Via Yahoo News we learn of the current problem – Women’s fight for the right to go topless:
Warning: Pixilated Boobies
OK, Whatever. Let them exercise their right. Next problem: Men keep staring at our chest!
The CA State Senate considers a weighty issue: The issue of tiny little fragile baby children lugging monstrously heavy textbooks to and from school in back packs loaded down with not only their books, but laptops, video games, soft drinks, bottled water, high fructose corn syrup, various genetically modified things, single-use plastic grocery bags and e-cigs. A senate staffer who asked to remain anonymous stated that Senators are looking into this “because of the potential health risks posed to children by performing actual physical exercise”.
The issue has been gaining momentum since ten years ago when the State School Board adopted weight standards for textbooks. It is common knowledge that textbooks have gotten heavier over the years; Schoolkids of earlier generations, say from the dawn of time until the California Legislature achieved permanent Democratic Majorities suffered no ill effects form carrying their books – in the 1960’s for example it was common to see children walking to and from school balancing ten or twelve textbooks stacked on top of their heads. Backpacks were unheard of. Textbooks of the day were lighter, most likely due to the high levels of extremely radioactive waste products used in their maufacture, a practice which was halted by Democratic administrations who cared more about the children than their own parents did. But the trade off is that now books are heavy. And the delicate flower children of today can’t be asked to do anything that may cause them to crack a sweat or harm their self esteem – and toting a heavy backpack makes a child feel weak. A child who feels weak feels bad, and gone are the days when you could give em a twinkie and a pat on the butt to make them feel better, because it is illegal. Yes, both of those things are illegal.
While the textbook weight standards are a logical first step, I suggest that in the ten years of their existence we have only seen the problem get worse in the perception of caring State Senators and the Chiroporactic lobbying groups that sponsor related legislation. I am calling for bold action and an end to limp wristed half measures. I am calling on the Senate to establish a commision to to compile a report on the feasability of establishing a study on creating a warning label for textbooks, backpacks and…hell, just put it on everything next to the Prop 65 warning:
Remember…it’s not stupid If It’s For The Children!
-CA screws everyone with carbon tax – wastes the money on bullet train
There is no crisis so grave that it cannot be solved with higher taxes. Or, in this case carbon offset fees. You see, global warming is so serious that we have come up with a scheme whereby industries that generate carbon emissions (industries that coincidentally drive our economy) will need to buy “offsets” to allow them to continue their carbon emissions. It’s a win-win! They get to pay to stay in business and the State gets a $1 billion payday! And you get to pay higher prices for electricity, gasoline and probabaly damn near everything you buy.
I think the mafia used to have a program like that: “youse gets to pay us and then youse don’t get your legs broke. Everybody wins.” Then the government arrested, prosecuted and jailed the gangsters. This is known as “eliminating the competition”.
The halls of the Capitol must be positively awash in the saliva of drooling legislators and lobbyists anticipating the new funding that awaits their pet projects. There’s money a-waitin’ to be spent! This week it was reported that as part of the budget agreement, California’s High Speed Rail would receive 25% of anticipated cap-and-trade revenue. Anticipated cap and trade revenue. We’re going to spend anticipated money on an imaginary train. We could just replace the state goverment with a Sim City game. Jerry Brown’s not gonna stand for this foolishness, right? He’s fiscal hawk! He wants a rainy day fund! Oh wait…the crazy train is Jerry Brown’s pet. He wanted 33% of the cap-and-trade “windfall” to go to the Fresno to Lodi express. Oh, snap – no adult in the room on this one.
$250 Million probably won’t pay for the paper clips when this boondoggle gets underway. This is like saying we need to spend $20 Billion to dig a giant hole to throw money in. But the good news is we get to keep throwing money into it…forever! And create hundreds of jobs! Because – transportation! Trains are the future!
Back in the 70’s when Richard Nixon (R) nearly caused the universe to end by awkwardly covering up some political dirty tricks in the Watergate scandal, there was an episode where it was found that some taped recordings of Oval Office conversations between Nixon and some of the Watergate players contained an 18 minute blank spot. Anyone familiar with 1970s technology of tape recording could conceive of a legitimate error possibly causing the blank, but foul play was immediately assumed. This conclusion was most likely correct, and Congress and the public cut Nixon no slack at all. When threatened with impeachment, Nixon resigned.
Today we learn that as the Congressional inquiry into possible collusion between the White House and the IRS to intimidate, harrass and persecute (and prosecute, for that matter) Republican and Conservative opposition groups, the IRS claims to have lost 2 years worth of e-mails between Lois Lerner and any groups outside of the IRS, such as the White House and Democrat Members of Congress. But, hey, no big deal. Accidents happen! I mean, what big companies and organizations ever take precautions against things like this? Certainly not the IRS! Besides – we can trust Barack Obama (D). See the (D)? OK then.
