Democrat Senators Rip Golden Globes For Featuring Incidental Shots of Celebrities Puffing on E-Cigs

Remember, this is the party that doesn't want to control free speech or your own personal choices.

Except for speech and choices they don't like, of course.

Four Democratic senators are criticizing the celebrities who were shown during Sunday night’s Golden Globes Awards puffing away on e-cigarettes.
“The Golden Globes celebrates entertainers who are an influence on young fans,” wrote Sens. Dick Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, Sherrod Brown and Edward Markey on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, this year, many young viewers saw notable displays of e-cigarette use throughout the awards show, including the opening monologue and repeated shots of celebrities smoking e-cigarettes,” the letter continued. “In light of studies showing that exposure to on-screen smoking is a major contributor to smoking initiation among youth, we are troubled that these images glamorize smoking and serve as celebrity endorsements that could encourage young fans to begin smoking traditional cigarettes or e-cigarettes.”
Sunday night’s ceremony briefly showed actor Leonardo DiCaprio and actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus smoking e-cigarettes during the broadcast.

As many have noted, the party which is broadly (often covertly) in favor of drug legalization is pretty firm on the point that a harmless method of nicotine delivery should be outlawed, lest it serve as a "Gateway Drug" to the stronger stuff, such as cigarettes.

These clowns remind me of The Little Sister, from the Philip Marlowe detective novel.

"Come on up and let's have a look at you," I added. "If you're in my kind of trouble, I can give you a pretty good idea--"
"I have to know something about you," the small voice said very firmly. "This is a very delicate matter, very personal. I couldn't talk to just anybody."
"If it's that delicate," I said, "maybe you need a lady detective."
"Goodness, I didn't know there were any." Pause. "But I don't think a lady detective would do at all. You see, Orrin was living in a very tough neighborhood, Mr. Marlowe. At least I thought it was tough. The manager of the rooming house is a most unpleasant person. He smelled of liquor. Do you drink, Mr. Marlowe?"
"Well, now that you mention it--"
"I don't think I'd care to employ a detective that uses liquor in any form. I don't even approve of tobacco."
"Would it be all right if I peeled an orange?"

Spoiler alert: The Little Sister turns out to not be quite so innocent and prudish as she can pretend to be when it suits her.

Rather like the Left, which can turn on a dime from untrammeled license and hedonism to furious moral scolds depending on whether it's their own pleasures under discussion or yours.

They don't ask for much: Just for your to think, believe, speak, act and be just like them in all ways.

Posted by: Ace at 06:27 PM

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1 No

Posted by: real joe at January 15, 2014 06:28 PM (xXhgd)

2 Pot is great though right? Not all smoke is bad? Smoke is better than water vapor? I am so confused

Posted by: thunderb at January 15, 2014 06:30 PM (zOTsN)

3 yes

Posted by: oc joe at January 15, 2014 06:30 PM (hqVUe)

4 What do you expect from a President who thinks the Narcissistic little shit stains are going to pay for old farts Health Insurance...Really?

Posted by: Col Blade at January 15, 2014 06:30 PM (aNW9+)

5 Statists can bite me.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at January 15, 2014 06:30 PM (qIeI4)

6 >>Rather like the Left, which can turn on a dime from untrammeled license and hedonism to furious moral scolds depending on whether it's their own pleasures under discussion or yours.

E-cigs bad, public pot smoking--including in the face of bus drivers--good.

W. T. F.?

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 15, 2014 06:31 PM (SUKHu)

7 An e-cigarette inserted into the rectum and then pumped with power glutes is an effective smoking cessation program.

Posted by: Dr. Dick Thrombosis at January 15, 2014 06:31 PM (oFCZn)

8 Subjugation: The essence of Leftism.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 15, 2014 06:32 PM (8ZskC)

9 For the children!

The sweet, succulent children.

Posted by: Harry Reid at January 15, 2014 06:32 PM (UwPPH)

10 Pot is great though right? Not all smoke is bad? Smoke is better than water vapor? I am so confused

A Venn diagram may be helpful.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 15, 2014 06:32 PM (8ZskC)

11 E-Cigarettes caused the Polar Vortex. Look it up.

Posted by: Dang at January 15, 2014 06:33 PM (MNq6o)

12 How do they know the eCigs had evil nicotine fluid in them and not some sort of cannabis juice.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 15, 2014 06:33 PM (kxSZr)

13 Seriously though Ace raises a good point here.

Why are we not hitting these bastards on the hypocrisy of "This is ok, but not that?"

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 15, 2014 06:33 PM (oFCZn)

14 Do e-cigs contain nicotine or is it just the simulated flavor of it?

Posted by: EC at January 15, 2014 06:34 PM (doBIb)

15 If the e-cig was fashioned into a dildo, well then the left would be required to celebrate public displays of smoking.

Posted by: wooga at January 15, 2014 06:34 PM (UwPPH)

16 Nicotine doesn't make you docile and dependent on government, so they have no use for it.

Pot stands a better chance of doing that.

Ergo: Pot good, Nicotine bad.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 06:34 PM (GaqMa)

17 Thank you, Ace...for calling them "Democrat Senators", instead of 'democratic'.

I hate seeing the Dems called 'democratic'.
They aren't.

It's actually more grammatically correct, I think, to use 'Democrat' in the descriptive or identification sense...rather than use 'Democratic'.

'Republican' on the other hand, works for both...so it is never changed.

Posted by: wheatie at January 15, 2014 06:34 PM (wUr+i)

18 Smoking is the worst thing ever. Only white trash, bible-banging scum smoke. Fucking moral degenerates. I hate them.

Unless it's pot smoking. Then it's the best thing ever. Only white trash, bible-banging scum object to pot smoking. Fucking moral prudes. I hate them.

Posted by: Progtard 2000 at January 15, 2014 06:34 PM (ZPrif)

19 I didn't realize objecting to cigs could be so insidious

Posted by: JL at January 15, 2014 06:34 PM (Nl3J+)

20

They do it because they can.

#whydodogslicktheirballs

Posted by: soothsayer at January 15, 2014 06:34 PM (Xd+ZC)

21 As you pointed out earlier Ace the left likes government force, and any time they start lecturing you have to remember the bastards are only a little whining away from having the police enforce their views.

In other words, they will tax e-cigs, then regulate the sellers, and finally outlaw the devices.

Posted by: MTF at January 15, 2014 06:35 PM (F58x4)

22 JL is back from his breastfeeding.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 15, 2014 06:35 PM (8ZskC)

23 6 mama AJ,

*flings poo*?
//democrat rage monkey 957

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2014 06:35 PM (TE35l)

24 I'm just a MacGuffin.

Posted by: an e-cig at January 15, 2014 06:36 PM (mSI+k)

25 WTF is it with these people and E-cigs? Are these cessation tools? If I were cynical, I'd say they are simply trying to preserve their smoker tax base?

