FBI put nation on alert to “…highly credible terrorist threat”. Is there no heinous act so loathsome to which those demented Al-Quaeda bastards will not stoop? Follow the link to learn what horrible end is in store for us.
Did I say common sense? Sorry, I meant stupidity. This week the Senate Health Commitee approved SB1000 which would require warning labels on sodas and other sugary beverages sold in California. California will be the first in the nation! The label would read:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING: Drinking
beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay.
Huh. Who knew? The next thing you know the government or someone will come out with a study that says Americans like Pizza or something. But I digress. We Californians are fortunate that we have such wise stewards in our legislature who realize that Utopia cannot be realized without sufficient warning labels. We can’t credit them for all the warning labels California requires today though, the most ubiquitous of which are the “Prop 65” warning labels which you will find on everything in the state. Of course, I am exagerating (WRONG! I’m not!). Here a little backgound is in order: California has something called The Ballot Initiative Process. The idea is that We The People can bypass the Legislature if we choose, draft our own laws (“propositions”) and put them to a vote of the people. If they pass they become law. Power to The People! Right On! However… sometimes there is an idea so stupid even our legislators realize the can’t have their fingerprints on it, so they draft their own “proposition” and put it on the ballot. In this state, if you can sell something in Los Angeles and the SF Bay Area then you get to shove it down everyone else’s throat. This is how we got Prop 65, the purpose of which was to warn people of scary toxic chemicals that would jump out and murder them unless they were warned. Oh, and Clean Water! Surely you’re not against clean water? Anyway, now we have this warning on every building and product in California:
WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
Turns out that everything causes cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm to one degree or another. True Story: one summer at Lake Tahoe I was waiting for a table at a restuarant. It’s Tahoe in the summer, so there are a lot of tourists from out of state and while we’re all sitting there, a young woman in another party notices the Prop65 warning posted at the entrance to the restaurant. Yes, there is one of these posted at every restaurant in California. She became alarmed; OMG look at this! We better go somewhere else! We’ll get cancer if we eat here! (on the shores of pristine Lake Tahoe, mind you). The locals started laughing and told her not to worry, that warning is on everything in this state. There are two things to take away from this if you’re a California State Senator reading this. First, “the locals started laughing” and second “that warning is on everything in this state”.
Prop 65 was passed in 1986. Here it is 2014 and we’re still figuring out which warning labels to put on what. That’s a lot of time wasted, so I’d like to offer this suggestion. Let’s just make one warning label for everything so we can be done with this and move on.
My suggestion:
You’re Welcome.
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…that in order to uphold our policy of inclusivity, we must exclude you. This is the short version of what passes for politically correct logic today. In the name of inclusivity, diversity and tolerance, one must adhere stricly to groupthink or risk exclusion. Heresy will not be tolerated!
Mozilla: “We Believe In Openness & That No One Should Be Persecuted For The Beliefs They Hold, No Matter What They Are.”
This was the reasoning behind Mr. Eich’s “forced resignation”. No irony intended, apparently. Once upon a time people could disagree with one another, and then go about living and working together. A person was entitled to their opinion, this being a free country and all. Today if one disagrees with progressive ideas or policy, then that person is condemned as a bigot, hatemonger or worse; and that person must be punished – threatened with physical harm and/or have their livelihood taken away, branded as a pariah. In a society that values free expression and freedom of speech there should exist a marketplace of ideas, where competing opinions are compared, argued and debated using evidence such as facts, logic and history among other things. Today it is more and more evident that the marketplace of ideas has become for the Left a battlefield of ideas where the objective is not to change an opponent’s mind but to silence and destroy them. This is a dangerous place to be regardless of the opinions you hold because what is in fashion today may be out of fashion tomorrow.
Beware those who preach tolerance and divesity, yet practice neither.
…whether you are liberal or conservative, democrat or republican (or anything else).
