Republican wants to remove ban on dwarf tossing to get dwarfs back to work:

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Dwarfs Better Off Tossed Than Jobless, Florida Republican Says


Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Jobless dwarfs should have the option of being flung around a barroom for cash rather than standing in the unemployment line, according to one Florida state lawmaker.

Representative Ritch Workman, a Melbourne Republican, has introduced a bill to undo a ban on “dwarf-tossing” as part of what he says is his mission to repeal overreaching and outdated laws from Florida’s books. Though the dwarf-tossing measure is not a “jobs bill,” he said, it may put a few people to work in a state where unemployment is 1.6 percentage points above the national average.

Dwarf-tossing, a competition in which bar patrons see how far they can throw little people in protective gear, was banned in Florida in 1989 after opponents complained that it was dangerous and dehumanizing.

While Workman, a mortgage broker, agrees that the practice is “offensive” and “stupid,” he also thinks the ban keeps willing projectiles from gainful employment.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-07/dwarfs-better-off-tossed-than-jobless-florida-republican-says.html

[DainBramaged]

1. And people ask us what's wrong with Liberals.......

[FSogol]

2. Next they'll want to ban Mexican Cat Juggling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qbc2J0zZr8

[Mz Pip]

3. Between this and the ban

on the importing of dangerous pythons I think the Florida GOP has the unemployment problem covered. :sarcasm:

[Enrique]

9. yep, Florida's future is snakes and dwarves

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x772813

[awoke_in_2003]

13. I can agree with the python ban...

too many assholes buy them, don't know what they got themselves into, and then release them into the wild.

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19. And, of course, you all know they're banning them because a constrictor

killed a toddler, right?

[awoke_in_2003]

21. No, I didn't...

I assumed they were being banned because people are releasing non-native predators into an already fragile ecosystem (the Everglades). Pythons and constrictor should both be banned.

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22. Here you go:

http://www.wesh.com/news/19925262/detail.html

[awoke_in_2003]

24. unreal...

I will never understand people who bring wild animals into their homes, especially when they have children.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Well...

The NFL just don't excite folks that much anymore without Hank.

[mysuzuki2]

5. At least one republican is doing something to create jobs!

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6. Don't you think he also has an obligation to ensure there's good health

care for dwarfs that get hurt during the tossing?

[mysuzuki2]

23. let's not go too far!

just give them a voucher so they can buy their own health care on the open market.

[gratuitous]

7. Eric Cantor's next career beckons . . .

[kctim]

8. What business is it of his or anyone else's

if a dwarf wants to be tossed and somebody wants to toss a dwarf?

Stupid all the way around.

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10. Stupid all around.

You don't know the half of it. Republicans may have no problem giving them the right to make money by getting tossed, but will fight tooth and nail to prevent dwarfs from getting health care because of the risk factor.

[kctim]

11. Why care about Republican ideology

when my post was CLEARLY about rights?

Oh, stupid all around. Yeah, that explains it to a T. Good call.

[Capitalocracy]

12. I tell ya what, if a dwarf wants to be tossed,

let him get tossed. But if it's the only way that dwarf can get work, did that dwarf REALLY want to be tossed?

[KamaAina]

14. Most of us have moved on to dunce-tossing

how far do you think a drunken beach bum could throw Rep. Workman? :P

[KamaAina]

15. Pshaw. My favorite U of Florida grad of short stature is a university professor.

:loveya:

And a good thing, too, because she has osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease), which would lead to a very short career as a tossee. :scared:

[meow2u3]

16. Maybe we ought to legalize catapulting Republicans

:evilgrin:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. I'm all for Republican-tossing.

Preferably using a trebuchet.

[DirkGently]

18. I await repeal of the silly ban on letting people sell (all) their organs to the rich.

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20. Well, since you put it that way.