11/25/98

Lots to cover today. 1st I solicited responses to yesterday's posting from cyber-friends on ICQ. Final tally as of now is 18 in agreement, 2 in disagreement.

Is the web a great forum for exchange of opinions or what??? I greatly appreciate any comment of my web pg, supporting or not. If someone who visits always agrees, or disagrees, then what is the point of coming to this web pg?

Today, a very terrible thing has been confirmed here in "The Valley of the Sun". It's worse than the Measles Epidemic!!! Mike Tyson (Lend me your ear, to chew on). Has announced in todays' local paper The Arizona Republic, that this area is his new home. SEE STORY HERE FROM AZ. REPUBLIC

And here is a news story that a kind soul has forwarded to me that embodies what I've been trying to let you all know about. Pay attention to the very end of the story if the Anti Smoking Slant has you in agreement with it. I highlighted it in WHITE.

Robin Hood in Reverse
By Robert J. Samuelson
Wednesday, November 25, 1998; Page A21  We may have closure -- at least
temporarily -- to the anti-smoking crusade of the 1990s. The agreement
between state attorneys general and the tobacco companies for the industry
to pay the states roughly $200 billion over 25 years may quiet the
controversy. If so, this will be the agreement's main benefit, because
otherwise it is a parody of good government policy. It imposes a steep tax
on a poor part of the population, offers only modest health benefits and
deepens popular confusion about the public consequences of smoking.
Let's concede the small possible health gains. The agreement will raise
cigarette prices; tobacco analyst Martin Feldman of Salomon Smith Barney
figures that retail prices will go from an average $2.07 a pack now to
$2.90 in the year 2000. (Indeed, cigarette companies already have announced
a 45-cents-a-pack increase.) Higher prices might reduce the number of
smokers by a few percentage points of the population. But it seems unlikely
that the restrictions on advertising (banning billboards and promotional
giveaways) will lower teen smoking. In the 1990s, the country has been
awash in anti-smoking news stories and TV programs that are worth billions
in counter-advertising. Meanwhile, some surveys show teen smoking has
risen. This seems to confirm the industry's contention that advertising
mainly determines which brands people smoke, not whether they smoke.
Let's also note that the agreement aids the tobacco industry. By reducing
the threat of lawsuits, it bolsters companies' stock prices. Still, the
great myth of this struggle is that, just because cigarettes are unhealthy
and the tobacco industry is often dishonest, the people on the other side
must be morally superior. In truth, they -- meaning plaintiffs' lawyers,
politicians and public-health advocates -- also frequently pursue their
goals with a single-minded dishonesty and hypocrisy. And their motives are
often selfish: personal enrichment (the lawyers), power and popularity (the
politicians) and ego gratification (the public-health advocates).
Little wonder the results are disheartening. Almost everyone has long known
that smoking is dangerous, as a review of surveys by Lydia Saad for the
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut
reveals: In 1954, 70 percent of the public thought smoking "harmful," and
42 percent thought it "one of the causes of lung cancer"; by 1990, these
responses were 96 percent and 94 percent. Most Americans also think that
smokers decide for themselves whether to smoke. A 1997 poll asked who is
"more responsible for . . . smoking-related illnesses," smokers or tobacco
companies. By 76 percent to 17 percent, respondents said smokers.
The debate's central issue ought to be: How much is society entitled to
penalize smokers for their decisions, because -- in society's view -- those
decisions are unhealthy? Should present smokers be punished (via higher
taxes) to deter future smokers? Should Congress order the Food and Drug
Administration to mandate safer, and maybe less satisfying, cigarettes?
These hard questions pit Americans' belief in personal freedom against the
desire to protect public health. Precisely because the questions are hard,
anti-smoking advocates diverted the debate to three other ideas, all
dubious.
First, smokers aren't responsible for their behavior. As teens, they're
seduced by industry ads; then they can't stop because smoking is addictive.
Second, smoking creates huge social costs -- mainly higher health spending
-- that nonsmokers pay through higher taxes. Finally, the tobacco industry
should be punished and forced to compensate nonsmokers for smoking's social
costs.
Well. Even if smoking is addictive, people can -- often with pain and hard
work -- break addictions. There are now more ex-smokers than smokers. As
for higher government costs, studies have shown that because smokers die
earlier than nonsmokers, they create savings for government through lower
lifetime health and pension costs. The states' anti-tobacco suits alleged
that smokers raised states' health costs under the Medicaid program. This,
too, is unproven; the industry's analysis disputed it.
But suppose smokers lack free will and raise government's costs. Still, the
industry could not pay those costs directly without going bankrupt. The
money always has had to come from smokers through higher cigarette prices
-- the equivalent of a tax increase. Anti-smoking advocates rarely discuss
this, because the implications are devastating. Smokers have low incomes.
Only 20 percent of cigarette taxes are paid by those with incomes over
$50,000; 34 percent are paid by those with incomes under $20,000 and 19
percent by those with incomes between $20,000 and $30,000. And smokers
already pay steep federal and state cigarette taxes (now averaging about 58
cents a pack) that more than cover any possible public costs they create.
As a result, the anti-smoking crusade becomes a reverse Robin Hood
arrangement: It sanctifies soak-the-poor taxes and robs the poor to pay the
rich. The attorneys general's agreement now enshrines this. The rich, of
course, are the private lawyers who represent the states in their tobacco
suits. The agreement allows up to $500 million in annual fees for perhaps a
few hundred and at most a few thousand lawyers. For how long? Arbitrators
will decide; these payments come atop fees to be paid in four existing
state settlements that will almost certainly total billions. The cigarette
dispute has evolved into a welfare program that may create some instant
billionaires and many multimillionaires.
Because none of this can be defended, it is camouflaged. For
self-interested reasons, the anti-smoking advocates never openly described
public choices. Beyond taxing smokers to cut smoking, politicians want to
keep the taxes -- and not to rebate them. Public-health advocates covet
extra money for pet programs; and lawyers crave their fees. All this has
involved an adept manipulation of courts and legislatures. A gullible
public -- aided by a pliant press -- embraced the anti-smoking hysteria.
Because the campaign succeeded, it will inspire assaults against other
industries. We can't tell the target (whether alcohol or autos or fatty
foods) or the tactics. But it's just a matter of time.

