Mayor Newsom Bans Bottled Water
Jun 23, 2007 Uncategorized
In an effort to reduce global warming and to reduce the number of plastic bottles in landfills, Mayor Newsom of San Francisco has banned departments from buying bottled water, even for water coolers. Employers can certainly decide if they will purchase water or not so long as they can provide hydration for workers exposed to heat strain as part of their jobs. Newsom plans to have municipal tap water. This provides it own problems such as sanitation of storage containers (have you ever seen one at a work site.
Regardless, if the intent is to reduce the number of plastic bottles, why ban the ones for water coolers? Those bottles are reused so they do not end up in landfills and they are manufactured as needed. In any event, this seems to be a boneheaded move because employees are still free to purchase their own bottled water and take it to work with them. Many might opt for this rather than drinking tap water (which is not a bad thing) from potentially dirty dispensing containers (which is a bad thing).
I suppose this might allow Newsom to create a whole new department that ensures sanitation of the water dispensers. However, what he is doing is within his purview as Mayor so long as the needs of the workers are met with regard to hydration and sanitation, it really does not matter where the water comes from. I will say that my experience is that workers will shun tap water from Igloo type dispensers as “not tasting good” and there will probably be an increase in heat related illness or an increase in bottles bought by employees. A case is only about $4.00. This will certainly not reduce the number of plastic bottles (which could be recycled, what a novel idea).
I am sure that there is more to this than global warming and my experience tells me it is a cost cutting move. Bottled water is not cheap and I imagine the workforce in San Francisco is quite large so they consume quite a bit of the bottled beverage.
Kind of ironic that a city in the state that made carrying a bottle of water the chic thing to do is banning the practice.
Big Dog Salute: Leaning Straight Up
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When ILLEGALS Sneak In, What Comes With Them?
Jun 22, 2007 Immigration
There was a time when all immigrants came into this country through Ellis Island and they were checked to ensure they had the correct shots and were not carrying diseases. With all the ILLEGALS crossing the border unchecked we have no way of knowing what they are bringing with them. The CDC reports there are 30,000 new untreatable cases of TB in the US. The incidence of TB in general seems to be on the rise and there might just be other nasty little bugs sneaking in.
There is just no way of knowing if ILLEGALS are bringing in really bad diseases that could spread all over this country. When they get here they put a bunch of families in one house so they have large numbers of people living in close quarters which makes it real easy for disease to spread. Then they go out and get jobs where they handle food and interact with the public. This sets the table for the spread of disease. Imagine some ILLEGAL coming here, unchecked, and getting a job handling food. Doesn’t sound too bad but what if he has Hepatitis A? He will spread it to a lot of people who will ingest the disease with their food.
These ILLEGALS can also be exploited by terrorists. Suppose some terrorists got together and became coyotes and promised to get ILLEGALS in for a low amount of money. The, while all the ILLEGALS were together the terrorists could infect them with smallpox or some other disease (like bird flu) and get them into the US where they could go around spreading the disease like wildfire.
Just remember when Pedro comes into the US and says “Say hello to my little friend” he might have little friends that could make a lot of people very sick. Courtesy of your government’s inability to secure the border and deport ILLEGALS.
Tags: Commentary
These People Would Have Been Given Amnesty
Jun 22, 2007 Immigration
Though the Senate and the President keep telling us that the immigration bill is not amnesty and that it would be good for this country there is no doubt that a bill nearly 1000 pages in length contains items that will end up hurting us in the end. For instance, the bill has unintended consequences. It is unlikely that any German Nazis still reside in America and if they did they would be near death, but the immigration bill would grant them amnesty and possibly reparations. That just just one of the gems written into this amnesty package.
But Big Dog, how can this be relevant? There are few of these people around and they will all be dead soon. This bill is designed to help those hard working immigrants who are decent people (except when they broke the law to get here). I can not possibly see how this is a bad thing.
