Cal Elections and a Waste of Time

[furtech]

This ballot may contend for "least inspiring ever". Considering the cost of this election and our state's deficit the process feels like dangerous waste of money. The propositions sound ridiculous to me: half of them say force the gov't to save more; the other half tells them to spend more. That's like telling people they -must- save to have a 12% savings buffer, while at the same time telling them they'll have to pay more for services and, oh, you're also getting a pay cut. What's the point of all this verbiage and law if it is impossible to enact or enforce?

Here in L.A. the city attorney's office is up for grabs between a crook and a ineffectual wimp (for the top L.A. law enforcement office!). I was leaning towards the ineffectual wimp until one of his bile-ads made an idiotic statement: [(Weiss) ineffectual wimp ad] "Trutanich even called the ban against murderous .50-caliber ammunition 'ridiculous.' "

First, that was taken out of context (the "ridiculous" was referring to local bans on ammunition-- Trutanich feels they should be pressing for state-wide bans). Second, Weiss' proposal to ban the "murderous" .50cal BMG is idiotic at the base. I can't remember a single "murder" in California where a 50BMG was used. It's a round rarely used by ordinary people and the guns that can fire them cost thousands of dollars and are heavier than a 7th grader's backpack!

I might buy a lot of BS in political ads because I just don't know better-- but the second a candidate says something that is patently false or misleading leads me to question ALL of his ads.

All of that being said, GO VOTE!

Comments

[slave-to-anime.livejournal.com]

See, you get it lucky over there. Our school board elections are BORING.

Well, they're still single cages for birds. Though I'd be amused by chicken fights across an egg farm. :P

Yeah, I can't imagine that being a particularly practical bullet, except maybe in some sort of high powered rifle. And regardless, it would be silly for any politician to straight up say that banning such a bullet would be ridiculous without also probably having the position that outlawing guns of any sort would be ridiculous. And obviously neither candidate is in favor of that position.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I just want them to break up the LAUSD: it's bigger than most city governments! There is a LOT of waste due to the bureaucracy's size, and the union is very powerful and they and the mayor are playing chicken.

Speaking of chicken, if they did have huge commercial egg farms without the cages, there would probably be periodic riots that would make Attica look like a deb ball!

The 50AE is almost exclusively a macho-bullet: to show who has the bigger gun. The recoil is fierce and that makes second shots almost impossible; plus the guns only hold 6-7 bullets (as opposed to a 9mm, which can hold almost twenty). There are very few circumstances where a 50AE would be better than a number of other rounds.

Ironically, before smokeless powder (particularly in the 1800's), the most common caliber was .50-- but that's with black powder. The large size and long barrels of the rifles meant that it still had a lot of punch and a long accuracy range. Big bullets!