Yesterday I lamented the potential banning of fire.
For those of you that don’t know, I live in a town that rivals Berkeley for nuttiness. Thanks to the progressive thinking fomented by Chico State University, Chico is often like an alternate reality in a sea of conservative rural farmers.
In today’s Chico Enterprise Record “Hits and Misses” we have another example of this.
The city of Chico is talking about raising all sorts of fees and fines in an effort to plug an enormous hole in its budget.
The council has for years approved spending millions of dollars it didn’t have, shifting money around to hide the problem. Now it’s out in the open, and citizens will pay dearly if they dare break city laws.
But there’s good news out there for nuclear bomb owners. The current fine for a first-time violation of the city’s nuclear-free ordinance is $1,064. Under a proposal to revise certain fines, a first-time offense will be reduced to $1,000.
For those of you new to town, this is not a joke.
http://www.chicoer.com/editorials/ci_23322509/editorial-hits-and-misses
No, really, it isn’t a joke.
No person shall produce, test, maintain, or store within the city a nuclear weapon, component of a nuclear weapon, nuclear weapon delivery system, or component of a nuclear weapon delivery system under penalty of Chapter 9.60.030 of the Chico Municipal Code.
Source: http://www.chico.ca.us/document_library/municode/Title9.pdf
On my Facebook page where I first mentioned this hilarity, Ric Werme had the best comment:
Ric Werme: Say what you will, but ever since the nuke ordinance law was passed, there have been no nuke ordnance explosions in town. Clearly that law has been more successful than the budget process!
Please excuse me, while I go enjoy some yellow cake while looking over my shoulder.
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The “nuclear free” zone ordinances were big in the 1980’s. I think Hoboken, NJ used to have we are “nuclear free” signs all over the place. I wonder if that included all the nuclear materials used in medicine?
And who will be left to apply the penalty for a 2nd-time “test” violation?
I posted this yesterday, but most regulars probably already posted and missed it… More risk-averse California nonsense:
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/fema-plans-clear-cutting-85000-berkeley-and-oakland-trees
As for the fine for the bomb, I wonder what planet the bureaucrat who fixed that inhabits?
Building on the success of its nuclear weapon ban, the city should now ban catastrophic climate change within city limits. If enough cities and counties ban climate change, we won’t need expensive “carbon” taxes, ethanol mandates, wind farms, etc.
While they’re at it, Chico should also pass a law making it a terrorism-free zone.
What’s wrong with the Council? To solve that deficit problem they should raise the fine to $10M and book it as anticipated revenue. Lowering it will only encourage violators and you don’t make any money at one grand a pop. Shameful.
I see there’s no provision for second offenders……………..
The “delivery system” for a nuclear weapon can be a truck. So apparently, this law bans all trucks.
At the City Limits of Iowa City near the University of Iowa, there is a sign with a broad red circle and a diagonal broad red line. Under this is the image of a double layer mushroom cloud. However, the cloud is in green, making it resemble a big tree with a canopy and secondary branches, and the upper mushroom layer has a profile resembling Snoopy. So, at first glance, the sign says “No Trees,” and at second glance, somebody really does not like Snoopy—he’s been banned from campus.
I always found the sign useful for reminding me to take my nukes out of the trunk and them at home when I went to class. Whew, almost forgot once!
“…a component of a nuclear bomb…”, that seems pretty vague. It would seem that anyone who has a 1/4-20 screw in the garage has violated this law.
I there is a sea of conservative farmers around Chico, why are the nut jobs running things? Don’t the farmers vote?
Beautiful demonstration of our local government conundrum, no one in their right mind wants the job.
The rewards are minimal, the stimulation less than zero for fair and private people and the effect on ratepayers are usually small enough to ignore.
So who seeks those positions? People with an agenda, fame seekers and wanna be higher office seeker. As a qualifier, sane people who have been damaged by the idiocy of local council soon become crazed people with an agenda, when seeking redress.
Apparently the concept of Agenda 21 was designed to take advantage of this weakness.
I liken these anti nuke,anti carbon proclamation to buying Unicorn proof fencing, buy my invisible, magical fence and you will never be gored by a Unicorn.
How to fix?
Do not know, but human nature has not changed so
1 Status quo, keep electing self selected “leaders” and ignoring them.
2 Go to civic service as in jury duty type of selection.
3 Reverse the tax system, to individuals pay 10% to local council, council pays 10% of their take to State and State 10% to Feds. Local politics becomes important and the bureaus are starved.