Posted by: dogfish at January 15, 2014 06:36 PM (nsOJa)

26 My friend switched to e-cig a year ago. I told him I could see it coming, the commies were going to come after them just like real ones. He laughed and said no way. He's now noticing they are coming for them. Never underestimate a commie

Posted by: oc joe at January 15, 2014 06:36 PM (hqVUe)

27 If the Progressive/Statists didn't have hypocrisy, they'd have nothing.

OK, they'd have infinite Trails of Tears, Death, and Destruction, too.

But that's all.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 15, 2014 06:37 PM (eHIJJ)

28 I wonder if O smokes ecigs dipped in Reggie Chocolate Eye?
I Bill dipped his in Monicas Pie right?

Posted by: Col Blade at January 15, 2014 06:37 PM (aNW9+)

29 All things that are not mandated are prohibited.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 15, 2014 06:37 PM (8ZskC)

30 For the love of God Texas, secede already.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 15, 2014 06:38 PM (DpEwG)

31 I'm sure if they could tax the f*ck of it like they do everything else, they wouldn't have a problem with them.

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at January 15, 2014 06:38 PM (AZ6Y2)

32 Glad to see that the problems of this great nation are well under control and that our duly elected Senators have the time to focus on puffery such as this.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at January 15, 2014 06:38 PM (OWjjx)

33 24 I'm just a MacGuffin.
Posted by: an e-cig at January 15, 2014 06:36 PM (mSI+k)

So am I

Posted by: Plans to the Death Star at January 15, 2014 06:39 PM (bRL1M)

34 Ace, whatever happened with your foray into the vape subculture? You did a dedicated post on your ongoing experimentations some time ago, but then more recently, I think in a comment, you mentioned that you were back to smoking. Were all the vape options unsatisfactory, or are you now on some kind of combo plan where you vape sometimes and smoke others?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 15, 2014 06:39 PM (IN7k+)

35 Anyone know where to get refills for my e-Bottle-of-Jack-Daniel's?

Posted by: Dang at January 15, 2014 06:39 PM (MNq6o)

36 Nicotine doesn't make you docile and dependent on government, so they have no use for it. Pot stands a better chance of doing that. Ergo: Pot good, Nicotine bad.
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 06:34 PM (GaqMa)

---------------------------------------------------

You've nailed it perfectly.

Posted by: Soona at January 15, 2014 06:39 PM (MB7Pi)

37 “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

-- C.S. Lewis

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 15, 2014 06:39 PM (8ZskC)

38 There is nothing funnier than watching the reaction of the general public watching someone smoking an e-cig .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 15, 2014 06:39 PM (XWw96)

39 33 24 I'm just a MacGuffin.
Posted by: an e-cig at January 15, 2014 06:36 PM (mSI+k)

So am I
Posted by: Plans to the Death Star at January 15, 2014 06:39 PM (bRL1M)

Guilty

Posted by: Maltese Falcon at January 15, 2014 06:40 PM (bRL1M)

40 Let's hope next year's show captures Leonardo DiCaprio working his penis pump for the home cameras. Or not.

Posted by: Fritz at January 15, 2014 06:40 PM (UzPAd)

41 Amazing, this transformation Obama has brought about. The democrats don't even pretend any more.

Why the hate for faux cigarettes if it's the nicotine that's the problem. They going to start screaming about the gum or the patch?

Oh, wait, remember those fake candy cigarettes? Wasn't there some outrage about that? getting little kids hooked on 'smoking' and candy just to be hanging out with the kool kids.

Now it's the kool kids who smoke pot, so if we would just all mellow out, give peace a chance, do your own thing, not be so judgmental all the time.

Posted by: Kodie, son of Kodie at January 15, 2014 06:41 PM (tCDF8)

42 They should outlaw old movies. TV reruns too. I think Mary Tyler Moore smoked once on the Dick Van Dyke show. Turned me delinquent, it did.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 15, 2014 06:41 PM (P6QsQ)

43 “The Golden Globes celebrates entertainers who are an influence on young
fans,” wrote Sens. Dick Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, Sherrod Brown and
Edward Markey on Tuesday.

Is THIS the really kind of shit that our highly-paid senators spend their days working on?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 15, 2014 06:42 PM (8ZskC)

44 Oh, wait, remember those fake candy cigarettes? Wasn't there some outrage about that? getting little kids hooked on 'smoking' and candy just to be hanging out with the kool kids.

Those fucking things were awful. Like eating chalk. I was so happy I could buy actual cigarettes when I got older. They tasted better.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 15, 2014 06:42 PM (oFCZn)

45 Look, either something is forbidden or it is mandatory.
And the difference between them depends solely on your owner's decision.
Did I say owner? I meant leader. Leader.

Posted by: votermom at January 15, 2014 06:42 PM (GSIDW)

46 I meant smoking an e-cig in a public place , where smoking would be verboten .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 15, 2014 06:42 PM (XWw96)

47 Didn't they just make even e -cig " smoking" illegal in NYC restaurants?

Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 06:42 PM (zqvg6)

48 Someone get Meggie Mac some E-fries.

Posted by: dogfish at January 15, 2014 06:42 PM (nsOJa)

49 14
The fluid in the e-cig usually does have nicotine. Different companies make different strength liquid, with different flavors (tobacco, cola, pretty much anything.)
You can get the fluid without nicotine, but it seems kind of like drinking decaf soda to me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 15, 2014 06:43 PM (TGgNi)

50 I think Mary Tyler Moore smoked once on the Dick Van Dyke show. Turned me delinquent, it did.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 15, 2014 06:41 PM (P6QsQ)

It was those perky titties in the tight sweaters that did it to most people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 15, 2014 06:43 PM (QFxY5)

51
Did You Know?

Did you know that a few years ago in my city, the high school gave the kids a project: petition the city's Walgreens and Rite Aid to stop selling cigs.

You know what happened? They stopped selling cigs.

Do you see why public school is so damn important to the Left?

Posted by: soothsayer at January 15, 2014 06:43 PM (Xd+ZC)

52 And if you think this is all about public welfare and health....it isn't.

Durbin lost his parents to cancer from smoking.Dick has been on a crusade ever since. Dick doesn't comprehend that Dick's parents made a choice to smoke, to continue to smoke and that choices have consequences. Nope. Dick just wants to kill the people who killed Dick's parents.

Cause Dick is a Dick.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at January 15, 2014 06:43 PM (OWjjx)

53 44 Surprisingly they still sell those and bubblegum cigars.Bloomberg would shit his pants.

Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 06:44 PM (zqvg6)

54 Hey I'll decide what you can put in your mouth and what you can't. I'm a Democrat. I know best.

Posted by: Dick "I'm a Dick" Durbin at January 15, 2014 06:44 PM (9ng2u)

55 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 15, 2014 06:42 PM (oFCZn)

A tip of the hat to you good sir......

AOSHQ; the funniest blog on the internet.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 15, 2014 06:44 PM (QFxY5)

56 51 Easily to mobilize shock troops.

Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 06:44 PM (zqvg6)

57 I believe Boston just banned also in public parks as well as the normal banned places as real cigs

Posted by: oc joe at January 15, 2014 06:44 PM (hqVUe)

58 E-cigs in elevators are hilarious .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 15, 2014 06:45 PM (XWw96)

59 I guess Dick Blumenthal completely lying about his service in Vietnam wasn't a bad influence on young people?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2014 06:45 PM (7kkQJ)

60 wait

doesn't the JEF smoke?

like, everything?

Posted by: thunderb at January 15, 2014 06:45 PM (zOTsN)

61 it's fun to watch all the flip flopping. nicotine is a drug.

Posted by: X at January 15, 2014 06:45 PM (KHo8t)

62 Now. Watch for the government medical research grants abound to prove that enhaling perfumed water-vapors cause some kind of catastrophic malady. Pot smoking will be proven perfectly harmless. Maybe even healthful.

Posted by: Soona at January 15, 2014 06:45 PM (MB7Pi)

63 And by "not control your every move and thought," the Democrats really mean "control your everY move, thought and every moment of every day of the rest of your life."

But the MSM says it's kewl, because it shows like, they CARE.

Posted by: shibumi at January 15, 2014 06:46 PM (25HWz)

64 pot, tobacco, poles

Posted by: thunderb at January 15, 2014 06:46 PM (zOTsN)

65 Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at January 15, 2014 06:43 PM (OWjjx)

I lost both my grandfathers and a few other important people in my life, and I don't give a fuck whether you smoke. Just don't blow it in my face and we are cool.

Fuck Durban....he's a Nazi in training.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 15, 2014 06:46 PM (QFxY5)

66 I remember when TV shows were sponsored by cigarette companies. The stars would shill for them. This is why all the people died.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 15, 2014 06:46 PM (P6QsQ)

67 Add a vibrator function to an e-cig and I'd never leave the bed.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 15, 2014 06:46 PM (nsOJa)

68 61 x,

And your donk friends are asshats...

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2014 06:46 PM (TE35l)

69 Mad Men didn't smoke e-cigs .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 15, 2014 06:46 PM (XWw96)

70 And this reminds me, last night on History Channel they were doing a documentary on China's Cultural Revolution. The Revolution where the only movies you could watch was movies depicting the brave revolutionary, the music was dedicated to the brave revolutionary and telelvision shows were.....well, you get the idea.

About half way through the program it hit me....we are just about there. Just about at the point where your programing, movies, music, whatever, conforms to the dictates of the Left or you are blacklisted.

All by the same people who decry the blacklisting of the 50s.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at January 15, 2014 06:46 PM (OWjjx)

71 Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 06:44 PM (zqvg6)

After he gets rid of the carriage horses DeBlasio will be moving on to ban candy cigarettes and gum cigars.
Mint fake pot candy will be allowed however.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2014 06:47 PM (7kkQJ)

72 it is disconcerting to see someone puffing on one of these things in a public venue, like when I am playing poker or watching a movie. The mist seems to be, ah, bioavailable for someone sitting in the same area.

Posted by: oeJay44incday at January 15, 2014 06:47 PM (QxSug)

73 I didn't care for the candy cigarettes, but I liked the bubblegum cigars.

So now I smoke cigarettes, but not cigars. Go figure.

Posted by: rickl at January 15, 2014 06:47 PM (sdi6R)

74 I remember when TV shows were sponsored by cigarette companies. The
stars would shill for them. This is why all the people died.

They died because they annoyed me.

Posted by: Chuck Norris at January 15, 2014 06:48 PM (wSrLR)

75 Meanwhile.... the House of Reps, controlled by the Republicans.... votes on a spending Bill which decreases the cost of living adjustments for Military Retirees....

While giving a PAYRAISE to the Federal Civilian Workforce.

Could have been fixed, but instead they rushed the bill through so they can appear to be doing something....

Rage... meter.... pegged...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2014 06:48 PM (lZBBB)

76 If Julie-Louise Dreyfus, the person with the e-cig, had been puffing on a doobie, they would still be celebrating the act. If she had been twerking on Santa or making a lot of noise about birth control, they would still be celebrating. They don't give a damn if any children are watching. They probably would make the children watch it over and over, maybe even as training at the local taxpayer funded day-care and kindergarten.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at January 15, 2014 06:48 PM (Djwm9)

77 Yes, e-cigs have nicotine. My cousin with lung cancer smokes one of them about once a day. It basically delivers liquid nicotine in a water vapor. She asked her cancer doctors about it. They said they were less harmful than cigarettes because you don't get the tar and the 7000 other chemicals in cigarette smoke--BUT they were still harmful, but, for someone unable to completely quit, one e-cig a day or two is the best option. That is a real number--cigarette smoke has over 7000 identifiable chemicals in it.

My Aunt smoked all during her pregnancies because it was not known yet to be an issue--one daughter smoked and the other one wisely never started. The one who smokes started at age 12 with a cigarette from her Mom's purse. Quoting her, "It was the worst thing I had ever tasted, while simultaneously being the best thing I had ever tasted. I knew after those first nasty few puffs that I would be smoking for the rest of my life."

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 15, 2014 06:48 PM (kXoT0)

78 Isn't a lot of the "outrage" over the e-cigs due to the makers of patches and gum (pharma companies) being worried that they could potentially lose a big chunk of $$$ from those trying to quit?

So like good crony capitalists they push for their friends in govt. to dream up new rules and regs and taxes for the suddenly "dangerous" competition.

Posted by: an e-cig at January 15, 2014 06:48 PM (mSI+k)

79 But, it's blue on blue so who gives a fuck?

Posted by: Dr. Pug at January 15, 2014 06:49 PM (Qev5V)

80 Everybody dies of something.

Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 06:49 PM (zqvg6)

81
My big issues for this year are the cancer inducing E-cigarettes, and the necessity for large numbers of senior citizens to have access to penis pumps. Both of these issues are important to seniors.

