Here We Go Again
It’s TIME to DEMONIZE.
No wonder the President couldn’t get a woman to go through the SOCIALIST‘s crap.
Posted by Z Woof
11/04/2005 at 09:26 AM
Didn’t Ming the Merciless use a device like that? Or perhaps “Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century” http://marsmovies.free.fr/duck_dodgers.html
Posted by Oink
11/04/2005 at 10:45 AM
They’re looking and feverishly digging. They had a hit piece ready before he was even nomintated. Baldilocks has a link to their doc file.
I’d be happier if Scummer (I like that spelling, Bob) would shoot himself in the head...maybe aligned with certain others of the usual suspects… Kennedy, Boxer and some others come to mind. Hillary will duck, as usual.
If you look at that doc file link I posted above you’ll see that the DNC already trotted out the mafia connection because Alito didn’t get a conviction as a prosecutor in a big mob case. They intimate that he blew it “for the family”. As Bob says, they better be careful. The folks with the abundance of vowels in their names ain’t too happy about the constant association with criminals.
That coin can be two-faced from either side of the aisle, OCM. Although we both know which side is more prone to that. Which brings us back to Scummer again. Funny thing, that.
StinK: Around the time (GoldenOldieAlert) that the justices discovered that the Constitution contained invisible ink writing that revealed itself only after one had pissed on the document.
Posted by Oink
11/04/2005 at 12:27 PM
Then there’s the misinterpretation that seems to be getting more prevalent. “Public use” now seems to be interchangable with “public good”. See the Kelo decision. There’s a case now where a guy’s tire shop was condemned and shut down to make way for .... wait for it .... a Sears tire shop.
This is only going to get worse and Alito won’t make enough of a difference as Justice O’Connor not only dissented but ate new assholes into the majority “justices”. I’d like to have been a fly on the wall for that discussion.
StinK: The words “clear and present” come to my mind. In this sense: anything anyone does affects another person in some way, down to the clothes you wear or scratching your ass. A serious example would be your diet, exercise and smoking. If you don’t take care of yourself you either raise my insurance premiums or raise my taxes and hospital expenses. So I have the right to control your behavior, Eh? BUT, your dying early does help Social Security!
That’s when common sense says STOP—it’s gotta be clear and present, like drunk driving. You have a gun in your home?—none of my business. You accidentally discharge it and a round goes thru my window?—my business.
I had an arguement about no smoking sections. Somebody argued, then why not no-Negro or no-Jew sections for people who are offended. No dice. I don’t get a bit darker or change my religion sitting next to those folks. But my asthmatic wife has to breathe.
Posted by Oink
11/04/2005 at 05:19 PM
I have my own pet-peeve about no-smoking sections. (1) I am a smoker and (2) I do not wish to impose my “habit” on those who are (a) allergic or (b) don’t like the smell. Those who are offended by just seeing me smoke can kiss my butt.
Rather than have government legislate no-smoking areas or sections, why not let business handle it. If a restaurant wants to cater to non-smokers, that’s fine. I’ll go elsewhere. You see, it’s all about having choices and being polite - not government ordinances.
Skipper: I agree. They are arguing in Indianapolis for no smoking in taverns—maybe some poor waitress is allergic! Though shit—500 people can’t smoke because one person may not like it?! Get another job. And a life. CLEAR AND PRESENT! Even in the smoking section it’s nice to ask she person sitting next to you, who is still eating, if they mind. Good manners don’t cost a dime.
However I agree that having a no smoking section in a room is like having a no pissing section in a swimming pool.
Posted by Oink
11/04/2005 at 06:02 PM
That’s exactly what I’m talking about, Oink. The restaurents don’t even put exhaust fans in the smoking sections to try to clear the piss out of the pool. To be honest, I feel uncomfortable smoking in a section that is only a few feet of air away from non-smokers. I’d rather wait and light up my Cohiba ($15 Nicuraguan cigar) outside in the car. Most smokers I know feel the same. I’d rather just have a restaurant that caters to smokers. A nice brandy and a good cigar after a good meal is one of the few pleasures I have left.
All right, I admit it, I am a smoker..........However the only places I smoke are in my home & at work (who can go 12 hours without one?)..........I never take them out with me to social occasions, to the bowling alley, shopping, etc.............I have never smoked in my car..............Why can’t I give them up? Damned if I know - it’s an addicion........that I know.............I’ve tried eveything, including hypnotism, acupuntcure, the gum, the patches, etc.........nothing has worked for me...........My hospital health insurance requires me to take a non-smoking course every year - a half hour for 6 weeks.......I do it to keep the top line insurance but it is a total joke...........a half hour once a week for 6 weeks? Doesn’t help at all..........
Posted by Dottie
11/04/2005 at 09:26 PM
Tobacco is one of the most addicting substances. About 97% of long term users become addicted. It is ahead of heroin and coke/crack, way ahead of alcohol, marijuana isn’t even in the game.
Note: is this new a record for BMEWS? Fifteen comments and the subject hasn’t turned to sex.
