“I’ve often thought there out to be a quota on the size of a state’s entire statutory code. ”

I like that idea.

I would also suggest a “none of the above” box on the ballots at election time. If that box wins, throw out those candidates and do it over.

Liquor ads: Waives rules prohibiting indoor alcohol advertisements in one club that sells the featured products: Club Nokia, a downtown Los Angeles venue owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz.

The last time I got stopped, that damned sticker did not prevent me from getting a speeding ticket, in an area that was well known to be a speed trap! Maybe I did not donate enough!?

I thought the US was bad…

The odds of being used and killed in a flying act of terrorism may indeed be small, but iffin yer ass is on board at the time? …..

Fark it, don’t fly anywhere, anytime until the airlines figure out how to make you safe without raping you with probes and or fingers before each flight!

Suggestion; they can get together and create “Ala Akbar Airlines” and let them all fly together, use old end of life planes so nobody will be out much WHEN they go missing. Crew quarters will have ability to separate from aircraft for escape.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jnVeBKQkTJJ0ZqEeBOtvmGICw_tw

http://gov.ca.gov/bills/#all

The Ku Klux Kop’s termination may be appealed though, so it’s probably a matter of weeks before the union thugs step in and get it reduced to “paid administrative leave”

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091231/ARTICLES/912311039/1002

Another fun, and wholly egotistical, reason to read it: we can say “I told you so” when all of these retirement funds implode. I just hope they don’t kill the proverbial [libertarian] messenger – there’s not that many of us left!

“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have decalared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost”

– John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Those laws and rules would only get to be so large, and then, before anything new was added, they’d have to get rid of something else. The legislature would also be responsible for figuring out each agency’s “budget”, that is, how many characters that agency could use for its rules.

If this were in effect, maybe they’d keep only what was really important.

Well done, California.

“Ok, you assholes. Have it your way. We’ll stop using tasers and just go back to shooting and beating the crap out of people who argue with us.”

Cops will use whatever tools are available to them (interpersonal skills are not among those).