Posted by: Senator Dickless Durbin at January 15, 2014 06:50 PM (pJF+c)

82 They don't ask for much: Just for your to think, believe, speak, act and be just like them in all ways.

Fuck 'em.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2014 06:50 PM (b1/nQ)

83 I used to have a crush on the Marlboro Man on TV. That is how I got hooked on the demon tobacco.

Not really. I've smoked exactly one cigarette in my entire life. It tasted horrible so I said, forget that.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 15, 2014 06:50 PM (P6QsQ)

84 Feh. Marlowe was a pigeon-fancier.

I prefer Steve Martin as my favorite private dick: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, funniest scenes:

http://tinyurl.com/kb6ek5x

Posted by: Sharkman at January 15, 2014 06:50 PM (TM1p8)

85 Pot does not have anything to do with this.

Posted by: nip at January 15, 2014 06:51 PM (jI23+)

86 I'll be discussing this on my show tomorrow night. Seeing as I do the show on e-cigs I think it's only fair. I try not to get overly political, but this shit set me off the other day.

Posted by: Russian Assassin at January 15, 2014 06:51 PM (dfQ4e)

87 But, it's blue on blue so who gives a fuck?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

That is how much I hate Dick Durbin.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at January 15, 2014 06:51 PM (OWjjx)

88 79 Dr Pug,

Me...
//gunowners

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2014 06:52 PM (TE35l)

89 It's not that we don't "like" e-cigs/lightbulbs/snack-foods per se, it's just that you don't know what's good for you and you should be discouraged, nagged, shamed, and ultimately jailed for not doing what's good for you and the environment.

Posted by: Authoritarians Everywhere at January 15, 2014 06:52 PM (JVEmw)

90 Isn't a lot of the "outrage" over the e-cigs due to the makers of patches and gum (pharma companies) being worried that they could potentially lose a big chunk of $$$ from those trying to quit?So like good crony capitalists they push for their friends in govt. to dream up new rules and regs and taxes for the suddenly "dangerous" competition.
Posted by: an e-cig at January 15, 2014 06:48 PM (mSI+k)

--------------------------------------------

This too. Always follow the money.

Posted by: Soona at January 15, 2014 06:52 PM (MB7Pi)

91 You can engage in any party approved behavior you wish comrade!

Posted by: Political Commisar at January 15, 2014 06:53 PM (Aif/5)

92 I don't smoke for one simple reason--chores. My Dad smoked cigars and one of my chores was to empty and wash the ashtrays everyday. It hit me one day that if I ever started smoking, I would be doing that rancid chore for the rest of my life. I have never had a cigarette in my mouth and I am smart enough to know that is the easiest way to quit smoking--never, ever start.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at January 15, 2014 06:53 PM (kXoT0)

93 Easiest way to quit smoking ......
don't light another one .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 15, 2014 06:53 PM (XWw96)

94 >>>And your donk friends are asshats...
Posted by: sven

yes they are. they are ban-boner asshats.

Posted by: X at January 15, 2014 06:53 PM (KHo8t)

95 E-cigs harmless? Bullshit! Last night I plugged my vision spinner into my 12 port USB hub and it knocked out the KVM keyboard and mouse connection! I couldn't figure it out at first, but when I touched the spinner, it was hotter than a popcorn fart. I snatched it, but still no keyboard/mouse. Fortunately, I had another machine I could remote from so I was able to save and close all my app work, but can you imagine the horror if I was a normal "one machine" geek? I think not!

Posted by: Snakefarm at January 15, 2014 06:53 PM (2/iLD)

96 Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2014 06:48 PM (lZBBB)

Stroke of a pen could close the "Alternative Medicine Center" at NIH, and probably pay for a chunk of those military benefits.

$127 million/year that shithole gets.

I doubt it would even be controversial to do.

FFS, they can't even do that.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 06:53 PM (GaqMa)

97 Remember: It was Progressives who were the driving force behind alcohol prohibition (including religious progressives).

They were out to improve the populace whether they wanted to be improved or not.

Posted by: rickl at January 15, 2014 06:54 PM (sdi6R)

98 Started vaping 3 years ago, haven't had an analog cig since. I vape everywhere, including on airplanes. When people notice, I try to sell 'em on the concept. If they say, "It looks too much like smoking," I ask, " Do you tell your kids not to breathe on a cold day because 'It looks too much like smoking?' It's the same thing." That usually shuts them up. If not, I tell them it's nothing more than an atomizer filled with MYOFB.

I've only had one idiot ask me what MYOFB stands for.

Posted by: Coolpapa at January 15, 2014 06:54 PM (1eFP9)

99 81
My big issues for this year are the cancer inducing E-cigarettes, and the necessity for large numbers of senior citizens to have access to penis pumps. Both of these issues are important to seniors.
Posted by: Senator Dickless Durbin at January 15, 2014 06:50 PM (pJF+c)

What about birth control? I don't want the waitress at Bob Evan's to get knocked up

Posted by: Grampa at January 15, 2014 06:54 PM (bRL1M)

100 @ 50. It was the walnuts.

Posted by: teh Wind at January 15, 2014 06:54 PM (b+5vQ)

101
@6 E-cigs bad, public pot smoking--including in the face of bus drivers--good.
----------------

With the way things are going right now it's been noted that we're likely to see the day when eating a normal hamburger is illegal, but having sex in broad daylight on the corner of Main Street is a protected right.

Posted by: junior at January 15, 2014 06:54 PM (UWFpX)

102
I'm not a smoker but after watching a lot of movies in the 90s, I wanted a cigarette. I did chalk up the excessive on screen smoking to bad directing and writing. But now that I think about it it might have been to placate the actors who almost all chain smoke. Now, you rarely see smoking in film and pap photos unless it's Lohan who continues to be a baaaaaaad girl.

Posted by: Dr. Pug at January 15, 2014 06:54 PM (Qev5V)

103
I have never had a cigarette in my mouth....

Posted by: Sherry McEvil

I met a lady who said something very similar....

Posted by: Doctor Fish at January 15, 2014 06:54 PM (pJF+c)

104 Pot does not have anything to do with this.
Posted by: nip at January 15, 2014 06:51 PM (jI23+)

----------------------------------------

Well of course not. Pot is perfect.

Posted by: Soona at January 15, 2014 06:55 PM (MB7Pi)

105 I didn't start drinking syrup until I saw the inviting smile of a wide-hipped Mrs. Butterworth's bottle.

The instant that sweet, buttery goodness touched my lips, I was hooked. Haven't been able to get through the day without a few bottles since.

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2014 06:55 PM (g4Xri)

106 101 Junior,

Divorce, break up the monster.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2014 06:55 PM (TE35l)

107 60 wait

doesn't the JEF smoke?

like, everything

Why yes. Yes he does!

Posted by: Reggie at January 15, 2014 06:56 PM (tcK++)

108 Almost every main character smokes in "Ghostbusters".

Posted by: nip at January 15, 2014 06:56 PM (jI23+)

109 Anyone know where to get refills for my e-Bottle-of-Jack-Daniel's?

Don't laugh. Vape Everclear. It will fuck you up toot suite.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2014 06:56 PM (b1/nQ)

110 Isn't the Golden Globes the awards where they are allowed to drink? I'm sure there are multiple shots of actors drinking alcohol there. Why not have a little fit about that being a bad influence too.

