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April 05, 2013

Jeremy Irons: F*ck Michael Bloomberg
— Ace

Â“IÂ’m a complete libertarian. I think itÂ’s very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society Â— the leaders of society telling us how to be,Â” he said during an interview on HuppPost Live
Â“I think itÂ’s not their business. I think it is their business to tell us to care for and respect each other and each otherÂ’s happiness and each otherÂ’s health, and we are responsible enough to do that,Â” he adds.

The Three Musketeers have all expressed some kind of conservative/libertarian politics. Jeremy Irons is the third. I'm referring to the Three Musketeers in Randal Wallace's Man in the Iron Mask, a so-so 1998 remake.

Athos, John Malkovich, almost punched a guy for suggesting America deserved 9/11, shortly after the attacks. And he almost did this in France, where he lives. So, he was pushing against local weather patterns.

Porthos, Gerald Depardieu, quit his native France to move to Russia (???!!) to escape the socialist's millionaire tax.

And now Aramis, Jeremy Irons, outs himself as a full-on libertarian.

Randall Wallace himself has been accused of... well, a Salon critic claimed his movie Secretariat was....

"[S]ymbolic window dressing for a quasi-inspirational fantasia of American whiteness and power."

And what's worse:

Wait. There is yet another sinister subtext to be exposed in the film. O'Hehir mentions that Randall Wallace, who directed the film, "is one of mainstream Hollywood's few prominent Christians, and has spoken openly about his faith and his desire to make movies that appeal to 'people with middle-American values'."

Dear Lord, how did we let this happen?

That link is to Roger Ebert criticizing how kookoocrazy Salon's movie idiot is. When you've lost Roger Ebert, you've gone too far.

Posted by: Ace at 11:51 AM | Comments (117)
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1 When you've lost Roger Ebert, you've gone too far. I guess that means we've all gone to far.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 05, 2013 11:52 AM (T0NGe)

2 * headbanger smiley * for Mr. Irons.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 05, 2013 11:52 AM (UypUQ)

3 Ah, too far. Leave it to me to screw up a "first".

Posted by: AmishDude at April 05, 2013 11:53 AM (T0NGe)

4 And, then he picks his teeth, and plays with what he found.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 11:54 AM (XYSwB)

5 So Simon Gruber wants Bloomberg to keep his hands off his shit?

Posted by: EC at April 05, 2013 11:54 AM (GQ8sn)

6 Actual Irons quote: "Fuck Michael Bloomberg sideways, with a pineapple."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 05, 2013 11:55 AM (lVPtV)

7 http://kltforums.net/style_emoticons/default/headbanger.gif

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 05, 2013 11:55 AM (UypUQ)

8 Gerald Depardieu, quit his native France to move to Russia Russia?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 11:55 AM (XYSwB)

9 Russia? Flat income tax. Which is shocking given that it's a kleptocracy.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 05, 2013 11:56 AM (T0NGe)

10 Simon says, Nanny Bloomberg deserves a gold bar up his ass.

Posted by: Simon Peter Gruber at April 05, 2013 11:56 AM (UzPAd)

11 Sunshine State Sarah (in the sidebar) is a party apparatchik who was one of the main enablers for Sean Bielat. And she's neither smart nor pleasant as a person.

Posted by: Truman North at April 05, 2013 11:57 AM (I2LwF)

12 I'm lost on what a libertarian is, now. Too many definitions floating around. Seems to be a trend to come out as a libertarian.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 11:57 AM (XYSwB)

quasi-inspirational fantasia???

Ace needs to borrow that phrase for one of his movie reviews. "Dies Hard is a quasi-inspirational fantasia of white male violence" or something like that.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 05, 2013 11:58 AM (RZ8pf)

14 Randy Wallace is a truely good man strugglng against a world of evil. His work has to be hidden from the leftists to travel under the radar- we were soldiers once and young.

Posted by: phil at April 05, 2013 11:59 AM (lB/5N)

15
Irons is an odd case. As I recall, he has publicly self-identified as socialist for many years. Kind of old to FINALLY get some common sense, but I'm not complaining.