Remember my previous articles? They came for the Smokers, But I do not Smoke, so I did nothing. The came for the BEER Drinkers, But I don't Drink, so I did nothing. They came for the Meat Eaters, But I'm a Vegetarian, so I did nothing. They came for the Peanut and Peanut Butter Eaters, I don't like Peanuts or Peanut Butter, so I did nothing. They went after the Soda Pop drinkers, I don't drink Soda Pop, so I did nothing. They went after Fatty Foods, I believe Fatty Foods are BAD, so I did nothing. AAANNNDDD!!! They went after the people I Love, because it is not POLITICALLY CORRECT to Love someone you know, and NOT Love someone you don't know. This is the Most serious of ALL!!! It divides society into.... Family and other small close groups. LOVE is ANTI-SOCIAL!!!!!!! LOVE SHOULD BE BANNED!!!!!!!

Sermon #2 ???

11/24/98

Well it appears that Dr DEATH is about to be indicted for Murder or Manslaughter. A good thing. What Kevorkian did on "60 Minutes", is the exact same thing that is done to Death Penalty Reciepients. DEATH BY LETHAL INJECTION. The VICTIM on "60 Minutes", was a victim of Lou Gehrigs'(sp?) Disease, who was obviously clinically Depressed. Do we want a society that says, "LET'S KILL HIM!!! HE AGREES!!!, AND IT SAVES US $$$!!!". Let me remind you of a victim of this same disease. He is much worse off than this guy, he can no longer speak, or breath on his own. But he continues to write books that are continuely on The New York Times Best Seller List. He continues to give Lectures at universities. And now is considered to have surpassed Albert Einstien in Theoretical Physics. His name is Stephen Hawking. I guess if he was now unborn, he would be aborted. I guess if he was born, the coming Medical Standards would have REVOKED his right for medical care. The breakthroughs, the lectures, the videos, would not exist. Assisted Suicide, Assisted DEATH, OUTRIGHT MURDER of a Clinically Depressed person, is CONTRARY to the LAWS of GOD and nature!!!! As Dr DEATH calls it, a right for an ENLIGHTENED SOCIETY. Dr Death in my opinion gets "The Snuffed Candle" Award. Some of you will understand this more than others, but either way the point gets across. Dr Death has a lot to own up to when DEATH comes HIS way. For those who need a little extra help on "The Snuffed Candle Award", CLICK HERE!!!

