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Planning on Cuddling Up by the Fireplace New Year’s Day? Not if You’re in San Francisco

Jan. 1, 2013 12:56pm

Planning on Cuddling Up by the Fireplace New Years Day? Not if Youre in San FranciscoIn a city that has led some of the nation’s most stringent bans on everything from trans fat to smoking in public (and, not-so-public places) and then some, San Francisco has done it again, nixing one of the few festivities people of all walks enjoy on New Year’s day: cozying up by the fireplace.

Yes, even on the holidays, Bay Area “regulators” never seem to rest, issuing their first “Spare the Air” alert of the season which bans residents from lighting wood fireplaces and stoves on Tuesday.

According to weather reports, a cold, low-pressure weather system in from the West is perfect breeding ground for a stagnant, pollutant-trapping air.

“Current weather conditions are expected to allow air pollution to build up to unhealthy levels on New Year’s Day,” according to a written statement from Jack Broadbent, head of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

“Sitting by the fire during the holidays may conjure up fond memories, but it’s important that everyone forgoes burning during this alert so we can all enjoy a happy, healthy holiday.”

The system is could remain hovering over the Bay Area until the weekend, according to Mark Strudley, with the National Weather Service. “I don’t think there will be a lot of cloud cover.”

Temperatures are currently in the low 50s and high 40s, but a freeze warning has been issued for the area. The system will stay over the Bay Area until at least the weekend, Strudley said.

“There might be a very, very small chance of showers north of the Golden Gate in the later to midweek, but that’s pretty tentative,” Strudley said.

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  • Rob
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:29pm

    Mommy, I read in an old book that there used to be a place called “America” where there was something called “freedom”. Mommy, is that true?

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    • ICSPADES
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 4:09pm

      Yes Johnny there use to be an America and then it was taken over by a group known as North America Pavement Apes. They demanded that society owed them and somehow brainwashed the general public into believing them. It was called Political Correctness and snowballed into every corner of American life. It was not long before everybody thought they were entitled to free stuff. They even elected a President to supply the free stuff for them by taking from those that worked. It didn’t take long before those that took outnumbered those that gave. The balance of the scales were tipped and we have been known as units of the Federation since then. All of us that once worked to become something in life have become slaves to the Federation. Here they come son .ALLEGIANCE TO THE FEDERATION

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    • darkknight91
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 4:14pm

      Not in the People’s Republic of California, junior.

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    • YankeeDelta68
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 4:20pm

      when is the state going to fall in the ocean..

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    • sndrman
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:05pm

      yes and we watched as our elected parties one that was suppose to stand up for freedom,liberty,honesty,hard work, and everything that AMERICA the BEAUTIFUL stood for…..the leaders who were supposed to watch were asleep at the switch and when we tried to wake them up,they to had become comfortable with freebies and scared of words such as racism,homophobe,war on women, and so on……instead of taking slings and arrows they found hiding under their desk easier anf going along to get along, words used by just one side the other DEMANDS these words and actions from the other party words like “comprise” “reaching across the isle” but only one side is to do those actions the other to profit of them………..yes AMERICA the BEAUTIFUL was a great great country but a smal group of angry,mean,anti-AMERICA people have used laws they passed to control good honest hard working people.

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    • lwillis59
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:14pm

      can you say Agenda 21??

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      lwillis59  
    • bikerr
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:27pm

      Mommy,what is abortion and why is it so dangerous?
      Well child,some one always dies and its not pretty.

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      bikerr  
    • possom
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:28pm

      hahahahaha thanks guys.

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      possom  
    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:41pm

      @ICSPADES

      Good job! You Sir(?) have talent. Drive on an slay with impunity!

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      1776freedomofspeech  
    • michaelmoron
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:17pm

      You don’t have to comply.

      You people don’t even realize how powerful you are.

      I don’t know why you call these people Authorities.

      They are PUBLIC SERVANTS.

      More specifically, they are TRUSTEES of this ESTATE called the ‘United States’

      YOU, one of the “WE the PEOPLE” are the GRANTORS.

