Is it me, or this an example of dumb legislators making for dumber laws?

[Stinky The Clown]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/maryland-politics/post/following-casey-anthony-trial-maryland-lawmaker-seeks-to-make-failure-to-report-childs-death-a-felony/2011/07/07/gIQA5KqD2H_blog.html

A Maryland state legislator wants to make a law that makes it a crime not to quickly report the death of a child.

Is there a need for this? Do we have a rash of unreported children's deaths? Are lots of parents who have lost children walking around without reporting that fact?

[SlipperySlope]

1. Don't we have bigger problems they could be working on right now?

[Lindsay]

2. More crimes, more inmates,

more money for the privatized prisons. As a bonus, this one will probably catch more women.

Sick people are running this world.

[arcane1]

3. Riding the wave from Facebook's petition to create "Caylee's Law"?

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=230347700320785

[alsame]

4. You must have missed this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1432760

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Yeah, I guess I did.

Oy vey.

Such kookiness

[butterfly77]

6. Here's one..

he is the perfect example of a stupid dumb congress person who makes dumb laws


http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/inhofe-insists-hes-the-victim-after-nearly-killing-airport-workers/

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) is introducing legislation to create a “pilot’s bill of rights” because he feels he was unfairly treated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

In October, airport construction workers told the FAA that Inhofe had endangered their lives when he landed on a runway that was clearly marked as closed.

“He sky hopped over us,” airport construction supervisor Sidney Boyd told an FAA representative. “He was determined to land on that runway come hell or high water evidently.”

“He come over here and started being like, ‘What the hell is this? I was supposed to have unlimited airspace,’” the construction supervisor recalled of a confrontation with Inhofe follo

[Johonny]

7. +1

[Harry Callahan]

8. Every time something abnormal occurs...

politicians are there to save the day.

What I find most troubling is the fact that the general public tends be fooled by this sort of stuff.