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The money quote from this article about overturning a smoking ban in Germany is this one near the end, “Under the Nazis smoking was frowned upon. After 1945 smoking became a symbol of a post-war freedoms and broadmindedness.”

Looks like the Progressive Smoking Nazis are making a resurgence.

Article follows:

The ruling came after a case brought by the owner of two small bars, who claim that their business has been unfairly hit by the smoking ban.

Introduced in patchwork fashion across the country’s 16 federal states earlier this year, Germany’s smoking ban has been poorly received by often tobacco-friendly Germans, about a third of whom smoke.

The laws have often been ignored or barely enforced, with the owners of small bars and restaurants claiming that their businesses were threatened by the legislation.

Among them were the owners of two separate one-room pubs in Berlin and the south-western state Baden-Wuerttemberg.

They claimed that their bars small size prevented them cordoning off a smokers’ area, as other bars have been allowed to, putting them at a competitive disadvantage. The constitutional court agreed.

“I am satisfied all around,” said Sylvia Thimm, owner of ‘Doors’ in Berlin, one of the two bars involved in the case.

German tobacco lobbyists DVZ said the smoking ban was heavy handed.

“We are warning against a growing culture of bans and regulations in Germany,” said DVZ chief Wouda Kuipers.

In fact, Germany has long been notoriously heavily regulated, but smoking has established itself as a lone act of rebellion against the prevailing culture.

Under the Nazis smoking was frowned upon. After 1945 smoking became a symbol of a post-war freedoms and broadmindedness.

Now, all German states will have to review their smoking bans and come up with new legislation by 2009, either banning smoking outright or allowing it in one-room bars too.

German court overturns smoking ban - Telegraph

Tags: smokingban, germany, nazis, progressive nazis, fascist, cigarettes, tobacco, berlin, baden-wuerttemberg, liberal fascism

I am glad to hear that there are potential benefits to drinking coffee since I drink so much of it!

Story follows:

Posted June 16, 2008
By Kathleen Doheny, HealthDay Reporter

Coffee Drinkers Might Live Longer.

For women, especially, the brew could boost heart health, study finds.

MONDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) - Good news for coffee lovers: Drinking up to six cups a day of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee daily won’t shorten your life span, a new study shows.

In fact, coffee might even help the heart, especially for women, the researchers found.

“Our results suggest that long-term, regular coffee consumption does not increase the risk of death and probably has several beneficial effects on health,” said lead researcher Dr. Esther Lopez-Garcia, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Autonoma University in Madrid, Spain.

Her team published its findings in the June 17 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Click here to read entire article:Coffee Drinkers Might Live Longer - US News and World Report

Tags: health, coffee, benefits, heart health, longer life, women’s health, coffee consumption

Source: Web MD

In another indication that things are not as bad as the Main Stream Media projects, Web MD reported that lifespans in the U.S. set another record. Another record is that lifespans increased by 4 months in only the span of one year.

“What’s more, the death rate for 11 of the top 15 causes of death — including heart disease, cancer, and stroke — slowed in 2006.

That’s what the CDC’s preliminary data show, based on some 2.4 million deaths in 2006. Here are the highlights from the CDC’s report.
Life Expectancy

Life expectancy in 2006 is about four months longer than it was in 2005, according to the CDC.”

I understand that bad news sells but in an effort to show its not as bad as people think, we need to balance the bad news with the huge amount of good news out there.

Hat Tip: BurfordHolly commenter at Captain’s Quarters blog.

This nostalgic content is addictive. We need someone now who can enunciate clearly and simply about how insidious Collectivism is like Ronald Reagan did in 1961. This audio clip is part of a Long Play (LP) record sent out by the American Medical Association as part of the Operation Coffee Cup Campaign.

I know it isn’t video but I am still putting it in this catagory.

Hat Tip: Internet Archive.

In another nostalgic video we see a case against “ISM” and why it is dangerous to our freedom. This cartoon was produced in 1948 and it is interesting to see today how many members of many “isms” would be howling at the top of their lungs against this simple cartoon were it broadcast on any Main Stream Media (MSM). Enjoy.

Too bad, embeds not working well from Internet Archive site.

Hat Tip: Mediabistro.com

I came across this home video of Glenn Beck via Mediabistro.com. I don’t watch Glenn Beck very often on TV or hear him very often on the radio although I like a lot of what he says when I do. This video is striking in how GB almost breaks down a few times. I don’t even know what the reason was for Beck’s surgery but it will be interesting to hear what hospital apparently scared him so much.