Post by RS Davis on Dec 15, 2004 14:29:24 GMT -5
"Future Regulators of America"
by Garry Reed
In the past, I've snubbed establishment media's late December "Year in Review" features by glaring in the opposite direction with articles like "The Future in Review" and "FutureNews." Continuing this grand tradition, let us first consider a contemporary news item, which clearly establishes that the reach of regulatory crats knows no boundaries:
Private spaceflight legislation fizzles out
by Alan Boyle, Science editor, MSNBC, Nov. 17, 2004
An 11th-hour bid to pass legislation allowing paying passengers to take suborbital space trips has fallen short, congressional aides and lawmakers said Wednesday.
"Allowing paying passengers to take suborbital space trips?" This single sentence tells libertarians that travel is merely a "privilege" to be "allowed" at the whim of policycrats. Which means anything can be regulated, like …
Mandatory Shoe Policy Designed to "Last"
by Buffy Brane-Washen, dictation taker, Global Government Gazette, Nov. 17, 2040
The Lower Body Appendagewear Subdirectorate of the National Apparel Regulating Committee of the Office of Clothing and Coverings, an enforcement agency of the Bureau of Garb, today issued new rules for donning shoes, boots and all other forms of foot coverings that require securing by tying.
The regulatory agency, which hopes to be elevated to cabinet level status next year, thus joining the other 786 Departments such as State, Defense, Justice and Transgender Sensitivity, was created during the fifth term of El Presidente Geo. Bush the Second. The office was created when legislation appeared in tiny 6pt Bookman Old Style Narrow Condensed font on page 6751 of the unread Emergency Omnibus Funding Bill that authorized, among other projects, the two block long multibillion dollar Neighborhood MagLev Light Rail Bullet Shuttle in downtown Dubuque, Iowa, the city-owned Fourth Iraq War Memorial Overflow Parking Lot adjacent to the city-owned ten story parking garage adjacent to the 750 room city-owned Convention Center Grand Palace Hotel adjacent to the city-owned Convention Center and Exhibit Hall in Corncob, Nebraska, and the National Toothpick Museum in Otter, Oregon.
(Disclaimer: The following salient points, dictated to this reporter by an Appendagewear Agencycrat, appears in this article under threat of cancellation of the reporter's license.)
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by Garry Reed
In the past, I've snubbed establishment media's late December "Year in Review" features by glaring in the opposite direction with articles like "The Future in Review" and "FutureNews." Continuing this grand tradition, let us first consider a contemporary news item, which clearly establishes that the reach of regulatory crats knows no boundaries:
Private spaceflight legislation fizzles out
by Alan Boyle, Science editor, MSNBC, Nov. 17, 2004
An 11th-hour bid to pass legislation allowing paying passengers to take suborbital space trips has fallen short, congressional aides and lawmakers said Wednesday.
"Allowing paying passengers to take suborbital space trips?" This single sentence tells libertarians that travel is merely a "privilege" to be "allowed" at the whim of policycrats. Which means anything can be regulated, like …
Mandatory Shoe Policy Designed to "Last"
by Buffy Brane-Washen, dictation taker, Global Government Gazette, Nov. 17, 2040
The Lower Body Appendagewear Subdirectorate of the National Apparel Regulating Committee of the Office of Clothing and Coverings, an enforcement agency of the Bureau of Garb, today issued new rules for donning shoes, boots and all other forms of foot coverings that require securing by tying.
The regulatory agency, which hopes to be elevated to cabinet level status next year, thus joining the other 786 Departments such as State, Defense, Justice and Transgender Sensitivity, was created during the fifth term of El Presidente Geo. Bush the Second. The office was created when legislation appeared in tiny 6pt Bookman Old Style Narrow Condensed font on page 6751 of the unread Emergency Omnibus Funding Bill that authorized, among other projects, the two block long multibillion dollar Neighborhood MagLev Light Rail Bullet Shuttle in downtown Dubuque, Iowa, the city-owned Fourth Iraq War Memorial Overflow Parking Lot adjacent to the city-owned ten story parking garage adjacent to the 750 room city-owned Convention Center Grand Palace Hotel adjacent to the city-owned Convention Center and Exhibit Hall in Corncob, Nebraska, and the National Toothpick Museum in Otter, Oregon.
(Disclaimer: The following salient points, dictated to this reporter by an Appendagewear Agencycrat, appears in this article under threat of cancellation of the reporter's license.)
Click this to read the rest...
