Things The Government Should Start To License

[The Joker]

1. Having Children- Within 2 generations we could elminate racism, idiots, and the people who green lit Justice League and Catwoman.

2. Murder- Every year you should be able to kill one person. This would stop all the mindless violence, and get people to really think about who deserves to die. I have a feeling those same Justice League/Catwoman green lighters wouldnt last the first year.

I'm sure there's more, now give me ideas so I can send these in a letter (composed entirely of cut out letters and words from magzines) to my senator :cmad:

[Malice]

1. Having Children- Within 2 generations we could elminate racism, idiots, and the people who green lit Justice League and Catwoman.

2. Murder- Every year you should be able to kill one person. This would stop all the mindless violence, and get people to really think about who deserves to die. I have a feeling those same Justice League/Catwoman green lighters wouldnt last the first year.

I'm sure there's more, now give me ideas so I can send these in a letter (composed entirely of cut out letters and words from magzines) to my senator :cmad:

yeah...ok....

[SuBe]

The Government SHOULD de-regulate Teachers and Interior Designers. Why do you need to have a government liscense to frick'n decorate a house? And why does the Government need to give you a certificate to teach a child? Don't you think the private sector could take care of that one?

[Venom'sDad]

1. Having Children- Within 2 generations we could elminate racism, idiots, and the people who green lit Justice League and Catwoman.

2. Murder- Every year you should be able to kill one person. This would stop all the mindless violence, and get people to really think about who deserves to die. I have a feeling those same Justice League/Catwoman green lighters wouldnt last the first year.

I'm sure there's more, now give me ideas so I can send these in a letter (composed entirely of cut out letters and words from magzines) to my senator :cmad:

In all seriousness, The Gov needs to just enforce the laws that already exist.

[Matt]

The ability to create stupid tag lines that aren't the least bit clever and spout them out again and again. You know, the really idiotic ones like "Clinton MEdia Machine (CMM)" :cwink: :woot:

[The Senator]

Oh! Oh! They should make the Obama Supporters Always Making Accusations (OSAMA) get licensed before they speak/ convey ideas in writing!

[rdh007]

What about a license for the Because It Takes Courage Hillary anti-warmongering lobby?

[The Senator]

What about a license for the Because It Takes Courage Hillary anti-warmongering lobby?

How about a license to write acronyms which make sense?

[\S/JcDc\S/]

Obama Supporters Always Making Accusations (OSAMA)


That is so lame, will never catch on however many times you spam it. :o

[The Senator]

Obama Supporters Always Making Accusations (OSAMA)


That is so lame, will never catch on however many times you spam it. :o

I know it's lame-- that's the point. I designed a corny, stupid, bull**** acronym to counter the equally corny, stupid, bull**** Clinton Media Machine (CMM) which popped up unnecessarily in every topic. OSAMA only makes an appearance wherever CMM is mentioned.

[rdh007]

How about a license to write acronyms which make sense?

Agreed. Perhaps closing this thread would be a start.

[The Joker]

The only idea here so far that has made any sense to me at all is mine...you people need to think outside the box and stop with your partisaned moaning...this is about democrats, or republicans, this is about stopping the flow of idiocy into the world at it's source...the average citizen :cmad:

[Addendum]

As long as humanity lives, there will be idiots

[The Joker]

As long as humanity lives, there will be idiots

Not if we license it :cmad:. It's really a eugenics program, but done on street level, with the entire population. You can breed animals for certain qualities, and damn it, you could do the same with people if you really wanted. First, you get all the smart people, then you get all the beautiful people, and then you have them interbreed, and in 3 or 4 generations you would have a race of beautiful geniuses, you will not only out perform everyone else in school, but kick sand in your face on the beach. That's the world I want to live in :cmad:

[kronos251]

Not if we license it :cmad:. It's really a eugenics program, but done on street level, with the entire population. You can breed animals for certain qualities, and damn it, you could do the same with people if you really wanted. First, you get all the smart people, then you get all the beautiful people, and then you have them interbreed, and in 3 or 4 generations you would have a race of beautiful geniuses, you will not only out perform everyone else in school, but kick sand in your face on the beach. That's the world I want to live in :cmad:

You are loco in your idealism, joker. :\


You cannot equate animals with humans due to the fact that all humans are ideologically diverse in their moral potential and have free God-given will. We are subject to our actions and are answerable to them sooner or later on in life. You are basically allowing genocide and anarchy to be licensed, at the same time considering of controlling the gene pool like what the Nazis' Aryan pogrom did to the Jews. Know that certain ideal characteristics are relative, but the universal truth is, if the world is all that bad, why didn't the world blow itself up a long time ago?