Posted by: buzzion at January 15, 2014 06:56 PM (LI48c)

111 White, black, yellow, brown, we don't care what color you are as long as you are a Red.

- Your Commie Overlords

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 15, 2014 06:57 PM (Zswg6)

112 Democrats only bitch about (insert cause here) when it suits them.

Posted by: --- at January 15, 2014 06:57 PM (MMC8r)

113 "12 Years on an E-Cig"

Crack!! That whip.

There is a perspective to consider.

And Dick Durban is still a dick. Sherrod Brown is still a shithead. Dick Blumenthal is a dick and a liar. And Ed Markey is a blithering imbecile.

These are our leaders. Forward!

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at January 15, 2014 06:57 PM (RFeQD)

114 Prohibition had a lot to do with men drinking their entire paychecks and leaving their wives and children to starve. It was a societal problem and nothing to sneer at.

Posted by: Dr. Pug at January 15, 2014 06:57 PM (Qev5V)

115 94 x,

So go passive-aggressive troll elsewhere or fuck a blender...

Your call

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2014 06:57 PM (TE35l)

116 Well of course not. Pot is perfect.

Were they smoking weed on the GGlobes?

FYNQ.

Posted by: nip at January 15, 2014 06:57 PM (jI23+)

117 I'm sure there are multiple shots of actors drinking alcohol there.

Emma Thompson walked on stage with her shoes in one hand and a martini in the other.

Posted by: no good deed at January 15, 2014 06:58 PM (HsJeN)

118 @95

Don't ever plug those things into a USB port. Ever.

Yes, I do it all the time. It's my risk. And until you've had an 18650 go thermal and fall on your dick you haven't vaped.

Posted by: Russian Assassin at January 15, 2014 06:58 PM (dfQ4e)

119 Lets ban fat people so kids don't think that obesity is cool.

Posted by: --- at January 15, 2014 06:59 PM (MMC8r)

120 Isn't the Golden Globes the awards where they are allowed to drink?
------

Honey you can get up on stage all gob slobbered and say all kinds of shit. Including the word shit.

Posted by: Jacqueline Bisset at January 15, 2014 06:59 PM (Aif/5)

121 This letter signed by senators is just a way for them to get cheap publicity.

Posted by: Dr. Pug at January 15, 2014 06:59 PM (Qev5V)

122 Someone wrote about Mad Men the left wanted it ti be like " look at those idiots,smoking and drinking and eating red meat,aren't we superior to them"

Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 06:59 PM (zqvg6)

123 101
With the way things are going right now it's been noted that we're likely to see the day when eating a normal hamburger is illegal, but having sex in broad daylight on the corner of Main Street is a protected right.

Posted by: junior at January 15, 2014 06:54 PM (UWFpX)

It would not surprise me one bit.

Posted by: rickl at January 15, 2014 06:59 PM (sdi6R)

124 @garrett ,
you're in Butte , right ?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 15, 2014 06:59 PM (XWw96)

125 I wouldn't mind it so much if it weren't for the fact that what's okay with them today, may not be okay tomorrow.

I'd rather be confused and flighty all on my own and in my own way and in my own time.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 15, 2014 07:00 PM (LSDdO)

126 The thing that kills me on this is that, for me, most of the smoking cessation products do not work (not least because I LIKE to smoke.) The patch and gum never did anything for me and in some respects made it worse. The lozenges do not work half bad.
Cold turkey sucks. I quit for five and a half years cold turkey (mostly to prove to myself I could) and I wanted a cigarette off and on for that entire time.
However, with my e-cig, I have been able to go a year and a half without even wanting a regular cigarette.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 15, 2014 07:00 PM (TGgNi)

127 Showing smoking leads to smoking.

Does normalizing homosexuality lead to....?

Posted by: --- at January 15, 2014 07:01 PM (MMC8r)

128 Since the Golden Globes featured actors smoking e-cigs, drinking alcohol and a few of them probably were featured in movies or television shows that glamorize violence only one thing to do:

ban the Golden Globes. For the children.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at January 15, 2014 07:01 PM (OWjjx)

129 “The Golden Globes celebrates entertainers who are an influence on young fans,”

*****

I know my impressionable 7-year-old granddaughter has been waiting all year to watch the Golden Globes, counting down the days, marking off the calendar...

...oh wait, that was Christmas.

Posted by: Shameless Muldoon at January 15, 2014 07:02 PM (g4TxM)

130 I have been vaping for almost 2 years, own numerous mods, make my own juice, and do two shows a week on them. They have harmed me exactly 3 ways:

1) I dropped my SVD on my bare foot.
2) The thermal 18650
3) I dropped a lit blowtorch on my crotch while heating kanthal. And then burned my arm with the recently extinguished torch.

Posted by: Russian Assassin at January 15, 2014 07:02 PM (dfQ4e)

131
The celebs at the GG are not using e-cigs to quit. They are using them b/c CA law prohibits smoking in public venues.

Posted by: Dr. Pug at January 15, 2014 07:02 PM (Qev5V)

132 125 bitter clinger,

Oh don't forget "allowed" is based on victim flow charts

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2014 07:02 PM (TE35l)

133

@127

I think that's the whole point.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 15, 2014 07:02 PM (P6QsQ)

134
The Dem senators are right. These Hollywood award shows exist for one reason only: to advance the Left's agenda.

So I don't blame them for scolding one of their injuns for straying off the reservation.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 15, 2014 07:03 PM (Xd+ZC)

135 I didn't choose to be a smoker. I was born this way.

Posted by: Shameless Muldoon at January 15, 2014 07:03 PM (g4TxM)

136 Q: Do you smoke after sex?

A: Not if I use lubrication.

Posted by: Shameless Muldoon at January 15, 2014 07:03 PM (g4TxM)

137 so they are going to ban methadone

right?

Posted by: thunderb at January 15, 2014 07:03 PM (zOTsN)

138 Does normalizing homosexuality lead to....?

It might. You got a problem with that, hater?

Posted by: GLAAD at January 15, 2014 07:04 PM (8ZskC)

139 Were they smoking weed on the GGlobes? FYNQ.
Posted by: nip at January 15, 2014 06:57 PM (jI23+)

------------------------------------------------

I didn't watch it. But wasn't it illegal in the state they had the ceremonies? That's probably the main reason one didn't see it.

If it would have been held in the Denver Convention Center, I sure as fuck know we would have seen it. Now go get your shinebox.

Posted by: Soona at January 15, 2014 07:04 PM (MB7Pi)

140 and needle exchanges

those are totally over, right?