As an aside, Randall Wallace also directed We Were Soldiers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 05, 2013 11:59 AM (TIIx5)

16 Secretariat was not white.

Posted by: Real Joe at April 05, 2013 11:59 AM (kmDyt)

17 They're playing him on the radio. He's a libertarian. I was actually surprised to hear him on the news.

"97% Of February Consumer Credit Is Student And Car Loans"
http://tinyurl.com/cycc3kr

Is this the next one to burst.

Posted by: Caustic at April 05, 2013 12:00 PM (/b8+5)

18 Gerard Depardieu - Gerard Depardieu's New Russian Home Goes Up In Smoke 04 April 2013 Gerard Depardieu's move to Russia has been dealt a massive blow after the complex which houses his new apartment burned down on Wednesday (03Apr13). hmm

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 12:00 PM (XYSwB)

19 Simon Gruber is talking about cigarettes. Does he feel the same way about [insert vice here]?

Posted by: EC at April 05, 2013 12:00 PM (GQ8sn)

20 Well, we were all thinking it.

Posted by: LibertarianJim (team #letitburn) at April 05, 2013 12:00 PM (XMDuf)

21 the trouble with government is that it is full of socialists.

Posted by: Longshanks at April 05, 2013 12:00 PM (KHo8t)

22 >>>Irons is an odd case. As I recall, he has publicly self-identified as socialist for many years. Kind of old to FINALLY get some common sense, but I'm not complaining. I don't know anything about him. If this is true, I'd guess that maybe there was a Straw That Broke the Camel's Back. People can absorb a certain amount of bullshit and lies. Then sometimes they hit the limit, and it provokes a general reexamination of everything.

Posted by: ace at April 05, 2013 12:01 PM (LCRYB)

23 What exactly constitutes a fantasia of whiteness? Is there dancing involved?

Posted by: joncelli, filthy, bitter clinger at April 05, 2013 12:01 PM (RD7QR)

24 That link is to Roger Ebert criticizing how kookoocrazy Salon's movie idiot is.

Ebert, hmm, no, never heard of him.

Posted by: toby928© Red Partisan at April 05, 2013 12:01 PM (QupBk)

25 Roger Ebert gives The Divine Comedy a thumbs down for realism since Dante didn't include a circle in hell for useful idiots.

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at April 05, 2013 12:01 PM (8ZskC)

26 Funny how the national GOP has been... Completely utterly silent... On Bloomberg. It's almost like... The establishment is making it's decisions on the principle of advancing liberalism as best possible. At what point does the absolute inaction of the national GOP become our issue?

Posted by: Hopeless at April 05, 2013 12:02 PM (M3WNi)

27 Porthos, Gerald Depardieu, quit his native France to move to Russia (???!!) to escape the socialist's millionaire tax.

I don't know this man's personal politics, but moving away from a recklessly crushing tax doesn't require libertarian bona fides. Progressives do these things all the time in fact, move to a place, vote blue for 20 years, marvel at the high taxes and bankrupt state, move to a red state and repeat.

Posted by: Heralder at April 05, 2013 12:02 PM (+xmn4)

He paused to clean his back teeth, breaking his line of thought for a moment.

Â“I have a grandmother of a friend of mine in Greece, who grew tobacco all her life, thatÂ’s what they did, in northern Greece, they grew tobacco,Â” he continued.

sheesh, information i didn't need.

'paused to clean his back teeth'

i wonder why that was added?

Posted by: willow at April 05, 2013 12:03 PM (nqBYe)

29 Interesting to see three actors who appeared together in the mediocre vehicle for the ingenue of the day would hen have similar, unusual political views 15 years later. It's a keen eye you have for coincidence, ace

Posted by: Truman North at April 05, 2013 12:03 PM (I2LwF)

30 Gerard Depardieu's move to Russia has been dealt a massive blow after the complex which houses his new apartment burned down on Wednesday (03Apr13).

hmm

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 04:00 PM (XYSwB)

HA! Hmmm indeed. That is really really shady.

Posted by: Heralder at April 05, 2013 12:03 PM (+xmn4)

31 I posted some of his interesting comments vis a vis gay marriage yesterday.

Posted by: steevy at April 05, 2013 12:04 PM (9XBK2)

While I appreciate Athos, Aramis, and Porthos weighing in on the side of libertarianism/fuck Bloomberg, I am afraid that appreciation is a bit overshadowed by the pretty obvious fact that those three dudes are right behind the gay marriage thing, pushing hard, like Vikings a Muslim in a sheep fold.

