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Old 05-27-2009, 01:47 AM   #1
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Parents Say New Tobacco Products Look Like Candy - KPSP Local 2 - Palm Springs -

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Here ya go...
a pint of bitter..
sorry TBob, it's a bummer isn't it?

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We must strive to ever more thoroughly child-proof our world at once, lest we allow the possibility of a fragile village imbecile somewhere getting hurt by something.

If it is in a rectangular container it is obviously designed to attract children, and if it is a round container that is really an insidious appeal to minors, a triangular container is clearly designed for kids, a curvilinear design is to snare innocent youth, and a trapezoid, rhombus, or hexagon is patently obvious in its ravenous quest for babies.

Blue packages are clearly made that way in a clever ploy for youth, and if they're brown that is done for its manifest child attracting qualities, as are the colors green, yellow, red, magenta, chartreuse, azure, and ultramarine, among others.

It is widely known that it is all a clever sinister plot by mysterious evil people, businessmen no less, holding secret meetings in dingy underground rooms, existing only in black and white with harsh lighting and creepy music (cue musical score supplied by Michael Moore) to design containers which, well, contain stuff. And horror of horrors, they might even seek a profit in selling things in something that contains stuff, egads, how sinister can you get!

And if it was encased in goat feces held in a brown paper bag it would be a ploy to market to children. And the infantilization of the populace to the level of an emotionally disturbed mentally deficient psychiatrically disabled eight year old is nearly complete.
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I swear if I hear one more "We have to stop this to save the Children!", I'm gonna go club a baby seal...



The author Larry Niven struck a chord in me years ago in a book called "Oath of Fealty".
When someone did something incredibly STUPID that caused their own death, in spite of fair warnings not to do that stupid and dangerous thing, the epitaph for that person was summed up with the following:

CONSIDER IT EVOLUTION IN ACTION...



Yes, we need to protect our youth.
No, we don't need a d*mned activist organization, focus group, or governmental agency to do that.
That's why we have parents and legal guardians - that's THEIR job.
If they aren't doing that job, then we already have laws on the books that should be enforced to make sure that they DO.
How do these people think that the human race survived before THEY came along to protect our children ?

ARGGG!

I've got a stop typing now.
I'm numb on one side.
I think I may have just had a "rant-stroke"...

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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Majoritarian democracy always comes to a coyote, a rattlesnake, and a rabbit voting on what's for dinner. And eventually everyone will have their turn as the rabbit.
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We must strive to ever more thoroughly child-proof our world at once, lest we allow the possibility of a fragile village imbecile somewhere getting hurt by something.

If it is in a rectangular container it is obviously designed to attract children, and if it is a round container that is really an insidious appeal to minors, a triangular container is clearly designed for kids, a curvilinear design is to snare innocent youth, and a trapezoid, rhombus, or hexagon is patently obvious in its ravenous quest for babies.

Blue packages are clearly made that way in a clever ploy for youth, and if they're brown that is done for its manifest child attracting qualities, as are the colors green, yellow, red, magenta, chartreuse, azure, and ultramarine, among others.

It is widely known that it is all a clever sinister plot by mysterious evil people, businessmen no less, holding secret meetings in dingy underground rooms, existing only in black and white with harsh lighting and creepy music (cue musical score supplied by Michael Moore) to design containers which, well, contain stuff. And horror of horrors, they might even seek a profit in selling things in something that contains stuff, egads, how sinister can you get!

And if it was encased in goat feces held in a brown paper bag it would be a ploy to market to children. And the infantilization of the populace to the level of an emotionally disturbed mentally deficient psychiatrically disabled eight year old is nearly complete.
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