The the Illinois smoking ban is effective January 1, 2008. Will this impact your life? I'm hoping it will force my chainsmoking mother to cut back and that none of the doomsday stories for mom and pop restaraunts will pan out. I wonder if there will be any tobacco shops that allow people to bring their own bottles popping up that are adjoined to liquor shops. Maybe they will charge for buckets of ice. Where there is a will there is a way.Labels: Augur, current events, health policy, state
EVIL RELIGIOUS LEADERS KILL INNOCENTS!
38 Comments Published by tet on Monday, October 1 at 7:30 AM.
Oops, sorry, I've got that exactly backwards:
EVIL SECULAR LEADERS KILL PACIFIST MONKS
Burma is just one more example of what I've been saying in here for over a year--Religion is the brake system on the tendency of humans to do evil, particularly when they're in positions of power. Keep in mind that those Buddhist monks don't believe in a God any more than most of you atheists. Their faith, however, gave them the strength to oppose a truly despicable regime.
I pray for their safety and the eventual overthrow of their government.
UPDATE: As of noon Eastern time, it looks like the death toll is in the thousands. There are new photographs at the above site. What I want to know is, "Where all the activist groups that normally bitch about everything while this is going on? "
Tom
EVIL SECULAR LEADERS KILL PACIFIST MONKS
Burma is just one more example of what I've been saying in here for over a year--Religion is the brake system on the tendency of humans to do evil, particularly when they're in positions of power. Keep in mind that those Buddhist monks don't believe in a God any more than most of you atheists. Their faith, however, gave them the strength to oppose a truly despicable regime.
I pray for their safety and the eventual overthrow of their government.
UPDATE: As of noon Eastern time, it looks like the death toll is in the thousands. There are new photographs at the above site. What I want to know is, "Where all the activist groups that normally bitch about everything while this is going on? "
Tom
Labels: current events, government, religion, Tet