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Sharkman at April 05, 2013 12:04 PM (03IDC)

33 Irons is an excellent actor, and apparently an independent thinker as well. It's a cheering combination.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at April 05, 2013 12:04 PM (GCzY/)

34 Secretariat was not white. Posted by: Real Joe

His hoofs were. I'm a racist for pointing that out tho'.

Posted by: dogfish at April 05, 2013 12:05 PM (X3HQR)

35 Dicks and donuts, people. Dicks and donuts.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 05, 2013 12:05 PM (VtjlW)

36 We're such cheap dates.

Posted by: toby928© Red Partisan at April 05, 2013 12:05 PM (QupBk)

37 Bloomberg is not a Republican,he was briefly(switched to run for mayor) but hasn't been for years.

Posted by: steevy at April 05, 2013 12:05 PM (9XBK2)

38
and just when I forgot Roger Ebert died, too

Posted by: soothsayer at April 05, 2013 12:05 PM (OgiBc)

39 22 >>>Irons is an odd case. As I recall, he has publicly self-identified as socialist for many years. Kind of old to FINALLY get some common sense, but I'm not complaining.

I don't know anything about him. If this is true, I'd guess that maybe there was a Straw That Broke the Camel's Back. People can absorb a certain amount of bullshit and lies. Then sometimes they hit the limit, and it provokes a general reexamination of everything.

Posted by: ace at April 05, 2013 04:01 PM (LCRYB)

Perhaps not getting work as often as he once did has made him realize that it really sucks when the government tries to keep taking more of your money, for crap you don't think they have any business doing.

Posted by: buzzion at April 05, 2013 12:05 PM (GULKT)

40 9 Ahem. We have Baracky in charge. So are we, IOW

Posted by: Bigby's Dyke-Plugging Finger at April 05, 2013 12:06 PM (3ZtZW)

41 Secretariat was obviously a Nazi, come on we were all thinking it.

And ace, you should have linked another story from yesterday on how most action stars are conservatives, kinda related.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 05, 2013 12:06 PM (3+QKS)

42 At what point does the absolute inaction of the national GOP become our issue? For me it was about eight months ago. Changing candidates won't help until we change the people who push the candidates on us.

Posted by: Truman North at April 05, 2013 12:07 PM (I2LwF)

43 35 Dicks and donuts, people. Dicks and donuts. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 05, 2013 04:05 PM (VtjlW) Which would you like served first, my Queen?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 05, 2013 12:08 PM (GwD92)

44 Beverly Hills Chihuahua was a thinly veiled paean to a permanent white domination of the subservient hispanic underclass.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at April 05, 2013 12:08 PM (+lsX1)

45 Welp.....his Hollywood career is over.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 05, 2013 12:08 PM (xmcEQ)

46 As far as moving to Russia,no fucking way,despite the flat tax and hot chicks(until they get fat).Russia is a hell hole.

Posted by: steevy at April 05, 2013 12:08 PM (9XBK2)

47 Buy us a beer and our skirts come up.

Posted by: toby928© Red Partisan at April 05, 2013 12:08 PM (QupBk)

FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!!

Holy shit, I just made this comment on the last thread. Yes, the smoking ban was the tip of the iceberg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All else follows. I used to tell my friends that the smoking ban was akin to Nazism, and all else would lead there. They thought I was crazy.

Abrogation of private property for NOTHING. Because you don't want to smell smoke?? Well then get the fuck out of MY PROPERTY.

And as we learned from Michael Crichton, there are no known bad health effects/correlation re second hand smoke.

AWESOME.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 05, 2013 12:08 PM (tVTLU)

49 No horse is white.

Posted by: elizabethe at April 05, 2013 12:08 PM (qPCAa)

"Symbolic window dressing for a quasi-inspirational fantasia of American whiteness and power."

Dude, easy on the metaphors.

If you like cock, just go ahead and suck one.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at April 05, 2013 12:08 PM (vN7SY)

51 Actual Irons quote: "Fuck Michael Bloomberg sideways, with a pineapple." So long as it's a less than 16 oz. pineapple.

