Kansans are still waiting for a federal judge in Wichita to weigh in on the dispute over Attorney General Phill Kline’s controversial and confusing teen-sex reporting mandate. But that didn’t keep The Philadelphia Inquirer from weighing in with an editorial this week that began with the regrettable line “Kansas has become a world capital of redefinition” and called Kline’s opinion “Talibanesque.” It went on: “Why should the forces of government — law enforcement, hospitals, health-care and social-service agencies — mobilize for bedroom patrol? There’s a balance between principled protection and madcap prosecution, and at the moment, Kansas taxpayers are paying for this imbalance.”
In the end, the editorial made a constructive suggestion that otherwise seems to have eluded state legislators: Pass a better underage sex law.
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Why should we care about “National Ink”? Phill Kline represents the common sense values of a majority of Kansans. If you want to criticize his policies then do it in the way they effect Kansans, not by what other states editors think about them.
Hank
Well put, Hank. There are too many Kansans who are too concerned about staying in the good graces of jews/leftists from New York and California.We in middle America are the true conscience of the nation, not the degenerates on the coasts!
V.L.R.B!!
That’s right Hank! We majority Kansans know that felmaes are only vessels put here for the enjoyment of men. That’s why it’s OK for her to service him but not the other way around!
Well, I personnaly didn’t vote for him, but it wasn’t because of anything a newspaper editor wrote, local or out of state.
Personally I’m amazed that the Philadelphia Inquirer has finaly dealt with all of the problems that Pennsylvania has and now has the time to help us. Did they skip over Missouri or just give them a pass?
Or maybe, the Philadelphia Inquirer is a Knight-Ridder paper and they are just getting use to writing our editorials when the WE outsources all of the local news reporting.
Hank
Missouri, apparently isn’t as back woods as Kansas. All we needed was national attention on this issue, and the influx of 16 yr. old males it is sure to bringF!
Oral Kline should start ministering, he could give Oral Roberts a run for the money!
Maybe Phill can train hairdressers to spot teenagers who act like they may be horny. Go Phill go!!
The reference to the Taliban was right on imo.
Kline may well be the moral compass of Kansas. That said, I think he’s off by a number of degrees, right along with a majority of Kansans. Whether we like it or not, kids are having sex. As soon as Kline gets his way (and he will, remember, this is Kansas), we can start building more prisons for kids.
His next step will be mandatory virginity testing for all females under age 16, wouldn’t want to let anything go unreported.
And if they flunk the test we stone them!
“Open up! Morality Police, byatch!”
lolololol!!!
Sorry folks,Phill Kline is only putting in all this effort to stamp out sexuality (especially the teen version) because such humanity nearly defeated him in 2004.
George Tiller, his real political opponent, nearly defeated him in 2004. A recount, or at least close scurtiny was required, to determine the winner for his post. The guy who almost beat him was a democrat and nearly unknown! No wonder no-testosterone Phill was out to get Tiller.
Phill is an embarassment to Kansas and the rest of the thinking world.
Go away Kline. Get a job where faking being a lawyer is not so damaging to ordinary people.
please.
Hank, why do we do economic development in ks?
We do economic development to get OUT OF STATE people to invest new money in our state. We do it so they will bring their businesses and JOBS to our state. We do it to bring tourists and their money to our state.
I think there are FIVE full time people at the ks dept of commerce who do nothing but recruit new business to the state. They are officed in such local places as the west coast, the east coast, and overseas. Their sole purpose is to bring money and jobs to ks.
What do you think their salaries and expenses add up to? I think the technical term is “a bunch”. Same with all the local economic development and chamber of commerce groups. The money spent on this effort in kansas is staggering.
And with just a few jackass stunts by phill, just a few ass showing moments by the BOE, and national news reports of terry, joe and fred’s on-going antics….
ALL THAT MONEY WAS PISSED AWAY!!!!Twenty years of effort went down the drain with the stupid things that fell out of the mouths of our “leaders”.
Yep, I bet those out of state investors are just DYING to bring their businesses and jobs to such a progressive and sane state as kansas.
Of course, it is the fault of the damn liberal media for accurately reporting the activities of that peculiar species known as “jackassus prairieus”.
It couldnt be that the damn media just reports the TRUTH of what happens in kansas. It couldnt be the TRUTH that makes us a laughing stock in the world, not just the nation. I see we are not the only ones correctly using the “taliban” label for the sunflower state.
How is all that conservative bloviating working for ya kansas. Whatever happened to all those companies and jobs that Kay O’Connor and BonBon Huy promised if the hate amendment passed? Kinda quiet on that subject, no?
Check out the “revised” economic statistics from last week. The stars might lie but the numbers never do.
Kansas…as bigoted as you think.
How much money was spent pimping kansas with that slogan? Well, you know what one academy award winning group says. It is hard to be a pimp out here.
Bleeding kansas is bleeding population. Do you suppose people are fleeing the kansas taliban and their oh-so-successful economic policies?
It sure would help the price of energy if the last person leaving kansas turned out the lights!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
wow Famrgirrl tell us how ya really feel!
ya forgot that other battle-savvy, fun loving, always on the go group of ambassadors for the “we’ll catch up sooner or later” state…..the Phelps Westboro Baptist church! True, Taliban Phil manages to make enough embarrasing noises to get himself noticed in the press of other places. But at least he mostly stays home!
