People on the left have accused those on the right of trying to control their lives through intrusive laws for years. On closer examination, it is obvious the reverse is much more accurate.
A prime example of this is the city of San Francisco. The city’s board of supervisors is entertaining a motion to ban sales of all live animals inside the city except those used for human food except fish. For example, you could buy goldfish, but not a puppy; you could go down to the market and buy a live crab, as long as you promise to eat it and not put it into a fish tank; left unclear is whether it would be ok to buy a fluffy bunny to feed your python.
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This follows on the heels of a failed effort to ban male circumcision (even if for religious reasons as in the cases of Jews & Muslims), and successful bans on Happy Meals containing toys, plastic grocery bags, and sugary drinks, among other nannyish laws.
These efforts are similar to the mandates for low-flow toilets and shower heads and the upcoming ban on incandescent light bulbs (in favor of toxic chemicals in a glass corkscrew).
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Dennis Prager suggested sending additional nannying suggestions to the SF board of supervisors. I’m sure we could come up with some of our own. One suggestion was to mention that wedding photographers should be required to post equal numbers of man-man and womyn-womyn pictures as “traditional unions in their shop windows. The idea was to sound serious enough that it would make sense to a collection of loons such as they.
I don’t know where to send these; I’m sure an enterprising sort could find out.
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Arrg You can’t *se the word God without government approval. Like heck. Hammie’s grannie maybe but not some sh*thead bureaucrat How dare she require families to submit their prayers to her in writing for approval?! Oh. And there’s more. And no bibles. And no chapel. Oh wait. The chapel was closed. snip THANK YOU to Congressman Ted Poe for already… Read more »
Richard Dellert, Zachary Provence, Kimberly Kirchler Vergara and Lorena Hodges were accused of attacking 18-year-old Stetson Johnson on April 17. Del City police have said they were punishing Johnson after one of the women accused him of trying to have sex with her. Johnson denied the allegation, saying he is acquainted with all four suspects but has never tried to… Read more »
Hamous #47;
For years I’ve advocated packing the united nincompoops in a small box and ship it to France. That country’s politics are ideal for stupidity.
Hallelujah, we’re saved!
/That was sarcasm and what Bonecrusher should have said. 😉
#63 Phil
Sad but true. Like when I first realized, during the O.J. Simpson trial, that prosecuting and defending attorneys all go out for a beer together after slugging it out in court all day.
Hamous #23;
I’m not at all opposed to them offering one or for anyone who had a GM Mastercard but wasn’t getting into the financial sector of the market one reason GM got into such big financial troubles?
Dude #19;
I drive a 1997 Corrola and it still runs great. I’m gonna drive it to its grave. In fact if I have to trade it in before it reaches 300,000 miles on the odometer I’ll feel cheated. 🙂
Like the movie Groundhog Day, so goes cowardly tRick Perry’s promise on the sanctuary city bill or anything else when it comes to stemming the flow of illegal immigration or securing our borders. Can’t say I’m surprised. The securing the borders game is really alot like wrestling.–The repubs and the dims get in the ring and body slam each other,… Read more »
Big Cahuna? 😀
Oooh, you just wait ’til the BC hears about this!
#59 – roflmaooooooooooooooo
Katfish and Blue Hairs? That conjures vision I would rather not entertain.
But this is for Katish just the same.
‘Cause you establishment types say it’s in the constitution and we can’t do nothing about it!
/I’m kiding, I’m kidding
#49 Shannon. Are they waiting for it to ripen? Or maybe they’d be attracted by what was wrapped in it? The Shadow knows…. 🙂
no CHAHGE fer the edit!
🙂
#54
You make that sound like a bad thing…
Betty’s a babe magnet cruising vessel.
Katfish gets all kinds of action with the bluehairs.
#52 – Not on the super slab………………… 🙂 (around town YUBETCHA)
And I assure you, Katfish turns into a little old lady when he’s piloting Betty-the-copmobile.
OH!™ ………….And Betty-the-Crown-Vic-copmobile gets 22 – 23 mpg on the highway but quite poor (mebbe 12 – 15) in town
Wagonburner gets some kind of prize for using the “fluffy bunny as python food” reference.
Cute little fluffy bunny.
48
Adee, they think someone threw the Groper bill away in your yard.
Good afternoon Hamsters. Started off at 73 and reasonably comfortable this morning, which of course was a big clue things were going to be really hot/dry this afternoon. Currently 97 with 33% humidity and partly cloudy with wind, such as it is, from the East. Some of the clouds are actually darkish, but of course we can’t be fooled by… Read more »
Why is the nest of vipers known as the UN still allowed to headquarter on US soil? Despite numerous breaches of arms embargoes and continued threats to expand its nuclear weapons program, North Korea has assumed the presidency of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament. In a speech to the 65-nation arms control forum in Geneva, the newly-appointed president, North… Read more »
Ummm, that’s why I qualified it.
