[Mishmash] Can it really be?????

[Robyne Kerr]

>I think we have far too many laws and most are about making money 
>than saving lives.  We have had the smoking laws in Tasmania for 
>years and now it is just part of life.  The latest one is that you 
>can't smoke in your own car if children are in it. They are 
>gradually making public space a not smoke zone. I don't smoke but I 
>don't agree with these kind of laws.



>I have smoking friends so I go to the smoking areas with them, every 
>pub has an area set aside outside but that would be hard in the 
>snow.  The smoking laws here are just getting stronger each year.

Robyne





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>well, since i was already old in 2007 - i don't really feel any 
>older today.  i went to my daughter's annual new years eve party 
>last nite.  not as many there as usually because it started snowing 
>and blowing around here in the afternoon and the roads were pretty 
>bad.  (we live a in a very small rural town remember - no one cleans 
>the streets and roads unles we get 6 or more inches it seems - and 
>the country roads are the worst).   we played a game called catch 
>phrase until people started to leave before midnite afraid they 
>wouldn't get home at all.  then we played a game called scene it - 
>about movies.  i was very bad at that one.
>
>this morning my friends called to see if i were going to go for 
>coffee and i still had my jammies on - i told them to come over here 
>and watch the parade with me so i had a house full of old women all 
>morning.  i intend not to leave my house today.
>
>  illinois just implemented a law today to have no smoking in all 
>bars, restaurants, private clubs even and smokers have to be 15 feet 
>from a door outside.   you know, i have been socially unacceptable 
>with my smoking and so have most of my friends.  we have coffee 
>every morning to check up on each other as we all live alone.   if 
>someone isn't there and we didn't know ahead of time it is time to 
>start calling them.  we're really upset about this law but will try 
>it for awhile - if we decide coffee isn't fun anymore we will all 
>congregate at my house.   my non-smoking friends are as unhappy 
>about the law as my smoking friends.  i often wondered how the 
>nazi's were able to just round up all the jews and they all got on 
>the trains and filed into the showers.  i'm beginning to see more 
>and more how that could have happened - we just blindly do whatever 
>our legislators deem right for all of us and most of them are a 
>bunch of hired blowhards.  they even want the citizenry to report on 
>people disobeying this law.  now, didn't the nazi's implement that 
>tattling on your neighbor plan?  ok - i've vented.  happy new year 
>you guys.
>carole
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>From: <mailto:GALEHALLOCK at aol.com>GALEHALLOCK at aol.com
>Date: 1/1/2008 10:20:15 AM
>To: <mailto:mishmash at mishmash.net>mishmash at mishmash.net
>Subject: [Mishmash] Can it really be?????
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>Happy New Years dear friends.  Can it really be 2008?????
>That makes me.........ahhhhhh........uhmmmmmmm........errrrrrrr............
>quite old!!!! 
>
>Gale
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