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Up In Smoke: Common Sense
By Walter Moore

The Philosopher Kings of the South Coast Air Quality Management
District (AQMD) have decided that government must stop you from
burning wood in your fireplace.

The AQMD -- which is funded with $125 million of your money each year
-- just made it illegal to install wood-burning fireplaces in new
homes, and adopted regulations to stop you from using your existing
fireplace on days they deem too polluted.

In a region where massive wildfires are as routine as televised car
chases, these kill-joys want to stop you from burning logs? Are you
kidding me?

We've got ten jillion cars and trucks stuck in traffic, idling, for
about 18 out of every 24 hours. We've got a governor who fires up the
Gulfstream twice a day to commute from L.A. to Sacramento. We've got
kids getting shot while minding their own business. And yet we need a
new law to ban the burning of logs in fireplaces? Really?

Maybe I've led a sheltered life, but I don't remember ever hearing
about a coroner listing, as the cause of death, "lived in a city with
wood-burning fireplaces."

Laws like this make you wonder what they're smoking at the AMQD.
Wonder no more: our city's representative on the AMQD's board is Jan
Perry. That's right: the same City Council Member who wants to
"protect" you from fast food in South L.A. because you're too fat and
stupid to decide what to eat and where.

Remember common sense? I really miss it, especially when it comes to
people who have the power to tax and regulate.

People used to understand the concept of "priorities" and
"reasonableness." Now we've created so many agencies that they need
to manufacture new problems to justify their continuing existence and
ever-increasing funding.

The AMQD will never issue a press release saying, "The federal and
state Environmental Protection Agencies, along with county and city
agencies, have pretty much taken care of everything, and since we've
gotten to the point of regulating wood-burning fireplaces, we
recommend that our agency be disbanded."

Okay, enough ranting from me for one day. I'll think I'll go buy a
McBreakfast and light up a cigar just to spite the Philosopher Kings.

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