Only in Portlandia…or Chico?

Posted on Saturday, June 2, 2012 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

Dedicated to our friend Joseph and other concerned citizens of Chico:

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14 Responses to Only in Portlandia…or Chico?

  1. RHT447 says:
    Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    Oh man, That is too funny. You guys gotta start posting class three beverage alerts with this stuff. Not only does cold beer hurt when blasted through your sinus, you owe me a new keyboard.

  2. Post Scripts says:
    Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    RHT…I’ll be happy to buy you a replacement beer at the Elks Club! lol

  3. Joseph says:
    Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    Well, maybe not so funny in a few months…

    I tell you, Ms. Tina and all of you, if Schwabbie, Hokum, The Grundler and Goloff have their way reality may not be exactly like that but you will not be laughing.

    There will be no plastic grocery bags allowed and you will be taxed anywhere from ten to twenty-five cents per paper bag, assuming our local dictators decide to allow paper bags.

    If you really want to know what this bag ban is all about and the whole STF for that matter, check out this letter

    http://savetheplasticbag.com/UploadedFiles/Ukiah%20letter.pdf

    For some more links on this check out this

    http://chicotaxpayers.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/sleep-with-your-hand-on-your-walletpurse-strap/#comment-228

    And just check out the all the info above it that Juanita posted.

    Also, you might want to be at the library tomorrow at 9 as Mark Sorensen will speak at the Chico Taxpayers Association meeting and you could ask him questions about this. They will be mainly talking about the phone tax and the quarter million dollars the city council is unable to account for.

  4. Joseph says:
    Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    I tell ya, Miss Tina, this little city has real problems.

    For starters there’s a quarter of a million dollars the city can’t account for.

    The city also has big problems with unfunded pension and health care liabilities.

    And thanks to the incompetence of the city council the taxpayers are on the hook for what is it? Ten million dollars in lawsuits and legal fees?

    And there are many other problems.

    And so what are the gang of five doing? Outlawing plastic bags! You would think they would have better things to do with their time and our money!

    Not to mention they want to raise our taxes. They are plotting with that sneaky Lando, and you can bet they will back with that sales tax increase.

    Let’s face it, this bag ban is absurd especially with everything else that’s going on.

    We have real problems here and all the gang of five can offer is a buffet of buffoonery.

  6. Rex Crosley says:
    Monday, June 4, 2012 at 7:58 am

    The fact that conservatives are willing to fight so hard over such a petty issue shows that you old koots will fight over anything. Truth is that plastic bags are everywhere and they are trashing up our planet. You may not care about that, but a lot of people do.

  7. Post Scripts says:
    Monday, June 4, 2012 at 8:53 am

    Rex, congratulations you finally did it! You actually made a point that that’s mostly true, I am an “old koot!” As for the rest of what said, you didn’t do so hot. See Rex, this was television skit. It’s a spoof, it’s obviously aimed at Trader Joe’s and it was written by comedy writers to be funny. It’s not a political statement.

    Rex, I hesitate to mention this, but I feel it’s my duty: One of the first things to go as one approaches old age is dementia, the symptoms are being humorless and an inability to comprehend simple things.

    Better get a check up.

  8. Tina says:
    Monday, June 4, 2012 at 9:22 am

    http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic

    It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last May’s Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a high school student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plasticCould those microorganisms be bred to do the job faster? That was Daniel’s question, and he put to the test with a very simple and clever process of immersing ground plastic in a yeast solution that encourages microbial growth, and then isolating the most productive organisms. The preliminary results were encouraging, so he kept at it, selecting out the most effective strains and interbreeding them. After several weeks of tweaking and optimizing temperatures Burd was achieved a 43 percent degradation of plastic in six weeks, an almost inconceivable accomplishment.

    Charges that plastic won’t decompose for 1000 years is also mere speculation. The enviro-scare machine has an active imagination but no the adult capacity to reason or solve problems.

    Lighten up Jim, for every problem there is a solution…

    …as long as we don’t panic and frighten people into willing submission to the IPCC and UN control. If we ever do that innovation will die and slavery could become be the new norm. If you want to live in a polluted world try living in a dark ages scenario of joblessness; lawlessness; broken, decaying sewer and water systems; and severe decline in mass production of food (North Korea, the USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, communist China).

    Wake up man you;ve been hoodwinked by the biggest scammers money could buy.

  9. Question says:
    Monday, June 4, 2012 at 11:05 am

    And when the bacteria are finished eating all the plastic bags, how will we stop them from eating everything else that is plastic?

  10. Chris says:
    Monday, June 4, 2012 at 11:53 am

    I never thought I’d see this site link to a sketch from “Portlandia,” let alone one featuring the wonderful Jack McBrayer. You are officially forgiven for all of your wrong opinions. 😉

  11. Toby says:
    Monday, June 4, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    Who was it that pushed for plastic bags to replace the evil, 100% biodegradable paper bag in the first place? Hmm, who?

  12. Tina says:
    Monday, June 4, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    Chris we may be older but we’re not dead. Wisdom polishes and brightens a sense of humor.

  13. Tina says:
    Monday, June 4, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    Question how about if we have Gort stand guard!

  14. Tina says:
    Monday, June 4, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    Excellent rhetorical question Toby!

    The same dude is at least partly responsible for forrest fires that rage out of control because logging has been curtailed:

    http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/06/03/2140631/tom-partin-the-spotted-owl-did.html

    The Northwest Forest Plan, implemented in 1994, was designed to assure the recovery of the northern spotted owl. The plan allocated only 15 percent of the 24.5 million acres of federal land it covers to multiple use management and set aside 85 percent for special uses. This drastic reduction in manageable land reduced the amount of timber available annually from 4.5 billion to 1.1 billion board feet. This reduction, coupled with the fact that less than 40 percent of the projected 1.1 billion was ever made available for harvest, led to the closure of 261 mills supporting at least 50,000 jobs in western Washington, western Oregon and northern California.Based on a conservative production estimate of at least 500 board-feet per acre per year, growth on the Northwest Forest Plan acres since 1994 has been in the neighborhood of 12.1 billion board feet per year. The annual harvest has been only about 4 percent of growth. The resulting buildup of dead and dying trees in Northwest forests has led to catastrophic fires burning millions of acres, much of it prime spotted owl habitat.The Pacific Northwest is the premier timber growing region in the world. We have the laws and standards in place to assure good environmental management and protection of air and water quality when we harvest. Yet today, America is importing 40 percent of its softwoods from Canada. We are in a prolonged period of high unemployment in America and especially in Oregon, Washington and northern California. Poverty in rural areas of the Northwest continues to fester. More than 25 percent of rural Oregon families are on food stamps and a record number of our children depend on free school lunches and even breakfasts to meet their basic nutritional needs.Meanwhile, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to nearly triple the critical habitat set aside for protection of the spotted owl from 5.3 million acres to nearly 14 million acres. This despite the fact that owl numbers have continued to decline rapidly due to catastrophic wildfire and predation by the more aggressive barred owl. Curtailing harvest well below that envisioned by the Northwest Forest Plan has not helped the owl because habitat is not the limiting factor.

    Central planning just doesn’t work.

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