Los Angeles County Approves Plastic Bag Ban

probably right around the time Jan for chester the molester tells us we are killing the planet, the vegan chick tells us to quit eating meat and neocongo tells us to vote for the progressive shitheads that are trying to turn this country into the new soviet union. but thats just a guess

Could please explain this obsession with America turning into the Soviet Union? I always figured it either had to do with you having nothing to do after their collapse because up until then, your sole focus of life is hating the ruskies. That, or all you have to do is drop the A and add SR and USA becomes USSR.

Also, could explain why you blindly follow a few talking heads and deny people with evidence because, according to you, they do the same? This didn't really have anything to do with your comment, I've just always wondered that.

Im obsessed with freedom and I see the government taking our freedoms away. I dont only blame obama. He is just the one in charge right now. Bush was just as bad when it came to taking away our rights. and the ones before him arent any better. I do not only blame the democrats. I blame them both equally.

Read the Gulag Archipelago if you havent. Pay special attn. to page 13 footnote 5. Those days will come. when they do, what will you do?

And I never hated the Russians, I hated their government. There is a HUGE difference. I am sure you just typed the words wrong but knew who I really hated, I am just being clear

AS far as following "talking heads" as you put it. I have read many books and done much studying on certain subjects. I knew about the people like soros long before I ever heard about Glenn Beck. I lived in Vegas in 02 when he was supporting the legalization of weed. I to am a supporter of legal weed and I wanted to figure out why some guy from another country was so involved in a battle that seemed to be half a world away to him. I found out a lot about him. When I see the things he says on Becks clips I do more research top make sure they arent being taking out of context. They arent.

Now I believe I answered your questions I have some for you.

Why are you so quick to dismiss EVERYTHING Beck says? Have you done research? have you done back ground checks into the people you support? Why are you not afraid of our rights being taken away? Do you think, like many others, that it cant happen here? Just curious/

Then why aren't you protesting the Patriot Act and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

THAT is what has taken your freedom away.

Sorry about not replying for this long:
1) Given his history, how he acts, what his claims are, the news channel he is working for, the pure unwarranted self-importance, this obsession he has with being a martyr, and the amount of knowledge he lacks I don't really consider him credible.
2) Yes, I have, and while we agree the government is fucked up, you follow a group of talking heads, and I try to get the full information from the most credible source available.
3) I really don't support anyone. There aren't any politicians that support what I believe, or at least stand by it.
4) Because there's no threat of my rights be taken away. The only "rights" that would be taken away is the "right" for investment firms to fuck around with everyone's money to make a quick buck, and the "right" for companies to not pay you what you deserve.
5) Not necessarily. No place is really safe from being ruled by a tyrant, but I don't assume we're going to be ruled by one because someone I disagree with is going into power.

I have a dozen large, reusable bags, with square bottoms and durable double handles.

So I fold them up, tuck them inside one more bag, walk into the store with seemingly just that one bag and, when I get to checkout, I pull out however many additional bags I'm going to need. They hold up better than either the plastic or paper bags, and certainly hold more per bag.

I also have four zip-up insulated bags (Trader Joe's used to sell them) for when I purchase cold or frozen food items. Zip up those bags, and I can easily do a 500-mile drive before having to worry about the contents.

It's doable and, frankly, I find it really easy and even convenient.

Oh, these look GREAT!

I was told not to long ago that "what we need is more R&D to find a suitable replacement for plastic bags" Duh, how about paper?

Paper worked fine for centuries. Paper will biodegrade back into soil.

So why did we ever start using plastic instead of paper?

So we can save trees? Well, we can always grow more trees. Not only that---we can even make more paper from old paper that is thrown out. All we have to do is plant more trees when we cut down trees.

But plastic bags are made out of petroleum. Who ends profiting when plastic bags are made? Who is constantly telling us that we HAVE to give them the rights to drill on publicly owned land and let them have the minerals because we need(?) the minerals to survive. Selling us what we already own to make a private profit. Huge profits.

Here's an idea. Let's use electric dryers to dry our hands with. That way, we save the trees. We save trees-----so we can go in with bulldozers and knock down all the trees to make a strip mine to get the coal, to make electricity to dry our hands. We pollute the air, we pollute the water, and we destroy the land and its ability to grow anything for many generations because it is "cheap" to buy coal. Is it cheaper to use coal, or is it cheaper to plant trees? We have to build power plants, electrical lines, railroads, strip mines just to dry our hands.

I wonder where the idea for plastic bags and electric hand dryers came from.