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Well I see West Valley City is building a new, state of the art animal shelter, to help the welfare of our beloved stray and lost pets. Wait just a minute there...
Not only are they adding a new animal shelter to serve the public, but they are also including with the deal a brand new gas chamber to kill your pets with greater efficiency than ever before.
Isn't it wonderful, when we implement non-lethal punishment into our own prison systems to kill humans ever more slowly, and horribly? I remember the day when campaigns were made all across the land to find a way to more humanely kill prisoners that have been convicted of capitol offenses like murder. And the use of electric chairs, gas chambers, and firing squads were just evil and cruel to use against the most vile in society.
Now that brings us back to today, in Utah, and the matter at hand, the new animal holding and slaughter center in West Valley City, Utah. A trendy new facility where you can either drop off your unwanted pet, or the city can pick it up for you, and ware house it, and gas it to death at no cost to you.
Now, as I understand things, is we cannot put to use in the most vicious and horrible ways known to humanity, methods of death against those who kill in the most of inhuman ways, our loved ones and others close to us. But, we can gas to death using cyanide gas, the dogs and cats we so dearly embrace in today's society, in what has become the slaughter of loving and caring family companions we so dearly embrace.
What have we become?
Politics, politics, and more politics pay to run the propaganda ads on radio, and television that spew millions of words of misinformation daily on the hazards of cigarette smoke.
2nd hand smoke, first hand smoke, blah, blah, blah. Misinformative ads on television driving home to a ready to believe populace, the hyped up hazards of smoking what we call death sticks today.
Laws have been passed, and laws are being enforced. Some more unconstitutional than helpful to a "dieing" population. More and more states are becoming very unfriendly to smokers, as they ramp up the propaganda against what was a major American industry.
Now, do not get me wrong, I do not smoke myself. I have asthma. And my dad died of lung cancer in 2001. But, I am not the poster boy spokesman to what has become in its self a multi-billion dollar a year industry, the spreading of vicious lies and misinformation by the anti-tabacco lobby, fueled by money from federally settled lawsuits that were filed and dispensed of during the 1990's.
What should be adressed, rather than the amount of people who smoke cigeretts and contribute to global airpollutuion that are persecuted in today's society, is the amount of unhealthy air being spewed out from exhausts from ships, planes, cars, trucks, busess, and other carbon based fuel internal combustion type engines that inhabit every part of the globe, from India, to Indiana.
So in closing, I will let you, the reader decide, if cigerette smoke is bad for you. I, myself with a life threatening disease called asthma, will never decide for you if cigeretts are bad for you. I leave that up to you. Because, the way I see things, its your body, and no one should tell you how to treat it. Even if it is in your own best interest.
The Smell Of Fresh Air
Nov 19, 2008 | 7:31 PM PST
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Walking outside on a beautiful winter day, I always move quickly to my car, or into a building when I go somewhere like the mall, or to a doctors appointment. At home, I use a nebulizer, rescue inhalers, and a variety of maintenance medications to keep my lungs functioning so I can live, and do day to day activities. I always use a peak flow meter to measure the amount of air I can expel out of my lungs, a early warning type indicator to determine if my lungs a functioning properly. I exercise regularly, and watch my weight. But, what I cannot control, is the enviromental conditions that trigger asthma attacks, and can make myself so sick, that at times I cannot even get out of bed.
Thats right, I have asthma. But, mine was not caused by the conditions here, but elsewhere, how ever, living here in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys does not make the matters easy to live with either.
As the population grows along the Wasatch front, urban sprawl turns into urban over crowding, we will see many more cases of the life threatening lung condition called asthma, along with other types of lung diseases such as COPD, and others.
What causes the air to become so bad and hazardous to breath? Well, its a combination of small particulates that concentrate in the air when we have what is called tempature inversions, and the concentration of gases from industry, and auto mobile emmissions. As the population grows, so does the number of bad air days, that are slowly killing many who live here.
