Comments on: A New Year Brings New Laws

It's 2009: You Cannot Text While Driving In Calif., Smoke In An Oregon Bar, Or Pee In Public In N.H.

[nobdysfool]

"In Oklahoma only "fire-safe" cigarettes designed to prevent fires will be sold in the state beginning today"

What in the h*ll is a "fire-safe" cigarette?

[nmparadise-2009]

To libssuck 3. Undoubtedly you are not aware of this, but you are one of the stupid people. If I were you, I would never write another comment anywhere on the internet. Because no one cares what your unintelligent and uninformed opinions are.

[grimreap21]

You don''''t have a constitutional right to text message and kill people. Get your head out of the sand.
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Posted by vranger at 03:18 PM : Jan 01, 2009

It really bugs me when people use the phrase "You don''t have a constitutional right"

You should not need a constitutional right to do anything. Governements of any type can not grant rights. Rights are self evident. Government can only take rights away. As long as we the people let the government we are supposed to control, control us, it will keep chipping away at our rights until we have none left.

I am not saying it is ok to text message while driving, frankly it is stupid. Just wanted to make the point about government.

Remember this: "People should not be afraid of the government, government should be afaid of the people." V form V for Vendetta

[wardoglrs]

Stupid voter = Stupid Leaders= Stupid law''s

[rudy6543]

Obuma smokes, I would love for him to go into a resturant in OR, UT, WA or CA and light one up! lol! people are so stupid and you voted for those morons to run your community!


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Posted by libssuck3 at 04:50 PM

Can you be any more incoherent in all you have said?

[rudy6543]

Posted by auscross1277 at 03:39 PM

As long as employers continue to hire them, and they do and they are republican in the majority of case, that isn''t going to happen. And until the immigration laws make it easier for poor people to come to this country, people will continue to come illegally. Like it or not.

[tlphippy]

80% of the idiots that pass these smoking bans in bars and restaurants don''t even go to these places.
So why the hell do they get a say in the matter?

[auscross1277]

A New Year Brings New Laws
*** I just want them to enforce the existing immigration laws! If you came here illegally... you need to get out of our country and return to where you came from... The only way illegals should be allowed to become citizens is if they go back to where they came from, and get to the back of the line behind everyone else that is trying to apply to legally enter the USA... NO AMNESTY!

[raskal_2]

make many laws and the people of a country become restless, and many thieves come. Are we sure that all laws are the best answer to having to pee. They do make plastic soda bottles that will not dissolve for a very long time. A strange brew...and I getting so restless I have to pee.

[vranger]

Gee could anyone be more thoroughly wrong about EVERYTHING they post about than this William### moron! ROFL

In case you didn''t know, idiot, there are other idiots like you out there killing themselves and others as the merrily text message away while driving. You don''t have a constitutional right to text message and kill people. Get your head out of the sand.

[william783]

Text messaging laws are geared toward public anger and sentiment towards the capitalization of the internet. Thats how congressmen make their money.. they invest in future laws.

[william783]

The smoking laws are stupid. Any state that has those has got some.. weird politicians running things.

[william783]

Insurance for accidents dramatically decreases when the state has a national healthcare program.

[panhandlpete]

New Laws, New Laws and forget about all the OLD LAWS, like immigration laws. These elected officials have to have something to do to justify their positions. I do agree with the blogger that said we should repeal the vast majority of laws on the books. Somehow the old horse and buggy day laws still exist about domestic matters and in some cases, slavery issues. All laws should have a review clause and become mute if not reviewed. Now that would keep law clerks working normal hours, and make lawyers have coronaries trying to keep current.

For every law written, someone loses a freedom of choice. If it is not me, should I care?

[stupidrules3]

People need to look past their own self-centered, selfish interests and see the big picture. It''''s not your world, it''''s our world. Almost everything anyone does affects somebody else. Whether you agree with them or not, laws like these do not outlaw self-destructive behavior, but are intended to limit that behavior and their affect on others who may not want to take part in it.


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Posted by cj7jeepstir at 01:07 PM : Jan 01, 2009

Wait until it is your turn to be told that you cannot do what you want and then the view will be a little different.
Did anyone ever notice that they do not take laws off the books? It is not the government''s job to take care of everybody. Heck, they cannot even afford to do what they have already mandated. The government''s overreaching will eventually cause a backlash that will not be pretty. There will eventually be so many laws that everyone in the nation will be a lawbreaker because almost everything will be illegal.

[hitoyou11]

People need to look past their own self-centered, selfish interests and see the big picture.
You sure do. I bet you are the one saying don''t smoke. As long as it is not you being told what to do, you are ok. No I don''t smoke, and I don''t tell others not to. There are a lot more things in the AIR that are going kill you, quicker then smoke.

[jsutaguy]

Yet, it''s still completely legal to run a multi-year scam on Wall STreet, and get paid BiLLIONS for it, by taking money out of the pockets of every person in this country:

F u*k the rich. F u*k them.


They''re only rich because they''ve stolen our money by manipulating gasoline prices:
http://tinyurl.com/56onza

Food and Drink prices:
http://tinyurl.com/7psauc

And by taking 7.7 Trillion dollars of our tax money and giving it to Wall Street parasites:
http://tinyurl.com/96a7s4

Who use it to pay for their fourth and fifth luxury homes: http://tinyurl.com/5qf7cu

And taxpayer funded parties: http://tinyurl.com/562moo

While our elderly are forced into the streets by the absurdly rising costs of everything, all manipulated by Wall Street
http://tinyurl.com/9lyamh


How much longer are we going to tolerate these parasites that are destroying our lives, the lives of our children and our elderly parents?

How much longer?

[roystoll2]

Why is this the only country in the world ruled by a minority group?

[eXecuTech]

WOW! It never ceases to amaze me what these @$$hole politicians do to "justify" their existence. I TOTALLY agree with antixlayer in that these jerks need to spend their time and OUR TAX DOLLARS poring over the REAMS of laws already on the books and repeal the vast majority of them.

The ONLY thing these morons should be doing is protecting and reinforcing our (and their!) freedom by ensuring that any and all laws passed are in accordance with the Constitution. If a law doesn''t imminently protect OUR INHERENT RIGHTS to life, LIBERTY, and property, it shouldn''t be written. PERIOD!

Passing laws against what we do with or put in our own bodies as individuals is not only stupid and wrong, it is ILLEGAL ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION! So WHY do we keep putting up with it???

One day sooner than later, WE as FREE CITIZENS need to unite against THEM as the felonious traitors and thieves they are and restore our rights as intended by the Founding Fathers.

Live free or die, indeed!

[cj7jeepstir]

I still want to know what gives the Government the right to tell me what I can eat and where I can smoke.
If I want to blow out a lung or be as fat as a haouse it is my business not theirs.

Posted by demswin08

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I''m always amazed at how narrow-mindedly people look at things like this.

First off, they are not telling you what you can and cannot eat. They are telling restaurants that they cannot serve a know dangerous substance to unknowing customers. You are still totally free to go and buy all the garbage you want and shove it down your gullet until you explode.

As far as smoking goes, you are still totally free to smoke yourself into a nice, comfy, rectangular box as fast as you want. But considering the known affects of second-hand smoke, they are attempting to limit the number of unwilling people you can take with you.

People need to look past their own self-centered, selfish interests and see the big picture. It''s not your world, it''s our world. Almost everything anyone does affects somebody else. Whether you agree with them or not, laws like these do not outlaw self-destructive behavior, but are intended to limit that behavior and their affect on others who may not want to take part in it.