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Maybe if they cover theirs ears and go, "I can't hear you!"

Started by McQ, May 31, 2012, 03:03:59 AM

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McQ

May 31, 2012, 03:03:59 AM
Ahhh, yes, beautiful North Carolina! Bastion of freedom, democracy, lunacy, idiocy, and any other "acy" you can think of.

Looks like they're passing legislation into the state constitution that allows the state to deny global climate change. More specifically, they will deny sea level rising, by simply saying, "Nuh-uh!".

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/30/nc-makes-sea-level-rise-illegal/

Yeah, they're going to make it illegal to say that sea level is rising. Officially. The legislation will allow only a specific department to measure the sea level along the coast, and only when asked for by another govt department.

Will they do it by actually measuring it regularly and by taking all data into account? Pshaw! That's for amateurs. They'll do it by extrapolating linear measurements from...oh, screw it! Read the accompanying article and let your jaws drop.

The stupid. It hurts.
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The Magic Pudding

#1
May 31, 2012, 03:39:32 AM
I wonder if someone with a holding of and plans for low lying land is involved.
Around here local government have to have regard for water levels when allowing development to avoid future liability.

Sweetdeath

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May 31, 2012, 05:09:46 AM
How is possible for a state to be this stupid? :(
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history_geek

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May 31, 2012, 07:05:25 AM Last Edit: May 31, 2012, 07:08:07 AM by history_geek
..King Canute, anyone?



;D

Actually the interesting part in this is that he did this stunt to "demonstrate" the power of "god", and how little a kings authority matters against laws of nature (which he took as being governed by "god")....

http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/h061rp.Canute.html
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OldGit

#4
May 31, 2012, 10:09:46 AM
When they've built the resorts and they get flooded out, it will be fun to watch the lawyers suing everybody in sight.

Ali

#5
May 31, 2012, 04:12:34 PM
Haha, I've often made jokes like "There oughta be a law against having this kind of weather."  I hope I wasn't the one that gave NC the idea....I was only kidding, NC, you can't really make laws about Mother Nature.  I mean, yeah, you can, but she's a scofflaw and she won't listen to them.

Tank

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May 31, 2012, 04:14:09 PM
Quote from: McQ on May 31, 2012, 03:03:59 AM
[snip]

The stupid. It hurts.

Like acid running into my eyes!!!
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Sweetdeath

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May 31, 2012, 04:17:06 PM
Quote from: Tank on May 31, 2012, 04:14:09 PM
Quote from: McQ on May 31, 2012, 03:03:59 AM
[snip]

The stupid. It hurts.

Like acid running into my eyes!!!


The bees. They're in my eyes!! :(
Law 35- "You got to go with what works." - Robin Lefler

Wiggum:"You have that much faith in me, Homer?"
Homer:"No! Faith is what you have in things that don't exist. Your awesomeness is real."

"I was thinking that perhaps this thing called God does not exist. Because He cannot save any one of us. No matter how we pray, He doesn't mend our wounds.

McQ

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May 31, 2012, 06:11:37 PM
Quote from: OldGit on May 31, 2012, 10:09:46 AM
When they've built the resorts and they get flooded out, it will be fun to watch the lawyers suing everybody in sight.

Yep. Watch the finger-pointing and blame-laying. I'd buy tickets to that show!
Elvis didn't do no drugs!
--Penn Jillette

Buddy

#9
May 31, 2012, 06:13:19 PM
The fuck? Is Tennessee and North Carolina in some sort of contest to see who can come up with the stupedest laws.
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markmcdaniel

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June 01, 2012, 07:03:50 AM
Quote from: Budhorse4 on May 31, 2012, 06:13:19 PM
The fuck? Is Tennessee and North Carolina in some sort of contest to see who can come up with the stupedest laws.
Between their legislatures and there priests these people are making the good people of Arizona look positively sane and magnanimous. I didn't think this was even remotely possible.   
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Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Harmonie

#11
June 01, 2012, 01:59:52 PM
Now they flat out deserve to go under the sea.

I always like to joke about how since Southern USA was supposedly originally under the sea, it should go back there for the good of all of us. Now North Carolina is just asking for it.

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Ali

#12
June 01, 2012, 02:25:57 PM
Quote from: markmcdaniel on June 01, 2012, 07:03:50 AM
Quote from: Budhorse4 on May 31, 2012, 06:13:19 PM
The fuck? Is Tennessee and North Carolina in some sort of contest to see who can come up with the stupedest laws.
Between their legislatures and there priests these people are making the good people of Arizona look positively sane and magnanimous. I didn't think this was even remotely possible.   

I don't know if I'd go quite that far.  AZ still seems slightly crazier and meaner...

markmcdaniel

#13
June 02, 2012, 02:10:22 AM
Quote from: Ali on June 01, 2012, 02:25:57 PM
Quote from: markmcdaniel on June 01, 2012, 07:03:50 AM
Quote from: Budhorse4 on May 31, 2012, 06:13:19 PM
The fuck? Is Tennessee and North Carolina in some sort of contest to see who can come up with the stupedest laws.
Between their legislatures and there priests these people are making the good people of Arizona look positively sane and magnanimous. I didn't think this was even remotely possible.   
I don't know if I'd go quite that far.  AZ still seems slightly crazier and meaner...
Ali, you are probably right, but, is there some contest that I don't know about. It seams that as soon as one state does something stupid the others must try to top it.
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science - Charles Darwin

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the object of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a god, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. - Albert Einstein

Religion is a by product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity. - Arther C. Clarke

Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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