- From the “How Dare You!?” Department – Congressional busybodies are taking the electronic cigarette industry to task for having the gall to actually advertise their product. They also take issue with the way in which e-cigarette manufacturers tailor their product to the tastes of their customers, particularly where they make it taste like something that people want to taste. Their assertion is that all this is done as part of some nefarious scheme to get kids hooked on tobacco and take us back to the bad old days where a carton of Lucky Strikes was shipped, at no cost, to each and every school child in America. How dare these companies try to advertise a product to young adults that might get them hooked on nicotine, but probably won’t give them emphysema or cancer? I mean, yes, prohibition of tobacco, in any form, would work so well, and making its use a taboo will make 19 year olds not want to have anything to do with it. Bravo for those brave Congresscritters who took time out of their busy days to demand that something be done for the just-a-little-too-old-to-be-children. Of course, it has to be couched in terms of protecting underage youths, but until we find a way to keep a 17-year-old from not seeing an ad while allowing an 18-year-old to see it, we just have to get rid of all advertising of potentially harmful products, such as tobacco, alcohol, fast food, fast cars, and politicians.
- From the “In A Mirror Darkly” Department – Remember my screed a couple of days ago about us needing more taxes so that people might get outraged and demand reform? This article over at the New Republic looks at the same issue from the other side of the political coin.
- From the “Facepalm” Department – A local Louisville florist is selling prom corsages that come with a gift certificate for Kentucky Fried Chicken so that the young man can hang a leg or a wing on the corsage before he pins it to his date’s breast. You know, I remember my little girl sitting at the dinner table just the other night, wistfully speaking of her dream of going to prom or the JROTC ball smelling of fried chicken and having grease stains on her gown. Something tells me that if a boy ever tries to hang one of these on Girlie Bear, he’s going to need me to protect him from her, rather than the other way around.
- From the “Overreaction” Department – Several children in Chicago were rushed to the hospital recently when a restaurant mistakenly served them alcohol spiked punch. It appears that after the staff realized their mistake, they swooped in and retrieved the children’s cups. The parents then became irate, and this apparently freaked out the kids enough that several of them became physically ill. Because, you know, a couple of ounces of Hawaiian Punch with a bit of rum in it is enough to dissolve the kids from the inside out, and the only antidote is to induce vomiting through parental outrage. And to think, my father took my young life in his hands on multiple occasions by letting me take sips of his beer, even to the point that I took a nice, long nap afterward. My thoughts and prayers are with these kids, because with parents that uptight, they’re going to need them.
- From the “Outrage” Department – Two men in California have been accused of raping and killing at least four women while wearing GPS tracking bracelets and being under supervision of the state for previous sexual crimes. Gee, it’s almost as if sex offenders can’t be rehabilitated and will tend to re-offend if let loose as wolves among the sheep. The really outrageous thing here is that both men were arrested in 2012 after cutting off their ankle bracelets so they could party in Las Vegas. I guess putting a little bracelet on someone and making them check in every 30 days isn’t as effective as 10 feet of good hemp rope.
- From the “Indefensible” Department – A miscreant in Chicago is in custody after he pointed a gun at people in a store over the sales tax on his soda. Apparently Captain Success feels that he should be exempt from taxes and tried to make his point with a .22 semi-automatic. Personally, I’m insulted by his actions, and if he’s guilty, I hope he’s put away for a very long time. The constitutional right to keep and bear arms does not mean he has the right to use a gun to be a dickhead. We’ve made a lot of progress in the past few years, but jackasses like this make things hard for everyone, especially gun owners in Illinois. Oh, and unless that thing had a happy switch, someone needs to get in touch with the journalists in this case and ask them to stop calling what he pulled out of his waistband a “submachine gun”.
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Posted by daddybear71 on April 15, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/04/15/news-roundup-216/
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