Atleast try to be a little more calm and discerning about these things.....

[The Senator]

The only idea here so far that has made any sense to me at all is mine...you people need to think outside the box and stop with your partisaned moaning...this is about democrats, or republicans, this is about stopping the flow of idiocy into the world at it's source...the average citizen :cmad:

Oh, well, in that case, I think forcing parents to get licensed is the most retarded thing I've ever heard.

[November Rain]

I definitely say a license to have a child is in order

:up:

also non-pro-bono plastic surgery shouldn't be given to anyone under 21 years of age.

I would also go with the average 'breast implant' as it sells a incorrect message about self esteem and also makes breast cancer harder to detect.

As well as a license to purchase and order fast food, One is required to make sure they pass a medical on a yearly basis which would allow them to consume high sugar drinks and foods, if their bmi is off AND their body fat is significantly high, they wont be allowed to be served at certain places. You have to be a certain age to order certain drinks, why not a certain size to order certain foods.

it would have its benefits as unlicensed people will have a reduction of healthy living food and the fast food would be heavily taxed to pay for it all for those who are healthy enough to want to consume it.

[Arkady Rossovich]

China already has a law that couples can only have one child in their marriage due to their over population. The USA,i can imagine them doing that..someday within 50 years.

[The Senator]

China already has a law that couples can only have one child in their marriage due to their over population. The USA,i can imagine them doing that..someday within 50 years.

China has 1.3 billion people and a population crisis in its major urban centers. The United States has 300 million people and its population boom does not represent an immediate crisis under foot.

Forcing parents to get a license is unacceptable. Who gets to make the decisions? What you'll get is a bunch of self-proclaimed experts who grant licenses to people they think would make good parents. That is such nonsense, because what constitutes a good parent to one person, may constitute a bad parent to another (case in point: if I was on the board, evangelical Christians wouldn't be allowed to have children because they're ideological terrorists; but if an evangelical Christian was on the board, I couldn't be a parent because I'm a homosexual and would promote man-on-dog sex instead of the birds and the bees).

Furthermore, what makes society so high and mighty it has the right to judge who should or shouldn't be a parent? Because someone's black, lives in inner city Camden and can't hold a job doesn't make him or her a bad parent. Because someone is a single parent living on a crappy income doesn't mean they'll be a bad parent, either. Worst of all, the people who usually end up awful parents-- you know, the ones who molest their children, beat them with wrenches or drive them off a dock in a minivan-- are the ones who don't seem like they'll snap in the first place and would pass a licensing exam with flying colors.

Finally, if you think someone is going to be a bad parent, there's a system which works perfectly in the United States called an abortion. Thankfully, most mothers can judge whether they're going to screw up their child's future. And if the mother decides to forgo the abortion and adoption, and raises the child on her own but completely fails at it, we have something called Social Services which places those abused or neglected children in foster homes with other families.

Licensing parents has way too many loopholes. It's also segregation in its purest form, and a slap in the face to that whole "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" bit we've prided our country on for so many years.

[The Joker]

I definitely say a license to have a child is in order

:up:

also non-pro-bono plastic surgery shouldn't be given to anyone under 21 years of age.

I would also go with the average 'breast implant' as it sells a incorrect message about self esteem and also makes breast cancer harder to detect.

As well as a license to purchase and order fast food, One is required to make sure they pass a medical on a yearly basis which would allow them to consume high sugar drinks and foods, if their bmi is off AND their body fat is significantly high, they wont be allowed to be served at certain places. You have to be a certain age to order certain drinks, why not a certain size to order certain foods.

it would have its benefits as unlicensed people will have a reduction of healthy living food and the fast food would be heavily taxed to pay for it all for those who are healthy enough to want to consume it.

See people! This is what I'm talking about. Outside the box!

[Handsome Rob]

Furthermore, what makes society so high and mighty it has the right to judge who should or shouldn't be a parent? Because someone's black, lives in inner city Camden and can't hold a job doesn't make him or her a bad parent. Because someone is a single parent living on a crappy income doesn't mean they'll be a bad parent, either. Worst of all, the people who usually end up awful parents-- you know, the ones who molest their children, beat them with wrenches or drive them off a dock in a minivan-- are the ones who don't seem like they'll snap in the first place and would pass a licensing exam with flying colors.