4 Sit back and watch the public wealth destroyed and stolen by voluntarily non productive people. While claiming the moral high ground.
I am almost crazed enough to engage in the circus of, “Trust me, I want to be your leader.”
I wonder how the law defines “component of a nuclear weapon”. I remember in the run-up to the Iraq war, there was considerable debate over some components that had multiple possible uses.
If candle wax can be melted down and molded into a neutron reflector for a bomb…
The problem is simply this: In any well informed and intelligent society public officials who did stupid things like this would get voted out. It should be grounds for dismissal from the job to pass stupid laws and regulations. Just as teachers who expel 6 year old boys for bitting their pop tart to resemble a gun should never again be allowed to work with children and be paid by taxpayer . So what this is telling you is you live in a community/state/country people by uninformed and unintelligent voters. Therefore this problem will continue and in fact get worse until the tremendous weight of stupidity cause it all to collapse. So if you are informed and intelligent prepare yourself for what is coming…
@ur momisugly G P Hanner
Due to improvements in fossil fueled equipment and fertilizers, one US farmer is able to feed 100 non-farmers, who can then control the farmers AND their own starvation level. Too bad the Chico council clowns could not stop their fad infatuation at the “Ban the Bra” movement.
Careful Anthony, making jokes about “yellow cake” could cause you to wind up with a SWAT team at your door (or an Obama drone overhead).
The farmers are in the county – outside Chico city limits, and thus able to possess, transport and test all the nuclear weapons they want. 🙂
What are you doing with those neutrons?
From the point of view of the UK with a full complement of “nut jobs” going round cutting off soldier’s heads this posting is a bit of light relief!
UC Berkeley has applied for the grant to destroy the bucolic Strawberry and Claremont Canyon areas, claiming that the trees pose a fire hazard. The school has no plans to replant, and instead will cover 20% of the area in wood chips two feet deep. And it will pour between 700 and 1400 gallons of herbicide to prevent re-sprouting
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But wait – don’t trees remove CO2? If we are worried about camp fires, trees and nuclear weapons, then what about cars?
Cars are killers. They kill more people in the US every year than do guns and nuclear weapons combined. They kill more people than do for example killer tornadoes, hurricanes and super-storms. Also, cars create CO2, which creates these killer storms. Before humans created CO2 from burning fossil fuels these “super-storms” never happened. All we had before were big, huge, enormous, monstrous and gigantic storms, but no super-storms. Super-storms require CO2.
Also, without cars and CO2 it can be reasonably argued that in a very short period of time, perhaps as little as one or two years, that no more humans would be killed. In fact, by eliminating CO2 we could in just a few years eliminate death from planet earth almost completely. Surely that is a cause worth dying for.
Thus, shouldn’t we ban cars? Or at least ban cars in California. It seems only reasonable that California take the lead, given the superb job they are doing in cleaning up truly important problems.
Anthony Watts for Chico city council!
Dilute the ill repute!
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Have they been heating up? To what depth?
G P Hanner says:
May 25, 2013 at 7:50 am
I there is a sea of conservative farmers around Chico, why are the nut jobs running things? Don’t the farmers vote?
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Unfortunately the ballot contains only two choices. A crook or an incompetent. One is a republican, the other a democrat, and you never can be sure which is which. Sometimes you get both in one package, which is why the Presidential Pardon was invented.
Who else would want a job that costs millions to get and pays thousands in return? You either must be a crook and hope to make back the money by returning favors to your backers, or you must be incompetent and not realize that spending millions to make thousands is not really good for the nation.
The crook will make money, but only for themselves and their friends. The incompetent will simply poor money down the drain. Nowhere is there the option to vote “none of the above”.
Anthony
I don’t want to risk a fine. If I cant go to chico to test out my bomb can you suggest other places closeby where I wont be unfairly penalised for following my hobby?
tonyb
Typical of municipal politicians, who cannot police adequately but mess in the responsilities of other governments.
Fad in SW BC is shark’s fin soup which immigrants from the orient like. Whatever the concern about shark populations (they are in relatively unpoliced areas), that is a federal government responsibility.
Voters are the problem – electing incompetent do-gooders.
ps: 1064 is a familiar number to computer programmers.
REPLY: No that’s 1024, or 2^10. 10000000000 in binary, 400 in hex- Anthony
I think the conservative citizens of California should be given the option of leaving the state with the state picking up the full tab. Why should the conservatives have to live in an alternate reality that has been created by people that must be on an LSD trip!