LUCIANNE - Short Cuts for New Year's Eve

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Monday December 31, 2001

Quote of The Day

"Even Democrats can't destroy the American military in only eight years."

--Charles Krauthammer on Inside Washington

Muslim or Not, Watch Your Mouth: A Chicago woman of Muslim descent shouted her way into detention at Chicago's O'Hare airport this weekend and it had nothing to do with profiling. Good advice if you are flying anywhere at the year's end. Don't shout "bomb" in a crowded airport.

Come On Baby, Light My Fire: In an effort to turn their town into a PC paradise, the city fathers of Berkeley are well on their way to making it completely unlivable. Now they have banned wood burning fireplaces. Even though one gets what they votes for, when are to good citizens of that town going to revolt?

The Family that Drinks Together........ No need to finish that rhyme as reports of Chelsea slapping back the grape keep cropping up. Here's one that has her and her Dad getting looped enough to lose a cellphone and make the New York papers. The tabloids this week have some interesting pictures of Chelsea lurching around London with her partying Oxford pals. Looks like a trend.

More Airport Blues: If the screener who patted you down at the airport this season was rude, none-to-bright and badly groomed it's because the government seems to want them that way. Check the shoes of the guy next to you. Looks like no one else will.

Look on the Light Side: As horrible as 2001 turned out to be, Joe Kovacs at World Net Daily has managed to find some hilarious news dispatches from this grim year. Remember, if you lose your ability to laugh, the terrorists have won.

LDotterNote: The President tells us that Phase One of the war is over. Now we move into Phase Two and it's bound to bring with it some bad stuff. We've proved what Americans are made of in the last three months. That strength will sustain us for what is to come. This site has done it's small part in offering a Support Thread to help our members cope. We have discontinued it for the time being as we feel it has served its purpose. Should anyone who participated want to reach others from the thread simply E mail us at webmaster@LcomHQ.com with permission to give out your E address and we will pass it along to anyone who requests it. Support Thread or not, we are here for you in 2002 no matter what it brings and thank each and every LDotter for your support and good will.

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-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001

Answers

"the city fathers of Berkeley are well on their way to making it completely unlivable"

Not a good choice of words. Fireplace smoke is very polluting.

-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001


Isn't there any way to minimize the pollution? Couldn't they mandate a certain type of stove or fireplace instead? What about specially treated coal, like the stuff they burn in Britain?

-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001

The alternative is a modern wood stove as opposed to an open fireplace. Even so, they have to be used properly. The police knocked on my door one night because I had turned the stove too far down and flooded the neighborhood with creosote. They wanted to make sure nothing was on fire inside.

-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001

As far as Chelsea, has she booked her trip to Moscow yet, to denounce U.S. war policy?

-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001

wood burning should be considered natural pollution. It's been done since before man was born.

Also, it isn't like it's a daily 24/7 365 day a year thing, either.

Berkeley's are proving that they are nuts.

[if you can't figure out how wood burned before man came along, maybe you should be living in Berkeley too?]

-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001



Barefoot, natural doesn't necessarily mean healthy. Part of the problem is incomplete combustion. A plethora of wood stoves is considered very polluting, but they are much cleaner than fireplaces. Still, hard to imagine there would be enough going to make much difference.

Mind you, I'm not trying to address the question of personal rights, rather Lucianne's choice of the word "unlivable".

-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001


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