FL State Sen. thinks animal husbandry means people marry animals

[sixmile]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/legislature/sfl-flfbeast0311pnmar11,0,360201.story

'...The Senate's Agriculture Committee tacked on an amendment that exempts veterinary practices and animal husbandry — raising and breeding livestock — from the law. That prompted confusion from Sen. Larcenia Bullard, D-Miami. "People are taking animals as their husbands?" Bullard asked, as senators and audience members stifled laughter.

The committee's chairman, Sen. Charlie Dean, explained the difference between husband and husbandry.'

This confirms my belief that our lawmakers know nothing.

[gratuitous]

1. It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool

Than to speak up and remove all doubt.

[Vickers]

2. Gawd, I love it here.

*psssst* somebody say something about "tree surgeons" on the House floor...how they don't use anesthesia!

[sixmile]

4. I heard malpractice insurance was putting tree surgeons out of business

Won't somebody think about the saplings?!

[radfringe]

11. DUZY!!! DUZY!!!! n/t

[madaboutharry]

3. Wow.

But I am not surprised.

[SheilaT]

5. Buy that senator a dictionary.

Take up a collection if necessary.

[Marrah_G]

6. hehehe- now that is funny !

I can totally understand not knowing the meaning of that unless you live in a more rural area.

[cloudbase]

7. Right up there with the recent flap

over the word niggardly.

[polichick]

8. Sounds like something Pyscho Sarah would say.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Reasonable question, if it was Rush's district

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Gawd I wonder what they think about Tater Husbandry?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. The name. LARCENIA BULLARD.

:rofl:

[msanthrope]

15. Like Faulkner meets Ian Fleming (or Albert R. Broccoli). n/t

[msanthrope]

13. "His brother matriculated and his sister was a thespian!" n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Sen. Bullard, bless her heart.

She always has at least one doozy of a soundbite each legislative session. To her credit she's given years of service to the state, but sadly comes off as not being the sharpest tool in the shed in some of the things she says.

[hedgehog]

26. I think this says less about her and more about the public schools

where she grew up. I'm guessing that she's about my age, which would suggest that when she started, the schools were nominally newly desegregated. In fact what this meant in a lot of places is that white families sent their kids to private academies while voting down any money for the public schools. Poor kids and black kids inherited what was left.

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. That continues to this day in rural Alabama.

[marmar]

16. Wonder what she thinks midwives are?

:dunce:

[SoCalDem]

25. the 2nd wife in a three-wife polygamous family, of course

like Nikki, in "Big Love".:rofl:

[Orsino]

17. America tends to get the representatives it deserves.

Plenty of Senator Bullard's constituents would probably have asked the same question.

[originalpckelly]

18. She has in the past preached against sax and violins on TV...

and introduced a bill last year to prevent Senators from getting french benefits from their offices.

[foxeyes2]

19. I am a bit confused myself

Why are vets and animal husbandry EXEMPT from this law bannining bestiality? So it's okay for Dr. Doolittle to diddle the donkey but not Joe the mailman? To me that is the major question we should be asking.

[Lance_Boyle]

20. artificial insemination, most likely

You don't want to make it illegal for a rancher to collect bull semen, for instance, or to inseminate a cow with the collected product. But you also don't want Joe down the street doing the same procedures with his pet goat for shits and giggles.

[jmowreader]

21. Exactly

Calving could fall into the category of bestiality as well...try turning a calf around so it comes out headfirst WITHOUT conducting thread-locking activities on the cow.

[Lance_Boyle]

22. I think the rule is

"if it happened in City Slickers, it can be safely discussed at DU." ;-)

[jmowreader]

30. Okay, be that way...

Combine a prosecutor who really needs a big conviction for his reelection with twelve fundies who know nothing about cattle farming and a description of how you deal with a bovine breech birth, and you'll have more dairy farmers than pot smokers in the state pen.

[SoCalDem]

23. Sometimes I think there should be an IQ test given to potential candidates

:rofl:

[WI_DEM]

24. Damn! I was hoping it was a Republican.

[OneGrassRoot]

27. This will be one of my favorite threads today.....

:bounce:

Thanks! :hi:

[Bozita]

28. Must be related to Detroit City Councilwoman Barbara Rose Collins - video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM4Gea6cjpg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWivww3-Yfw

[Freddie Stubbs]

31. I don't know what is scarier, the fact that she is a Senator, or that she used to be a teacher

[sixmile]

32. Both are scary

We are top heavy with this kind of smarts in the USA.