Mandatory Vaginal Scans and Forced to View Fetal Porn Videos?

[KoKo]

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The F Word: Good Enough for Oklahoma, How About Goldman?

April 28, 2010
Democrats in D.C. are going about this regulation thing all wrong. Want to get Republican buy-in? Give Republicans the kind of regulation they like. As usual in U.S. politics, the states provide the road map.

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Democrats in D.C. are going about this regulation thing all wrong. Want to get Republican buy-in? Give Republicans the kind of regulation they like. As usual in U.S. politics, the states provide the road map.

Take Arizona. There, the party of small government's just released police to stop people on suspicion. Want to break GOP resistance to financial regulation? Release the SEC to spot-check Wall Street. Anyone who looks suspiciously likely to be hawking synthetic derivatives? Slap ‘em in detention until their lawyers can prove they're innocent. It’s all in the interests of crime prevention.

Oklahoma's state legislature just overrode the governor's veto of two laws related to pregnancy and abortion. Personal privacy's nice but even good people sometimes make bad decisions, said legislators. Now women who'd like to terminate a pregnancy will be subjected to mandatory vaginal scans and forced to view fetal porn videos. Want to reduce credit default swaps? Before they make another risky bet, let’s force traders to slap on a gown, step in those stirrups, and subject themselves to a mandatory scan of their stock portfolios, while watching American Casino or Plunder or listening to the live, panicked heartbeat of manipulated mortgage owners.

Regulators need to remember that even the die-hardest conservative's OK with some regulation. If it's good enough for the women of Oklahoma, it's good enough for Wall Street. Right?


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http://www.grittv.org/2010/04/28/the-f-word-good-enough-for-oklahoma-how-about-goldman/

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1. Now that the ground rules are set

And the powers that be in Oklahoma have declared themselves highly interested in the health and general well-being of at least half their citizens, I have a few proposals of my own to make that will make Oklahomans the fittest motherfuckers in the country:

1. At every barbecue pit, steak house, or other purveyor of beef, patrons must sit through a presentation of modern methods of beef raising, including environmental impacts of factory beef farming, the amount of water, feed, and land required to bring a pound of beef to the table, and an in-depth documentary of beef processing as practiced by industry giants.

2. Every pack or carton of cigarettes will be accompanied by a presentation of the effects of nicotine on the smoker, its addictive qualities, the effect of long-term tobacco use, the increase in incidence of cancer of the lungs and other organs, the effect of smoking on the heart and circulatory system, and a documentary showing a operation to remove cancerous lung tissue from a smoker, along with the estimate cost of such a procedure. If the purchaser has children, both the smoker and the children must view a film on the effects of second hand smoke and the increase in smoking-related disease and death to persons exposed to cigarette smoke in their environment.

Similarly, every fast food joint, carnival food court, and other convenience food seller will have to make a presentation to each and every customer on the health effects of fried and fatty foods, including statistics on the incidence of diabetes, high blood pressure, and other obesity-related diseases.

I think should do for a start. When I have a couple of minutes, I'll make other proposals that the legislature should consider, seeing their touching concern for the health and well-being of the women of their fine state.

[KoKo]

2. +! ...Good Gallows Humor.....

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3. Humor?

I was dead serious, but I forgot about all the mandatory invasive medical procedures! Upper GIs. Prostate exams. The works.