Pot calling the Kettle .........

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Private Family Matters

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The idea that liberal Democrats like Barack Obama regard anything as a “private family matter” is ludicrous. As far as they are concerned, every single thing that you and your family do is a proper subject for government regulation. The doctrine of “choice” ends once your child is born. If you think that there is some other aspect of your life, or your family’s that is so personal and so private that the Democrats couldn’t possibly want to regulate and control it–well, then, you are a fool.

RIP Etta James

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By Those Who Know Better

Still, that won’t stop people being harangued anyway. A particularly unsavoury example of this appeared in Sunday’s Observer. Illiberal Liberal of the Week contender, columnist Barbara Ellen, declared that the bovine attitude of recent governments towards smokers and drinkers should apply to meat-eaters, too. Now that a precedent has been set - that people should be harangued for doing things that are legal but disapproved of by Those Who Know Better - Ellen is simply following through this logic by attacking those who like sausages, bacon and pies.
Here’s the argument:
people (like smokers and drinkers) who deliberately do things that are bad for them, despite being told time and again that they should not, are now lectured, restricted and even have their basic rights taken away;
eating meat - and particularly ‘processed’ meat - increases your risk of getting cancer and is bad for you;
therefore, people who eat meat should now be lectured, restricted and even have their basic rights taken away.

first they came for the smokers
i predicted when smoking was banned, drinking would be next, and then simply a downfall from there. "our betters" don't seem to realize that many who die of lung cancer never smoked, drunks have an amazing ability to survive themselves (go to any AA meeting and listen to the stories), and sometimes people just die. That is the way we were created. But then they don't believe in a supreme creator, so they wouldn't understand the simple workings of our world.

a truce has been called

I am at my sisters (the communist) and we have come to a truce - of sorts. Who has the last word, or who is the one who is right. I insist I am right and she can have the last word. She hasn't quite agreed to that - yet
at least we are all laughing

Comment of the Week

small dead animals

It must be demeaning to be a British water-boy for a US president with inherent Afro-Marxist contempt for the British.

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