Posts Tagged ‘tobacco’

Dick Blumenthal served courageously in South Carolina?

May 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Connecticut Attorney General Richard “Dick” Blumenthal has been in office since 1991.  He’s done a lot of things as attorney general.  He jumped on the first great American corporate lynching of the tobacco industry well after Hillary Clinton declared war.  Ignoring the issues with global warming, he’s trying to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous substance: [...]

Share the wealth, create jobs now

March 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Obama wants to create jobs, here’s another suggestion: SPREAD THE WEALTH Now, that alone should appeal to Obama.  But, as with all ideological one-liners, it needs some substance to it.  “Change” sounded great, but people are realizing now without specifics, whether ignored or not mentioned, it doesn’t do anyone much good.  With spreading the wealth, [...]

New York wants to tax high energy drinks

December 17th, 2008 | No Comments

Well, in all fairness, they want to tax pretty much everything.  However, I’m gonna pick on this one issue right now.  To be able to increase the state budget, Gov. Paterson ( he’s a Democrat ), wants to increase taxes on a lot of things that have gone pretty much untaxed in the past.  However, [...]

The first anti-smoking campaign

December 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Per my friend, L’Ombre de l’Olivier.  I really never knew this:   The world’s first anti-smoking campaign, Nazi Germany 1933-1945.  Hitler apparently not only hated Jews, those not “pure”, and a laundry list of other issues, he hated smokers and people who drank alcohol as well.  Now, I’m not sure how far he took this.  [...]