Posted by Oink
11/04/2005 at 09:52 PM
Oinkie:
shhhhhhhhhh.Posted by Annoying Little Twerp
11/04/2005 at 09:59 PM
Barb, Sweetie, I thought the same thing when I hit the ‘Send’ button—this is like calling attention to a no-hitter in the 8th inning. Sigh
Posted by Oink
11/04/2005 at 10:39 PM
Yeah, I’m a smoker too. I try not to bother anyone with it. I’m usually considerate but when someone in another car gets upset when they see me smoking in my own car they can kiss my ass.
You can smoke ‘em if you got ‘em in my car, Dottie.
I had quit for three days a few weeks ago, then I got weak and went back but limited myself to a pack a day. Easy to do as I was on foot and the store is half a mile away. Rain helped too. Now I’ve got wheels again and I’m fighting to limit myself to two packs a day.
Hell, after reading this thread I went out and got a pack before commenting. Gonna try to stay out of ‘em till tomorrow. We’ll see what happens.
Hard to break a habit of forty years.
It shouldn’t affect your rates, Oink. After all, those fine upstanding state attorney generals took billions from the tobacco companies to pay for the illnesses that we smokers get. Then there’s the increased taxes on us to pay for that too. You should be all set. Maybe your rates will come down.
HACK HACK COUGH WHEEZE ”OPEN UP DAT WINDOW LET ME CATCH MY BREATH!”
Don’t bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me
Don’t bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to meRoll another one
Just like the other one
You’ve been holding on to it
And I sure will like a hit[chorus]
Roll another one
Just like the other one
That one’s burned to the end
Come on and be a real friendPosted by Oink
11/05/2005 at 09:01 AM
Same effect, OCM, same rule applies.
Sure it does, OCM. The same carcinogens etc. are byproducts of both. Some are more concentrated in
Think of this the next time you’re coughing up a lung at one of your “sessions”.
Thank you, OCM, I rest my case. It doesn’t matter what you’re smoking it affects other people when you burn it in their vicinity. If they object you should refrain, as I do, or work out an arrangement suitable to all.
Well, it looks like you have worked out a good arrangement with your cats, then. I’m sure if they didn’t like it they’d disappear as cats do. It might even save on the catnip.
I’ve grown more considerate in my old age. When I visit non-smokers I don’t smoke in their home unless they invite me to partake. They likewise understand if I want to go out on the porch for a smoke. I once had friends who kept an ashtray stashed in the coffee table for me. Of course, they smoked
at the time, just not tobacco.
Now that I think of it, one of them got me started smoking
I kept telling him “I’m not high, Russ.” Of course when the roach coach made its approach I was one of the first on the pier and it didn’t seem to get any closer as I was walking towards it. I turned and told him this and when I turned back I was there. Oh yeah, I wasn’t high. Nope, not me.
Oh, Boy! I’m getting a flashback. We had a friend over who thought grass was a pretend sort of thing, no big deal—you just got a little silly and pretended to be high. After trying some of our stuff, he sat in his chair unresponsive for 5 minutes, then bolted to the toilet and barfed. One of those folks who should avoid MaryJane.
I remember when your partner would got to the fridge for a little snack (heh heh). She was gone so long that you decided that Carl Chessman had grabbed her. You bolt into the kitchen and discover that she’s been gone less than a minute.
My son at college had some stuff ... well he said it was the only time he’d woken up next morning still stoned. OCM - what do unscrupulous dealers add to pot to make it resemble a lobotomy? I had a really bad trip once, smoking dope while tripping on mescaline.
StinK—you fell in, right?
Posted by Oink
11/07/2005 at 08:01 PM
The only thing I fell into was smokin’ dope for most of the next thirty years. Sometimes I still miss it. I was getting some really tasty two hit
when I quit. That would be two hits only because I was a 
about it.
That little adventure started outside of the Sonar Shack on the 02 level of the good ship McCaffery(DD-860) while we were in Mayport, FL some time around 1969 or 70. I don’t think we ever indulged at sea but in port was a whole ‘nother story. Same with booze. [refrains from telling another sea story]
I’m certain that advances have been made horticulturally, OCM. The tiny little seeds of the sixties
have become huge in comparison, if you even get seeds any more. A friend/supplier told me that his source would pay $25 each for any seeds that he found and returned to him. There’s some real science goin’ on in them thar hills.
I also bought a book many years ago that describes some of the methods. We’re talking gene fracturing, etc. Amazing.
(Repeat) My grandparents in KY had a contract with the govt to legally grow pot during WW2. The evil Japs
had seized all the good spots for growing—and we needed it to make Jute (Binders Twine) and, I believe, ‘burlap’ bags. Someone else can Google it. OCM will know.
The gov figured that people who grew tobacco would know what to do. My dad said it was like tobacco, in that if you worked in tall fields of it you’d get a headache after a bit.
Posted by Oink
11/08/2005 at 01:59 PM
Very good, but I find it tought to believe that even the Government was stupid enough to try to deny it. It wasn’t like there weren’t tens of thousands of witnesses. I’m being naive again.
Posted by Oink
11/08/2005 at 06:03 PM
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