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From: Troy
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:38
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:38
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I agree with banning smoking.I smoked for a long time (20-25 yrs +).I quite
5 years ago when one day it clicked that I was paying out money to some big
corporation to slowly kill myself.Quiting is the easiest thing to do when
you are 100% ready.I can't beleive how much money I saved as a non smoker.
The VoltairianT/Black JesterT/The Absent MindT/Riley BittermanT
<antihypocritspyslayer-arrffarrff@www.limbo.lowtax.gobnahsoff.gov.wa.us>
wrote in message news:H_5Wa.636$GN6.67@fe01.atl2.webusenet.com...
> I am not a drunk, I only joke that I'd be an alcoholic if I could afford
it, I
> am a discerning drinker. I never once put my money in shit, just because
i
> could get a two-four of Molson's instead of a 4 or 6 pack of Guinness.
None of
> it is the same as the next form of alcohol or beer and it doesn't pass
anything
> on second hand. Sure if someone is proven a drunk make them pay the
bills, and
> as for smoking, forget taxes; ban it. If it really is unhealthy then ban
it,
> don't make it a cash cow for the state that will only want you to do more
as a
> result, Fucken fascists and their taxes. Must be a government addiction,
> perhaps government jobs should be taxed, this can pay for the costs on our
> society. You know most hospitalizations regarding "alcohol" are due to
> dehydration and hunger, including things like rice wine that bearly counts
as
> true booze. Maybe they should tax the salt taken with vodka then.
>
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:32:20 GMT, "Troy" <alternate-root@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> >Spoken like a true DRUNK!!!!
> >
> >Hard core drinkers are a burden on our health care system just like drug
> >addicts and smokers.You should be highly taxed on booze and smokes,and
when
> >and if they legalize pot or any other drugs I hope they tax the hell out
of
> >them to.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >The VoltairianT/Black JesterT/The Absent MindT/Riley BittermanT
>
><hypocritslayerspyhunter-arrff-arrff@www.limbo.lowtax.gobnahsoff.gov.wa.us>
> >wrote in message news:uOtTa.568$jW.465@fe01.atl2.webusenet.com...
> >> I like drinking, why should I be punished for doing something no more
> >harmful
> >> than that teeth rot sold at 7 Eleven, as it might be called by some.
> >>
> >> Are you for prohibition of booze?????? Or just legalize if the big
> >theiving
> >> Government takes a cut???
> >>
> >> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 04:57:33 GMT, "Troy" <alternate-root@shaw.ca>
wrote:
> >>
> >> >Stop buying booze......problem solved
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >The VoltairianT/Black JesterT/The Absent MindT/Riley BittermanT
> >>
>
>><hypocritslayerspyhunter-arrff-arrff@www.limbo.lowtax.gobnahsoff.gov.wa.us
>
> >> >wrote in message news:1WnSa.1659$mo4.1263@fe01.atl2.webusenet.com...
> >> >> The gawd damn Liquor Board is a bootlegging crown corp run by a
crown
> >> >government
> >> >> unauthorized by the FDA (Food and Drug Admin.) and it already makes
> >money
> >> >off of
> >> >> booze, why should they add to the pain of oppression by charging
> >> >consumption
> >> >> taxes on top of their liquor prices and booze tax. Oh and the booze
> >tax
> >> >isn't
> >> >> needed either. I hate consumption taxes as it is.
> >> >>
> >> >> It's just wrong. Boozing is no sin, why a sin tax I have no idea.
> >Evenn
> >> >> biblically it said that it was only being a drunkard that was a sin.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> X-Sigfile
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm the mark of sarcasm, the upside-down exclaimation mark, I am the
> >Black
> >> >> JesterT.
> >> >> >:-{) )>
> >> >>
> >> >> Docta Gov. Admr. Count G�l�k Zolt�n Leenderdt Franco Buday; PhGT/D
> >> >> Aka The Pyromaniac of Madison County.
> >> >>
> >> >> Writer, Humorist [The Absent Mind], and everything else under the
moon.
> >> >> [Also said to be a multi-trilionare businessman and Navy SEAL]
> >> >> Vancouver, Neo Sumer/Olympia, Washington/Who knows where else...
