Smoking Ban "Same Thing" As Persecution Of Jews
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Topic: Smoking Ban "Same Thing" As Persecution Of Jews
Posted By: Textbook
Subject: Smoking Ban "Same Thing" As Persecution Of Jews
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 17:38
| http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/john-raese-smoking-ban-hitler_n_1437201.html" rel="nofollow - I can't enough of how Hitler put the Star Of David on EVERYBODY'S lapel. |
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Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 17:40
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Glenn Beck, anyone?
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 18:05
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This is stupid. Both the ban and, even more so, this guy's comparison. ------------- 
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 18:30
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Hyperbole will be the death of us all. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 19:31
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Eh he's just playing the game...which if you're a republican currently, that means going out of your way to prove how uber super duper anti government you are. Needless to say almost none of them really espouse that so best to pick something easy like smoking bans and really go overboard. |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 19:50
| Remember: Republicans are the party that believe that big government doesn't work and whenever they get into office, boy do they prove it. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 19:55
Sadly, the Dems seem to be the ineffective ones. GOP gets the job done...a little too well in fact  |
Textbook wrote:Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 21:18
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There are too many threads in this sub forum these days. >:-O ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 22:16
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Is this news? Wow a politician used hyperbole to express a view. Move on.
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 22:19
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It's news in terms of the bigger picture of what is and isn't acceptable for the class of person who believes they should be in government to say. If you wouldn't mind at all if the leader of your country said "everybody had to wear Stars of David" and "this was the same as banning smoking" then I guess it isn't news, but I would. Exposure needs to be given to this sort of thing to let people know this level of idiocy is not OK in politics. |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 22:28
| What level of idiocy, then, IS okay? |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 22:32
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There's bigger things to worry about than how a politician words his statements. He doesn't say anywhere that they're acts of equal devastation or anything like that. He just makes a stupid comparison. It's just words. We should be more concerned about actions, especially serious ones. We're involved in a dozen wars and hot combat activities and the phrasing a potential senator uses to describe a smoking bank should make me upset? ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 23:55
| But these people go into the senate and then vote on these dozen wars. Shouldn't we be interested in whether they're blathering idiots or not? |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 00:16
| Rather than start a new thread about it, I'll just say here that I saw a link that said "Rachel Maddow On Keith Olberman" which made me feel quite unwell. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 01:24
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Who is he playing to?; most in the Judeo-Christian community will be horrified, Republicans will hate him for saying something so witless, smokers will resent being used, and Jews, well... |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 06:37
Because people who say idiotic things like that wind up getting elected and then proceed to pass idiotic laws. It's not a matter of upset for me more of a concern. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 07:24
They do? As far as I know the two opinions are not related. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 07:25
Every politician is an idiot. I'm more worried about the ones who do stupid things than the ones who may do stupid things. You're reading too much into the comment. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 10:59
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