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Posted on 06/01/2011 5:13:26 AM PDT by Libloather
San Diego mayor says July 4 fireworks, even birthday parties, are in doubt after court ruling
By Associated Press
Updated: Wednesday, June 1, 3:26 AM
SAN DIEGO — The city’s Fourth of July fireworks displays aren’t the only celebrations in doubt after a judge ordered rigorous environmental reviews of large events, Mayor Jerry Sanders says. Birthday parties may be at risk if more than 75 people are invited.
Sanders says Friday’s ruling by Superior Court Judge Linda Quinn in a lawsuit over a La Jolla Cove fireworks show applies to the roughly 20,000 park permits that the city issues each year. That includes city fireworks shows and other large events that include a Mardi Gras party in the city’s Gaslamp Quarter and a Cinco de Mayo festival.
Thousands of events that require a park permit, including small private parties, would be subject to an expensive, time-consuming review under the California Environmental Quality Act, Sanders told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
“It’s ludicrous,” he said. “It takes forever, it costs a lot of money, and nobody would do it.”
If upheld, the ruling may also affect other cities, Sanders said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I sure do, along with listening to western music and some types of dancing.
Why, we can't have people enjoying themselves, now can we?
New trend .....hangin’ judge? no, judge hangin’
There’s a litigant behind this. He’s been pushing this extremist point for many years. No one can tell if he’s really interested in the environment or just the fact that he’s not allowed to poop in the water.
What the state really needs is a Financial Impact study on every law currently on the books and every law proposed.
Too often laws are passed without any consideration on the overall cost to individuals, groups or the state as a whole.
While I will concede (only for the point of argument) that some of these laws are well intentioned, the benefits just as often do not outweigh the cost.
Why should whole industries (such as farming) be put in danger to save the life of one small fish?
Over the course of earth history millions of species have come into being and have gone away.
I do not say we should go out and purposely make a species extinct (such as was done with passenger pigeon) neither should we commit financial suicide to save a species that is too stupid to adapt or is already too far gone to survive.
Environmentalist need to learn that humans are part of the environment.
Environmental laws were never really about the environment. If they were, then the socialists would relish having to comply. But they are now complaining that laws intended only to apply to big evil corporations now also applies to them as well.
As with everything liberal (er, now “progressive”) they were really about self-loathing and suppressing the means by which we became prosperous and powerful.
I say that the law must apply to everyone for everything. Let us have environmental impact statements every time the lawn must be mowed, for every drive to work, and for every bowel movement. I say we must enforce these laws strictly even if SWAT must be used. Maybe sane people can rebuild a correctly functioning society after socialism crashes and burns and everyone with any sense flees from its grasp.
Soon a permit will be needed in California to purchase beans, sauerkraut and brusselsprouts.
They may already own it... shame... a most beautiful state with such evil leadership.
LLS
America land of the free.
No, it wasn’t Ira Einhorn. He spoke at Philadelphia, I believe, while I was in Detroit on Earth Day 1970. But there were and are a lot of totalitarian ecologists -— “watermelons,” you know -— and an even greater number of people, like me 40+ years ago, who are essentially naive and do not quite grasp the implications.
Moonbeam Brown’s friends: Environmentalists and labor unions.
With the EPA now classifying CO2 as a pollutant pretty much allows them to regulate any activity out of existence including breathing.
So what about this federal law:
“Congress shall make no law ... [abridging] the right of the people peaceably to assemble”
?
So what about this federal law:
“Congress shall make no law ... [abridging] the right of the people peaceably to assemble”
?
I’d go out and buy as many as I could, and hand them out to teens/adults everywhere.
AH!
The Sergeant Donnie Donovitch treatment.
(Inglorious Basterds)
Sell it to China? Hell, soon, they will just foreclose on it.
Watched “Escape From LA” last night.
They blamed all the chaos on the President who was a Religious (Christian) fanatic.
1. No smoking
2. No drinking
3. No sex (unless you’re married)
4. No red meat
James Cameron got it right even though he is a leftists.
He placed the blame for a restrictive life on Christians,
but clearly he and his kind are to blame.
What if two groups of 50 happened to show up simultaneously for separate parties and just happened because of limited space to sit next to one another?
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