Posted by: the bearded UNIX god at April 05, 2013 12:09 PM (j3uk1)

52
by the by, aren't we overdue for yet another 'study' explaining that conservatives are racists/less evolved/have smaller brains/aggressive?

Posted by: soothsayer at April 05, 2013 12:10 PM (OgiBc)

53 Welp.....his Hollywood career is over. Posted by: Â© Sponge at April 05, 2013 04:08 PM (xmcEQ) Well, it's really been all downhill since 1981 and the Brideshead TV mini-series.

Posted by: elizabethe at April 05, 2013 12:10 PM (qPCAa)

54 There is no reason a socialist might not resent being told how can't smoke or drink a 32 oz soda.

Posted by: Real Joe at April 05, 2013 12:10 PM (kmDyt)

55 So much for all attempts at clever fucking formatting/line-outs, or what the fuck ever.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 05, 2013 12:10 PM (03IDC)

56 Irons hates abortion and is there irrelevant.

Posted by: Mr Poo Poo at April 05, 2013 12:11 PM (3+QKS)

57 Hey, Ace. Did you ever review Secretariat?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 05, 2013 12:11 PM (f9c2L)

58 ~~line-outs~~

Posted by: dogfish at April 05, 2013 12:12 PM (X3HQR)

59 If they just ban the production of cups larger than 16 ounces, once the cups have been used up, then nobody will have more than 16 ounces at a time. The more durable type will be licenced and federally registered. And bought up by the ruling class.

Posted by: Truman North at April 05, 2013 12:12 PM (I2LwF)

60 ...he can't smoke... fucking autocorrect.

Posted by: Real Joe at April 05, 2013 12:12 PM (kmDyt)

61 holy smokes, did you know Irons was the voice of Scar in The Lion King? I thought I was joking about his career being downhill since Brideshead, but a quick look at IMDB shows it's really really true.

Posted by: elizabethe at April 05, 2013 12:13 PM (qPCAa)

62 a Salon critic claimed his movie Secretariat was.... "Symbolic window dressing for a quasi-inspirational fantasia of American whiteness and power." Nothing screams "White Power Fascism" like a story about a horse.

Posted by: the bearded UNIX god at April 05, 2013 12:13 PM (j3uk1)

63
you mean strikes, dummy

Posted by: soothsayer at April 05, 2013 12:13 PM (OgiBc)

64 I think the conservative Democrats out there have no where left to go but to libertarianism.

The Trotskyites have finished the job they started, against Ronald Reagan and Bob Heinlein in the the California Democratic State Committee in the 1960s.

The Trotskyites and the Chicago corrupticrats have purged the Democratic Party.

I'm waiting for some Chicago mobster to rise as the Democrat's new Stalin.

Posted by: Kristophr at April 05, 2013 12:13 PM (wYVte)

65 Irons is also the Pope in the Borgias series.

Posted by: Real Joe at April 05, 2013 12:14 PM (kmDyt)

66 Russia is a hell hole.

Mostly, its relatively untouched wilderness punctuated by the occasional Soviet era radioactive or toxic waste site.

If you got the bucks for a phat Black Sea dacha, life could be good.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 05, 2013 12:14 PM (/gHaE)

67 Irons hates abortion and is there irrelevant.

Posted by: Mr Poo Poo at April 05, 2013 04:11 PM (3+QKS)

Someone's frazzled and can no longer speak English.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 05, 2013 12:14 PM (xmcEQ)

68 All else follows. I used to tell my friends that the smoking ban was akin to Nazism, and all else would lead there. They thought I was crazy.

And as we learned from Michael Crichton, there are no known bad health effects/correlation re second hand smoke.

AWESOME.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 05, 2013 04:08 PM (tVTLU)

Is this satire?

Posted by: Heralder at April 05, 2013 12:15 PM (+xmn4)

69 No horse is white. Posted by: elizabethe at April 05, 2013 04:08 PM (qPCAa) Gandalf's Shadowfax was!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 12:15 PM (XYSwB)

70 I'm not a smoker and have been long saying that smoking bans are the devil incarnate.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 05, 2013 12:15 PM (xmcEQ)

71 What exactly constitutes a fantasia of whiteness?

Salon does.

