Look. I think big women can be sexy. I know it’s Arizona, and the standards are high, and personally, I wouldn’t mind if some of them paid more attention to their . . . . huh? Oh, sorry.
Nevermind.
It’s still going to be legal in Arizona for trucks to have splash guards with racist terms and silhouettes of naked women.
The state House on Thursday rejected a Democratic amendment that would have banned splash guards with images that are “obscene or hateful.”
Tempe Democrat Ed Ableser sponsored the amendment. He said he’d seen a splash guard that used a derogatory term for black children and said he wanted to make sure that people with hateful motives didn’t inflict them on others.
Democratic Rep. Theresa Ulmer of Yuma supported the amendment and said it fit with lawmakers’ other efforts to crack down on pornography and sexual predators.
Heh. She said “crack.” Lucky break for those sexual predator mud-flap fetishists, though, wot?
Is there a link you wanted to put in here?
Now, wait a cotton-pickin’ minute….!
(aside) Do AZ legislators have Foghorn Leghorn in their sights, too?
okay, can someone explain to me how you know a silhouette is naked?
Actually she said “crack down”, an important directional distinction.
Confusious say, man who drive with wrong mudflap have crack up.
That bit cracked me up. I’m just sure this is an enormous problem for her. I can just hear the kid. “Mom, seriously! Not all women are totally stacked? Explain it again because I just can’t wrap my mind around the idea that most women aren’t super-juggy like trucker flap chicks.”
Superhero women are generally pretty stacked, too.
You know the kid has a point. In this day and age, an age of “science”, if we can put a man on the moon we can give every woman jugs to die for.
BTW. What do these mudflaps say about the driver? All the truck drivers I know would boink almost anything.
All right ANYTHING.
This mudflap thing seems like compensation for poor taste.
An 11-year-old who hasn’t noticed people come in different shapes? An 11-year-old who cannot distinguish cartoons from reality?
Ulmer may just be in the running for Mother of the Year.
Obscene you can ban. Not hateful. at least, according to those undemocratic activist judges.
As a more than 20 year resident of Arizona (part of it in Yuma where this nitwit is from) I can say with some authority that the Arizona Legislature regularly attracts a special type of moron. Other states may boast that their legislators are the dumbest or most ridiculous but I think Arizona really is in a class by itself. You really have to work at it to reach the level of asininity that they produce on a daily basis. And they make it all look so easy.
It’s called sprezzatura, Dan.
What’s this? I hope they didn’t use the A (arti*ulate) word.
Great word Dan C.
Sprezzatura: “It is an art which does not seem to be an art. One must avoid affectation and practice in all things a certain sprezzatura, disdain or carelessness, so as to conceal art, and make whatever is done or said appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it … obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.”
What’s next? Roast beef sandwiches?
I wanna know why this 11-y/o is looking at so many mudflaps.
His parents must tailgate, Carin.
Good thing she doesn’t have to explain those big, rubber-tipped chrome bullet bumperguards on ‘63 Caddies. So innocent. So suggestive..
DanG, there’s another way to look at it. Think of it as a farm system.
It takes a special blend of egotistic chutzpah and hell-for-breakfast determination to survive the election process and become a legislator. The universally abysmal quality of state legislators is a clue that those qualities aren’t quite as universal in the population as some cynics might claim. (No, I’m sorry, Arizona has no particular prominence in that regard. You might imagine that California, being much more populous, would have better simply by working of the law of averages. From observation you would be wrong.)
It offers a teeny ray of hope, it really does. If the cream of the crop goes to the U.S. Senate and House, and the State legislatures get the B-level players, it will take a lot less pistol ammunition that might be feared to raise average human intelligence above that of flatworms.
Regards,
Ric
Sounds like the start of a “slow-bleed” campaign against porn.
On the other hand, ‘slow-bleed’ porn is already a genre in Germany…
Seriously considered legislation is the sort that is based upon a mother’s exasperation with explaining silouette debris shields to a pre-teen.
They should amend this legislation to include fuzzy dice (encourages gambling other than at state sanctioned lotteries and casinos), scented pine tree hangers (proven, PROVEN, to be the precurser to some environmental horror), tinted windshields (what are you trying to hide), chrome wheels (elitist), turbos (hot air, see pine scent,) and stereos (freakin noise pollution!)
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Ric, I just don’t know if there is enough pistol ammo in the whole world…
Lonetown—you’re technically correct I suppose, but have you ever tried to suck on a brick? Silicon is a d.q. in my book.
It would probably be unconstitutional to boot–a similar issue has already been litigated and found to violate the commerce clause.
