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06.29.2008 3:57 pm

Open Comment Time!!!

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It’s Sunday afternoon, and on Political Fix that once again signals it’s Open Comment time.

Post on any topic, person or event. As usual, please keep your comments civil, somewhat concise and directed at regional or local angles.

We welcome your thoughts, observations and knowledge.

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Tellfellhunden, you must be in a lot of pain; I’m sorry.
On the other hand, I sometimes seem to be in pain of sort too; a better kind, I believe. And mine was caught on tape.
http://www.youtube.com/user/BillHaasForCongress

— Bill Haas
9:12 pm June 29th, 2008

The laws of Autonomy created in the wake of one of history’s most horrific tragedies, are largely being minimized by the bigots and zealots of Public Sector Healthism, they are laws we found at the expense of millions who died without them. No one has the right to make or deceptively coerce those health choices for others and no one has a right to demand rights to the detriment of others, especially with the convenience of a popular lie, as we find in the “toxic effect of second hand smoke”. A theoretic invention promoted in gossip empowering gossip, which absolutely finds no consistency in real physical science.

Governments who seek to hide cigarettes from sight or remove smoking from movies and cartoons are consistent with the well known phrase “sweeping their embarrassments under the carpet”. The fact remains their own lack of credibility and consistency, is the largest reason most people smoke today. The fact the product remains on the shelf, despite their assertion the health risk of it’s aroma, is well beyond the harmful nature of mustard gas, is only consistent with the moral deficits of taxing an addiction. Punitive taxation to the point it creates budgetary receipts and projections, at triple the cost of treating all, of the so called “smoking related disease” in all of community, regardless of where those harms actually originate. The diesel buses of public transit certainly are no cause for concern. If we were to enact a legislation to outlaw air miles cards which promote one of the largest contributions to pollution in our environments we would be promoting public safety. If we outlawed the use of mercury filled light bulbs, which are currently destined [by fraudulent environmentalist, posing as light bulb salespeople] to add thousands of gallons of mercury and phosphorous chemicals into the landfills and our watersheds. We would be protecting public health and the environment.

Smoking bans are punishment not protection, as the Ontario Premier admitted numerous times publicly, in advance of the smoker bans “smokers better get out their carrot sticks or be punished.” [Normally a responsibility of the courts] Punishment is being used as a tool for illegal acts of coercion. The use of government authority, to force personal autonomous decisions out of their range of government jurisdiction, in respect to the management of ones own body.

Anyone dense enough to believe Politicians and anti smoker lobbies are thinking about the safety of the public is missing the boat. This is about creating a destroyed identity.And it’s just a warm up for more to come.

Governments are facing a huge financial problem associated with an aging population. This is the cowards way out. By shifting health responsibility to the public they are hoping to shirk their financial responsibilities. The service of bigotry in turning us upon ourselves will allow the soap box dwellers to claim their superiority once more and leave the rest of us to fight among ourselves.

— Kevin
9:16 pm June 29th, 2008

The laws of Autonomy created in the wake of one of history’s most horrific tragedies, are largely being minimized by the bigots and zealots of Public Sector Healthism, they are laws we found at the expense of millions who died without them. No one has the right to make or deceptively coerce those health choices for others and no one has a right to demand rights to the detriment of others, especially with the convenience of a popular lie, as we find in the ”toxic effect of second hand smoke”. A theoretic invention promoted in gossip empowering gossip, which absolutely finds no consistency in real physical science.

Governments who seek to hide cigarettes from sight or remove smoking from movies and cartoons are consistent with the well known phrase “sweeping their embarrassments under the carpet”. The fact remains their own lack of credibility and consistency, is the largest reason most people smoke today. The fact the product remains on the shelf, despite their assertion the health risk of it’s aroma, is well beyond the harmful nature of mustard gas, is only consistent with the moral deficits of taxing an addiction. Punitive taxation to the point it creates budgetary receipts and projections, at triple the cost of treating all, of the so called “smoking related disease” in all of community, regardless of where those harms actually originate. The diesel buses of public transit certainly are no cause for concern. If we were to enact a legislation to outlaw air miles cards which promote one of the largest contributions to pollution in our environments we would be promoting public safety. If we outlawed the use of mercury filled light bulbs, which are currently destined [by fraudulent environmentalist, posing as light bulb salespeople] to add thousands of gallons of mercury and phosphorous chemicals into the landfills and our watersheds. We would be protecting public health and the environment.

Smoking bans are punishment not protection, as the Ontario Premier admitted numerous times publicly, in advance of the smoker bans “smokers better get out their carrot sticks or be punished.” [Normally a responsibility of the courts] Punishment is being used as a tool for illegal acts of coercion. The use of government authority, to force personal autonomous decisions out of their range of government jurisdiction, in respect to the management of ones own body.

Anyone dense enough to believe Politicians and anti smoker lobbies are thinking about the safety of the public is missing the boat. This is about creating a destroyed identity.And it’s just a warm up for more to come.

