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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If you can afford to build a nuclear weapon a thousand dollar fine isn’t much of a deterrent but the unlikeliness of collecting on this suggests no hope for the City’s finances. They should fine anyone in public talking on a cell phone, texting, or using an e-reader. $2 would work and they will get more money than for the nuclear ban.
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Gary Hladik says:
May 25, 2013 at 8:38 am
higley7 says (May 25, 2013 at 7:48 am):
Regarding Iowa City: I left in 1974. The UI was building (or had just built) major structures in the flood plain of the Iowa River. I was scheduled to show some out-of-state visitors around the area and so called the Univ. to ask about the potential for flooding. I was assured that the architects and engineers had considered this and the “challenge; not a problem” would be handled by pumps in the basement. Having seen rivers flood, that seemed to fit the now common “hope is not a plan” laugh-a-thon.
It worked really well:
http://now.uiowa.edu/2012/11/living-floods
A “Nuclear free zone” has a very clear meaning: We ban all nuclei. The zone is then composed exclusively of dark matter.
You’re conflating parts (screws, bolts, etc) with components (plutonium core, detonation system, etc)
I’d agree if we’re talking “Nuclear weapon”.
But the language extends to “…or component of a nuclear weapon delivery system…”.
“Delivery system” is the part that’s open ended. And then components thereof.
There is an existing system for delivering nuclear weapons to Bangor, for instance. It uses (or has used) trucks and trains. A component of a truck or train is: ???
Say what you will about Chico, but it’s the home of Sierra Nevada, one of the key early pioneers of the microbrewing revolution. Nothing like a Celebration Ale in the Christmas season–or a Bigfoot almost anytime
@Bill mckibben – no argument about the beer….but,
you should move here when I leave, you’d be right at home with the nuts that run government here.
Anthony,
Most likely this is a cooking-the-books sleight-of-hand. They reduce the fines on some obscure violations (including building a Fatman implosion device) while jacking up the fines on more common things. Then, they can honestly say that net fines only rose a certain amount.
It’s what they always do – playing the pea-shell game. Follow the pea, not the misdirection. Leftists are natural-born criminals.
Do they also have an ordinance banning brains? Or is that just a prerequisite for council.
Chickens were proposed as a component in nuclear bombs to keep them warm by the UK physicists. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3588465.stm Sorry to hear about them banning chickens. 😉 Now if they could just do something about the pigeons.
ut8t5 said on May 25, 2013 at 4:32 pm:
Brainssss… Brainsssssss…
Oh wait, this is Chico.
Tofuuu… Tofuuuuuuu….
No worse, no better than the proclamation from the Wellington (NZ) city council declaring the city a ‘nuclear free’ city. The irony is that the hospitals have the usual array of nuclear medicine facilities.
Let’s see who the first is to declare a ‘carbon free’ city.
Chico’s nuke law Must have the terrorists quaking in their shoes.
— Successful Businesses Do What is Best for Their Shareholders — Case of Boeing, Inc. —
Socialists in the form of: 1) Democrat elected officials and 2) union leaders overplayed their hand with the Boeing Company — so, Boeing decided it was TIME TO LEAVE Washington (still a lot of production here, but, for how long? If it weren’t for hydropower… .
1) Headquarters Moved in 2001
“… the State of Illinois offered Boeing up to $41 million in tax and other incentives over the next 20 years, and Mayor Richard M. Daley said the city offered millions more in property tax abatement and other benefits over that period.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/business/chicago-offering-big-incentives-will-be-boeing-s-new-home.html
2) 787 Production (additional line) in South Carolina in 2009
“… Boeing Co. decided this week that it would locate a new assembly line in South Carolina, … a second line is needed because production is a few years behind schedule.