      TRUSTEES take orders from GRANTORS.

      WE the PEOPLE are also BENEFICIARIES.

      A TRUSTEE can NOT directly ORDER a Beneficiary or GRANTOR to do ANYTHING !!!!!!

      You people are waiving your rights, because you are not aware of them.

      YOU have MORE power than a JUDGE.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjv20sC5CY

      WHY ???? because he is a Public TRUSTEE and you are the Administrator of your own affairs (legal fiction, estate), and you are also a beneficiary to the ‘United States’ (Estate and the U.S. Corporation)

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.”
      – Henry Clay

      (Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852), was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives. He served three different terms as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and was also Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829. He lost his campaigns for president in 1824, 1832 and 1844.)

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    • Jim S
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:04pm

      ..this law has been in effect for at least 15 years…in America we elect people to make the laws and rules we all wish to live under…in a place call San Francisco, the people prefer smoke free air over fireplaces…which is what America is ALL about local control…which is why I fled CA and am enjoying my fireplace in Texas..and folks in SF and enjoying not having one..we’re all happy…cool…

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    • proudinfidel54
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:50am

      Stagnant Air, in Northern California, right next to that great big ocean. I lived near frisco while in the Air Force, and the one thing I noticed (being from Louisiana) is that there was always a breeze blowing. You want stagnant go hand out in New Orleans in August, yet you never hear that kind of complaining from those folks. They would freak out if they could see the “Bond Fire” my family and friends make on New Years Eve. “HAPPY NEW YEARS ONE AND All”

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:47am

      I gotta just get me some land and check out of this craziness.

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    • dogdr
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 2:29pm

      Wow, you people have a lot of time on your hands. Worried about our air in SF? Really?
      Let me explain it to you crazy teabaggers.
      We no longer leave alone, far away from everybody else. WE live in communities now, and as such, what we do affects everybody around us. If you lived all alone in the Bay Area, go ahead, fire up the stoves and burn some toxic chemicals while you are at it. Nobody cares. Since we (in the Bay Area as well as most other cities) live close together in overcrowded urban areas, we can no longer live by a “do whatever you want”mindset. WE all have to consider others, and if certain times of the year the atmospheric conditions make it unwise to burn much because of the pollution concerns, then it makes sense to burn less for your own sake, but also for everybody that lives next to you. I did want to have a fire yesterday but couldn’t because of the “spare the air” warning. Oh, well. Guess I won’t. No big deal, we are not a communist nation now because I couldn’t burn in my fireplace. WE ALL have cleaner air and that is good so what it the problem? Your selfish attitudes and isolationism of “I will do whatever I want” do not bode well for the country and certainly makes you lousy neighbors if nothing else.

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    • ESCAPED_FROM_USSR
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:18pm

      @dogdr – Let me repeat words of wisdom that Boehner said to Reid: ‘Go **** Yourself’

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      ESCAPED_FROM_USSR  
  • Graystroke
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:29pm

    Global Warming the Tool of the West
    Global Warming the Tool of the West

    For years, the Elites of the West have cranked up the myth of Man Made Global Warming as a means first and foremost to control the lives and behaviors of their populations. Knowing full well that their produce in China and sell in the West model and its consiquent spiral downward in wages and thus standards of living, was unsustainable, the elites moved to use this new “science” to guilt trip and scare monger their populations into smaller and more conservatives forms of living. In other words, they coasted them into the poverty that the greed and treason of those said same elites was already creating in their native lands.

    What better way to staunch protests at worsening economic and life conditions than to make it feel like an honourable job/duty of the people to save “Gia”. At the same time, they used this “science” as a new pagan religion to further push out the Christianity they hate and despise and most of all, fear? Gia worship, the earth “mother”, has been pushed in popular culture oozing out of the West for a better part of the past 1.5 decades. This is a religion replete with an army of priests, called Government Grant Scientists.

