I know this may sound stupid, but then again most of our laws are to. This year in Mass, we have to bills coming to debate. One is to decriminalize the possesion of marijuana and the other is to criminalize to natural plants like Salvia. How about some of the other nonsense that we have heard about like say the color coded terrorist warnings.
Our nations propaganda machine loves to create lies about what ever they deem bad. Take for instance Marijuana. In the 1930’s, it was a plant used to black Jazz musicians and Mexicans. Since our nation hates anything brown skinned people do, in the 1950’s we saw commercials stating the marijuana will make you kill, it will make you rob and it will make black people date your daughter. This type of false propaganda made it enemy number one and hence we saw thousands of people thrown behind bars.
Today we are seeing the same exact stunts to more or less control our lives. Look at the Patriot Act, most of middle America has been lead to believe that their are terrorist in their backyard and we need to take away freedom to protect it. Pure nonsense, but where does it stop. Why do our nations leaders have to create lies to us and why is it that we need to arrest people for every little thing, even things that aren’t bad.
I was thinking about allot of the nonsense I have seen on the news in recent years. Today I stumped over an article talking about the Quija Board. It talked about how it is an evil tool, and that it opens doors to other universes. It sounds so unrealistic that it reminded me of something you might hear from the Bush Administration or Vinny DeMacedo here in Mass.
I wondered what effect would a phony bill and movement to band the Quija board do to show America how easily mislead we are. This is just an idea, but does anyone think such a thing could be used as a way to show people how we panic over everything we here, even if the claims are pure nonsense. ‘Probably won’t. but I wonder if the Rush Limbaughs and Howie Carrs of the world would demand jail time for people caught playing this game.
joets says
Was totally glazed over and proudly proclaimed to me “I have no idea what anyone in this room is talking about.”
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p>He either was blazed or had used a Quija Board before class. I’ll let you figure out which.
peter-porcupine says
Per Steve James, Clerk of the House, a single piece of legislation costs approx. $6,000 (actually,he said $8,000, but I’m discounting withsome paperwork which was eliminated due to electronic filing, and I’m being generous in the estimate) – filing, docketing, assigning, concurring, hearing, re-reading, conferencing, etc. He released this figure in the context of BEGGING the House and Senate not to file IDENTICAL bills in each body, but to co-sign one another’s bills as is already allowed.
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p>It lasted about 18 months, and then the egos of the legislators arose again.
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p>So – do YOU want to spend $6,000 on a practical joke?
farnkoff says
christopher says
A few years ago the story was making the rounds that Congress was about to tax email messages. Complete hoax, but a lot of people believed it. For details see http://www.senate.gov/referenc…