Arizona can’t require truckers to stop at the border and change their mudflaps.
Talk about mudflaps? My girl’s got ‘em.
I wondered how long it would take for a Spinal Tap ref to show up…
BJTexas,
That’s why Dillon makes the 1050.
…
That’s the nice thing about an industrial economy. It isn’t an exhaustible natural resource; there are no .45 ACP mines. If we run short, we can make more.
Regards,
Ric
Yes! Yeeeeeeeessssss!
Tis good to know that there will be sufficient ammo…
Thanks, journalism.
Even as a fan, collector, and unrepentant user of all the comic-linguistic byproducts of racism, I have no idea what this “term” could be. A pickup with a PICKANINNY or NIGLET sign bolted to it is an implausible fantasy prop, but that’s all I can imagine based on this description.
WHAT THE FUCK DID IT SAY?!
(And what the hell is a “splash guard?”)
No doubt the term is:
Tar baby
(which used to also be a candy)
It takes a certain sort of super-ninny to view the world through the lens of “How can I explain this to my chiiiiyuuuld??” We got a lot of that in the Days of Monica. There were many solid reasons for being angry at Clinton, but being embarrassed about explaining it to your kid is not one of them. One might say the same of Reagan’s polyps.
My parents were good, old-fashioned parents, who responded to my youthful questions with:
“How the hell am I supposed to know?”
and
“Just shut up, dammit.”
I don’t see why Ulmer can’t do the same.
tim, actually it violated the dormant commerce claue. which, as some judges have pointed out, is not in the constitution.
Angie’s got a point. When did we start trying to make the world explicable to an infant, instead of expecting the kid to (grow up and) figure it out?
Yeah, that’s a funny question she asks. Why do the women on the mudflaps have 36Ds?
The answer is simple.
Because we just couldn’t fit bigger ones on the tiny stainless steel border along the bottom of the mudflap.
Not without violating the START Treaty and SALT II, anyhow.
TW: Honest, Judge. I checked, and she sure FELT18…
Ps. TW Generator… you a sick puppy, man. Sick sick sick.
I’d be willing to bet that the 11yo knows exactly what he’s looking at and is asking about it explicitly to tweak his mom. My 9yo, who is very innocent of the ways of the world (and I think I’d know because he’s also got verbal diarrhea and tells his dad and me EVERYthing he’s thinking about), nonetheless could look at those mudflaps and get a chuckle out of them.
I see the mudflaps, as far as my children are concerned, as sort of warning coloration, like on a poisonous tree frog: for my daughter, they’re a clear keepaway. For my sons, they’re a shining example of the kind of guy girls keep away from, and hence the kind of guy they should NOT want to emulate.
No VPL.
This type of idiocy tells me that they are bored. What next, are they going to go after the balls hanging off of most of the trucks here?
As a not-often-proud resident of Arizona, I am happy that our legislature is one of such quality. In the AZScam setup to determine whether or not our legislature was corrupt (results: you betcha!), it was later determined that the usual bribers got angry that the federal investigators raised the incredibly low cost of doing business with our fine elected officials. Of course, that was years ago.
Now, I work for the State of Arizona (Happy Belated 95th Birthday!) and will gladly confirm (every other Friday) that it is the best, most non-mendacious place in the world. And as long as we keep our Mexican restaurants and golf resorts running, my pension is secure. And then I can retire to someplace snowy.
Yeah, kate. She’s really fucking irritating that way.
My experience with an actual Illinois State legislator leads me to believe that if we are not the worst, we are in the top 10.
I am a Scout leader. One of the requirements for First Class rank is to discuss with someone approved by your Scoutmaster the rights and responsibilities of a U.S. citizen under the U.S. Constitution. One of the suggested people is a legislator. Our local State rep’s office was just down the road, and after I did some dancing around with her staff she put in an appearance at our Troop meeting.
She showed up with one of her butt-boys and asked for an explanation again of what I wanted. The requirement doesn’t seem to be too difficult to understand, but I figured that it had lost something in translation when her staff had explained it to her. I read it off to her, and she said “Oh, I’m a state legislator, I don’t know anything about the Constitution.”
I am generally loquacious, but this was one of the 3 or 4 times in my life that I was actually at a complete loss for words. Of course, as a State legislator, all she really has to do is to wait until one of 4 people (the House and Senate majority or minority leaders) tells her how to vote, but I wasn’t prepared to hear her tell me that she had no clue about how to talk about the foundational document of our government to a bunch of 12 year olds for 5 minutes. After all, she makes her living by voting for legislation, and the first quality control benchmark for legislation is whether or not it contradicts the supreme law of the land. AHHHHHHHHHH!
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