I was reading Northern California newspaper the "Santa Rosa Press Democrat" online this New Year's Day morning when I came across an article summarizing some of the new laws that went into effect at midnight last night which will, for better or worse, profoundly influence the lives of people all over our great state.
Of course, the one that's getting the most press is a bundle of new "Greenhouse Gas Emmissions" laws that our governor signed yesterday aimed at reducing the amount of power that utilities can purchase from energy companies that use coal to generate it -- unless, of course, it's "clean". . .
:^s
Just how, exactly, does one go about burning coal "cleanly", I wonder?
This makes me suspicious that it's just another one of Awhnode's famous, grandeous, bandstanding gestures which always seem to turn out to be about as empty as his muscle-bound head.
I get the feeling that the whole package was somehow engineered with the ultimate goal in mind of lining the pockets of all of his little Republican, high-stakes playin' buddies. . .
We'll see. . . We'll watch and we'll see. . .
On a sadder note, I guess I'm going to have to find another way to sneak into drive-in movies from now on because of a new law that went into effect last night on the highways and byways of the Golden State that makes it illegal to transport anyone in the trunk of a car.
=8^u (Yikes!)
Gee, isn't it comforting to know that our erstwhile California legislators are out there -- sinking their teeth into the "real issues" -- while the rest of the world just fritters its time away playing around with trivial junk like war, disease and famine?
>:^\
In fact, the only new law out of the bunch that has any prospect whatsoever of affecting me on a personal level is the one that now allows the phone companies to offer cable TV services over the telephone lines. . .
Since there's no cable TV access out here in the wild hinterlands of rural Cloverdale, this means that the day when I can obtain a high-speed internet connection may not be too far off!
(**Standing-up, she cheers while doing the "end-zone dance"**)
In the meantime, though, I have to keep a bottle of "No-Doze" in my desk drawer for those long downloads -- you know the kind -- like when you're accessing your email in-box?
:^s
Prepare yourselves, because I've saved the most wide-sweeping, profound and influential legislation for last. (See there? And you thought it was the "trunk law". . .)
It is the flaming Crepes Suzette, as it were -- the jurisprudential dessert -- that our esteemed and revered law-makers have, in all their legendary wisdom, prepared for us and laid out upon The Table of Life by which we may feed our profound human needs for justice, equality and civility. . .
At precisely 12:01 a.m. this morning, it became a legal transgression against the state to remove more than 25 "free" newspapers from their dispenser or rack with an intent other than to read them all.
(Thanks, Sacramento, there goes my entire toilet paper supply. . .)
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