Posted on 07/28/2015 3:52:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Let's get to the barbecue business, because I've been promising this and the air-conditioning stuff.
If I don't actually make time to do it in the midst of all this other stuff, I'll just keep procrastinating it, putting it off and putting it off. Let's go ahead and do it. There are two stories here, actually. No, three on this now. The first is from website called IAmATexan.com. "'If this resolution passes, we would be forced to close or move. It would destroy Austin barbecue.' says Aaron Franklin, owner of Franklin’s BBQ in Austin.
"Austin, Texas has long been a destination for Americans of all stripes in their quest to find the best barbecue in the nation. However, if the Austin City Council gets their way, food tourism may soon be a thing of the past. Austin City Council members passed a preliminary plan in April to put restrictions on smoke from barbeque restaurants. Some Austin residents complain of the barbecue smoke saying they can’t enjoy their homes they purchased before some of these restaurants moved in.
"The city council’s current proposal will require smoke diffusers and will also limit the amount of time that restaurants can smoke," i.e., cook. "These restrictions will require at least $100,000 in extra investments for most barbecue restaurants as they will be forced to buy extra smokers along with severely expensive diffusers, and in some cases will have to lease or purchase more property." Now, why would they have to lease or purchase more property? In hopes of containing the smoke on their property, in hopes of containing the aroma of the smoke on their property.
Can you see a bunch of these owners building windmills that aim the wind back at the restaurant in order to comply? And then the global warming crowd gets into the act. Would they be happy about that or not? That's a long shot, because the global warming crowd is not actually about working toward a cleaner environment. That's a typical leftist move. They come up with a cause that's noble like clean air, clean water, but that's not what it's really about. Just like abortion is really not about women's rights and equality and all that, like they tell you it is.
At any rate, "Austin City Council members passed a preliminary plan in April to put restrictions on smoke from barbeque restaurants. Some Austin residents complain... "One business expert told council members that these restrictions will certainly kill all but the largest barbecue restaurants in Austin. It is effectively a ban on barbecue restaurants in a town known for its barbecue. Of course, these regulations are par for the course for a liberal city. Liberals claim to hate Big Business and love small businesses, but then they love to place so many regulations on the little guy that the environment becomes toxic to entry level entrepreneurs" that just want to get started.
"The ultimate consequence of these policies is that large corporations and governments are the only entities permitted to operate," because the little guys can't afford all the regulations. And the little guys can't afford all the restrictions. What kind of absurd requirement is this anyway? So you have some homeowners who moved in, and apparently were in the neighborhood before the restaurants opened, and it was just fine, and now they don't like the smell of barbecue because they're offended or probably just like the anti-perfume crowd, claiming it makes them sick, this kind of thing.
Why would it not be incumbent on them to go out and get some air pressure differentials and keep outside air from entering their house until it's been processed and cooled? Look, folks, this has happened in my own domicile. You know I happen to smoke cigars, and there was a time when other residents in the house didn't like the smell. Was I gonna stop? Hell, no! So I called an HVAC expert out and said, "What can be done about this?" I had one particular room where I smoked and my orifice. He said, "This is simple. This is simple. I've had to do this in office buildings on floors where there is a kitchen next to the dining room.
"The people in the dining room don't want to smell the aroma of the kitchen, so we just create an air pressure differential so that the air in the kitchen does not escape. It will draw air in from the dining room." So what we did iw, we created an air pressure differential so that the smoke-aromated air in my office never escaped it. Did that mollify the anti-smokers in my how? No way. Because the purpose was not to get rid of the smell. The purpose was to get me to stop smoking cigars. I wasn't about to, so I stood up for it.
The air pressure differential is an easy way to do it. Now, that's large-scale like a restaurant. But all of this misses the point, 'cause these guys at the IAmATexan.com website have it exactly right. This is an attack on small business. (interruption) What, are you gonna hit me with some vegan stuff here that you don't want to have to smell the aroma of charcoal and beef? And then what? (interruption) Who doesn't like the smell of barbecue, for crying out loud! It's a magnet? Who doesn't like it? That's what I was gonna say: We all love the smell of barbecue. What in the world...? Do you realize how odd this is?
