[1337] in Humor
HUMOR: Legislation We Like to See
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Tue Mar 5 10:13:42 1996
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 09:57:17 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
I have since learned that the bill passed both house and senate, but the
Governor vetoed it.
The party pooper... :(
-Drew
------- Forwarded Message
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 22:52:37 -0800
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
Subject: HUMOR: New Mexico democracy
From: rossix!rwc.dnet!apdma@openlink.one-o.com (Mary Ann Anthony)
New Mexico Democracy At Work*
=====================================================================
>From the THE NEW MEXICAN, Santa Fe, NM, newspaper, Monday 3/6/95
Mark Oswald, staff writer, reporting in his column, Capitol
Chronicle, on the current two-month New Mexico legislative session.
=====================================================================
During discussion by the Senate of a serious piece of legislation
concerning the psychology profession last week, Sen. Duncan Scott,
R-Albuquerque, proposed an amendment. It says:
"When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant's
competancy hearing, the psychologist or psychiatrist shall wear a
cone-shaped hat that is not less than 2 feet tall. The surface of the
hat shall be imprinted with stars and lightning bolts.
"Additionally, a psychologist or psychiatrist shall be required to don a
white beard that is not less than 18 inches in length, and shall punctuate
crucial elements of his testimony by stabbing the air with a wand.
Whenever a psychologist or psychiatrist provides expert testimony
regarding the defendant's competancy, the bailiff shall contemporaneously
dim the courtroom lights and administer two strikes to a Chinese gong."
Usually, anything proposed by Scott - whose hard-core conservatism is
like cod liver oil for the Senate's Democratic majority - goes
nowhere. But his wizard-hat amendment was warmly received and passed
by a voice vote. It is now part of Sen. Richard Romero's psychologist
bill, as the measure moves to the House.
=====================================================================
Mark Oswald, in the same column:
=====================================================================
Here are the 1995 (New Mexico) Legislature's Top 10 bill titles,
chosen after intense study of the Legislature's official daily bill
locator: 1) Unlawful Attack by a Dog; 2) Sewage Lagoon; 3) Llama
Definition; 4) Disposal of Bodies; 5) Foot Treatments; 6) Disabled
Vehicle Registration; 7) Centralized Kitchen; 8) Drive in Right-Hand
Lane; 9) Red or Green?; and 10) Excessive Weight Permits.
