Tag: stupid public policy

They’re Doing It to Us Again…REPRINT

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From March 10, 2018

There are many scientific studies, including one from the government’s own Center for Disease Control, declaring that Americans don’t get enough sleep (https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-dont-get-enough-sleep-cdc-study-finds-1455818427). In fact, says the CDC, fully one-third of us is sleep-deficient: less than seven hours of sleep a night poses a risk to one’s health.

So what is that same government preparing to do to us this weekend?

Why, take away an hour of our sleep, of course!

Yes, it’s Daylight Savings Time again, which means we have to turn our clocks ahead an hour tonight and then, for the next week or so, be short on sleep or else be late for everything.

Is this really stupid, or what?

Bad enough we have neighbors aiming floodlights at our bedroom windows, sedentary jobs that wear us out without benefit of exercise, and a disintegrating culture to stress us out. On top of all that, they’ve got to take away an hour of our sleeping time.

Why don’t they spare us this? Is this just another one of those things that government does because it’s done it for so long, everyone’s forgotten the reason for it–if there ever was one–and nobody thinks anymore, they just freakin’ do it?

Yeah, probably.

Thayre Affter ‘My’ Fissh!!!!!

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Snail Darter Delisted as an Endangered Species

Heer “at” Collidge we hased a Merjintsy Meting of “The” Stodent Soviet to pro-test Darnold Trumpt  and his Planns to wype “out”… The Snale Darter!!!!!!!!!!

I amb appauled and So “is” evvryboddy Elss whoo is Good!! Ownly Bad Peeple (!!!) whant to bild Damns and hydro-thingys witch whill Hurt “the Snale Darter.” It is a fissh!!! And fissh has Rites!!!

In facked I amb pritty “Sure” ouur Fambly used to has a Snale Darter his naimb it was Jonny! The Cat ate himb!!!!!! I was so madd,, I tryed to eet the Cat but he scarched me andd Got A-way!!!! We hadded a gye neckst store he sayed he Cood Bring Jonny back “to” Lyfe butt we diddnt “sea” himb agin affter my ould man payed himb “The” munny!!!!!

Now thayre Saying thare Nevver Was no Snale Darter, it was sorta lyke Santy Claws, or draggins! Never was??? I amb so Gladd (!) that Jonny he nevver lived “to” heer nobody say a Thing “lyke” that!!!!!!!

Poor California!

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Los Angeles and the area around it have become a hell-scape. The flaming embers–see them blow, like snowflakes in a blizzard. How can the fire-fighters possibly contain it?

The mayor of L.A. is on a junket in Africa. She is having a nicer time than a lot of the people who voted for her.

Ah! Why do the people of California, and L.A. in particular, continue to bestow public office on persons whose public policies do the voters no end of harm? In this case, over-development and a kind of blind worship of “the environment” are major causative factors. Can’t provide the fire companies with enough water to fight the fire, because there’s baitfish in the water and we don’t want to bother ’em… You know the kind of crazy batsh*t nonsense I mean.

Keep electing far-left environmental crazies, folks, and you will continue to suffer for it. Every polity governed by leftists comes to the same bad end.

‘They Never Saw It Coming’ (My Newswithviews Column, June 13)

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This driver never saw it coming, either

Three times in the past few weeks, The Smartest People In The World were caught napping by events they should have foreseen from miles and miles away.

They Never Saw It Coming

Yeah–a funny thing happened to them on their way to world government.

(You wake up in a cold sweat, having dreamed of those ginks from the WEF taking over the White House and appointing Mr. Fauci Universal Master of Jaaaaabs…)

Gee, Who Would’ve Thought It?

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Do you hear the crickets chirping?

I don’t like to report nooze on Sunday, but this latest example of Stupid Government deserves a mention.

California has lost some 10,000 jobs in the fast food industry since huckleberry Gov. Gavin Newsom, on April 1–a day that somehow seems totally appropriate–raised the minimum wage to $20 per hour (https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/06/09/report-10000-california-fast-food-jobs-cut-due-to-20-minimum-wage/).

Officials call the massive job loss “unintended consequences.”

I wonder how unintended they were. How wooden-headed do you have to be, not to have realized this would happen?

Robbie Update: It doesn’t look good, we can’t tempt her to eat. Mostly she sleeps. We don’t know what else we woulda-coulda-shoulda done. Nothing left to do now but pray.

EV Bus Catches Fire

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A wee pot-hole on the road to Utopia

Britain now has EV (battery-powered) buses. It also has “Clean Air Zones” where regular people aren’t allowed to drive regular cars. Put ’em together and waddaya got?

Well, as so often happens, one of those EV buses blew up–for no apparent reason– caught fire, and spewed vast clouds of toxic black smoke into the air. So much for the Clean Air Zone (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4188386/posts).

