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Seattle City Councilman Richard Conlin has invited the public to comment on his proposed legislation to ban polystyrene foam food packaging and to impose a fee on disposable shopping bags, all in the name of solving global warming, of course.
The Clown of the Day Award is a more courteous and intellectually serious comment than Conlin's proposal deserves, but we'll award it anyway.
If Seattle has so few serious problems to solve that the council can spend its time on such superstitious nonsense, than the city obviously has more councilmembers than it really needs. Time to downsize the council and shift to district representation to make the councilmembers more accountable to the citizens.
In the meantime, we thank Conlin for giving us a chuckle. Cue the music.
Posted by Juvenal at July 01, 2008 04:25 PM | Email ThisWhy don't you attack his idiotic proposal to limit the size of houses in Seattle? Even I, a diehard liberal, think that he's a moron for proposing that...
Posted by: demo kid on July 1, 2008 05:01 PMWhen they direct their employees to run errands via transit, walking, or biking is when I'll start paying attention.
Posted by: russell garrard on July 1, 2008 06:32 PMHe is using the politics of fear here - that they love to accuse the right of doing about national security, while the Senate Democrat hypocrites refuse to do anything proactive and continue to obstruct significant alternative energy development - I am not talking wind, and solar power (those also need to be developed but will not amount more that 12-15% of the total energy needed combined.
I am talking about Nuclear power that must be developed and recycling nuclear waste will sharply reduce the nuclear waste stream (like European countries already do). Environmental regulatory agencies- allies of the Democrat Party have made it extremely difficult for oil drilling to occur offshore or anywhere. Also, isn't there a drilling moratorium offshore ? The Seattle City Clowncil is moronic as usual here as the liberal elites march lock step in the attempt to control people.
Posted by: KS on July 1, 2008 09:03 PMFeel free to cease and desist your presense on this board.
Posted by: hinton on July 1, 2008 09:12 PMThe Council listen for nearly an hour to one uninformed idiot after another share his "facts" about Poly.
When it came time for deliberation, sadly for the PT Progressive Clowns, one of the Councilors at the time was a 70+ year-old retired chemical Engineer who had just completed his 4-5th text book. He very systematically went thru the chemical composition of both the Poly and Hard Plastic (I think he even had Ross Perot-like charts & visual aids).
In his summary, the Chemical Engineer pointed out the only difference between Poly trays and Hard Plastic was what is commonly referred to as:
AIR! AIR! AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!AIR! AIR!
The crowd of Clowns quickly were heading for the exits when another Councilor rubbed salt into their gaping wound by announcing his personal testimony that he had never witnessed anyone buy a Rump Roast at Safeway, unwrap it in the car and toss the Poly Tray out the window.
And so it goes...................
Posted by: PTCLOWNS on July 1, 2008 10:05 PMThe points made--
1) home recycling and home use of the empty grocery bags will cease, and be replaced by purchasing Glad bags or other disposable bags from the store. Savings to the environment: nil. Cost to the home: increased.
2) Low end economy depending on the bags, from Valu Village to Goodwill to 2nd hand stores, all tend to use donated or thrifted grocery bags, paper and plastic. These groups now will have to pay, increasing their costs and thinning their already thin margins. Green savings to the economy: nil, threat to a vulnerable part of the economy: potential
3) The homeless use grocery bags extensively. The homeless will have no bags.
4) Nanny state liberal crap. This stuff makes Seattle a laughing stock to the nation.
5) I'll just shop in Snohomish county, where sanity hopefully will prevail. In that case, you can factor in my emitted carbon on every grocery trip as part of the success story for going green. I doubt I'm the only one.
In short, this is a dumbass idea, a wrong approach, and feel goodism. I summed up with saying this is the kind of thing that makes lifetime Republican voters. And I hoped they wouldn't want to do that. :)
No problem.
Eco-freaks, just plain nuts.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on July 2, 2008 06:49 AMthey were bally-hooed and forced on us by those who wished to "save the trees."
Either the forests have grown back after being ravaged from paper bag over-usage, thus opening them up for further depredations---or it was never a real issue to begin with.
What's a liberal to do?
Posted by: Camille on July 2, 2008 07:33 AMThe Puget Sound population is 1.8 million. Seattle is 500,000 of that -- or less than 1/3rd.
Yet "Seattle" seems to claim primacy far beyond it's borders.
The exurbs need to start asserting their powers not simply as vassal states of "Seattle" but as independent political entities with differing needs.
Seattle, per se, should be fractioned as a political boundary, so the needs of Ballard doctors and Othello street grocers can both be served by more local, more specific representation.
they were bally-hooed and forced on us by those who wished to "save the trees."
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Bingo, you win the prize!
The trees are fine and so many forget it's wood pulp.
Not what you would call top grade wood.
PS. where do you think toilet paper comes from (-:
I don't agree with NativeSon on much, but on these clown features, I absolutely agree. It really devalues this site.
Stefan, please bring this to an end. Your blog is better than this.
Posted by: Palouse on July 2, 2008 10:18 AMIt's getting impossible to read a news story about ANYTHING that doesn't have some tie-in to Global Warming. It is also impossible to observe any condition in the atmosphere, cooling trends, warming trends, ice thickening, ice thinning, ocean currents, no ocean currents... that isn't touted as PROOF POSITIVE of Global Warming.
I think people are starting to burn-out on it. Especially whenever they fill up their cars. When the majority Americans finally sniff this out, Democrats are in trouble. Posted by: Scott on July 2, 2008 12:36 PM
Warning: They are behind the scenes working on how to turn this scare into a real TAX.
My spy tells me the recent plan is to have it managed by counties, sort of like a property tax. Property. That is their real goal. Take away property rights. We are in real danger.
From Clowns.
Now back to some good jokes.... please Posted by: ljm on July 2, 2008 06:27 PM
With all due respect - take the clown faces and send them over the Horsesass.org or blatherwatch, where they fit in better with the surroundings. The only worthwhile use of a clown over here would be to put a clown face on the entire Seattle City Clowncil and create a suitable for framing poster.
Posted by: KS on July 2, 2008 08:51 PMIt my have took Nixon to go to China, but perhaps it will take someone like McCain who appears conservative (to those who really don't follow politics but looks at party label and believes the stereotypes in this case all Republicans are by nature anti-environment) to push through socialized policies in the name of global warming.
A global warming problem that doesn't exist of course.
But again, if someone as 'conservative' as Juan McCain believes it, then it must be true. If even those who are usually anti-environment are now becoming concerned there must be a problem.
That Juan McCain he really knows how to turn up the heat just enough so that the frog doesn't jump out doesn't he!
Posted by: Fred on July 7, 2008 08:47 AM