Obama Caves on Finance Reform

[garbon]

Having said that no-one seems to be doing it.  That makes more me worried because it seems like we're storing up future problems.  Obama is the one global leader who can do this right now.  At the minute I think Germany's coming up to election, Brown's spent and the government here is focused solely on his survival, in France Sarko's probably not strong enough to try any other big reforms any time soon and is hugely unpopular despite the PS's remarkably inability to succeed at anything.

I'm glad. Obama has already shown that he can't be trusted to manage the nation.

[Scipio]

In other news, CBP is requesting a regulatory change to modify language declaring any assisted-opening knife a switchblade, making it illegal to import, and, consequently, making it illegal to own, since many states rely on the 1958 Switchblade Act and its regs for permissible knife use.  Hooray!

They may not take away our guns, but they're going to take away our pocketknives!

http://www.kniferights.org/U%20S%20Customs%20Proposed%20Ruling%20-%20Assisted%20Opening%20Knives.pdf

[Barrister]

In other news, CBP is requesting a regulatory change to modify language declaring any assisted-opening knife a switchblade, making it illegal to import, and, consequently, making it illegal to own, since many states rely on the 1958 Switchblade Act and its regs for permissible knife use.  Hooray!

They may not take away our guns, but they're going to take away our pocketknives!

Any knife that opens automatically, using either centripetal force, springs, a button or other device has been illegal for many years in Canada (see s. 84 of the Criminal Code and the definition of "prohibited weapon").

And yet plenty of people still have pocketknives.  Hell this is the Yukon - its not unheard of for people to just wear big straping hunting knives on their belt.

Methinks you exagerate just a tad.

[Scipio]

In other news, CBP is requesting a regulatory change to modify language declaring any assisted-opening knife a switchblade, making it illegal to import, and, consequently, making it illegal to own, since many states rely on the 1958 Switchblade Act and its regs for permissible knife use.  Hooray!

They may not take away our guns, but they're going to take away our pocketknives!

Any knife that opens automatically, using either centripetal force, springs, a button or other device has been illegal for many years in Canada (see s. 84 of the Criminal Code and the definition of "prohibited weapon").

And yet plenty of people still have pocketknives.  Hell this is the Yukon - its not unheard of for people to just wear big straping hunting knives on their belt.

Methinks you exagerate just a tad.

Oh, I'm so sorry.  Down here, we actually enforce our laws. 

[Barrister]

In other news, CBP is requesting a regulatory change to modify language declaring any assisted-opening knife a switchblade, making it illegal to import, and, consequently, making it illegal to own, since many states rely on the 1958 Switchblade Act and its regs for permissible knife use.  Hooray!

They may not take away our guns, but they're going to take away our pocketknives!

Any knife that opens automatically, using either centripetal force, springs, a button or other device has been illegal for many years in Canada (see s. 84 of the Criminal Code and the definition of "prohibited weapon").

And yet plenty of people still have pocketknives.  Hell this is the Yukon - its not unheard of for people to just wear big straping hunting knives on their belt.

Methinks you exagerate just a tad.

Oh, I'm so sorry.  Down here, we actually enforce our laws.

You miss my point.

pocket knife != switchblade

[Neil]

In other news, CBP is requesting a regulatory change to modify language declaring any assisted-opening knife a switchblade, making it illegal to import, and, consequently, making it illegal to own, since many states rely on the 1958 Switchblade Act and its regs for permissible knife use.  Hooray!

They may not take away our guns, but they're going to take away our pocketknives!

Any knife that opens automatically, using either centripetal force, springs, a button or other device has been illegal for many years in Canada (see s. 84 of the Criminal Code and the definition of "prohibited weapon").

And yet plenty of people still have pocketknives.  Hell this is the Yukon - its not unheard of for people to just wear big straping hunting knives on their belt.

Methinks you exagerate just a tad.

Oh, I'm so sorry.  Down here, we actually enforce our laws.

Not only that, but it seems that you even enforce things that aren't the law.  It's possible to have a pocketknife that isn't a switchblade or an assisted-opening knife.

So, what was it like going to law school with Martinus?

[Scipio]

In other news, CBP is requesting a regulatory change to modify language declaring any assisted-opening knife a switchblade, making it illegal to import, and, consequently, making it illegal to own, since many states rely on the 1958 Switchblade Act and its regs for permissible knife use.  Hooray!

They may not take away our guns, but they're going to take away our pocketknives!

Any knife that opens automatically, using either centripetal force, springs, a button or other device has been illegal for many years in Canada (see s. 84 of the Criminal Code and the definition of "prohibited weapon").

And yet plenty of people still have pocketknives.  Hell this is the Yukon - its not unheard of for people to just wear big straping hunting knives on their belt.

Methinks you exagerate just a tad.

Oh, I'm so sorry.  Down here, we actually enforce our laws.

Not only that, but it seems that you even enforce things that aren't the law.  It's possible to have a pocketknife that isn't a switchblade or an assisted-opening knife.

So, what was it like going to law school with Martinus?

I wouldn't know.  My visa to Pogroms-R-Us was denied.  In fact, the new regs would cover knives with blade locks as well.  As you could read in the 63 page PDF I provided the executive summary to.

[Neil]

In other news, CBP is requesting a regulatory change to modify language declaring any assisted-opening knife a switchblade, making it illegal to import, and, consequently, making it illegal to own, since many states rely on the 1958 Switchblade Act and its regs for permissible knife use.  Hooray!

They may not take away our guns, but they're going to take away our pocketknives!

Any knife that opens automatically, using either centripetal force, springs, a button or other device has been illegal for many years in Canada (see s. 84 of the Criminal Code and the definition of "prohibited weapon").

And yet plenty of people still have pocketknives.  Hell this is the Yukon - its not unheard of for people to just wear big straping hunting knives on their belt.

Methinks you exagerate just a tad.

Oh, I'm so sorry.  Down here, we actually enforce our laws.

Not only that, but it seems that you even enforce things that aren't the law.  It's possible to have a pocketknife that isn't a switchblade or an assisted-opening knife.

So, what was it like going to law school with Martinus?

I wouldn't know.  My visa to Pogroms-R-Us was denied.  In fact, the new regs would cover knives with blade locks as well.  As you could read in the 63 page PDF I provided the executive summary to.

I'm not going to read the .pdf.

Your summary was awful and inaccurate in that case.  You said 'assisted-opening knife', not 'lock-bladed knife'.