There is not much that can be done to help the mess we already are too deeply in. We could make regulations tighter on building houses, restricting growth along the Wasatch front, both economically and people number wise, we could ban driving all together, making everyone walk or take public transportation, or we could even redesign the gasoline engine to be more effiecient and less polluting, or even switch to cleaner burning fuels. But, unfortunately, politics and big business keep these ideas from being implemented.
As I said before, as population grows, so does the smog that comes from the urban sprawl. Cars, Semis, Trains, Planes, bussess and other types of combustion fuel vehicles contribute immensely to bad air. And, so does mother nature. But, its our involvement as humans, that is killing some of us ever so slowly. Breathing, should never be a life threatening situation.
Driving down the road, a man stops and helps a stranded motorist. He pulls right behind the broken down car, and stops and offers help to a stranded motorist who just had a flat tire. A few moments later, a UHP car pulls up behind the 2nd car, and the trooper exits his car, walks up tho both drivers of the cars on the side of the road, and issues a ticket to the guy in the 2d car who was helping change a tire on the 1st car, because the person driving did not have a jack. Sounds like fiction? Nope. And, it ain't Cooper Deters either. It could be you, or me that gets this ticket, because, the UHP wants to save us from our selves.
Cooper Deters is the man arrested for impersonating a state trooper. But, most people who stop to help, are not Cooper Deters. They are people like you or me. They have no ill will, they just want to help those in need. But the message, being sounded, and reinforced by fear mongering from the UHP and Fox13, is do not stop. Do not offer help. Keep on driving, or the UHP will try to save you, and give you the helper, a ticket.
I often wonder if the poorly educated people on the pay roll of the UHP, and the local fox station, ever stop and wonder, what they would do, if on a cold snowy day, they had a road side emergency, and no one stopped to help them, because of the fear mongering they do when they broadcast stories like this.
One thing for sure, I would not stop and help my neighbor, who happens to be a state trooper, I would let him rot before I offered him help, because I would be afraid I would get a ticket, if I did.
The Dream Police
Nov 17, 2008 | 9:52 PM PST
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Watching you tube, a police officer looks for video of crimes that have been committed, searching for those who have just broken the law. From stupid, insane stunts on skate boards, to people pummeling the tar out of each other, these dream police scour the web looking for crimes to prosecute. Does this keep us "safe"? or does this violate privacy laws, and encourage censorship on the world only free portal for commerce, and ideas.
From college educated dolts who think compromise is the best solution when dealing with issues like the police on you tube, to those fools who commit acts of crimes that they think are cool and posting them to the web, this issue is not one of public safety, but one of censorship, and privacy. And, we are slowly walking down a slippery slope when it comes to these types of issues.
Hyped up from news stories such as those shown on Fox13, to stories ran in the nations talk show circuit, to news papers, fear is now being used as a tool to push for more and more censorship on the web, and eventually, into our lives.
Science fiction? Nope. Its happening right here today. And it will surely get worse before people wake up and say enough is enough.
They're gonna build a prison
Nov 17, 2008 | 9:42 PM PST
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The United States has the most people behind bars in the world, surpassing Communist China. Most of these offenders are non-violent offenders with nothing more than a class A misdemeanor. Crimes such as drug possession, prostitution, shop lifting, petty theft, flashing and others now are over crowding our nations prison system, and Salt Lake County is no exception. While we waste millions supporting the penal industry, major criminals are waking the streets up to the fact that they are now are free, while non violent offenders are not. (Yes, the penal system is just another business, requiring government hand me down money that could otherwise be better served providing other forms of punishment rather than locking some one up, like some person who did not pay their parking ticket)
As I said before, the United States has the most people locked up behind bars in the world, surpassing China. And opening the Oxbow Jail, is doing nothing to help non violent offenders, but it is making them better educated criminals to go out and make bigger and better crimes.
Programs like in-home arrest, more officers to make sure people comply with court dates, and punishments, and more money to rehab programs are all healthy and needed alternatives to opening the Oxbow jail, and adding more fuel to an already huge problem in a otherwise "democracy".
All through out American history, there have been groups of people who have been persecuted, and people have lived in intimidation and fear for even doing something as simple as voting for the wrong party during an election. There have been witch hunts, the latest most pronounced one that was held during the Senator McCarthy era during the 1950's when uttering the words I am a socialist got you blackballed from just about every facet of American society.
