BZHAnne's Blog

1. The Supreme Court has overturned the punitive damages awarded against Exxon for the Exxon-Valdez incident. Dropping them from 2 and 1/2 BILLION dollars to 500 million dollars. Half a billion is bad, but five times that is unconscionable. And you and I both know who the H E double hockeysticks is gonna be paying that judgement!!! As if gasoline prices weren't high enough. THANK YOU Supreme Court justices. I hereby take back 15% of the nasty things I ever said of you.

2. The Dallas City Council is proposing a new pet limitation ordinance - 1, count 'em, ONE pet per household. Note to those anti-companion s.o.b.s. Last time I looked even the ASPCA said that the majority of pet owners are responsible citizens about their precious babies. AND, last time I looked this WAS a democracy. You know what that is, don't you? It's a form of government whereby the MAJORITY rules. You do NOT punish the majority for the infringements by the minority! Kick your brains into gear, twits! The way you've written that ordinance means that if a person has two GUPPIES, fer heaven's sake, they'd be in non-compliance with your silly law and liable to fines, penalties, maybe even jail time. Find another way to deal with the poor babies that no one wants. How? Hmmmm...you ever hear of a little invention called - the computer? And its lovely data-bases? Why not set up a secured data base that every vet in the area can access. Whenever said vet performs a spay or neuter, he/she can enter the salient data into that data-base for perusal by any animal control officer. Ditto for annual vaccinations. Anyone harboring pets without entries in said database then must prove that their baby is indeed protected against rabies, etc. as well as being unable to procreate, unless a show or breeding animal. Let the owners of same pay a small fee for that privilege. And if you really give a rat's bare patootie, set up a fund that assists the less fiscally fortunate to get their animals neutralized and protected. GIVE, NOT SELL, certificates that show that the precious companion is duly legalized by the city. And then set up a place where people can take their pets to be permanently marked (tattoo or micro-chipped) for a nominal fee (NOT an arm and a leg!). Much better than making outlaws of more than half the city's pet-owning population, doncha think?

HEY! Jerkasauruses! Those who are pet people WILL remember this come next election!! Oh, not me, personally. I left the city of Dallas 20 years ago. I do not live there. I do not work there. I do not shop there. I buy not one thin dime' s worth of anything from any merchant there. And if this idiocy becomes the law of the city, I never will! How many of you people are little tinpot dictator wannabes with god complexes? Never mind. I don't expect an answer to that question.

Hmmmmph!!