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I had planned on posting a different entry today, but I will push it off until tomorrow. A few years ago my city decided to go no smoking. I was torn on this decision. As an asthmatic I was thrilled but it didn't seem too fair to business owners. Several establishments lost so much business they had to close down. Smoking patrons of establishments often found themselves going outside of city limits for their guilty pleasures. This obviously meant not just less money for business' in city limits but also meant less tax dollars to our city. I often wondered why instead of a smoking ban they couldn't have enforced better ventilation in bars and restaurants.

Well the smoking ban has now expanded. Beginning July 1, 2006 Colorado will become a no smoking state. The ban however excludes casino's, the smoking lounge at DIA, and hotels and motels. Hmmmm I wonder why someone gets to decide which business don't have to suffer the impacts of the ban?

Don't get me wrong, being able to go home after a night on the town not smelling like an ashtray and being able to breath is fine with me. HOWEVER... before the ban I had the choice of going out to not so ventilated places or otherwise or God forbid, not going out at all. A ban is not the answer and I think we will see in the next few years how detrimental it is to business. Looks like those who need that nicotine fix while in a public place are going to have to join those dirty pot smokers in the bathroom stall.

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I am currently working on an entry for tomorrow. SInce I know you can't live without my insight for an extra day here is one from the files posted last year :

Day of Silence

I have been unable to access my blog this week, until today. A few items have come through the news I would like to discuss, so I may have a few entries today. I am a bit (understatement) appalled by the Day of Silence that apparently took place yesterday. I have looked at a few websites to find out exactly what this is about, for instance www.gsanetwork.org/resources/dos/html So the Day of Silence is something that takes place at schools, and I assume any other places that would allow it. This is a day that is to bring awareness to people of all sexual orientations. Not only are students involved but teachers as well. At some of these schools the teachers wrote their lessons on the boards and didn't speak all day. It is funny that we cannot speak of Religion or other things but we can have a whole day based on supporting of not only sex but gay sex. When I went to high school, no one spoke out about being homosexual, not only that but you also did not talk about having sex with people of the opposite sex. Now, I know, that just because you are gay doesn't necessarily mean you are having sexual intercourse with people, but COME ON.. This is supposedly a day to promote tolerance, I am tolerant, but I would have to think that if this happened while I was in school, I would go out of my way to promote the straight life. The students that would like to focus on their studies are having a complete disruption to their day. I know there are disruptions at school everyday, you have assemblies, and so forth, but do they have fat kid assemblies, or such? I find this to be a complete joke, and believe it promotes the opposite of what it claims to want to promote. This is another one of those things when you are supposed to be ashamed of being straight? Let me ask this question, Beseny I would love to hear your response, Do you think that it has become a fad, to be gay? Do you think it is the new rebellious thing to do? I remember kids getting in trouble for public displays of affection, do teachers feel that they are able to discipline same sex pda as well, or do they even want to? I do not find it odd that teachers are for this nonsense. (Teachers are a big liberal group, you will find they as well as homosexuals, single women, minorities and non religious, among others are all people you usually see as liberals. Of course there are a few deviations from that) Of course not only that but this gave those lazy unionites a reason to slack through the day! So God forbid we say the Pledge of Allegiance, at all let alone with the word God in it, but next will we have a Rainbow flag next to our American Flag or heck maybe even standing alone, with no stars and stripes in site.

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Berkley came out with a study that finds whiny kids grow up to be conservatives and "confident, resilient, self-reliant" libs. Berkley huh. Does butch lesbian = confident, resilient, self-reliant? I suppose their study subjects would reflect that conclusion.

On the other hand and more importantly and accurately GQ reports their findings of another study "Republicans are better and kinkier in the sack."

What more do I need to say?

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A family who was planning on making a visit to Canada, decided to cancel their trip due to Canada's heinous seal hunts. Interesting, I wonder where they decided to vacation instead..... hmmmmm. The family wrote letters to all Senators letting them know of their boycott of the beer loving hockey playing country. Only one Senator replied, with what appears to be a jumping the gun, preaching to the choir, ridiculous letter. The Senator who has a history of how shall I put it, utterly detesting our Country,according to the CBC articleclaims

"the daily massacre of innocent people in Iraq, the execution of prisoners mainly blacks in American prisons, the massive sale of handguns to Americans, the destabilization of the entire world by the American government's aggressive foreign policy, etc."

