Florida Gov. Rick Scott Signs Bill; banning students from wearing drooping pants

If the local public schools want to have dress codes, that is up to them. If employers want to impose a dress code, that is also fine. But as to how you dress in public or at home, I could give a ship. In fact, at 60, I always feared becoming a stick up my bum prig. I am glad that I didn't and can always appreciate the different styles of dress up until I breath my last. I have to say, I still get a kick out of the way young people dress. Keep those styles coming. Yes I know wearing of pulled down pants comes from prison. Maybe if young people knew that they wouldn't do it. But to impose our will like Adolph Scott wants to do? Bull Doody!!!

Then why even wear pants at all? I believe that is part of whats wrong with America. I believe that folks have lost respect with themselves and those around them. Oh yeah I'm not supporting the law I'm just stateing how I feel about it. I don't like the fact that some choose to wear their pants around their ankles But I will fight for thier right to do so. I just see it as disrespectful thats all.

The droopy pants is a style. When I was a kid, we had styles as well, and we also had local school dress codes, not one imposed by the state as Scott is doing. You are right, there are soooooo many other important issues to look at. They don't because they don't know how to solve them, just make things worse.

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dont forget to mention your own brethren from time to time...

"I certainly hope that law abiding citizens that are not out to make mischief would adhere to the ordinance."
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You are a moron, simple and true. I support those who support the working and the middle class, not the selfish scum bag Repulican Taliban who support only the rich and their corporations. If you had the equipment, I'd tell you to go and f--k yourself. Maybe one day you and I could meet so I could help you do it. In the meatime, I am wearing low pants right now so I could moon you and all the rest of the right wing scum bag mother-f---out there.

My brethren aren't f--king with people's civil rights you moron!!!

wow, youre pretty hostile for a free loving leftylib

i'll try and remember that when i am eventually forced to buy an obamacare health policy

You righties need some big mouth liberals in your face for a change. For two years, all I heard about was the tea baggers loudly disrupting town hall meetings or idiots like Sharon Angle calling for second amendment options. Talk about hatred. You are so right. I hate people who want to take away our freedom and replace it with their religion.

Hopefully, the Obama Health Care plan will be completely single payer one day just like the congress people enjoy. I don't see them giving up their government funded health care very soon. So you like the insurance companies? Well have fun if you have a preexisting condition.

PS this is off topic you know. Wouldn't want the people on this page to think we are trolls now would we

after the last 10 years of bush bashing its kinda refreshing dont you think?

Hey, people like you who like to revise history and have short memories, want to forget that this Texas turd and his party almost single handedly destroyed this country, lied to the American people about Iraq, and did not get Bin Ladin. I love your posts. Very entertaining because I think you are employing satire and are also playing the devil's advocate. You are probably more left then Trotsky.

I never claiimed to be free loving, especially to those who are threatening to over throw this country!! USA into CSA!

no dont have any pre existing conditions, at least physically. im not a big corp insurance company supporter either but i am for health care reform. just not the kind we had hastily shoved down our throats

we're already in the middle of an over throw. what you been drinking?

I don't think the health care plan went far enough. I want a single payer option without the insurance companies. Obama's health care plan is really Bob Dole's plan.

That is right. I am glad that you agree that the Republican party as it is today is one of the greatest thrests to our country as we know it. I see that you are finally agreeing that to vote for Republicans means you hate workers, you hate unions, you hate a woman's right to choose, you don't believe in climate change etc. I am glad you are finally on board.

say whatttt?????????????

just had a great morning laugh....

thanks.

doesnt like the entire country have a nearly 10% unemployment rate? dude, if you open your mind beyond its biased limited scope you'll see that plenty of democratic leadership in this country are pretty useless as well. now i wouldnt advocate it but i wonder what the results would be if you took 100 random saggers and 100 random folks with normal looking pants and drug tested them all what the percentages would turn out like?

I don't really understand your point... Republicans came into sweeping power this last election cycle with a combination of a referendum on Obama and the state of the economy. They ran on bring back prosperity and that includes Gov. Scott. What's he doing with his first term? Drug testing, cutting public education and giving huge tax breaks to the rich. None of this is helping his state.

not being a resident of florida i am not privy to their economic problems. who's he drug testing, public employees? sounds reasonable if so. but florida is hardly the only state cutting public ed funding. up in the northwest in washington state their govenor a staunch dem is doing the same thing. the economy nationwide is in a shambles and each state has to decide what theyre gonna have to cut. no one likes it but everyone has to share the pain unfortunately. you cant point fingers just because someone is a dem or repub. its not fair, truthful or realistic

really what justfiable reason is there to drug test state employees? oh right if you own the company running the drug testing it sounds like a good idea! I don't care if its republicans or democrats cutting public education should be the absolute last thing on the table. Especially when your giving huge tax cuts to the rich! where exactly are your priorities?

