i betcha it goes a lot further than that in the home locker room at FEDEX

When I have a restriction............

We can't have that! Large sweaty muscular men touching one another's bottoms is what America is all about!

What we need is a simple federal law requiring all future laws to clearly state how they protect us and where it is specifically stated that the government is authorized to make such a law.

Either that or kill them all and start over. Both will work also.

James P. Keary, a spokesman for County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D), said the county is studying its options.



/Studying its options
//Blonde or Brunette

I'll be in my bunk?

Stripper thread!!!

Maybe the state can just stay the hell out of what consenting adults do on private property?

It's a dream...

Smeggy Smurf: What we need is a simple federal law requiring all future laws to clearly state how they protect us and where it is specifically stated that the government is authorized to make such a law.

I like that. Laws should (in plain english) require a preamble that explains the perceived need for the law, the intended effects, and the legal authority before the actual legalese.

What's up with the bum patting in sports? I always thought it was pretty weird. Try it at your place of work next time someone does a good job. I think you'll get a different reaction.

Yes, anti-strip club laws are broad restrictions.


/am i rite?

Erroneous! Erroneous! A Redskins player would never have the occasion to congratulate.

Needlessly Complicated: Yes, anti-strip club laws are broad restrictions.


/am i rite?

Took me a second. Nice.

AzErNy: James P. Keary, a spokesman for County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D), said the county is studying its options.



/Studying its options
//Blonde or Brunette

This is the D.C. area. I think the options are black or black.

kona: i betcha it goes a lot further than that in the home locker room at FEDEX

Cameron Diaz approves:

NSFW (new window)

SeamusFerrell This is the D.C. area. I think the options are black or black.

They only have Black strippers in DC area?

//seriously

azerny: /Studying its options //Blonde or Brunette
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In that pic, I'd go brunette.
/Cute brunette!

Sue Dunham: What's up with the bum patting in sports? I always thought it was pretty weird. Try it at your place of work next time someone does a good job. I think you'll get a different reaction.

People do at my place of work. Usually while saying "good job".
We need more women to calm the place down. Either that, or their wives need to put out more.

Smeggy Smurf: What we need is a simple federal law requiring all future laws to clearly state how they protect us and where it is specifically stated that the government is authorized to make such a law.

Also:
If you want a new law in place, you must also identify one old one to be struck from the books. Any law, but they go hand in hand. They get voted on as a pair.

Want a new one, get rid of an old one. We have too damn many.

/this works at every level, from school board or city council on up

Unsung_Hero: Smeggy Smurf: What we need is a simple federal law requiring all future laws to clearly state how they protect us and where it is specifically stated that the government is authorized to make such a law.

I like that. Laws should (in plain english) require a preamble that explains the perceived need for the law, the intended effects, and the legal authority before the actual legalese.

That seems perfectly reasonable to me. I spend a fair amount of time at work writing design documents (software engineer for a defense contractor), and the very first thing that needs to appear in any design document is an explanation of its purpose, followed immediately by a brief outline of how the problem will be solved. The technical details don't even make an appearance until about 1/3 of the way into the document. And I never start implementing the design until after the design has been completed and peer-reviewed (unless time constraints force me to start coding before the review process has completed).

Then again, it will probably never happen unless we remove all of the lawyers from government and replace them with scientists and engineers.

Weird. I was just listening to this. (new window)

(Forward to 4:21 - it's surprisingly insightful)

This assumes the Redskins would have anything worth celebrating.

/Redskins fan
//but still...

has anyone else snickered in a juvenile fashion about one of the involved parties being named 'Jack Johnson'?

Seriously, Jack Johnson is acting in his part as a representative to the people in a matter concerning adult entertainment (strippers mostly)... that's just amusing!

TheRockit: has anyone else snickered in a juvenile fashion about one of the involved parties being named 'Jack Johnson'?

Seriously, Jack Johnson is acting in his part as a representative to the people in a matter concerning adult entertainment (strippers mostly)... that's just amusing!

He's not nearly as involved as his brother Hugh.

anfrind: That seems perfectly reasonable to me. I spend a fair amount of time at work writing design documents (software engineer for a defense contractor), and the very first thing that needs to appear in any design document is an explanation of its purpose, followed immediately by a brief outline of how the problem will be solved. The technical details don't even make an appearance until about 1/3 of the way into the document. And I never start implementing the design until after the design has been completed and peer-reviewed (unless time constraints force me to start coding before the review process has completed).

Ah, I see someone else is required to use the Rational Unified Process(TM).

/puke

Of all the crap that is wrong in PG County, I'm glad that lawmakers have wasted so much time and effort on this type of crap. Screw the horrific state of the schools, the corrupt officials, or the rampant crime and turf wars... strip club regulation is where the focus must be!
Besides, everyone I know just goes to Baltimore where the strip clubs are plenty and the booze flows expensively!


/glad the Skins are of SOME use to the county

U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis struck down the 2005 law, saying that its grandfather clause improperly favored Tommie Broadwater Jr. and that the law was overly broad.

Ahh good ol' Tommy "the gangsta" Broadwater....Proud to say that I'm nearly single-handedly responsible for crashing his campaign to be US Rep Broadwater (no great virtue on my part, I just happened to have a tape recorder and a camera handy after covering the candidates debate, and was able to get a record of him threating to run two women down with his car because they were confronting him about crime and drugs at his club)

Even with the grandfather clauses the law sought to shut down strip clubs operating since 1981. Social conservatives should have figured out by now that they're not allowed to ban things that have been around long enough for their parents to have hated them too.

teqman: Ah, I see someone else is required to use the Rational Unified Process(TM).

Officially, we actually use the waterfall model, although now that I think about it, one might argue that we're actually using RUP without using the actual name (we do a lot of iterative development and component-based engineering).

I'm not going to complain, though. The software we usually deliver is complex enough that maintaining it would most likely be a nightmare if we tried to develop it using an evolutionary model.

Hmm...I think I'm beginning to see what's wrong with today's lawmaking process...

I guess it might just depend on how the whole pat on the bum thing ends up.

Nem Wan: Even with the grandfather clauses the law sought to shut down strip clubs operating since 1981. Social conservatives should have figured out by now that they're not allowed to ban things that have been around long enough for their parents to have hated them too.

PG county votes mostly Democrat. Check out the long lines the polling places had during the 2008 election. The problem was that the law was designed to protect a politican's professional investment. That's the real offense part about it!

AzErNy: //Blonde or Brunette

both?

Broad restrictions have no place in the strip club industry.
Excepting for Bondage Theme Night.

Smeggy Smurf: What we need is a simple federal law requiring all future laws to clearly state how they protect us and where it is specifically stated that the government is authorized to make such a law.

I don't know about there, but here we have explanatory memoranda that do at least the first two things on your list. They're presented with every bill. The second reading speech also sets out that kind of stuff.

Sportbois are so ghey.

/bring the kids