What's it like, living in the Land of Lunacy??


(February 08, 2006) - Let's say a guy pops into a neighborhood 7-11 and buys himself a tall cup of "Oh Thank Heaven" java. He drinks it while walking down the street, then tosses the empty cup on the sidewalk.

You're a cop and your city has decided to crack down on littering. So what do you do? Anywhere else on Planet Earth, you give the litterbug a citation and tell him to knock it off.

But we're talking about Oakland, California, here.

No, if you're in anti-business Oakland, California, you fine the 7-11 store which sold the cup of coffee in the first place. And every other 7-11 store, whether any of its patrons ever toss a food wrapper on the ground or not.

I'm serious. Oakland City Councilwoman Jane Brunner has proposed a new tax on fast-food restaurants and convenience stores to pay for cleaning up the city's streets. "It's not fair that the residents have to clean up after a fast-food establishment that's making a profit," Bruner tells the Associated Press. Apparently it's also unfair to make the litterbugs themselves pay for it, especially when there are greedy, deep-pocketed corporate devils raking in all that dough-re-mi out there.

You'll be shocked to learn that Ms. Brunner is an employment attorney who previously worked for the business-hating electrical workers union and who now provides sexual harassment training when she's not out stumping for "affordable" housing. Oh, and she's a former public school teacher.

What?? No tree-hugging??

Compounding this absurdity, it turns out that the worst litter problems reportedly occur around high schools and middle schools. According to Brunner, though, instead of taxing the schools whose "patrons" are the actual cause of the litter problem, she's going to launch an "education" program to teach students about the cost of littering.

And California wonders why the rest of the nation thinks they're a bunch of kooks?

Here's how you can contact Ms. Brunner; however, please remember that overheated and profane rhetoric actually makes US look like the wackos, so despite the idiocy of her ordinance, let's keep it civil . . . .

Councilwoman Jane Brunner
One Frank Ogawa Plaza
One City Hall Plaza, 2nd Floor
Oakland, CA 94612

Phone: (510) 238-7001
Fax: (510) 238-6910

E-mail: jbrunner@oaklandnet.com
Staff e-mail: jhorner@oaklandnet.com or zwald@oaklandnet.com

Wouldn't you like to see Judge Alito and Chief Justice Roberts questioning the Democrat Senators to determine their qualifications for Public office?


Just imagine matching the IQs of the Senators and the Judges!

The questions might go like this, . . . .

Judge Alito (JA): "Senator Kennedy, I see from your official resume that you attended Harvard University, . . . "

Senator Kennedy (SK): "Yes, Your Honor, I certainly did."

JA: "Did you graduate?"

SK: "Your Honor, I respectfully ask that you not pry into my personal life, . . . "

JA: "Is it not true that you were expelled from Harvard for violatingthe honor code, to wit, you hired someone to take an exam for you?"

SK: "Mr. Chairman, I want to go on record that I disagree with this line of questioning. I ask the chair to order the Judge from askingquestions about my private matters, . . . "

Senator Specter, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee: "Answer the Judge's questions. He answered all of yours, . . . "

JA: "Senator Kennedy, we have on hand a transcript of the session ofthe university's honor council attesting to your fraudulent examinationand subsequent expulsion from the university, . . . . "

SK: "I have had all I can take of this line of unreasonable questioning. (turning to his chief of staff, microphone still on), remind me to ask Al Gore how he managed to keep his early departure from Vanderbilt University Divinity School away from the eyes of these religious nuts..."

JA: "Wait, Senator Kennedy, I want to ask you about the 26 phone calls you made from a motel room the night Mary Jo Kopecne drowned in your car at Chappaquiddick, when you said you were asleep all night, . . . " [Kennedy shuffles his papers, stuffing them into an old leather briefcase, and flees the hearing room in a huff, with ten staffers in tow]

Senator Specter: "Chief Justice Roberts [CJR] will now interrogate Senator Biden [SB}, Democrat of Delaware, . . . "

CJR: "Senator Biden, is it not true that you were expelled from law school for plagiarizing another student's work?"

SB: "Wait, Ted, I am going with you, . . . " [Biden flees the hearing room]

Senator Specter: "Judge Alito will now interrogate Senator Feinstein, Democrat of California, . . . "

JA: "Senator Feinstein [SF], why did you vote for the former Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan of West Virginia [Robert Byrd] to be the Democrat Senate Majority Leader in 1986, 1988, 1990, and 1992?"

SF: "Wait, boys, I am going with you, . . . " [Feinstein flees the hearing room ]

Senator Specter: "Since Senator Schumer seems to be hiding under the table, I must adjourn, . . . . We stand in adjounment until our dear friends, (ahem, ), ummmmm, . . . . grow some cajones!

God Bless,
Dan'L