{"id":1081,"date":"2024-06-04T09:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T14:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2024-06-04T09:04:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T14:04:32","slug":"there-ought-to-be-a-law-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/there-ought-to-be-a-law-pt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"There Ought to Be a Law… Pt 3*"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There ought to be a law…<\/p>\n

Truth in advertising should apply to political campaigns, as well.<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, why not?\u00a0 Politicians WANT to lie is why not. What I’m talking about is when politicians lie about each other during a campaign.\u00a0 If Politician A even insinuates that Politician B took bribes Politician B should be able to sue for defamation, or whatever the the appropriate legal area is.<\/p>\n

This could also be used as a tool and\/or weapon, but a more honest one.\u00a0 Discovery could be a bitch.\u00a0 Maybe Politician B chooses not to sue because it’s true.\u00a0 Eh?\u00a0 Sounds entertaining, if nothing else.\u00a0 I cannot think of something more critically important than voters not being subjected to empty and malicious smear campaigns.<\/p>\n

Food pictures should be the actual food being advertised.<\/strong>\u00a0 It’s known advertisers use non-food substances to make their products look better and more appetizing.\u00a0 Glue makes pizza look stretchy and cheesy.\u00a0 Motor oil looks like syrup and doesn’t absorb into pancakes.\u00a0 Motor oil also has been used for beer.\u00a0 Lard is great for ice cream and mashed potatoes.\u00a0 Sorry, but no, if you’re presenting a product you need to present the actual product.<\/p>\n

“FREE”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 You’ve seen and heard it before.\u00a0 “But 2 get 1 free… just pay separate shipping and handling”<\/em>.\u00a0 “Sign up for our newsletter and we’ll send you a free tote bag(1)”<\/em>.\u00a0 “(1)” means pay shipping and whatever.\u00a0 I’m not even going to provide a definition because any minimally bright person knows what it means in the non-legal non-courtroom real world.\u00a0 Free should be free should be free.\u00a0 Period.\u00a0 All-inclusive, shipping, handling… what the fuck is “handling”, anyway… any kind of tax, whatever.\u00a0 If you cannot provide it for no cost at all, you should not be allowed to legally make the claim that it is free.<\/p>\n

*-Parts 1 and 2 were published under different titles a few years ago.\u00a0 That, or I just want to confuse you and be random.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There ought to be a law… Truth in advertising should apply to political campaigns, as well.\u00a0 Well, why not?\u00a0 Politicians WANT to lie is why not. What I’m talking about is when politicians lie about each other during a campaign.\u00a0 If Politician A even insinuates that Politician B took bribes Politician B should be able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations","category-rant","category-soap-box","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}