Keith Palmer and ObamaCare Part 2

   

     TCY is back and has a comment but since it is a bit longer than a usual comment, I just figured to give him his own entry.

Whale oil beef hooked---we'll I'll be fucked. And so will you if Obama gets a second term. Others and I have been proclaiming that this is the most important election of your lives. Now keep this in your minds, 49% of all the people in this country receive some kind of check from the federal gov't, if the hard working taxpayers don't get out and vote, EVERYONE of US. Obama will win this election. A second term for Obama will be the final nail in the coffin for the US. without having to worry about re-election he will be free to inflict on us every socialist idea he has ever had. It won't matter that there will most likely still be a Republican house. He will use the executive order to accomplish his goals. His goals are simple, read the communist manifesto. First you must make the current government fail and fall and then re-build the government as a Socialist government. For him to succeed the US must fall and be destroyed in order to create from it's ashes the socialist Utopia he has always dreamed of.
Be ready my Friends this will not be an easy fight. Look at Europe right now. They have been socialist for 30 years and they are now finding out that it still, as in the past, does not work. They are going broke.  They can't afford to pay all of the people they promised to take care of, and when they try to tell the hoards of parasites that the free ride has to end, they riot. The same will be true here. Riots will pop up everywhere, how this country reacts to them will determine how bad it gets. Truthfully this country hasn't got the nads for needs to be done.
     In order to keep order,  justice must be swift and severe. At the first sign of riots,  the police force must come out in large numbers, overwhelming large numbers. The riots must be quelled at any cost even including deadly force. It seems extreme but if this is done right from the start, the violence will be less overall. If we try as we are doing with the "Occupiers",  the property damage and violence will be more than anyone can imagine. The anarchist will have a field day, and everyday citizens, businessmen and the like will have to fight for their very lives.
     No this will not be easy but it can be done. We have lived without a large government for most of this country's life. We have always had the poor. Were they dying in the streets? NO. We are a very generous country if left to our own. Our Church's take care of people. They can take care of more if they were filled. Our people give willingly when not forced by taxation to do so.
Back in the 30's this country had hard times. How were they handled? Look at the houses built in the 30's. They were very large; most of the ones you see today have been converted to apartments or bed and breakfasts. Why were the houses so big when so many people were hurting? Family's lived together. Grandparents, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters and in some cases families that extended beyond that.
We took care of ourselves!!! We did not leave our elderly for other taxpayers to take care of. We did not let our children go hungry until the government gave them food stamps, we  fucking fed them!!! Do you think it would be different today? If tomorrow food stamps went away, would we not feed our families? If Social Security goes away, we leave our elderly family members out in the cold with no roof, no food, and no clothes? NO we would take care of our own again, the way it was always meant to be.

    We love the holidays because loved ones gather near. The day is coming when to survive we must gather near to one another.
 The illegals are doing this now. How do they live on the little money that picking vegetables pay? They consolidate their paychecks.
The main topic of the Canadians article was health care. This too was done during hard times before. People were allowed to pay by any means they could. They brought chickens,  they bartered. This admittedly will not be able to happen unless we get rid of the Fuckin lawyers. They are the biggest reason for the health care problems we are having. If a doctor didn't have to worry about malpractice insurance or being sued every time anything happened out of the ordinary. Guess what?  People die! Deal with it!!! Doctors are people too; they will make honest mistakes. SHIT HAPPENS.
Bottom line is that there are not many doctors in it for how they can help man. It all about the dollar now. Hell try to find a doctor with a name you can pronounce. Do we really think that foreigners give 2 shits about us? No Offense there MR Char.
Yes it's a mess, it will get worse, but with everyone help it can get better.

GET OUT AND VOTE!!!!! And don't worry if a man has faults, we all do. If you see a man that claims to have no faults RUN he's a fuckin liar.