Right on to you Tomoni!!! What goddamn right does a state official have telling you that you need a drug test in order to get this or that kind of service even though you never were arrested for drugs? I tell you this: the ACLU is going to have its hands full prosecuting these Republican Taliban slime. Rich Scott and the rest of his party have some nefarious agendas: Create a two class society of rich and serfs. Create a theocratic corporate oligarchy. In other words a dictatorship. And don't let these scum drug test you!!! We need millions of freedom loving Americans like you saying no to these assaults on our rights. I bet you that most of this drug testing crap is directed at black Americans somehow. Well, it is time for all Americans, black and white and brown and red and yellow, to stand shoulder to shoulder and remind the Koch brothers and the GOP that this country is not a plantation, and they are not a masters of us. The USA has had many weaknesses and still has a lot of improving to do, but if we place our country into the hands of these Republicans, all that progress will be squandered and lost. I believe that there is racism at the heart of Scott's legislation. I firmly hope that the Black community of Florida stands up loud and gets right into their rich white faces (I am white by the way) and tells them: "I'll give you my sh-- before I give you my drug tested blood or urine." And if it is the style now for kids to wear their clothes a certain way, it is none of Scott's business to interfer. He is supposed to be about small government right? Well what the hell is the Florida State Government doing in the personal dress habits of some kids in Florida? Personally, I don't like that style (it doesn't look very comfortable, like wearing a uniform), but if I was living in Florida right now, I'd get thousands of people on busses to storm Florida's capital, all of us wearing pants pulled down as far as possible without revealing our asses which Rich Scott and the entire Republican Taliban party can kiss. We need to bring back the big mouth of the sixties which tragically turned into the greedy mouth of the yuppies. It is now up to you and all the others around you for the sake of your children. Haven't you taken enough crap from the Scotts of the world?

youre pretty sensitive on that drug issue, what you got in your trunk girl? random drug testing of both public and private sector employees is pretty much the norm nation wide anymore especially if one is in a position where "bein high" can endanger the public or fellow employees.i am randomly drug tested because part of my job responsibilities involve transporting the public. wouldnt want a stoner doin that. since i am drug free i have nothing to worry about. it is perfectly understandable and justified to randomly test folks if their job entails working around machinery or driving a vehicle. pretty soon though stoners are gonna have to give up the ganja or work low level low paying jobs. you toke, you broke! my priorities are making an honest living, raising a family and trying to instill quality attributes in my children, doing my little part to be a good steward of the earth and helping out those in need when i can. whats yours?

first of all it's none of your business what's in my trunk? whatever the hell thats suppose to mean. You don't seem to understand that this is the start of widdling away at americans personal freedoms. people see things like this and say just like you " oh well it doesn't effect me so whatever." and go about their day. until the day it does come to your door because we've all been sleeping at the wheel. when you have a huge budget deficit maybe you don't waste millions of dollars of tax payer money drug test public sector employees. last time i checked their isn't some huge scandal about public sector workers using drugs in florida or anywhere else in the country. i guess your kids go to private school so you don't care about public schools. that's great for them what about all the other children in america? what are my priorities? how about leaving some lasting legacies for the generations after us. like infrastructure, investing in high speed rail repairing are severely damaged roads, bridges and electrical grid.making sure everyone has access to healthcare it is a fundmental human right! making sure every child in this country has a quality free education so that we can compete with the rest of the world and standing up for the american worker. Rick Scott and the rest of the Republicans are making changes that are set up to make a social underclass of people basically modern day slavery and that scares me. especially when i talk to people like you who have no interest in the greater good of our society.

I hear you!! And you have my full support.

wow with a platform like that maybe you should run for president. things certainly couldnt get much worse. sorry you dont see the need for random drug testing but its what keeps our industry and roads safe from junkies and potheads. high people can not make good judgement calls and shouldnt be working beyond maybe picking crops. i care about many things, some of which you mentioned but i also believe in being able to pay for them. show me a good budget proposal we can all afford and i'll back your trunk sweetheart

thank you!...i think lol. look random drug testing is one thing rick scott isn't proposing random drug testing he wants to drug test each and every single state employee! it's estimated to cost the state anywhere from two to five million dollars. plus he wants to test everyone who's applying for unemployment benefits. how does that keep our industry and roads safe? i can't tell you how many times i've been mowed down by unemployed motorist going to cash their checks! you have to realize infrastructure is investments for the long term not everything you do for the greater good of this country is going to turn a profit. the hoover dam and the erie canal weren't built to make the united states money. they were built because they were needed and yes the government paid for it and they employed thousands of americans and still do today. they're tons of ways we could pay for these things for one how about we get rid of the bush now obama's tax cuts end our two wars...more like three or four and rewrite the tax code to get rid of the loopholes just to name a few off the top of my head.

see i knew if we found some common bi-partisan ground we could be friends. agreed way too much government waste that could be better spent elsewhere. but both party's are guilty of wasteful spending. we need a wasteful spending tzar

This is off topic for this page which concerns baggy pants. However, here is my solution for the so-called deficit: 1 Bring our troops home all around the world. 2. Let the Bush tax cuts to the rich expire 3. Raise taxes on the rich. 4. Get the insurance companies out of our health care. You see, this is easy enough for even you.

i see bringing the troops home as a positive move but the other points you raise are easy concepts to see but difficult to swallow.

Yeah, stop protecting rich people unless you are one yourself, and if you are, f-- you!

you really should stop with your class envy, its not pretty. no i'm not rich by any means but i dont believe a man should be chastised, penilized, or punished for being so.

Yeah I think the rich should be punished when they have a ton of money and want even more. Everyone in this country should be paying more taxes but most especially the rich and the super rich. When they pay taxes, they are still rich. When I pay taxes, I really know I lost some money, but if that money is going to help your sick poor mother, I am very happy about that.

thanks for your concern, but if my poor dead mother were still living i would take care of her myself and not rely on someones elses hard labor

We don't chastise anyone for being rich. It's the system that takes food out of the mouth of a hungry six year old and gives it to some guy that's looking to buy a third vacation house that we chastise.

Well just in case you have a major accident with high insurance costs and can't take care of your poor sick and mentally ill mother, I just want you to know that when we finally have to raise taxes on everyone, I want them to raise mine by 10 so that both you, your mother, your two headed uncle, your 20 armed aunt can get all the help that they can. Yep at my expense. After all, it is only money (good cliche) and you can't take it with you (a better cliche). Just know Congo my Boy, I am here if you need me or my tax dollars. It just isn't here for the Koch brothers, the oil companies, the insurance companies, and the coal companies, and the military industrial complex. Shit I may just up and put you in my will.

know that i would spend it wisely

maybe if the hungry 6 year olds father would get off the crack and man up he'd get more to eat

God, I bet your a load of fun around Christmas time. Kick the brat in the teeth, that will teach the little bugger for being stupid enough to be born poor.

no, first i'd kick the dead beat dad in the teeth then i'd feed the kid myself and follow it up with a phone call to child protective services. happy hannukah!

Man, just what I need, another right wing Jew like that dick Kanter. My own Jewishness does not include religion, but it does include plenty of social progressive justice and mercy. Happy Shavoth to you, AKA in the Christian religion as the feast of weeks.

you arent alone. even the cantor who sings during high holy days in our local community doesnt believe in god. he just likes dressing up, wearing fancy jewelry and being the center of attention. kinda funny he spends the evening singing the praises of something he doesnt believe in.

Try not to feel so bad, even a clock is correct twice a day.

Thanks. It makes me feel a little better but I still deloused ;)

We can't always like how kids dress...but to have the state government legislate it? I thought these Republican Tea Bagger Taliban were for smaller government. My friend, the ACLU is going to be very busy in Florida and in other Republican Taliban occupied states.

Okay... you have no idea how much I hate defending this.... but it is a dress code for school, not on the street. There are public schools that require uniforms and it is not a bad thing. There are no clothing distractions or status labels when uniforms are enforced.

There are so many things that need to be fought in Florida. This is just not a battle that I would choose.

I feel dirty again. :)

I did not realize that Scott was madating this for public school. Still, I question his right to dictate to local school districts. At the same time, I agree with YOU, not him that there should be dress codes in public schools. I taught for 31 years and know this for sure.

it prevents swamp ass that's a plus

especially in FL

lmfao

Same as crotch rot but in a different locale. Generally, a fungus that grows in moist places.

They say only one thing is worse: balanitis. LMAO!

Bad visuals!

I always find that ironic too.

Republicans are for small government when it comes to business interests. They believe in BIG GOVERNMENT when it comes to deciding how you think, how you have sex, whether you can have an abortion or not, what your religion is, little things like that. I hope that there is enough progressive liberals in Florida to stand up to dictator wannabe Adolph Scott.

you really know nothing of the tea party or republicans beyond your narrow, bigoted, biased, uninformed, uneducated mindset. instead of just parroting what your stoner friends say you should actually do some research so you at least know what youre talking about. how embarrassing.

I believe ingsoc1984 is 100% correct. If Einstein were alive, you've no doubt would want to enlighten him with your theories of physics as well.