But, what history is about to teach us again, is that gay rights is not a witch hunt in progress. In all actuality, it is anything but.
The issue of gay rights amounts to some very disturbed people in American society wanting to have equal rights to items such as those given to legally married couples. And, although I am not LDS, I do have to agree with their stance on gay marriage, I just do not agree with how they went and wanted to show the world their view on that stance.
Gay rights? Yeah right. If I was a supreme court judge, I would make sure that this issue never reached any ballot, let alone the social status it has reached today. Not because I am being anti gay, but I am a firm believer that what a person does in their bedroom stays in the bedroom, and not being rammed down my throat by some perversely sick individual that has a confusion about human behavior to be worked out with a therapist. And, yes..these perversely sick people deserve the same rights as every one else. How ever, they do not deserve the same rights as hard working married couples, who support a family. And by rights I mean, maternity leave, allowances paid married couples, and the distinction of being recognized as a married couple. As I said, what stays in the bed room stays there. Not in the supreme court.
And if you want to push further, defacing the book of Mormon is a discriminatory crime, (yeah..the old guy on the news tonight holding the book of Mormon upside down, which is an act of debasing the book of Mormon, which by the way, in the context of today's protest, can be construed as religious discrimination....FYI
Gay preachers...that is up to the church. Gay couples, that is up to the people involved. Gay protest, they have the right to assembly, just like every one else. Gay access to equality in insurance, welfare, and legal marriages...yeah, I do not think so.
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Wow. I find this topic, just as twisted, as say, as a ice cream cone at dairy queen. And, I also get a laugh at the huge public response to a man, who was by all means impersonating a Utah Highway Patrol Officer. Maybe he was doing a better job than the UHP, and speeding was dropping way down in his "assigned sector", or maybe he was using his dual persona to attract women for dates. What ever he was doing, he got stopped, and arrested for his little fantasy game.
Now, do not get me wrong, I do not condone such behavior from individuals in our community. To me personally, I find it disgusting, totally silly, and needless. I mean, why impersonate a law enforcement officer, when you can impersonate doctors, lawyers, Donald Trump, or any other person in society that makes much, much more money than our wonderful workers in law enforcement. I mean, come on. Unless you were wanting to solve actual crimes, and make the public safer, why would you want to impersonate a police officer? I mean wow. If playing with guns is your deal, then the military needs you now. But, just to be cruising up and down I15 and handing out speeding tickets, come on. Besides, we would not want the public to slow down any, because the state would lose out on a whole bunch of revenue to build ski ramps in our governors back yard.
And with that being said, impersonating law enforcement sends a message to the bad guys, that there may actually be more cops on the street to do their job of keeping the public safe. And besides, making fellow real cops jealous because you are actually doing a better job than them, this sends a statement to the public that really irritates the heck out of real cops who then develop inferiority complexes, and this hampers the jobs of those who are impersonating civilians wanting to be real cops. Besides, we have enough civilians who are actually being paid to actually impersonate civilians who are wanting to be real cops(thats because they are REAL cops, like the one who pulled Cooper Deter over and arrested him for being a phoney cop)and they are out on the streets doing some type of work, and solving a few actual crimes.
All sarcasm aside, any one impersonating a police officer needs to be put into jail and sent to mental health counseling. They have issues with power, and are a threat to society.
Happy, Happy, Happy
Nov 12, 2008 | 10:10 AM PST
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Its a great and wonderful day today. The sun is shining, and low and behold, treasury secretary Paulson has just reversed the federal reserves position on buying up troubled mortgage assets. Its a happy day, in that now even more people will become homeless, just in time for the holiday season.
Its a wonderful day, in that Wall Street, and all the banks that helped to make this huge mess, will gain 100 fold in that they get all the billions to prop up lending markets, freeing banks to issue credit. Not the thousands of home owners who will lose their homes, because they cannot pay those wonderful adjustable rate mortgages they signed because most Americans do not understand the banking terms on those contracts.