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[Paradoxium]

You damn fascists. Alright lets play ball :indy: :woot:

LICENSE AND TAX the FAT (http://fantasyfeeder.com/cms/index.php) people!!!

LINK NSFW.

Save for thyroid and medical conditions the government should tax anyone overweight (high body fat percentage). According to recent stats, its 60% of Americans. What's there not to love about this tax, its not racist, sexist, ageist. It doesn't discriminate against homosexuals either. :D

[MaskedManJRK]

Here's an idea--not sure if it counts as a "license," but I think it's outside the box.

Before anyone can run for an elected official in city, state, or national elections, they have to pass a psych evaluation and get a B average in a test based on IQ, problem solving, and US history and the US Constitution (adding the same with the city for those elections).

Also, if the official does not make on his campaign promises, the people should have a right to sue them.

[The Senator]

Save for thyroid and medical conditions the government should tax anyone overweight (high body fat percentage). According to recent stats, its 60% of Americans. What's there not to love about this tax, its not racist, sexist, ageist. It doesn't discriminate against homosexuals either. :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/Boydx2004/bruce.jpg

[Addendum]

Save for thyroid and medical conditions the government should tax anyone overweight (high body fat percentage). According to recent stats, its 60% of Americans. What's there not to love about this tax, its not racist, sexist, ageist. It doesn't discriminate against homosexuals either. :D

http://www.artielangedeathwatch.com/db2/00116/artielangedeathwatch.com/_uimages/artiefat.jpg
Artie Lange is 25% Native American, so he'll be discriminated against

[Paradoxium]

I don't see discrimination. Its equal opportunity; the fat tax is color, gender and homosexual blind :D

[Addendum]

Would a zombie eat a fat person?

[Paradoxium]

Would a zombie eat a fat person?

Well if one is a carnivore, one would eat anything but a muscular carnivore/omnivore. So plump vegetarians would be the ideal dish for zombies :)

[The Senator]

Well if one is a carnivore, one would eat anything but a muscular carnivore/omnivore. So plump vegetarians would be the ideal dish for zombies :)

Plump vegetarians and vegans make me sad :csad:

[MaskedManJRK]

Plump vegetarians and vegans make me sad :csad:

Plump vegetarians and vegans make me go "WTF?!" :o

[The Joker]

China has 1.3 billion people and a population crisis in its major urban centers. The United States has 300 million people and its population boom does not represent an immediate crisis under foot.

Forcing parents to get a license is unacceptable. Who gets to make the decisions? What you'll get is a bunch of self-proclaimed experts who grant licenses to people they think would make good parents. That is such nonsense, because what constitutes a good parent to one person, may constitute a bad parent to another (case in point: if I was on the board, evangelical Christians wouldn't be allowed to have children because they're ideological terrorists; but if an evangelical Christian was on the board, I couldn't be a parent because I'm a homosexual and would promote man-on-dog sex instead of the birds and the bees).

Furthermore, what makes society so high and mighty it has the right to judge who should or shouldn't be a parent? Because someone's black, lives in inner city Camden and can't hold a job doesn't make him or her a bad parent. Because someone is a single parent living on a crappy income doesn't mean they'll be a bad parent, either. Worst of all, the people who usually end up awful parents-- you know, the ones who molest their children, beat them with wrenches or drive them off a dock in a minivan-- are the ones who don't seem like they'll snap in the first place and would pass a licensing exam with flying colors.

Finally, if you think someone is going to be a bad parent, there's a system which works perfectly in the United States called an abortion. Thankfully, most mothers can judge whether they're going to screw up their child's future. And if the mother decides to forgo the abortion and adoption, and raises the child on her own but completely fails at it, we have something called Social Services which places those abused or neglected children in foster homes with other families.

Licensing parents has way too many loopholes. It's also segregation in its purest form, and a slap in the face to that whole "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" bit we've prided our country on for so many years.

