Using the sense God gave ya!

Has anyone heard about California and their increased effort to push this bullet train idea through? Oh my goodness! What a bunch of idiots!! Yes, that is my favorite word. It's about as strong as I can get without swearing, which when I read about the stupidity I was to scream and cuss up a blue streak. SO, what's the big deal with the bullet train you ask. Well, lets see. It's going to cost $$68.4 billion to construct. That is in current U.S. dollars, no correction for inflation. but wait, you say how can California do this they are broke? hmm, good question. I think some of you might remember when California couldn't actually pay ANY of their state employees. That was before Arnold was governor, but the fact is, the state is still operating in the red. And for the entire time he was in office he didn't get paid. not one penny! And the state still ends up with a current deficit of $$14 billion. The only other states that even come close to that are Texas & Illinois.  I was wondering how in the heck the general public in that state would stand for the construction of that thing since they are fighting to have teachers for their kids. Well the public voters okay $9.95 billion to spend on the train, and the federal government agreed to spend $3 billion on this thing, and they've also come up with $2.6 billion in bond revenue. So, if you can do basic arithmetic, that leaves the project $$$$$53 BILLION DOLLARS SHORT. And as I said before, that's in today's dollars, with no accounting for inflation. Can you imagine how expensive this thing will be in just 5 years? Seriously people, what's so important about this stupid train?! At that price the damn thing should look and be like something out of a Star Trek movie! Do they even have the infrastructure to run high speed trains, or are they going to need to rebuild everything, creating lots of waste & use of more resources? I tried to look at their website to see if I could get any good information. uh, no. It's all propaganda, cause of course, they want their train. Supposedly these trains are built to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The trains will run on electric power and will be modeled after high speed trains worldwide. Since electricity is provided by more alternative sources, I guess I could get behind that small fact for improving the environment. But,  I hate to tell these people, there are more important things to worry about than building that stupid train. Like funding teachers for schools, welfare systems, decreasing college tuition to name a few. Someone needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Where is the heck is every one's common sense? If you don't have the money to build it, and your budget is billions of dollars in the red already, WHY would you want to do something that would put you even further in the red? I have to live on a budget, why doesn't the government?!

Stupid politicians & the Lacey Act

As you may know, I hate politicians. Most, if not all politicians. Nothing but sneaky, underhanded, lying, jerks. Although I guess since I did find Jill Stein to vote for for president they aren't all bad. Maybe it's like the squeaky wheel thing, the ones that make the most noise get all the attention. So the ones making the most noise that have made me mad today are the idiots trying to limit the Lacey Act. The Lacey Act was first enacted in 1900 and prohibits the trade of illegally harvested plants & animals. Illegally harvest ANYWHERE!! That means if something is illegally harvested in Russia, it's illegal to sell it here. You get the idea? So now we have these idiots, yes, I'm being nice, from Kentucky & Georgia that say the Lacey Act is too harsh and that people are being over-criminalized for minor infractions. IDIOTS, I tell you. This would be Paul & Broun, respectively, and imagine this, they're republicans. So what is behind their idiocy. I'm guessing someone is paying them, because that company or individual wants to fish or harvest animals somewhere where it's illegal and those individuals want to get the law "downgraded" so they can do whatever they want. Damnit, those laws are in place for a reason. A lot of the the laws have to do with harvesting size. The reason behind the harvest size is to ensure the population doesn't crash. If you take something before it's had a chance to reproduce you have a really good chance of having a population go extinct. So harvest size limits are used to ensure animals are allowed to reproduce before they are harvested for food.  Anyway. These idiots (policiticians) are claiming that 2 people back in 2001 were thrown in jail just because they didn't have lobsters they harvested packaged correctly. At least that is the crap they are touting to the public, trying to get support for their moronic quest to loosen regulations. Back in 1999 2 guys were caught for harvesting lobsters that were too small, in violation of a Honduran law. Not only were these lobsters not large enough they were also packaged incorrectly, in black plastic bags. hmmm, maybe so they weren't easily visible, since the fishermen KNEW that they were taking lobsters that were too small. The idiots are claiming that these were just men trying to make a living and they didn't know that they were harvesting lobsters that were too small. I call BULLS**&T!! (if you've ever played the drinking game or card game, you know what I'm talking about) These men knew EXACTLY what they were doing, and the federal agents in charge of the case were able to prove that these men had smuggled in over $$15 MILLION DOLLARS worth of illegal fished lobsters. Seriously? trying to make a living? Not only were the feds able to prove that they smuggled in 15 million worth of lobsters, they also proved that these guys used an obscure port were the inspectors didn't know much about foreign laws on catch size. And then when the men knew that the feds were looking at them, they changed ports, not once, but twice! Even trying to come in through Canada. Does that really sound like men "just trying to make a living"? no, I think not.  The crazy thing about the Lacey Act is it's hard to prove, people are more likely to get prosecuted under the ESA than the Lacy Act. The feds don't go after minor infractions, they go after people that smuggle $15 mill of illegally harvested lobsters into the country. So now the idiot politicians want to limit the Lacey Act. Seriously, go fight for something else, like health care for everyone, or how about food for everyone. There are starving people in the U.S. as we speak. I hate politicians!