'It targets businesses that sell the candies with drug-inspired names such as "Kronic Kandy" and "Pot Suckers." The law says the candies promote drug use. Senator Doug Stoner pushed the bill in the senate. "I don't think that folks are aware this is going on," Stoner told Channel 2 in April. "It's mainly, from what I can tell, particularly targeted to minority communities."State Representative Judy Manning said she was shocked to receive death threats over the bill to ban the candy. "Some people think their rights are their rights," she said.'
Speaking of rights, The Delaware Libertarian has an item from the Tennessee legislature, where "Defense attorneys would be banned from advertising their expertise with drunken driving cases under a bill advancing in the Senate.
"Sen. Rosalind Kurita, a Clarksville Democrat, successfully added the provision to a bill that would create an online registry of repeat DUI offenders in Tennessee.
"Kurita says officials have a hard enough time convicting drunken drivers without lawyers advertising their expertise in the field and offering discounts to DUI defendants."
South Carolina's legislators have been grappling with bills to shut down "gentlemen's clubs" at midnight and keep lap dancers six feet from their intended laps. Another bill would slap a 20% surcharge on "adult entertainment printed materials." The definition, interestingly, is virtually identical to the language in Georgia Congressman Paul Braun's Military Honor and Decency Act, right down to prohibiting the viewing of anal clefts. Efforts to lower the drinking age for military service members to 18 failed this session (We're still trying to graph the moral calculus of "kill people= 18+ drink liquor 18/21 x read Playboy=never).
So far the issue that has Waldo the most confused is that of hanging bull testicle reproductions from the trailer hitch of one's car or truck.
Florida resident Rush Limbaugh has said on his radio show that "Mrs. Clinton's testicle lockbox is big enough for the entire Democrat hierarchy, not just some people in the media. And whether they have been taking steroids and the testicles are smaller than usual doesn't matter. Her lockbox, her testicle lockbox can handle everybody in the Democrat hierarchy."
Clinton advisor James Carville recently declared that "If she gave [Obama] one of her cojones, they'd both have two." A blogger has video of Mrs. Clinton removing Obama's, at least metaphorically.
Rolling Stone found another Democrat with some: "He's got this big old pair of brass balls, and you can just hear 'em clanking when he walks down the halls of Congress," says Paul Begala." Contributors to a December '07 piece on Ron Paul felt strongly about them, too: "All the presidential candidates have cojones. Ron Paul is just the only contender who has his original ones." Another added, "When you combine that with wisdom and integrity, add a good amount of humility, pour in a ton of experience, then add the huge cojones, you have all the ingredients for a great leader."
ABC's Jake Tapper says, "There sure are a lot of men around Clinton who keep throwing out gonad and gender references to imply Clinton is stronger than Obama, as if strength is an exclusively male characteristic.
"A few days ago, as ABC News' Eloise Harper reported, Paul Gibson, the president of a local steelworkers Union Chapter 6787 in Indiana, announced support for Clinton, saying it's "going to take an individual with testicular fortitude" to deal with the nation's problems.
"In February, Jack Nicholson announced that "Hillary is the best man for the job."
"In relaying this to crowds, Clinton changed this to "real men vote for Hillary."
"Linguists are going to look back at this election as a treasure trove."
But you can't hang them on your truck in Florida.
That's our midweek morals legislation wrapup. You may now return to the depravity of your choice, at your own risk.
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