A sitting Supreme Court Justice asserts that the 1st Ammendment is a “collective” right that exists not to prevent government abuses, but to ensure that ”public opinion could be channeled into effective governmental action.” Scary enough. Even scarier is that 3 other sitting Justices agreed with that opinion. The initial Justice is Steven Breyer and the quotes are from his dissenting opinion in the recent McCutcheon decision which has to do with campaign contributions and the constitutionality of limits thereto.
It is amazing to what lengths Progressive Liberals will go in order to justify their collectivist Oligarchich schemes. Breyer’s assertions stand the First Ammendment on it’s head. If the purpose if the 1st Ammendment were to ensure that the “collective” (read “majority” or better yet “mob”) could channel their public opinion into effective government action why would it start out with “Congress Shall Make No Law…”? Sounds like the intent was to impede “effective government action”.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” – First Ammendment
If you have read the Federalist Papers you should understand that the founder’s intent was the exact opposite of Breyer’s assertion of the right of collective speech in order to bring about effective governement action. The founders feared “the tyranny of the majority” and therefore wanted to inhibit any government action unless it could be broadly agreed upon by all parties after being rigorously weighed and debated. The intent was protection of the rights of the individual. Not exactly the opposite, as Breyer asserts. And the fact that four of nine Justices support this opinion should scare you because all of our individual inalienable rights apparently are hanging by a thread.
According to The White House Blog (of course the White House has a blog. Doesn’t eveybody?) the fact that people were lining up across the nation to meet the enrollment deadline for Obamacare is a good thing.
People wait in line outside the Centro San Vicente at 8061 Alameda to sign up for the Affordable Care Act – credit El Paso Times
The White House can’t be that clueless. Americans will line up gladly to be the first ones to own the latest hot gadget or book. They don’t gladly line up to be the last ones. If these people were excited about the prospect of signing up they would have lined up in December 2013. They have only lined up at the last minute because there is a hypothetical gun to their head – this is their last chance to avoid a penalty. That’s like saying all those people lined up at the post office at midnight every April 15th are doing so because they just can’t wait to pay their taxes. Oh…hold on. They did wait. Just like these people. They waited as long as possible for their sh*t sandwich. And the sight of Americans lined up by order of the Government is not a good thing.
It’s for your own good…if you know what I mean (and I think you do)
UCSB professor assaults pro-life activists in University’s Free Speech Area resulting in misdemeanor charges. How tolerant.
Full story here, but the short version is that on this past March 4th, some members of a pro-life group called Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust (hereafter referred to as “survivors”) were at The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) at what I guess you’d call a “protest”. There were a few of them staked out in the quad area of the campus known as “The Arbor” handing out literature and holding graphic pictures showing the effects of late term abortions. You know what I mean, dead babies. A UCSB professor named Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist studies) came along and was incensed. First a heated verbal exchange began between the professor and some students, and the survivors. Miller-Young then ripped one of the signs out of a survivor’s hands and ran off with it. Two of the survivors, sisters Joan and Thrin Short, followed after her trying to get their sign back while recording video on a smartphone. In the struggle for the sign and as one of the students tride to take the smartphone from Thrin the altercation got physical. The professor and the few students she was accompanied by got in an elevator with the sign which was later found in the professor’s office destroyed. The UCSB Police investigated and later determined that Miller-Young had broken the law.
I will say up front that I am pro-life and so I am pre-disposed to being sympathetic to the pro-life side here, but that is not my point. If you believe in Free Speech then you believe that the people you disagree with have the right to express their opinions. I find it ironic that on a University of California campus where are offered courses of study in all manner of nonsense (i.e. pornography, sex work, feminist & queer theory) in the name of academic freedom that the exercise of free speech is not welcome in a so-called free speech area. How tolerant of them.
Here in Northern California today it is sunny and in the 70’s. Not trying to brag, just making a point. If you live in another part of the country or the world it may be warmer or colder, wetter or drier. The weather will change wherever I am or wherever you are. It’s going to happen, only Bond villains and certain Superheroes can do anything about it. By that I mean no one can do anything about it. Where am I going with this?
