As for Mary Schmich, I’ve got a great rule that should be enforced ruthlessly: MYOB.

“Note to the liberal running this sight, I don’t see that Republicans ever said being a POW was what quailifies McC to run the military. Stop trying to play both sides.”

LOL Did this fucking tool just call Radley a liberal??

That picture on the site looks like a drag queen. It almost led me to believe that this is a satirical humor column at the paper and I shouldn’t take it seriously.

Re: Schmic column – the things that she wants to ban are mainly things that affect other people. There’s a major difference between that and banning things “for your own good”.

Michael,

Everything affects people to one degree or another. If I go to bed late at night, then over sleep a little bit, then get up and speed on my way to work I’ve decreased your safety on the road. Hence a national bed time is a must.

And to use one of her own examples,

An enforced ban on honking just because you’re in a hurry. The fine doubles if you honk at someone who is hypermiling. Hypermiling, in case you haven’t caught the craze, is driving that maximizes your mileage, such as coasting toward stop signs.

We should also ban hypermiling since if you coast the person behind you might fail to notice your reduction in speed thus resulting in an accident, increasing traffic congestion, needless waste of resources, and possible injury and lost productivity too.

See, we can do this with just about everything and anything. Your dividing line is so blurry as to be non-existent, at least without much more work.

I won’t even get into her fantasy laws…

1) Sirius Satellite Radio plays Holy F&*k all the time and their name pops up on my screen unedited. And the song they play on there is pretty good.

2) They left out the most offensive of all: Anal C***

If the prosecutor went after FAS, it might be harder to avoid going after cops who break into people’s homes without having what they can reasonably believe to be valid warrants.

JP Morgan and FAS conspired to break into the family’s home and take property from it. If a judge’s order was required to conduct such a break-in legally, any participant who cannot demonstrate having seen such order cannot have have had a reasonable belief that their action was legal.

Bear in mind that the lawsuits you suggest would be one of those “nuisance suits” (anyone suing a corporation for anything) that Texas Republicans have tried for years to destroy. In light of the recent move by the Supreme’s re: Exxon, I would not be surprised to find that the family has the burden of proof to described every article and effectively gets used good prices and a good riddance from the bank’s lawyers. Otherwise they get tied up in court for a decade or so. Their chances in Williamson Co. are not good.

In the end, I think she’s using a little parody but still to make her ostenisble general point. These are things she really wouldn’t like to see as actual laws but she uses them to illustrate how rude and obnoxious some people can be in a big city, and so maybe it would be worse without a nice amount of structure. So while perhaps not an actual fascist, she is still a raging moron.

Mary (sorry, Ma’am),

You are too modest! Clearly you have some (well, I bet it is more than “some”) great ideas about how other people should live their lives. I think it is just great that you wish to force your preferences on others via legislative fiat–democracy (or fascism?) in action!

Keep it up mein fuhrer!

I didn’t mean to imply JP Morgan had no liability and I agree with you about criminal liability, that was just a little hyperbole. There should be very severe civil liability for both parties and punitive damages should be imposed so this kind of “mix-up” doesn’t happen again.

It sounds like they lost everything, pictures, family heirlooms, things that can’t be replaced. These companies should be required to hold these assets in storage for some minimal period so the owners have the opportunity to reclaim their property.

I guess civics isn’t really taught in school anymore, at least not the significance of a constitutional republic as apposed to a democracy. The ignorance of the masses in this country will our downfall.

If I was her neighbor I’d do everything that annoys here. Hell I’d go out and buy heavy equipment just to turn it on and annoy her. I’d go over to her house/apartment and wave a fistful of napkins in her face then burn them with copious amounts of lighter fluid.