To get a parent license you have to take an IQ test and score at least average. You then have to take a newly devised "common sense IQ" test that asks questions about things like "would you let our 5 year old play GTA unattended for hours on end?" Also, they should have to carry around one of those babies from Health Class for a month. Those should be the only requirements, none of that racial/economic bulls**t you brought into it. STOP MESSING WITH THE SYSTEM :CMAD:

[MaskedManJRK]

To get a parent license you have to take an IQ test and score at least average. You then have to take a newly devised "common sense IQ" test that asks questions about things like "would you let our 5 year old play GTA unattended for hours on end?" Also, they should have to carry around one of those babies from Health Class for a month. Those should be the only requirements, none of that racial/economic bulls**t you brought into it. STOP MESSING WITH THE SYSTEM :CMAD:

The problem I think others, like jmspice, see with that is that the politictions wouldn't stop there--give an inch take a mile and all of that. Thus my idea to test anyone that runs for a public office. :o

[The Senator]

To get a parent license you have to take an IQ test and score at least average. You then have to take a newly devised "common sense IQ" test that asks questions about things like "would you let our 5 year old play GTA unattended for hours on end?" Also, they should have to carry around one of those babies from Health Class for a month. Those should be the only requirements, none of that racial/economic bulls**t you brought into it. STOP MESSING WITH THE SYSTEM :CMAD:

IQ tests are also a biased, inadequate measurement of how someone will be as a parent. You're assuming that people who can't figure out which set of multi-colored geographical shapes have a repeating pattern can't be good parents.

I know parents who never graduated from high school and are wonderful parents to their children. I know someone who has a PhD in economics and he's been twice divorced, and two of his three kids don't want anything to do with him.

Parents have a responsibility to make judgment calls, and it shouldn't be up to the state to litigate who gets to have children based on some seedy answers to biased questions. And like I said, if parents are screw-ups, we have a way to safeguard children anyway. Society shouldn't play God.

[J. J. Jameson]

Get a license to have children. Please.

[The Joker]

IQ tests are also a biased, inadequate measurement of how someone will be as a parent. You're assuming that people who can't figure out which set of multi-colored geographical shapes have a repeating pattern can't be good parents.

I know parents who never graduated from high school and are wonderful parents to their children. I know someone who has a PhD in economics and he's been twice divorced, and two of his three kids don't want anything to do with him.

Parents have a responsibility to make judgment calls, and it shouldn't be up to the state to litigate who gets to have children based on some seedy answers to biased questions. And like I said, if parents are screw-ups, we have a way to safeguard children anyway. Society shouldn't play God.

Hence the additional common sense and parenting test :cmad: learn to read :cmad:

[The Master Planner]

We need a celebrity license. If the government can license teachers and the like, we need a celebrity license wherein the prospective celebrity, who has the potential to reach and influence millions, would prove that he or she can actually sing or act. (The American Idol judges make these sort of decisions all season, so this is a task easily and objectively done.) This test could potentially weed out any Paris Hiltons, Nicole Richies, Britney Spearses, Anna Nicole Smiths, Fear Factor contestants, etc. ad infinitum, in the bud before they further corrupt my entertainment.

And before you say, "If you don't like it, don't watch it," I already follow that maxim, so does everyone I know, and it doesn't seem to make a difference yet. I'm just tired of turning on my news to see someone forget to put on underpants while stepping out of her car!

[The Senator]

Hence the additional common sense and parenting test :cmad: learn to read :cmad:

Oh, yeah, I forgot about the parenting test. Anyone can carry around a hunk of plastic and pretend to feed it regularly.

I did read all of your points, and I wholeheartedly disagree with them. Learn to understand that I don't need to address every word you write to disagree with the bigger picture :up:

[Arkady Rossovich]

China has 1.3 billion people and a population crisis in its major urban centers. The United States has 300 million people and its population boom does not represent an immediate crisis under foot.

Forcing parents to get a license is unacceptable. Who gets to make the decisions? What you'll get is a bunch of self-proclaimed experts who grant licenses to people they think would make good parents. That is such nonsense, because what constitutes a good parent to one person, may constitute a bad parent to another (case in point: if I was on the board, evangelical Christians wouldn't be allowed to have children because they're ideological terrorists; but if an evangelical Christian was on the board, I couldn't be a parent because I'm a homosexual and would promote man-on-dog sex instead of the birds and the bees).

Furthermore, what makes society so high and mighty it has the right to judge who should or shouldn't be a parent? Because someone's black, lives in inner city Camden and can't hold a job doesn't make him or her a bad parent. Because someone is a single parent living on a crappy income doesn't mean they'll be a bad parent, either. Worst of all, the people who usually end up awful parents-- you know, the ones who molest their children, beat them with wrenches or drive them off a dock in a minivan-- are the ones who don't seem like they'll snap in the first place and would pass a licensing exam with flying colors.

