The Glade 4.0

If it is the intended bill, the authors need to leave politics entirely, find a nice vegan commune and graze for the rest of their days. The proposal shows such an immense misunderstanding of something as basic as salt in cooking as to defy logic and reality.

If it is intended as a salt reduction act, it is a starting point where they can negotiate down to posting sodium levels on the menu and posting health warnings about the consumption of too much sodium.

Poor Lydiaa

You never cuss? No words never spoken in the presence of parents? Salty is American slang for impolite language, usually involving profanity, vulgarity, obscenity, etc.

Oh, and midnight swims in cool water are a wonderful technique for initiating cuddling immediately thereafter "I'm soooo cold, help warm me up!" I had that pulled on me several times in my youth, but way back then, I didn't understand how other people got cold above about 3 degrees C.

My guess is that this is a spot bill. Spot bills are proposed legislation that are designed to be placeholders for more serious legislation down the road. Cut off dates for the introduction of new bills makes spot bills, such as this, a valuable commodity. Legislators present bills that have no chance of passing, get sent to hibernate in committee, then are available for alteration to a more reasoned, practical passable bill. Other legislators go looking for co-authors with spot bills open and are willing to deal to get the bill rewritten. Having a spot bill handy late in the session can earn a legislator serious brownie points and more importantly, owed favors down the road. It also has the possibility to get the legislator's name on some important legislation which gets them recognition back home where even the serious research voters never look at the idiotic spot bills that sit in committee, just the ones that come up for a vote.

Many years back I saw a spot bill that called for the neutering of euthanized cats and dogs. I worked on what it became. Not a word of the original text remained.

In the States, we would use whine, instead of the more British whinge.

They invented the language, so I'm having a hard time putting a right or wrong in here.

Sidenote: Someone I do not know, recently identified himself in a class I took (for work) as an ABC, American Born Chinese. I chuckled and thought of you.

We drive on the right side of the road, you drive on the left side of the road.

We drive on the right correct side of the road, you drive on the left wrong side of the road.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin