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New news on Kansas Smoking Ban
Kansas lawmakers have tabled a bill that would
have imposed a statewide indoor-smoking ban, likely killing the
measure for this year's legislative session.
The
Associated Press
reported March 18 that the Kansas House Health and Human Services
Committee said it needed more information on the bill, which
previously passed the state Senate on a 26-13 vote. State legislative
committees meet for the last time this year on Friday, meaning the
measure is probably dead.
The bill would have banned smoking in and near bars, restaurants,
workplaces and government buildings.
Whether you support smoking or not, we would like your support in
telling your congressman or representative that the government needs
to stay out of regulating private businesses. While we do our best to
cater to all customers, we also feel that the final decision as to
whether to be a smoke free business depends on the owner, who pays the
bills and the loan payments for the business. This issue is whether
the government can dictate to the business owner whether they allow
smoking or not. If you support free enterprise, please contact your
government official. Thank you.
Rep. Jerry Moran
www.jerrymoran.house.gov
Hays Office:
1200 Main Street, Suite 402
P.O. Box 249
Hays, KS 67601-0249
P: (785) 628-6401
F: (785) 628-3791
Senator Pat Roberts website
roberts.senate.gov
Senator Sam Brownback website
brownback.senate.gov
House of Rep. Eber Phelps website
www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-house/getDistrictRep.do?district=111
But if I go outside, I might offend the smokers
St. Louis-area town considers proposal that would ban swearing in
bars
ST. CHARLES, Mo. - What the ...? A St.
Louis-area town is considering a bill that would ban swearing in bars,
along with table-dancing, drinking contests and profane music.
City officials contend the bill is needed to
keep rowdy crowds under control because the historic downtown area
gets a little too lively on some nights.
City Councilman Richard Veit said he was
prompted to propose the bill after complaints about bad bar behavior.
He says it will give police some rules to enforce when things get too
rowdy.
But some bar owners worry the bill is too
vague and restrictive, saying it may be a violation of their civil
rights.
Marc Rousseau, who owns the bar R.T. Weilers,
said he thinks the bill needs revision.
"We're dealing with adults here once again
and I don't think it's the city's job or the government's job to
determine what we can and cannot play in our restaurant," Rousseau
said.
The proposal would ban indecent, profane or
obscene language, songs, entertainment and literature at bars.
A meeting to discuss the proposal is set for
Jan. 14.
Past
Headlines
This is a Prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their
Senate. It seems Prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe
Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate,
Everyone was expecting the usual generalities,
But this is what they heard:
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and
to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to
those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We
have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building
self esteem.
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it
freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and
called it enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from Every
sin and set us free.
Amen!'
The response was immediate.
A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest.
In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is
pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls
responding negatively. The church is now receiving international
requests for copies of this prayer from India , Africa and Korea
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The
Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response to this program
than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help! , may this
prayer sweep over our nation and whole heartedly become our desire so
that we again can be called 'one nation Under God.'
The End of Fake IDs?
Newsweek
June 11, 2007 issue - John M. McCardell Jr.'s latest mission may have
a greater effect on college freshmen than anything he did during his
13 years as president of Middlebury College: he wants to lower the
drinking age to 18—but not in order to encourage drinking. In January
he started a nonprofit organization, Choose Responsibility, which
proposes educating teens in responsible drinking just as we teach safe
driving, and then rewarding them with a drinking license, for which
they become eligible at 18. He spoke with Samantha Henig.
What's wrong with the current legal drinking age of 21?
It has driven drinking off campus, behind closed doors and
underground, into dark corners where it can't be supervised or managed
and where responsible drinking can't be modeled. Binge drinking is
this generation's protest of an unjust law.
That's a rather sympathetic view of binge drinkers.
If I shake my finger in your face often enough, and say to you, "Your
brain's not fully matured, your judgment is incomplete, you are still
a child when it comes to alcohol," why should I be surprised when I
get infantile behavior? Alcohol is a reality in the lives of 18-, 19-
and 20-year-olds. Anybody denying that inhabits a different planet.
The goal of public policy should be to create the safest possible
environment for that reality to take place.
You believe education can help make that happen?
Alcohol education now consists of little more than lectures, readings
and videos. We would never teach driver's ed that way. We would never
tell potential drivers just to read some books and hand them the keys.
You'd let 18-year-olds, licensed or not, drink at home with
their parents?
A vast majority of 18-year-olds already are consuming alcohol, [but]
for the first time they're going to be able to do it in the presence
of their parents, out in the open, in the privacy of their home. We
think that's a good thing. Legal age 21, frankly, is antifamily.
I'm sure you have encountered a lot of critics on this
issue.
I've been described as a wacko or as somebody who's tilting at
windmills. I don't know what the public or the scientific community
has to fear about having this debate.
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