Illegal to be deaf in Arkansas

Have you seen this hilarious video?



Ok, admit it, we've all been in a place where we might've bumped into something substantial while texting.

However, to BAN people from using their music devices while WALKING via legislation is Uncle Sam meddling too far into my life.

A proposal in Arkansas would ban pedestrians from wearing headphones in both ears while on, parallel, or adjacent to a street, road, intersection, or highway. You can wear headphones in one ear (headphone) but if you have headphones then it's a $100 ticket.

The two brainchilds behind this whacky waste of time? Ark. Sen. Jimmy Jeffress, a Democrat. He's not alone, N.Y. Sen. Carl Kruger, also a Democrat, has been trying since 2007 to ban the use of cell phones, iPods and other gadgets by pedestrians while crossing the street in major cities.

This is a fail. Incredible waste of a public servants time when there are bigger and more important issues at hand, like banning deaf people from walking alone on the street since they can't hear out of either ear.....

House to Block Health

http://thecabin.net/news/2011-01-23/house-panel-take-health-care-reform

So what's your take on this? If we're better off, with better healthcare, for a long term price savings, then why is that a bad thing? Forget th epolitical rhetoric, tell me why it's a BAD thing for more people ot have more healthcare for less money?

Do'nt get into the 'choice' issues, that's a poor copout to address the real issue here, the need for healthcare, and the GROWING need for healthcare in this country as it gets older. We get older, but not wiser..... Maybe a few less pet projects in the military and more hospital beds? Maybe I just know one too many people who've lost it all cause they got sick....Let's take care of our own and stop paying the most among developed nations for less healthcare.