Where do we start today? Idiots of the world unite!

Please unite, it's very difficult sometimes to know what part of who's being a moron today when you have to pick and choose between so many options.

Ah why not cover something local for a change?

Last night we are on our way back from the MIL's house (that's mother in law) and for the last 3 days there's been heavy enough smoke over the area to blanket us in a fog. So as we pass and I realize that yet again we're going to have to run the baby through this into the house, I think to myself "Thank goodness Beaumont implemented a smoking ban because it's sooo much worse than this!" I thought by their little smoking ban they were saying "we want clean air". Well where the fuck is it? I thought by banning smoking they were all yelling "We want clean poison free air!" Ok, then WTF? Ok ok, let me get this straight:

You want "clean air" and so ban smoking from places you don't HAVE to go to and that noone HAS to work at (there were many non smoking establishments, I know because I kept a list of where NOT to go and they all needed help because we are still recovering from those in the hurricane last year too scared to return to the area), and where's the damn clean air? You mean to tell me it's not acceptable for my ONE cigarette (or in the case of a restaurant, 10 people's ONE cigarette each) in favor of a plant that is burning who knows what and putting out enough air pollution to BLANKET THE AREA IN FOG? And of course there's not just one plant around here, no no no, there are MANY. And the plant puts out enough smoke that you have no choice but to breathe it in, NO CHOICE at all. It even gets into your house. Ok ok, so we can't smoke in places your too stupid to vote with your feet and not come to, but apparently we should all breathe deep in our homes of a type of pollution not even matched in car exhaust? Talk about NO CHOICE, talk about being FORCED to inhale unwanted toxins. I never ever forced anyone to breathe in cigarette smoke, at no time have I ever waited until people were home and then pumped thier house with smoke....but I'M the asshole? It goes to show you, this is not, nor has it ever been for the health of anyone. This is all about we don't want you here. But you do want me to fund your child's education?

Texas raised the tobacco tax simply for child's education. Don't try that guilt trip bullshit on me, emotional blackmail "but you can't object cuz it's fer da chilren". You know what that means, because you don't smoke you obviously don't support education. hmm..gonna go by a t-shirt...

I want to know Beaumont, where's the clean air promised to all the inhabitants of this area? No smoking in Beaumont, that's automatic clean air..where is it?