With Nancy Pelosi now firmly esconced in power over these United States, it’s really only a matter of time until Americans will have to confront the notion of civil liberties, European-style; i.e., having them doled out to us by authorities who know best.<\/p>\n
Which is bad enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And then you add in “some of those who “know best” really are insane”, and…<\/p>\n
…well, you know where I’m going with that.<\/p>\n
All by way of introducing a German pol’s novel proposal for raising revenue; building a database of dog doo<\/font><\/a>:<\/p>\n A German lawmaker proposed on Monday a novel and high-tech way of dealing with the menace of dog poo on the streets: DNA testing<\/a> to identify the canine culprit and fine its owner. <\/span>Peter Stein,<\/a> a conservative politician in eastern Germany, told AFP that under his proposal, officials would test the excrement and then match it up to the offending dog using a DNA database of all pooches.<\/span>German dog owners are fined 30-40 euros (40-50 dollars) if they fail to clean up after their pets, but very few are caught, with only four fines given out in Stein’s hometown of Rostock — human population 200,000 — last year.<\/p>\n “Just saying ‘it wasn’t my dog’ will not wash any more,” Stein said.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n On the one hand; I suppose it is <\/em>one of those things that’d be “reserved to the States” under the Tenth Amendment, technically.\u00a0 I’ll wait for the SCOTUS case on the subject.<\/p>\n On the other hand – ew.<\/p>\n And on the third hand, five’ll get you ten that maintaining the database will be another of those jobs that “you can’t pay Americans to do”.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With Nancy Pelosi now firmly esconced in power over these United States, it’s really only a matter of time until Americans will have to confront the notion of civil liberties, European-style; i.e., having them doled out to us by authorities who know best. Which is bad enough.\u00a0 And then you add in “some of those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}