Posted by: thunderb at January 15, 2014 07:04 PM (zOTsN)

141
Everybody dies of something.

Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 06:49 PM (zqvg6)

I'll never get out of this life alive

http://tinyurl.com/bwyxbm2

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 15, 2014 07:04 PM (TIIx5)

142 Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 15, 2014 06:53 PM (GaqMa)

Yep.... the cuts will 'save" 6 billion over 10 years....

or 600 million a year...

They are spending 650 million on ADVERTISING for Obamacare...

Thus, it is more important to SELL the American people a Program they don't want, or like.... then it is to keep their promise to Vets...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2014 07:05 PM (lZBBB)

143 110 Isn't the Golden Globes the awards where they are allowed to drink? I'm sure there are multiple shots of actors drinking alcohol there. Why not have a little fit about that being a bad influence too.
Posted by: buzzion at January 15, 2014 06:56 PM (LI48c)
--------------------------------
Yeah, but drinking isn't as wicked as smoking.
See, you have to consider all of the guys who go out, smoke a bunch of cigarettes and then go home and beat their wives.
Or the drivers who smoke and get in all those accidents.
Or the women who, after having a cig or two, end up being date-raped by monsters of the patriarchy.
Or the nicotine fiends who lose their jobs, lie in the gutter, and end up in a rubber room with DTs.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 15, 2014 07:05 PM (dfYL9)

144 Yeah, it's all about the money.

So, here's the FDA's plan for E-cigs:
LINK: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2engnzr

Durbin also sent a letter to Glenn Reynolds that contested the premise of Reynold's WSJ op-ed which listed the advantages of for-profit schools. Reynolds posted the letter at instapundit.com

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2014 07:05 PM (HjPtV)

145 135 I didn't choose to be a smoker. I was born this way.
Posted by: Shameless Muldoon at January 15, 2014 07:03 PM (g4TxM)

Ever watch Absolutely Fabulous? Patsy would go to sleep with a fag in her mouth and a lighter in her hand.

Posted by: Dr. Pug at January 15, 2014 07:05 PM (Qev5V)

146 114 Prohibition had a lot to do with men drinking their entire paychecks and leaving their wives and children to starve. It was a societal problem and nothing to sneer at.

Posted by: Dr. Pug at January 15, 2014 06:57 PM (Qev5V)

So? A lot of people didn't drink their paychecks.

Calling it a "societal" problem is collectivism, plain and simple. I'm sure it sucked for their wives and children, but that's not a good reason to punish people who could drink responsibly.

Incidentally, before Prohibition bars and taverns were almost exclusively male preserves. It didn't become "cool" for women to go to nightclubs and speakeasies until the 1920s, when it was illegal.

Posted by: rickl at January 15, 2014 07:05 PM (sdi6R)

147 I bet each of those asshole senators would claim that they love Breaking Bad.

Posted by: buzzion at January 15, 2014 07:05 PM (LI48c)

148 Dick Durbin found time to send Insty a note complaining about for-profit schools, prompted by a WSJ excerpt of Insty's new book. Quoth the prof: He’s not a fan of for-profit educational alternatives.

And that is probably why he objects to e-cigs. Some one other than the government is handling the money so the graft stream is unavailable to Durbin and his buddies.

BTW, Ace, I owe you and CDR M a thank you for that e-cig post a couple of years back. I bought on your and CDR M's recommendation and within a couple of weeks had given up cigs entirely. These days I bum one occasionally to remind myself how much I don't need it anymore. Much belated, but thanks for the discussion.

Posted by: Retread at January 15, 2014 07:07 PM (cHwk5)

149 The advertising that the networks use for revenue rely on the notion that television changes behavior. Of course, it's clown nose on-clown nose off for them when they then assert that what they display DOESN'T influence behavior.

They pick and choose depending on what they want to promote.

Posted by: --- at January 15, 2014 07:07 PM (MMC8r)

150 148 I couldn't read his handwriting.What chicken scratch.

Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 07:07 PM (zqvg6)

151 I quit smoking cold turkey. It is the only way that worked for me. I also quit drinking cold turkey. I believe addictions can be broken with willpower. You have to find the will to and then act on it.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 15, 2014 07:07 PM (jucos)

152

I just got a sick feeling that michelle obama is being groomed and trained to run in 2016.

If hclinton isn't gonna run, obama's big ugly wife will run.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 15, 2014 07:08 PM (Xd+ZC)

153 145 Dr. Pug,

Oh MY!
//Liberace

Posted by: sven10077 at January 15, 2014 07:08 PM (TE35l)

154 In a sane world, the news would be the outrage that Senators are talking about the Golden Globes. These are such petty people they have put in charge of us. I can't hardly wait for the next reality tv fiasco for them to pivot to.

Posted by: ryukyu at January 15, 2014 07:08 PM (C6XFd)

155 Ha! I'm mrp's echo tonight.

Posted by: Retread at January 15, 2014 07:08 PM (cHwk5)

156 And just to note, these are four of our dumbest Senators, and they all come from liberal paradises.

Posted by: --- at January 15, 2014 07:09 PM (MMC8r)

157
Prohibition had a lot to do with men drinking their entire paychecks
and leaving their wives and children to starve. It was a societal
problem and nothing to sneer at.

One of the side benefits of the 2nd Amendment is a solution to that problem.......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 15, 2014 07:09 PM (TIIx5)

158 It's all about the dee-licious tax revenue the Donks see escaping their grasp, going up in e-cig smoke. Bet on it. Bet on there being heavy, heavy taxes applied to e-cig juice as soon as they can figure out how to word the law.

If I were an e-cig user, I would stock up on the juice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2014 07:09 PM (60Q+L)

159 I am between Missoula and Dillon.

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2014 07:09 PM (g4Xri)

160 I quit smoking cold turkey. It is the only way that worked for me. I also quit drinking cold turkey.

Your AoSHQ membership status is on pretty thin ice, fella. Don't even think about mentioning how much you enjoy wearing pants.

Posted by: The AoSHQ Membership Conformity Office at January 15, 2014 07:09 PM (8ZskC)

161 I swear they would go after alcohol if it weren't for two things.
One is the gross failure of Prohibition, which we have not yet forgotten.
The other is that the lefties themselves still like to drink. Thank heaven for that.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 15, 2014 07:09 PM (dfYL9)

162 E-cigs also upset them so because it allows smokers to flout all of the anti-smoking laws that claimed to be about the dangers of second-hand smoke. E-cigs seem to take care of that problem while still allowing the smoker to enjoy what he/she wants. How dare they!!

* I've lost several relatives to smoking-related diseases and all of them knew full well that their decades-long habit was not good for them. Still don't think we have the right to essentially make it illegal through piecemeal bans.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2014 07:10 PM (POpqt)

163 Ya, think about it. We are hopelessly in debt and the world is in turmoil and all these dumbasses can come up with is tut tutting e-cigs.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 15, 2014 07:10 PM (jucos)

164 They just want their fucking tax money, that's what it's all about.

Posted by: KG at January 15, 2014 07:10 PM (IPz9m)

165 For people who support killing a baby after it's born so long as the mother wanted the baby dead and paid a doctor to kill him, these folks sure make a lot of arguments "for the children."

