BS: Make up a law for 2013

Subject: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Bert
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 07:12 PM

Mine would be to pay all elected officials the average social security pay.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 07:34 PM

Thst won't stop the bullshit. They make their money after they get in office. And it's not ""salary".

I say, when they screw up, they should be held accountable... either they do their jobs as professionals or they can be sued for negligence... or shot for treason. Of course, the treason part is always an option as history teaches us.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 07:46 PM

No outside money for candidates running to represent their states pf state districts... I mean, why should a couple rich guys in California be buying elections in a dozen other states???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 08:07 PM

Not making it up, just hoping it DOES become Law soon.
The Law of Ecocide

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Bert
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 09:39 PM

You're right there gnu. Make them accountable.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 09:42 PM

Rapparee's Congressional Reform Law of 2013:

Section 1: All members of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall be paid the average wage prevailing in the district or State they represent.

Section 2: All member of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall receive the average health and other benefits prevailing in the district or State they represent.

Section 3. No member of the Senate or the House of Representatives shall receive in any way or form any gift, honorarium, or other income totaling more than $50.00 from any one source during a calendar year.

Section 4. No member of the Senate shall serve more than two (2) consecutive terms, and cannot again run for any Congressional office until they have been out of office for a period of time equal to the time they served. No member of the House of Representatives shall serve more than six consecutive terms and cannot again run for any Congressional office until they have been out of office for a period of time equal to the time they served.

Section 5. No candidate for any political office on any level may use automatic telephone calling. All telephone calls must originate in and be placed by a live human being residing in the State or District in which the candidate is running for office.

Section 6. No candidate for any political office may accept money, gifts or other income totaling more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) from any person, human or corporate, who resides outside of the State in the which candidate is running.

Section 7: Penalties. A violation of any of the above will be considered a felony punishable by no more than five (5) and no less than two (2) years in a maximum security prison and a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) nor more than ten million dollars ($10,000,000.00) for each offense.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 05:06 AM

Regulation, regulation, regulation. The banks, Big Business, the press, lobbyists etc. should be subject to rigorous, independent regulation. Any politician who attempts to oppose or abolish such regulation should be (a) removed from office (b) sent to prison.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 06:45 AM

To stop pushing democracy on countries and cultures to whom it is amathema.
A non democratic country isn't necessarily a bad one. It can merely mean that the rule of the poor by the rich, isn't dressed up as democracy.
Or maybe they lack lobbyists?

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 06:59 AM

To make democracy of the people, by the people,for the people as it should be...... not of the aristocracy.. by the people..... for the rich.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 07:22 AM

Make up a law? Why increase government control and interference? It might be better if we repealed one or two.


DC

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Acorn4
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 08:38 AM

If someone is paid a six figure salary, eg; top executive of a public utility, they should have the ability to do their job and should not need to employ a consultant or consultants on an equally inflated salary.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: gnomad
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 09:55 AM

For every new law enacted, an old law or laws of approximately equal complexity must be repealed.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: olddude
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 11:15 AM

Low cut jeans. I mean the young lady in the isle next to me on the airplane sat next to her boyfriend and her arse was completely bare for 4 hours on the plane. She was sleeping in the isle seat leaning on him and mooning everyone who walked by ...

how low do they need to wear em ... kinda gross I think

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 11:20 AM

... kinda gross I think

It's not just beauty that's in the eye of the beholder. If you don't like it, don't look.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 11:23 AM

There are way too many laws already.

However, I would restrict all banking and lending institutions to lending out no more money than they actually have on deposit from their customers (instead of 10 times or more what they have on deposit, which is the present system we have...and it's responsible for the great financial mess we're in). They've been running a pyramid scheme....legally! We see the result of this all around us.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: olddude
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 11:26 AM

Yup, but one can't help it when one has to get up to use the toilet. along with others with little kids. time and place for everyone. Keep yer ass for yourself and boyfriend

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 11:32 AM

Why stop at low cut jeans. A law like that could easily justify the burka.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 11:51 AM

Why can't everyone "just get along" and agree to drive on the right side of the road? Why not turn all the blue areas red?

Why can't we all be right?

Righties and lefties


The change could be done in stages, over a three year period. The first year all passenger cars would change over, the second year trucks and vans and the third all commercial vehicles, including taxi's and busses. (thank you Rhyno's)

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: beardedbruce
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 11:55 AM

I would back Rapparee's 100%.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: olddude
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 12:45 PM

burka's should be banned also ... fire hazard around smokers :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 01:17 PM

The Internal Revenue Tax Code of the United States is hereby repealed in its entirety.

An independent commission of business owners, employees, laborers, farmers, artists and computer geeks is formed and is given thirty days to provide a rational replacement for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 01:27 PM

Like this, John?

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 01:34 PM

We could always make low-cut jeans on planes compulsory and ban kids instead. Yeah.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 01:37 PM

You would not be allowed to own a dog unless you were over 90 and paid a licence fee of £1000 with a cheque that both your parents would have to sign a guarantee for.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: olddude
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 02:02 PM

Good Idea, I would no longer have to pooper scoop

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 02:51 PM

You have some kind of a problem with dogs, Steve? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 03:10 PM

NO MORE CRUD!

You've seen crud. It slowly collects in a thin, scummy layer on bathtubs and sinks. It's disgustin'! We gotta put an end to it once and for all by passin' a law against crud!

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 03:16 PM

Security cameras at stores must be armed with tasers and stunned as me arse idiots who stand on one side of the aisle, park their cart across the rest of the aisle and hang on to the cart shall be tased, placed in the cart and left in the parking lot.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: open mike
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 03:49 PM

no need to invent any more new ones....800 new ones take effect in California this year!

