Be my guest.
If children are disallowed from pillow fights, where will the pillow fighters of tomorrow come from?
They can have my pillow when they pry it from my warm, fluffy hand.
Mr. President, we must not allow a pillow fighting gap!
And who is it going to? I wonder if some legislator in Nevada has a brother-in-law in the road construction business.
'Course, that’s 1980’s cynicism. These days, it could just be a campaign contributor with no familial relationship to a legislator at all…
At least we have state TV in Canada that has not bowed down to this private sector nanniness.
In Canada, state TV bows down to YOU…
No, wait, that’s not right…
I hope you’re not in Missouri - some jackass is trying to restrict sales of BAKING SODA the same way OTC meds are. It hasn’t had a hearing yet.
http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2007/apr/20070406news013.asp
In Canada we register the sale of firearms. In Missouri they are considering registering the sale of baking soda.
I think we can now answer the old question of how the two nations differ.
Oh, yea, good point. After all, if it comes from the feds, it’s free money, right? :rolleyes:
Yuppa. Every axle. Both sides. Although few actually do that, if you break traction and cause a back-up (or, heaven forbid, an accident) they will fine you $175.00 for each tire that is not correctly chained. 
Lucy
Eh, I think it’s a byproduct of civilization and post-industrial society. 'Probably can’t be helped.
My only hope is that we’re able to develop artificial intelligences before society completely collapses under it’s own weight. Then, I can help build a better world by throwing in with Skynet and ex-ter-min-ating all the filthy, neurotic hu-mons.
Hey, based solely on the description, I’m a lot more interested in watching a pillow fight involving Frank Thomas than any number of sorority chicks!
I think Bob’s point was that the state legislators themselves didn’t have to come up with the money for repairs. Since the average legislator (federal, state, or local) is so myopic about problems that he doesn’t have to find the money to fix that he really needs a Guide Mole, he may well have that attitude.
By the way, if you want to see what happens when blood pressure reaches dangerous levels, just say the words “unfunded mandate” around any state or local government legislator or senior bureaucrat, liberal, conservative, or libertarian, and watch as he swells up and turns red.
I could be here all day enumerating the “nanny state” examples that absolutely piss me right off. But I’ll just give you the one that damn near made my head explode:
Oh, NOES!!! You mean someone might actually come away from a sports competition feeling something other than sunshine and roses? Those poor, poor children!
Sorry, “competition” is not P.C.–it’s a “learning experience”.
Give me a fucking break!
Canada: “Hockey fights yes, pillow fights no.”
A Nanny. Yummers! I’d love to have a Nanny!
But I suppose some of the thing’s I’d like to do with the Nanny might be illegal in some Nanny States.
BAKING SODA? :eek:
Won’t you think of the sinks? The fridges? The COOKIES?