MI: Bill to restrict certain RSO re. their interaction with minors

Aaaah yes… not even Labor Day yet but legislators are starting to fall all over themselves in this year’s Halloween free-for-all. Surprising this is not designated an “Emergency Measure”. I mean, what are the odds of Halloween rolling around in the Fall? According to the language in this bill it will be, forever, a crime to offer a beverage or a snack, any snack, to a friend of your teenage son or daughter. In your home, anywhere. What would Emily Post say? On a related subject, whatever happened to the Halloween ordinance in Simi Valley? I thought it was successfully… Read more »

Prisoners in Michigan serve longer sentences than in any other state. That’s according to a recent Pew study, which finds lengthy sentences have bloated the state’s corrections budget. Michigan spends more than two billion dollars a year on prisons. The average sentence in Michigan is 4.3 years. That compares with a national average of 2.9 years. Michigan’s prison population has grown faster than the state’s general population and the crime rate. One would think this would lower the crime rate but it didnt. It just increased debt to the Michigan tax payer. A older prison population means higher health care… Read more »

So when your child asks why he can’t have his friends over, you have to tell him the law sees your father as the bogey man. But you can conceal your identity to your own kid? It’s OK to be a bogey man to your own kid. After all as had been said concerning a certain slain son of a suspected terrorist, “he should have chosen a better father”