Sunday Laws, Editorial

[AndrewG]

Posted on behalf of Sherlene

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EDITORIAL: Allow Sunday sales

November 23, 2008 08:00:00 AM


The arguments over whether to keep Port St. Joe dry on Sundays have pitted morality vs. economics, but the issue fundamentally is about freedom of choice.

In a contentious public meeting, the City Commission voted last week to approve the first reading and advertising of a new ordinance that would permit Sunday alcohol sales within the city limits. For the last 70 years, the city has prohibited such sales, even though Gulf County allows alcohol to be sold on Sundays after 1 p.m. Thus, anyone who really wants a drink doesn't have to go too far to get one. The city ban is more a symbolic statement about the evils of John Barleycorn than an effective vehicle for temperance.

Nevertheless, many are adamantly opposed to repealing it. In May 2007, the city held a non-binding referendum to allow Sunday alcohol sales. It was defeated by 46 votes out of 1,298 cast. At the commission meeting Tuesday, some in the audience quoted the Bible and gave moralistic reasons for preventing alcohol sales on the Sabbath.

Their religious beliefs can guide their personal behavior, but they shouldn't be imposed on others by government decree, especially considering that many mainstream faiths do not proscribe consuming alcohol in moderation, even on Sundays.

Proponents of lifting the ban argued that it puts Port St. Joe at an economic disadvantage to neighboring communities that aren't dry on Sundays. The city loses sales tax revenues on Sundays, and tourists are discouraged from extending their stays through Sunday if they can't grab a beer at a local watering hole or a six-pack at a supermarket. So that's one less day they spend money in town.

The reason why the prohibition on Sunday alcohol sales, like all such "blue laws," is untenable is because it represents a restraint on trade. It prohibits business owners from serving their customers. If they are allowed to sell alcohol six days a week, why not seven?

Government would have to have a very compelling reason to restrict such sales on a certain day. Public safety could be one such factor, if there was clear evidence that the incidents of public drunkenness and DUIs significantly increased on Sundays. But no one appears to have made that case. Instead, opponents cite religious and moral reasons for going dry on Sundays. They say it gives Port St. Joe "character."

But that's just another aspect of nanny statism. It's crusading do-gooders using the power of government to make sure people do what's supposedly best for themselves - or what the advocates believe is in everyone's interest, whether the masses realize it or not.

As for the pro-regulation referendum narrowly expressing the will of the people, that is an invitation to tyranny by the majority, not a justification for controlling someone else's livelihood. How is that different than the mob encircling a liquor store on Sundays and preventing customers from entering? A law is just government-sanctioned force that gets the same results.

The Port St. Joe City Commission shouldn't lift the ban on Sunday alcohol sales because it is costing the community money. It should do so because the law denies certain businesses equal protection. Those that sell alcohol can't operate as freely as others can. The value of their property therefore is diminished. If they believe they can make a profit by meeting a consumer demand on Sundays for a product or service that is otherwise legal to sell, then they should be allowed to do so.

In the interest of freedom and fairness, when commissioners meet again in December they should give final approval to a repeal of the restrictions on Sunday sales.

[AndrewG]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environme...nvironment.html

could this be how sunday laws can be inforced as well
because this is a world court system and we know how things can easly be manipulated to work for Jesuits.

[AndrewG]

Posted on behalf of Breaker

had a look at the item, what aload of rubbish climate change has been brought about by the sun heating up how else could Martian ice caps be melting and jupiter's temperature rising 3 degrees I'm quite sure my air con and motor car havent been running on Mars,promise,
this is just another tax to impose on people and eventually bring in international courts controlled by the NWO, the Bilderbughs and the Jesuits. 

[AndrewG]

Posted on behalf of Sherlene

Hi Breaker,
Those facts about the ice caps melting on other planets made me wonder the same thing? How is it happening on those planets, if the cause of the melting is the pollution that earth is making? Did our pollution travel thousands of miles through space and infect these other planets? Unlikely! Something else is definitely going on, but as usual, we aren't being told the truth.

