What Will Nanny Bloomberg Say?

This could be exciting.  At least until the Food Nazis in Nanny Bloombergs NYC have a hissy fit.

A New York City cafe will soon be bakin’ with bacon. Baconery, formerly an online-only spot for bacon-infused pastries, will start hawking its products at a bookstore cafe in the swank Chelsea neighborhood on May 1. Chef Wesley Klein’s signature item is the chocolate peanut butter bacon cookie, but there are also bacon brownies, chocolate coconut bacon and white chocolate bacon pretzel rods. Klein himself is more than just the brainchild of the operation: He’s also a customer. He said that since falling in love with bacon as a kid, he eats it every day. We heartily salute him, his effort and his likely ailing heart.”

Alas, NYC is one of those places I try very very hard to avoid and I’m not likely to ever get there before this delectable little oasis of culinary delight is shut down by the the food nazis.  But we can dream, can’t we?  Pass some of that chocolate coconut bacon!

 

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Liberals want to eradicate bullying. Conservatives want to raise kids strong enough to handle it.

So says Cam Edwards on the NRA’s Cam’s Corner show.  So what you ask? 

Well, “DUDE” seems to think bullying in school yard is a crisis of historic proportions that demands “presidential” attention, while the rest of the world burns.  Rush Limbaugh comments,

“Now, where’s the bullying take place? Where is everybody concerned about it? It’s the school ground, right? It’s the schoolyard.  Would somebody please now, in all honesty, somebody explain why this is a matter of concern for the White House, anybody in it? You look at what’s going on in this country and around the world, would somebody explain to me . . . ? You want to talk about bullying, how about what went on in Libya? How about what went on in Cairo? How about what’s going on in Iran? This nation used to stand up to international bullies!”

I grew up dealing with bullies.  I was a gawky deaf kid in a neighborhood intolerant of difference
and where the strong took advantage of the weak.  I learned to stand up for myself.  I learned to often it wasn’t necessary that I actually get into a fight but that I had the reputation of not backing down when someone bullied me.  My mother and father taught me not to start a ruckus, but to sure as hell not back down when someone else started it.

And I survived it. 

Obambi is paid to be President of the United States, not National Nanny. There are people who shoudl be paying attention to the issue – They are called parents.  Bullies are not a Federal problem.  We do not need a Federal Bureau Against Schoolyard Bullies.  We do need parents who are involved in their kids lives.

For Obambi to be wasting his time and our money on fluff like this shows the fundamentally unserious nature of his administration.  He doesn’t want to be bothered with making actual decisions and the hard work of governing.  He wants to be on a perpetual campaign for “higher office.”

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Dirty Dishes?

Not only have the Enviro-nut-jobs banned our lightbulbs but they are also trying to make sure your water bill and energy bill either skyrocket because you can’t get your dishes clean on the first pass or you give up and wash dishes by hand (a better option for many of us who live alone.)  And all because a few aging hippies in Spokane Washington think phosphates are evil.

Thanks to some bad (and mostly Democratic) decision-making over in Washington state, major dishwasher detergent manufacturers had to drastically cut its phosphate content; which is why your dishwasher recently and suddenly stopped working properly.  You see, phosphates soften water, making it easier to clean… but it also promotes algae growth, and the city of Spokane was already facing a ‘crisis’ over their local phosphate levels in the water (which, thanks to a Sierra Club lawsuit, was hampering future growth).  Rather than fix their problem, they simply had phosphate dishwasher detergents banned in Washington state.  Rather than make two separate products, detergent manufacturers simply gave up and started making substandard dishwasher detergent.  In other words: you can thank the Sierra Club, the city of Spokane, and the (mostly Democratic) Washington State government the next time you have to run the dishwasher three times to clean your dishes properly.

I don’t know about you, but I am getting really tired of a few loonies controlling the rest of us.  The worst part of this is that it hits people who are lower class and poor harder than the rest of us and it bothers the elite not at all.

I am stocking up on light bulbs and will give up my incandecants when they pry them out of my dead hands.  That will be about the same time they come for my guns so it will be a two-fer.

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Brave New Nanny-state World

Nurse Bloomberg’s machine is nothing if not efficient.

A pair of 13-year-old boys were forced to stop selling cookies and cupcakes in a park in New York after a local councillor complained to the police that they did not have a licence.

I’m sure that a couple of kids are a menace to society.  Why, the Travel Sexual Abuse units around the country are told to molest little kids because, after all, they might blow up airplanes.  I am sure that there was reasonable grounds to assume the kids selling cupcakes in the park had baked in some biowarfare agent in the goodies. 

The work started a couple of weeks ago with the election is a long way from being done.  We still have to get the establishment Republicans out of the Senate.  We still have to do something with meddling asshats like Nanny Mike. 

How did the boys feel?  A downbeat Andrew said:

“We were being entrepreneurs, but now I feel a little defeated.”

Way to go Democrats!  Kill of another budding entrepreneur!  That’s the way to be sure that then upcoming generation are unimaginative trolls.  Hey, the education system can;t get them all so the Demo-Socialists have to be ever vigilant to be sure that the tiniest  spark of creativity and initiative is crushed before it starts to flame.

Oh, yes.   I know that Chappaqua is not NYC.  It’s a ‘burb northeast of the Big Apple where 90% of the residents are white, the average income is $204,000 and the average home is north of $1.2 million.  In other words, perfect Demo-socialist country.  And yes, I know that Nanny  Blookberg does not have direct authority over Chappaqua.  Nurse Mike is a symbol of the alrger attitude of the Socialists.  And yes I know Michael is a putative Republican.  He represents the very worst of the establishment eastern liberal Republicans.

