The Proc’s refrigerator says:

I went down to the City Council meeting last night and, yes, I spoke at public comment. I should have bought a bottle of whisky last night (not just to celebrate the reelection of Vice Mayor Haderlein but because I needed to calm down). Before I get into that, I do have to say - I did have a lot more “eloquent” things to say - but I was quite pissed off.

Why, Sid, Why?!

Because of jackasses like Sid Tyler and half the bitches who spoke last night, Pasadena comes closer to having some of the most draconian, un-American, and unconstitutional smoking bans in the entire United States. No smoking at outdoor places, near businesses, bus stops, ATMs, and possibly no smoking if you live in an apartment building (which they said under the guise of ‘multi-family housing’).

Sid - you’re a fucking embarrassment to the Republican party for what you said last night. Wanting to invade my personal freedoms and all of that stuff. You’ve been hitting that liberal limo bongwater for too long, Chief. Maybe it’s old age or something kicking in - but when was the last time you heard a member of the GOP go off on smoking cigarettes like that? Just because you can jumpstart a car with your penis and a wink doesn’t give you the right to invade someone’s home and tell them what they can and can’t do in their own home with something that is legal.

The usually-prasied-by-this-website Tyler said that he didn’t want to see the City of Pasadena “under the brown haze of smoke“. Oh - what about that little fucking thing called Interstate 210 that runs through the City? Why don’t we force everyone to drive a Prius? Nope..we won’t be doing that anytime soon.

Smoking = bad. Pollution from cars = totally ok.

Check out what Fred Ortega had to say in this morning’s PSN:  (a wonderful paper, at least for today, because they quoted me)

The City Council took the first step Monday in enacting some of the toughest anti-smoking regulations in the San Gabriel Valley.

If ultimately approved, the new rules would prohibit smoking in outdoor shopping and dining areas, in ATM and movie ticket lines, within 20 feet of building entrances and at outdoor events including the Rose Parade.

The council’s vote Monday instructed the City Attorney’s Office to draft the new ordinance, a process that typically takes about a month, said Pasadena Health Director Takashi Wada. The council would then vote to approve the new statute, which would take effect about 30 days later.

If smoking is so bad, so harmful, so fucking irritating to people - why doesn’t the government MAKE IT GOD-DAMNED ILLEGAL? No, they won’t do that. Cigarettes will continue to be legal to buy in California, legal to possess, but someday will not be legal to smoke. I predict - within the next 10 or 15 years - California will be the only state to prohibit smoking everywhere indoors and EVERYWHERE outdoors. California is on its way to becoming a state where marijuana use will be quite legal but cigarette smoking will not. The government talks shit about the tobacco industry but still wants their kickbacks from big tobacco.


Here’s a video of me telling the City Council that they’re wasting their time and we should be discussing more important things than if I want to have a cigarette.

I also found myself sitting to two stupid bitches who came up to speak after I did at public comment. They were cackling and booing and generally acting like idiots whenever a pro-smoker’s rights person would come up. I was quiet and respectful, keeping my opinions to myself - although I would have liked to strangle all those people wearing those gay green stickers.

This was the one chick bitching about how she likes to take her dog when she goes out to eat and the last place she went to, two people were smoking and woah-is-me-I-couldn’t-bear-to-stay-there-while-someone-was-smoking-a-cigarette. She said she complained to the restaurant and that she had to leave. No mention if the fucking bitch asked the two people to put out their cigarettes. And what about bringing her fucking DOG to the restaurant? What if I were allergic to dog fur or dog shit? I guess getting a staph infection or something isn’t as bad as cigarette smoke.

Pasadena, Uber Alles

One of the “geniuses” who spoke last night was some 16 year old chick who went to, you guessed it, John Muir. Besides her horrible English skills (thanks, PUSD) - she sounded like she was possibly smoking something else. And what’s with that comment that her friend had to GO TO CLASS? It was 8 fucking 30 p.m. Must be pregnant or a gang member. Wow. Real good “representative” for the anti-smoking clan.

And why the fuck would I want to hear a 16 year old speak on smoking? Or anyone young for that matter? When I was 12 or 13 or 14, I hated the smell of cigarettes and said I’d never smoke. You don’t know anything about anything when you’re of that age - so I’m tired of this ‘out of mouths of babes’ shit. Don’t believe me? Go back to my 6th grade health teacher at Chichester Middle School, Mrs. Delaney, and ask to find that contest I entered where I said “Smokers are jokers”.

At least Kelli got her two cents in - not only on the meeting itself - but on the stupid chick who came up to the podium in this video.

I also noticed nobody (besides me) wanted to mention how California is the ONLY state that considers second-hand smoke lethal. So I guess 49/50 states are wrong? Oh, that’s right, we know more and are better than everyone else out here. Right.

I also noticed how the Council barely touched the issue about banning smoking in APARTMENTS. Lovely how that one wasn’t talked about too much, save for a few mentions by Chris Holden. Yeah, that’s right, here comes Big Pasadena Government into our homes. Sure, first it’s smoking, because everyone will agree it’s “bad” - but what about a Council 20 or 30 years from now that wants to ban something else?

I love how Pasadena says things like “they only worry about Pasadena’s city knitting” (like when they didn’t want to pass the Anti-Iraq War resolution) but last night was talking about “being a world class city like Santa Monica and Calabasas“. Yeah, totally two “world class” cities. One city smells like b.o. and patchouli and hippies and the other is a great place to watch a chick get double penetrated by two guys while sucking off a donkey. I’ll let you pick which city those descriptions belong to.

I don’t think anyone who became ill last night in Pasadena was able to get to the hospital because all of the wahhhmbulances seemed to pass through City Council last night. I mean - what’s with these groups like The Pasadena Tobacco Prevention Coalition?

I think the City of Pasadena is taking advantage of studies that haven’t been proven, one-sided statistics, mass hysteria, hippies who have grown up that want to smoke pot legally but wouldn’t dare be near a cigarette, peer pressure from other pussified cities like Santa Monica etc., and the fact that they think everyone else will think Pasadena is a “Grade A City” because of passing this law.

Yeah, people are going to think Pasadena is “Grade A” all right - a “Grade A Joke“.

Nice to have the Germans from our sister city there early on (before they left to invade Poland). And - hey - maybe we should replace the American flag with the Chinese flag we have at City Council chambers? Seems like the right thing to do after last night’s meeting.

I guess it’s time to pass out some awards.

This week’s Ham & Egger Award (which Frank Girardot is a big fan of) goes to:

Mayor Bill Bogaard

Jacque Robinson

Margaret McAustin

Chris Holden

Steve Haderlein

Victor Gordo

Steve Madison (even though he wasn’t there, he’s Mr. Anti-Smoking)

Sid Tyler

Dr. Takashi Wada

The Pasadena Tobacco Prevention Coalition

Day One Pasadena

The two stupid bitches sitting next to me (I’ll wait for Dormitas to post their names in his blow-by-blow)

Enjoy your awards, assclowns. They’ll be arriving in the mail shortly.

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Miss Havisham - want to organize a “smoke-in”?

- AP