Before they can continue their hate campaign against marriage for homosexuals, the hard-core Christers better get a handle on this: Reno dogs are getting married.
PETCO in Reno and Natural Balance pet food sponsored weddings for dogs July 26, with the ceremonies performed by Van Scott of Antique Angel Wedding Chapel.
Sure, these folks were just having a laugh, but if dogs can get married, then gays can get married.
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30 July 2008
No escaping the Nanny State
I thought, until recently, that California would be a good place to escape to, when the 21st Century Dark Ages sweep over the rest of America, despite the frequent comment that California leads and the rest of the USA follows, in trends, economy, growth and so on.
Wrong, I was. California is officially a Nanny State. First the ban on trans-fats in restaurants and retail foods, now a ban on new fast-food restaurants in South Los Angeles. Ban No. 1 courtesy of Gov. Arnie and the Legislature, Ban No. 2 courtesy of the City Council.
Which brings me to this clipping, faded and tattered, on my cork board:
“I sometimes feel that the most conspicuous attribute of liberalism* that distinguishes it as much from conservatism as from socialism is the view that moral beliefs concerning matters of conduct which do not directly interfere with the protected sphere of other persons do not justify coercion.”
— From “Why I Am Not a Conservative,” written in 1960 by Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, a leading expositor of the many merits of free markets and of the dangers of socialism and winner of the Medal of Freedom (presented by President George Bush).
* “Liberalism” in the 19th-century, European sense: assigning highest value to individual freedom.
The free market profits from trans-fats and fast-food restaurants; Nanny states feel the urge to protect people from their own stupidity. Not government’s job, though.
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Wrong, I was. California is officially a Nanny State. First the ban on trans-fats in restaurants and retail foods, now a ban on new fast-food restaurants in South Los Angeles. Ban No. 1 courtesy of Gov. Arnie and the Legislature, Ban No. 2 courtesy of the City Council.
Which brings me to this clipping, faded and tattered, on my cork board:
“I sometimes feel that the most conspicuous attribute of liberalism* that distinguishes it as much from conservatism as from socialism is the view that moral beliefs concerning matters of conduct which do not directly interfere with the protected sphere of other persons do not justify coercion.”
— From “Why I Am Not a Conservative,” written in 1960 by Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, a leading expositor of the many merits of free markets and of the dangers of socialism and winner of the Medal of Freedom (presented by President George Bush).
* “Liberalism” in the 19th-century, European sense: assigning highest value to individual freedom.
The free market profits from trans-fats and fast-food restaurants; Nanny states feel the urge to protect people from their own stupidity. Not government’s job, though.
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Not stolen, actually
On the drive home tonight, I turned a corner a little too fast and heard a scraping noise in the purple Saturn's door. Waiting for the green light, I looked down, and there was the car's cigarette lighter, in the little pocket on the door.
The scum-sucking sociopath who stole the car last month didn't take it, after all.
Why I didn't hear it sliding around before, I don't know. AC fan on high and radio on loud, I guess.
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The scum-sucking sociopath who stole the car last month didn't take it, after all.
Why I didn't hear it sliding around before, I don't know. AC fan on high and radio on loud, I guess.
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29 July 2008
Random abuse of freedom
In a do-gooder’s drive against recreational and performance-enhancing drugs, Reno’s McQueen High School wants to launch a program of random testing for all football players this season, making it the first area school to do so. McQueen's in an affluent part of northwest Reno.
Green Valley in Henderson and Battle Mountain High in, uh, Battle Mountain, started testing a few years ago.
This is the “guilty until proven innocent” treatment so popular in the “freedom loving” US of A these days.
However, it won’t do a lick of good unless parents and siblings are tested, too. Drug abusers, such as drunks and tobacco hounds, get their first clues at home. Family values start in the home.
If parents pop pills, kiddies will, too.
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Green Valley in Henderson and Battle Mountain High in, uh, Battle Mountain, started testing a few years ago.
This is the “guilty until proven innocent” treatment so popular in the “freedom loving” US of A these days.
However, it won’t do a lick of good unless parents and siblings are tested, too. Drug abusers, such as drunks and tobacco hounds, get their first clues at home. Family values start in the home.
If parents pop pills, kiddies will, too.
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