Posted on 03/01/2008 10:27:38 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Good to run into you as well.
Actually I don’t have a fireplace but I will fight to the death to protect your right to have one.
It is such a beautiful day here in Alabama that I am going to go sit on the back porch and talk to my wife while the dog poops all over the backyard.
Keepem straight in here.
Later
I predicted several years ago that they'd maxed out taxation, so they'd have to start raising the prices of essentials, utilities and fuel.
So, those things you listed as "expensive" just have a tax added on, only it's an opaque tax.
Make them stop because all the smoke they generate flows into the Central Valley thorough the Carqueniz Straits. We don’t want it!
Wife and I spent the morning splitting oak firewood. We’re going to burn every damned piece of it.
Stories like this make me so glad I left California for Nevada. The loons will stop at nothing. First smoking, now fireplaces, next your car and your freedom to travel.
Soooo glad I left Kalifornistan.
If you have a religion, it helps if it’s right side up.
Just put in a natural gas fireplace, install a diverter and you can heat a couple of rooms with it. Looks pretty, and you don’t have to haul wood in. Heck, if you have a remote control you don’t have to get up off the couch, or out of the bed!
>> winter “Spare the Air” nights.
Is this before or after the “Grab your ankles for the Gov’t” week?
Didn't you know, the farts of the people who live in San Francisco don't smell. Just ask them, they'll tell you!
Nazis.
In this community, we have the smoke police, the smoking police, the tree and bush police, the noise police, the cell phone police, the seat belt police, the water use police, the recycling police, the "DWI" unit, the "domestic violence unit", the "party patrol", automated red light and speeding cameras imposing fines twice what would be assessed if there were a real cop involved.
Meanwhile, we also have "checkpoints" for driver license, insurance, registration, seat belt and child safety seat violations.
We also have judges who dispose of all of the above for friends, family members, LEO and the politically-connected.
I am out of here. The only question I have is "Where do I go"?
Colombia, Costa Rica, Albania?
The citizens of Iraq have more casual freedoms than we do.
THere’s only one reason I can think of to ban fireplaces. It’s because they can’t put a tax on firewood. Every other kind of fuel can be taxed easily.
This is not unique to California. Albuquerque, for example, has had no burn nights for at least 15 years.
One of the many reasons I'm leaving.
None of their business.
We need to counter with “Spare Me Your Bullsh*t Nights!”
The only thing I recycle (put into the recycle bins given to us by our township)is beer bottles. The only reason we do that is because they tend to make the trashbag leak which is icky.
And we recycle cans when we have parties just because it’s easier to fill the recyle containers with them.
We used to have “recycle police” that would check our trash but that stopped when they made us all use township trashcans and an automated thing picks them up while the driver stays in the truck.
Probably wears a safety helmet in the shower, too.
Huh. It's getting downright Nazi out there.
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