Also, in British English "libertarian" usually means "non-moralizing socialist." So, not a feminist, basically. And he probably doesn't hate Jews for "anti-imperialist" reasons or oppose "capitalism" for aristocratic shops-are-for-poor-people (and run by JOOS) reasons.

But maybe he's using the American word...which carries various shades of "not a Republican," and not much else. Anymore.

Posted by: oblig. at April 05, 2013 12:16 PM (cePv8)

72 Irons is also the Pope in the Borgias series. See? SEE?? Irons is a scheming, warlike, murdering Catholic!!

Posted by: the bearded UNIX god at April 05, 2013 12:16 PM (j3uk1)

73 50 No horse is white.
Posted by: elizabethe at April 05, 2013 04:08 PM (qPCAa)

Hi ho silver.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 05, 2013 12:16 PM (C36wA)

74 I'm waiting for some Chicago mobster to rise as the Democrat's new Stalin. I rather thought that was who Obama was

Posted by: Truman North at April 05, 2013 12:16 PM (I2LwF)

75 49 " I used to tell my friends that the smoking ban was akin to Nazism"

Fun fact: the Nazis were the first people to actually crack down heavily on cigarettes/

Seeing the most stereotypical of Jewish people completing their mission would horrify them, which almost makes it worth it. ALMOST

Posted by: The Q at April 05, 2013 12:16 PM (lB4ch)

76 Posted by: Heralder at April 05, 2013 04:15 PM (+xmn4) I beg of you, in the name of all that is holy, do not encourage him.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 05, 2013 12:17 PM (GwD92)

77 35 Dicks and donuts, people. Dicks and donuts.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 05, 2013 04:05 PM (VtjlW)

Where's the line for that action!!!

Posted by: Michael Moore at April 05, 2013 12:17 PM (A5Abh)

78 What exactly constitutes a fantasia of whiteness? --- Salon does. I'd love to see the racial composition of their staff and contributors.

Posted by: the bearded UNIX god at April 05, 2013 12:17 PM (j3uk1)

79 Gandalf's Shadowfax was! Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 04:15 PM (XYSwB) no no. race horses. they are all grey.

Posted by: elizabethe at April 05, 2013 12:17 PM (qPCAa)

80 16 Secretariat was not white. --- Some of my best friends are black. And four-footed.

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 05, 2013 12:17 PM (VlXYw)

81 No, Obama is too much of a acedemic to get down to properly breaking enemy heads.

He's more like the American Lenin.

I'm sure he'll get a pretty funeral and a nice mausoleum after he is carefully removed.

Posted by: Kristophr at April 05, 2013 12:18 PM (wYVte)

82 He was cleaning his back teeth 'coz that's just what Libertarians do, man.

Posted by: Bigby's Dyke-Plugging Finger at April 05, 2013 12:19 PM (3ZtZW)

83 I think the conservative Democrats out there have no where left to go but to libertarianism.

Conservative Democrat? hahahahahaha

There are none.

Posted by: Vic at April 05, 2013 12:19 PM (53z96)

84 Irons is also the Pope in the Borgias series. Posted by: Real Joe at April 05, 2013 04:14 PM (kmDyt) I forgot about this. Some people won't miss an episode. One of the folks we raided with at night (in one of our mmorpg's) just left when it came on. Right in the middle of raiding...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 12:19 PM (XYSwB)

85 77Posted by: Heralder at April 05, 2013 04:15 PM (+xmn4)

I beg of you, in the name of all that is holy, do not encourage him.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 05, 2013 04:17 PM (GwD92)

Cant. help it. *struggles*

Posted by: Heralder at April 05, 2013 12:20 PM (+xmn4)

86 Another thing about the Sarah article in the sidebar: she's totally missing the point of county organizations. They don't replace the towns; they exist to aid the towns. And vice-versa. The county organization moves town resources where they are needed within the county. Instead of having 20-25 "official" republicans, all of a sudden you have 250 or 300 on the days you really need them. Dumb shit.

Posted by: Truman North at April 05, 2013 12:20 PM (I2LwF)

87 Vic: Exactly.

Used to be some ... but, as I said, they have been purged.