Governments are facing a huge financial problem associated with an aging population. This is the cowards way out. By shifting health responsibility to the public they are hoping to shirk their financial responsibilities. The service of bigotry in turning us upon ourselves will allow the soap box dwellers to claim their superiority once more and leave the rest of us to fight among ourselves.

— Kevin
9:31 pm June 29th, 2008

a great and fascinating site regardless of your political persuasions:
http://www.grassrootsnetroots.org/survey2008/results/
C_H_MO_2nd_Haas_Bill.cfm
yea, I’m on it, but it’s a great site anyhow;
this url will take you to the page you can get to homepage from;
dont know how to put some on you can just click on; I’m sure Jo does if she likes site.
I got a 100 on the survey, but sort of cheated: I have good ideas! not as good as the survey makers do, tho; I learned lots just from the survey, and you know how hard that is for me; you know what they say about a Yale guy (person): ”you can always tell a Yale man but you cant tell him much.”
probably different for Yale women tho.

— Bill Haas
9:33 pm June 29th, 2008

A busy week in the 5th. Today in the Pride parade Wright-Jones greeted with Ooh’s & kisses!, Hubbard with boo’s & hisses! The Gay & Lesbian community calls’em like they see’em. Word on the street early this week was Hubbard was flat broke, not exactly true, but nowhere near the 50k he had on hand @ the end of March. Somewhere around 1,600. His pleas for more cash fell upon deaf ears. So Rep Hubbard is going bare bones down the stretch, releasing almost all of his campaign staff this past week. Now the kicker is that wasn’t the custom suits, new car, or high profile in the club. It was helping Rep. Jamilah Nashhed in her heated campaign for re-election & Tishaura Jones candidate for the 63rd, no relation to Wright-Jones an ugly tale was going around saying she was her daughter. Well after the 6th ward scandal, there are more Wright-Jones’ signs in the 6th than any other ward, looks Lewis Reed & Kacie Star-Triplett played the wrong hand. Wright-Jones received the 20th Ward & the E-board reccomendation for the 28th Ward, along Sen. Coleman’s official endorsement, and PROMO. Not a bad week. This is starting shape up like the classic “The tortuise & The Hare” or the two bulls @ the top of the hill.

A tip of the hat to the Board of AB. People over profits, doesn’t happen often. Hopefully it’s sincere and not posturing.

— Rick James
10:37 pm June 29th, 2008

Park Ranger Injured….Part 2

There is indeed a Political undercurrent to this story, but you’d have to be from the neighborhood to know it. The building that the fleeing man hit, is 100 yards from mine, maybe less. Another hundred yards East, and you have the Missouri State Correctional facility, that releases 300 men, and 100 women every day in their attempt to re-enter society. Most do. But some, enough, never leave the neighborhood. A few of the women ’stroll’ exactly there, where this attacker was laid on the pavement. there is a constant street element that co-mingles with these people, and the usual drugs, hookers, scrapping activities prevail. There are buildings here, that allow all of these elements to occupy them for cash, 50.00 a week, no permits, no legal usage for the building whatsoever… and no amount of work orders with the city can clean it up. Heck, that’s who you saw, on the news. The witnesses live in a warehouse that has had 150 people in and out of it in the last three years. The street people that hang out in front of Rock Bottom Wholesale ( 2 dead ) hang out with these same folks. The mayor has been asked by me, in person to require the prison (land owned by Ashcroft), to at least patrol the area, and create a ‘red zone’ for those coming and going…to no avail. There is no Homeland Security here.

— CHUCKtheFED
10:52 pm June 29th, 2008

Teufelhunden,

You sound to be as mentally and morally corupted as the criminals you’ve described.

— D. Walker
11:17 pm June 29th, 2008

Teufelhunden,

You sound to be as mentally and morally corrupted as the criminals you’ve described.

— D. Walker
11:18 pm June 29th, 2008

John Banzhaf and his group, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), America’s premier antismoking organization, with a press release this week, now officially advocate a ban on smoking in all private homes, apparently even if children are not present, and even if the smoke is not drifting into an adjoining dwelling. I wonder if Martin Pion of Missouri GASP, Smoke-Free St. Louis City and antismoking Missouri Senator Joan Bray are willing to go this far? They should not be excused from comment on this ASH press release by the Post-Dispatch

http://www.pr-inside.com/majority-want-smoking-banned-in-all-r665258.htm

— Bill Hannegan
1:13 am June 30th, 2008

GOP rules and Hillery Clinton not Obama would be the nominee

Obama 1143 Delegates.
Clinton 1148 Delegates add Michigan she has 1178.
According to CNN and Fox news the GOP candidate needs 1191 to lock up the nomination. The bottom line is nobody would have had enough delegates and my guess would be that Hillery Clinton since she would have been ahead in delegates would be the nominee for president of the United States. Take Michigan out of the picture she wins by just 5 delegates. Things that make you go hum.

http://themiddlerightisright.blogspot.com/

— Dave
6:36 am June 30th, 2008

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