Tag: bowling

Nanny state run amok: Illinois passes bowling shoe regulations

As if determined to prove that there’s absolutely nothing into which they won’t stick their collective (and collectivist) noses, the Illinois Senate voted 51-4 last week to slap controls on bowling shoes.

Video: Barack Obama throws consecutive gutter balls during the presidential campaign. Blame it on the shoes.

According to the Springfield State Journal-Register, “The measure would require alley owners to clearly place signs near entrances and exits warning that bowling shoes are ‘specialized footwear’ meant only to be worn inside the alley. Users are cautioned that they could slip or stumble if they wear the shoes outside in rain, snow or other debris and then come back in.”

Senator Donne Trotter (D-Chicago) denied a suggestion by Senator Dale Righter (R-Mattoon) that he wanted bowlers to wear helmets (earlier this year, senators voted down another Trotter bill that would have mandated helmets for motorcycle riders).

Keep one thing in mind: when bowling shoes are outlawed, only outlaws will have bowling shoes.

Source: Springfield State Journal-Register

Three videos, three ways to look at Obama’s “Special Olympics” comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlYT2bseII In case you haven’t see it yet, President Obama channeled Joe Biden last night and said something offensive and stupid on the Tonight Show.

Seems Obama went bowling while on the campaign trail last summer and embarrassed himself by rolling a 37. He explained to Jay Leno that he’s been practicing on the White House bowling alley, but said his lack of success is “like Special Olympics or something.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0EcujFSn8 Next we have MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. He had seen an early NBC feed of the Tonight Show and was horribly dismayed by Obama’s remark. Not because it was offensive, but because it might damage the President. As Olbermann wailed mournfully to his guest “What do we do? What does he do about that?”

Of course, if President Bush had made the offensive comment, Olbermann would have known exactly what to do. No dithering. He would immediately have named Bush “Worst Person in the World.”

Finally, we’re proud to present a video that will show both President Obama and his apologist in chief exactly what bowling looks like in the Special Olympics. These kids are good, damn it.

Mrs. Editor of IHateTheMedia.com teaches autistic children. She wants to cordially invite President Obama to her school and so he can meet some of these kids and see the error of his ways.

She does not extend the same courtesy or invitation to Keith Olbermann.

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