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Any law that attempts to curb the tide of preventing unnecessary text messaging on cell phones while driving is fine by me. As for the opposite…
Twenty two states that banned texting while driving also offer some kind of traffic awareness service that drivers can access through their (wait for it) cell phones, according to the AP.
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Some of the most convoluted laws in the land are those relating to property boundaries. God help the poor bastards living in the 1/100ths mile of a property line because you can be on one side or the other, depending on the douchebags running your local government.
One woman in Buffalo who had been paying taxes to the city for years was suddenly told she can’t vote, according to the Buffalo News.
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Ah, you’ve got to love the ineptitude and inefficiency of government. Seriously, you have to, it’s the law.
Police in Louisiana are no longer using their speed cameras because it kept pulling over a government vehicle, according to TheNewspaper.com.
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You can put up all the signs you want, but you still can’t outlaw stupid.
A mother wants the state to require new drivers to put signs in their windows warning other drivers that the person behind the wheel is a “newly licensed” driver, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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Adoption is the most noble and selfless thing a human being can do. Taking someone who desperately needs to be loved in the most innocent person is, in my mind, the greatest expression of love in this cold universe.
So why, according to TIME, do some states have a law forbidding atheists from adopting?
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