"Freedom" thread or something

^Not far from the truth. 

Western civilization could use a collapse. 

The T wrote: Don't want one.

Edited by King of Loss - June 01 2012 at 11:27

Mayor Bloomberg, as head of a good liberal city, is continuing to do what good liberals do....make more ridiculous infringements on rights!

A ban on large sodas.
It's pretty much universal for all venues.

Not only wrong, but as usual it's utterly silly because there's no ban on large other things that are bad for you.

Classic



Edited by JJLehto - June 02 2012 at 13:11

Crawling? I don't know if I'd say crawling but of course there's plenty.

Well first it's a city of what? 7 million people? So there's gunna be quite a number of everyone there, relative to the general population.
The only really conservative area though is Staten Island, though of course like any place there's plenty who aren't...they just don't get represented   The last blue collar, old school italian place left in NYC.
Most of those have moved to Long Island, Westchester County, or NJ since the 1970s

Oh I love local politics too much...anywho point was it's a liberal city and since liberalism these days = making stupid ass laws telling us what we can/can't do...this is just going with the flow.

OK...the winky face indicates a joke, I guess, but you've lost me

Of course some laws make sense and are even good, but as I've said a hundred times, government is really just people...and as people we need to prove our worth, so everything ALWAYS gets taken overboard. Which is a shame when good laws do become jokes...

but that's more or less the same point : O
There ARE no stupid laws indeed, just stupid people.
Of course people are the government now aren't they?


Oh you and your f**kin semantics...
They don't always...but I'm not gunna split hairs here. They almost always go overboard. Again I think it's just human nature. You wanna excel at your job. You could do good work, but it's easier and looks better to suck up to the manager.
So why stop a law at a certain point? Or just do your job? Looks better to take things farther and farther.

Like drugs? Why make sensible drug legislation with input from doctors/scientists/medical help when you can just scare people into a frenzy and spend on useless commercials?

Part of the issue with giving government (people) too much power!


Edited by JJLehto - June 02 2012 at 15:55

I think America needs some good ol' fashioned shock therapy.

I like police. 

Had to have one out today for a minor incident.  Another very nice, polite person.  They have always been the case for me.  And I'm not all that charming

So, I'll take the cops in my hood Teo and you can have the crims if you prefer that.  Sounds good to me.

Slart  that was awful situation.  Really glad it turned out OK for you.  I certainly would never say they're perfect, but some of the police-hate I read is just incredibly unfair and almost delusional.  In your case, I wouldn't blame you if you felt anti-cop, that was a big mistake they made.