Come on Tim ... stop picking on poor Rachel ... now I know I only put up Rachel's posts which mostly are reactions to Darth Art and Tim ... these bad boys are driving this poor girl crazy.

She wants to know why Tim would pick on her ... she didn't pick on him ... I can't stop laughing at these posts they are actually quite funny! 

Here you go:

Rachael', '', this, 0);">Rachael
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Date: Thu Mar 1 2:25 PM, 2007
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Quote | ReplyRE: Mercy to workers - patronize city restaurants once a week to support smoking ban

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Go get bent?  Not strange to me that you attack me like that and make reference to a 9-year-old. I didn't attack you like that, did I?  It makes no sense, just like the article in the paper. The other two hospitals had it right and didn't try to impose themselves on employees like the Mercy.  Why doesn't the mayor suggest that to all  his employees, or for that matter, Verizon and every other multi-employee business?  It's none of the employers business what any of its employees do, where they do it or why they do it.  How does the Mercy know if their employees already are not most of the patrons in the city?  It doesn't.  That's how looney that article is, and that's how political it is.  It's a set up by the Times, and the back end of it will show up soon. Patience. 

Hey, Stacy.  You won't get to write that "other" article, will ya'?  Somebody outsmart you folks, again.


I think what Tim was trying to say to you that you are acting like a child ...

I think an employer might frown on a few things ... one could be smoking ... but I don't think they would appreciate one being an alcoholic or drug addict ... and I'm thinking if your a pedaphile then well it could be bad for business ... there are many things that are an employers business ... smoking is one because it may cause the health insurance cost to rise ... so it is their business ... same with drug addiction and alcoholism ... these are all things that are added expenses for employers and depending on the situation ... one employees drug addiction could pose a financial burden to all employees if they are paying for group insurance ... there are many factors to look at why this would be the employers business what you do in yor personal life ...

God I wish I could post over there ... this is a dog fight I would love to be in!

I seem to remember watching a dateline episode, where an employer fired 2 of his employees for smoking in their own homes, and there was not a single thing that they could do about it, he even mandated having his employees tested for nicotine in their blood. As for the number of battered women in the ER, i have been to the er numerous times, with my daughter who has bad asthma, and don't recall anyone bruised or battered there. Third point if you choose not to eat in Scranton restaurants, then don't but she is making a mountain out of a molehill, typical DD behavior, always looking for a problem and never one SOLUTION

Ok now ... I have been watching it go back and forth between Tim and Rachel all day ... it was kind of like watching your favorite soap opera ... I knew that something like this would be happening as soon as Big Daddy got wind of it.

Joe Pilchesky', '', this, 0);">Joe Pilchesky



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Date: Thu Mar 1 5:22 PM, 2007
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Quote | ReplyRE: Mercy to workers - patronize city restaurants once a week to support smoking ban

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TIM wrote:

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Are you nuts. Of course it is. There are companies that will fire you if they find out you smoke. I dont't know where you work (if you work at all) but I Know most employers DO care about what their employees are up to. It is a privilage to work. You are not winning this at all. CMC and moses taylor did offer press releases about the city smoking ban commending the efforts of all parties involved.

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        You're kidding, right?  If that isn't among the most assinine posts ever put up here, I con't know which one was.  Hit the road with your bull****, you haven't posted a single logical or reasonable post yet.  You either don't have the brains you were born with or you're going out of your way to annoy as many people as possible with your nonsense.

See ya'.

But we all knew that this was coming didn't we?  I know that I did ... Welcome to the club Tim!

Two random thoughts on this topic...

Where, oh where is Les Spindler when it comes to DEFENDING the smoking ban?

I love the arugment that fattening food is equivalent to smoking. Even the worst fast food has some nutritional value...all  be it limited.  Smoking has no value, period.  Also, unlike smoking, eating fast food in moderation will not harm the average adult.  There is no such thing as smoking in moderation. 

But hey, if someone wants to smoke, that's their own business.  I just don't want to participate in the habit. 

Free Speech does't require a multi-paragrah disclaimer Mr. Pilchesky.

Banned for that load of crap? It's getting so that you can't even get banned for dishing out a good verbal butt whipping over there any more.

I love the new sig!

I need to ask a question here. I drive by Chick's every day at different times of the day and the parking lot is always full. I've made it a point to drive by Molly Brannigan's and the place looks like it is jumpin'. Mind you, there are a few people outside with their butts, but they don't look like they are suffering. I have driven by Farley's and Tink's - packed. The bars and eateries on Mulberry Street - still busy. I don't know about Whistle's because I never went in there before the owner showed his inner arse.

What the frig is the problem? Who is complaining about the ban since many business are still thriving?

I'm sympathetic towards any business out there trying to make a go of it these days...and unlike someone such as Janet Evans, I've always worked in the private sector, where competetion is the name of the game.  That said, sometimes we have to respond to a higher calling...a higher purpose...something that may not make complete economic sense but which is inherently RIGHT.  Scranton's smoking ban, in my opinion, falls into this category.

My hats off to the members of council (especially President Gatelli) for sticking to their guns and toughing this one out.  As the old saying goes...

"What is right is not always popular, what is popular is not aways right"

Free Speech does't require a multi-paragrah disclaimer Mr. Pilchesky.

His Girl Thursday wrote:

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I need to ask a question here. I drive by Chick's every day at different times of the day and the parking lot is always full. I've made it a point to drive by Molly Brannigan's and the place looks like it is jumpin'. Mind you, there are a few people outside with their butts, but they don't look like they are suffering. I have driven by Farley's and Tink's - packed. The bars and eateries on Mulberry Street - still busy. I don't know about Whistle's because I never went in there before the owner showed his inner arse.

What the frig is the problem? Who is complaining about the ban since many business are still thriving?

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The owner of Whistles is full of crap that the ban has affected his business.  I was there this past football season, before the smoking ban, and the place was deserted on a football sunday, when both the Eagles and Steelers were playing.  In past years, they would have been packed.  It seems to me that Whistles has been steadily losing business for quite some time before the smoking ban.  I think its the fact that their food SUCKS.

I'm not sure about the other places, because being a parent, I don't get out to bars all that often.  Brannigan's interests me, since its an Irish place (yes I'm Irish, and Catholic, and NOT connected, let Anti know), but I'm more inclined to go to the Banshee, since its locally owned, not a chain, and their food is great (although I wasn't too thrilled at their initial ignorance of the smoking ban). 

I never saw the attraction to Chick's Diner.  I ate there twice and thought the food was horrible, and the service was bad as well.  I wouldn't darken Chick's doorstep again, smoking ban or no smoking ban.  The Glider is much better.

Some of these places - you either love them or you hate them. I'm not a big fan of Chick's either. But at four in the morning and you're drunk as a skunk (twenty years ago) and you gotta have those fries and gravy... well, Chick's was the place. In it's day, Jenny's was where you wanted to be at four in the morning. Where else could you get a plateful of home made lasagna at the end of your early morning shift???

I am not that big of a sports fan, so Whistle's has never been a hot spot for me. I can count on one hand how many times I have been in the place. Farley's was too pretentious and Tink's too juvenile.

I was in Brannigan's once - eh - I wasn't impressed all that much. I enjoy the Banshee on the seventeenth of the month and a wee nip of the Irish. What it boils down to is this - I'm a good cook, so I would rather eat at home. I have way too much to lose if I get a DUI, so I do what little drinking I do at home, sprawled out (if need be) on my very own couch. And if I can't find my designated driver, I just curl up at the foot of the stairs.

Hmmm, all this and I don't stink like smoke when I finally climb between the sheets.