The Seattle Times reported Tuesday that discussions between Boeing and the Machinists union over the second 787 production line in the Seattle had effectively died. … talks broke down over a proposed potential 10-year no-strike agreement. Workers in North Charleston voted against the Machinists union last month. … .”
http://www.southcarolinaradionetwork.com/2009/10/29/union-leaders-criticize-sc-incentives-boeing-decision/
So, then Barry O and the Chicago Way Thugs sent the NLRB after Boeing. Boeing will win, but not until they have WASTED millions of dollars on legal costs. Those ol’ Democrats, they really know how to run an economy, don’t they — — — > right into the ground!
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Re: McDermott the Liar (Wash. Rep., “D”) — “2005 Phased-in increase of gas tax from 28 to 37.5 cents per gallon by 2008.” [Wash. State Department of Revenue. I think they would know.]
http://dor.wa.gov/docs/reports/2010/Tax_Reference_2010/06taxhistory.pdf
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Get out of CA while you can, A-th-y!
If I ran a business, I would move to Texas or some other ugly but lucrative place. (Sure glad I don’t run a business. I love living where I do — it is so beautiful…. .)
From Manfred on May 25, 2013 at 5:24 pm:
2007, August 6
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/08/01/100138819/
http://www.go-green.ae/greenstory_view.php?storyid=2050
Masdar aims high as world’s first carbon free city
Carbon free city, courtesy Abu Dhabi. Wonderful PR.
John F’n Kerry wrote Massachusetts executive order 242 for governor Michael Dukakis that prohibited MA from using civil defense funding for the purpose of planning how to survive a nuclear attack.
“5. No funds shall be expended by the Commonwealth for crisis relocation planning for nuclear war.”
http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/source/mass/eo/eotext/EO242.txt
When the Soviets saw that they had to have realized nuking Massachusetts would kill more people than states that were prepared for nuclear attack thus insuring Massachusetts, specifically Boston, as an even higher priority target than it likely already was. (Makes you wonder what worse things he is doing right now as Sec. State to sell us all up the river to our enemies?)
That law will restrict the US military action in Chico. Sounds like a good idea to me.
What part of “Shall not be infringed.” is unclear there?
The US military would completely ignore this law and arrest and/or shoot any city police or other city official attempting to interfere with the transportation or operation of a nuclear weapon like a loaded MX missile. The city has no jurisdiction over national defense, and even the notorious 9th circuit wouldn’t help them.
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
May 25, 2013 at 4:59 pm
ut8t5 said on May 25, 2013 at 4:32 pm:
Do they also have an ordinance banning brains? Or is that just a prerequisite for council.
Brainssss… Brainsssssss…
Oh wait, this is Chico.
Tofuuu… Tofuuuuuuu….
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Major giggles! Ya got me with that one. kadaka :o)
Of course, first the military would have to have a significant reason for putting a missile in or around that area – like putting certain targets into range. I don’t believe there are any such rationales available, so it would never happen. The military doesn’t just go around trying to tick people off.
I guess the law-abiding terrorists will just have to assemble and detonate their weapons just a few yards outside the city limits.
Anthony, what do you expect when you live in a city that shares its name with one of the Marx Brothers?
Turns out that wasn’t so stupid. A 15-yr long French study has demonstrated wearing a bra causes a 7mm/yr “droop”.
Sorry, above meant to reply to:
To put “city bans” into perspective, there is a dual-city in Ontario, Canada (I won’t mention the names, locals will recognize it). It’s one urban area but two cities.
One of those cities enacted a zoning change specifically designed to keep WalMart out. WalMart changed their store design to comply, and the city changed the requirements again, specifically to keep WalMart out (we know that liberals have decided that WalMart is bad).
Rather than continuing this pointless battle, WalMart built one of their largest flagship superstores, in the other city, but on the OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET that divides the two cities. There it was, a mere street crossing away, a distance not even really noticed by the residents. It was noticed by the city, however, who watched swarms of their residents flowing into the parking lot, going home with carloads of WalMart loot. The taxes were going to the WalMart friendly city, and the ones that tried to keep them out realized they were missing out on a significant windfall.
I now see that the city has given up and allowed WalMart to build in their city. Wise move, eventually.
But biological weapons are okay, right?
Asking for a friend.