Comments on: Non-Objective Law http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dan http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-5666 Dan Thu, 24 May 2007 15:59:00 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html#comment-5666 <p>You are all so right. This legislation is ridiculous.</p> You are all so right. This legislation is ridiculous.

]]> By: Dan http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-5665 Dan Thu, 24 May 2007 15:58:29 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html#comment-5665 <p>You are all so right. This legislation is ridiculous.</p> You are all so right. This legislation is ridiculous.

]]> By: Dan http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-5664 Dan Thu, 24 May 2007 15:58:25 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html#comment-5664 <p>You are all so right. This legislation is ridiculous.</p> You are all so right. This legislation is ridiculous.

]]> By: Dan http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-5663 Dan Thu, 24 May 2007 15:58:20 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html#comment-5663 <p>You are all so right. This legislation is ridiculous.</p> You are all so right. This legislation is ridiculous.

]]> By: M. Hodak http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-5662 M. Hodak Wed, 23 May 2007 22:32:59 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html#comment-5662 <p>What do they call it when companies reduce their gas prices? Is this one of those one-way conspiracies? Or was Big Oil less greedy last winter?</p> What do they call it when companies reduce their gas prices? Is this one of those one-way conspiracies? Or was Big Oil less greedy last winter?

]]> By: CRC http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-5661 CRC Wed, 23 May 2007 22:27:25 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html#comment-5661 <p>Wooaaahhh...Hold on there Jon! We're not talking about high tech software, internet and computer companies from Mrs. Pelosi's neck of the woods because...well...umm...errr....well because we're not!</p> Wooaaahhh…Hold on there Jon! We’re not talking about high tech software, internet and computer companies from Mrs. Pelosi’s neck of the woods because…well…umm…errr….well because we’re not!

]]> By: Dale http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-5660 Dale Wed, 23 May 2007 22:24:43 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html#comment-5660 <p>And...prove that "Big Oil" has somehow arbitrarily been setting prices. The Feds have looked into Big Oil's price gouging some 30 times over the last few years and found zero evidence that it has manipulated pricing.</p> And…prove that “Big Oil” has somehow arbitrarily been setting prices. The Feds have looked into Big Oil’s price gouging some 30 times over the last few years and found zero evidence that it has manipulated pricing.

]]> By: Jon Nichols http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-5659 Jon Nichols Wed, 23 May 2007 22:11:15 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html#comment-5659 <p>And isn't it something that they choose to call out a specific industry? I guess gouging (whatever that is) is OK if you're an internet search engine (with much higher profit margins), but not if you pull oil out of the ground.</p> And isn’t it something that they choose to call out a specific industry? I guess gouging (whatever that is) is OK if you’re an internet search engine (with much higher profit margins), but not if you pull oil out of the ground.

]]> By: CRC http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-5658 CRC Wed, 23 May 2007 22:10:28 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html#comment-5658 <p>How about this instead:</p> <p>Federal Citizen Gouging Prevention Act - Makes it unlawful for any person to sell political promises, platitudes and visions that are: (1) is unconscionably excessive; or (2) indicates the candidate is taking unfair advantage of the ignorance of the populace to garner votes unreasonably.</p> How about this instead:

Federal Citizen Gouging Prevention Act – Makes it unlawful for any person to sell political promises, platitudes and visions that are: (1) is unconscionably excessive; or (2) indicates the candidate is taking unfair advantage of the ignorance of the populace to garner votes unreasonably.

]]> By: CRC http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-5657 CRC Wed, 23 May 2007 22:06:54 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/05/nonobjective_la.html#comment-5657 <p>Next step: Objectively define "unconscionably", "excessive", "unfair", "unusual" and "unreasonably". Once that is settled, enforcement of this law should be a piece of cake.</p> <p>But hey, it sounds good on the evening news and at a political stump speech.</p> Next step: Objectively define “unconscionably”, “excessive”, “unfair”, “unusual” and “unreasonably”. Once that is settled, enforcement of this law should be a piece of cake.

But hey, it sounds good on the evening news and at a political stump speech.

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