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The most powerful legislative body in the world!

by: Mike Emm

Wed Jan 26, 2011 at 15:55:14 PM EST
Here's an interesting bill from our GOP legislators. Not content with ordering the AG to do their bidding, threatening to imprison federal agents, telling the EPA to cancel cap-and-trade regulations, picking a fight with Washington over healthcare, and ordering the Canadian government to obey its commands, the most powerful legislative body in the world is now giving orders to Mother Nature herself!

They have introduced a bill that sets the high water mark of Ossippee Lake at 406 feet above sea level. Imagine that. Not 405 or 407, but precisely 406 feet. Unstated in the bill is the penalty that Ma Nature faces if she fails to comply with this legislative edict. But one look at how the GOP is using its powers to gut a range of environmental regulations ought to tell her that she would be wise to keep the water level right where they want it. Or else. If you get my meaning.

Who knew our legislature had such power and authority? Why doesn't Speaker O'Brien  use the  full weight and majesty of his office to end this cold snap. And then corral his team back to focusing like a laser beam on the budget and other important issues facing the state.  
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The most powerful legislative body in the world! | 18 comments
KIng Canute (4.00 / 3)
"How dare you!" Canute shouted. "Ocean, turn back now! I have ordered you to retreat before me, and now you must obey! Go back!"

"Well, my friends," Canute said, "it seems I do not have quite so much power as you would have me believe.

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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
I can call spirits from the vasty deep! (4.00 / 3)
So can I, and so can any man - but will they come when you do call for them?

- The Bard

[ Parent ]
Canute is good, but I was thinking the Great and Wonderful Speaker is more like.. (4.00 / 1)

Dr. Seuss' Yertle and Turtle

Then Yertle the Turtle was perched up so high,
He could see forty miles from his throne in the sky!
"Hooray!" shouted Yertle. "I'm the king of the trees!
I'm king of the birds! And I'm king of the bees!
I'm king of the butterflies! King of the air!
Ah, me! What a throne! What a wonderful chair!
I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me!
For I am the ruler of all that I see!"

[ Parent ]
It also reminds me of the possibly apocryphal (4.00 / 1)
story of the law passed in a Southern state that declared Pi equal to 3.

Much simpler calculations.

[ Parent ]
Not so apocryphal. (4.00 / 1)

Once upon a time, in a state called Indiana...

At least they were pro-choice. You could choose the value of pi you liked best: 3.2, 3.23, 4, etc. Very advanced thinking, sort of.

[ Parent ]
Ok, knowing that there had to be a logical reason... (0.00 / 0)
Here's why:
http://ossipeelakecam.com/smf/...

But very nice attempt to take a real property rights issue, and make it seem ridiculous on the face of it. (This is why all bills should have some expository text... thank you Google)

BTW, I have a bill in about toilets in campgrounds, so just for the record, I'm in support of them and honoring Mother Nature, so even if you are a bear in the woods, be green.

BH's token Republican / Libertarian / TeaPartier / Free Stater, courtesy of a Federal Affirmative Action grant, despite many of his comments being marked down and hidden.

It IS ridiculous. (4.00 / 1)
Changing the law to address the actual high water mark given dams and other facilities - THAT would make sense.

Legislatively setting the mark: that is indeed ridiculous.

[ Parent ]
Don't look now... (0.00 / 0)

but your party makes a pretty good living making bills that try to tackle real policy issues seem trivial.  
[ Parent ]
You may be right (0.00 / 0)
But can you give some examples?

"He who loves correction, loves knowledge.  He who hates reproof is stupid." - Proverbs 12:1


[ Parent ]
Outlawing abortion, Mother Nature's way of correcting (0.00 / 0)
mistakes, comes to mind.
[ Parent ]
From my personal experience... (4.00 / 2)
 a bill to support transgendered people becomes a "bathroom bill".  A bill to increase recycling by charging a deposit is a "bottle bill". A bill to enforce seatbelt laws is a "nanny state bill". A bill to work against obesity is a "candy tax". Bills to increase the registration fees for trucks for the first time in 20 years or to replenish a fund that cleans up oil spills are labeled "new taxes".  This is off the top of my head but there are many, many other examples. I would say, with some exceptions, a general GOP tactic over the past few years has been to categorize Democratic legislation in absurdist terms rather than argue their merits.

In Washington, we have tax-and-spend... drill, baby, drill... death panels...

[ Parent ]
We are devolving n/t (4.00 / 2)

[ Parent ]
we let our guard down (0.00 / 0)
the wave of good feeling from '08 vanished...so did the folks making phone calls and knocking on doors...OFAil

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other
[ Parent ]
we let our guard down (0.00 / 0)
the wave of good feeling from '08 vanished...so did the folks making phone calls and knocking on doors...OFAil

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other
[ Parent ]
Does the law also specify who's going to clean the toilets (0.00 / 0)
and how they're going to be paid to do that work?
[ Parent ]
Get ready for some trash talkin' (0.00 / 0)

about Rep. Cohn's 'campground potty bill'.   ;-)

And how about that crazy HB252, to be known hereafter as 'the girl scout cookie bill'? If you had a D after your name, the GOP would be hammering you for trying to destroy the NH Advantage(TM) with a new tax!

See how easy it is to lower political debate if you are willing to throw away your scruples?

[ Parent ]
apologize for the double postings (0.00 / 0)
something happpened since Jan.1   it appears not to post...page hangs up, then get two

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other
also happening on FB n/t (0.00 / 0)


note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other
[ Parent ]
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