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: olddude
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 05:38 PM

Arm everyone, like the old west .... settle the violence issue once and for all ... let them all shoot it out

:)

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 05:47 PM

Dan... can I shoot the stunned as me arse at the stores? It would go a LONG way to sorting out unemolyment and clear out the dumb fuckers that can't use their plastic correctly at the checkouts so I wouldn't have to stand in line so long to buy my banana.... for which I have the correct fuckin change!

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: olddude
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 07:14 PM

Yes Gnu, we can add that provision to the law. Legal to shoot assholes in line at the supermarket that don't know how to use the machine ... I will add it to the fine print

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: olddude
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 07:16 PM

ya can only shoot them in the ass though ... thats part of the deal. I am all for compromise

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 07:23 PM

No daylight savings time. No passing on Astoria Bridge. I would rather people dress modestly and I do think there should be some limits, especially on younger people not of legal age.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 07:36 PM

Oi, what about the b*astards who can't park between the bloody lines in supermarket car parks? Get the scumbags to Gitmo!

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 07:38 PM

You've seen crud. It slowly collects in a thin, scummy layer on bathtubs and sinks. It's disgustin'! We gotta put an end to it once and for all by passin' a law against crud!

You ain't seen proper crud 'til you've picked it with a matchstick out of harmonica mouthpiece holes. Ought to be a bloody law against it.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 07:48 PM

Ok new law no crud picking out of harmonica's .... I will put that in the fine print also

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 08:50 PM

The price of any one replacement part must be priced significantly cheaper the purchase price of the entire item (examples include electric razor blades and cutting heads, and paint roller replacement rolls).

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 09:29 PM

And a set of ink cartridges for a printer can be priced at no more than 1/20th of the price of the printer.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 09:36 PM

You can scrape off the crud with a credit card, but it takes a long time to get it all scraped off and collected, and then ya gotta dispose of it somehow. I usually stuff it all in an envelope and mail it off to some politician I don't like.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 10:01 PM

A law to abolish all NRA-sponsored laws that restrict research into the implications of the ownership and use of firearms. What are they afraid of? - the truth? I certainly would not want to see Obamacare overturned, but I'd like to see its "second amendment protections" abolished.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 10:49 PM

Not sure how to pass a 'law' on the internal workings of Congress... but *I* want NO MORE sneaky pork barrel amendments to bills! If you want to get $$$$ for a new swimming pool for your donor's neighborhood, MAKE IT A SEPARATE BILL!

Go read about what was added by the senate to the fiscal cliff bill!

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 05:35 AM

I would make it unlawful for any public appointee, police commissioner, quango board member ... to have ever been a formal member of a political party.   And obviously that all candidates in elections must be formal members of whatever party they stand for. People standing for Parliament as independents are a special case, and for these we should use a precise statistical rule to determine whether their voting record is significantly different to the other parties. If not, they are also excluded.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 05:46 AM

In view of the problems with drunken youngsters vomiting, fighting and committing criminal damage until 2 or 3am every night of the week, and the ensuing cost of policing this, I think a new law is needed. It would ban any sale of alcohol after midnight, and all clubs and such establishments to be vacated by 1am. That is quite late enought for anybody to be out. These 'kids' should be working. If not, where do they get the money for all this antisocial partying?
As to bottoms on show in aeroplanes, I think there should indeed be a code of decency in public. No need for burkas. Just no bums on show, and no wobbly bellies hanging out, especially not pregnant ones. My friend and I were served in a cafe by a pregnant lassie with jeans down so low we had her pubes in our faces as we sat there. Not a good look IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 08:13 AM

BillD,

"Go read about what was added by the senate to the fiscal cliff bill!"



And WHO added it???



"The "fiscal cliff" legislation passed this week included $76 billion in special-interest tax credits for the likes of General Electric, Hollywood and even Captain Morgan. But these subsidies weren't the fruit of eleventh-hour lobbying conducted on the cliff's edge -- they were crafted back in August in a Senate committee, and they sat dormant until the White House reportedly insisted on them this week.

...
But there never was a fight. Baucus' bill sat ignored until last week, when the White House sat down with Senate Republicans to craft a deal averting the fiscal cliff.

A Republican Senate aide familiar with the cliff negotiations tells me the White House wanted permanent extensions of a whole slew of corporate tax credits. When Senate Republicans said no, "the White House insisted that the exact language" of the Baucus bill be included in the fiscal cliff deal. "They were absolutely insistent," another aide tells me. (The White House did not return requests for comment.)

Sure enough, Title II of the fiscal cliff legislation is nearly a word-for-word replication of the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012.
"


http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-how-corporate-tax-credits-got-in-the-cliff-deal/article/2517397#.UOV7T6Ws38u

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 09:17 AM

As to bottoms on show in aeroplanes, I think there should indeed be a code of decency in public.

We could make an exception for decent bottoms...

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 09:55 AM

We could make an exception for decent bottoms..."
The judge of decent would be who.
New law for 2013 :Every human has to spend one week a year in silence and be with whatever is in their head.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: olddude
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 10:07 AM

dunno good question, I bet we get lots of mudcat volunteers however to sit on the judges panel

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 10:11 AM

I'd be chairman. There would be a new law making me chairman of the Decent Bottoms Assessment panel. We'd sit every full moon.

Subject: RE: BS: Make up a law for 2013
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 10:33 AM

*sigh*... Try to make a serious comment on the idea of 'needed' laws, and it is almost buried in cute remarks about bottoms or the lack therof.

Yeah... I know... being serious ain't nearly so much fun.

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As to WHO added amendments, I don't care. I want the **process** to be transparent, no matter who. As to the specific allegations... there's several levels of someone's aide told someone else that 'someone' (The "White House" is not a person, anymore than a corporation is) wanted certain things.