Yes, its a wonderful new day. People will suffer, as Wall Street gets its way, just in time for Christmas, to get more tax payer money to fund bad debt, and help drag this country deeper into a giant economic mess they caused, and now we will all pay for.
Its a wonderful, wonderful, day.
MaNiPulAtIoN
Nov 11, 2008 | 9:37 PM PST
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The prices of fuel drop, Sandi Riesgraf babbles on how much people are driving less. The elections are over, and Obama is elected as the president of the U.S. Coincidence? Nope. Not really.
See, history always repeats itself. And in this case, corporate AMerika is cashing in on the publics utter stupidity, I mean come on. Big business gets what they want, the prices go down. Simple.
The information is out there to prove this fact. And yet, people do not even take a second look at how business was done during the last nine months. See, after a popular presidentual election in which the party that has swayed the love of big business and gets into office, as in this case, a reward is given of sorts. The reward is huge price drops in the prices of oil and gasoline products for the consumer. Soon, the economy will magically mend, and people will be encouraged to spend more and more.
Yes, it is unthinkable. Its blasphemy. But, the facts are there, and the truth is told. Big business has won it's self another puppet in the oval office. And, we aill all pay the price of cheap fuel, with a loss of what is more precious than gasoline...our civil rights.
Most of who I bash on my blog, are stupid politicians who seem to always mess up. But, this issue, is just cheezing me off to no end, and to tell the truth, makes me just disgusted at human beings and their perverse behavior.
So, before the hate post start rolling in, read on. learn something. And hopefully, gain a perspective on what has become a freakshow in American media. (Yes, I said freak show)
Now first off, I respect a persons right to be same sex. Different strokes for different folks, I say. A person who practices alternative forms of bedroom play deserves the same rights as a normal person. But wait...a deviant form of human sexual behavior and the people who engage in such a alternative lifestyle having the same legal rights as marriage? Yeah, right!!!
Hey, if a person wants to go and become a zoophite, don't they have the right to go and marry a goat? And, what about the necrophites? Might as well throw them in the mix too...they can go to the mourge and bring home an embalmed corpse for a mate, right? And what about those who want to endulge them selves in other forms of adult entertainment? Get a grip on reality!
When it comes down to it, I personally do not want the hard earned money I pay to pay for a persons bed room antics. There is such a thing as privalages, and rights. Does a gay person have the same right to vote? Yes they do. As long as they are not a felon or an enemy of the country. Does a gay person have the right to own property? Yes they do, as long as they pay for it, and pay taxes. Does a gay person have the right to hold marches and assemblies? Yes they do. But, the rights under the constitution of the United States is a right for all who legally reside in the country. But here is the question..what is a privalge?
A privelage is just that, a privelage. Like a license to drive a car(which everyone can have, if they pass a written test and a driving test. This includes gay people)
But, monetary advantages such as same healthcare coverage for legally married couples, the ability to have the same social programs such as food stamps and medicade as given to married couples, is not a legal option for gay couples.
And, changing the legal defination of marriage, to make a mockery of the social status given a couple, consisting of a man and a woman, to suit the needs of those who are depraved and deviant,is just as wrong as locking a gay person up and throwing him/her into a gas oven, or putting him/her into a special camp for "re-education".
The issue of gay rights is not an issue at all. But an admission by some, that they want to mock the foundation of some peoples religious beliefs..and that, is the real issue.
O.K., what ever floats your boat. You have heard that one before, along with the issue of sexuality in the bedroom legal fight called gay rights.
You have also heard by now of the infamous Proposistion 8 measure allowing same sex marriage in California. And, you have heard that the LDS church had a heavy hand in California politics, although I doubt they were the only ones who had their hands in also.
Now, here is the really twisted part, and one I have to agree on, but for different reasons that the issue of sleeping with your buddy.
Religion and politics just do not mix in a modren democratic society, as ours is supposed to be. The mixture of religion and politics has brought many a war upon man kind, and the down fall of many great countries, and many deaths of innocent people in the process. And with that being said, churches need to stop using legal loop holes to impose their rights upon the majority of the population, whether a subject is morally wrong or not. That issue is for the courts to decide, not churches from the state of Utah, or the Holy See.