    Various groups have fought back. This is including Russian hackers, who published a huge database of UK government, scientific and university emails depicting the fixing of data to sell Global Warming, er Climate Change (as if it never changed on i

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    Graystroke  
    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 4:19pm

      @Graystroke
      “Global Warming the Tool of the West”

      Sen. Whitehouse just ended a 1 hour speech on the Senate floor about Global Warming.

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      The-Monk  
    • sndrman
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:18pm

      they’re TOOLS alright and people that go along are TOOLS as well…………..just tell people it’s for a good cause and off they TOOLS go………….

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      sndrman  
    • luxlife
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:06pm

      I like TOOL – “learn to swim learn to swim learn to swim” -mjk

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      luxlife  
  • stopprintn
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:28pm

    Hope they got all their chestnuts roasted over Christmas.

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    stopprintn  
  • Graystroke
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:23pm

    Global warming here’s a good summary:
    http://www.mat-rodina.blogspot.ru/2012/12/global-warming-tool-of-west.html

    Global Warming the Tool of the West

    For years, the Elites of the West have cranked up the myth of Man Made Global Warming as a means first and foremost to control the lives and behaviors of their populations. Knowing full well that their produce in China and sell in the West model and its consiquent spiral downward in wages and thus standards of living, was unsustainable, the elites moved to use this new “science” to guilt trip and scare monger their populations into smaller and more conservatives forms of living. In other words, they coasted them into the poverty that the greed and treason of those said same elites was already creating in their native lands.

    What better way to staunch protests at worsening economic and life conditions than to make it feel like an honourable job/duty of the people to save “Gia”. At the same time, they used this “science” as a new pagan religion to further push out the Christianity they hate and despise and most of all, fear? Gia worship, the earth “mother”, has been pushed in popular culture oozing out of the West for a better part of the past 1.5 decades. This is a religion replete with an army of priests, called Government Grant Scientists.

    Various groups have fought back. This is including Russian hackers, who published a huge database of UK government, scientific and university emails depicting the f

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    Graystroke  
  • tuppergun
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:20pm

    Here in Colorado I have the wood stove going in the basement, fireplace going upstairs and I’m going to go light the stove in the garage just because I can! I wish CA was down wind.

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  • taintso
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:20pm

    I would think a little smoke would be less of a hazard to ones health than rump humping S.F. style.

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    • EricStoner
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 4:58pm

      Hump all the rump you want, just don’t do it by a fireplace or have a cigarette after the sacred event. What a world the left has created.

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  • AZ Walt
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:06pm

    If I lived in California, especially the SF area, I’d light up the fire place. When the citation arrived in the mail, I’d send it back with a note saying,”GO “F” off!” And see ‘em in court!

    Same with the idots that claim I can’t have a wood fire today here in chilly Phoneix, AZ area because it might cause some polution. Yeah, Right. Bull-fecese!

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  • intercepter
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:04pm

    when are they getting the big one ,that separates them from the rest of the country

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  • demsrtraitors
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:04pm

    Liberals are more extreme than the NAZI’s and communists under Staln . But I don’t feel sorry for the traitorus whites who choose to live under such oppression in San Fran sicko. I hoe it gets even worse for them

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    • subic
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:26pm

      Home of tyrant Diane Feinstien & pukelosi. To TYRANNY & BEYOND————->!

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    • Rob
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:45pm

      What are the whites supposed to do? Just turn tail and run? Just give it all away? I think we are doomed….

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      Rob  
  • CascoBay
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:47pm

    Agenda 21 coming to a state near you! This is total madness…totalitarian madness. This is liberal fascism at its finest.

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  • m14guy
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:44pm

    Oh do I look forward to the day when I see them on the side of the road eating weeds and grubbing for worms. They are nine meals away from anarchy and clueless about what is coming. They will be some of the first to attrit when RESET arrives. Enjoy the fog (natural & self imposed) you live in. It’s all about how you feel about yourself isn’t it?. Just don’t be surprised when some of us do not comply.

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  • bikerdogred1
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:27pm

    One small step for man kind and one giant step for weirdos.

