The level of meddling is reaching critical mass. On another note, "Libtards", I love it, I REALLY wish I'd come up with it!! I wonder if they've heard of this term at Lucianne.com. I will be sure to give credit where credit is due. Nice website, I'll stop back more often.

Look at the bright side, Mox: there will be fortunes to be made smuggling illicit incandescent bulbs into California from Arizona, Nevada and Oregon, and selling them at a huge markup. If Levine's bill passes, I'm going to get to work right away on a business plan to open up big-box home lighting supercenters just across state lines, along all the major highway routes. I'll let you invest if you want.

It spreading way beyond Wackyfornia .... I was out at the hardware superstore last night looking for a Mercury Vapor/Metal Halide/HPS or similar fixyure for the barn ... since fluoros are notoriously useless in cold weather. With the subzeros we've seen a few times already this winter, almost very one of the 9 fluorescent fixtures in the barn will have to be replaced (or at least the tubes replaced). So I'm thinking one large decent light source high up in the rafters to give as much light overall as all the fluoros. Big selection ... ONE HPS, ONE MH, ONE MV ... all rather feeble ... and THREE different fluorescent megalights that will supposedly work in subzero temps.
The whole inventory of exterior or industrial lamps seems designed to save watts, rather than providing light!
Coming Next: a feeble fluorescent replacement for all our computerized flashes ....

Speaking of light bulbs....

Moxie, can you help me out? I need to know what the connection is between Larry Flint's Hustler Magazine and the Code Pink political organization. Since I am not a chick and have been dragged kicking and screaming into the current milinium, I am not fully plugged in.

Don't spare me from biting scarcasm.

GL

who's banning spanking?

GL -- they have both ruined dating and marriage for non-liberal women? That's my best guess.

J- California wants to ban spanking. I'm too lazy to find the link but it was on Drudge for a few days.

"I don't think states have any rights. You're part of the Union now, Bucky, so isn't it about time y'all get used to it? I live in the West, but I don't self-identify as a 'Westerner'. All this Northerner Southerner Midwesterner bullshit is just that. Bullshit. We're all Americans."

Bane sends condolences and opinion as well.

Since we are doing away with states, we can all vote these idiots into the ocean? Thanks Bane...

But a good idea nevertheless.

Pete they make HO or HD flouro's that will light just fine in the cold. Used to be used at service stations and the like. But halogens, low pressure sodium and the like work very well, though they require a pretty long warm up period, a period of basically zero light output.

Hypothetically speaking, if you gave a liberal member of the assembly a spanking in a room lit by incandescent light, would that be enough right there to get you a life sentence under California's "three strikes" law?

Mox,

You would look good even under fluorescent lighting. But I can see how professional models who lack your beauty would find it much more difficult.

Gib - unless you are an illegal, then they'd let you sue the assemblymember and put them in prison for causing undue strain on your hand with their trans-fatty asses.

Re: spanking, the libtard in question is Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View. Linkage here.

My personal favorite quote: "Is it OK to whip a ... newborn?" Yet her proposal only "protects" children up to age three, so it is fair to assert that Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, supports whipping four year olds. I suppose, if she'd ever had children herself, her perspective might have been somewhat different.

Oh, man. If we ban spanking my sex life is finished.

Oh, only up to three. Well, who cares then. Besides, I don't see anything saying we can't still waterboard 'em.

ok, she wants to ban spanking of children 3 yrs or younger. this makes total lib sense as she has no children herself. reasoning with a two year old is very easy for liberals since they have about the same mental capacity. however the 2 yr old just may be a touch smarter. sorry, but i can't stand it when shits like her try to tell people how to raise their kids. i'm sorry to all that love cali but can we just give it away........please.

If there's one thing libtards consistently enjoy doing, it's destroying small businesses. And they have the nerve to call themselves the "Party of the People." BS!!

Ah, California...putting the ASS in assemblymen.

Lieber is NOT a Californian, she moved out here from Detroit and was unemployed until she hooked up with the Libtard Network who got her to run for office in my town. She's a hollow shell, a proxy - there's nothing to her, which is perfect since like Pelosi and Boxer they are non-natives who could care less about how things are and only care how they can make it worse.

Oh yes here in KALIFORNIA where the politicians are mostly liberal demacrats and with brains the size of a mini M and M some brainless member of the dumb jackass party wants to ban incadesent lightbulbs and some other wants to send you to prison for spnaling your kids frankly they should all return to the weird world of stupididy where they came from

Sandpiper: try a period or a comma. Check out this book if you're stumped.



Regarding Lieber's career-advancement-by-proxy initiatives, take a look at who she's been done by and what she's done for them. Ms. Sally's a backscratcher if ever there was one. One of her proudest achievements, if one is to believe her official state bio, is that she authored the laws to increase the minimum wage. Hmm. Who does that benefit? Minimum wage-earners in the labor sector, of course. Now let's take a look at followthemoney.org's list of campaign contributors and suddenly things start to come into focus. California School Employee's association. California Teacher's Association. California state council of service employees / SEIU (e.g., fast food cooks and hotel janitors). California state council of laborers / LIUNA (e.g., day laborers and gardeners). The list goes on. Overall, 29.5% of this chick's total cost for all three of her campaigns for the state assembly have been financed by the labor industry. No wonder she's so proud of having raised the minimum wage; she finally got all those paybacks off her list of things to do.



The good news, if there is any, is that she'll be gone by 2008. Thank you, term limits. The bad news is there will undoubtedly be another cardboard box to fill her chair when she's out living on the streets again.