Here’s where. I am a Anthropogenic Global Warming Denier. Just call me Galileo Galilei. No, I did not say simply Global Warming Denier, I added Anthropogenic which means “induced by man”. In the title and the opening paragraph I used climate and weather interchangeably when technically they are two different things. HOWEVER…the weather is a microcosm of the climate and they share charactersitics. The Climate is a system made up of many smaller weather systems. So Climate = big picture; Weather = lots of small pictures that make up the big picture. And here are some of the dots I have connected to arrive at my opinion.
The single greatest influence on earth’s climate is that big yellow thing in the sky.
IN THE SKY!! I said big yellow thing IN THE SKY!
That’s better.
Not happy with the weather? Don’t worry, it’ll change. Not happy with the climate? Same thing. Things change. The earth started out as a hot ball of gas then cooled on it’s own. The dinosaurs were not responsible for their own demise. Nature will take it’s course and as it has been shown the creatures that are capable of adaptation will survive, those incapable of adaptation will die out and become extinct or if a situation devlopes that is impossible to adapt to then it’s curtains for all. Man did not invent the processes – they have been going on long before we arrived (evolved? sprouted? were dropped off by aliens? whatever.) and they will continue regardless of our continued existence. Indeed, if it were possible for mankind to influence the climate by varying carbon emissions then the result of limiting emissions could also catastrophic if the earth were entering, unbeknownst to us, a (natural) cooling period. A reduction of our carbon footprint would exacerbate (if the carbon theory is correct) the cooling perhaps causing an ice age which would have a devastating effect on agriculture and food production possibly leading to global famine and economic collapse. So we’re screwed either way. I say let nature take it’s course. And if anyone tells you the solution to any problem is communism and higher taxes, you should mock them mercilessly.
Did I mention that it’s nice and sunny here today? I believe I did.
Yeah, I thought so.
Mummified Michigan Woman Seemingly Voted In the Afterlife, Records Show.
Nothing to see here…move along.
Let us stipulate that California is a lovely place to live. And further let us agree that people are free to believe whatever they like. But it gets harder and harder to stay here due to the fact that some of the people in power here believe some of the stupidest things. Among the majorities in the city councils of our most populous cities, and in the Democratic majorities in both houses of our state legislature there are, in my opinion some seriously fuzzy headed thinkers. Which in and of itself should not pose a problem, since as I stated earlier I believe they are free to believe what they wish. The problem comes when they deign to impose their fallacies on everyone in the name of their utopian thinking.
There is a plan afoot to ban plastic shopping bags – First they came for the paper shopping bags and I said nothing, because I preferred plastic. Now there is a bill in the state assembly that will impose a statewide ban on disposable plastic shopping bags. Because they take up to much room in the landfill or something. THERE IS NO GOOD REASON TO DO THIS (caps intended). If you believe there is, you are wrong. Never mind that environmentally friendly reusable shopping bags cause the spread of e. coli, norovirus and salmonella. This constitutes a serious public health risk.
Public Enemy #1
Now their sights are set on plastic water bottles – the San Francisco city council has banned the sale of plastic water bottles on municipal property and will pursue a city wide ban. For no reason other than some people don’t like these and so you shouldn’t either. Oh, they have their reasons, but they are nonsensical. Supervisor David Chiu’s reason is that it takes 1,000 years for 1 bottle to bio-degrade!!!!!! That’s a long time! I have an idea that makes just as much sense. Just pass a law stating that a year will now be 365,000 days long. Now those pesky bottles will degrade in only a single year. That’s more like it! Or we could recycle them. I wonder how many years that takes….oh, never mind.
There is no aspect of your life that is too profound or too trivial that a do-gooder won’t step in and tell you how you must do it, or that you can’t do it. And when their utopia is finally realized it is certain to be hell on earth. Because every single person will be oppressed to one degree or another when all that is not forbidden is mandatory.