[THEDAILYBEAST] And now, the prohibitionists are taking on e-cigarettes because... because... because... smoking tobacco is bad for you. And they don't think you should decide how to live your life.
Which reminds me of a different Mencken quote about those who would control our choices: "The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace." These days, even that may be up for grabs. But there's no question that in a nanny state, all of us- even those of us who don't smoke tobacco or puff on e-cigarettes- are all treated like children incapable of making our own choices.
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More proof that people have way too much time on their hands. Time to bring back indentured servitude. Can't think about stupid shit like this while pulling logs up hills.
Drudge's headline: "DNC Chair Won't Touch Weiner"
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... declined to comment on Anthony Weiner's bid to become the next mayor of New York City.
The DNC chair said the voters would be deciding the outcome of that race, and added, "We can't be weighing in on every single race in the country."
Weiner served with Wasserman Schultz in the U.S. House of Representative
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"We can't be weighing in on every single race in the country."
Since when did you get morals?
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It's business - morals have nothing to do with it.
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