Anyone remember the days of CB’s, Citizen Band Radio’s limited to mere 4 watts of transmitting power and whatever kind of antenna and/or  tower you wanted to put together. CB’s were in just about every home in the country and mobile cb’s in just about every vehicle on the road.  Everyone had their favorite channels to talk on and breaks would come fast and furious over the public airways.  Profanity happened on occasion although it was frowned upon by the FCC, and for few years it was all the rage.  On a good day during heavy skip you could sometimes even reach as far away as  other states and on a very good day even Australia.  Like all fads though CB’s have mostly died out and  went  to CB heaven although a few are still in operation.  All of that changed with a computer and broadband replacing the old CB in almost every home.  Now you can video chat (live video and audio) with anyone in the world that has a computer, web cam and internet connection.

And it didn’t stop at the computers in the home, moved right on into the tiny little cellular phone barely as big as a credit card and only a few millimeters thicker.  In the old you had to pull the map out of the glove department to keep track of where you were and which route to take to get to your destination.  These days just punch in the destination on  the trusty lil ole cell phone and through the magic of GPS (Global Positioning Satellite), have a visual display of the route displayed on the tiny little screen  and voice turn by turn directions as well.

Americans increasingly unhappy with their work

Little Rock Arkansas sure is becoming a damned fine place to avoid and stay away from. Nothing but wacko Anti Smoking crusaders there taking the basic rights of those in it. A case in point The Little Rock Housing Authority

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=96933&catid=2

Can’t smoke on the hospital grounds, can’t smoke on the bus’s, can’t smoke on the planes, the city parks or even the trains, can’t even smoke in your own apartment when you move into Cumberland Towers or receive rent assistance through The Little Rock Housing Authority.  I as a smoker sure as hell wouldn’t  go or move to a place where I couldn’t smoke in my own apartment (in fact I wouldn’t even go there on a short visit).  I as a smoker sure as hell wouldn’t visit any city or place where I couldn’t light up and on the rare occasions I do have to go to as unwelcoming a place as Little Rock has become I make it as short and brief as possible.  I as a smoker sure as hell wouldn’t have dinner in a place or even a hamburger (regardless of how 5 star rated it is even if I had the money to do so) where I couldn’t light up after a meal to enjoy with my coffee.  Tourism is down, Revenue, is down and tobacco taxes are through the roof, Anti Smokers regardless of how bitter the pill and lead ball it is in their stomachs have to shoulder a large part of the blame for lack of Tourism and lost Revenue and all of the blame for Tobacco Taxes going through the roof.  The state surplus has fallen far short of the projected amount generated by increased Tobacco Taxes, but cold hard reality can and is sometimes an extremely harsh teacher and plays favorites among no one.

From TodaysTHV:

Americans increasingly unhappy with their work

It used to be that people could light up and get rid of some of the job stress through smoking and brief social interaction with co-workers now they can’t even do that because of the Anti Smoking crusaders force feeding their stinking rights down everyone throats. Some of the job stress can be directly traced back to sub-conscious resentment, tension and anger towards anti smoking crusaders in job place.