California Insanity

Aren't you impressed?  Wow, McCain got an endorsement from Awnold!  That's who will make me vote for McCain.  NOT!  Here's a guy who is governor of the looniest state in the union, and I am supposed to be energized by his endorsement?  The RINO known to us as Awnold has signed legislation like this

"Truckers who cross the California state line after Jan. 1, 2008, have a new reason to dread doing so: On New Year’s Day the state begins enforcing a new anti-idling measure that doesn’t exempt sleeper time.

For the past two years, California has enforced a five-minute limit on truck idling, but allowed drivers to idle during sleeper-berth time.

That changes with the New Year, and the California Air Resources Board has boosted fines for violating the idling rule from $100 to $300. CARB also increased the number of enforcement officers.

A CARB official confirmed to Land Line on Friday, Dec. 28, that egregious idling could result in fines of $1,000 per day and even criminal charges, although such prosecution would be rare."

Excuse me?  It "doesn’t exempt sleeper time"?  Been in Northern California lately?  It's true, they get snow and ice.  Drivers are restricted to the time they are allowed to drive, so they have to stop and sleep, but they are not allowed to run heaters.  It's okay to freeze the human driver if we're saving the environment, right?  Typical lefty view, humans are ruining the earth and should be eradicated; truck drivers first!  Been in Southern California in July?  Aw, let them suffocate, it's the environment we're about, right?  But wait!  California has a "cruelty to animals law".  They're not allowed to be kept in a too hot/too cold environment...by LAW. 

My advice to truckers, buy a dog!  For the rest of us who are just voters, how impressed are you by an endorsement from the gubernator?

 

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