[AndrewG]

Posted on behalf of Breaker

G'day all yes mars is melting and so is Jupiter heating up and as I said I didnt park my ford on Mars  Here is a link to start you of in search of more truth and its a National Goegraphic report.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...rs-warming.html

The link to the U.S. Senate report has Mysteriously vanished. however you can read it below and or type in google: jupiter melting go to the senate report before they realise and remove it any way here tis.

Warming On Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, Neptune's Moon & Earth Linked to Increased Solar Activity, Scientists Say
March 12, 2007

Posted by Marc Morano - Marc_Morano@epw.senate.gov - 10:51 am ET

Warming On Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, Neptune's Moon & Earth Linked to Increased Solar Activity, Scientists Say
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...

Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
By Lorne Gunter
National Post

Link to Article

Monday, March 12, 2007

Mars's ice caps are melting, and Jupiter is developing a second giant red spot, an enormous hurricane-like storm.

The existing Great Red Spot is 300 years old and twice the size of Earth. The new storm -- Red Spot Jr. -- is thought to be the result of a sudden warming on our solar system's largest planet. Dr. Imke de Pater of Berkeley University says some parts of Jupiter are now as much as six degrees Celsius warmer than just a few years ago.

Neptune's moon, Triton, studied in 1989 after the unmanned Voyageur probe flew past, seems to have heated up significantly since then. Parts of its frozen nitrogen surface have begun melting and turning to gas, making Triton's atmosphere denser.

Even Pluto has warmed slightly in recent years, if you can call -230C instead of -233C "warmer."

And I swear, I haven't left my SUV idling on any of those planets or moons. Honest, I haven't.

Is there something all these heavenly bodies have in common? Some one thing they all share that could be causing them to warm in unison?

Hmmm, is there some giant, self-luminous ball of burning gas with a mass more than 300,000 times that of Earth and a core temperature of more than 20-million degrees Celsius, that for the past century or more has been unusually active and powerful? Is there something like that around which they all revolve that could be causing this multi-globe warming? Naw!

They must all have congested commuter highways, coal-fired power plants and oilsands developments that are releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide into their atmospheres, too.

A decade ago, when global warming and Kyoto was just beginning to capture public attention, I published a quiz elsewhere that bears repeating in our current hyper-charged environmental debate: Quick, which is usually warmer, day or night?

And what is typically the warmest part of the day? The warmest time of year?

Finally, which are generally warmer: cloudy or cloudless days?

If you answered day, afternoon, summer and cloudless you may be well on your way to understanding what is causing global warming.

For the past century and a half, Earth has been warming. Coincidentally (or perhaps not so coincidentally), during that same period, our sun has been brightening, becoming more active, sending out more radiation.

Habibullah Abdussamatov of the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in St. Petersburg, Sami Solanki of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon of the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a host of the rest of the world's leading solar scientists are all convinced that the warming of recent years is not unusual and that nearly all the warming in the past 150 years can be attributed to the sun.

Solar scientists from Iowa to Siberia have overlaid the last several warm periods on our planet with known variations in our sun's activity and found, according to Mr. Solanki, "a near-perfect match."

Mr. Abdussamatov concedes manmade gasses may have made "a small contribution to the warming in recent years, but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance."

Mr. Soon showed as long ago as the mid-1990s that the depth of the Little Ice Age -- the coldest period in the northern hemisphere in the past 1,500 years -- corresponded perfectly with a solar event known as the Maunder Minimum. For nearly seven decades there was virtually no sunspot activity.

Our sun was particular quiet. And for those 60 to 70 years, the northern half of our globe, at least, was in a deep freeze.

Is it so hard to believe then that the sun could be causing our current warming, too?

At the very least, the fact that so many prominent scientists have legitimate, logical objections to the current global warming orthodoxy means there is no "consensus" among scientists about the cause.

Here's a prediction: The sun's current active phase is expected to wane in 20 to 40 years, at which time the planet will begin cooling. Since that is when most of the greenhouse emission reductions proposed by the UN and others are slated to come into full effect, the "greens" will see that cooling and claim, "See, we warned you and made you take action, and look, we saved the planet."

Of course, they will have had nothing to do with it.

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