How sad that a seemingly intelligent woman would say something so stupid. Celine Hervieux-Payette, evidently felt the family needed to look at their Country before lambasting hers, stating that "The family "did not choose a good cause," Wow, for her to think that you would think she would have come up with some better issues herself. Silly Silly woman..
"The daily massacre of innocent people in Iraq"- You mean by the not so innocent people in Iraq, like Al Qaeda or other Iraqi's?
"The execution of prisoners – mainly blacks – in American prisons" You mean the prisoners that MURDER people?
"The massive sale of handguns to Americans" You mean to protect law abiding citizens from said prisoners?
"The destabilization of the entire world by the American government's aggressive foreign policy" You mean by protecting those people who are tortured and have no rights, or do you mean by sending funds to 3rd world Countries so that their money hungry leaders can live in the lap of luxury instead of feeding their poor?
etc. etc.

Thanks to my Canadian friend who gave me the heads up on this.

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A few weeks ago Jim Welker a Republican Representative from Colorado forwarded an email from his inbox. He came under harsh scrutiny for sending off the email as it talked of black hurricane Katrina victims. One sentence from the email reportedly stated "President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks"

Republicans came under heat as racists after news of the email surfaced. Welker apologized for sending the email out, saying he didn't agree with all it said. How dare we as white people send out such an appalling statement about the victims.

Funny how we didn't hear much about who actually wrote the essay!

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Several years ago my mother (sorry mom) was going through some major "female" problems. She kept going to the doctor over an extended period of time and they kept telling her it was signs of menopause. Finally she nearly passed out from blood loss, she was rushed into emergency surgery where they found cancer.

About a month ago someone I do business with took his wife to the emergency room because she was having a miscarriage. They administered a small amount of muscle relaxer and an hour later she was dead. The doctors said she probably had a blood clot. An autopsy was preformed and she had died from an overdose of pain killer, about 100 times the amount they said they administered.

Earlier this week another business associates sister went into surgery. Her oxygen tube was accidentally cut and as they were pulling the mask off of her it caught on fire, burning her face..

Wow... I guess there is a reason they call it practicing medicine..

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I was a bit shocked when I heard a story last week out of an elementary school here in Colorado. Some parents were outraged about a child being stuck in a "time out" room after misbehaving. Ok stop for a sec.. We are now in the habit of sticking misbehaving children in empty closets?? The teachers feared that the student would hurt himself in the normal time out room and chose to stick him in an empty storage room instead. Besides the obvious problem, this problem child happened to be autistic. Are you kidding me? Are educators not taught on how to handle special needs students? A child should not be locked in any room let alone a child like this. Whatever happened to sending a child to the principals office? I understand that teachers have a lot to deal with but this is unacceptable.

I was shaking my head in anger as I was reading the article on the time out room, when I came across something even more unbelievable. The Pueblo Chieftain article discussed the resources that are needed when educating special needs students as well as other students. I nearly fell out of my chair when I read the line

There are some with severe emotional problems to the point of being considered a threat like four sex offenders who have to have full-time adult escorts during school hours.

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1. Not every woman is a secretary
2. Office voices should be at about a 4 not a 10
3. When spraying deodorizer after using the office bathroom, one spray will suffice. Winter Breeze poop smell is no better than just plain poop.
4. Telephones/Cellphones are technologically superior to a string with 2 cups. You don't have to yell for people to hear you.
5. Speakerphone may be convenient but its rude, I don't need to hear your conversation.
6. I will add more as they come, Feel free to contribute

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What a sick world some people live in. But Hey, lets get them some help and send them back out into the world..

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Remember the days of Student Council? I recall one election period in middle school. We were all sitting in the auditorium while the candidates gave us their speel. There was only one speech I can recall. The student started his list of promises..
1. Soda in the water fountains
2. Less homework
3. Air conditioning
4. Taco Bell served at lunch

I don't recall who won that year but I do remember it wasn't this guy, although he did receive a standing ovation throughout his time on stage.

Why am I sharing this with you? Well it is the first thing that came to mind when Pelosi revealed the Dems election year agenda.

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Isaac Hayes has become the ultimate definition of hypocrisy. Mr. Hayes has quit his roll as Chef on South Park. Chef has been a reoccurring character on the satirical show since it began oh so many years ago. For those of you not familiar with the show, it makes fun of everyone, everything and anything. I must admit there are times I cringe. It crosses the line on pretty much every episode but it is so dang funny. They have even made fun of the town I live in.