Finally, if you think someone is going to be a bad parent, there's a system which works perfectly in the United States called an abortion. Thankfully, most mothers can judge whether they're going to screw up their child's future. And if the mother decides to forgo the abortion and adoption, and raises the child on her own but completely fails at it, we have something called Social Services which places those abused or neglected children in foster homes with other families.

Licensing parents has way too many loopholes. It's also segregation in its purest form, and a slap in the face to that whole "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" bit we've prided our country on for so many years.

There will be some people who deem that is right. The Government already has rules for you to obey,and many other things that "are in your best interest".

Abortions are already done,it's in some states but some don't want it legal..but i think it is. Even if it's not,they will still be continued to be done.

[The Joker]

Oh, yeah, I forgot about the parenting test. Anyone can carry around a hunk of plastic and pretend to feed it regularly.

I did read all of your points, and I wholeheartedly disagree with them. Learn to understand that I don't need to address every word you write to disagree with the bigger picture :up:

Yeah, well I wholeheartedly disagree with your face :cmad: you and me, right now, 10 rounds bareknuckle boxing. Winner gets his plan put into effect, and the losers pink slip :cmad:

[The Master Planner]

The point that no one seemed to make about the parenting tests: How would the government enforce it? Would the people who flunked the hypothetical parenting test be sterilized? If so, we may be sliding into eugenics, which is a whole 'nother can of worms.

[The Joker]

The point that no one seemed to make about the parenting tests: How would the government enforce it? Would the people who flunked the hypothetical parenting test be sterilized? If so, we may be sliding into eugenics, which is a whole 'nother can of worms.

Sterelization and forced abortions. If China can do it, so can we.

[The Senator]

Sterelization and forced abortions. If China can do it, so can we.

We can also make it illegal to post on SHH, like the Chinese do.

[The Joker]

We dont want those commies on our boards anyway, that's the difference there :cmad:

[The Senator]

The government should start to license who gets to use the internet and who doesn't. You should have a college education, and would have to pass an IQ test to determine whether you can use the internet efficiently. You must also be castrated to avoid wasting time looking up porn and pics of Jessica Alba.

You can get your college education requirement waived if you are currently enrolled in a college/ university. Community college doesn't count.

[The Joker]

See, now you're thinking outside the box...shift your paradigm people :cmad:

[The Master Planner]

Sterelization and forced abortions. If China can do it, so can we.

That'll do the trick but do we really want to emulate China, which is in turn emulating Nazi Germany in that aspect? That's what I meant when I referred to eugenics.

What I thought would be the more likely course of action was that the government would put something in the drinking water that suspended fertility, and give the antidote to couples who wished to have children and had passed the parenting tests.

This is all hypothetical after all. I can't say I agree with the general concept. It sounds good in theory, but it would quickly become yet another way for government to stick its nose further up our collective a**h***s "for our own good."

[The Master Planner]

The government should start to license who gets to use the internet and who doesn't. You should have a college education, and would have to pass an IQ test to determine whether you can use the internet efficiently. You must also be castrated to avoid wasting time looking up porn and pics of Jessica Alba.

You can get your college education requirement waived if you are currently enrolled in a college/ university. Community college doesn't count.

I agree that internet porn, tabloid journalism, and narcissistic myspace blogs are the bane of cyber-existence, but why wouldn't community colleges count? What's wrong with community colleges?

Besides, if the government can control who gets to use the internet, they can also control what gets put on the internet, and what to disallow. This could include any dissent from policy as well as the aforementioned porn, gossip, and blogs. This government, unlike China's, has a law against blocking the means to express responsibly aired opinion about government. It's called the First Amendment.

[The Joker]

Look, I'm all for licensing the net...but you leave my porn out of this :o

[LuiECuomo]

The government should start to license who gets to use the internet and who doesn't. You should have a college education, and would have to pass an IQ test to determine whether you can use the internet efficiently. You must also be castrated to avoid wasting time looking up porn and pics of Jessica Alba.

You can get your college education requirement waived if you are currently enrolled in a college/ university. Community college doesn't count.

Isn't that an unfair stereotype of heterosexuals, jman? ;)

[The Senator]

Isn't that an unfair stereotype of heterosexuals, jman? ;)

I think people should get a license to get married. In order for them to get that license, they have to go through a year-long test. Six months of that test would require being gay married :cmad:

(And you must consummate the marriage)

[LuiECuomo]

I'm sure I wouldn't be able to survive the gay marriage part.