QOTD

"Whatever the process, it will be the time-honored and ordinary process of soliciting public input."
- The EPA on further regulating our lives, from article above

So difficult to be positive. Constructive. Trying though.
Government is making our lives better... via regulation!

1. Smoking, second-hand smoke
2. Seat belts
3. Bike helmets
4. Warning labels on, well, everything
5. Fat in foods
   
6. Cop cameras: intersections, highways, subways, etc.
7. I-Pass
8. Mandatory drug tests
9. All manner of government health care and welfare for seniors, et al
10. Mandated government preschool, kindergarten, etc.
    

Government control. Regulation. Socialized everything.
As the EPA declares your very exhaling a dire environmental risk, worthy of the attention of the federal government of the United States of America.

It's the new religion. You get that, right?
It doesn't matter how silly or destructive or what... it's "green", so it's in.
Tyranny isn't religion or some militaristic coup... it's a government nabob protecting you form me and me from you.
Political correctness and, now more and more, "the law" await you and your BBQ grill or cigarettes or SUV or plastic shopping bag or incandescent bulbs, or, or, or...

I saw mayor Daley (can't find the quote on the web) talking about how they're going to do random drug and alcohol tests of cops. This is in response to some stupid cop DUI, car thing. Daley extrapolated... as is always the case, but seldom verbalized (Daley has the loose lips and bravado that accompany a "tenured" position):

• Everyone should be drug-tested.
  
• Hey, people doing drugs or alcohol cost taxpayers money (presumably because they're all on Medi-whatever)
• And (the kicker), if you aren't doing these drugs, then you shouldn't have a problem.

I have this silly fantasy.
Some day, one... just one... of these people who believe in this stuff will tell me... "Hey Bill, ya gotta trade some freedom for safety or uniformity or whatever." Please just acknowledge that you're trading your (and my) freedoms for something. OK.

It's a fantasy because it will never happen.
It's a fantasy because I'd tell that person, "Ya know. I think I'll decline trading any more freedoms away for now. Why the heck are you so eager, poindexter?"
And I have a feeling, deep down, that's a question they don't want to answer.

QOTD2

"It's all part of the new way, brotha"
- from "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess

Get your bike helmets on droogies.
sigh... yow, bill

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