Posted by: Kristophr at April 05, 2013 12:20 PM (wYVte)

88 Do you wanna ride? Well, ride the WHITE horse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwATF5dnfq4

Posted by: © Sponge at April 05, 2013 12:20 PM (xmcEQ)

89 One of the folks we raided with at night (in one of our mmorpg's) just left when it came on. Right in the middle of raiding...

Reverse Leeroy Jenkins?

Posted by: EC at April 05, 2013 12:20 PM (GQ8sn)

90 I guess it's IF you wanna ride, don't ride the white horse.

But, still........

Posted by: © Sponge at April 05, 2013 12:21 PM (xmcEQ)

91 guild-kick his libtard ass.

Posted by: Kristophr at April 05, 2013 12:21 PM (wYVte)

92 Reverse Leeroy Jenkins? Posted by: EC at April 05, 2013 04:20 PM (GQ8sn) Pretty much. He slipped out quietly, too. So, yea.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 12:23 PM (XYSwB)

93 Hi ho silver. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 05, 2013 04:16 PM (C36wA) ugh, never mind. you people are not horse-racing people.

Posted by: elizabethe at April 05, 2013 12:23 PM (qPCAa)

94 elizabethe: What about an albino horse?

Posted by: Kristophr at April 05, 2013 12:24 PM (wYVte)

95 guild-kick his libtard ass. Posted by: Kristophr at April 05, 2013 04:21 PM (wYVte) We liked him. And, he played well. So, meh.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 12:24 PM (XYSwB)

96 I think the conservative Democrats out there have no where left to go but to libertarianism. --- How about the unicorn candy pastures?

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 05, 2013 12:24 PM (VlXYw)

97 Welp, I'd be unwilling to raid with someone who skips out in the middle of a raid without warning.

Someone had better be dead or hospitalized.

Posted by: Kristophr at April 05, 2013 12:25 PM (wYVte)

98 ugh, never mind. you people are not horse-racing people. Posted by: elizabethe at April 05, 2013 04:23 PM (qPCAa) hehe. they're teasing. my sister-in-law, 2 of her daughters, both rode and did some jumping... if that counts.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 05, 2013 12:25 PM (XYSwB)

99 How about the unicorn candy pastures?

That will be where the gulag for the occutards goes once they get fully jackbooted up.

Posted by: Kristophr at April 05, 2013 12:26 PM (wYVte)

100 You're right Kris. He's a pan-Leninist. Violence from the top to get the proles in line in the name of equality or else.

Posted by: Truman North at April 05, 2013 12:27 PM (szGs0)

101 FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!!

Holy shit, I just made this comment on the last thread. Yes, the smoking ban was the tip of the iceberg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All else follows. I used to tell my friends that the smoking ban was akin to Nazism, and all else would lead there. They thought I was crazy.

Abrogation of private property for NOTHING. Because you don't want to smell smoke?? Well then get the fuck out of MY PROPERTY.

And as we learned from Michael Crichton, there are no known bad health effects/correlation re second hand smoke.

AWESOME.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 05, 2013 04:08 PM (tVTLU)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You're pretty excited about having your opinion validated by Jeremy Irons, huh?

That's not criticism. I felt the same way when Sean Connery backed me up on smacking mouthy broads.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 05, 2013 12:28 PM (CJjw5)

102 I made a horse cry by unzipping my pants once.

Posted by: Truman North at April 05, 2013 12:28 PM (I2LwF)

103 King Moron of Spring Break
http://tinyurl.com/d3dhuqh

Officials say they are in "good condition." I speak for the wife, who is probably still sedated, that she is not "good." I'll bet this may be the last time he leaves Ohio much less gets "outdoorsy" again or behind the wheel of a boat. I am fairly sure that "air horn" the rescuers heard to find them were his howls of pain as she beat him for this brilliant idea on their vacation.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at April 05, 2013 12:30 PM (baL2B)

104 Jeremy Irons kicked ass in the 1989 Civil War ken burns thing, fwiw.

Posted by: MikeD at April 05, 2013 12:32 PM (iZiIb)

105 I've always likes Irons. Should have known he was a lefty

Posted by: CSMBigBird at April 05, 2013 12:33 PM (6IKyK)

106 I really don't give a damn what Bloomingidiot does to NYC. They asked for it and they got it. I hope they love their shit sandwich.