Well, I know, I know. If the homeowners were there first. But I guarantee you that there's nothing in the purchase agreement for the property that guarantees the new buyer to be free of barbecue smell. (New castrati impression) "Yeah, that's right, Mr. Limbaugh. But the new owners, I mean, the homeowners were there first, and they have dibs on the kind of smells in their neighborhood. Right, right, yeah. Well, I imagine there's all kinds of other smells in this neighborhood, too, that these homeowners probably don't like. What are you gonna do about them? Like all the stray animals running around?
What are you gonna do about them?
What about the drunk and the homeless who are vomiting all over the streets? What are you gonna do about that aroma? Folks, this is the incremental, so-slow-you-barely-notice-it loss of liberty and freedom that's happening right before everybody's eyes, and the anti-smoking crowd has tried this before. I remember in a suburban county outside Baltimore some woman -- that's right, it was Montgomery County. How could I ever...? Good old Montgomery County. Some woman lived in an apartment.
And she claimed that a guy smoking in his apartment 200 yards away, with all of her doors and windows closed, and all of the smoker's doors and windows, she claimed she could smell his cigarette smoke, and it made her sick. And the whatever county government is called there, tried to establish you-can't-smoke-in-your-house ordinance if anybody could smell it in like 300 yards. I will guarantee you there's no way that this busybody, inside her apartment 200 yards away, could smell a guy smoking a cigarette in his apartment 200 yards away when both apartments were sealed.
But she didn't have to prove it.
All she had to do was act offended, and the offended get what they want.
So, anyway, that's the Austin, Texas, version of the story.
From National Review: "A self-identified male 'feminist' wrote a more than 1,000-word piece about how much he hates that he loves to grill because he is 'uncomfortable with the pleasure [he takes] in something so conventionally masculine.'" Now, do you think...? Let me just ask you a question here. Do you think there is the slightest possibility that there is a connection here between barbecue and manliness and current day madcap feminism? Should I say white guilt and white privilege? Could there be the slightest connection that barbecue is associated with something guys do conventional, and therefore it's verboten?
"'I take food prep a little too seriously, curtly brushing others out of the way when I step up to the kitchen counter,' Jacob Brogan writes in a piece for Slate ," which is a home to left-wing nutcases. 'Am I shoving others out of the way because it makes me feel like a man? Have I become some sort of monster?' Yes -- he's worried his enthusiasm for grilling may make him a 'monster.'" Lest you think Brogan is overreacting, he offers a lot of reasons for why he's so concerned about liking to do something so totally normal.
"One of them: Advertisers portray grilling as a form of male bonding, or, as he puts it, 'enable what scholars call homosocial contact, a kind of same-sex intimacy that deflects the supposed danger of sexual contact between men but allows them to confirm their masculinity by excluding women.'" This is what this guy thinks of men sitting around grilling burgers and hot dogs and steaks, that it is somehow an act of patriarchy and male domination, getting close to homoeroticism while excluding women!
That's what barbecuing is to this guy.
Let me read his own words: "'Grilling, in other words, allows these characters,'" these men, "'to cozy up to one another while still maintaining their understanding of themselves as truly manly men.'" Do you want me to translate that? Two guys grilling allows them to cozy up to one another but not look gay. Yeah, grilling guys can hang around at the grill or the barbecue pit and maintain their manliness and not be accused of being gay. That's why he hates to grill, because it's "so conventionally masculine."
He actually loves to grill but hates loving it because of what it means. "Male Feminist: 'I Hate That I Love to Grill' Because It's 'So Conventionally Masculine.'" He "also worries that since grilling happens outside, and other forms of cooking happen inside, the fact that grilling is seen as a 'man' thing perpetuates the idea that women should stay inside" in the kitchen, because women don't grill! Women don't barbecue. Men reserve that for themselves so they can hang around with each other and prove they're not gay while getting close to one another.
