25 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  2. Noticed lack of straws in drinks when on holiday earlier this year. Only straws in drinks on the beach were those in coconuts (some patrons like coconut “milk”). And there was a notice explaining why.

  5. Are you sure there’s absolutely no way we could trigger the fault? Just give it a nudge to get it going?

  6. I certify others in propane handling. I’m reminded that while recently driving to a training session, the radio news reported on a guy convicted of sexual assault with a weapon, specifically a knife held to the victim’s throat.
    If you look on one of those little green ‘throw away’ camping cylinders, you’ll see you could be liable for “up to 5 years imprisonment” and/or a fine of $500,000 if you re-fill said cylinder.
    Proportion!

  7. Calderon is a punter. In Stalinist Russia Solzhenitsyn describes kids getting ten to twenty-five years in the Gulag for mis-spelling a slogan on a propaganda banner even if Russian wasn’t their native language. I’m sure it’s coming though. The Dems probably just haven’t read that far into it yet.

  10. A murderer in Cali will be let out a side door of the judge’s chamber to let him escape ICE — as long as he is an illegal alien.
    But they want to throw a waiter in jail for six months for offering a straw for a drink. But I guess he will get a get out of jail card if he is an illegal alien.

  11. ?
    does this include the straws used at all those hollyweird coke parties?
    what, WHAT in GAWDS NAME whacked out collective brain malfunction does it take to come up with this stuff?
    oh. rigggght. this is the bunch that came up with the 3 strikes law putting kids in prison for 20 years, NO EXCEPTION for shoplifting.
    apparently they were shoplifting drinking straws.
    as far as ‘reusable’, uh, ummm, bleach, soak, wash, bla bla bla, wtf does THAT do to your precious *&^^^$&$&^ environment mr steel straw?
    in fact folks, this is ALL about MONEY. this is how the lefties pay for the stuff, taxes and gigantic fines for trivialities.
    the 9 y.o. just gave them the brand new idea. californicate legislators working at the level of a 9 y.o.
    captcha Self DRIVE, no duff !!! sign of the times !!! does that mean human vehicle drivers will also be outlawed
    to favour the ‘silicon valley’ crowd’s bottom line?

  13. Whoops. I forgot to include that the violent sexual predator got two years, vs. the possible five years in jail and half-million dollar fine for refilling a camping cylinder.
    Sorry ’bout that.

  15. Off topic … because you led me there … but I watched, without surprise, the US Gymnastics Doctor get sentenced to 175 years in prison yesterday for diddling little girls. The same day when a psycho loner high school kid murdered two of his classmates and wounded another in the face. I am willing to bet that the murderer gets a far shorter prison sentence than the diddling Doctor.
    Yet, if you were to ask me which of the two should get the DEATH penalty … asap … it would be the kid with the gun. The kid who murdered two people in cold blood. But the tough kid with a gun … is already being described as a “sweet” kid. A quiet, studious, chyyyylld … who was quiet and just did drawrrings all day.
    If I had to choose whether my daughter was diddled or murdered … you can guess my answer (thankfully, neither has ever happened). Yet I have no such confidence in the proportional JUSTICE between these two cases. Based on prior experience, I am willing to bet that the murderous kid is spared both death and a long prison sentence.

  16. I spotted a similar sign about straws in my local pub in Alberta. The Alberta NDP is playing the same straw game. I’ll take a photo.

  18. I can see it now: if Red Rachel puts it to a vote, it’ll be–wait for it!–a straw poll…..

  19. I got it, we need one of those ‘nuke attack’ or ‘tsunami imminent’ sirens for the entire friggin’ state.
    this one warning of nonsense from the state capital, and a contest to select a name.

  20. I sometimes ask for a straw to stir my drink, push my ice cubes down a couple of times, then not use the straw for its intended purpose.
    I just set it aside, and ignore it.

  22. First ban or make undesirable efficient cleaning agents (ie bleach, non-biodegradable soaps). Then make optional or make undesirable personal hygiene (washing hands while working in food preparation). Then make optional or undesirable one time use food transport (grocery bags). Then make optional or undesirable efficient waste processing (garbage collection every two weeks, compost collection weekly). Then make optional or illegal means of separating your membranes from publicly used surfaces (keeping in mind all of the above – straws).
    How long before the next epidemic? How much longer before people realize that many of the things they’re fighting against today were public hygiene victories not too long ago?

  23. Add to that the anti-vac optional trend, plus strata/ communal living and mass transit as the preferred option. Sprinkle with organic food and no preservatives. Recipe for 1917-18 or 1345, plus or minus. We are down this road again. Head for the nearest lane to the hills or prairies.
    Captcha: Road lane

  24. On the plus side, this will result in a huge uptick in demand for artisanal hand-carved wooden drinking straws.

  25. You brought me a straw without a request. $1000 fine. At what point is this a punishment disproportionate the crime? Coker v. Georgia (1977) ruled that capital punishment for rape was disproportionate to the crime: a position that only a bunch of liberal white men could seriously claim.

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