Posted on 09/15/2009 3:51:57 PM PDT by GoldStandard
Joe Grondin has been a barber for more than 30 years. But there are some questions that, until very recently, he had never really pondered.
For example: "At what point on a man's sideburn does hair end and the beard begin?"
Or: "When does a trim become a shave?"
"It's crazy to be thinking about this," he admitted.
It might even be splitting hairs. But to Texas' 13,000 or so barbers, matters of shaving are worth fighting over. While state law permits both cosmetologists and barbers to groom hair, state regulators have consistently ruled that only barbers may scrape a man's cheeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
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Hmmmm.......so, if a man comes into a cosmetologist and he shaves his head slick bald, but has a full beard right up to the top of his ears, what service(s) is she allowed to render?
She?.......
I answered your question. You answer mine.
Absurd. Who knew Texas was a nanny state?
Just more proof that a lot of licensing is just protectionism.
Yeh...I gotta remember to tell Rocco the next time I pop in for a trim that I know he’s trying to expand his business, but no Brazilian for me...
There are men and there are those who use a cosmetologist.
I am 57 and still use the same man who cut my hair the first time my dad said I could go to the barbershop. But I couldn’t go on saturday, cause that was for working men.
Lyndon Johnson.
Well I guess you have never driven on an Interstate through Texas. You would instantly determine it to be a nanny state as you viewed Hi way Patrol lined up in frenzied droves arresting people for minor traffic offenses. But most people on Freerepublic will defend that practice for the sake of safety.
Well, here’s one freeper that supports your righ to drive recklessly and with abandon.....
I go to a salon.
All the cutters and 80% of the customers are women.
Most generally quite good looking ones.
I tip big too....call it economic stimulus.
Actually, I think a lot of stepped up law enforcement of traffic infractions has a revenue collection motivation now that tax receipts are declining.
I think your being sarcastic...
I neither drive recklessly, nor do I drive with abandon. However, it is a simple ratio of risk transfer vs freedom. Most people demand the transference of risk onto others, hence very strict and highly enforced traffic laws. They do so at the price of a well funded, well organized, aggressive and armed police force. I on the other hand am willing to accept higher risk in return for a weak, unimpressive and hardly seen government presence on the road. It’s your choice, but the cowardly amongst us always always always want strict enforcement of seat belt laws, helmet laws, speed laws and they want lots and lots of signs directing mandatory compliance. I think it’s silly to empower overlords and am willing to accept the risk incumbent with that position in order to prove my point.
It is also a tiresome argument to accuse those who want less armed government thugs survailing them to also be law breakers. If I say that the war on drugs is stupid and accomplished nothing but expanding the role of federal power in the states I am always accused of being a pot smoker. If I advocate assuming risk on the roads in return for freedom I am accused of being a reckless driver. Sigh... I have heard the same stupid argument from statist conservatives for years.
Well it is about revenue menehune, but it also about State and Local police becoming the long arm of federal power. It is the very definition of Federalism run amok to see very uniform traffic laws in all 50 federal states. But, your neighbors and mine will defend a strong, intrusive and aggressive police state and give your horrible visions of gore and Somalia like carnage to scare you into compliance!
Why, little ole’ me sarcastic? Never.....
Cops only enforce what laws we pass...and then only those pushed by administrators or politicians.....
This is now the case with the over zealous enforcement of most traffic laws.......Revenue enhancement by the politicians, the cops are just a tool.....
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