Only in Wacked-Out California ....

[68X426]

Like it says, only in wacked-out California would a state senator chase after a ROCK for political correctness. Serpentine must be eliminated from designation as the state rock. 

Serpentine needs to censored! Outlaw the ROCK! Cannot make the crap up. The PC-holes stay up late at night with the lawyers, high on dope (medical variety only), dreaming up new evils in order to make Californians feel better.



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/16/MN3T1EE9KS.DTL

Highlight: "This isn't against serpentine. It's about asbestos," Romero said. "Why in a health-conscious state like California do we have a state rock that is related to asbestos? This is a teachable moment. It's time to be sensitive to the fact that people suffer and die from this substance. It's time to drop the rock as a symbol."

Political correctness censors the rock. And the nanny state is certain we citizens will FEEL BETTER. Bad ROCK. 

[bull]

It's getting difficult to even conceptualize on the level of stupidity these people operate by on a daily basis.

[Old Moparz]

It makes sense to me that CA would make a big deal out of a rock, I mean after all, the "Pet Rock" originated in CA.  

[Dans 68]

Well, they certainly don't know enough to work on bills relating to the budget, so what else are they supposed to do for their paychecks?  

Dan

[twodko]

What Dan & Bull said!

After the "Pet Rock" invention here in "our state is broke" land, all the Pet Rocks went to Sacto and got elected to political office.............and they're still as dumb as rocks. But wait there's more! Now we have Pelosi's sister from hell, Meg Whitman, shamelessly buying the office of Governor. And the sheep of Kalifornication are actually buying this! W   T   F?

[Dans 68]

Well, it is either Whitman or that proverbial loon, Jerry Brown. Guess which way I'll be voting....

Dan

[Mike DC]

  
Cali should just be restricted from passing any other new legislation of any kind until the whole state budget is in black ink.

   

[klutch]

 

[nh_mopar_fan]

 

[AKcharger]

Highlight: "This isn't against serpentine. It's about asbestos," Romero said. "Why in a health-conscious state like California do we have a state rock that is related to asbestos? This is a teachable moment. It's time to be sensitive to the fact that people suffer and die from this substance. It's time to drop the rock as a symbol."

Political correctness censors the rock. And the nanny state is certain we citizens will FEEL BETTER. Bad ROCK. 

How can you even answer that?

[Khyron]

wait, they have a state rock? states have state rocks? ...


any australians want to put me up for a new months.... I'm gettin gout of this place!

[Old Moparz]

wait, they have a state rock? states have state rocks? ...


any australians want to put me up for a new months.... I'm gettin gout of this place!

Don't forget that Australia is responsible for Mel Gibson.

[Khyron]

I got no problem with him... who cares, he's a racist and got caught.... I still love the country I already did my facebook rant on Mel, not gonna do it here too

[Dans 68]

wait, they have a state rock? states have state rocks? ...


any australians want to put me up for a new months.... I'm gettin gout of this place!

Don't forget that Australia is responsible for Mel Gibson.

Aww, I like Mel. He just having a few bad months.... 

California is a beautiful place, a country onto itself. Bad politicians and policies have made it into a bad joke.   

Dan

[Old Moparz]

I always liked Mel Gibson's movies, but I suppose he's getting whacked out in his old age. Now whether he's racist or just a goofy drunk is his business, I'm just glad I don't have to deal with him like I had to with my sister-in-law. I don't care what he says or does, he can even eat rocks in CA.   

[John_Kunkel]

Political correctness censors the rock. And the nanny state is certain we citizens will FEEL BETTER. Bad ROCK. 

So, if your state adopted poison ivy as the state flower you'd have no objections?

[bull]

Political correctness censors the rock. And the nanny state is certain we citizens will FEEL BETTER. Bad ROCK. 

So, if your state adopted poison ivy as the state flower you'd have no objections?

So are you saying you agree with this nonsense?

[68X426]

Political correctness censors the rock. And the nanny state is certain we citizens will FEEL BETTER. Bad ROCK. 

So, if your state adopted poison ivy as the state flower you'd have no objections?

So are you saying you agree with this nonsense?

Yeah John I'm confused, especially because your state is my state.

The reason I posted this is because of the insanity of the politicians' motivation. It is to make us feel better. I have no feelings good or bad about the rock. It is the politician, on behalf of the nanny state, that has bad feelings about the rock.

We can all agree that cancer and death is bad. I just don't see that censoring the rock does anything for the problem.

She, the state senator, is wacked-out. She represents (what a word  ) the CA Senate District 24, which is East LA, to El Monte, to La Puenta.  There's no employment problems in her district, no crime, no poor roads, no lack of recreation for kids, no HS dropouts, no teen pregnancy, everything is so fine in her district that all that is left to accomplich is to get us all to feel good by censoring the bad rock. Gloria Romero is wacked-out. 

[68X426]

Political correctness censors the rock. And the nanny state is certain we citizens will FEEL BETTER. Bad ROCK. 

So, if your state adopted poison ivy as the state flower you'd have no objections?

Funny you bring that up. I would have no objections. But the nanny state will soon have to get a ban on the state flower, which is the California Poppy. After all it is a relative of the opium poppy. To feel better about ourselves the politicians will have to censor the poppy. 

Had to share this additional item. There's an old movement still on-going to declare poison oak as the CA state plant. Just down the road from me will be the 28th annual Poison Oak Show, in Columbia, this September.  Check it out.

http://www.columbiagazette.com/poison.html

[John_Kunkel]

So are you saying you agree with this nonsense?

Nope, just saying I understand the logic behind the change. Wouldn't make much sense to send a school bus full of kids out on a field trip to "harvest" some serpentine rock for a science display.

There's an old movement still on-going to declare poison oak as the CA state plant. Just down the road from me will be the 28th annual Poison Oak Show, in Columbia, this September.

So, it's crazy when politicians get involved but citizens involved in an "old movement" makes sense? Got it.

[Dans 68]

So are you saying you agree with this nonsense?

Nope, just saying I understand the logic behind the change. Wouldn't make much sense to send a school bus full of kids out on a field trip to "harvest" some serpentine rock for a science display.

Any "Asbestos" is fully encapsulated in the structure of the mineral, unlike the brains of these addled politicians....

There's an old movement still on-going to declare poison oak as the CA state plant. Just down the road from me will be the 28th annual Poison Oak Show, in Columbia, this September.

So, it's crazy when politicians get involved but citizens involved in an "old movement" makes sense? Got it.

Intent is everything with politicians....


Keep it coming, John, I enjoy your perspective.    

Dan

[Ponch ®]

speaking of our state's fine bureaucracy....so evidently I have to get the '74 smogged to get it back on the road. sure, according to the law it doesn't need to be smogged because it's older than a 76 model, but according to the fine folks at the DMV, the smog check that was due in '04 is "still pending". Great.

I don't care what anyone says about Mel..."What women want" is a great movie!

[68X426]

So, it's crazy when politicians get involved but citizens involved in an "old movement" makes sense? Got it.

Actually you missed the little coocoo smiley    that is on the post about celebrating poison oak. It is meant to say that their movement doesn't make sense.    We agree.

The difference is that them citizens are having fun. Hurrah for them.

The politicians are trying to run your life, and mine, and make us all wards of the nanny state. No fun to be allowed, let alone freedom of speech. 

[Ghoste]

Not to mention that the politician harvests huge sums of your hard earned tax dollars to forward these schemes.

[bull]

So are you saying you agree with this nonsense?

Nope, just saying I understand the logic behind the change. Wouldn't make much sense to send a school bus full of kids out on a field trip to "harvest" some serpentine rock for a science display.

Really? I don't get how you can understand the logic of something so completely void of logic and reason. Has there been, and is there any danger of, school kids getting lung damage from serpentine? Do the teachers make the kids pound the rocks into dust and then breathe it in? Serpentine doesn't even contain asbestos 100% of the time so how many serpentine rocks would each kid have to beat into dust and breathe in for there to be any hint of a problem? Sen. Romero is a fool and her campaign is a foolish waste of time, resources and money.

[Ponch ®]

foolish waste of time, resources and money.

I believe that's the CA State Assembly's official motto.

[bull]

foolish waste of time, resources and money.

I believe that's the CA State Assembly's official motto.

Sadly they are not alone. I thought my city was small enough to keep itself out of too much trouble until they announced plans to place a %#@* 1,000+ foot aircraft carrier in the Columbia River less than 2 miles from my house. http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=127872516383875400

It's going to cost $31 million just to renovate the thing and God knows how much to maintain it. Is there a place left in the US that isn't run by morons?

[Rolling_Thunder]

foolish waste of time, resources and money.

I believe that's the CA State Assembly's official motto.

Sadly they are not alone. I thought my city was small enough to keep itself out of too much trouble until they announced plans to place a %#@* 1,000+ foot aircraft carrier in the Columbia River less than 2 miles from my house. http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=127872516383875400

It's going to cost $31 million just to renovate the thing and God knows how much to maintain it. Is there a place left in the US that isn't run by morons?

Alaska....     disfunctional and hott are the words up there I think.   

