How To Save Lives!

I have an idea, but most of you probably won’t like it. Let me back up a bit. People in government have gotten together and said, “Hey, let’s ban tobacco, because it kills people.” Well, they can’t really ban it but they can make it expensive to buy legally. The key word, of course, is the last one. A pack of cigarettes in Manhattan (or anywhere in NYC) will set you back $14.00. That doesn’t make too many people quit, but it does make criminals out of most of them. They can probably buy a pack for anywhere from $8.00 to $10.00; maybe less. I don’t really know since I smoke cigars and I wouldn’t even consider buying them anywhere in New York.

What all of this means is that New York is losing a lot of tax dollars. And they top that with the ridiculous statements they make trying to convince people to stop smoking. The Surgeon-General of the United States (by the way; exactly what does the Surgeon-General of the United States do? What are his/her duties? If you guessed that it is a political patronage job, like so many others in all levels of government; you guessed right) recently stated to the press that smoking just one cigarette can kill you—really? That should be news to the medical establishment who has told us that you can save your life by quitting the habit now. But, according to the Surgeon-General, if you smoked that one cigarette, I guess you are a goner. Then someone “discovered” second-hand smoke. It takes a two-pack a day smoker about twenty years to develop lung cancer or a circulatory ailment; so how much harm can fumes from cigarettes that you might inhale (if you’re too stupid to open a window) for a few minutes cause? That’s assuming, of course, that the second-hand smoke inhaler doesn’t already have some lung condition or disease. But, they weren’t satisfied with that. Now, they are talking about “third-hand” smoke. What is that (?) you may ask? They are tobacco fumes that come off of your clothes. Give me a break.

They have also banned “Trans-fats” and several other items they fear harm your health. They are also after sugar and salt. God bless their hearts. Now here’s my idea: if they really want to save lives, why not ban religion? After all, religion, particularly Christianity, is responsible for more deaths than any known disease with the possible exception of malaria. World War I (fought by Christian nations) caused 20 million deaths. World War II caused around 60 million deaths (again, primarily fought by Christian nations.) Christians wiped out the Aztecs and Inca nations and, in general waged wars of genocide against Indians in both North and South America. They did the same to the Maoris in New Zealand and the Aborigines in Australia. Then there was the Crusades, the Inquisition; well, you get the idea. And Muslims are just starting to catch up. The only thing they haven’t figured out yet is how to kill their enemies without killing themselves first.

Now Buddhists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Quakers aren’t into any of this stuff, so I would allow them to practice, but you have to wonder about all of the others however. Jesus and Mohammad were two of the greatest figures in history with a message of peace and love. Look what their followers, with the two aforementioned exceptions (Quakers and Jehovah’s Witnesses) have done.

Now, I put it to you. Wouldn’t we save more lives by banning religion than by banning tobacco, trans-fats, salt, sugar, DDT, alar, drugs, etc.?

Bloomberg for President?

Mayor Bloomberg for President? Apparently Hizzoner has the Oval Office in his gun sights. God help us. Cigarettes are now $14 a pack in NYC due to his, and Governor Patterson’s efforts. In an attempt to make us healthy, they have greatly expanded the wealth of, not only the Mafia and local Indian tribes, but Red China and al Qaeda as well. The sale of illegal, as well as counterfeit butts, has reached epidemic levels in New York. Consider: just one vanload of bootlegged smokes could earn a smuggler more than $100,000 in profit. You could even go into a neighboring state and still make a sizeable profit by buying cigs there and selling them in New York. The real entrepreneurs among us rent (or steal) two or three tandems; drive down to North or South Carolina and fill up; then drive back to New York and sell out in about 36 hours. Make two or three trips like this in a week and, in a year, you would be almost as rich as Madman Mike. Then there was the City’s ban on trans-fats; the (voluntary) ban on salt and the not-so-voluntary ban on sugared soft drinks; the infuriating auto bans on Broadway and the teeny, micro-taxis that are not only fuel efficient, but nearly impossible to ride in comfortably, unless you’re a midget (oops, sorry about that—I meant height-challenged.)

I, as a member of the Jewish faith, have been waiting all of my life for a Jewish President. I have to pass on Czar Mike for the good of the country and my own sanity. I would even vote for (ugh) Sara Palin instead. There is something inside of me that rebels when someone tries to tell me what is “good for me.” They are the “True Believers’ that Eric Hoffer once wrote about. The cock-sure, know-it-alls that once told us that the Earth was flat and the Sun orbited the Earth. And, if you argued against that, you were burned at the stake as a heretic. It ain’t much different today only they don’t burn you; they “fine” you for not doing what they want you to do or when they want you to do it.

Mayor Bloomberg is to politics what Ebola is to good health. He has strutted about the political stage with a lack of common sense that he clearly demonstrates on almost a daily basis and, of which, he is too thick to be embarrassed. He is the model for nanny-state fascists who all believe that we are too dumb to live our own lives without their expert direction; under which all we are; and everything we do; or hope to do; is subject to their permission. Almost singlehandedly he has become an infuriating voice of the politically correct as he demonizes all and any who dare protest. He is the personification of the reason that we must completely do away with professional politicians in this country and make these pen pushers a vestige; a painful reminder of the past. He recently told those who seek to stop the Park 51 Mosque at ground zero from being built that ‘they should be ashamed of themselves.’ I presume that 70 percent of the American public now feels duly ashamed of themselves since being orally exorcised by Czar Mike. Incidentally, he did this after one of the top leaders of Hamas came out in full support of the project. That bit of alignment even caused Bully Mike, "I'm the only adult in town" Mayor to shut up! He then showed ‘respect’ for other people’s opinions, even when he disagreed with them.

Yeah, right! And I believe in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus.

Vote for Madman Mike Bloomberg—his policies are INSANE!(My apologies to Eddie Antar, if he's out of jail.)