I bet you are right about those folks whose job it is to market Ks. Farmgirrl. I hope we pay those folks good. ANti-depressants aint cheap! Ibet these poor folks have to have a “self-reaffirment (why do I do what I do?) support group on speed dial 24-7!
Ah well at least it look like Phil has absolutely no intention of keeping his job.
I wanna help out those poor folks we were talking about that market Kansas, and also those who TRY to promote Ks tourism. You guys aint gonna shake the image of Ks as a land of holybackwater people obsessed with just what God thinks is naughty and ever willing to foist it on everyone. So, I say ……..
MARKET IT!!!!!
Turn the weakness of the wild rants of the Phelpses and Klines of the state into a series of PROFITABLE COMMERCIALS!
Picture this.
I did it in KS! merchandise! “I tried to get laid in Ks, and all I got was this lousy tshirt” thirts!Singles tours to Kansas, the land of forbidden fruit!Imagine a commercial with a sexy male or female voice intoning “Mmmmm Kansas…..you won’t wanna get outta bed!”
The possibilites are endless! I bet you all can think of a few.
We gotta play to our strenghts folks! And since this makes money even the conservatives can get onboard when they’re not busy looking through keyholes!
Aw I gotta go look for some pre-material sex. I’m STILL laughing!—–
ROFLMKAO JR…great post.
I dont think the marketing people need mood altering drugs since they reside in BLUE STATES or overseas. Kansas residents are the ones taking SOMA a la Salinger
I heard last night that the Exodus members trying to turn south carolina into an OFFICIAL taliban state are not doing so well. Their website says they only have 20 families signed up.
Who knew kansans hated to move?
My favorite:”I went to a Kansas science class and all I got was this lousy Bible.”
It is no surprise that billions of dollars for bio research went to blue states, welcome to the bible belt.
It’s sad when the best thing you can say about Kansas is, “We ain’t Nebraska”. If it wasn’t for having a really great job, I’d be so outta here!
XXX,Move because of politics? I thought you were a fighter. The politics of Kansas, and a chance to change them, would be a reason for moving there.
XXX, if I didnt have this farm around my neck, I would be gone too. I hope to be gone as soon as I sell to cargill. I’ll be in good company though, as anyone who can leave Kansas does leave Kansas.
The Americans for Prosperity propaganda in the paper today actually has a valid point. Part of the problem in ks is trying to maintain even minimal govt services and functions as the population drain accelerates. And that includes eastern ks, not just the dead west.
I didnt need a degree in finance to tell me that fewer people + higher taxes = bleeding kansas. And given the oppressive political climate here, and the entire flyover zone (i.e. S.D.) no wonder population, jobs and money migrate to the blue states.
Kansas’ denial of the need for more people is why I bitch constantly about how we do economic development in this state. When you are a place where PEOPLE dont want to live, all you get for industry are lead smelters, toxic waste dumps, feed lots and packing plants.
And you will not have the appropriate workforce to draw new money and jobs. No one wants to hire a scientist or an engineer whose answer to every question is “god did it”. Being educated in kansas now has that taint.
You christian taliban fans are making all the right moves. Soon you will own the entire state and can impose your theocracy with no opposition. Let’s see how that works for economic development. Given Kansas’ economic performance now, I guess you couldnt do any worse!
Like South Carolina, you will find that theocracy has few joiners. You will be the kings of nothing. As anonymous once said, that will be something like ruling in hell….lololololol.
Sorry for the length of this post, but I laughed until I cried when I read this. It is worth the read if you can stand it!!!>> Dear Red States…>> We’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and> we’re taking the other Blue States with us.>> In case you aren’t aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,> Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We> believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially> to the people of the new country of New California.>> To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.> We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot> Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.>> We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.> We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.> We get Harvard. You get Ole’ Miss.> We get 85 percent of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs. You> get Alabama.> We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states> pay their fair share.>> Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the> Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a> bunch of single moms.>> Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and> anti-war, and we’re going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at> once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have> kids they’re apparently willing to send to their deaths for no> purpose, and they don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their> children’s caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and> hope that the WMDs turn up, but we’re not willing to spend our> resources in Bush’s Quagmire.>> With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent> of the country’s fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple> and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95 percent of> America’s quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)> 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most> of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and> condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale,> Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.>> With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88> percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care> costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the> tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern> Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh,> Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.>> We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you. YOU GET KANSAS!!!>> Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was> actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred> unless we’re discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say> that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved> in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy b*****ds believe you are people> with higher morals then we lefties.>> By the way, we’re taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt> weed they grow in Mexico.>> Peace out,> Blue States
I see how well things are going for the reddest of the red.
Farm Gal,Will Nuevo California have strict immigration laws? Kansas has been a moral and intellectual dustbowl for ages, and is rapidly becoming the other kind of dustbowl too. Nuevo California will have a line of old trucks full of families at it’s border!
Not to worry jed, jesus saves… and kansas will thrive again..lolololol.
I think those families in old trucks would rather live in FRANCE than with us “leftist liberals.”
Like I said, just turn out the lights when the last person leaves kansas.