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Fore! Smokers
The city of Thousand Oaks, California voted last month to ban smoking in most public places. No one may smoke within 25 feet of a playground, in any public area or even on the patio of a restaurant! This sort of nanny-state political scheme is hard for many in other, more freedom loving places to fathom. Yet here, in the land of fruits and nuts where I reside, small town city councils like T.O. feel that they had better protect me from…me! Anyway, the same council just voted to extend the ban to the “playing areas” of city owned golf courses. You still can’t smoke at the club house or patio but you can now smoke on the tees, the water hazards and practice areas.
This is nothing new for California, our elected elite have been graciously saving us from ourselves for years. What is truly amazing about this story is that only one lone council member voted against the smoking ban on certain parts of the course. His name is Tom Glancy and he is the only worth while member of the council. Mr. Glancy had this to say, “I really believe strongly in the harmful effects of smoking,” [but] there’s a point at which we draw a line where we say we can’t keep legislating behavior.”
Precisely, Mr. Glancy.
What’s next, a ban on what I can and can not eat? To borrow a phrase, “D’Oh!”
July 24th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Don’t these people realize that youngsters play golf too? What about the children?