Absolutely spot on correct! good post! +^

what is that knuklehead 100% correct about, his narrow, bigoted, biased, uninformed, uneducated mindset? i certainly hope that youre open minded enough to not be afflicted by his obvious uninformed main stream media influenced drug induced altered state of consciousness... physics...saggy pants + gravitational pull = a view most would rather avoid

i guess it may be too late for you as well. hypocrisy is bi-partisan my biased friend

I read your post. I want to thank you!! I almost shit myself and for a sixty year old, that would really be funny. First of all, instead of calling me names, do your own research. Who is trying to cancel worker's rights in Wisconsin, in Florida, in Michigan, in Ohio, in New Jersey, in Main, in Indiana, and others? Who is trying to interfer with Abortion rights in Kansas and in Indiana? Who is trying to demonize public employees? Who is trying to blur the separation between church and state? Who wants to undermine climate change studies? Who wants to continue giving tax breakes to people who don't need it? I think we need more progressive liberals to be loud and in the faces of these Republican slime balls.Their entire agenda is frankly anti-American. The GOP of today is not the GOP or even Barry Goldwater's time. Today's GOP has been hijacked by rightest loonies whose vision of America is 19th century when trusts ran wild and workers had no rights at all. The Republican Taliban governor of Maine for example wants to recind child labor laws. Let's put the little buggers down in the coal mines 12 hours a day..that way we can close and privatize more public schools. I love how people on the right use what Freud called reaction formation. This is when you accuse someone else of having the very beliefs you yourself have. I will admit that I do in fact have nothing but contempt for right wingers. Their vision of a business dominated America with one political party is not my America. My America is supposed to be on the side of the weak and the defenseless, not on the side of oil companies and the Koch Brothers. I realize that anything I could say on this matter will go right over your head. Hey, let me put it to you this way: I am retired and on a fixed income. I still pay federal income tax. I am very happy about this. In fact, and I really mean this, if they raise everyone's taxes by a dollar in order to help you or your kids through school, or to help your parents get food and heat in the winter, I would gladly pay a 10 dollar increase. To me, paying taxes is a patriotic duty. If my taxes help keep homeless people in good housing or your children in school, that is a great thing. I've learned that if you cut taxes, you cut the government and its ability to help people. I don't consider myself a selfish capitalist, but a social Democrat. If your life, Congoboy, or the lives of your family is better because of my tax contribution, I am gratified. This means you are waking up each morning with a smile on your face, secure in the knowlege that you have the government with you in all your troubles. And that is fine by me!!!

PS How did you know I am a stoner too?? Are you a boozer?? Imagine how much money the government could raise if we legalized marijuana, sex work, and gambling. We're never going to do anything intelligent like that because our country was founded by the puriitans, not the libertines. Also re: reaction formation: you call me a bigot, and you are the one who is bigotted. I just don't want truly bigotted people running and ruining our country like Bush did and worse.

i could go for legalized sex work. but gambling and drugs only bring misery as does alcohol in many cases. i neither drink or drug been there done that and have seen its devestation from chilhood to adult

have to admit bush gave the country a good push to the edge but your brother obama has taken us clean over the cliff

can you shorten your next comment, i fell asleep on the first sentence. you should try finding some new friends cause the ones you hang with are not well informed. i believe my paranormal decription of you was pretty right on though...big·ot (bgt)
n.
One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

you are 1000% correct, very nice post, and very good insight, pleased to know you! +^

Hey, does a moron like you learn your stupidity from your parents or from other experts in the field? As long as there is trash like you out there, I will be here to fight you every step of the way. And if you don't like it, you can always insert that excuse for a head into your own commode.

Hey, if the worst drug in the world Alcohol is legal, there is nothing wrong with legalizing weed too.

Really, how did Obama do that? Killing Bin Ladin? Saving General Motors? Bringing in flawed but better health care for all? Bush lied about Iraq and gave so much money to his rich base that he almost singlehandely destroyed this country. Still awake, asshole?

i would hope after 2 1/2 years of failure that the koolaid would have worn off by now. you must have bought the lifetime package

and i enjoy your company and appreciate your admiration, i'm sure we'll be great friends. i always look forward to lively discourse with well informed individuals such as yourself. commode, is that like some kind of toilet? doesnt seem like a very pleasant place to put ones head!

well i wouldnt call alcohol the worst drug in the world as many people drink responsibly. but it is the easiest one to acquire, meaning also the easiest one to abuse. The worst? hmmmm...i think maybe crack cocaine or crystal meth would top alcohol in that department

Yeah he pushed us off the cliff by killing Bin Ladin, you asshole!!!

How's those enemas working for you?

Friends? Who knows...I don't like insulting people, but some of your posts are pretting insulting to me, but this is a free forum and my atitude is post all the shit that you want, and I will respond in kind if my head is not stuck in my toilet at the time. And I have a pretty big head, both of them...