Friday, October 27, 2006

Election Season!

Here we go again, its election season!


Great, that means I can’t watch TV for 3 or 4 weeks without getting punch-drunk on idiocy.


The ads I see on TV appear to be produced with the expectation of the viewer’s political ignorance. ‘Santorum votes with George Bush 98% of the time’ one ad spouts. Why is Bush voting; and what is he voting for? He is the president, he doesn’t vote, he signs!

‘Casey was against the pay raise, but he still signed the checks’ intones another ad. Well, of course he did; it’s his job! The state treasurer has to pay for things the house buys!

Then there is Melissa Hart, touchingly wishing her opponent would stop the negative campaigning; all the while the RNC posts ads that slam the same opponent.


The fact that these ads seem to expect the viewer to be stupid is pitiful – The fact that they work is pathetic!!

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Update to Ban-on-the-Smoking-Ban

This Tribune-Review article quotes Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato as stsing "I'm still convinced, now as ever, that (a smoking ban) should be done at the state level,...But I'm also a realist, and with a 14 to 1 vote, this would become law regardless of what I do." You are supposed to make executive decisions based on principles, Dan, not wind-blown opinion or what others might do!!

In exchange for his support, CE Dan asked the council to consider five ammendments. These include exemptions for small bars and taverns, fundraising activities of volunteer groups, and property edjacent to health-care facilities, dropping the 15 foot rule, and a requirement to evaluate the impact on small businesses within one year.

Heck, Dan, that's just about the whole piece of legislation. Either you are for a smoking ban, or you are not!

Pick a side!!

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

DDT to Global Warming

John Stossel's piece on realclearpolitics should be enough said on the subject.

The same folks who enabled the deaths of close to a trillion (yes, that is a t), by using baseless junk science and political hysteria to ban DDT; are now doing it with global warming.

Don't settle for it.