So back to hypocrisy Hayes... Hayes has quit because he feels "Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored," he continued. "As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices". Well normally I would say good for you. However, I must ask did it really take you this many years to figure that out?? All the years of making fun of different religions and cultures and all of a sudden now after 40 years as a civil rights activist you feel they have crossed a line. Perhaps you should have been more specific and said you don't care who they make fun of as long as it isn't your religion. Last year South Park has an episode making fun of Scientology. It happened to be an episode I watched. It was aired shortly after some psycho thing with Tom Cruise and his lovely little girl friend. It really was funny but would definitely probably not make some scientologists without a good sense of humor laugh. Understandable. Mr. Hypocrisy Hayes happens to be a Scientologist. So when he says he "cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices" after many episodes cracked on Christianity among other religions, what he really meant was "he will not be supported if he supports a show that disrespects Scientology". Well so long Chef, we will miss your sweet and salty chocolate balls. Good thing I gave up sweets for Lent.

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Well we have pissed off Dubai Royalty. Should we care? Probably not so much. You all know I love the President, but he is the only one who should be pissed off about this deal. Who should he be pissed off at? Himself. Had he babied this country a bit after the outrage of the deal, instead of simply saying he would do what he wants, perhaps America would have listened. You simply can not tell us not to trust pretty much all Arabs and then tell us to trust them with the security of our nation. It simply does not fly. "Trust me Trust me Trust me" even Ms. Jones is hesitating with the trust issue. Perhaps turning away this firm, wasn't the best idea for this Country, but keeping us uninformed was a bigger mistake. Have we brought President Bush back down from the clouds?

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Looks like the Abu prison food suppliers complained enough.. CNN has confirmed that Abu Ghraib prison will close.

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Update on text messaging kidnap victim

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A fifteen year old boy was arrested in Florida after sexually abusing some kids he was babysitting. The parents busted the babysitter after they put up cameras to watch the goings on while they were away. I say kudos to the parents for catching this child monster. ALTHOUGH....I have to wonder why on earth if people are suspicious of what their babysitters are doing with their children why are they still babysitting?? I wouldn't give a person one more opportunity to do something to my children. On the other side this kid may not have ever been caught, and will now hopefully get some help and spend the rest of his life behind bars. Maybe Bubba can show him the same kindness he showed these 8 year olds.

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According to Drudge, NASA has a huge announcement to make today. Could it be the presence of life form in the universe? If so what kind of life form? Any thoughts, hopes?

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Parents, those text messages don't seem so bad after all do they?

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While reading that North Korea has "accidentally" fired missiles towards China, two questions came to mind. What are your thoughts on going to war with North Korea? My other question, who else could get away with accidentally firing missiles?

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I remember when I was in highschool the only rights I was concerned with were my rights to wear shorts, my right to sit at a good table at lunch, my right to ditch school once in a while,my right to an education, my right to be bored while receiving this education, my right to hate a couple teachers, my right to enjoy sports games, rallies and dances, and The Bill of Rights, which we were forced to memorize for civics. Those were pretty much the only rights. We were kids and when it came down to it our only rights were what our parents told us they were.
I was on the ACLU website checking out a lame story about gay cowboys and came across publications offered by the ACLgetaclUe. One of the publications offered was the following:

Know Your Rights Schools Palm Card
This popular, tri-folded card fits in the palm of the hand provides "the basics" that LGBT students should know about their legal rights in public school. Get PDF

Not realizing what LGBT was at first I had to check this out, to my surprise, this "fit in the palm of your hand card" tells gay students what their rights are in public schools. Seemed to me that the most important right for the gay students was missing. Not included in this list of rights was the right to an equal education. If you are truly concerned with the rights of any student, wouldn't that be on the top of your list? One more piece of evidence showing what the ACLgetaclUe is really concerned with, CONTROVERSY. By the way where was the list of rights for ALL students? I guess if you are not LGBT you don't have the ACLgetaclUe behind you.

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They keep saying she's ok. I say she is either a bit wacky or she definitely suffered some head trauma.

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A well respected business man is under judgement by the ACLU for attempting to bring morals into a community. Not just any community but a community he has created. The media calls it CatholicTown, although the town is open to all faiths. Decay of moral fiber is something that has plagued every inch of our country. How non shocking that the ACLU would fight to keep a good wholesome town from creation. What a joke and what a shame. This town isn't an overhaul of a current community it is a creation of a new one, a town, that people can move to or more importantly not move to. It is a town that violates no laws, more importantly is about upholding the laws. Is this is what we are allowing our society to become a society that fights for immoral and not the moral.

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An NBC channel out of Philadelphia, is reporting that an elementary age girl brought cocaine to school. The young girl passed around the cocaine and shared it with her classmates. So what they got an early start at riding the white horse(did I say that right). Can you imagine a bunch of 7 year olds munching down cocaine? The parents are asking why an ambulance wasn't called after the incident happened, well probably because the teachers in the school were telling the kids not to worry, the stuff is good and to ride it out. Instead of being shocked that this little girl brought the coke we should be shocked that her parents taught her how to share. This my friends is why my children will be going to private school.

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