Posted by: Lauren at January 15, 2014 07:11 PM (hFL/3)

166 So it's still OK to tell these lefty douchebags to STFU, and stick their scolding opinions where the sun don't shine.....right!?

Posted by: Knightbrigade at January 15, 2014 07:11 PM (/fexR)

167 Puffing peter in front of kids at Folsom Street Fair: good

Puffing e-cig in front of kids on tv: bad

Posted by: Cicero Kid "Hmmmphs" in disgust at January 15, 2014 07:11 PM (tcK++)

168 So if ace wants to quit fapping, what's the cure? E-fapping?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 15, 2014 07:11 PM (xm1A1)

169
I just got a sick feeling that michelle obama is being groomed and trained to run in 2016.

If hclinton isn't gonna run, obama's big ugly wife will run.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 15, 2014 07:08 PM (Xd+ZC)

I suggest a new strategy, Artoo.........

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 15, 2014 07:11 PM (TIIx5)

170 I didn't start drinking syrup until I saw the inviting smile of a wide-hipped Mrs. Butterworth's bottle.

The instant that sweet, buttery goodness touched my lips, I was hooked. Haven't been able to get through the day without a few bottles since.

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2014 06:55 PM

----------------------------

You chose Mrs. Butterworth over Aunt Jemima?

RACISSSST!!!!!111!1!!

Posted by: Elinor at January 15, 2014 07:12 PM (TCqhy)

171 I think the bigger point besides the double standard is, why the fuck are U.S. Senators chastising anyone for behavior? That's not what they were elected to do, they are way overstepping their duties. They have no business even writing the fucking letter.
I would hope even the majority of leftists agree with that.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 15, 2014 07:13 PM (IV4od)

172 Being between Missoula and Dillon , you could probably give me a heads up when the
blue winged olives are starting on the Beaverhead ?
The cabin fever , it burns .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 15, 2014 07:13 PM (XWw96)

173 Ted Kennedy was an icon of the Senate, yet they lecture others on their behavior.

Posted by: --- at January 15, 2014 07:13 PM (MMC8r)

174 If hclinton isn't gonna run, obama's big ugly wife will run.

Resentment and Entitlement 2016 FTW!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 15, 2014 07:13 PM (8ZskC)

175 Well of course not. Pot is perfect.

The potheads will bring back slavery and gleefully join for legal (and free) pot.

But it's totes not addictive.

They can't see the ganja for the lightbulbs.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 15, 2014 07:14 PM (T0NGe)

176 With the Dem fraud machine in place does it even matter who they run in 2016?

Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 07:14 PM (zqvg6)

177 I saw Monsters of the Patriarchy open for 4 Non-Blondes back in 1990.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 15, 2014 07:14 PM (oFCZn)

178 I'm confused. I thought the entire point of ecigs is that you get the nicotine without the nasty stuff in cigarettes that gives you cancer. So shouldn't people be happy that celebs are encouraging the safer option?

I know I know it's not about that at all.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at January 15, 2014 07:15 PM (Gk3SS)

179 Your AoSHQ membership status is on pretty thin ice, fella. Don't even think about mentioning how much you enjoy wearing pants.

Posted by: The AoSHQ Membership Conformity Office at January 15, 2014 07:09 PM (8ZskC)

With..... /shudder.... creases....

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2014 07:15 PM (lZBBB)

180 Being between Missoula and Dillon , you could probably give me a heads up when the
blue winged olives are starting on the Beaverhead ?

Yep.

This week would be a fine one for Midge Fishing. Temps in the mid 40's. The fucking bear are already out and wandering around.

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2014 07:16 PM (g4Xri)

181 Ever since Thanksgiving I have been trying to figure out how to stop eating leftovers. I might have to quit cold turkey.

Posted by: Shameless Muldoon at January 15, 2014 07:16 PM (g4TxM)

182 these E Cig commandos have just as much a say about our foreign policy

and put good men in harms way

ponder that

Posted by: thunderb at January 15, 2014 07:16 PM (zOTsN)

183 This e-cig tax grab reminds me of the NY State loophole that allowed tobacco shops to install automated cigarette rolling machines. The customers used electronic entry devices to enter the number of cigarettes, flavor, type of filter (or non-filter), cigarette length, etc. The machine would then manufacture the cigarettes and then charge the customer a bulk tobacco tax, which is much smaller than vendor cigs. NY State changed the law to tax the machine cigarettes at the higher rate, and that was the end of automated cigarette machines.

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2014 07:16 PM (HjPtV)

184 170----You chose Mrs. Butterworth over Aunt Jemima?

RACISSSST!!!!!111!1!!
Posted by: Elinor at January 15, 2014 07:12 PM (TCqhy)
--------------------------------
You chose Mrs. B and Aunt J over Log Cabin?
HOMOPHOBE SO-CON BIGOT!!!!!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 15, 2014 07:16 PM (dfYL9)

185 The motive for opposing cigarette smoking of it being bad for your health was forgotten a long time ago. It's now morally wrong to smoke cigarettes, and has been for some time. To anyone who thinks about it for a minute, there's no difference to health between wearing a patch and "smoking" an e-cig, but they don't think about it.

Posted by: Disgruntled Monkey at January 15, 2014 07:17 PM (RgkHE)

186 I quit smoking cold turkey and quit drinking cold turkey. Worst 15 minutes of my life.

Posted by: Haywood Jablowme at January 15, 2014 07:17 PM (BP9wB)

187 I've been meaning to try smoked salmon but I can't figure out which end to light.

Posted by: Shameless Muldoon at January 15, 2014 07:18 PM (g4TxM)

188 @178

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

Posted by: Russian Assassin at January 15, 2014 07:18 PM (dfQ4e)

189 Some Euro soccer player was seen smoking a cigarette and had to make an apolgy.

Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 07:19 PM (zqvg6)

190 You are already late to the next thread.

Posted by: dogfish at January 15, 2014 07:19 PM (nsOJa)

191 I quit smoking cold turkey and quit drinking cold turkey. Worst 15 minutes of my life.

Posted by: Haywood Jablowme

However, I'm sure it was the best 15 min of the turkey's life, though.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 15, 2014 07:19 PM (qrpxS)

192 186 I quit smoking cold turkey and quit drinking cold turkey. Worst 15 minutes of my life.
Posted by: Haywood Jablowme at January 15, 2014 07:17 PM (BP9wB)

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

Posted by: W. C. Fields at January 15, 2014 07:19 PM (bRL1M)

193 You chose Mrs. B and Aunt J over Log Cabin?
HOMOPHOBE SO-CON BIGOT!!!!!

I only buy locally sourced maple syrup.

