Random Nuclear Strikes

Their intolerant views are enough to set a man to crime.

Oh, wait.

Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Committee in Springfield and told him, “What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous . . . it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!

“This is the Land of Lincoln where people believe in God,” Davis said. “Get out of that seat . . . You have no right to be here! We believe in something. You believe in destroying! You believe in destroying what this state was built upon.”

As the guy in the link says, this isn’t one you’ll be hearing about anytime soon on the national news.

From the “No Shit, Sherlock” file

It is tough to get my son to respect authority when he knows she breaks the law growing pot.

Unnamed Mother

The story at the above link breaks down like this: Son was caught playing hookie and followed it up with having a smart mouth, so mom threatened to send him off to “military school”. Kid believes her and decides to enact a preemptive strike by calling 911 about his mom’s personal pot growing operation happening in her bedroom closet.

Dumb and Dumber indeed.

Yes, Seattle enacted a $0.20 tax on all grocery bags last week. Yes, they called it an “environmental fee”. No, I don’t really care. Yes, I live in Tacoma.

You see, in the utopia that is supposed to Seattle, no one goes grocery shopping only once a week. They go every day or every other day. This way the owning of a couple of the preferred stupid little canvas bags actually works.

Wait until the ban on the little foam plates and saran wrap the meat products come in get banned. And then they’ll ban the butcher paper wrappings so no one can buy meat. And then everyone in utopia Seattle will be vegetables. I mean, vegetarians.

But back to the bags. Tolerant Seattle and their intolerance for paper bags, which are recyclable, and the plastic bags, which are biodegradable in sunlight, is merely hilarious for those of us who know not to live near crazy, full of itself government and the people who elect them. Personally, I’m encouraging all those who live outside the city limits to give me their plastic bags so that I can drop them out my truck window in the dark of night when I drive through town on my way to work.

My wife and I go shopping once a week and usually come home with 12-14 bags. In Seattle, that would be $2.40- $2.80 per trip extra, equals nearly $125 – $146 per year extra. Or we can spend $75 once to buy 15 canvas bags (provided that they’re only $5 each).

Oooh, that’s half price, right there. Or, since the wife and work outside of Seattle (even when we lived in Seattle) I can shop outside the city of Seattle, in Shoreline, Renton, Burien, Seatac, Tukwila or even Mercer Island, and not pay anything for my plastic bags.

The eco-socialists are always whining about how, because of our state sales tax, the poor are paying “more than their fare share” of the taxes. Oddly, when you point this new tax out, they say that this isn’t a whole lot extra.

The green fee is expected to generate $10 million, $2 million of which would go toward distributing reusable shopping bags, promoting them, and for other waste-prevention and environmental-education efforts.

That is a whole lot of “not a lot extra” right there.

The other $8 Million is going to me. Well, not all of it. Christalmighty, I would possibly be able to afford to live in Seattle again then. No, the other millions are going to pay for part of the new garbage contract.

The new 2009-2019 contract requires the fleet to be up to 2008 emissions standards and to run on either bio-diesel or CNG. Guess what, we don’t currently meet those specs and are in the process of buying and fitting 50 new trucks by summer and another 50 new trucks by January 2009. At $200,000 per truck, that is a lot of money, honey.

The rest of the money will come from an increase in the collection rates.

Remember: trash, recycle and yardwaste/foodwaste collection is mandatory in Seattle and comes with fines if your trash has recyclables or food waste in it. Basically, your can gets smaller and your bill gets bigger.

Oh, and the rats are lovin’ your non-lockable bins.

So, picture me laughing my ass off. I just got a raise and the utopian Seattle resident didn’t. Unless you count the raise in their food bill and their garbage bill.

One of the reasons I chose this job over the other two offers I had at the time is that there will always be garbage and someone will always be willing to pay to have someone pick it up.

They may have read the script version for Orwell’s Animal Farm, but the editor must have cut some parts out.

As the Screen Actors Guild gets set to begin contract negotiations with the major Hollywood studios — and tries to avert a crippling strike like the recent walkout by writers — the union first must address some strife within its own ranks.

Hollywood’s largest creative guild said late Tuesday it plans to begin labor negotiations with the major movie studios and television networks April 15, more than two months before its contract expires June 30.

Some actors want to prevent those who work less frequently from voting on the contract.

All actors are equal. And some are more equal than others.

I said before that the writer’s strike was one of the best things to happen to America. This would be at least two-fold as good.