Balloons

Every time the greenies win a battle to circumvent our lives, it only emboldens them to up the ante and try to suppress another of life's small  pleasures. Last month it was plastic straws which wave been outlawed in many of their bailiwicks ... so now they are going after balloons ... which somehow are killing sea turtles and other aquatic life. See:  Money Magazine Article. Now it would seem to this observer that the only rubber balloons that could possible get in the ocean are escape helium-filled ones ... maybe 1 in a hundred. Otherwise, it's landfill for the rest.

However, there is another type of balloon that is much more wisely to be in our waters ... condoms. When I used to row crew on the Potomac and other rivers, we saw hundreds of them floating by ... we called them "white  fish." These prophylactics are far more damaging to our environment ... and yet you cam pick them up for free at many high schools and Plan need Parenthood clinics.

Let's see the tree huggers try to ban condoms ...

Unhappy Meals

San Francisco has banned toys in fast-food meals which are considered by the nabobs there as being unhealthy … specifically the McDonald's “Happy Meal.” See: No No McDonald's 

Now, if the powers-to-be at Baghdad by the Bay can intrude on the lives of their citizens to this extent to keep them healthy, why could they not drop a pall over the myriad of other unhealthy social practices there … such as sodomy, marijuana usage, panhandling, designer drugs, street gangs, sea-lion invasions, and re-electing Nancy Pelosi?

Me thinks that those on the San Francisco's Board of Supervisors who voted for this ukase are all, as they say, "a toy short of a Happy Meal"

Extra comments:
- In China they let their citizens eat bugs, cats, shark fins, bird's nests, and rotten eggs ... and we call ourselves a free society!

- Someone on talk radio suggested today that McDonalds put condoms in their Happy Meals if it wants to pass San Francisco muster.