Posted by: fluffy; hipster douche bag at January 15, 2014 07:20 PM (Ua6T/)

194 Midges are fine if there's nothing else . Fishing starts when the mayflies start . Fishing midges is like ice fishing , fun when you're catching , boring when not .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 15, 2014 07:20 PM (XWw96)

195 Anecdotal evidence and a few preliminary studies suggest that e-cigs actually help people quit. I smoked a pack and a half for 35 years. And I never thought that I would be able to quit. On a whim, I started smoking e-cigs and after about 3 weeks I had no desire for either e-cigs or the real thing. It's been 14 months and no relapse.

The PC crowd, as always, are a bunch of idiots.

Posted by: jrg at January 15, 2014 07:20 PM (61B4w)

196 I thought the entire point of ecigs is that you get the nicotine without
the nasty stuff in cigarettes that gives you cancer. So shouldn't
people be happy that celebs are encouraging the safer option?

It's even worse than you think. The e-juice comes in different nicotine strengths, from high to zero, so you can step down gradually and eventually eliminate nicotine altogether. That Durbin and Bloomberg and their ilk are objecting is awfully transparent. As was said upthread, it's about money and control, not the noble, worn-out 'for the children' meme.

Posted by: Retread at January 15, 2014 07:22 PM (cHwk5)

197 189 Some Euro soccer player was seen smoking a cigarette and had to make an apolgy.
Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2014 07:19 PM (zqvg6)

For being a soccer player?

Posted by: MikeH at January 15, 2014 07:22 PM (bRL1M)

198 It's time to develop the "stealth" e-cig. Adapt a nasal cannula like so many poor folks with COPD are obliged to use. Build the vaporizer into the same style of housing as the O2 cylinder normally goes. You could use in bars, restaurants, and airplanes, even theaters, and nobody would suspect, unless perhaps the fumes were heavily scented.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2014 07:22 PM (60Q+L)

199 "Would it be all right if I peeled an orange?"
Spoiler alert: The Little Sister turns out to not be quite so innocent and prudish as she can pretend to be when it suits her.
"Here, Mr. Marlow, use this one from my muff. It's a little trick Sandy Fluke taught me at college."

Posted by: zombie raymond chandler at January 15, 2014 07:25 PM (Rax2C)

200 I only buy locally sourced maple syrup.
Posted by: fluffy; hipster douche bag at January 15, 2014 07:20 PM

----------------------------

You chose real syrup over sugar-free artificially -flavored syrup?

FAT!! FATTY FAT FAT FAT!!!!!

Posted by: M. Bloomberg at January 15, 2014 07:25 PM (TCqhy)

201 165 For people who support killing a baby after it's born so long as the mother wanted the baby dead and paid a doctor to kill him, these folks sure make a lot of arguments "for the children."
Posted by: Lauren at January 15, 2014 07:11 PM (hFL/3)

This truth cannot be repeated enough.

Posted by: My Name is Nobody at January 15, 2014 07:25 PM (5Q1ZU)

202 It's time to develop the "stealth" e-cig. Adapt a nasal cannula like so many poor folks with COPD are obliged to use. Build the vaporizer into the same style of housing as the O2 cylinder normally goes. You could use in bars, restaurants, and airplanes, even theaters, and nobody would suspect, unless perhaps the fumes were heavily scented.

Would it be worth wheeling one of those O2 bottles around?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 15, 2014 07:26 PM (P7Wsr)

203 Fen's Law explains all.

Posted by: toby928© at January 15, 2014 07:26 PM (QupBk)

204 198 It's time to develop the "stealth" e-cig. Adapt a nasal cannula like so many poor folks with COPD are obliged to use. Build the vaporizer into the same style of housing as the O2 cylinder normally goes. You could use in bars, restaurants, and airplanes, even theaters, and nobody would suspect, unless perhaps the fumes were heavily scented.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2014 07:22 PM (60Q+L)

I like the way you think.

Posted by: rickl at January 15, 2014 07:26 PM (sdi6R)

205 BTW, there's a nude thread up, Mr. Marlowe. And who's the hairy guy with you holding the "Endor or Bust" sign?

Posted by: zombie raymond chandler at January 15, 2014 07:27 PM (Rax2C)

206 Benefit: For dancing e-cigs, matches not needed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mAC9Yj6Wj8

Posted by: NCwoof at January 15, 2014 07:27 PM (aUQgu)

207 Provari Mini + Russian 91% + Kick Bass Cola Vapor = nice, nice.

P.S. Its all about the lost tax revenue. Give me a fucking break, of course it is.

Posted by: Codec717 at January 15, 2014 07:28 PM (jXG+o)

208 Addendum to my 204:

My father was a heavy smoker for decades and eventually got COPD and ended up using oxygen tanks, so I know exactly what you describe.

Your idea is diabolically, fiendishly, clever.

Posted by: rickl at January 15, 2014 07:29 PM (sdi6R)

209 Actually, a stealth e-cig is neither a new nor a difficult concept. I have some mechanical mods that have no lights on them. Using a higher percentage of PG will decrease visible vapor. A second inhalation of air will dissipate more, as will holding it in your lungs longer.

I want to see someone stealth vape some sub-ohm 100% VG liquid.

Posted by: Russian Assassin at January 15, 2014 07:29 PM (dfQ4e)

210 Michelle Obama will not run for Pres. she hates the White House.

Posted by: Kodie, son of Kodie at January 15, 2014 07:40 PM (tCDF8)

211 ...wrote Sens. Dick Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, Sherrod Brown and Edward Markey on Tuesday.

Four assholes who have no fucking lives.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 15, 2014 08:26 PM (itCai)

212 #168 Long as he doesn't stick it in the USB port...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 15, 2014 08:58 PM (XO6WW)

213 152

I just got a sick feeling that michelle obama is being groomed and trained to run in 2016.

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She has no qualifications whatsoever. Barack looks like Winston Churchill in comparison.

Posted by: whoever at January 15, 2014 10:05 PM (zu9Ee)

214 Midges are fine if there's nothing else . Fishing starts when the mayflies start . Fishing midges is like ice fishing , fun when you're catching , boring when not .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 15, 2014 07:20 PM (XWw96)

You should come fish the Missouri with me.

...and out here, the fishing never ends. But the best hatches of the year are the Early and late Mayflies. Though, the Spring Stoneflies can be pretty awesome if you know what to look for.

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2014 10:34 PM (aVUk1)

215 Philip Marlowe reference?

#WhyIReadAceoSpades

Posted by: Running Hobo at January 16, 2014 11:50 AM (l1oyw)

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