Cleaning Up For Company

From the article: "Look at me. I live with 250 of them (cats) and I'm healthy!" - says the Chinese Cat lady.
I think healthy is relative.

I'm actually anticipating that the 2008 Summer Games will be like a huge game of "don't look over that fence" for the foreign media. Cats would be the last thing I'd be worried about if I were a Chinese government official - "Swim, Ling Ling...your family's rice ration depends on it!" Know what I mean? China's not exactly a "Gold Star" country in the Civil Rights department. I can't wait to hear Bob Costas voice the travelogue to play between the 400m Butterfly and Women's Weight Lifting - "China. A land of tradition...a land of ancients (Cue shot of Great Wall)...a land of mystery (cue the harp music): Will they mention the Chinese policy on birth control?

Yup. A larger scale version of what happened here in Salt Lake. The local powers that be were so concerned about not appearing strange to their Olympic visitors they even loosened the liquor laws --until everyone went away.

Fast forward six years and the Utah state legislature just wrapped up a law that made it illegal to sell a 3.2% Mikes "Hard" Lemonade in the grocery store. Now you have to go to the State Liquor store and pay an insane markup for it.

to give them at least some credit, they finaly loosened the coctail law to allow a whole 1.5oz of liquor rather than 1oz. (man, that 0.5oz must be what unleashes satan apon the masses!)

The most maddening thing is that the entire thing was openly sponsored and petitioned OFFICIALY by the mormon leadership. C'mon! what about people like me in which alcohol is a religious device? isnt there a little thing about letting people worship "how, where, and what they may"?

I guess it all boils down to that since they are unable to make this a prohibitionist state, they will do what they can to make it as close as possible.

Yeah, I'm gonna take that for what it's worth to me...nothing. They force us into "private" clubs to sit down and have a drink with friends and tax the hell out of it "for the children". Then they expect me to be happy because they give me and extra fucking half ounce. Why should it be any of their business how much anyone has in their drink?

Utah already had the LOWEST underage drinking and smoking rates in the country. This had jack squat to do with underage drinking and everything to do with increasing revenue on the tab of non-Mormons. You'd be hard pressed to find a less principled example of legislation.

And I agree with you. LDS incorporated should totally lose their tax exempt status for their interference in politics. Never mind that I think all churches should be taxed.