> >> >>
> >> >> The Official Black Jester Website: http://www.blackjester.com/
> >> >> My Ego Times: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/
> >> >> Stripping: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/Stripping/
> >> >> Dictionary: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/dictionary/
> >> >> Item [Whore] Store: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/itemshop/
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> >>
> >> X-Sigfile
> >>
> >> I'm the mark of sarcasm, the upside-down exclaimation mark, I am the
Black
> >> JesterT.
> >> >:-{) )>
> >>
> >> Docta Gov. Admr. Count G�l�k Zolt�n Leenderdt Franco Buday; PhGT/D
> >> Aka The Pyromaniac of Madison County.
> >>
> >> Writer, Humorist [The Absent Mind], and everything else under the moon.
> >> [Also said to be a multi-trilionare businessman and Navy SEAL]
> >> Vancouver, Neo Sumer/Olympia, Washington/Who knows where else...
> >>
> >> The Official Black Jester Website: http://www.blackjester.com/
> >> My Ego Times: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/
> >> Stripping: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/Stripping/
> >> Dictionary: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/dictionary/
> >> Item [Whore] Store: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/itemshop/
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> "One should stat clear of comparing one self to others to feel like
> >> scum, one should compare themselves to what they could be or
> >> what they were for that; the same could be said about feeling
> >> good about one self." -- G�l�k Buday, 2003 aka The Absent Mind
>
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> >> "In revenge and in love. woman is more barbarous than
> >> man.". - Dr. F. Nietzsche
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> >> "As you have the power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore
> >> you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor turn into
> >> barndoor fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles;
> >> reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar--slavery makes it creep."
> >> -- Voltaire [A Letter To A First Commissioner]
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> >> A: Yes, yes. There is a natural law, and it does not consist
> >> either in doing harm to others or in rejoicing thereat. -- [FMA]
> >> Voltaire; Phil. Dict. -- Natural Law.
>
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> >> An itinerant bookseller does not burden himself with a Virgil,
> >> with a Horace, but with a new book, even though it be
> >> detestible. He draws a you aside and says to you: "Sir, do
> >> you want some books from Holland?" [FMA] Voltaire; Phil.
> >> Dict. -- New Novelties (Trends and Fads to Prechew).
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> >> "Chance is a word void of meaning, nothing happens without a
> >> cause." -- Voltaire; Phil. Dict. -- Chance
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> >> "Cool, like popular, is a word that is often associated with
> >> self betrayal." -- G�l�k Buday, 2003 aka The Absent Mind
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> >> "When the poison's pusher uses the poison, you can be sure
> >> he has and has used the antidote." -- G�l�k Buday, 2003
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> >> "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his
> >> enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes
> >> a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine
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> >> The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work
> >> and then gets elected and proves it. -P.J. O'Rourke
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> >> "There may not be an 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in Libertarian
> >> (in fact 2)" -- G�l�k Buday, April of 2002
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> >> "...I would have wished that no one in the state that could claim
> >> he was above the law, and that no one from outside the state could
> >> dictate a law [Fuck the UN] that the state was obliged to recognize.
> >> For regardless of how the government is formally constituted, if
> >> there is a single man not subject to the law, all the others are
> >> necessarily at that man' mercy." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau;
> >> To The Republic Of Geneva: Discourse On Inequality.
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> >> "...It follows that if in such a fortunate situation it (the country/
> >> state) would have nothing to fear but itself, and if citizens were
> >> trained in arms, it would be more for maintaining that soldiery
> >> spirit and noble courage that are so well suited for freedom and
> >> cultivate the taste for it rather than from the necessity for it's
> >> citizens' actual defence. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau;
> >> To The Republic Of Geneva: Discourse On Inequality.
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> >> "Freedom can only exist if all laws apply to all people." --
> >> Jean-Jacques Rousseau; possible paraphrase.
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> >> "Think, it's not illegal yet." -- George Clinton
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> >> "A Press That Is Not Free Isn't A Press At All" -- G�l�k Buday
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> >> "A Government, Of All Things, Is To Be Questioned And
> >> Inspected" -- G�l�k Buday
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> >> "At The Very Least, Insanity Isn't Unsanitary" -- G�l�k Buday
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> >> "it is an abomination for a person's tax dollars to be used to
> >> further a faith to which he does not subscribe. You want to
> >> pray, go to church. Nobody's objecting." -- Thomas
> >> Jefferson
>
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> >> "I am the first Prime Minister of this country of neither altogether
> >> English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a
> >> Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration."
