Wednesday, October 24, 2012
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The Property Rights Newsletter October 26, 2012 - Issue #684 "We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatementof the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." -George Orwell |
CA Flamin Hot Cheetos banned in schools. School officials said the snack doesn't have enough nutritional value. Older students at Pasadena Unified School District have already been depleted of their choices of candy and junk food. Andrew Jackson Elementary School in Pasadena, said any student who brings the snack to school will have the item confiscated. Frito-Lay, the manufacturer of Flamin' Hot Cheetos said "it's committed to responsible and ethical marketing practice, which includes not marketing our products to chidren under ages 12 and under."
CA Boy kicked out of school because he has gene for cystic fibrosis. A California boy has been ordered to transfer to another middle school because he carries the gene for cystic fibrosis, even though he doesn't actually have the incurable, life-threatening and non-infectious disease. His parents have gone to court to fight the move. "I was sad but at the same time I was mad because I understood that I hadn't done anything wrong," Colman told TODAY. He added: "It feels like I'm being bullied in a way that is not right." 
Articles about children being suspended from school... for buying candy, playing with Kool-Aid, smelling like smoke, having a ham sandwich around Muslim students, having Tylenol, wearing perfume, for burping in class, having a plastic butter knife, for climbing on furniture (7 years old), for foul language, and more!
Why people don't think. By Cat Farmer. Once I recall asking a question of a supervisor, with the preface "I'm sure this is a dumb question ..." -- he answered, "The only dumb question is the one you don't ask." I thought that was a pretty good answer, and I hadn't even asked the question yet. Unfortunately, it seems that commonly practiced contemporary educational methods uniformly reflect an unquestioning faith in the conventional wisdom of the "shut up and listen" approach to molding young minds. Aggressively disarming children of youthful inquisitiveness at an early age, and training them not to ask questions but obediently parrot textbook answers instead hardly serves the interests of future generations wisely, or our own for that matter. Semantics.: About Orwell's and today's Newspeak. Doubleplusgood worth reading! Some changed and new words: Unhealthy Lifestyle - Actions which will someday be illegal. War on anything - An excuse to squash civil rights in order to rid the world of the thing we are fighting against... The Ten Biggest Lies about Smoke & Smoking. By Robert Hayes Halfpenny. In this World there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Never has an argument been won based on statistic alone. They can serve only as a point of departure. In a free and open society people must be allowed to operate as free agents without the fetters of the doomsayers. Life is a risk, but it is that risk which gives it zest. When we allow ourselves to sacrifice our freedoms for the sake of safety, we deserve neither safety nor freedom. World: Smokers Blogs. Watch instant postings to your favorite blogs. |
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
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The Property Rights Newsletter October 19, 2012 - Issue #683 "Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."-T.S. Eliot |
The Monster In The Living Room. By Dick Puddlecote. No slippery slope here, obviously. Ban under-threes from watching television, says study. Doctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol, on the amount of time children spend watching screens - and under-threes should be kept away from the television altogether, according to a paper in an influential medical journal published on Tuesday. Wow! We've seen the 'no safe limit' for tobacco ensconced in the feeble-minded political class, and the same agitprop is being developed for alcohol as we speak, but this guy has gone 'all in' already for TV watching.
Chocolate can create same high as opium: Links found between obese people and drug addicts. Chocolate has an effect on the brain similar to opium, according to a study that found amazing comparisons between obese people and drug addicts. In the study, a natural brain chemical called enkephalin - an endorphin with similar properties to opium - surged as rats began to eat M&M chocolates. When a drug was used to stimulate the dorsal neostriatum - the brain area releasing the chemical - the number of M&Ms eaten more than doubled. In the brain, enkephalin binds to molecular "receptors" sensitive to opiate chemicals to reduce pain and produce pleasurable feelings.
Anti-smoking measure snuffs out personal freedoms. Anti-smoking activists clearly have established that equal rights mean nothing to them. Don't people who smoke have as much of a right to commune in a bar of their choice with other smokers as nonsmokers do with other nonsmokers? The proposed law is unconstitutional and violates the most fundamental moral, political, and economic natural right Americans have. It's a law that seeks to prohibit a legal action. This law would add to the epidemic of job-killing over-regulation. It would diminish the free-market system and move us closer to a control system, similar to those of communist Russia and China.
Russia: Smoking ban bill headed for parliament. Foreign tobacco firms including British American Tobacco , Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, and Phillip Morris - control more than 90 percent of Russian sales and have been lobbying to soften the proposed legislation. UK: Read Freedom2choose: From the Chairman: Baby It's Cold Outside, Andrew Lansley and Anne Milton sacked, Bad Pun month: Stoptober and Octabber, F2C AGM and Committee 2012-13, News in brief, F2C Articles and official Blog, The Last Word. World: Smokers Blogs. Watch instant postings to your favorite blogs. |
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Friday, October 12, 2012
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The Property Rights Newsletter October 12, 2012 - Issue #682 "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."-Mark Twain |
The US Navy and Marine Corps state that The Smoker's Club's Michael J. McFadden was correct about Submarines and Smoking, based on the 2004 report, "Ventilation Even Protects Nonsmokers in Submarines." 8/7/12 Evaluating the effectiveness of the US Navy and Marine Corps Tobacco Policy: an assessment of secondhand smoke exposure in US Navy submariners. Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of the US Navy and Marine Corps tobacco policy in protecting submariners from secondhand smoke (SHS) by determining if non-tobacco users experienced a significant increase in urinary cotinine.
