Next, They Ban Everything Else
By Mitch Berg
The DFL wants to ban smoking in cars.
For the children, naturally:
…[U]nder a bill expected to be introduced today at the state Capitol, lawmakers will consider extending that prohibition to your ride.Backed by the same groups that helped enact the statewide ban on smoking in bars and restaurants, the new bill would prohibit smoking in cars when children are present.
“It’s our children who are breathing this air,” said Rep. Nora Slawik, DFL-Maplewood, chief author of the bill in the House. “That is a concern for all of us.”
So given that so many peoole start smoking so very young, what if it’s the kid doing the smoking?
January 29th, 2009 at 10:29 am
They need to ban cell phone use before smoking in cars, 9 out of 10 idiots I ran acorss swerving all over the road have a cell glued to their ear.
I’ll never forget the guy who flew by my, phone to his ear, only to be greeted by break lights, the screeching was deafening, he literally went up on two tires and barely avoided and full speed rear-ender, A few moments later while he was caught in traffic, I passed him. He was totally unfazed at the near calamity, and the phone still pressed against his ear.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:43 am
There ain’t no end to the good that needs to be done.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Umm, excuse me, Rep. Slawik, but it isn’t “our” chiildren, it’s “my” children. I don’t smoke and my children haven’t been exposed to second-hand smoke, drugs, porn — or had first-hand exposure to the MEA for that matter. Other parents may not be able to say the same, but that is their responsibility to establish (for good or ill) the standards for their family. I will always resist any collectivist thinking that makes children (and adults) wards of the nanny state.
January 29th, 2009 at 11:35 am
“They need to ban cell phone use before smoking in cars, 9 out of 10 idiots I ran acorss swerving all over the road have a cell glued to their ear.”
100% agreement. I have a hands free setup in my car and even then I try to avoid using it when driving in heavy traffic.
January 29th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Holy effing shit.
For the love of Christ, I don’t want to ban anything in the car. Madonn! Get your representatives, bills, laws, and other jackassary out of my backseat, passenger seat, trunk, state regulated and mandated child safety seat, glove compartment, from under my hood, and from the compacted ice and snow in the wheel wells.
I’m going to need a drink.
January 29th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Oh, by the way… go fuck yourself, DFL.
January 29th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Hold on, isn’t the state proposing to sell bonds to be repaid with anticipated future revenue from the tobacco settlement? I believe the money is intended for K-12 education funding.
Where do you think that money comes from? It comes from people buying tobacco, duh.
We NEED those little kids hooked early, so they start buying smokes to repay the bonds we’re selling to raise education money . . . for the children.
It’s a Democrat thing. You wouldn’t understand.
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January 29th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Why don’t we all just turn our kids over to the state and be done with it? Let’s just ban private parenting.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
swimming frog thinks, “Hmmm, getting warm in here…”
January 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
“Why don’t we all just turn our kids over to the state and be done with it? ”
Well, there was a point last week, I think Wednesday, where I did consider that very option *laughing* Damn Teenagers!
January 29th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
[…] Update: I completely forgot to link back to my radio partner Mitch Berg on this post; be sure to read his take. As for the hysteric in the comments who called smoking around children “child abuse”, a hell of a lot of us must be past victims of abuse, then. What else is abuse? Forcing children to grow up in Los Angeles? R-rated movies? Time outs? Puh-leeeze. […]
January 29th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Of course, flash, the bastards would just turn us over to the state when we got too old.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Whew. Turning my kids over to the State would be like embedding two John Galt’s. I may have to give this some thought.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
NW – — or had first-hand exposure to the MEA for that matter.
Let’s hope we still have that option a couple of years from now!
January 29th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
If they really cared about the children, they would ban NPR from playing in a car while children are in it.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Mayor Bloomberg has declared war on salt. I guess he’s got the two front war going now, the other with trans-fats.
Pardon me sir, where is this hand basket going to?
January 29th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
[shunning temporarily lifted]
NYC: Trans fats? Out. Fat trannies? Still o.k.
[shunning resumed]
January 29th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Congratulations AssClown, that’s got to be a relief.
January 29th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
And here i thought all our liberties were lost under Bush.
January 29th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Who knew that the day would come when you couldn’t get decent cheeseburger basket in New York City?
January 29th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
[shunning temporarily lifted]
…
[shunning resumed]
Tell yourself what you need to…
BTW, did your “wife” give you a big hug when you said “she” is still in?
January 29th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
[Shunning extended by another three months. You may reapply no sooner than April 30. Angryclown isn’t liking your chances.]
January 29th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
This is cool! You can ‘shun’ someone and still chat with them if you put your words in square brackets!
I knew this gay guy once who said he’d been ‘shunned’ by some Quakers in PA after an unmentionable incident. I told him that couldn’t have been too traumatic, and he said “Hell, shun don’t mean what you think it means. As soon as any of them saw me they’d tear a branch off a tree and start hitting me with it!”
January 29th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
That’s just wrong, Terry. Who shunned Clownie? He’s essential comic relief now that Peev is stinking up Anti-Strib.
January 30th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Hey, what are you guys complainin’ ’bout? The police in Minneapolis can already give you a ticket for just IDLING your car for more than three minutes- you guys thought you could get away with, like, driving?? While smoking??
January 30th, 2009 at 1:48 am
I already banned smoking in my car. Along with singing with my radio. Somedays I enforce the no talking also.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:54 am
Nah Terry, I temporarily suspended the shunning so I could use something from Mr. Shi(r)t’s post as material for a funny joke. He was unable to handle even that small consideration, so his shunning has been extended. You won’t see Angryclown respond to Mr. Shi(r)t until April 30, at the earliest.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Shirt,
Opportunity is banging on your door with one of those SWAT team battering rams.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:22 am
That’s ATF agents, Mitch.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:48 am
I have heard through unsubstantiated sources that the police department in Lake Minnetonka is citing drivers who throw cigarette butts out the window. The fine, I’m told is $250 and falls under the rubric of “littering.” It is a local ordinance. I’m sure it’s the result of some local do-gooders being annoyed at drivers for A) having the terpitude to ingest cigarettes and, B) believing their biodegradeable butts pose no imminent threat to Our Mother.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I temporarily suspended the shunning so I could use something from Mr. Shi(r)t’s post as material for a funny joke. He was unable to handle even that small consideration, so his shunning has been extended. You won’t see Angryclown respond to Mr. Shi(r)t until April 30, at the earliest.
Yeah, & Mr. Shirt suspended his not giving a damn, to dish out a burn that AC wishes he had thought up. [resume not giving a damn]
January 30th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I’m sure AC will find a way to “recycle” my comment towards someone else soon…