Bar customers may be tracked in Utah

I love conservatives' support for smaller government, don't you?

Conservatives are of great assistance in getting Big Government off our backs and out of our - hey, wait a minute!!! What's this???

Conservative lawmakers in Utah now want bar customers to be tracked in a database. Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups (R) wants a statewide database to track every person who enters a bar.

Utah is already said to be the only state in this fine land that requires customers to fill out an application and pay a fee just to enter a bar (though North Carolina seems to have a similar law).

The governor, however, won't support a database, because he's worried about the image that Utah's peculiar alcohol laws already create. After all, Utah is probably still the largest theocracy in North America.

As for the politicians who do support the database, maybe it's time they mind their own business and stop poking their noses into everyone's lives. Conservatives are the first to complain if a government official wants to regulate a powerful corporation, but they're all for regulating personal behavior.

When it comes to Allowed Clouds, their side has everyone else beaten hands-down.

(Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZtn1jsA5jQVU4RUnFTa48gFA0rAD964NEGG1)