And they keep the women in the kitchen, and it's another thing this guy says he hates about grilling. Now, do you think this guy came out of the womb thinking this stuff? Where in the world does somebody go to get their mind this corrupted? (interruption) Well, yeah, it could well be this guy's like every other normal guy of his age wants to get close to women, and to do that he took a lot of women's studies courses, and this is the kind of crap that he was inculcated with. "'Unlike most other traditionally "feminine" forms of domestic cooking, grilling typically happens outside, and hence in the public sphere,' [he] writes.
"'The putatively masculine quality of grilling may derive in part from the old public-private gender split,' he writes. 'In that sense- it shares a common cause with the belief that women belong in the home.'" So this guy, Jacob what's his name... Jacob Brogan. This is a damaged mind, and somebody damaged it. At one point, I'm sure this guy was a completely... Well, that may be a stretch. But how does this happen? By the way, folks, again, I just want to caution you: 25 years ago, 30, we'd have run across this.
And we would have the most fun laughing about this and we would have come up with great satirical bits and parodies and so forth -- and we did. The problem is, they bought it! These people actually believe this stuff, and they're not as small a minority as you think. Somebody has to think this crap in order to write it. And then after somebody wrote it, somebody had to think it was good enough to publish it. And then after it was published somebody had to think it was interesting enough to read it, and the progression begins.
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RUSH: There's another relevant question, and it is: "Who would want to barbecue with that guy anyway?" I mean, who would want to stand out there and male bond with a guy like that anyway? Which may be one of the problems. He can't find anybody to barbecue with. After all, if they know anything about the guy, why would they want to?
Next, they’ll declare war on ‘the wheel’. Oh, wai.......
End goal - complete government controlled everything. Agenda 21 in its true format with people as slaves of the state who cater to the ogliarchs and surrender their freedom for faux security. Your money are all mine.
Barbeque environmentalists!
It’s why government at all levels conducts psychological testing. They want to make damn sure they employ every controlling mental case they can possibly find.
Grilling is not BBQ. I love that the left thinks they are powerful enough to take on Austin...while the city is completely controlled by lib nutjobs, they’ve made a huge mistake.
The emasculated left hate BBQ because BBQ is manly and masculine. Period.
There may be hope.
BBQ means meat. Meat means American framers and ranchers, privately owned land etc. These leftist big city mentally ill freaks will have you eating and drinking your own waste if they can get away with it. Recycled food/water. It’s nutritious. You’ll like it. They developed ways to mix it, compress it and freeze it into patties. Just throw them on your solar panels and heat um up.
I don’t think I’d want grilled tofu either! (-:
Soylent Green.
Grilling is not BBQ.
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It took me a long time to convince my wife of that simple truism.
This is a non issue as far as Austin Tx at this time. This was killed in committee
a month or so ago. So not sure why it’s surfacing again.
http://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2015/05/committee-votes-no-barbecue-smoke-ordinance/
Secondly the ordinace being discussed had a 100 ft distance to the nearest
residential proper. So that leaves lots of area for commerical business.
Another earlier thread with over 100 comments at the following link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3317674/posts
It don’t matter who’s in Austin....
Bob Wills is still the king.
‘Ya can grill Soylent Green. “It’s people.” Just add enough tomato to the BBQ sauce to over-ride the green color!
Tastes like sh*t.
No bbq’s
No lemonade stands
Fireworks = pollution
No smoking
Frisbee’s & footballs on LA county beach = $100 fine
Kids walking home unescorted = Call Da Cops
Notice how the left is becoming the oppressive parents they LOATHED (for imaginary reasons)
East Austin, where Franklin ‘ s and many other great BBQ joints are located, has been gentrified. Those people are offended that they have to smell beef!
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