Fight back
TCY

 Ah, the inspirational word to The Crankee Yankee.  I am to agree, I do love to barter.  Every single person on this Earth is good at something.  Some are good with their hands, they can fix and build things.  Some are creative and can design buildings, better ideas or even extraordinary gift baskets.  Me, well I'm not great with my hands but I can get the job done.  Anyway, we all have skills that other people need.  With bartering, it goes as this: "You need something, I have something."  Nowadays, it's all money, money, money. Don't get me wrong, I do like money, I like to make money and I even love to spend money, but when you don't have it and need or want something, you find ways to get it.  And I don't mean just take it. I mean you find ways to get it, you barter with people who have it or can help you get it.  I personally love to barter, because everyone wins and there is NO Government Tax!. And as far as Shit Happens TCY, here's your Presidential Campaign pin for when you run for President, 2012

Vote for TCY 2012

 And I heard a lyric on the radio today, and all I could think about was TCY.
"I voted for some change
and it's kinda strange.
Cause now it's all I got in my pocket." - Everlast - I Get By


     

Keith Palmer and ObamaCare

   
     Well, there are lots of good topics out there but I have just not been invested in any of them to start up an entry.  Good thing I know a few people who know more about the world than me and who take the initiative to write it up.  This entry is from our newest blogger, our friend from America's frozen top hat, The Arctic Char.  Before you read on, here is a Canadian Joke.  Read it out loud in your best Canadian accent and see if you can figure it out.  At the bottom of the entry I will have the American translation.

M R DUCKS
M R KNOT
M R SEW
CEDAR WINGS?
WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED!
M R DUCKS
 
He writes. . .

Back longer ago than I care to admit, I was in the wedding party for Keith Palmer's first marriage and he was in mine. The weddings took place about two months apart, the same difference as we were in age. We both worked at the same company and married women who also worked there. We were both immigrants to the country just north of here that I mentioned in my previous guest blog. Our parents came to give us a better life, his from the Republic of South Africa and mine from Scotland.

I moved and remarried, he remarried and moved, the years passed and we lost touch with each other, until his second-wife called me a few months back.

About two years ago, I could feel a lump on my neck about the size of a second Adam's apple. I was sent to an Ear. Nose and Throat doctor who drew a sample. The biopsy result was cancer. That was on a Friday. Six days later, on Thursday, I was being seen by an Otolaryngologist at a respected hospital in a nearby major city who determined that the primary source of the cancer was in my tonsil. Five days later, on Tuesday, I was under the knife, having a tonsillectomy. Last week, I went for a CatScan at eighteen months after that operation: N.E.D.... No .Evidence of Disease.

My first hint that the medical industry had gone awry in my former homeland was when I found a "poor me" online forum for adults who had had their tonsils removed. Having your tonsils out at any age must be painful. But as an adult it is a killer. Swallowing is very, very painful and you don't realize how many times you swallow at non-meal times until every time it happens, it hurts. Buying into the ice-cream fallacy, I had stocked up. One helping was enough to cure me of that. All dairy products leave an unpleasant film in your mouth that only swallowing will allay. But every time I swallowed, it hurt.

The forum's contributors were at various stages of preparation and recovery and I learned that at about day eight the pain subsided enough that it was safe to wince down some vegetable soup. One contributor was a woman from the socialist enclave just north of here; she had waited six months for her day of surgery to arrive. Astounded, I contacted still-trapped family members to see if this was typical. Yes, they replied, we've just gotten used to it.

Keith Palmer, living not in a remote perma-frost region of the country but in a suburb of the largest English-speaking city, also developed a lump on his neck about two years ago. The doctors hummed and hawed and had it biopsied and sent for tests. Then, unsure, they sent him to a different group of hummers and hawers who had the lump biopsied. They concluded that it was a lump. After three months, when the lump had grown from the size of his Adam's apple to the size of an orange, they concluded that maybe they should try radiation and chemotherapy.

Too late, they began treatment. As I was going for my one-year, so-far-so-good, clean bill of health, Keith Palmer died the day after his birthday in the summer of this year.

My medical treatment has run about $60,000. My share, between deductibles and premiums has been about $6,000. Keith Palmer's medical treatment was "free", through the country's socialized medical plan.

Obamacare is not simply the fallacy that medical attention will be "free". It will still cost a million dollars a day to run a hospital. Doctor's will still earn well-deserved, comfortable livings and the drug companies will prosper. Who covers these "free" costs? You and I, the average tax-paying citizen.

However as yet, the un-realized consequence of Obamacare will be the quality of medical service. Maybe not in the short term, but eventually. Many Americans, after learning where I came from, would talk about the long waits to get questionable medical coverage. I listened and didn't argue, but didn't really think it true. It wasn't that way twenty years ago when I left. But it is now.

Ask Keith Palmer's widow.