I do care that the SOB is using his money to export his brand of unconstitutional Fascism all over the country.

Posted by: Vic at April 05, 2013 12:34 PM (53z96)

107 Yes, the smoking ban was the tip of the iceberg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: Prescient11 at April 05, 2013 04:08 PM (tVTLU)

Interesting story. I was working as an IT consultant at Nabisco in East Hanover, NJ AFTER they had merged with RJ Reynolds. This was post smoking ban in workplaces, but, prior to Big Tobacco losing their case. There was no smoking ban there, those tobacco people kept the air blue, some of them five-six packs a day blue. You could buy a pack of cigarettes in the company story for less than a dollar--because no taxes had been collected yet and there was a loophole. I tentatively asked someone how they were getting away with it. Seems the tobacco folks told the city fathers, hey, we are doing you guys a favor keeping these jobs here in NJ, you don't want them, we will pack it all up and move it to a tobacco state, but, first, we will lay off all these NJ folks, offer no relocation packages to anyone who wants to hang onto their jobs and move to that tobacco state with us, and leave you with the problem of replacing all those jobs. If that is what you want, intil we shut the doors here, we will just pay the d@mn fines, we have GOT THE MONEY. Seems the city fathers gave them a variance.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, FLLDFC Gangstette Wily Wench at April 05, 2013 12:38 PM (kXoT0)

108

The Q:

Really, that is a pretty fun fact. I can smoke out a radical lefitst a mile away!!

Thanks for the info.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 05, 2013 12:44 PM (tVTLU)

109 We've all lost Roger Ebert, which I think is...sad. OK, the tweets bordered on moronic, but the movie stuff was excellent, and the writing was first-rate. Plus, any pal of Russ Meyer....

Posted by: glide55 at April 05, 2013 01:05 PM (Z2aee)

110 d love to see the racial composition of their staff and contributors.

They are all white, they are all queer, and they loathe themselves.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at April 05, 2013 01:16 PM (ZOf1l)

111 I actually know Randall Wallace and his family - honestly, great people. This country used to have more like them. Can't stand 90% of the pricks in charge of almost everything today.

Posted by: El Cid at April 05, 2013 01:18 PM (IvvrO)

112 QUOTE: "by the by, aren't we overdue for yet another 'study' explaining that conservatives are racists/less evolved/have smaller brains/aggressive?"

I'LL KILL YOU

Sorry, sorry.

Posted by: BK at April 05, 2013 01:26 PM (6KiQ+)

113 Irons is an America hater. I can't tell you how many anti American statements he has made. And he has no problem shilling against the death penalty in the US. He's a hard core smoker. That's his sole interest. As far as his comments about marriage -- he's been married for decades but in name only. He has a real reputation for grabby hands. The DM did a recent article on it.

Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 05, 2013 02:06 PM (xY6Ip)

114 Man; I laughed at loud at Ebert's comments about the nut who thinks "Secretariat" was about the incredible whiteness and racism. Did he also think the movie "Seabiscuit" was code for the KKK?

Posted by: Fluffy the wonder kitty idol at April 05, 2013 02:32 PM (bddKN)

115 Sorry; The "incredible whiteness of being"

Posted by: Fluffy the wonder kitty idol at April 05, 2013 02:36 PM (bddKN)

116 Randall Wallace came to fame on Braveheart. Of course he's conservative. FREEEEEEEEEEDOM!!!

Posted by: John the Libertarian at April 05, 2013 02:42 PM (jKf/K)

117 28 He paused to clean his back teeth, breaking his line of thought for a moment. ... sheesh, information i didn't need. 'paused to clean his back teeth' i wonder why that was added? - To discredit him, duh! This is why you see actors sometimes talk back to their liberal betters when they are old and their careers are done. Because as soon as they show signs of being uppity, their careers are done anyway, and they will be discredited in public, when before nothing would have been said. You'd better have everything you ever wanted to do in Hollywood already done before you open your mouth to recite anything but hard left liberal pieties. I keep saying this but: Repeal the Hollywood tax cuts! Hollywood is about as pro-free-speech as the Soviet Union used to be. It doesn't deserve sweetheart tax deals.

Posted by: Chromoly Man at April 06, 2013 02:59 AM (NH/xU)

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