God help us, the whole world is governed by thieves, liars, villains, and psychotics. Hence this whole EV idiocy. Their components are dangerously toxic and hard to dispose of, and they seem to have a real gift for bursting into flame when you least expect it.

These people will not leave us alone until they’ve made The Hunger Games a reality.

 

Electric Car? Get Out and Push!

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West Virginia Coal Miners Help Tourists Push Their Dead Electric Car

Say hey! How do you run your electric car when you can’t get it recharged? Like, if you live in California and there’s no electricity available.

Well, you do the environmentally sustainable, real Green New Deal thing–you push it!

A tourist in West Virginia recently suffered an electric car conk-out… and half a dozen coal miners pushed it to the mine to get recharged (https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/west-virginia-coal-miners-help-tourists-push-dead-electric-car).

But why get it recharged at all? You’re missing a bet here, Greenies! What could be more environmentally sustainable than pushing the car? Not only that: if cars were all to be pushed, at, say, two miles per hour, think of the effect on highway safety! No more fatal accidents! I’m telling you, this is even better than having your solar panels underground. And if you had enough people to do it, you could also push buses, trucks, and even trains! Airplanes might be a problem, though. And ships.

Imagine all the cars in America, powered currently by gasoline or electricity, getting pusedh along–no pollution! No five-car pile-ups!

Or we could just, like, go nowhere anymore…

(P.S.–They couldn’t tow the car because the electric cars have plastic undersides that fall apart if you tow them.)

Woo-Hoo! $14,000 for an Electric Car Battery

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Electric car buyer learns a HUGE lesson…

[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip]

So you buy a used electric car for $11,000, a Ford with only 16,000 miles on it, you’re 17 years old, this is your car and you really like it… and six months later, the battery dies and you need a new one.

Fourteen thousand dollars! Ouch!

A new battery from a regular car will run you $50 to $120. But for an electric car–well, maybe some kindly liberal will lend you the $14,000.

We have nincompoops in our so-called government telling us we should all get rid of our old-fashioned gasoline-powered cars and buy electric vehicles. What the heck, they can afford it! (Pete Buttigieg, “What–me worry?”) Besides which, you should all be stuck with mass transit anyway: your hardship and inconvenience mean absolutely nothing to them. It’s up to you to Save The Planet!

We are governed by people who have nothing in common with us and who do not represent us.

That is not the way this country was supposed to work.

Court to California: No, You Can’t Do That (Plus a Personal Experience)

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“Case closed, take a hike!”

A Superior Court judge in Los Angeles has struck down California’s forced “diversity” law, which required corporate boards of directors to seat up to four women before the year is out (https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/california-law-requiring-women-company-boards-struck-down-2022-05-16/).

The judge found the measure blatantly unconstitutional, violating the requirement of equal treatment under the law. Judicial Watch called it one of many “unprecedented attacks on anti-discrimination law.”

This reminds me of an incident from way back in the 1970s. Some of us received a grant from Michigan State to start a magazine. To recruit editors and writers, we held a meeting, open to all, at which anyone who applied for a position would be given one–to show what he or she could do. Point is, we were turning no one away.

After the meeting, the guy who started the project said to me, “This is very bad! We have no black people on our editorial board. I don’t think we should publish, under the circumstances.”

Doh! “But Jove,” I protested. “There were black people here tonight. Any one of them could have had a position for the asking. Is it our fault none of them asked? What do you want to do–force them?” He grumbled a lot, but didn’t have an answer.

Doubtless this California court ruling will trudge its way to the Supreme Court, and then we can have more wackos demonstrating in from of judges’ homes. The fact is that “laws” like this are always tantamount to the same discrimination they’re supposed to put a stop to.

Haven’t we now got a vice president whose one and only qualification for the job was that she’s a Black Woman and that’s what they wanted? I mean, that was the only thing they wanted?

Well, for the time being a judge has told the state of California, “No, you can’t do that.”

 

What Do They Do with the Time They Steal from Us?

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Every year the elites steal an hour from the American people under the guise of “Daylight Savings Time.” That’s some 300 million hours swiped out of people’s lives once a year.

What do they do with all those hours that they’ve stolen?

Here are a few theories that have been suggested:

*Hunter Biden is selling them to China (with 10% for the Big Guy).

*George Soros is adding them to his life.

*The Clinton Foundation is collecting them to use as building blocks for an alternative universe in which Hillary is president.

*They’re tacking them onto Majuh League Baseball (TM) games to make them take longer.

*They keep adding them to John Kerry’s shelf-life. Otherwise he would’ve disappeared years ago.

Those are only five of the most likely explanations for this stupid thing they do to us every year. Please feel free to report any that you’ve heard.