the south had people under 35 breaking for the Democrats in large numbers. If people under 35 had been the age limit for voting, Arkansas would have gone Kerry by like 10 points. So it doesn't really explain everything. I'd say that their outlook on politics and life has more to do with their upbringing then they're teachers. When I was in High School, I considered myself a Republican and a conservative. Yeah, not so much anymore.

I'd say that there is overwhelming evidence that fatty foods makes you fat. And that there is overwhelming evidence that drunk driving is not safe.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 8, 2005 -> 03:34 PM) So many HS age kids are against Bush because they watch MTV all the damn time and their anti anything republican propaganda gets in their head. (And sadly, I'm not kidding). What about the kids who watch CMT?

I think so too.

We'll be receiving sleet followed by three inches of snow and then we'll be receiving "ice pellets."

You don't even read what I post do you?

I think you were quite clear.

It's also the one year anniversary of Dimebag Darrell's assasination at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus - in concert.

I love how in your world there are only two options. Bon Bons and Torture. Please. There's a line between what's acceptable and what's torture. I don't make that line. People a lot smarter than most of us make that line. I can accept strolling all the way up to that line. But I can't accept us crossing that line. But the one thing I'm sure of is that acceptable behavior would include NOT feeding detainees bonbons and giving them mani/pedis.

Well that only opens up the Blue Swede version. The BJ Thomas version had this horrid solo opening it up.

Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play?

What makes you think that a suicide bomber - who wants to die to begin with - would care what you do to him before his bombing?

5.7 so far.

I've always found election night fascinating in Canada. Remember watching election night coverage in Lansing where we got CBC 9 - Windsor when I lived at MSU.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 10:33 PM) The theme from the Benny Hill Show. Yakkety Sax?