- From the “Crunchy Granola” Department – The city of Berkeley, California, site of what used to be one of my favorite record stores on earth, recently passed a law which will require labels on gas pumps to remind consumers that burning fossil fuels releases, and hold onto your hats here, folks, exhaust gases that include carbon dioxide. This is an effort to remind consumers that the science is settled and that carbon dioxide and other byproducts of modern society are evil, cause evil, and will have evil consequences at some point in the future. Probably. Maybe. Someday. Whatever. One wonders if similar stickers will be affixed to the counters at cannabis dispensaries reminding customers that pot isn’t exactly healthy. One also wonders if Blondie’s Pizza will be forced to put up stickers telling the people on their way home from the pot dispensary that eating too many humongous slices of their wares will lead to obesity, Type II diabetes, and heartburn. And in related news, I’d like to thank my recruiter for giving me an option to get the heck out of the Bay Area when I did. I need to find that man and buy him a beer.
- From the “Crowdsourcing” Department – The Buffalo Bills are offering $10 an hour and tickets to the Sunday game against the New York Jets to anyone who will come in and help to remove the over 200,000 tons of snow that dumped on the stadium during a recent winter storm. How’s about this for a date? Thursday, you and your sweetie put in 8 hours apiece clearing snow at the football stadium, making $160. You use that money to buy Sabres tickets for Saturday, and get lit at the game while watching a real sport. Sunday, you wake up, work off the hangover at a tailgate party, then go to the Bills/Jets game? The woman who would do that with her man would be wife material for me.
- From the “Hero” Department – A man in Maine is being hailed for rescuing an infant from an SUV that was upside down in a creek. The child was not breathing when the Samaritan cut him out of the vehicle, but recovered after being given CPR by another rescuer. The man is confirming that he is a good person by trying to downplay his actions, saying that he just happened to be at the right place at the right time.
- From the “Chutzpah” Department – A woman in Texas is suing the owners of the dog her dogs killed. Apparently after the owner of the dead beagle called the police and had the attacking dogs declared dangerous, their owner has been under stress due to the bites and scratches she received after her dogs broke into her neighbor’s yard and tore his pet apart. Just goes to show that you can sue anyone, anytime. Here’s hoping that the courts dismiss her suit with prejudice, by which I mean that she is taken behind the courthouse, beaten with the heavy end of a dog leash, and then forced to clean up the local dog park with her bare hands for a year.
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Posted by daddybear71 on November 20, 2014
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Tim D
/ November 20, 2014Makes me wonder when The city of Berkeley will pass a law requiring people to wear a sign because their exhaust gases include carbon dioxide.
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daddybear71
/ November 21, 2014And methane after the pizza.
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