I Initially Thought This Was a Joke
November 28th, 2006 at 6:19 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesThen I realized that when a Federal Judge speaks, get ready for comedy!
U.S. District Judge James Robertson said the Treasury Department has violated the law, and he ordered the government to come up with ways for the blind to tell bills apart.
He said he wouldn’t tell officials how to fix the problem, but he ordered them to begin working on it within 10 days. The American Council of the Blind has proposed several options, including printing bills of differing sizes, adding embossed dots or foil to the paper or using raised ink.
“Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency, only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations,” Robertson wrote. “More than 100 of the other issuers vary their bills in size according to denomination, and every other issuer includes at least some features that help the visually impaired.”
I mean, really. Give me a fucking break. Somebody add this asshat to the list of judges to impeach in 2007.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
First you post about a little boy who missed his piggy bank, now you’re pondering currency-size. Money is much on your mind today, no?
November 28th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Nah. I just hate blind people and money. So it all wrapped up really nicely today.
No… wait. I like money. Eh. Forget it.
November 28th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
With this I will have to be giving them the right amount. Those bastards!
November 28th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
It’s like the time that Ray Charles, Ronnie Milsap, and Jeff Healy all came into the bar I was working at… All 3 decided to pay their tabs seperately… In cash, no less… So, being the insufferable prick that I am, accept their large bills with the face of Ben Franklin on them for their measley tabs, each of which amounted to no more than $18.42… So, I reach for the small bills and count back the change with 4 singles, “twenty, forty, sixty, eighty, and fifty eight cents makes a c-note!… Y’all come back now!”
November 28th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
I came home and saw this on Fox News and I thought “I’ll bet one of the 6 Meat dudes is all over this one…”
I logged on and Presto(n)!
November 29th, 2006 at 9:37 am
I hate judicial overreach as much as the next guy, but would it really kill us to put a couple of dots on a bill? Just askin’.
November 29th, 2006 at 10:05 am
U.S. Currency Design Ruled Discriminatory…
A dollar bill feels very much like a five or a twenty, and that’s a problem, according to a federal …
November 29th, 2006 at 10:32 am
I posted on this too. Politically correct crap.
November 29th, 2006 at 11:59 am
Let them use change.
Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and the dollar are all different sizes.
If they masturbated enough to go blind their fore-arms must look like Pop-Eye’s, so lugging around all that change will give the perverts a chance to bulk up the rest of their body.
November 29th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
# 8.
Bahaahaaah hhahahhha hhhhaahh,,, (pant, pant),, Baahhahahh hhahhhahhah ahhhaahhhha,,
(whew, wiping tear from my eye)
November 29th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
What? They let blind people have money?
November 29th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Gee…..all of a sudden
Did ya know that U.S. bills have been the same size since 1929?
WTF have we been doing since then? I say an apology and retroactive compensation is in order.
TAP…TAP…tap…tap….tap…….
November 29th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
You said ‘fucking’ and ‘asshat’. That’s two swear words in two sentences. Are you becoming a liberal, Mr. Holmes?
November 30th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
uhhh, plastic? Debit cards? Credit Cards? Oh, I guess they’d need paper money for those road tolls. Or maybe it’s so they know how much they’re tipping the lap dancer. -cp