Just in case you didn't "catch my drift", I consider Dr Kevorkian a mass murder of depressed people who can be treated and regain THEIR WILL TO LIVE. Death by your own hand, or accepting DEATH by another hand, is evidence of a failure of any living thing's basic instinct, TO SURVIVE!!! And in the human "animal" (PETA WOULD LOVE THAT COMMENT), Is indicative of Clinical Depression. THAT CAN EFFECTIVELY BE TREATED TODAY!!! Level minded Terminally Ill patients, still have the WILL to LIVE, to Accomplish, ETC. There are SO MANY cases of elderly terminally ILL grandparent(s) that have WILLED themselves to live to see their granddaughter's/grandson's wedding. And Die soon afterwards, and many more such examples that is Important to the Terminally Ill.

Do they all succeed or make it? NO. But they sure as hell try!!!

There are also cases of people that lost their WILL to Live, Death of a spouse is most common. But they died WITHOUT INTERVENTION of Dr Death!!! You can take this, or leave it, but it is my opinion, (isn't that why you read this pg? For my opinion?). That we are here for a REASON, we are meant to go thru what we go thru for a reason. Life of plenty, Life of poverty, or whatever. But to cut the LESSON short is the worst possible outcome from life.

End of Smoker Dave's Sermon on the 'Net.

11/23/98

Sorry I've been away, just enjoying a few days off from work.

Starting off on the lighter side. The Cardinals (NFL) are the reborn Cardiac Kids. Doesn't matter how far behind or ahead, the games are not decided until the very end. They are driving me batty. This Fri I will be in Tucson with friends rooting for ASU to pop U of A's major bowl hopes.

Now to the more serious stuff. Perjury is a FELONY. Obstuction of Justice is a FELONY. Abuse of Power is a FELONY. Witness Tampering is a FELONY. Who can honestly say that Clinton is INNOCENT OF ALL 3????

Now Clinton is not CONVICTED of any of these charges, and it appears won't be. But WHAT 2 BASIC RIGHTS does a CONVICTED FELON LOSE?

THE RIGHT TO VOTE. (Clinton has the power to sign into law bills, or veto them). THE RIGHT TO OWN/POSSESS FIREARMS. (Clinton is the Commander and Chief of the most powerful military in the world). Do you see what's wrong here???!!! The rule of LAW is supposed to be equally applied to everyone!!!

Did you see Dr DEATH on 60 Minutes last night? MURDER on Primetime TV during the ratings sweep. Or maybe it is just a VERY LATE TERM ABORTION. It's WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!! What we have here is the Cornerstone of NAZISM becoming public debate. Only because we now have "cleaner" methods than the "GAS CHAMBER". But meanwhile from the same people who want this, is the animal rights advocates who wish to also inflict their view of perverse rights of animals over people. These are the people who run HMO's and deny care to people because the treatment is TOO costly. But also demand that you "adopt" a turkey to save it from being killed for someone's dinner and put it in a "retirement farm" where the turkey can live out it's life in security and safety. Save the Whales, the Turkeys, the cows, the pigs, the chickens, etc. To hell with people.

I say, "TO HELL WITH THEM!!!".

11/19/98

Great American Smoke Out Day. In protest of all the non-smokers who wish to inflict their politically correct thinkinking on me, in the City with the most restrictive anti-smoking laws in the U.S. I make a concerted effort to smoke twice as much as I would normally smoke. Tell these stupid do-gooders that they are producing the opposite results. Just like on National Vegetarian Day I would eat twice as much meat. Be kind to animals day, If I had a dog, that day would be a day of no walk, and abstinence from food. Because if the trend continues Thanksgiving will be considered a PAGEN Holiday, glorifying the Eating of a bird.

The Impeachment Hearings, Ken Starr. I have a question, Who in their right mind elects the like of John Conyers, and Barney Frank???? Talk about PCB's, (Professional Cry Babies). They did not question the facts that Starr has, instead they complained,"But the way you found out the facts isn't FAIR!!!" Waa, Waa Waa, Sob, Sob. It's not fair you investigated. Waa, Waa, Waa, sniffle, sniffle.

If we follow the Liberals in this, than the whole point of Sexual Harrassment Laws, and Domestic Violence Laws would have to be thrown away. The Liberals say No they won't. Which means they want a DIFFERENT STANDARD applied to the President, ESPECIALLY THEIRS.

