Comments on: Merritt’s Country Cafe an Example of Progressive Change (omelet review) http://earthwormenvy.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/merritts-country-cafe-an-example-of-progressive-change-omelet-review/ Travel tales, video podcasts, poetry, omelet reviews and sustainability. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:38:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: earthwormenvy http://earthwormenvy.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/merritts-country-cafe-an-example-of-progressive-change-omelet-review/#comment-8249 earthwormenvy Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:39:40 +0000 http://earthwormenvy.wordpress.com/?p=568#comment-8249 The article was not so much for or against the existing Idaho smoking laws but how the smoking laws can be used as a template to regulate traffic to lower greenhouse emissions. Luckily we live in a state where laws can be reversed for those of you who like to smoke indoors and eat at the same time. In the mean time Boise has plenty of excellent our door dining that allows for smoking. For those of you who would like more info about business rights and politics check out the Libertarian Party website http://www.lp.org/ Here is one of my favorite quotes about government. Wendell Berry, author of The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture says, “If you’ve got 300 million people, most of whom produce nothing for themselves or for the community and to whom everything has to be brought from somewhere else, then there’s no way you’re going to have limited government, or limited anything. All organizations feed upon the helplessness and ignorance and passivity of the people.” The article was not so much for or against the existing Idaho smoking laws but how the smoking laws can be used as a template to regulate traffic to lower greenhouse emissions. Luckily we live in a state where laws can be reversed for those of you who like to smoke indoors and eat at the same time. In the mean time Boise has plenty of excellent our door dining that allows for smoking. For those of you who would like more info about business rights and politics check out the Libertarian Party website http://www.lp.org/
Here is one of my favorite quotes about government.
Wendell Berry, author of The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture says, “If you’ve got 300 million people, most of whom produce nothing for themselves or for the community and to whom everything has to be brought from somewhere else, then there’s no way you’re going to have limited government, or limited anything. All organizations feed upon the helplessness and ignorance and passivity of the people.”

]]> By: Kevin http://earthwormenvy.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/merritts-country-cafe-an-example-of-progressive-change-omelet-review/#comment-8240 Kevin Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:00:37 +0000 http://earthwormenvy.wordpress.com/?p=568#comment-8240 How convenient for you that the pendulum "swinging back into balance" happens to be a wrecking ball smashing the rights of business owners. Why should good people, business owners and smokers, have to submit to the personal preferences of this author? Where does the madness of such a deprivation of human liberty end? Just because such laws may make it may be "nice" for non-smokers does not give one the right to trample on the rights of others. If so many people prefer the smoke free restaurants, why doesn't someone open their own smoke-free establishment? If people like it so much, such businesses that voluntarily ban smoking should flourish, and both parties would be happy. However, if enough demand does not exist for such establishments, it is the non-smokers who either need to adjust to a little second hand smoke, or stay in their own homes where they can ban smoking to their hearts content, on their own property. Smoking bans and "sin-taxes" on cigarettes are so un-American it is hard to believe they are so prevalent. It is a slippery slope that will eventually lead to bans on those omelets and sugar packets mentioned in this article. How convenient for you that the pendulum “swinging back into balance” happens to be a wrecking ball smashing the rights of business owners. Why should good people, business owners and smokers, have to submit to the personal preferences of this author? Where does the madness of such a deprivation of human liberty end? Just because such laws may make it may be “nice” for non-smokers does not give one the right to trample on the rights of others. If so many people prefer the smoke free restaurants, why doesn’t someone open their own smoke-free establishment? If people like it so much, such businesses that voluntarily ban smoking should flourish, and both parties would be happy. However, if enough demand does not exist for such establishments, it is the non-smokers who either need to adjust to a little second hand smoke, or stay in their own homes where they can ban smoking to their hearts content, on their own property.

Smoking bans and “sin-taxes” on cigarettes are so un-American it is hard to believe they are so prevalent. It is a slippery slope that will eventually lead to bans on those omelets and sugar packets mentioned in this article.

]]> By: Casey http://earthwormenvy.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/merritts-country-cafe-an-example-of-progressive-change-omelet-review/#comment-7723 Casey Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:41:11 +0000 http://earthwormenvy.wordpress.com/?p=568#comment-7723 Kind of in-apropos, but I'm drooling a little thinking of the scones at Merritt's. I'm surprised it's been taken over by the kids--I used to sober up there frequently, but it's been quite a few years. Kind of in-apropos, but I’m drooling a little thinking of the scones at Merritt’s. I’m surprised it’s been taken over by the kids–I used to sober up there frequently, but it’s been quite a few years.

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