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State of Wonder
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 04/07/2013 14:09:37

Good morning dear blog. Today, Velveeta wants to tell you some wonderful news. After all the bad and scary news out there - North Korea about to cause a huge mess, the ice melting, still no cell reception in many parts of the USA - I think its time for some news that will make the world seem like there is some good in it.

I am happy to report that the state of North Carolina has passed a bill that would require students in their state to learn cursive handwriting. Isn't that wonderful? The "back to basics" bill was passed unanimously!

The bill drew 107 yes votes with no dissenters.

"A few didn’t vote," said House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Matthews Republican. “We wonder whether they can’t write in cursive.”

The bill, H146, now goes to the state Senate. If approved, it would go into effect for the 2013-14 school year with state education officials saying it could be accommodated into the curriculum.

Traditionalists have for years bemoaned the lack of attention cursive has been getting in North Carolina public schools, even though it was officially part of the curriculum in Grades 3 through 5
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Now, I know people have been up in arms about some of the things the republican led NC legislature has been doing. Things like trying to restrict the votes of college students. But surely this bill makes up for all of that? Keeping students from voting where they live just makes sense. Just because they have a right to vote doesn't give them a right to vote. Now, students will have to decide whether to exercise their right to vote or to give up the right to a tax deduction for their parents. Just because your parents are paying for that expensive college education shouldn't give you the idea that you can vote in the place where you currently live, right? That's just silly! In fact, maybe parents should even be fined. That'll keep those voting age kids in their place.

SB 667, sponsored by a group of Republicans, would amend current tax exemption practices to levy large additional fees on the parents of college students who register to vote anywhere in the state that isn't listed as their home address.

"If the voter is a dependent of the voter's parent or legal guardian, is 18 years of age or older and the voter has registered at an address other than that of the parent or legal guardian, the parent or legal guardian will not be allowed to claim the voter as a dependent for state income tax purposes," the bill reads.

State exemptions for dependent children range between $2,000 and $2,500, so North Carolinians whose children go to school elsewhere in the state could be seeing a big tax hit if their children change their registration.


Not content with just that, NC republicans also introduced SB 666 making it legal to worship Satan. Hahaha. Just kidding. SB 666 would make it easier to vote by giving citizens fewer days to vote. Nothing makes it harder to vote than having so many days available that it's hard to decide which day to go to the polls. By making fewer choices it'll be easy to pick a day.

SB 666 -- introduced by the same group of Republicans -- "would also shorten early voting days, ban early voting on evenings and weekends and prohibit same-day registration."


Not to be outdone with all these great bills, two of these brilliant state legislatures, by the names of Harry Warren and Carl Ford, woke up one morning and realized that NC didn't have a state religion! It has a state bird, a state song, a state flower, a state nut, a state tree, a state animal, a state butterfly, bug, rock, shell, fish, even a state dance. But alas, not a state religion.
Well, not for long.

North Carolina is a state leading the south on a path to the glorious 9th Century! Come visit North Carolina soon, before they remove all the roads because they hurt the horses feet.
 

3 comments (Latest Comment: 04/07/2013 17:53:02 by clintster)
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