Community | October 12, 2011 | 4 comments

The Nanny State

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Who needs overbearing parents, the nuns at catholic school or the morality police from the right wing nut-job patrol these days? We’ve got a current batch of Nanny democrats who put them all to shame.

These democrats are obsessed with finding new things they don’t like about what WE do. Then, they promptly pass another law to correct or punish our misguided ways. And, here’s the best part. They always find a way to exempt themselves and their friends, a.k.a. contributors. I can only assume they think, unlike we mere mortals, they are smart enough to make their own decisions or rich enough… well, let’s face it… none of the rules apply to the rich. Now, to what started me on this rant.

How’s this as a perfect example of hypocrisy? Democratic Assembly Speaker John Perez is a cigar smoker... and apparently sees nothing wrong with relaxing on a balcony off the Assembly floor in Sacramento, puffing away on his Montecristo cigar, while he votes "aye" on SB 332 - a bill that just passed to let landlords evict people for doing the very same thing in their own homes. Do you suppose he and his friends make enough money to own single-family homes where they can continue to enjoy the freedom that he's denying to the peasant renters?

And what about that outdoor balcony... don't non-smoking lawmakers complain they want to use it without being exposed to his secondhand smoke? Or do they all consider themselves smart enough to figure out how to accommodate each other?

So where will Assembly Speaker Perez go to smoke that cigar in West Hollywood where a tough new outdoor smoking ban is set to take effect on January 1?

Bet it will be the exclusive membership-only Soho House where the rich-enough are exempt from WeHo’s smoking ban.

We ordinary people won’t be allowed to smoke on the non-membership restaurant patios because the West Hollywood Nannies say they must protect other ordinary people. http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/archive/page.php?articleID=6480
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4 comments // The Nanny State

  • zoomy1
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      zoomy1  

    • I love how you grab isolated examples of Liberal stupidity to fill your brush and smear all Liberals with it.
      You seem like an educated man. How can you not see how petty and easy to turn around, that kind of argument is.
      I think you like to play the tit for tat game.
      For every example of Liberal stupidity and hypocrisy you want to trot out,( and I agree,there are plenty), I can see you and raise you on Conservative stupidity, and hypocrisy. I just don't care to play last man standing.
      You revel too much in diviseivness. We'll never get anywhere unless it's together.

    • 8 months ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • zoomy1:

      i guess i didnt give you enough credit my friend. you seem like a thinking man, a rare thing to be found on current. i may sometimes go to extremes to make what i feel are valid points. but many on the left are so blind that extremism is necessary. of course hypocrisy is not cornered by any party but neither is bigotry, racism, greed, or corruption. peace

    • 8 months ago
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