Global Warming, My Fat Aunt Petunia!
When I got home last night the inside of the house was 37 degree. Outside it was twenty eight. Today it started to snow! I would include an image, but the system will only allow me to insert an url, and the pic is actually on my desktop. If you want to see it, look me up or either MySpace or Tribes.
At the dump today I was informed that I was being fined for including steel cans in the trash. Mind you, I am all favor of recycling: but last time I went to the dump I was told they would not accept steel cans for recycling. Now they 'always'' have. Only you have to wash them first.
To be fined for something you have to commit a crime. So it is now a crime to throw away steel cans. Worse, according to the man at the gate, it is illegal not to wash out your empty yoghurt containers! (Which they have also never before accepted, only now they 'always' have. Thank you, George Orwell!)
Ghandi noted that 'freedom is the right to say 'I won't.' A government is within its rights to forbid you from doing something but the minute that government tells you that you must do something, you are no longer free.'
It is reasonable for the Congress to forbid us to use incandescent light bulbs anymore, as they contribute to global warming. But when we are told that we MUST wash our empty yoghurt containers, or become criminals: then we are living under Totalitarianism, plain and simple.
And meanwhile, Global warming seems to be lowering the temperature here in California by alarming degrees.
Am I curmudgeon?
You bet your Fat Aunt Petunia I am!
At the dump today I was informed that I was being fined for including steel cans in the trash. Mind you, I am all favor of recycling: but last time I went to the dump I was told they would not accept steel cans for recycling. Now they 'always'' have. Only you have to wash them first.
To be fined for something you have to commit a crime. So it is now a crime to throw away steel cans. Worse, according to the man at the gate, it is illegal not to wash out your empty yoghurt containers! (Which they have also never before accepted, only now they 'always' have. Thank you, George Orwell!)
Ghandi noted that 'freedom is the right to say 'I won't.' A government is within its rights to forbid you from doing something but the minute that government tells you that you must do something, you are no longer free.'
It is reasonable for the Congress to forbid us to use incandescent light bulbs anymore, as they contribute to global warming. But when we are told that we MUST wash our empty yoghurt containers, or become criminals: then we are living under Totalitarianism, plain and simple.
And meanwhile, Global warming seems to be lowering the temperature here in California by alarming degrees.
Am I curmudgeon?
You bet your Fat Aunt Petunia I am!