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  • Shamrock241
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:21pm

    Close the shade’s and let the Fire burn baby burn, when you get a fine in the mail a week later simply tell them you were not even home that day so sorry comrade i will not be paying your extortion fee.

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  • freestaterev
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:19pm

    Just tell city officials you are burning “medical Mary Jane” logs and they’ll leave you alone!

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  • waspanglosaxon
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:07pm

    The San Francisco city Board of Supervisors is a classic study in local government insanity. These charter members of the Lunatic Left have even recently passed a law saying that retail merchants cannot offer shopping bags to customers without charging them ten cents extra, prompting customers to fish old bags out of the garbage cans before they go shopping. This city represents the ultimate in nuttiness. It is the ultimate nutcase city in a nutcase country!

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:47pm

    Liberty loving leftists.

    (Extra bold sarcasm font)

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    • forthepeople
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:56pm

      I say let them have some states , divide it up , then build a big wall because they will be wanting in the conservative / liberty side in short time . ‘ Let them lay in the bed they are making for a while ‘

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  • jungle J
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:39pm

    They burn left over feces there I wouldn’t let them light up either.

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  • SciPro
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:22pm

    Never surrender, never give-up, seeking for the ‘good’. Let that be the word of the ‘day’ and the “motto” for 2013. Let the soul cease it’s complaint, and try to make the world around you, a better place to live, just by adjusting your attitude, if ‘you’ will do that, deliberately make that your goal this year, anyone coming into your presence will be lifted up. And should anyone ask you ‘how are you doing’? today! Exclaim to them this: If things were any better, I just couldn’t stand it! .. And watch their faces .. try it, use more humor, live life, for we will not pass this way again, be deliberately happy! make 2013 your year, and to “heck” with Obama and his crowd .. yep … let’s do it!

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  • woodyee
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:17pm

    “The system is could remain hovering over the Bay Area until the weekend…”

    Dang! Why couldn’t it last until – 2016?

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    woodyee  
    • BlazeGlory
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:29pm

      The system won’t couldn’t remain hovering over the Bay Area until 2016

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  • SmellyDog
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:14pm

    I love it! I live in central California. The San Joaquin valley is a conservative farming area in this damn liberal blue state. San Fran and L.A control the entire commie state. The air quality board has had the fire rules for us for 10 years now. I say now they can enjoy the same rules they forced on us! Let them freeze!!!

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  • HotFixIt
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:14pm

    So, freeze instead? I actually used my fireplace to heat my house the last two nights because I can’t afford to pay my electic bill… what are people to do?!!!

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  • Taurnil
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:06pm

    I can recall as early as the 60s (5-10 yrs old) some would say California should just fall into the ocean; I’m still waiting.

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    • LeadNotFollow
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:26pm

      Californication is worse than Sodom, Gomorrah, and Pompeii, rolled into one.
      I too, am still waiting for that big earthquake to hit California, and the whole state cracks off and falls into the ocean.

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      LeadNotFollow  
  • 1776freedomofspeech
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:05pm

    Why is it oing to fall off into the ocean? Hope so! Nancy too!

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  • geminicontender
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:02pm

    What country do we live in anymore? Directives, mandates, forced taxes……this country has lost all of its ‘good’ people. All we are left with now are tyrants and freeloaders. I am thoroughly ashamed of this country. For the first time in my life I may reconsider moving out of the hell hole these liberals and weak-kneed Republicans have given us.

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    • woodyee
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:27pm

      If our Country had lost all it’s good people, there would be no need for elections, let alone a need for the dead to vote.

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      woodyee  
    • smokie
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:54pm

      Here’s the basic rule for banning. If someone ever cracked a smile over it, ban it. Notice how the rules are geared to smash down any happiness at all.

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:56pm

      Here is the problem in a nutshell – the good people don’t run for office and if they do, they don’t get elected. I will take another revolution to restore some sanity.

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  • lookes2003
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:00pm

    Can you say…. Tsunami?

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