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Seriously? Seriously????

Oh come one.  A new low-light in Palin Derangement Syndrome.

It’s one thing if Fox News gives Sarah Palin a platform. But when Discovery Communications – home to the Discovery Channel, the “Planet Earth” series, the Science Channel, Animal Planet, and TreeHugger.com – gives a show to Sarah Palin, it undercuts everything the Discovery brand has come to represent.

Liberals, get over yourself.  One: It’s a TV show highlighting Alaska.  Two: It’s a Reality TV show which means no one takes it seriously.  Three:  If Sarah can call attention to how gorgeous Alaska is, so what? 

Get a life.  Sarah is not Darth Vadar.  She is not a Zombie.  She is not Satan. 

She is a charismatic politician and all that connotes and denotes.  Considering the fact that  those people have caused her untold among of heartache and legal fees, I say let her have some peace.  Let her have her 8 week informercial promoting the Alaskan Chamber of Commerce.  If you think this show will do anything to change anyone’s mind about who she is and that she stands for then you have a serious problem with allowing other people to make decisions for themselves.  Oh wait…  You do  have problems with that…

h/t Ace of Spades

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Nanny-Statism At It’s Best

The Birmingham Alabama paper tells us that

Homewood’s fire chief says if a church wants to hold Christmas Eve candlelight services, it’ll have to pay four off-duty firefighters $100 each to monitor safety during the service.

Maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t this seem to be a little bit of overkill?   Given that it’s Jefferson County, one can’t rule out the possibility that it’s just on the books to provide extra pay for employees, not that I begrudge our public safety officers earning a living wage.

What it really seems to me, though, is in classic unintendedn consequences fashion some politician gets a germ of a brain fart, writes a half-baked law that was well-intended, and then skips merrily off to the next rubberchicken dinner fund raiser, while the citizenry is left to pick up the pieces. 

The selective enforcement of the law seems to verify that.

Pastors of several Homewood megachurches said they have candlelight services but did not know about the law.

“I don’t really see the fire hazard myself,” said the Rev. Martin Muller, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church.

Trinity United Methodist Church Pastor Andrew Wolfe said he’d never heard of a candlelight permit law.

“The church has been doing this hundreds of years,” he said. “I can’t imagine that all of a sudden we’re not able to do a candlelight service.”

What’s even more interesting is that the State Fire Chief was not aware of the Homewood ordinance.   Some places are just more afraid of allow the flock any freedom to think for themselves.  It might lead to people realizing that politics is where people who can’t get a real job go…

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Hands Off My Light Bulbs

Seems that some people, even in Europe, are pissed off about Nanny state bans on the incandescent bulb.  In the LA Times today:

Reporting from Frankfurt, Germany – Here’s a twist: How many lightbulbs does it take to change a person?

For Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, the answer is 3,000. That’s how many bulbs are squirreled away in his modest apartment here in Frankfurt, the number that turned an otherwise ordinary guy into a hoarder, made him the object of his neighbors’ pity and got him thinking about death and divorce.

If course, there was a defense of the twist bulb.  It doesn’t wash with me

Their start-up time still lags well behind the instant on-and-off of incandescent bulbs. They cannot be used with dimmer switches. And the most commonly available ones still do not provide the same spectrum of light as the old lamps, which worries art collectors, photographers and others who need light sources that offer sharp color rendition. (Officials point out that halogen bulbs, which give off light of a similar quality to incandescent varieties, remain on the market.)

Then there is the fluorescent bulbs’ mercury content, up to 5 milligrams per bulb. Cleaning up a shattered bulb requires more than just sweeping up jagged shards: Users should ventilate the room and avoid touching pieces with bare skin.

Have you read What the EPA says you have to do?  Check it out.

I object on two principles.  One, the “Fiddle Gummit” have no business telling me what I can put in my light fixtures.   Period! Two, I like dimmers.  I like timers.   I dislike CFLs because I can’t use either with them.

Like Herr Ziegler, I have started stock piling bulbs.  I figure it will take me a while but I get enough to last me until I die or Gore’s storm trooper show up at my door, in which case we will have a real donnybrook on our hands.  The Nanny State will get my bulbs the same the they will get my guns – “from my cold dead hands.

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Hands Off My Light Bulbs

I confess. I love my incandescent light bulbs. I adore dimmers. I like timers and motion detectors. I despise Big-state Nannyism that makes people think that the “gummint” has the right to tell me what is good for me and ban what they think is bad. I am a libertarian.

With this mindset I read the IBD editorial this morning on the European Light Bulb Ban.

Seeing this further intrusion into the free market and denial of consumer
choice, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., last year authored HR 5616, the Light
Bulb Freedom of Choice Act. Predictably, it was buried in committee and went
nowhere.

But, hey, think of all the green jobs that will be created. Problem is, they’re in China. General Electric plans to close an incandescent bulb factory in Westchester, Va., next July, costing 200 workers their jobs. GE is also shuttering incandescent factories in Ohio and Kentucky, axing another 200 positions.

Not only are wages lower in China, but so are environmental standards, London’s Times recently reported: “Large numbers of Chinese workers have been poisoned by mercury, which forms part of the compact fluorescent lightbulbs.”

Less light, fewer American jobs, increased Chinese imports and the danger of mercury contamination.

What could possibly be wrong with that? Maybe we should let the consumer decide.

This is why we need to shut down Washington. Close Congress. Revert whole damned place back into a swamp. At least back when Washington was a swamp, is was less damaging to society. For my part, the nanny-staters can take those twisty CFLs and twist up a hole where the sun don’t sun.

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Let People Be Adults!

Instead of banning bikini waxing or harmless toys, let people take control of their own choices.

Indeed

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