I just found out that all city employees get next Friday off. Seems they need to celebrate TJ’s birthday. I wonder if they “hang out” with their “sub-employees” on that day. Say hi to Sally.
For those that watched 30 Rock last night the plot involved Tracy Morgan finding out he was a decedent of TJ/Sally. Very funny.
It seems as if legislators here in VA didn’t want to pass the smoking ban bill from Kaine and it got voted down immediately. VA loves to smoke. Let’s face reality. This state lives on the cash cow of killing people. Time to go get a smoking related disease so that health insurance skyrockets, down a flight by lighting up, and get some kids addicted to cigs.
This state is so backwards. Twenty two others have bans. VA has almost migrated in to the bottom half of healthy states. Lower than Mississippi. We love sickness and death. We also love to fry people in the chair (only Texas beats us). Will we try to fry the woman that left her baby in a car all afternoon (on a day that got up to 67 degrees it died of hyperthemia - heat stroke)? Did she go out for a smoke?
OK..I’m enjoying my cig while reading about the shooting that took place last night. C-Ville is just like Iraq…a daily shooting and a daily bombing. How did they manage to get the gunshots off while smoking?
One of the most controversial changes Kaine made was his proposed smoking ban in restaurants and bars.
“I support the ban on smoking in restaurants, but I was surprised that he took a bill that didn’t look like that and turned it into a bill that looks like that,â€? said Delegate David Toscano, D-57th District.
On Wednesday, the bill was voted down in both chambers. The original bill now goes back to the governor’s desk, and he has made it known that he will veto it. There is no chance for legislators to override that veto.
“It was set up to go through the session without amendments so that the governor could put a smoking repeal or smoking ban in the restaurants on,� said Senator Creigh Deeds, D-25th District.
At least by vetoing the original bill the restaurants won’t be getting rid of the no smoking sections. I’m sure the legislators will try to institute a policy where everyone MUST smoke this year. It is called education round here, ya’all.
Will a smoking ban in restaurants really happen here in smoke-infested Virginia? Kaine (our Democratic governor) wants to pass it, and today John Warner (our Republican senator) came out and said he wanted a ban as well.
I’ve vote for both those guys forever if they get this passed before I leave this southern smoke-fille state (I fear they may try to do one of those “ban in 2050″ sort of maneuvers).
Go Kaine. Go Warner. Ban smoking.
Has freedom been terminated at the chalkboard/brick intersection on the historic downtown mall? A new sign appeared on Saturday. What is the penalty for writing on a brick. Are there laws related to that? Would brick writing be considered vandalism? I can see it now, four years for the three year old that doodled. I can’t wait. I wonder who drew the arrow pointing at the sign. I wonder if the sign will still be there on Monday.
More shots on myFlickr.
OK…a quick wrap up some stories you may have missed here in C-Ville…are they real? I fear the answer is yes.
Mold, mildew, cracked pipes (more on crack later), scum, uncertain future, and peeling paint. Is this another story about conditions at Walter Reed? No. Just the city pools.
Someone decided to pop seven shots in to a house and eight shots in to a car. While out shooting things why just stop with non-living objects…shooting at people is also popular here in town.
The youth in town who “played a prank” by making a few fake pipe bombs decided to apologize. I don’t know about you, but it sounds like it was written by a lawyer who was told the kids don’t want to spend their youth in prison. While there, I’m sure they would become professional smokers…and speaking of which…
Locals are panicking that a smoking ban (an amendment that will try to pass this Wednesday) will crush local business. I guess the locals don’t know how to read research articles (many external links). I know I would spend far more money while out on the town if I wasn’t sick of a) breathing all the smoke, and b) watching parents light up in front of their kids. I will personally campaign for Kaine (that is actually a good slogan) if he can get smoking banned in restaurants in this tobacco stronghold.
I used to wake up every morning to a true “morning cough” of a smoker that lived across the street. That smoker has now done one too many cigs, if you know what I mean. Is it considered your last smoke when you get cremated? The new morning cough is a few houses away, so no longer deafening.
And speaking of things you can smoke, I wonder if this drug deal gone bad involved something you could smoke, or if it was just some pills or needle-ish thing. Crank. Crack. Smack. Crackle. Pop. Mmmm….cereal. I guess the stabber is still out there running around trying to bring home the bacon.
Parking lot. Deceased infant. Judge Advocate General’s Center. Charlottesville? Looks that way. No other local sites have that story, and it took place on Friday. Odd indeed.
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