BZHAnne's Blog

1. As you know there are laws regarding fire safety all over the place. One of them concerns sprinkler systems. If you got a commerical building, a retail building, a factory, a laboratory, even a hotel or a motel, a restaurant or a bar, you GOTTA have a sprinkler system. If it's a government building, if it's a library, a hospital, free clinic even, it's GOTTA have a sprinkler system. You cannot build any of the above places unless you install a sprinkler system during the building process. What I wanna know is why the heck is there no law that makes it illegal to build any kind of residence without same. Apartments, condominiums, townhouses, duplexes, single-family, mansions even. Are the various city councils (YES, Dallas, I'm talking about YOU) asleep at the switch? And how about giving the owners of existing living spaces a property tax relief to retrofit their residential buildings? HUH? Why not? Only reason I can see why not is that it would cut into your bottom line a bit. But hold on there, pardners. What about the cost to the city of emergency personnel and equipment? What about medical care for the burned or injured, including emergency personnel? You don't think that's expensive? Get off the stick, councilpersons. PASS THOSE LAWS!

2. For the military: Any of you guys old enough or well read enough to remember D-Day? The charge up the sands of Omaha and Utah beaches? Any of you remember the flail tanks? How about you outfit some of today's tanks with flails and send 'em out ahead of a convoy in Iraq? Let those heavy chains explode the IED's instead of hummers full of GI Joes and Janes.