WTF: TN House and Senate Both Vote to Outlaw Flash Mobs

bsman said:
I'm relatively certain that the flashmob law will be invalidated at the first legal challenge through the supremacy clause of the constitution: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."

I think that the fuckwits in the TN state legislature must have all flunked out of law school...
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None more fuckwitted.
 
Look on the bright side, everything in TN must be near perfect for your state legislature to have nothing else to do but weigh in on flash mobs.

I am sure that's the case.
 
Chad said:
Look on the bright side, everything in TN must be near perfect for your state legislature to have nothing else to do but weigh in on flash mobs.

I am sure that's the case.
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LOL. Yeah, it's all picture perfect down here. :grin:
:facepalm:

2 years ago the most pressing issue was that guns needed to be allowed in bars and state parks. Any restaurant (serving alcohol) or bar who didn't want people carrying in their establishment would have to put a sign on the front door. And municipalities had to opt out of allowing guns into their local parks. You'd think it was a slow year. But no, we're near the bottom of the nation WRT education and health.
 
Tralfaz said:
Well, to be fair, my experience with public transportation initiatives in Texas is that they usually result in a tax hike with very little to show for it. Taxpayers aren't willing to pay what it really costs to fund large-scale public transportation, and the bureaucracies that manage these things are ineffiecient.

Personally, I'd love to see public transportation become more commonplace across the country. In the cities where it actually works, it's incredibly useful.
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Out here in the west, we are so scattered out that public transit is a logistical nightmare. Too many miles and too few riders.
Even just here in Oklahoma City metro, you can cover 60 miles E-W and even more N-S to go from one end to the other and the population is right at 1 million.
You need high concentrations of people and compact cities to do public transit efficiently and thoroughly.
 
Elias Graves said:
Out here in the west, we are so scattered out that public transit is a logistical nightmare. Too many miles and too few riders.
Even just here in Oklahoma City metro, you can cover 60 miles E-W and even more N-S to go from one end to the other and the population is right at 1 million.
You need high concentrations of people and compact cities to do public transit efficiently and thoroughly.
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Yes, sprawl kills public transit. But if the city wants it and can work out the logistics but the lobbyists don't, then there's a problem.

Also, move closer together, dammit. You'll save gas. :tongue:
 
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