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2003-09-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve 2003-09-04 11:54:45 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And these people want to run Iraq......

Posted by GregJ 2003-9-4 11:58:10 AM|| 2003-9-4 11:58:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, it's Bloomburg and Annan that are out of step. The City of New York does not control the UN. Annan is just an ass in human form.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-4 11:59:40 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-4 11:59:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Although this is a good sign for the UN, I don't think it actually qualifies as championing freedom against a brutally repressive regime. Baby steps though, they'll get there.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-4 12:31:22 PM|| 2003-9-4 12:31:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Move the UN buildings to Europe where smoking is an artform.

Posted by Yank 2003-9-4 1:33:01 PM|| 2003-9-4 1:33:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Ironic, n'est-ce pas? The UN helped to get this 'secondary smoke' hysteria rolling through the WHO, under the stewardship of that Norwegian Gro What's-her-name. She was the former PM of Norway and the uber-nanny...Hillary Clinton in a nice sweater.

I live in NY and I can't smoke in a BAR now! Meanwhile, lefties go around decrying Bush as Hitler and they don't see this for the fascism it truly is...Typical I guess but we'll see what happens when the wind chill hits upstate this winter. Civil disobedience, anyone?

Posted by JDB 2003-9-4 2:18:29 PM|| 2003-9-4 2:18:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "If second hand smoke is so dangerous, and if nictotine is the most addictive substance in the world... then how is it that you never run into anyone addicted to second hand smoke?"
-Doug Stanhope.

Posted by DeviantSaint 2003-9-4 2:45:00 PM|| [www.livejournal.com/~deviantsaint] 2003-9-4 2:45:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Fuck, man; you don't talk to many bartenders or video arcade employees, do you? I know a guy who got hooked on secondhand smoke working nights at a video arcade next to a college campus.

Posted by Mitch H. 2003-9-4 4:13:06 PM|| 2003-9-4 4:13:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I work in the night club industry as a sideline, and I've been doing it since I was a teenager (sound and lighting tech). I'm pretty familiar, and your friends story is pretty unbelievable as well as being the ONLY one I've ever heard of.

-DS

Posted by DeviantSaint 2003-9-4 4:24:41 PM|| [www.livejournal.com/~deviantsaint] 2003-9-4 4:24:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Uh-huh. You do realize that those that get addicted to second-hand will usually transition to first-hand as a way of getting a portable fix? In other words, just because you haven't made the connection doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Smoke much, yourself?

Posted by Mitch H. 2003-9-4 4:45:15 PM|| 2003-9-4 4:45:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Been living with a smoker for 38 years, and still don't smoke. I have some scar tissue on one lung, but that's from six bouts with pneumonia between six months and 24 years. Both parents smoked, lots of other people I grew up with. Never got the habit. Don't believe secondhand smoke is the cause of anything but annoyance, and that depends on the individual's willingness to ignore the annoyance or do something about it. The rest is all hot air.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-4 9:18:37 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-4 9:18:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I started smoking just recently. Fortunately, it didn't take long for the fire fighters to put me out. Whew!

Trust me, my day job isn't all that, I'll try
anything.

(No midgets on rollerskates or horses with disco lights need apply)

Posted by Paul 2003-9-4 10:18:58 PM|| 2003-9-4 10:18:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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