     Well, on that sad yet scary note, first I'd like to say sorry boot your friend Char.  Did I use that term correctly? Boot, as when a Canadian says I'm oot n a boot? Crazy Canucks!  And people say Yankees talk funny?
Anyway, I think the average American with health insurance that can afford it now realizes how bad it could get.  But the average American with NO insurance, no way of getting insurance or the even harder working American who works 3 jobs but none of the jobs offers insurance see this as a way to get free insurance as compared to NO free insurance.  The sad part is there are more of the non-insured Americans than the insured Americans.  To think about it, my 4 closest friends, one falls into the first category with insurance but the other three fall into the no insurance group. 
    By that type of thinking, at least for me, that is a 2 to 3 ratio.  If all 5 of us went out and voted to keep Obama in office and push forward with the Obamacare Health Plan, it looks like I will be taking more vitamins and exercising more cause I won't be getting any medical attention. 
     Maybe if we are lucky, TCY will be in inspiring mood and will bless us with a reply?

Canadian Joke Translation
M R DUCKS - There are the ducks.
M R KNOT - They are not.
M R SEW - They are so.
CEDAR WINGS? - See their wings?
WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED! - Well I'll be fucked!
M R DUCKS - They are ducks.

Yeah, it took me a while to figure out what the fuck WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED  was.  But I will got a good chuckle out of it.

2012: Dump the Chump

     Well, this entry is a special one, in more than one way.  Since election fever is already in the air, you all know that TCY can smell the stupidity, the fear, the kickbacks, the bribes and the bullshit that is about to start being aired on public television.  But before I start, we have a special blogger today.  This entry will be started by a long time reader but a 1st time blogger.  Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, The Arctic Char.

      I feel greatly privileged to be the first guest blogger here at the Crankee Yankee, and I feel privileged to be a citizen of this great country. It wasn’t always so: I am a naturalized American, coming from a country just north of here.

      For those of us who aren’t likely to vote Democrat, it is a minimum five-year process to earn…yes, earn…American citizenship. It took me two years to get my Green Card, then depending on the circumstances of eligibility, citizenship can be applied for after either three or five years.

      I have to confess I did not take advantage of that privilege for well-beyond five years. One can function perfectly well in this country as a Permanent Resident carrying a Green Card. Which, by the way, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services makes perfectly clear, "It is your responsibility to carry proof of your permanent resident status at all times", a mandate the Federal Department of Justice is suing the states of Arizona and Alabama to force their policemen to overlook.

     The two disadvantages that I know of to maintaining Permanent Resident status over citizenship is that one cannot buy a house with only 5% down payment and one cannot vote, which I do believe ACORN interprets as should not vote.

     I wasn’t eligible for citizenship during the Clinton years and didn’t need to vote during the Bush years, so I dragged my feet. Then, Mr. Obama was elected President and his number one concern was instituting Universal Health Care. Been there, done that, left the country.

It was time to realize that I love this country and I love living in this country. It is indeed the greatest country on earth. As they say playing euchre, ‘go high or go home’, it was time to become an American.

      One’s citizenship application must be accompanied by a check for $900. It was Kroger-brand Kraft dinners for a month but I came up with the money. And studied for the test… (The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name the writers.)

     The process took about eight months but the pride-filled day finally arrived when I took the Oath of Allegiance and was handed my American Citizenship Certificate and a little American flag to wave.

I waved and I wept.

And now for the Crankee himself. . .

2012: Dump the Chump

This presidential election is potentially the most important in the history of the United States of America 's short life. What is at stake is the Union itself. It will be the difference between America going bankrupt or prospering, survival of our historical way of life, or life with almost unbelievable interference of the federal government in our everyday lives. Simply stated, it is the difference between freedom and serfdom. I as a conservative obviously want my freedom to be enjoyed by my grandchildren and their grandchildren to follow.

Mr. Obama has now taken up the class warfare banner that many of his liberal predecessors held before him. Why does this tactic seem to work so well? One reason is that the American school system has been taken over by the left. They do not teach our children that America is the land of opportunity.  Instead it is taught more and more that whichever financial class you are born into is where you must stay.

The truth, and the magic of this great country is you are free to climb as high as your abilities and your dreams carry you. In this great society there are all kinds of ways for anyone who wants to go to college and become anything they want. This is why people from all over the world come here. It is the only place in the world where people can be all that they can be. We have trade schools for those who either by choice or ability can't make it in college. Today these trade jobs are paying more than many college-needed jobs. In fact there are shortages of the trade skilled worker! We have for so long put such a high value on going to college that too few people are becoming mechanics, roofers, carpenters, plumber and so on.

