Worst Cities for Personal Freedoms

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Worst Cities for Personal Freedoms
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Mon, 08-04-2008 - 9:01am




Chicago Worst City for Personal Freedoms






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Registered: 06-23-2008
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 12:27pm
I don't live in a "nanny" city but I lived in two:)
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Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 08-04-2008 - 8:30pm
I can't believe the twin cities, MN is not on that list.
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Registered: 01-02-2008
Tue, 08-05-2008 - 12:40am

"And for the food/other category, Reason looked at menu-labeling laws, pet codes, bans on trans fats, cabaret laws and other regulations of “a paternalistic nature.”"

Frankly, I don't see what is "nannyish" (or paternalistic) about menu-labeling laws. It isn't saying you CAN'T have that Awesome Blossom. It's just letting you know that it's a coronary and obesity waiting to happen if you do!!

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Wed, 08-06-2008 - 11:20pm
I live in a non-nanny city (Portland, #7). It's pretty laid back here and from what I know we have more strip clubs per capita than anywhere else. :) Woo hoo! They even get fully nude and you can drink liquor in there. The no smoking in bars ban goes into effect on January 1. We're also quite gay friendly here. In fact I've heard we have one of the highest number of lesbians in the country. I've also heard the highest, but not sure if that's true.
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Registered: 06-23-2008
Wed, 08-06-2008 - 11:36pm
It's a good thing I don't like awesome blossoms.lol
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Registered: 06-23-2008
Wed, 08-06-2008 - 11:39pm
Do they have male nude drunken dancers?? Reminds of my daughter telling my brother that she couldn't have any of his ice because it was "drunken ice".
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Registered: 01-04-2006
Thu, 08-07-2008 - 1:00am

Hmm, I know they have male strippers here, but I've never actually gone to see them so i can't tell you whether they're nude or not. There's a gay strip club downtown I've been to and the men were HOT! I don't remember anyone getting naked, no thongs or anything either (cheesy!), but it was a long time ago so my memory is fuzzy on it.

The "drunken ice" reminds me of my daughter when she was 3. She's always loved eating ice and we were with my family in Lake Tahoe during the summer. We went out for mexican food for dinner and my dad had a margarita on the rocks. He finished it but the glass was still sitting there with some ice in the bottom. When DD started eating some ice I didn't think anything of it. In a little while when she became a chatty cathy and started acting extra silly and energetic, I started wondering. Suddenly it dawned on my that she'd been eating the ice, and that even though it would have been a very, very, very small amount, there was still liquor on it. Yikes! Lol! Luckily it didn't have any lasting effects as she is now totally anti-alcohol (not because of that).

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Registered: 09-08-2006
Thu, 08-07-2008 - 8:10am

Strip clubs per capita and