I encourage everyone to submit a comment to Mayor Manning about this. It's absolutely appalling.

Here's the link to contact the city:
http://www.ci.clayton.ca.us/clayton_contact-us.php

What mercy to let him get away with using the word "trite" as a noun in the last paragraph.

Shit, that shit was some beautifully brutal shit.

I'm going with gear shifter for an old tractor.

"There is a great silent majority of Americans that are believers. The difference between them and you is this. Believers do not have to justify their existence." -From the Kieffe and Sons blog post

Trying to justify the existence of d-bags like this guy almost makes me want to let "the God answer" do all the work for me.

Wait...Scratch that...I just did it on my own. Praise the ME!

This little guy reminds me of the "Mystery Creature photographed in Seattle" post from last year. Although I highly doubt that one of these could have gotten from the Himalayas to the northwest United States, the resemblance is still startling.

To the person claiming to have invented this previously (Yuly Shipilevsky).

Your patent seemed to describe a tube container with holes on the top and the bottom. With this girl's design, the convenience is within the ability to fill it up in small spaces, via the hole on the SIDE of the container, whereas your design would be completely incapable of doing so, and would require the exact same amount of space to fill it up using either of the holes.