> >> - Prime Minister Diefenbaker, March 29, 1958, Maclean's.
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> >> "We shall never build the nation which our potential resources
> >> make possible by dividing ourselves into Anglophones,
> >> Francophones, multiculturalphones, or whatever kind of
> >> phoneys you choose. I say: Americans, first, last,
> >> and always!" - G�l�k Buday, Purposely misquoting the
> >> Chief's Quote For His Own Agenda (2002).
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> >> "Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."
> >> - Prime Minister Diefenbaker, March 11, 1958
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> >> "As long as there is a drop of blood in my body they won't
> >> stop me from talking about freedom." - Prime Minister
> >> Diefenbaker, June 3, 1962, Sudbury, Ontario.
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> >> "Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to
> >> and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of
> >> strong and provocative words." - Prime Minister Diefenbaker,
> >> April 9, 1970, House of Commons.
>
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> >> "I Am A Surrealists" -- What Salvador Dali Said When
> >> Asked Why He Didn't Belong To The Surrealists (this may
> >> be true, regarding why actors tend not to belong to the
> >> Group of Actors and Libertarians don't always belong to the
> >> Libertarian Party.)
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> >> "I prefer to go to church, not have church come to me."
> >> -- G�l�k Buday
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> >> "It's almost as if he [Bill Clinton] spent 8 years pissing all over
> >> the presidency and on his last day went, 'oh! missed a spot."
> >> -- Lewis Black on Rich Pardon, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
>
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> >> "Honesty Makes An Opinion Important, Dishonesty Makes
> >> It Irrelevant (unimportant even)" -- G�l�k Buday; 2002
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> >> "An Opinion, Like An Axe, Is Only As Good As The Person
> >> Who Wields It." -- G�l�k Buday
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> >> "The Value Of A Comment Derives From The Honesty Of
> >> The Orator And/Or Writer." -- G�l�k Buday
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> >> "The Height Of Genius Is The Ability To Conceal It." --
> >> George Bernard Shaw
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> >> "Brevity is the soul of wit." -- William Shakespeare (hard to
> >> believe, I know.).
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> >> "There Is A Difference Between Community Involvement and
> >> Being Involved (Or A Part Of) In A Community." -- G�l�k Buday
>
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> >> We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were
> >> beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was
> >> to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by
> >> reorganizing. And what a wonderful method it can be for
> >> creating the illusion of progress while producing inefficiency,
> >> confusion and demoralization. -- Gaius Petronius Arbiter,
> >> 1st century AD; Satyricon.
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> >> "If You Have A Lawsuit, Your Goods, Your Honor, Your Very
> >> Life Depends On The Very Interpretation Of A Book You Never
> >> Read." -- Francois "Voltaire" Marie Arouet; Phil. Dictionary.
>
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> >> "The Suppression Of A Word Is What Gives It Power." --
> >> Lenny Bruce.
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> >> "Window Peepers, Authoritarians In General, Tend To Be The
> >> Biggest Scoundrels." -- G�l�k Buday
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> >> "Sometimes, It's Not A Good Idea To Listen For, But A Good
> >> Question." -- G�l�k Buday.
>
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> >> "Small Government's A Start" -- G�l�k Buday.
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> >> "Funny how diversity is ok unless it's of opinion or philosophical."
> >> -- G�l�k Zolt�n Leenderdt Franco Buday; On "Divisive Opinions
> >> and Issues;" December 2nd, 2002.
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> >> "I rather have one competant employee, than a million incompetent
> >> ones, one competent something than a million incompetent
> >> something; and criminality counts as incompetance in business as
> >> well." -- G�l�k Z. L. F. Buday
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> PS I am not, nor have been, known as Grant Buday
> >> PPS Not Che from che-lives.com
> >> ?
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >> Closet LibertarianT, Black MagusT, Bible ThumperT, Blow LoadT,
> >> The VoltairianT, Black JesterT, Riley BittermanT, Pyromaniac of
> >> Madison Country and any other origional works are trademarks of
> >> G�l�k Buday and all Constitutional and Intellectual Rights Are
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> >>
> >> 204 Lines As Opposed To 1300 Lines on Sig File.
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