[ExI] Some virus statistics

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, the MIssissippi legislature, really the whole state, is number one
on the list of corrupt states.  Your reference to passing the bill to find
out what's in it really reverberates.  It is just like that.  Many of the
laws that are passed here are written by lobbyists. I did not know that
until recently.  Apparently that is common practice (?) and happens in
every state and D. C.

Yes, I have ignored politics for most of my life and as a result am
ignorant and naive.  That practice seems to me to disqualify anyone who
follows it from being a lawmaker.  I do understand that parties have a
'whip' to get the members to fall in line and vote unknowingly.
Rubberstamping is apparently rampant.

Alabama had a senator who was in the Hanoi Hilton. Jeremiah Denton.  Did
not go along with any outside pressure and so make a pariah out of
himself.  Served one term. Of course.

Politics and sausage, eh?   bill w

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:27 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> >…  Same people who rave over seatbelts.  …
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> Freedoms come with a price.  You may have to lose some of them to benefit
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> BillW, state legislatures mandated seat belts.  Fair game.  They
> established a legal means of enforcing it, perfectly fair.  The state
> legislature has not mandated wearing masks.  I see no indication that they
> are even trying to in California.
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> Legislatures make law.  The governor does not.  POTUS does not.  The
> executives cannot enforce a law that does not exist.  So, pass a law.
> Wasn’t that simple?  (Hint: no.  (if congress attempted to pass a law
> requiring facemasks, it would be a 1000 pages (and legislators would be
> urging their colleagues to hurry and pass it so we could find out what is
> in it (which is exactly why there is no law requiring masks (aside: this
> same deadlock occurs in the California legislature even though it is
> functionally only one party.))))
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