[Speed Gibson,
Sunday September 30, 2007 at 9:28pm]
Supervised Ingestation
Starting tomorrow morning, all breakfasts served in Minnesota restaurants are subject to police supervision. Ditto with lunch, dinner, and adult beverages. You can (so far), eat several days' worth of fat, salt, or cholesterol. You can drink yourself into a stupor. But don't you dare light up, even with the permission of the owner of the private property. It is the judgment of our Legislature and Governor that we are not smart enough to make such decisions on our own.
We appear to be making some good progress in debunking "Global Warming." The anti-smoking lobby is just as bereft of evidence, even more so. While there is some evidence of some warming in the 20th century (none in the 21st century so far), the "second hand smoke" Nazis (our Governor among them) have nothing. No death certificates, no research, no statistical analysis showing causation, nothing. And yet they won. And we lost, including me a lifetime non-smoker.
Will I be healthier as a result? Of course not. Will my grandchildren be healthier? Show me how. In fact, show me that you aren't in fact harming them by limiting low level exposure that would inoculate them?
I lose because still more of our favorite places will close. Particularly at risk are the family / sole proprietor places who don't have the money or options that the franchises have to overcome the loss of business we've seen everywhere else this has been tried. (Beware of phony claims based on tax revenues or hotel occupancy rates.)
I score this as another triumph of our modern education system, turning out a population that actually seems to think this is a good idea, even if they can't begin to defend it.
We appear to be making some good progress in debunking "Global Warming." The anti-smoking lobby is just as bereft of evidence, even more so. While there is some evidence of some warming in the 20th century (none in the 21st century so far), the "second hand smoke" Nazis (our Governor among them) have nothing. No death certificates, no research, no statistical analysis showing causation, nothing. And yet they won. And we lost, including me a lifetime non-smoker.
Will I be healthier as a result? Of course not. Will my grandchildren be healthier? Show me how. In fact, show me that you aren't in fact harming them by limiting low level exposure that would inoculate them?
I lose because still more of our favorite places will close. Particularly at risk are the family / sole proprietor places who don't have the money or options that the franchises have to overcome the loss of business we've seen everywhere else this has been tried. (Beware of phony claims based on tax revenues or hotel occupancy rates.)
I score this as another triumph of our modern education system, turning out a population that actually seems to think this is a good idea, even if they can't begin to defend it.