tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post116554531598978808..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Brits School Yanks on MarketsGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-1165547904783753802006-12-07T21:18:00.000-06:002006-12-07T21:18:00.000-06:00I share your disappointment and I'll take your all...I share your disappointment and I'll take your allusion to the South one step further.<BR/><BR/>I grew up in Mississippi around the time the religiously-motivated "blue laws" (e.g., you can't buy milk and other items on Sunday -- although, strangely, if you weren't in a dry county, beer was OK) were finally being repealed. This is definitely worse.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-1165546457670551522006-12-07T20:54:00.000-06:002006-12-07T20:54:00.000-06:00Damn right it's wrong. I live in New York and, al...Damn right it's wrong. I live in New York and, although I don't smoke, I lit up a cigarette when they were banned in all restaurants and bars in New York City. I look forward to eating my Krispy Kreme donut (presumably it is made with trans-fats; why else does it taste so good??) on the day the ban goes into effect.<BR/><BR/>New York used to represent the free-spirited, secular front of the U.S. Today it represents the busy-bodies who desire to control and tax our bodies so that they can feel morally upright. New Yorkers claim they despise the "church-ladies" of the hypocritical South. Yet New Yorkers have become the laughing-stock of the country, with their politically correct do-gooder emasculation of themselves.<BR/><BR/>Where will the battle for liberty be won? Certainly not in New York, where its citizens lost their spirited independence some years ago.Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.com