Boy suspended for wearing rosary beads. One problem: there’s no rule against it.
Missouri and Kansas lawmakers aren’t content to ban weed. Working on banning legal weed substitute.
Jeff Roorda, anti-pot screwball. Sure looks stoned to me...
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Lawmakers in Missouri and Kansas are considering creating more laws in order to ban a product called K2. K2 is a mixture of herbs and spices sprayed with a synthetic compound with similar properties to THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
A proposed bill in Missouri, sponsored by the well known screwball, state Rep. Jeff Roorda (D-MO), would make possession a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison – identical to punishments given to users of real marijuana. A similar bill in Kansas would make possession a misdemeanor punishable, with up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine, also the same as marijuana convictions.
If K2 is in fact harmful, the obvious solution is to legalize its safe, natural alternative – marijuana. But thatís the kind of logical, rational maneuver of which hysterical politicians and corrupt pseudogovernment corporations could not conceive.
Communism in Washington: Many municipalities and counties banning or hampering bikini baristas.
A typical bikini barista. The type of people who oppose this are the ones who pee with a "wide stance" if you know what I mean.
Restrictive ordinances against bikini coffee shops in Washington state have harmed the income of several of these shops, forcing them to let several of their employees go in a time of recession and job loss. Bikini coffee shops are venues at which people can get coffee served by attractive girls in skimpy clothing. Occasionally the girls participate in the free market and offer to flash the customers for more money. Armies of Bible-thumping morons and busybody bureaucrats have converged to stop this unsanctioned exercise of liberty and capitalism.
So, yeah. If you want any more proof that the government is keeping the recession in place, here it is.
Indian casinos lobby California state legislature to ban electronic bingo machines, and win. Big business trumps freedom.
California has banned electronic bingo machines, effective Feb 1, 2009, because they are “too close to slot machines”. And why is that a problem? Because it competes with Indian casinos. The casinos have lobbied heavily to the state legislature to attack freedom and the state legislature obeyed.
“It’s going to be a very immediate and devastating thing that takes place tonight, when we’re not allowed to raise funds using electronic bingo machines,” said Topo Padilla, President of the El Camino High School Booster Club, who says the machines helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for the school’s football team and other programs.
Corporate communists have won another victory against freedom.
Judge Tommy Munoz forcing your children to carry GPS trackers if they don’t go to school like they’re told to.
Judge Tommy Munoz
In Bryan, TX, Justice of the Peace Tommy Munoz is implementing a new strategy for punishing “truants” (aka people who don’t do what the government orders them to do) – forcing them to carry GPS devices at all times.
Says Munoz, “If your son or daughter does not want to get up and go to school, you call my office and I will send the constable to go get them out of bed and bring them to school. Is this intended to embarrass you? Yes it is, because the law says they need to be in school and if they don’t want to get up, well we’re going to get them there.”
To add insult to injury, the parents of the kid who did not go to school are forced to pay court costs. Maybe they should focus more on making school actually stimulating for youths rather than punishing them when they react to the general lousiness of public schools. Nah… that would entail creativity and excellence.
Thanks Genevieve!
Woman ordered confined to hospital bed by judge “for the sake of the child”. Child dies anyway (or possibly as a result).
In Tallahassee, FL, Samantha Burton was 25 weeks pregnant and showing signs of a potential miscarriage. Her doctor advised her to go on bed rest for as long as 15 weeks. This was not practical for Ms. Burton as she had two toddlers and a job. She planned on getting a second opinion, but before she could, the doctor informed the state government which had the Circuit Court of Leon County get involved.
By the judge’s order, she was ordered to stay bedridden at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital undergoing any and all tests recommended by her doctor. She requested a change of hospital but was denied, being told by court buffoons that “such a change is not in the child’s best interest at this time.” After three days of hospitalization, she had to undergo an emergency C-section and the fetus was found dead.
So much for the sovereignty of the human body.
Thanks Luke!
Anyone with the name of the doctor, please send it in for free merchandise.
Car-hating Seattle government forbids Safeway from using its parking lot as light-rail park & ride.
In south Seattle, where the newly-launched light rail system runs, a Safeway grocery store sits near Othello station. The Safeway has a sizable parking lot which is not heavily used during the day. Thus, the store can make a profit and benefit riders by selling daily parking for transit riders. The plan seemed to work for everyone… except the city of Seattle which ordered a halt to the program. This provides further evidence that Seattle anti-car lunatics have taken over the asylum. Earl Blumenauer is surely touching himself right now.
Speed camera company behind proposed legislation in Arizona.
The company that runs speed cameras on Arizona’s highways – Scottsdale-based Redflex – is behind a petition designed to change the way violators are served with tickets so as to increase the revenue from the tickets. The law firm Quarles & Brady was the one to write the document, however neither the firm nor the camera company are mentioned in the petition filed on January 8th, 2010 with the Arizona Supreme Court.
The current rule requires people caught speeding on camera to be served in person with a ticket if they don’t pay. The proposed change would allow violators to be considered served by mail.
Soldier charged with child pornography for picture of a little girl in a bathing suit.
Spec. Billy Miller of Galesburg, IL is being charged by the U.S. Army with possession of child pornography and faces 10 years in prison along with the other inevitable consequences of sex offender status. His crime? He received in the mail a photograph of a 4 year old girl, a relative, in a swimsuit. The soldier had become close to the girl after she was diagnosed with a serious illness.
No more spitting allowed in Seattle parks!
The Seattle Parks and Recreation Commission is considering a new code of conduct to be determined on January 28, 2010 that will ban spitting from public parks. One loogie can get a person banned for a day from the park. One more step Seattle is taking toward becoming the authoritarian capital of the nation.