My point is this; there are endless ways of becoming a success in this country and the reason that class-envy works is that our kids aren't being taught that if one is not happy with what "life has dealt them" there are countless ways to improve your financial standing.

I can't help but believe that if there were no unemployment insurance, no social security, no food stamps, no welfare, no Medicaid, and so on and so on that people would rediscover that they can change for themselves the quality of there own lives. Do you think that for one minute that if the Federal Tit dried up that people would starve in the streets? No, I don't except that; the basic survival instincts would kick in. We might find ourselves having jobs in this country that we haven't seen in years. When is the last time you seen a cobbler shop?  Shoes are expensive and repairs are seemingly simple, but where are those who want to fill that void?  If there were no "free money" someone would say to themselves, "I bet I can fix shoes for money". Appliance repair shops are few and far between, and those that are open want you to bring the appliance to them to fix. There is a job opportunity! House call repairman that doesn't charge 100.00 just to show up.

Next year you will be voting for the future generations, don't let someone scare you into thinking you can't live without the government. The fact is that smaller the government, the better the quality of your lives will be. Vote for man that wants to free people from the Federal Tit! If you depend on someone to feed you and cloth you, warm you and shelter you, than you are their slave!!!

Vote for a man that will let you keep the money you earn, and not a man that wants you to work harder and longer to get what you need for your family so that another family can stay home and watch the Price is Right while you pay their bills.  We are very close to the breaking point. The point to where it is just as financially beneficial to stay home and let another man feed you than it is to go to work and bring home the same amount. When that line is broke and more people are staying home than working, the entire system will collapse. When that day comes no one will get any money from the federal government and the kind of chaos you are seeing in Greece will come here.

Sorry there is no comedy in this rant, but sometimes you've just got to be dead serious. The lives of my grandchildren and your loved ones depend on us taking very serious our obligation to vote for freedom and not let that big eared socialist son of a bitch have 4 more years to spread his “take from one to give to another bullshit”, a fucking liar and thief!  What were you thinking of 3 years ago?  If you have white guilt, then vote for Cain… he's 100% black!  Fucking liberals, you won't commit 100% on anything. You went and voted for 1/2 black. Hell even the blacks said that if he messed up they would claim that he didn't represent them.

2012 Dump the Chump.

You knew it was coming...........

Fight back

TCY.

The Arctic Char writes. . .



      How many of us have welcomed a new boss to the organization who suggests doing something we all know doesn’t work? In a chorus along with fourteen co-workers we all chime in four-part harmony, "We’ve tried that before umpteen times and it doesn’t work."

"Ah, yes, "says he," but you haven’t tried it under me."

Socialism, big government and the Nanny State doesn’t work. Pick a country in Europe to use as proof. And, Mr. Obama, it won’t work under you, either.

To paraphrase a question on the Immigration Test… "Walk softly and carry a big vote."

Next November will be the first time I will be able to vote in a federal election. I plan on voting at the top of my lungs.

The Great Pumpkin My ASS

     Well, it finally looks like enough is going wrong in the world for TCY to get fired up!  With TCY's spider senses starting to tingle with the oncoming news of all the things that piss him off, this should be fun.  Between Democrats, stupid people, holidays, the President, his significant other and society in general, we should get some nice rants and raves.  So, everyone who reads this, please post a comment when you have something to say, or even if you just want to get TCY fired up, it's entertainment for everyone.  We are going to start this off with TCY's favorite holiday Beggerween, err I mean Halloween.  Geez, I am already using TCY's lingo.

Here we are, 10 days away from the worst holiday ever created. BEGGERWEEN. Before all you egg head sons-of -bitches start writing of the historic celebration of all hallows eve. The TCY is an educated individual and I don't need your rendition of the celebration.

I'm talking about the new and improved Beggerween. When we teach our young offspring, with their heads full of mush, that it is perfectly ok to go to a strangers house and beg for them to give you something that you have not worked for. Hand it over just because you asked for it.

When I was a mush filled youth I too took part in this embarrassing display of lowly begging for candy with some significant differences.

1. We only begged in our own neighborhood. We did not carpool all over the county begging from people we had no idea who they were. Yes, back in the day we knew our neighbors.

