Aaaarrrr. Me parrot snuffed it.
Posted on 10/07/2014 5:49:22 AM PDT by MichCapCon
For the second year in a row, the Michigan Senate has approved a resolution supporting Sept. 19 as “International Talk Like a Pirate Day.”
Fiscal Policy Director Michael LaFaive wrote about this very issue last year, noting that such meaningless resolutions are the best evidence yet that Michigan should have a part-time Legislature.
These resolutions hold no force of law, but sometimes such unnecessary and silly measures do propose ensconcing real-live laws in the state's statute books. For example, in March Sens. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor, and Howard Walker, R-Traverse City, (among others) introduced a bill that would mandate that the cherry be the official fruit of Michigan. There are more than 60 cherry varieties, but unlike previous cherry bills this one wouldn't compel residents to only recognize just one of them as the state's official fruit.
Arrrrh. I think it be a grand ideer.
Every Legislature should be “part time”... particularly the US House of Representatives and Senate. They should be in session for no more than 2 weeks a year. Introduce and vote on bills, and pass a balanced budget.
These congresscritters should then return to their home state and their FULL TIME JOB.
With the country in the state it is in you’d think they would be working on more important things.
“All those in favor?” “Arrrr.”
If you lived in Michigan you would know that the correct terminology is Arrrg!
Arrrrr-guably the stupidest resolution to come out at the most perilous time in our country’s distinguished history...
wish they'd chosen drink like a pirate day r.
We need more foolish holidays —to get our minds off the problems we face—Holidays like Like Halloween. No time off, no official status but a time for fun. I would suggest -— 1. Victory Day June 25th Native American tribes beat Custer at Little Big Horn. 2. St. Swizens Day, 3. Sam Adams Birthday—drink a brew! etc...
With the non-taxpaying half of the country looting the U.S. treasury, I can understand why they’d want to talk like pirates.
Foolish holidays would probably be preferable to the current mechanism they’re using to distract us from big problems — foolish little problems that add to our annoyance & disgust.
Like the ‘Redskins’ issue. That’s foolish, but these dickweeds are so serious about it that we can’t even laugh it off.
Aaaarrrr. Me parrot snuffed it.
I think it from MI specifically, not US.
Of course, it is still irritating.
There is something to be said of resolutions like this. Legislatures are workplaces like anywhere else.
I have half a mind to take this idea and use it with my Scout Troop to show the kids how laws are made - what does it take to get something EVERYONE BASICALLY AGREES ON through the legislative process.
It’s not a horrible morale builder.
Never forget - the founders were trying to achieve dysfunction. Laws shouldn’t be easy to pass.
You look at how successful legislatures have been in robbing us of freedom and stretching out the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and you have to arrive at two conclusions:
1. Not enough dysfunction and friction.
2. Measuring the legislature according to HOW MANY bills were passed during that session is rewarding the wrong behavior. (measuring it by how FEW laws might be the way to go).
“Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session, and no man’s property is safe.” - Daniel Webster
...’e’s just pining for the fjords.
Yeah, it’s Michigan. But politicians of every stripe shouldn’t be wasting time and $ on stupid crap like this.
In a world full of troubles, is that their highest priority? So, the Great Experiment in representative democracy has come down to this. It appears over half the people are too stupid to manage their affairs and must be dictated to.
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