It’s all about priorities. I’ll just leave this here.
The city of Santa Barbara has passed an ordinance that will allow restaurant employees to be punished with up to six months of jail time or a $1,000 fine for giving plastic straws to their customers.
The bill was passed unanimously last Tuesday, and covers bars, restaurants, and other food-service businesses. Establishments will still be allowed to hand out plastic stirrers, but only if customers request them.
Santa Barbara’s ordinance “is likely the most severe straw ban in the country,” according to Reason, but it’s far from the only straw ban. Seattle banned plastic straws earlier this month, mandating a a $250 fine for violators. Santa Barbara, however, has gone much further than Seattle — even aside from the harsher punishments its law imposes. Santa Barbara has banned not only plastic straws, but also compostable straws. Oh, and each individual straw counts as a separate infraction, meaning that if someone got busted handing out straws to a table of four people, he or she could end up facing years behind bars.
Now, I’m a reasonable person. I may be a libertarian, but I’m glad that we live in a society with laws. For example: I am glad that if a person, say, murders another person, then that murderer has to go to prison. That seems totally fair to me. But six months in jail for handing a little piece of plastic to another person? I feel like you’d have to be bananas to think that’s even close to fair.
Three Africans film and share on social media their prolonged bloody group violence of a 13-year-old girl in Vasteras, Fria Tider reports.
But now the court of appeals chooses to nearly halve their punishment – from eight months to four and five months of youth detention. A fourth rapist can not be punished because he is said to be a child.
On 14 June 2017 a 13-year-old girl was raped in a flat in Västerås. The three Somalis, reportedly born in 2000, were each sentenced in April for rape against a child to eight months of youth detention.
The judgement was appealed and the prosecutor demanded the perpetrator be punished.
Instead, Svea Hovrätt has chosen to severely lower their penalty, and furthermore, release one of the Somalis from the charge of child pornography, as it is unclear from the video if the girl has completed puberty.
Two are now sentenced to five months in juvenile detention, with the third released having served only four months.
The Africans plied the young girl with alcohol then one of the men brought her into the toilet, raping her. After she left the toilet, three of the men brought her back in and raped her at the same time. This led to the girl’s abdomen “splashing” and blood began to pour out.
As she cried, she was raped again while the others watched. It appeared later that two of the Somalis had filmed her as she was repeatedly raped. The videos were the strongest evidence in the case and were played during the trial, wrote Sweden’s Television.
The court’s verdict revealed that afterwards the girl began to self harm, became cold and angry. She has missed a significant amount of school and has nightmares causing sleep deprivation. The film was spread on social media causing rumours and taunting of the girl.
The court documents show that all three convicted men have dual citizenship in Sweden and Somalia, meaning they can not be expelled to Africa. The fourth person was registered as under 15 when the crime occurred will not be punished.
I don’t know what to say. The world is going nuts. Sweden deserves its fate. So does California
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Except for liberals being foolish.
If stupidity was a serious crime the entire City Council and Mayor of Santa Barbara would be serving life sentences This Plastic Straw nonsense is the tip of the Eco-Wacko Iceberg Enviromentalisms a mental disorder caused by reading too many Eco-Wacko newsletters
John the little girls of Sweden dont deserve this the people were lied to, brain washed then silenced. https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/al-mohler/criminalizing-christianity-swedens-hate-speech-law-1277601.html
The rulers cant admit they were wrong or allow proof they were wrong.
What will they do when their “guests” start burning and tossing gays off buildings?
Trump got the Pastor out prison in Turkey and https://jordan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398157
The original “research” was done by a 9-yr-old boy.
But others are just as full of hyperbola.
Like one restaurant in Salt Lake City, considering a private ban, buys, according to their own accountant, about 60,000 straws in a year.
Having been to one SLC eatery after another for 5 yrs, I call shananagans on that figure. It’s 5,000 straws a month or 167 a day.
But I doubt that many eateries here have anywhere near that number of customers a day.
More like about 60, if they are lucky.
But the spokesperson for that same place claimed they used 200,000 straws a year! That means they serve over 560 people a day!
Then why is it there is NEVER a wait at even the most popular places in Utah?!
It appears a lot of those totally honest Mormon workers are walking huge numbers of straws home.
The country of mexifornia has gone off the rails.
I would probably be executed in California for continuing to use phosphates in my laundry detergent, then.
And my dishwasher.
I’m glad I live in a rational part of a rational state.
The people here are great, too.
@kitt:
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. The liberals of Europe and Scandinavia are so scared of Muslims they will let them burn them all alive before they speak up.
@Nanny G:
Maybe someone needs to be investigated for tax fraud?
Can’t they just secede already?
So was this straw ban a lobby by dentists? https://www.webmd.com/oral-health/news/20050617/sipping-soda-through-straw-cut-cavities#1
And more of the insanity coming from the left, . . .
“irresponsible people who have more than two children should be taxed to the hilt for the privilege of irresponsible breeding.”
. . . From Scott Wallace running for Congress in Penn.
@James Raider: But I assume illegal immigrant Hispanics and Muslims, who traditionally have large families, will be exempted?
@Deplorable Me: They dont make enough money to be taxed at higher levels, but but but if on relief they get a bigger check while taking more tax payer resources.
They punish Married people by higher tax rates if both have worked at decent paying jobs w/benefits.
Democrats love the poor thats why they make more policies that make more of them.
If you can afford to make babies lots and lots of adorable conservative babies teach them self responsibility and the difference between good and evil.
@James Raider: Scott Wallace might be more ignorant than most.
2 children puts us in population shrinkage.
It takes 2.1 children to be at zero population growth.
This is why most of Western Europe was forced to try importing Muslims to grow their tax paying base.
But, it hasn’t worked.
One migrant costs taxpaying Germans (for instance) $37,000/yr.
And, they refuse to assimilate or become tax payers instead of tax burdens.
@Deplorable Me: #10
Or just get rid of the borders, . . . as they are attempting.
@Nanny G: #12
The history of Islam is 1400 years of aggressive conversion and non-assimilation.
That’s not about to change.
This anti straw campaign is as stupid as the rest of these Eco-Wackos ideas like with pesticides like with CFC’s and DDT its all based upon JUNK SCIENCE and POLITICS I know its not right and unlawful to litter but this with Santa Barbara is going way too far
no problem is ever solved in its original presentation. so daily poop maps and urine pools in San Fran aid visitors to avoid some areas. how deranged can a public office be-well its a demorat run city and state-no accounting for stupidity . the new starbuck lid contains more plastic that the straw.