[Dans 68]

foolish waste of time, resources and money.

I believe that's the CA State Assembly's official motto.

Sadly they are not alone. I thought my city was small enough to keep itself out of too much trouble until they announced plans to place a %#@* 1,000+ foot aircraft carrier in the Columbia River less than 2 miles from my house. http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=127872516383875400

It's going to cost $31 million just to renovate the thing and God knows how much to maintain it. Is there a place left in the US that isn't run by morons?

Alaska....     disfunctional and hott are the words up there I think.   

I think you mean "Astoria", right? 

Dan

[bull]

Astoria would have been a great place for the Ranger. You could sail that monstrosity right into the harbor and be done with it but to put it here in Fairview means partially dismantling a bridge, dredging the river, environmental impact statements, yadda, yadda, etc. I think I'm going to move.

Look at this thing! You could house more than half my city of 10,000 in it.

[Old Moparz]

Look at this thing! You could house more than half my city of 10,000 in it.

Now there's a good idea, use all the retired aircraft carriers to house the homeless. Bids can be accepted to dredge shallow waterways, or even dig canals to places that have no water fronts at all. Think about how many jobs that would be created by handing out thousands of shovels to people so they can dig a really long, really deep trench to a bunch of states in the Midwest from one of the coasts.

[Brock Samson]

 Now your usin' your noggin'    Man those Tomcats look pretty on the deck from the air. 

[hemi68charger]

Speaking as a Geologist, this is whacked !!!!

[John_Kunkel]

Any "Asbestos" is fully encapsulated in the structure of the mineral, unlike the brains of these addled politicians....

And minerals never get broken open like when the rock is crushed to surface roads? There was a big flap near me (El Dorado Hills, CA) when it was discovered that the area of a large yuppie enclave of mansions (Serrano) was riddled with serpentine and the grading necessary to prepare the pads had released fibers into the air. And tests showed the surface of the whole area had high asbestos consentrations from years of construction grading.

On a side note, I was driving a dump truck in that very same subdivision and many drivers complained about how the contractors weren't watering the area to keep the dust down, my truck had A/C so I kept the windows up and wasn't driving around with a dust-covered dash like the low buck guys.

[John_Kunkel]

Now there's a good idea, use all the retired aircraft carriers to house the homeless.

Or, better yet, pull one along the shore and tie its power into the electrical grid. Cheaper and more practical than scrapping the reactor.

[bull]

Now there's a good idea, use all the retired aircraft carriers to house the homeless.

Or, better yet, pull one along the shore and tie its power into the electrical grid. Cheaper and more practical than scrapping the reactor.

Well, you know they're going to scrap the reactor. It costs more to scrap it so that's what the government will do.

[CaptMarvel]

As a lifetime inhabitant of the socialist republic of Ca., Im not surprised at anything that happens out here. Too bad, so much great farmland, high mountains, coastline and classic cars (they're the next to go out here-mark my words!) and only one or two politicians statewide with any common sense...Dont forget, we are also the state that prefers to protect some idiotic canal fish over pumping much needed water to the most productive farmland in the world (look it up- San Joaquin Valley delta smelt)...Is there still any land for sale in Utah or Texas?....

[mauve66]

As a lifetime inhabitant of the socialist republic of Ca., Im not surprised at anything that happens out here. Too bad, so much great farmland, high mountains, coastline and classic cars (they're the next to go out here-mark my words!) and only one or two politicians statewide with any common sense...Dont forget, we are also the state that prefers to protect some idiotic canal fish over pumping much needed water to the most productive farmland in the world (look it up- San Joaquin Valley delta smelt)...Is there still any land for sale in Utah or Texas?....

yeah, all that green farmland is just a dry brown barren area now........... idiots......... hope the delta smelt is doing great............

[Vainglory, Esq.]

There's quite a bit more going on here than meets the eye.  Yes, on the surface, this is entirely crazy, but do a little bit of digging, and you'll see what's behind it. 

Although sponsored by Gloria Romero (who is an idiot in her own right), the language that actually made it into the bill was provided by a group called The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (http://www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org/).  Guess who the group's main sponsors are?  Trial lawyers, who have been shaking people down for asbestos-related diseases for years.  (http://www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org/2010-adao-sponsors/)

So, it's not a crazy law for the trial lawyers, in that it would increase the opportunities for them to take people to court for naturally occurring serpentine that exists on their land, without affording them the sympathy that comes from the protection of a "California state rock."

Cynical, yes.  Disingenuous, yes.  Counterproductive, yes.  Crazy?  Well, maybe crazy like a fox.

[68X426]

Thank you, great detective work. Great links.