Controlling air quality is the route to reforming smoking bans. By Belinda Cunnison. For all the literature produced about it, there have been no medical caseswhere causation of medical conditions has been categorically proven to be due to low levels of exposure to tobacco smoke - a fact that has made many people question the need for any smoking ban, never mind one as comprehensive as the one found in Scotland. GA: Piedmont Henry Hospital soon will be a tobacco and smoke-free environment. Alfred's Thoughts: This is nothing more than a bold face lie. The science used for all these studies was proven to be wrong and nothing more than junk. Cancer Doctors have said that smoking does not give you cancer, they said that some people are pre-disposed to getting cancer no matter if they smoked or not. The fight that second hand smoke is bad for you is more junk science that the anti-smokers hang on to but they have no leg to stand on. What Henry Medical is doing is discriminating against not only the people they serve but their own employees as well. UK: University Hospital of North Staffordshire ditches ban on smoking. A SMOKING ban is being dropped at Staffordshire's biggest hospital because it is being flouted by so many patients and visitors. Four shelters for people to light up will now be provided. Another is planned for the maternity unit after heavily pregnant women were spotted with cigarettes by the front door. World: Smokers Blogs. Watch instant postings to your favorite blogs. |
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Friday, October 05, 2012
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The Property Rights Newsletter October 5, 2012 - Issue #681 "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world.Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead | |
Swiss reject full ban on smoking in public spaces. Voters in Switzerland have rejected a total ban on smoking in enclosed public places at a referendum. In some cantons, more than 70% of voters rejected the ban, according to Geneva newspaper La Tribune de Geneve. La Tribune de Geneve suggests voters rejected a full ban because they did not want to force the smaller cantons into changing their local laws, and because of resentment at perceived state interference in people's lives.
Scotland: New air cleaning technology could allow indoor smoking. Improvements in air cleaning technology and the recent publication of indoor air quality standards by the European Commission could enable the hospitality industry and other workplaces to allow smoking indoors. With another cold winter in the offing and more news in the headlines of Scottish pubs closing, Freedom to Choose (Scotland) has launched a petition calling for a review of the Scottish smoking ban. Freedom to Choose (Scotland) now urges the Scottish Parliament to allow the Scottish hospitality industry to flourish and allow venues the option of offering smoking accommodations by setting air quality standards that can be met through the use of modern air cleaning technology. Spokeswoman Belinda Cunnison says the organization hopes for a return to rationality, and a departure from special interest pressure politics in arriving at an acceptable and constructive compromise that will benefit the health, happiness and livelihoods of all Scots - smokers and non-smokers alike.
Smoking Ban Harms Bulgarian Pubs' Profit. The turnovers of pubs, cafes and bars across Bulgaria have fallen by 50% since the smoking in public ban was imposed. According to the National Public Opinion Center, only three percent of the smokers in Bulgaria have given up the habit since June 1st, 2012, when smoking in public places was banned in the country. However, the profit of many bars, nightclubs, pubs and cafes across the country has fallen by as much as 50%, which has forced some of the owners out of business. The situation in Germany is the same, as pub-keepers there say their profit has also shrunk by half since the smoking ban was introduced. World: Smokers Blogs. Watch instant postings to your favorite blogs. 
GA: Augusta smoking ban fails to get commission approval. Commissioners vote down attempt to toughen ordinance. Opponents said the ordinance was an overreach by government and would infringe on the private property rights of bar owners and others. Mayor Pro Tem Joe Bowles said it would essentially force business owners to make their employees and customers stand out in adverse weather to smoke. "That is intrusive on private individuals in my opinion," he said.
GA: Smoking ban fails during a Music Festival in Piedmont Park in Atlanta. This is a video story from WSB Channel 2 in Atlanta. IN: Beech Grove rejects smoking ban, welcomes Indy smokers. Four bar owners speaking against the ban convinced the council Monday that a ban would hurt their business. MO: Now that St. Louis has reached an accommodation with the Missouri Athletic Club and St. Charles has withdrawn its anti-smoking proposals, it is time for everyone to take a step back, take a deep breath, and revisit the reason for the bans. The assumption has been that secondhand smoke is the most dangerous substance known to mankind. That even casual exposure will cause harm. This is based upon a misreading of the surgeon general's report, which used the unfortunate phrase: "There is no known level of safe exposure." NC ALERT: Orange County Board Of Health Contemplates Broad Smoking Ban. "This actually is more comprehensive," she says. "It's very similar to the ban Durham County just passed. So it incorporates more government grounds, sidewalks, places where the public is invited in." The board of health is seeking public input about the ban. It's holding a public hearing at its next meeting Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the main library in Hillsborough. The board will vote on the ban immediately following the hearing. If adopted the ban then heads to the Board of County Commissioners for a final vote. SC: North Charleston city council votes against proposed smoking ban. It would have banned smoking in some public places. Instead council members passed a measure urging businesses in the city to go smoke-free voluntarily. | |
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