{"id":431,"date":"2014-04-11T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=431"},"modified":"2014-04-11T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:30:55","slug":"more-common-sense-from-ca-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/more-common-sense-from-ca-state-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"More &#8220;Common Sense&#8221; from CA State Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/more-common-sense-from-ca-state-senate\/\" data-text=\"More &#038;%238220;Common Sense&#038;%238221; from CA State Senate\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Did I say common sense? \u00a0Sorry, I meant stupidity. \u00a0This week the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publichealthadvocacy.org\/resources\/warninglabel\/SB1000_HealthCommittee_PressRelease_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Health Commitee approved SB1000 <\/a>which would require warning labels on sodas and other sugary beverages sold in California. \u00a0California will be the first in the nation! \u00a0The label would read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING: Drinking <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Huh. \u00a0Who knew? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuanaenterprises.com\/wordpress\/?p=130\" target=\"_blank\">The next thing you know the government or someone will come out with a study that says Americans like Pizza or something.<\/a>\u00a0 But I digress. \u00a0We Californians are fortunate that we have such wise stewards in our legislature who realize that Utopia cannot be realized without sufficient warning labels. \u00a0We can&#8217;t credit them for all the warning labels California requires today though, \u00a0the most ubiquitous of which are the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Proposition_65_(1986)\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Prop 65&#8221; warning labels<\/a> which you will find on everything in the state. \u00a0Of course, I am exagerating (WRONG! I&#8217;m not!). \u00a0Here a little backgound is in order: California has something called The Ballot Initiative Process. \u00a0The idea is that We The People can bypass the Legislature if we choose, draft our own laws (&#8220;propositions&#8221;) and put them to a vote of the people. \u00a0If they pass they become law. \u00a0Power to The People! \u00a0Right On! \u00a0However&#8230; sometimes there is an idea so stupid even our legislators realize the can&#8217;t have their fingerprints on it, \u00a0so they draft their own &#8220;proposition&#8221; and put it on the ballot. \u00a0In this state, if you can sell something in Los Angeles and the SF Bay Area then you get to shove it down everyone else&#8217;s throat. \u00a0This 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. \u00a0Oh, and Clean Water! \u00a0Surely you&#8217;re not against clean water? \u00a0Anyway, now we have this warning on every building and product in California:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer\u00a0\u00a0and birth defects\u00a0\u00a0or other reproductive harm.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Turns out that <em>everything<\/em> causes cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm to one degree or another. \u00a0True Story: one summer at Lake Tahoe I was waiting for a table at a restuarant. \u00a0It&#8217;s Tahoe in the summer, so there are a lot of tourists from out of state and while we&#8217;re all sitting there, a young woman in another party notices the Prop65 warning posted at the entrance to the restaurant. \u00a0Yes, there is one of these posted at <em>every restaurant in California<\/em>. \u00a0She became alarmed; OMG look at this! \u00a0We better go somewhere else! \u00a0We&#8217;ll get cancer if we eat here! (on the shores of pristine Lake Tahoe, mind you). \u00a0 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&#8217;re a California State Senator reading this. \u00a0First, &#8220;the locals started laughing&#8221; and second &#8220;that warning is on everything in this state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Prop 65 was passed in 1986. \u00a0Here it is 2014 and we&#8217;re still figuring out which warning labels to put on what. \u00a0That&#8217;s a lot of time wasted, so I&#8217;d like to offer this suggestion. \u00a0Let&#8217;s just make one warning label for everything so we can be done with this and move on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My suggestion:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?attachment_id=432\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-432\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-432\" alt=\"CA warning\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CA-warning-248x300.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CA-warning-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CA-warning-124x150.jpg 124w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CA-warning.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>You&#8217;re Welcome.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Did I say common sense? \u00a0Sorry, I meant stupidity. \u00a0This week the Senate Health Commitee approved SB1000 which would require warning labels on sodas and other sugary beverages sold in California. \u00a0California will be the first in the nation! \u00a0The label would read: STATE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}