READER COMMENT OF DAY: "Social Engineering at finest!
You can thank your social engineers for this beauty. There's is a formula for socialism: 1) Force people to live in confined spaces. 2) Remove freedoms under the guise of "protecting the minorities". 3) Individual freedoms are lost. Seven years ago we moved outside the range of the social engineers for these very reasons. We water when we want, we burn when we want, we party when we want, etc... We look at everything inside 494/694 as the "Soviet Zone of the Twin Cities".
posted by seneubA on Oct. 13, 08 at 10:39 AM
Redrant: Comments I posted Greg Lang
All together now, sing along! "Let the circle be unbroken".
Smoke cops (WROTE)
I live in the Seattle area and I thought the left wing smoke cops lived out here, but I see they are starting to creep out into the heart of America. Seattle has banned beach fires because of global warming. First the smoke nazis will start with health reasons to ban bon fires. The next reason will be global warming. And politicians who are beholden to environmentalist nuts, will act immediately and ban the bon fire due to global warming concerns. Mark my words, it will happen. I witnessed it out here on the left coast. .
Like the cranky shopkeeper who wants you away from his awning when it rains citing "insurance regulations" Seattle wants to ban beach bonfires due to "global warming".
Like the cited shopkeeper, theses "greenie weenie" don't know what their are talking about. In Seattle, it is basically driftwood that is burned in the bonfires. In the "global warming/climate change" claim burning of bio fuels such as wood is considered "carbon neutral". The carbon, according to this theory, is mined" IE coal, oil or natural gas. There is a 99+% chance that a dead tree will decay with time, especially in a moist environment. The biological decay agents, from bacteria to termites convert the carbon in the wood to carbon dioxide in the decay process so the beach fire is technically "carbon neutral".
That said, wood fires emit a lot of soot and gaseous pollution. This tends to be localised, rain and moisture in the air eventually knock it down so it doesn't really contribute to "global warming/climate change" according to the "carbon footprint" claims.
The Strib discussions seems to limit posting size so save to a notepad or word (where you spellcheck) before posting so you don't "lose your muse!"
Bicycling around my Longfellow neighborhood I see that these fires are a cool weather thing. It is social tool, people will usually invite you to join. Being cold weather people can close windows and Minnesota houses are pretty "tight".
You are reaping what you sow with supporting the anti-smoking prohibitionists. They are always going for the next step, never, ever satisfied.
I'm 58 and recall when Minnesota had far worse air quality. This was not bad compared to Los Angeles and big Eastern cities but on the occasional "doldrums/inversion" days there would be a "haze".
Back then, asthma, allergies and respiratory diseases in children were rare even though the air was far more polluted back then. After the Belin Wall fell Western health "experts" went into Danzig, Germany, which had bad industrial pollution expecting to find an "epidemic" of childhood respiratory diseases and allergies. Surprise!, the rates were far lower than in the West.
The modern "prohibitionists" ignore this.
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