sarettah
07-21-2005, 04:30 PM
Between 106 degree heat to the east and a 105 degree heat index here..
and shit like this:
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/politi...420/detail.html (http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/politics/4738420/detail.html)
Missouri Governor Pushes Strip Club Regulations
Business Owners To Challenge New Law In Court
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt is pressing for more regulation of strip clubs.
Last week, Blunt signed legislation that would prohibit lap dances and full nudity in Missouri strip clubs. The bill prohibits customers or employees younger than 21 at strip clubs and it also requires seminude employees to remain at least 10 feet away from customers and behind a 2-foot high railing. The bill prohibits employees from touching customers.
"I believe this will stifle the operation of those businesses, and I don't think it's a bad thing," Blunt said.
"You don't have a problem legislating morality?" KMBC's Dan Weinbaum asked.
"I don't have a problem enforcing community standards," Blunt said. "I don't think this is good industry to have in Missouri. I'm comfortable doing things I know and we all know will stifle operations in our state."
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and this:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/n...al/12162805.htm (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12162805.htm)
Committee to study potential state tax on sex businesses
JOHN HANNA
Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. - A new state tax on sex shops, strip clubs and other sexually oriented businesses is on the Legislature's agenda, with its leaders Monday marking the issue for study this summer and fall.
A proposed tax is the brainchild of Phillip Cosby, an Abilene resident who's been fighting such businesses for two years, ever since a store selling explicit DVDs, sex toys and other adult novelties opened along Interstate 70 north of his hometown.
Utah imposed such a tax in 2004, but it has been challenged by clubs and an escort service. The Oklahoma House approved a proposed tax this year, but it stalled in the state Senate. A lawmaker proposed a tax in Missouri, but it wasn't in the final version of legislation that banned nude dancing.
Cosby said a tax would require sexually oriented businesses to help pay for some of the social ills they cause, which he argues include increased crime and blight. But a tax also will help make communities less hospitable to such businesses, he said.
"That's a good first step," he said.
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I thought we got rid of the main asshole when we sent Ashcroft to Wahington, but apparently there are a whole lot of assholes just waiting to take his place...........
:headwall: :headwall: :headwall:
If it wasn't for wanting to be a good Dad and wanting to stay in proximity to my daughter until she is grown, I would be sooooooooooooooo out of here.
:(
and shit like this:
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/politi...420/detail.html (http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/politics/4738420/detail.html)
Missouri Governor Pushes Strip Club Regulations
Business Owners To Challenge New Law In Court
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt is pressing for more regulation of strip clubs.
Last week, Blunt signed legislation that would prohibit lap dances and full nudity in Missouri strip clubs. The bill prohibits customers or employees younger than 21 at strip clubs and it also requires seminude employees to remain at least 10 feet away from customers and behind a 2-foot high railing. The bill prohibits employees from touching customers.
"I believe this will stifle the operation of those businesses, and I don't think it's a bad thing," Blunt said.
"You don't have a problem legislating morality?" KMBC's Dan Weinbaum asked.
"I don't have a problem enforcing community standards," Blunt said. "I don't think this is good industry to have in Missouri. I'm comfortable doing things I know and we all know will stifle operations in our state."
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and this:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/n...al/12162805.htm (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12162805.htm)
Committee to study potential state tax on sex businesses
JOHN HANNA
Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. - A new state tax on sex shops, strip clubs and other sexually oriented businesses is on the Legislature's agenda, with its leaders Monday marking the issue for study this summer and fall.
A proposed tax is the brainchild of Phillip Cosby, an Abilene resident who's been fighting such businesses for two years, ever since a store selling explicit DVDs, sex toys and other adult novelties opened along Interstate 70 north of his hometown.
Utah imposed such a tax in 2004, but it has been challenged by clubs and an escort service. The Oklahoma House approved a proposed tax this year, but it stalled in the state Senate. A lawmaker proposed a tax in Missouri, but it wasn't in the final version of legislation that banned nude dancing.
Cosby said a tax would require sexually oriented businesses to help pay for some of the social ills they cause, which he argues include increased crime and blight. But a tax also will help make communities less hospitable to such businesses, he said.
"That's a good first step," he said.
.................................................. ................................
I thought we got rid of the main asshole when we sent Ashcroft to Wahington, but apparently there are a whole lot of assholes just waiting to take his place...........
:headwall: :headwall: :headwall:
If it wasn't for wanting to be a good Dad and wanting to stay in proximity to my daughter until she is grown, I would be sooooooooooooooo out of here.
:(