Monday, October 01, 2007

Celebration!

It has been one year since Michigan's Castle Doctrine took effect!

Something to cheer about after the ghastly tax hikes our legislature screwed us with in the wee hours of the morning. Personally, I was getting ready to celebrate a government shut down.

Michigan. Last person out, be sure to turn off the lights.

Courtesy of the Free Press, here is a list of businesses the government will rape:

• Administrative services

• Armored cars

• Astrology

• Baby shoe bronzing

• Bail bonding

• Balloon-o-grams

• Bondspersons

• Business service centers

• Carpet and upholstery cleaning

• Check room services

• Coin-operated blood pressure testing machine services

• Coin-operated locker services

• Coin-operated personal service machines

• Coin-operated photographic machine services

• Comfort station operation services

• Commercial landscaping

• Concierge services

• Consumer-buying services

• Courier services

• Credit card notification services

• Dating services

• Discount buying services

• Document preparation

• Escort services

• Fortune-telling services

• Genealogical investigation services

• Ground passenger services

• House-sitting services

• Interior design

• Investment advice

• Janitorial

• Massages

• Numerology services

• Packaging and labeling

• Palm-reading services

• Party planning services

• Pay telephones

• Personal fitness trainers

• Personal shopping services

• Phrenology services

• Porters

• Private investigators

• Psychic services

• Restroom operation services

• Scenic transportation

• Self-storage

• Service contracts

• Shoe shines

• Singing telegrams

• Skiing

• Social escort services

• Social introduction services

• Storage

• Tanning salons

• Transit

• Travel agent services

• Warehousing

• Wedding chapel services

• Wedding planners