Posted by
Jon's Place on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:16:36 AM
Update: or wait wait there's more:
Alright a little more in-depth research. Did you know that California is in such dire straits that it is so dysfunctional that from last year to this the California Assembly has proposed 1,750 new laws in addition to nine constitutional amendments, or did you know the California Senate has proposed 1051 new laws and 13 constitutional amendments? No? neither did I. Why would I? I thought California in spite of over weaning preening intrusive government was coping reasonably well last year, but apparently the legislature has decided that just won't do, we aren't drowning enough in laws and regulations and need more to make us truly dysfunctional.
One proposed law is all in favor of cool colors for cars: AB 785
"This bill would revise the definition of "energy-efficient vehicle"
to include a highly reflective colored vehicle that meets other
specified requirements. The bill would define "highly reflective
colored vehicle" in this context to include vehicles painted with
white, metallic gold, or metallic silver exterior paint, as
specified, or with colors other than white, metallic gold, or
metallic silver if a specified study reveals that other highly
reflective colors have been developed. The bill would require the
department to procure , to the maximum extent possible,"
Now you can just smell a tax coming for "warm colored cars."
I'm sure there are more inane examples--just the global warming idiocy has inspired at least 27 (and that's just the assembly).
And of course there are the purely theatrical and useless e.g. AJR 8 introduced by
Assembly Member Leno and Coauthored by Assembly Member Lieber and Senator Torlakson.
"This measure would urge the Congress and the President of the
United States not to escalate United States involvement in Iraq or
increase troop levels, would urge the President to obtain explicit
approval from Congress to send more American troops to Iraq, and
would urge Congress to enact legislation prohibiting the President
from spending taxpayer dollars on an escalation in Iraq, as provided."
Here's an idea: how about for every law we pass we rescind two, and the Legislature stick to the state's business and not waste taxpayer money in grandstanding. Surely fewer laws would be a relief to the American people, and we do deserve some relief don't we?
I'm sure I have neglected some of the more foolish ideas, but then there is still plenty of time left in 2007 for me to glance here and there at the tomfoolery of California's legislature, and I promise to take a gander at their capers from time to time. But if you would like to look for your self here’s the place: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/legpubs-legindex.html
But my question to you is how many laws has your legislature proposed?
It is a Mad Mad World isn't it.
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How could I have neglected this golden nugget:
"Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday at the Capitol for disorderly conduct, shortly after saying she would run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosie
over the California Democrat's refusal to try to impeach President Bush...
"'The Democrats will not hold this administration accountable, so we have to hold the Democrats accountable,' Sheehan said outside of Conyers' office after the meeting. "And I for one am going to step up to the plate and run against Nancy
Pelosi.'"
http://www.townhall.com/news/us/2007/07/23/sheehan_arrested_in_impeachment_protestOn the one hand: promises promises, but on the other, it is getting impossible to sound the depths of left wing lunacy.
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Here's a gem (thanks to http://corner.nationalreview.com/) that bespeaks well that truth is way more fantastical than fiction:
"Hillary Clinton announced that she is not a big-government liberal but a 'modern progressive' that 'believes strongly in individual rights and freedoms.'” http://clubforgrowth.org/
I'm getting sea sick.
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Having finished Moby Dick it didn’t take long for Al Gore to come to mind."
If I were on the Good Ship Democrat, I would be Starbuck’s late offspring pining to excess at our mad captain’s grotesque mad obsession. But being of a different genetic disposition, I have proved no Starbuck and have quite quit the Good Ship Democrat by slipping away in broad daylight on a smaller but more able skiff and have headed for Key West, or some such. Unfortunately, Ahab’s genes seem to have carried forth to our own generation in the person of Gore (but somehow the perspicacity was lost, once again proving that genetic disposition looses as much good as it looses bad), whose madness will if followed stave not just the Good Ship Democrat, but too will ram the Good Ship Earth into the dark ages.
To hear this mad man in his own words go here: http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1539318&vid=88592
To have a dose of reality go here:
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/
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So the other day I was waking-up to a good cup of coffee, a smart cigar, and was reading bits of news here and there and what do I spy? a ten dollar tax on cigars (upper end of the tax). Now, I had heard on the Limbaugh show and again on the Prager show that such a levy was being considered, but having missed the details, I never imagined so draconian a predation as the Democrats propose. Again, there is no bane in Western society like that of puritanical humanism, having neither humility nor the least empathy for humanity, it is wholly cruel in its sanctimonious austered righteousness.
And what would a ten dollar tax do? Push cigar smokers to cigarettes (are they losing money and therefore the ability to adequately budget on the backs of cigarette smokers?) and make cigars a status symbol of the posh crowd. Yep, Democrat elites are control freaks and avariciously govern their own privilege, as ensuring their own status by thieving liberty from the rest of us:
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHILDRENS_INSURANCE?
Note: cigarette smokers are not immune from the takings as there will be a new one-dollar tax on a pack of cigarettes. Yes, I know, everyone knows that smokers are evil and taking money away from them is always justified in a Mad Mad World.
And note that in the name of children control freaks believe any piracy is justified.
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Let’s see what else have these wunderkinds been up to: oh yes, from the files of Payton Place, Payton Place deja vu, A Summer Place in the Sun, propaganda flicks of the worst sort comes the deja vu “we suspect those evil Americans of religious profiling“; or titled “better that a few thousand Americans are murdered” than that someone might, just might be a bit embarrassed by being fingered for suspicious behavior--hey who cares if this gives CARE (
http://www.anti-cair-net.org/; by way of Mark Levin’s site http://www.marklevinshow.com) a club to beat over the head of the average American who would like to fly, travel, go shopping in relative peace, and would prefer to not have to put up with the agitating, probing antics of malicious agents plying the ground for the real thing, Jihadi killers, or for that matter smacking down Jihadi murderers before they can blow themselves and us up: http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/NATION/70719001/1001
Is this a Mad Mad World or what?
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Not mad enough for you--well we can go local too. From the scumbag annuals there comes this: a wretched creature so bereft of humanity that he would make the school masters in a Bronte or Dickens novel seem downright humane is a man, Bradley Berry, the McMinnville district attorney,
that should be, metaphorically speaking, tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail: http://dennisprager.townhall.com/blog.aspx#31b86fb2-015c-425c-8524-a80ef23eafa3
Quoting from SUSAN GOLDSMITH of The Oregonian (linked above):
“Now, Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, both 13, face the prospect of 10 years in juvenile detention and a lifetime on the sex offender registry in a case that poses a fundamental question: When is horseplay a crime?”
Yep, as I and other kids were routinely admonished to quit playing "grab..." by fathers, mothers, teachers and sundry has now become in the eyes of idiots, pure idiots, a felony. Incensed, me? You bet. But Mr. Prager puts it much better than I, and I suggest you listen to his take:
http://www.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=5201db53-69bb-4b5c-ac97-
And for other offerings:
http://www.townhall.com/talkradio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3
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I need a hike.