SORRY but the rule of LAW applies to everyone equally. PERJURY is PERJURY, you can't partially perjur. You can't somewhat OBSTUCT JUSTICE, you can't ABUSE POWER a little. You can't TAMPER only a Little with a WITNESS. You can't "sort" of BRIBE a potential WITNESS. IT IS EITHER YES OR NO!!!!

You already know my judgement of Clinton, but here it is up to the HOUSE and after that the SENATE. Eternal JUDGEMENT is left to a much Higher Source.

Forgive Clinton? Yes I can, but not without punishment. And that is IMPEACHMENT. Agree or disagree this is my opinion.

11/17/98

Saw the Leonid Meteor Shower last night, pretty good, some nice bright ones that left luminous trails too.

For those of you who don't know about this, AZ State and the City of Gilbert, AZ are locked in battle with the ACLU, (American Civil Liberties Union), on the proclamation of 11/22/98-11/28/98 as BIBLE week.

ACLU are screaming "Violates the Separation of Church and State!!!". My question is: Where was the ACLU when AZ had a proclamation for January as Ramadan? Where was the ACLU when AZ had a proclamation for April- Israel's 50th Anniversary of Independence? Where was the ACLU when AZ had a proclamation for March as Women's History Month? There was no men's History Month.

Where was the ACLU when AZ had a proclamation of AZ Minority Child and Family Network Week? There was no Single White Guy Week. This one I love, Aug 1-7th was Clown Week. I think it is too narrow. I think it should be the 1st week of Nov. and called Clown and Politician Week.

I think ACLU is actually, Americans' w/Conflicting Legal Undertakings.

If there can be a National SmokeOut Day, to be fair, there should be a National Smoke Day. Labor Day should be offset by Slacker Day. We have Bosses Day, Secretary Day, What about GRUNT DAY????

And did you see this in the news? A teenage girl DIED from an allergic reaction to PEANUT OIL in a snack treat at a birthday party somewhere in NY State. I bet even more schools ban PEANUT BUTTER and Snacks containing PEANUT OIL.CLICK HERE FOR STORY Maybe the FAA will expand beyound the current 3 row NO PEANUT ZONE on planes. And maybe grocery stores will move PEANUT BUTTER and items containing PEANUT OIL to the over the counter medicine aisle. Don't foget the schools!!! CICK HERE FOR STORY.

And to top it ALL off, the Monica TAPES are out, give me a break. For links to it find it on your own, I'm sick of Monica and am not wasting my time to provide a link to it, it's easy enough to find.

11/16/98

The following commentary is not directed to a whole group, only a general observation of the people at the game. Obviously the more moronic, drunken or drugged of these rabid Dallas Fans, who were also poor sports, is what most of the "normal" crowd remembers. To all who are offended, I apologize. I may have over generalized, and I do admit that there were also some Moronic and stupid Cardinals fans there also.

11/16/98

Sadly to say, the Forces of Evil won over the Forces of Good yesterday, Only because of the help of the Officials, Multiple non-calls on pass interference, especially on the last play that would have sent the game into OVERTIME. Even John Madden couldn't believe the non-call. Which ended the AZ Cardinals comeback from being down 28 pts, 5 yards short. Of coarse with all the drug Money that the Dallas Crack-Boys get for being SOUTH AMERICA'S TEAM it does'nt surprise me. It is my hope, that the Forces of Good rebound and lock up the Wildcard Playoff spot. And play the Crack-Boys once again. In the end, Good always prevails over Evil. And it is also my hope that the ENTIRE OFFICIATING CREW is FIRED and BANNED From EVER OFFICIATING an NFL GAME. It was obvious that this CREW has been bought by the Dallas NFL Franchise, and 1 of the CREW has been quoted in the past, To NEVER give the Cardinals a "Borderline" call. Guess who was closest on the final play???? In the stands, it was encouraging to see more Cardinal RED than Crack-Boy Blue. 80% of the Crack-Boy Blue was worn by Hispanics, Probably of whom 35% are here illegally. And of those probably less than 10% could pass a drug test. And if they took an IQ test, most would be classified as MORONS, or IDIOTS. Able only to do lawn work, flip 'Burgers, or make Burrittos. Remember the big bust here a few months back of the Restuarant chain Fill a Burto's. They had to close down for 2 weeks when their workforce was deported. It took 2 weeks to bring in more illegals to reopen the resturants.

And if you think that's not bad enough, we are going to be swamped by illegals migrating north because of Hurricane Mitch.