Well, what about all the gang members and various other thugs who are here ILLEGALLY? Since our government can not keep track of the 12-20 million ILLEGALS who are here it is no stretch to say they will not be able to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad ones. They will be granting amnesty (make no mistake, this is amnesty) to people who have no regard for the law in the first place and to others who are terrible people in addition to being invaders.
Really Big Dog, you exaggerate! Even if there are a few bad apples here they will certainly be small in number and our government will find them and then deal with them. Just because we could not keep them from breaking in does not mean we can not find out who the bad ones are.
Immigration raids this week hauled in a number of ILLEGALS who were wanted for various crimes such as murder, child molestation, and other crimes including ignoring deportation orders. There are over 600,000 fugitive ILLEGALS in this country and those are just the ones we know about. What about the 10,000 or so members of MS 13? They are here and running the new mob with drug rackets all over the country. They are committing crimes each and every day and there are others who have yet to be caught.
The immigration amnesty bill would make these people legal. We are aware that the Senate promises that they will do background checks on all of them. Right, and if anyone believes that they are on crack. Even if the government could check on all of them, who is to say Mexico or any other country would give us the information on them. One thing is certain, if they are here ILLEGALLY, they have already committed a felony. That should be enough to send them packing but our Senate and the President are hell bent on providing these law breakers with greater opportunities then citizens of this country. I am sure there are quite a few people in jail for minor crimes who would like a deal like the ILLEGALS are being offered. The government has shown us time and again that they do things half way and that once they get what they want they do not care if the rest is ever completed. For Republicans this is cheap labor and for Democrats it is more votes. Throw in the Catholic Church and their desire to pick up the huge population of Catholics from Mexico and it is easy to see why everyone is so determined to push this through regardless of American opinion.
We need to put an end to this thing and ensure that it is never resurrected again. We need to make sure that those who pushed it and those who vote for it are removed from office in the next election regardless of what party they belong to and regardless of what party they are replaced by.
Be sure to sign the petition! We need to keep the pressure on Congress and the President.
Tags: Commentary
Screw the Mexicans and Their Flag Too
Jun 22, 2007 Immigration
An Australian broadcasting company has apologized to Mexico for a segment on a TV program that featured people throwing water balloons at the Mexican Flag. Mexicans got their tamales in a snit and wrote a letter of protest:
Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department on Wednesday sent protest letters to the program and the Australian government, saying the country’s flag had been desecrated on the show that aired June 15.
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Mexico’s protest letters said that the country’s flag “has a long and proud history and it stands as a powerful symbol that identifies and unites Mexican citizens wherever they live. Breitbart
I guess the Mexicans expect people to treat their flag with a bit more dignity than they treat the flags of others, especially the American Flag. Mexicans have hung our Flag upside down have walked on it, burned it and have hung it below their flag in this country. It would seem the Mexicans do not have much to say when they are disrespecting someone else’s flag but get in a snit when it is theirs.
Screw them and their flag.
Mexican hypocrites
Mexican attempting to burn our Flag
This Mexican Flag could have used water balloons
Tags: Commentary
Is Birthday Party Next to Go for Bloomberg?
Jun 20, 2007 Political
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg changed his political party affiliation from Republican to Independent yesterday in a move that surprised some and caused others to speculate he is posturing to enter the 2008 Presidential race as a third party candidate. Bloomberg was a Democrat and then changed to Republican (probably to win the Mayoral election after Giuliani’s terms) and now has become an Independent. I don’t know if he plans on running for the presidency but do we want a leader who can not make up his mind on something as simple as party affiliation. His party jumping would have to be the greatest example of political flip-flopping out there.
Bloomberg was only a Republican in name. His views are pretty liberal so this is no loss to the Republicans no matter how it ends up being spun. He just reminds me of a rich guy who wants things his way and if he does not like how things are going he will take his ball and go home.
In any event, I hope he enjoys his Independence and if he runs for the White House he will only waste his money. He will not win but might affect another candidate’s chances.
Source:
New York Post
Be sure to read GM’s take on Bloomy
Tags: Commentary, Political