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This quote is a real killer, if you’ll pardon the pun…
This quote is a real killer, if you’ll pardon the pun… The Mayor (last paragraph) is quoted as saying
he is “”… deeply saddened that the first smoking-ban murder occurred in our town,” Saruhanli Mayor Veli Yalcin told Hurriyet. “They either shouldn’t have outlawed smoking or they should have outlawed alcohol along with smoking.”
Uhm, so he isn’t saddened enough to say that the poor man lost his life over this but that this is the ‘first’ murder of its kind and that it happened to have to be in HIS town?? HUH?
I’m getting too old…
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090731/odds/odd_us_smoking_odd
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090731/odds/odd_us_smoking_odd
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090731/odds/odd_us_smoking_odd
“Smoking-ban murder”
2 hours, 27 minutes ago
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A restaurant owner in southwest Turkey was shot dead after he tried to prevent his customers from smoking to comply with a new law on the use of tobacco indoors, Hurriyet daily said on Thursday.
A fight broke out after Hidir Karayigit, 46, ordered a group of customers to extinguish their cigarettes when they began smoking at his “meyhane,” a traditional restaurant that serves alcohol, in the town of Saruhanli, Hurriyet said.
One of the customers shot Karayigit four times after he took away the group’s cigarettes, said witness Hamza Havutcu, Karayigit’s business partner who was also shot and wounded.
Turkey’s government on July 19 introduced a nationwide ban on indoor smoking, including bars and restaurants, despite the fact that half of Turks aged between the ages of 15 and 49 smoke; one of the highest rates in the world.
“I’m deeply saddened that the first smoking-ban murder occurred in our town,” Saruhanli Mayor Veli Yalcin told Hurriyet. “They either shouldn’t have outlawed smoking or they should have outlawed alcohol along with smoking.”
(Writing by Ayla Jean Yackley; Editing by Jon Hemming)
I liked CapricornOne too… and now that I’ve read this, I remember those questions too… Better get a’crackin’ and see what’s out there on the ‘net in terms of answers or more theories…but in the meantime, I rememeber exactly where I was and what we were doing when man landed on the moon…
I liked CapricornOne too… and now that I’ve read this, I remember those questions too… Better get a’crackin’ and see what’s out there on the ‘net in terms of answers or more theories…but in the meantime, I rememeber exactly where I was and what we were doing when man landed on the moon…
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/07/20/whoopi_on_the_moon/index.html
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/07/20/whoopi_on_the_moon/index.html
Whoopi Goldberg: Was the moon landing a hoax?
This morning on “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg celebrated the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 by sharing a little cup of crazy. Noting that she’s a fan of “Capricorn One,” the 1978 film about a faked landing on Mars, she goes on to offer a few favorites from the conspiracy theorist handbook: “Who shot the footage?” she asks, and no, she doesn’t appear to be kidding. “Why is the flag rippling? There’s no air.” Barbara Walters gently redirects her with the patience of a woman who spent years arguing with Star Jones, but the brief segment makes two things clear: Whoopi is apparently a little more unhinged than we realized. And somebody has not been watching “Myth Busters.” (via Real Clear Politics)
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