Massachusetts Democrats: soft on Communism, adultery, spitting

I cannot overstate my outrage at seeing this local news item:

BOSTON -- Massachusetts residents could spit on the sidewalk, give a tattoo, even commit blasphemy or adultery without fear of a fine or jail time under a bill being considered on Beacon Hill.

The bill would repeal nearly two dozen so-called "blue laws" -- laws that often deal with moral or religious issues...

One of the laws mandates a $300 fine or year in jail for anyone who "wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world."

[...] The bill also would eliminate laws declaring the Communist Party a subversive organization, making adultery a criminal offense punishable by three years in jail or a $500 fine, and barring anyone from "acting in a suspicious manner around any steamboat landing, railroad depot, or any electric railway station." [...]

The bill's sponsor, state Rep. Byron Rushing, D-Boston, said there's more than just legal house-cleaning behind the legislation.

"There was a feeling that we shouldn't have laws that we never use," he said. "And there were a few laws that could be used and shouldn't."

Yeah. Good job, DEFEATOCRAT Byron Rushing. Way to give the terrorists unfettered access to our steamboat landings and electric railway stations! What will you say when Osama bin Laden and his henchmen arrive at the Old Colony House in Hingham, spitting and blaspheming (as terrorists do) with impunity, and our police are powerless to stop them? What will you say then, Byron Rushing?

(Via Dave Barry).

Norwich, CT is full of morons

See here. Apparently, substitute teacher Julie Amero has been found guilty of "impairing the morals of a child" after a school computer she was using started showing porn thanks to malware installed on the machine. She faces up to 40 years in jail. This is stupid (but interesting) on a number of levels:

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