Nothing to see here…Move along
You don’t argue with an Aardvark
I did not forget (nor should you) the June 6th Anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy that was the beginning of the end of World War II. This year marked the 70th Anniversary. My heartfelt thanks go out to all who took part in any way, be they living or dead. Thank You.
They probably don’t teach much about World War II in schools these days. Young people would be wise to study this time period on their own, or you should help any young people you know to learn about it. There are excellent resources available, many decent documentaries on cable tv every day.These were times of true existential crises, not the puffed up pretend dangers of today. To learn about the past is to appreciate how good you have it today because people then had the strength to see things through to a positive conclusion. Virtually everyone sacrificed in some way and millions of non-combatants died. So: Remember!
cross posted at Men Out of Work Blog
Today we are learning that a bill in the California State Senate will require written or verbal consent between two students before engaging in sexual activity on campus. I’ll pause so you can let that sink in for a minute….the state will require two individuals to obtain written or verbal consent before having sex on campus. Nothing in there about body language.
SB 967 was introduced by Kevin DeLeon (D. Los Angeles) – wait – I thought it was the evil Republicans who wanted to legislate bedroom activity – in response to an alleged epidemic of sexual assaults on campuses nationwide. This is another example of the ability of California Democrats to hone in on a problem like a laser with logic so tightly reasoned there is no reasonable argument that can be made against their postion. It goes like this: there is an undisputed rape epidemic on our college campuses. Undisputed. Wait – you dispute it? You are pro-rape. The existing laws on the books regarding sexual misconduct are not working – we need another law. Problem solved. Your Welcome.
The proposed law is a virtually impenetrable (no pun intended) force field against reckless or unlawful college student sexual activity. The law only covers sex acts committed on campus. DIABOLICAL! No one will figure a way around that. It requires written or verbal consent. Aren’t most of these guys attorneys? The first thing you learn in pre-pre law (which is watching Law & Order) is that a verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. I’m surpised they don’t require a time stamp on that verbal agreement. Well, at least it’s for the children. It is for the children isn’t it? It’s gotta be. Yeah, it’s for the Children. What’s the matter? You don’t like children? Pro-rape child hater.
It’s a fact. The Washington Post says so in the article Female Named Hurricanes Kill More that Male Hurricanes Because People Don’t Respect Them, Study Finds. A study has found it to be so. Enraged at the disrespect shown them, even in the face of their multitasking superiority over their weaker, less inteligent male counterparts they have launched a campaign of death and destruction unlike any previously experienced by humankind aimed at garnering them the respect they so deserve, the respect they are entitled to. That’s what the study probably said…I didn’t read it. I don’t have time, I got a lot on my plate – these cat videos aren’t going to watch themselves.
The deadly practice of naming inanimate things after women has a long and …well a long history, and the results are sometimes beneficial in the long run. The most recent example was during WWII when the allies came up with a secret plan to increase the effectiveness of bombing raids against the axis powers by naming bombers after women – girlfriends, wives, or just sexy babes in general. It was believed that the enemy would not take thusly named aircraft seriously, and this disrespect would greatly increase the damage and casualties inflicted. And as we now know, “Operation Sexism Gambit” helped turn the tide.
As we face greater and greater crises in the world today I look to our leaders to once again harness this awesome power of The Rage Of Disrepected Female Named Inanimate Things (TRODFNIT) and use it unsparingly to rid the globe of the scourges of inequality, perceived inequality, hallucinatory disrespect, and unfairness *sob*. After all, Hell hath no fury like some inanimate thing named after a woman scorned.
Having been at this for a few months now, and looking back at the blog as a whole, I am thinking a few things over. One decision I am grappling with is whether I want to conitnue posting political content here. I do follow politics and have strong opinions. And the stronger my opinion, the stronger my impulse to write about it. Therein lies the rub – I don’t want to chase any potential readers away with stringent political commentary. It’s not you, it’s me. While I’m not ashamed of my opinions, I just want people to feel welcome here regardless of politcal stripe, and though I always assumed politics would be one of the subjects written about here, I did not intend this to be an overtly political blog. I’d really like to keep the atmosphere light around here. I’m open to hearing about it.
I’ll just quietly make my point and then go away.
When people (I include myself – I am a people too) talk about big government, they are often dismissed as paranoid crackpots. Well, I may be a paranoid crackpot but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong when I say that the Federal Governmant has just gotten too damn big, and it has insinuated itself into areas of life it has no business in. In a supposedly free society that is. If you think freedom is old fashioned then no problem, I guess.
I’m starting to rant…serenity now…serenity now!…better.
That is all. Thank you for your time. Good Day.