2. We used the driveways and sidewalks of our potential victims. We did not cascade over the top of the pickup trucks and make frontal assaults across the lawn, through the bushes and over the flowers pushing over the rails any children that may have beaten us to the source of our attack the large bowl of someone else's candy.

3.We obeyed the unwritten rules to this begfest. The rules are simple, you dress up like some kind of ghoul or fool and you get free candy. Seems easy enough to follow right. FUCK NO! You see now 15 & 16 year old little bastards show up on your stairs with a pot induced case of the munchies, dressed as any other day begging you for candy. I must admit they do help me prove my point that this celebration does cause people to have a sense of entitlement implanted in them. If you really want to laugh, tell them no and see what kind of look you get. It's almost worth opening door for.

4. Now get this for being old fashion.  We actually said THANK YOU!!! Today’s little bastards are in such a hurry to get off your step and race across your yard to your next-door neighbors, that they hardly ever take the time to say thank you. Oh you get the occasional "see ya".  The thing I hate the most is the little shit that asks for more.

What the fuck? I just gave into your pathetic begging and you want more than I offer?

This is why I say “Do NOT teach your children to beg!”  They will grow up to be thinking that things are due them just because. They will have a sense of entitlement that will make them think that just because they want it or even need it,  that someone should just give it to them. They will think that if someone has the money to get things that they don't have, that they should be able to go up to that person and take it from them. In other words my Friends, they will become DEMOCRATS! Now that's some scary shit!!! Stephen King never wrote anything as scary as I just wrote.

Happy Beggerween, and keep the lights off. Let the roaming hoards of beggar's waste gas for nothing.

Fight back

TCY

     Of all the things that TCY can bitch about, which there are plenty, I can't believe he has a problem with Halloween.  Wait, yes I can.  He has a problem with everything that most "normal" people don't think twice about.  Just a warning to anyone who might be in his area on October 31st, DON'T STEP ON HIS GRASS!  I know for a fact, that it is loaded with land mines from his own bulldog. 
     Most people who don't want to have anything to do with Halloween usually just leave their porch light off and don't answer the door, but TCY has to be his confrontational self and cause trouble.  I personally do not believe that encouraging the kids to beg for candy on Halloween will turn them into Democrats.  As for the herds of people caravanning their kids from subdivision to subdivision, that seems  a bit too far.  Back when I was a trick or treater, we either walked to the "money" subdivision where they handed out the good stuff, actual name brand candy bars, sometimes full size candy or we stayed at a friends house, the one in the best subdivision and trick or treat there and sleep over.   BUT if we came to a house that gave us some shit like an apple or anything that wasn't candy or just acted like a dick, that house was put on the list! The list were the houses that sucked.  The next year, the day before Halloween, it has many names: mischief night, goosey night, devils night, etc, we would toilet paper their house and yard, use shaving cream on their windows and doors and if they were real douche bags, they got egged!  So, if some house sucked, they paid for it the next year.  Ah, the good old days. 
     So the moral of this entry is if you act like TCY and treat other people the way he does, you have been warned.  You just might wake up with your house toilet paper'd, your car windows covered in shaving cream and a flaming bag of dog shit on your front porch! - Fight Back!!! Ha Ha Ha



YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!



Smoking Just Might Save Your Life

     It has been a while since the last post.  TCY has been busy and I have been busy.  But the day has come, I knew it would, when TCY could not hold it back and spew from his orafice something that would get this rolling again.  Of course, the one thing that he and I completely disagree on is the subject.  SMOKING!  Most of my friends seem to be of the smoking persuasion.  Yes, it is nasty, disgusting, expensive and smells but I have to deal with it at work and home, so I guess i have to deal with it right? Wrong!  Ask people who know me, I am that annoying person who is against smoking and oh so happy about the rules that are in place.  No smoking n hospitals, no smoking on campus, no smoking in restaurants, no smoking at church camp(yeah, you two know who I am talking about).  Before i get started on my rant, let me allow TCY to start on his.
     TCY says. . .

I have had about all I can take with this, “Cigarettes are BSD for you bull!” Every time you turn on the radio or TV you hear the crybaby people speaking of the evils of cigarettes.  If they are so damn bad why doesn’t the imperial government of the US out law them? This is the same government that outlawed lawn darts and the 3 wheel ATV because “too many people are getting hurt”.  Fireworks are illegal in a lot of states, and of those that do allow fireworks only a few have the good ones. You know the ones I speak of, the ones that go BOOM!!  I’m sure you can come up with many other products that have been made illegal that you may have enjoyed but some retard somewhere got hurt with it so it’s gone for everybody.

