Playmate of the Half-Century

Steyn On-line ^ | 11/2/19 | Mark Steyn

[deadrock]

TTIWWP

[Twotone]

You’ll have to translate that for me. :-)

[shelterguy]

This thread is worthless without pictures.

[upchuck]

You speak in unintelligible code. Care to translate?

[NTHockey]

Don’t let lawyers write legislation. English teachers, or better yet, senior citizens, should do the writing. English teachers write in, well, English, not that legalese that nobody can understand. Senior citizens don’t have the time to waste on BS.

“Whereas”, “Subsequent to” and “Comprehensive” would disappear. PC language and gender pronouns also would be out. First sentence of each bill would be “This bill supersedes ___________ and eliminates all government agencies associated with __________.”

[kosciusko51]

I like your idea. I would go a bit further and say that as long as the Fed is involved in education, all laws should be written at the reading comprehension level of the average public school graduate.

[upchuck]

Did Conyers settle up with the IRS before he died? Or did he leave that mess for his estate to cleanup?

[Twotone]

Unfortunately, Steyn didn’t provide much in the way of interesting pictures.

[laplata]

“TTIWWP”

No, it’s YAWTSTG.

[Steely Tom]

Nuts, I thought there’d be a pic of Barbi.

[lee martell]

I didn’t know he was still alive.
Lucky for Michigan, I don’t think either of his sons has been elected to office thus far.

Is Hilary going to preach her Trump Hate at this show funeral too? She did last week at Elijah Cummings service.
Will the black pallbearers refuse to shake a prominent Republican’s hand? That happened last week to Mitch McConnell.

[BuffaloJack]

“Nuts, I thought there’d be a pic of Barbi.”

So did I.

[ChildOfThe60s]

The 50th anniversary Playmate

[Mr. Jeeves]

'They get up and say, "Read the bill.'"What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?'

You are a lawmaker. Reading the bill is your job. If you are incapable of understanding it, you are not qualified to hold that office. If no one is capable of understanding a bill then the body of lawmakers should reject it until an understandable version is created.

But Conyers was hardly an exception - most of our politicians see themselves as "celebrity leaders and teachers" of the deplorable masses. The details of the job can be left to the staff, it's all about engendering emotional responses to hot-button issues and collecting the payoffs.

[real saxophonist]

[real saxophonist]

One of my favourite pictures:

[Steely Tom]

Nah, na, na-na na na
na na na na-na na na na...

[PapaBear3625]

English teachers write in, well, English, not that legalese that nobody can understand.

Have you SEEN any of the papers that college English departments create these days, deconstructing intersectional gender discrimination?

[equaviator]

“You are a lawmaker. Reading the bill is your job.”

Not if he was there for mere appearances sake. I think his constituents just liked seeing him up there. Most of them didn’t care what he did...as long as he looked cool and sounded smooth doing it.