Notes from the Law & Justice front:
We have way too many chairs in the office. I think there's 3 for every person, even the interns, and they're all sizeable, rolly, 70s type things.
A proposal to ban State food labelling requirements just passed the House, which means that FDA food labelling regulations are no longer the floor for the States -- they're mandatory. This means that nutty states like California can't require food producers to list all carcinogenic substances in packaged food and the like, and that food industry lobbyists are very happy -- it means that they can avoid the same fate of the Detroit motor kings (i.e. have to make all their cars California-compliant and thus cleaner). Coming from a country where the governmental warnings on cigarettes take up 70% of the package, I intuit this bill (the well-titled National Uniformity for Food Act of 2006) may be a bad thing. But it may not survive the Senate. Who knows.
Federally-funded terrorism insurance is about to run out in 2008, but don't worry -- you wouldn't have qualified anyway if you weren't risking at least $50 million in damages this year. If this is you and I haven't made large efforts to be your best friend, please call me. That said, if you own an airport, this could kind of suck for you because no one besides George W. Bush seems willing to underwrite this kind of risk. (That said, there's a booming personal terrorism insurance market in Iraq.)
Non-residents get deported for drug convictions automatically. So don't do it, especially if you're from the Carribean -- apparently there's a strong social stigma attached to deportees there. Deported Haitians serve automatic jail time on their return, I'm told.
If you lock your foster kids up in cages and sexually molest them, you will lose custody.
And somebody keeps peeing on the seats in the women's bathroom. Ew.
We have way too many chairs in the office. I think there's 3 for every person, even the interns, and they're all sizeable, rolly, 70s type things.
A proposal to ban State food labelling requirements just passed the House, which means that FDA food labelling regulations are no longer the floor for the States -- they're mandatory. This means that nutty states like California can't require food producers to list all carcinogenic substances in packaged food and the like, and that food industry lobbyists are very happy -- it means that they can avoid the same fate of the Detroit motor kings (i.e. have to make all their cars California-compliant and thus cleaner). Coming from a country where the governmental warnings on cigarettes take up 70% of the package, I intuit this bill (the well-titled National Uniformity for Food Act of 2006) may be a bad thing. But it may not survive the Senate. Who knows.
Federally-funded terrorism insurance is about to run out in 2008, but don't worry -- you wouldn't have qualified anyway if you weren't risking at least $50 million in damages this year. If this is you and I haven't made large efforts to be your best friend, please call me. That said, if you own an airport, this could kind of suck for you because no one besides George W. Bush seems willing to underwrite this kind of risk. (That said, there's a booming personal terrorism insurance market in Iraq.)
Non-residents get deported for drug convictions automatically. So don't do it, especially if you're from the Carribean -- apparently there's a strong social stigma attached to deportees there. Deported Haitians serve automatic jail time on their return, I'm told.
If you lock your foster kids up in cages and sexually molest them, you will lose custody.
And somebody keeps peeing on the seats in the women's bathroom. Ew.