Except the cigarettes! Oh you hear how many millions of people it kills, how much money it cost the government in medical bills, (if the government wouldn’t give so much money to the poor, poor, pitiful poor, they wouldn’t have money enough for cigarettes)!!! Do you ever hear anyone, ANYONE say they should be taken off the shelves. Hell NO!! Why?? TAXES!!!

It is perfectly acceptable in the minds of the Politician’s to allow you and I a smoke and get all kinds of terrible aliments as long as they can make a buck off it.

So if it’s costing the government so much money, why is it allowed? The dirty little secret is they make far more off the taxes on cigarettes than the cigarette smokers cost the government in medical costs. After all, we smokers have the good manners to die once we get sick, saving the government billions in social security payments.  People with bad backs cost the government more than smokers. Those dogs, most of which aren’t really hurt, don’t die - they just keep holding out their hands for more free money from us hard working smokers. Wait, if I say more about this the government will outlaw working hard because it leads to bad backs!

Funny they promote the gay life style, which has killed how many millions of people with Aids and HIV? Including people who were not aware that their partners had it. How many people caught lung cancer from someone they didn’t know smoked?Kind of hard to hide it, one would have to be blind deaf and have no sense of smell or taste.

This is the same group of people that have recalls on toys because of any number of reasons: small parts, paint chips, sharp edges etc… Look generations of kids grew up fine with these toys; Ok the dumb kids may have had problems. That’s natural selection; this is what keeps the gene pool strong. That’s one of the biggest problems this country has. We protect the stupid and allow those weak genes to be passed from one generation to the next. But I digress.

Could you see the up rise if the government started to tax toys? So they can’t tax so they make the toys they don’t like illegal. But cigarettes, they tax the dog stuff out them. It doesn’t matter how many people die as long as there is money to be made from it. So stop telling me how bad it is. If it’s that bad, make it illegal or shut up! I want to smoke in restaurants again! In libraries, even in hospitals. Yes hospitals!!!  When is the last time you looked around at a hospital?  All the smokers huddled up, outside are nurses and doctors. Your damn right they are! So how bad are they? Who else do you see smoking all the time? Teachers are well known for their smoking, and they educate our kid’s right, wrong but that’s a different rant.

So if the people we as a civilization consider to be among the wisest among us are smoking how bad could it be? It could kill you, ok, so can driving to the health club.

I smoke for the safety of the people around me; if I didn’t light up every once in awhile I would fear for their safety and well being. So be considerate, of others and puff away!!

Fight back

TCY

      So, as for no smoking in hospitals, good! Shame, shame on those doctors and nurses who have to deal with people's illness' from smoking and then go out back to light one up.  Since politicians are the biggest hypocrites, why not the doctors and nurses also?  I know it's your body, you can do what you like, but I don't want to have to breathe in your nasty smoke or even smell your nasty self.  I hate at work when a fella comes in from smoking a carton, and his hand or face in 6 inches from me, it takes all my self control to not tell him to get the fuck out of my face you nasty smelly ash tray!  As for everyone I work with, well i figure that if they have to listen to my music, then i can deal with their stench.
     As for teachers, honestly, if I had to deal with 20 hormone filled teenagers for 8 hours a day and I am not allowed to beat them, I might have to sneak out back for a smoke, but not of the tobacco type.  
     Yes, TCY has an extremely great point about why the government still allows cigarettes if they cause so much harm.  Money, Money and Mo' Money.  But even if pig's grew wings and started flying around, and cigarettes were illegal, how many of those addicted government officials will be sneaking them in the men's bathroom at midnight? Getting their supply by knowing a secret combination of foot maneuvers in the last stall on the far end of the restroom.  Prostitution is illegal, yet senators and congressmen are fornicating like it's going out of style, while their wives are at home smoking!  Cigarettes are a legal drug, they are not going anywhere to my dismay, but at least I know smokers are suffering and have to go outside to light up after eating their nice juicy steak or having a nice cold beer in a bar.

    And yes, TCY have a cigarette or two or three to keep calm before he caused physical bodily harm to a coworker might be necessary, but as long as I work there, I will fight it until one of us wins.