#44 With all due respect oh couchmaster, advertised mpg and real world mpg are usually not the same. The question was what was the empirical data showing to be real world mpg.
Ford advertizes 16 City/22 Highway with the ecoboost V6. The 5.0L V8 (actually less HP and torque than the ecoboost) is rated 15 City/21 Highway.
Lawrence: What kind of mileage does your buddy get in his ecoboost pickumup and how heavy is his right foot?
Tarp, QE 1,2,3, are all examples of the same crapola in #41 above. Bottom line is the profits are private but the losses are socialized, and even in the midst of huge losses the big shot elites still get fat bonuses. The rat-screwing has been going on for far too long on both sides. There’s a revolution a comin and… Read more »
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/06/not-the-greeks-but-their-creditors-are-being-bailed-out/
Do I get my beer and sammwich?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/06/29/bachmann_media_wants_to_see_two_girls_come_together_and_have_a_mud_wrestling_fight.html
#29 – I WISH ‘Betty’ had all of Elwood & Jake’s LEO type equipment!!! Alas all we have is the white paint job.
It is kinda fun watching folks slow down and do double takes at a white Crown Vic approaching………….
And the Sanctuary Cities bill will have the same fate.
And then there will be Hell to pay.
Hide and watch.
So figure this. I can get everywhere on the net except my email. Multiple reboots frustration etc. Nothing works. I pop the disk out of the dvd drive. And my email now works. What the heck is that all about.
TW is happy to hear from me though. 🙂
#33. My buddy’s verbatim quote:
“That thing pulls like a diesel.”
He also said Ford’s new diesel was bad to the bone too. Apparently they pitched their deal with Case/IH? and designed their own diesel.
I’m tellin’ ya… the deer hit me. I didn’t hit him. Didn’t leave me with a scrap of venison either. Just some slobber and hair on the side of the truck and a nasty bill for the body work. Stupid deer…
Well, that’s that:
ecoboost torque curve. This thing is looking better all the time.
#28 Low Rentz: ECOBOOST: I just checked the Ford Website and learned that the engine in question is a 3.5 liter double overhead cam V-6, cams are independantly variable in timing Intake vs Exhaust, dual water cooled turbos, output is 365 HP and 420ftlb torque. I did not yet find a performance curve for this critter but I would love… Read more »
On BBC, Sen Tom Coburn is on Bloomfield Tv and feeding lunch to some interviewer explaining why there has to be a reduction in government spending. The interviewer keeps trying to get him to agree to raise taxes. Coburn just stated get rid of the income tax and go to a federal sales tax. Pretty smart guy from what I’m… Read more »
Ya want I should wash the dead bugs off the windshield?
#27 kf
Cop motor, cop tires, cop suspension…
You on a mission from God?
Big Kat, I’ve been driving Ford trucks since I was a teenager. The last two were 4×4’s. I drove a ’97 Super Cab to the 170,000 mile mark and then bought the truck I have now. I’m sold on Ford trucks. A good friend of mine who’s been a mechanic all his life told me about a week ago that… Read more »
#20 – Will not be buying a Dodge or GM product ever, period. Yanno Lawrence for years I was never a “Ford guy”…………….that being said when Mom (God rest Her) passed I Inherited an almost brand new 2001 white Crown Vic……………….to this day I still ride my Harley (2001 RoadKing w/ 127,000 on Gracie’s clock) a LOT more – but… Read more »
Mmmmmmmmmmm…..
Kentucky mouthwash.
My 2006 Camry has a Kentucky label.
New car smell was a bourbon scent.
19 Doood
Had any new run-ins with Bambi’s daddy lately???
Ya killer.
I bought a 2009 chevy pickup right before the bailout. I had a GM Mastercard and was not about to leave a $4000 rebate on the table. Next truck will not be GM, but I sure wish Ford or Toyota had a Mastercard like GM.
#17 Pyro: I’ve had people give me grief over me not buying American. My response to a comment like that (I drive a Hyundai Sante Fe) is to invite the commenter to: 1) Go pound sand up his/her hoo-ha 2) After they finish #1 then I invite them to go and play on the freeway 3) Then I simply tell… Read more »
It looks like Ahmajackass could be on his way out. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s irascible, unpredictable but devout president, may be forced to resign in the coming weeks as a political crisis far greater than the massive street violence which followed his re-election in 2009 threatens to overwhelm him and his court favourites in the government. The overweening influence of his… Read more »