Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Two Important Bills Into Law!

Huh. Maybe he won't suck as bad as I thought he would. I have heard he signed some anti-emissions stuff too. . .
Still got a huge future debt problem, but I will at least say "way to go" on this.

okay he needs to sign so any tree older than california the state will not be able to be logged.

He's still the poster boy for environmentally destructive Hummers.

All Hail the Governator!


SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts.

"Nobody knows the full extent of the problem. ... But a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who has studied California cases involving allegations of necrophilia.

"Prosecutors didn't have anything to charge these people with other than breaking and entering. But if they worked in a mortuary in the first place, prosecutors couldn't even charge them with that," Ochoa said.

I remember reading that the ban against force-feeding geese doesnt take place for 7.5 years. Not much of a victory for the geese.

"He's still the poster boy for environmentally destructive Hummers."

I've been looking for an image of Arnold with a pig nose sticking his head out of a Hummer window. Any photoshop experts here?
Arnold should be commended for signing two good auto bills last week. The one to lower emmissions of cars and light trucks (pickups and SUVs minivans) by 20% and also a law that permits solo driver hybrids to use the HOV car pool lane.
I think the Hummer will still be exempt from the new emmissions law though as it is too heavy to qualify as a light truck and he still owns several Hummers.

Arnold is a confused bit of political equipment. At the very least he seems to stumble into favorable ground occasionally. Evidently he owns 5 Hummers but has given one back to the manufacturer to use for research on alternative fuel and fuel efficiency technologies. Wouldn't buying pretty much any other vehicle be a cheaper route to fuel efficiency.

He really pissed off Ford by allowing the Toyota hybrid in the carpool lanes as a single occupant vehicle but not Ford's SUV Hybrid. Obviously he saw the hypocrisy of a fuel efficient SUV in that instance, why waste energy on the Hummer?

Weird times we're trying to survive in.

Ok, a bit off topic, but I could not resist.

Henry Ford was a Nazi sympathizer, and used to give Hitler a large chunk of cash (I think it was 50,000 marks) every year as a birthday gift until he died.

Arnold's father was a Nazi police chief.

Now the son of a Nazi won't let the cretion of a Nazi's company drive the carpool lane of California roads. I am sure there is irony there, it is just too deep for me to dig to ;)

pig nose...one way we denigrate animals is to compare them to bad humans. Animals are treated so horrendously because we see them as lesser, negative beings. There are plenty of negative human images and words to resort to to describe humans, without using animals.

Do a search on this fois gras bill. Apparently several animal rights groups were against it, because of some provisions in it (re. whistleblowers and criminal prosecution and performing vivisection to make "more humane" fois gras or something like that). I'll try to search later.