My rights

I keep hearing about more and more cities, counties, states, whatever, making their domain a "no-smoking" area. How can you make a whole city smoke free? Aren't we trampling all over the rights of the smokers? Now I don't smoke, & I don't really like the smell of it on my clothes. But the fact remains, If I wanted to go somewhere and have a smoke, I should be able to. I'm not for making every place in the world the smoking section, but if some guy owns a bar, and he wants to let people light up, shouldn't he be allowed to?

Let's say, just for grins that I own a convenience store. (we all know that's not possible because I'm a white male) But let's just say I own a store, and in the back, I wanna have a smoking lounge, where you can come smoke a pack at a time if you want. Some chick lawyer from LULAC comes in & gets offended cuz her clothes got smokey while she was buying her Perrier and ex-lax. She sues me cuz her clothes got smokey. Even though I have a 12 x 16 foot sign that says "Hooka's now available", "If you've got em, smoke em", and "Holy Jiminy theres a Lot of Smoke in Here", she says I've infringed on her rights. What about the rights of the people who want to smoke? My point here is that if you know there's smoking allowed somewhere, and you don't like it, don't go there!  Nobody tied her up & carried her into my imaginary store!

You remember the kid when you were in 5th grade that would do crap that he knew he'd get in trouble for? He did it just to see the reaction from his dad, or to see if he could get away with it. He was, in a word, a troublemaker. This is the same kind of mentality that's running this country today. People are looking for their 15 minutes of fame.  Politicians don't give a crap about me or you, and in most cases, this country.  They just want to be "the man", who knows damn well all he's got to do is serve his term and collect his pension checks!

The basic problem as I see it, is the fact that the entire world has to change the way things have been going forever based on the very vocal minority.  We can't pray in schools anymore based on a handful of numb-nuts.  Can't display the 10 commandments in courthouses anymore.  Can't do a lot of things just because a small group of people got their panties in a wad for whatever reason.

Somewhere around 75% of Americans consider themselves Christians.  That's a lot of people.  What about them?  What if they want to pray in school?  I'm sick of the minority always getting the rights, and the majority getting trampled on!  It has nothing to do with race or religion.  It has everything to do with common sense!  Time to grow a pair and buck up to the minority! 

Tomorrow, I think I'm gonna go to the courthouse, smoke a cigar, sing Amazing Grace, and take a wizz in the corner!