And on the same token, if a person has feelings for the same sex, then so be it. But, you reap what you sew, and in this case, sexual prefrences should be kept inside of the bedroom, and not flounted around in public.
Super Smelly Man
Nov 6, 2008 | 9:33 PM PST
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I have a question..how could have someone who was hiding under a car, which by the way has ground clearances on the average of 6-12" jump out from under the car he was hiding? I would love to see that!
Come on Arika Vonn......over embellishment of a story is one thing, but making a science fiction fantasy is another.
I hope they catch the rapist, by the way
I am MAD
Nov 6, 2008 | 9:28 PM PST
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A family celebrates their right to expression, by hanging the American flag outside of their Ogden home. Some fool, goes up to their house and burns the flag. This is wrong, very wrong
Motivated by race or not, this type of behavior is against the constitution of the United States, especially for violation of free speech.
I would over throw the government myself. But, attacking innocent people, is wrong. No matter your personal view of the election, and who won, or how they got into office, attacking innocent people is just wrong. And, if you have a disagreement with the elections, and the way they were done, file a court injunction. File law suits. But use the legal system first. And, do not go to someones home, regardless of race color or creed, and burn their flag.
FYI....It's your right to burn the flag. Its freedom of expression. But, going to a African American family's house, and torching the flag on their front porch because you are disappointed that Barrack McSame won, you have just now committed arson, and a racially motivated hate crime. And you should be caught, and punished.
The New President
Nov 5, 2008 | 7:25 AM PST
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Well, its Wednesday. Today, we awake to a cheering and jubilant AMerika. A new president has been elected to office, Barrack Obama. Mr. Obama is now officially, the first African-American president in history. A huge step for the country, or will it be just another story in a long line of American made mistakes in a history frought with corruption, greed, and arrogance.
On Mr. Obama's plate are 2 wars, a massive deficit, a failing economy, and thousands of cuts to governmental programs just waiting to be made, as his administration takes office.
On the war side, Iraq will probably be high on the list of problems this guy will adress. He has already said that he will make no "hasty" judgement when it comes to Iraqi policy, but we all know just how fickle Mr. Obama has been in his "campaign for change". Will we begin to pull out troops in Janurary, or will we let them stay for a while..as I said only time will tell.
ON the economy, well which cuts will happen first. Will it be the huge base of war time veteran cuts, affecting a huge truck load of veterans seeking treatment for injuries in a war we asked them to fight? Will it be huge cuts in current military retiree and disability pay? Or, how about scaling back the amount of VA health care facilities for wounded warriors care? And how about the defense budget its self, allowed to balloon during Bush's tenure, with little growth for the armed forces, and huge weapons programs that are way over budget, and little pay off.
And how about social programs? medicare/medicade for people who either cannot afford health insurance, or the elderly who really need the funding to keep people alive? What about those tax breaks, he PROMISED to us? Will he spend more money to prop up a Wall Street that needs changing from the get go, or will he reverse the governmental discision to bail out banks? Only time will tell.
And what about forgien policy? Will he kiss up to America's enemies, opening us to attacks in the future from armed terrorists cells? Or will he be just as arrogant as Bush, and get us into more wars than we can handel? Pakistan...during his campaign, he was adamant about expanding the global war on terror to Pakistan, a soverign country whose workings aid terrorists in disputed regions of that country.
Back on the cuts to the budget...will he cut funding for critical infrastructure improvements, and social security for retirees? Will his cuts to help balance the budget hurt millions of us who depend on programs from the government, or will he try to help those who need it. Again only time will tell.
I remember back in history, about 8 years ago to be exact, when people were all smiles, parties were thrown, and speeches made as the repulican nominee for president of the United States was sworn into office. The same fan fare, hype, and gloating. But what is different from then, compared to now, is the amount of stupid, ignorant people who celebrated this current corporate puppet into office, with his vision of "change", and uniting the American public. And what is also different now from then, is the amount of people smiling out the other side of their stupidr, slimy mouths as history has finally shown us, that nothing will change, nothing ever does.
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