As Harry Reid and the profiteering T. Boone Pickets will be only too happy to tell you, we can’t drill our way out of high energy prices. Fortunately, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has an alternate plan: To encourage people to……

…a slippery slope that ends with Pol Pot style mass murder.

Wow, lgm, I can’t believe you dissed a fellow socialist. I can’t believe you actually admitted that socialism will eventually lead to mass murder.

There is no such thing as good socialism, though I’m sure the regressives in this country try to sell their their snake oil as marxism light.

Name me one successful socialist country. Just remember, whatever you name, I call and raise you China, North Korea, Cambodia, Soviet Russia, Germany, all of the socialist hell holes that have festered and stunk up this planet in the name of “progress.” All they did was to prove that socialism has murdered more people than any other form of govenment in history.

And though while saying that taxing plastic bags may eventually lead to socialist mass murder sound laughable, I’ll bet the people that have suffered and died from socialist “progress” didn’t find it funny. That’s the point. Socialism always finds, or in this case creates, a crisis (the fallacy of anthropogenic global warming and the destruction of the planet) to get the knuckle-draggers to fall in line. Anyone that doesn’t buy in is labeled an enemy of the state.

Read “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg. Don’t be afraid! Remember, it was democrat Thomas Jefferson that said, “I do not fear the truth. I fear the lack of it.”

The Bag Tax-it’s not only 20 cents for plastic, but for paper as well in addition to other stuff. Here is a link that is unbiased and even said it’s going to have little to no effect and could even be costly: http://www.seattlebagtax.org/

C’mon…the same guy is making it a mandate for all cabs in Seattle proper to go green, what would you expect from such a nut job. so much in fact, he has even won 2 consecutive “Schrammies” form a local commentator who is, to say the least, very biased towards libs, Ken Schram

Seattle is the city with the highest percentage of college graduates.

Says something…

It says Bill Gates was born there, though he’s not one of them.

On July 31st, 2008 at 3:12 pm, lgm said:

A long and slightly unhinged post that says taxing plastic bags puts you on a slippery slope that ends with Pol Pot style mass murder.

Wow lgm, you used unhinged twice today. Good job. Say hi to Sponge Bob for me.

{I read that positive reinforcement is good for children}

“Crazy Lady” covers the SF Hilton in the morning catching the morning outbound tourist traffic. Then in the late afternoon, she covers the Embarcadeo BART station (just up from the ferry building).

For those of you that dont know, the two places are about a mile apart.

Says something…

It says the accreditors in this region are losing their grip on reality.

Says something…

A long and slightly unhinged post that says taxing plastic bags puts you on a slippery slope that ends with Pol Pot style mass murder.

Actually, a succinct and well composed response (if I say so myself)to a flip and rather obtuse burp of thought on your part.

In case you didn’t really get my point, allow me to clear-up your confusion. This “Seattle” nonsense has little to do with plastic bags, or side streets or the environment as it has to do with the socialist mind’s insatiable need to instill dominance and control over the various and inconvenient ways that the masses think, behave and generally go about living their lives.

Replace “plastic bags” with: trans-fatty acids, tobacco, scalding-hot coffee, petroleum, radio airwaves, Christianity, caribou, busing, words, thought, prescribed diversity, intent and/or the hundreds of other variables which today’s liberals feel that they need to control…and you will either begin to, or further, see my point.

I am neither alone nor “slightly unhinged” in my observation. Previous thinkers, from Ayn Rand to Dinesh D’Souza, have staked accomplished careers on illustrating the dangerous and deadly practice of giving the socialist mind an inch…and then watching it grow into a mile.

For example, take a cornerstone of modern, American-liberal accomplishment like abortion. What started out as a state regulated medical procedure was creatively transformed into an inalienable right, decreed to be contained under the notion of “privacy,” and therefore, given the status of Constitutional protection with no direct reference found within the US Constitution…all to deny the States the autonomy to decide the morality of this procedure themselves.

As if this wasn’t a stretch too far, this liberal “inch” was elongated into a liberal “mile,” where final term babies (or what liberals compassionately refer to as “fetuses”) can be legally beheaded, or “de-brained” in preparation for extraction and termination from their “unhealthy” mothers.

Want to go another mile? Take an even more recent liberal proposal, which I believe Illinois State Senator Barack Obama voted on affirmatively – the practice of taking babies (ahem, “fetuses”) who have miraculously survived partial-birth abortions, and placing them in set-aside closets until they can die naturally of starvation and isolation from human contact.

So stick with your slippery slope = “unhinged” meme if you choose, lgm. But please consider this easily illustrative example of liberal thought that I have just given you – where liberals have proven that they are not only capable of turning an inch into a mile, but also stretching a mile into a Trail of Tears.

You know it will happen.

Every time the mayor of Seattle has one of his “ideas” the mayor of Portland usually comes up with something worse. They’ve already perked up at the idea of taxing plastic bags, and one weekend they “experimented” with closing down about 4-6 city blocks to encourage alternative transportation. Both cities are being led by egomaniac nutballs. Thank goodness I’m not a Portland resident.

To echo another post, though – when you think of Seattle and Portland, don’t malign the entire states of Washington and Oregon – outside of the crazy metro areas, the states are relatively conservative (i.e. sane).